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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    The sad trombone sound is the realization that Max Kepler is one of the few RF good enough to also get that ball.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    You mean like Verlander? The thing about conventional wisdom is that you need to be smarter than it to win. Which is why I look at Price and if the Twins think he's the guy, I'm on board. They certainly know more about it than I do.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    I’m not looking for fire, I’m looking for more of an honest assessment of what the hell happened out there.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Lewis was impressive in a short 2017. He was very impressive in 2018. He had a bad 2019. We don’t need to adjust expectations over one bad season that was reported to have some coaching-directed adjustments in it. Next year will tell us a lot.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep, this. I don’t want Rocco screaming and kicking chairs but I do want some recognition of just how badly this series was played and the years of Twins ineptitude that came before it, even if it wasn’t Baldelli’s fault. Because that’s the reality of the situation.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure, if the team cybernetically grafts Sano's right arm to Jorge's body. Otherwise, Polanco should move to second base, even if it requires trading either Jorge or Arraez (though I wouldn't do either this season unless the offer is absurd and impossible to resist).
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    That's about where I'd put him, too. I'd try for 3/$45m and that might be possible with the QO attached to him but I'd go 3/$50m if need be. As for signing, I also suspect he's the best pitcher they sign but if they find another equally as good, that would be okay. What I suspect will happen is that they will trade for a good starting pitcher, too... but who that might be, impossible to say.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    The thing is that the Twins infield - especially if you plug in Arraez at second full-time - is really bad. Fixing infield defense improves the pitching staff.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    What I do with Sano depends almost entirely on what third basemen are available this offseason and for what price. Maybe I'm clinging to Gonzalez' flexibility too much but I really want to keep him in that role. Or maybe they make Adrianza the super sub and Gonzalez the third baseman. That might not be a terrible solution.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not saying it wouldn't be nice to have Darvish and pointing out his second half numbers changes the conversation a fair amount. But you're right that the front office needs a lot more Michael Pineda and a lot less Martin Perez going forward. And while it's fine to fill the fifth spot with that kind of free agent reach risk/reward, they need to realize that money and/or prospects for legitimate pitchers will be needed further up the rotation pecking order.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    And Odorizzi was even better than that in the first half, right? I still don't refer to him as one of the best pitchers in baseball. He's a good starting pitcher. If he manages to string together full seasons of that calibre and do it more than once, I'll change my mind.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Perhaps the issue is that Darvish was pretty good but not even close to "one of the best pitchers in baseball" no matter how you squint at the numbers.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Darvish was worth roughly two wins less than both Berrios and Odorizzi this season and roughly the same value as Pineda, though Pineda pitched far fewer innings. Darvish was literally worth the exact same fWAR as Kyle Gibson. Dunno about "one of the best pitchers in the game".
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, I hope we see him in June or something but it's likely he'll be shut down by September either way. It'd be cool if they could figure out a way to skip him every second or third turn through the rotation, allowing him to last a full season... but I'm not a trainer. That might actually cause more risk of injury than just pitching him, I don't know.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. Price looks pretty cooked to me but I’m not the person with piles of data in front of me. If Price is a reasonable bounce back candidate, strongly consider what risk is involved to get him and put him on the list of potential acquisitions.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    In the end, not getting Keuchel hurt the Twins but only after they had already lost Pineda and Gibson. While Keuchel is... maybe?... an upgrade over a healthy Gibson, he's not an upgrade over what we saw of Pineda before he was suspended. But pitching depth almost always ends up mattering, most of us were just looking in the wrong direction (the bullpen) to find it in June.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure, there are different ways to approach the goal but right now, Odorizzi can pitch 150+ innings of well above average ball. Could he maybe pitch six if an opener is used? Sure, but then you're tasked with finding an opener that can pitch, say, 80-100 innings a year of above average ball because at the end of the year, roughly the same number of innings need to be pitched by one baseball team. Where the innings come don't really matter in the grand scheme of things. The point is avoid opposition runs for nine innings a game. There's also the problem of a hard cap of 13 pitchers, which eliminates the option of teams using bullpen games constantly. Thirteen pitchers just can't pitch that many innings unless you go out and find a bunch of 100 inning relievers, which is a different challenge in itself, one that may be impossible given payroll constraints and actual league talent available.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Next year, rosters move to 26 men. Packing the bullpen will no longer compromise the bench as much as it did in previous years. The point of pulling both Odo and Berrios after 5-6 innings is because they're no longer more effective than your average reliever after that point. That's the entire reason for shortened outings. Berrios is better than Odo later in games, therefore he goes just a bit longer per game on average. But Odo (drawing from memory here so I might be off) is quite a bit better than Berrios early in the game so things tend to wash out somewhat. And that's just the reality of modern baseball. It's not just Odo and Berrios. There are very few pitchers who can withstand the absurdly hard task of successfully navigating a modern baseball lineup a third time.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    While I was willing to give away a lot for Syndergaard, Buxton isn't that piece. The Twins have a good farm system and a 100-win team, now is not the time to trade away MLB pieces for other MLB pieces unless obvious redundancy is available. And, as we saw in the OF this season, there is no such thing as OF redundancy when Byron Buxton is involved. This team probably wins 105 games and starts the postseason in Minnesota if Buxton is on the field.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    As long as it's not the kind of impact opposing hitters make with their bat on the ball, I'm on board.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Yet out of the three pitchers you just mentioned, only one of them effectively managed the Yankees offense and should have left the game with a "W" next to his name in the box score. I consider Berrios and Odorizzi close to interchangeable but people continually undersell Odorizzi's talent level while raving about Berrios and I just don't understand why. Personally, I want them both on my team and at least one more pitcher equally as good, if not better.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    I know I'm right about something when Trueblood agrees with me on it. Tag Odo with the QO. If he accepts, fine. If he doesn't, use that QO to negotiate a multi-year deal with him. The Twins need a lot of starters. Keep the best one you had this season to begin the offseason.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, I was always impressed by how Knight so honestly and earnestly choked players and verbally abused those around him. What a great guy! https://www.chron.com/sports/college-basketball-men/article/List-of-incidents-involving-Bob-Knight-1849372.php
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh my. That’s effing hilarious.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I don’t expect Baldelli to say an ill word about his players or the front office. But there comes a time when a good manager falls on his own sword after a colossal failure. That’s part of the job. Someone has to take a beating for this performance and Baldelli is that guy, particularly given how badly he managed the first two games of the series. When everyone from top to bottom fails in a situation, someone has to take a punch to the face. Baldelli is the public leader of this team, therefore he’s the one who takes the punch.
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