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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Honestly, I think they should target both Pineda and Gibson this offseason. Pineda will be out for a bit but that's okay, you can get him cheap again. Gibson, you can get cheap because he's obviously suffering from an illness. Get that under control and he could return to being a very good pitcher again.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    That's what Monday is for. Put the fork in Cleveland and then rest people. There are literally two weeks left in the season and you have one game remaining against the only competitor for the division, a game you can put them 6.5 back and basically coast the rest of the way. Win tomorrow, then you can rest everyone off and on for two weeks. If the Twins win tomorrow, they can basically play like Detroit from here on out and still win the ALC.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Two wins today virtually buried Cleveland. Maybe they'll show up with fire tomorrow, maybe they'll lay down dead. Either way, it probably doesn't matter much. They were just gut-punched in a pretty serious way. They had ALL the advantage going into this series but just lost a double-header against a crippled team throwing 18 innings of bullpen at them.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    18 innings of bullpen on the road against one of the better rotations in baseball. Two wins. Pretty much everyone called this, right?
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    An oddly hilariously true statement.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    This aged well.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    WOWWWWWWWWWW
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    He'd also be my choice never mind that in 40-man roster decisions, teams usually try to swap pitcher-for-pitcher and hitter-for-hitter to maintain a sort of balance (though this late in the season before the annual offseason 40-man purge, it probably doesn't matter as much).
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    They were 10 games behind Cleveland and nine games under .500 on August 1st. That's not out of it?
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    That would be quite the feat, for sure.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I wasn’t clear. The original poster referenced Ellsbury’s time with the Yankees and he was a couple of years past that outlier year when he signed.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    It honestly was just meant as a joke but apparently fell flat. Calling a one year old baseball fan "champ" just seemed kind of funny to me and I didn't intend for it to have a negative tone.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Yawn. There’s an enormous gulf of opinions between “I hope they’re gone” and “they’re the best executives ever”. What we *do* know is that the Twins are on track for their best record in decades. If that doesn’t impress you, so be it... but I think that says more about you than it does Falvine.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Ellsbury is not a great talking point because he made his name on a single outlier year and wasn't great beyond that single season. His defensive metrics were mostly meh.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Not really, I'm younger than you and clearly remember the colored bar screens. It probably stuck around in rural areas a lot longer than the cities (I grew up in Bayfield and then Bemidji).
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    As mentioned later, but I want to emphasize again, A-Rod's reduced sentence was before the current MLB guidelines were instituted and was an attempt at temperance to the overly harsh sentence Rodriguez received to "teach everyone a lesson". A-Rod's situation basically led to the modern guidelines because they were so irrational and unfair. Not exactly a great example to use for Pineda.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm allowed to rebut others' opinions, particularly if I think they're bad throwaway takes, which that was. In fact, by the forum rules, the original post was actually trolling. Would you rather have had me infract the poster with an official warning or gently poke fun of a terrible take on baseball? Here at Twins Daily, we frown heavily upon one sentence, negative takes that offer nothing to further meaningful discussion. Particularly takes that are meant only to inflame the board and further encourage more bad one sentence mouth-breaths on the subject. We're not RubeChat. There's also a reason RubeChat shut down. But nice try to turn my rebuttal on a bad take back at me, tiger.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, because it's just awful that those two are on pace to lead the Twins to their *second* 100 win season in franchise history, dating back all the way to 1901. I'm 42 years old and haven't seen a 100 win Twins team. Maybe it's just me but this season has been kinda nice. I'm a big fan of it overall. Oh, and based on your username, you were all of one year old when it last happened. How'd that season feel, champ? Do you relish in that memory to this day?
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    It sure would be refreshing if this team could have nice things in October for once. 2006, it was Liriano, lost while he was potentially the best pitcher in baseball. 2010, it was Morneau, lost while he was on pace for a 10 (!!!!) WAR season. 2019, it's roughly a quarter of the team that is questionable with two of its most important pieces out for the season.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    In my opinion, it's pretty easy to believe that Pineda didn't intend to take a banned substance (hence the reduced suspension) while also believing what he did was incredibly stupid and inexcusable. I don't see how those two opinions conflict in any way.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    If they're such wimps, you should get out there and show them all how it's really done.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Apparently MLB did because they decreased his suspension time, the first time I've ever heard of that happening in the 20+ suspensions I've paid attention to over the years.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    BTW, I'm not sure starters are really being rested that much, anyway. Polanco is on pace for 155 games. Kepler was on roughly the same pace until the injury. Rosario would be over 150 if not for the IL stint. The rest are too hard to figure out because of the myriad of injuries and downtime suffered on this roster.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    And this is where data will be key to this kind of approach working. Not every player is going to react the same to a heavy workload but in Justin's case, it was pretty obvious he couldn't carry that kind of load (not an insult to him or anything, humans are different). He even admits as much and it's backed up by a declining career OPS as the season wears down. Maybe the blanket answer is "let everyone rest because we can't identify who needs it most" but I hope that in today's game, they have enough data to start figuring out how to best approach each person because we're all different with different needs.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Morneau even admitted to this during a broadcast early in the season. He said he wished this kind of rest-focused program was in place during his playing years because he wore himself down and underperformed the second half of most seasons. And, looking at the data, Justin isn't just feeding us a line. His career second half OPS is .075 lower than his first half OPS. And yikes, it gets worse the more you drill down. Here are his OPS numbers by month: .849, .912, .800, .881, .777, .752. Morneau was an average player when the Twins needed him most.
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