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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Hey, Pineda has done exactly that twice in the past two months.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    I find Dick neither good nor irritating. He just... is. A classic middle-of-the-road announcer. I like Smalley, really like Morneau, and really like Hawkins.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Listening to Bert read the least interesting parts of the media guide really gets old. "Good pickup by the Tigers, was a .240 hitter, now hitting .280..."
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Me too.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Actually, I thought Adrianza's sprint speed was slightly slower than Sano. He's really slow for his position and defensive ability.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEcqHA7dbwM
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    If everyone is healthy, I put both Cave and Schoop on the roster, probably at the expense of Astudillo. Schoop has an OPS of .933 against LHP while Arraez bats left-handed. Cave has reverse splits this year but those are a temporary illusion more often than not. Last year, he had a significant split in favor of RHP. Those are my bench bat players and make the roster for that reason.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Killebrew had more bWAR in a Twins uni than Puckett. It’s close, though. Also, yearly accolades? You realize Killebrew led the league in homers roughly 140 times, right?
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    So then what stater that was traded would actually have done that? Because now we’re dealing in pitchers who weren’t actually traded, which makes even less sense than the pitchers who were traded and you didn’t like.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Or, "I don't currently like Stroman". http://twinsdaily.com/topic/34065-article-buyer-beware-avoiding-a-chris-archer-trade/page-6?do=findComment&comment=883029
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Literally, what you said on May 7th is: "The Jays can have Gonsalves for Stroman." So now their "lowball offer" is an affront to the organization and its fans? http://twinsdaily.com/topic/33021-trade-target-marcus-stroman/page-2?do=findComment&comment=843430
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I mean, maybe, but you didn't like the guy anyway so why do you care?
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree they probably should have landed Stroman but this is a human effort. They're allowed to be frustrated when a team pulls the trigger unexpectedly, as the entire Mets/Stroman deal went down. Do you think the Twins were the only "frustrated" team after that deal? It was almost nonsensical. I guarantee there are a half dozen GMs shaking their heads, thinking "****, we could have done better than that had they given us the chance". It may not be "your job" to name a good trade but you named a starter you didn't like and now you complain that the team didn't get him.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Yet Minor went untraded when in EVERY DEADLINE several teams need starters. Occam's Razor. You're viewing it in a personal vacuum. You don't think a single other team than the Twins needed a starter? So why did no one land Minor?
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    So which player did you want to get that wasn't actually traded? I get the Stroman thing but you actually said you didn't like Stroman just a few weeks ago. Also, it was reported that Falvine was frustrated that the Jays didn't give the Twins a chance to counter-offer for Stroman before he was traded. So where exactly do you land in all of this?
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    This is one of the things that irritates the hell out of me. If a player was traded, all hands on deck. Why didn't the Twins front office make a better offer? If a player wasn't traded, what exactly are we complaining about? That roughly 12 other teams didn't make an offer good enough to take a player away from their original team? That tells you something rather important about that player and the team in question.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    The front office needs to get to September and find a way to start using bullpen games with Littell, Thorpe, Smeltzer, et al, and give the core four starters a break. In a vacuum, I'd prefer not to see Berrios pitch for two weeks. Gibson, maybe 7-8 days. These starters need a break. Find a way to make it happen. The organization is deep with fourth-fifth starters, use them extensively.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    "Embarrassing" doesn't convey the severity of the emotion those 25 players should be feeling right now. They have to win out this series just to clear a 3-3 homestand against the White Sox (kinda bad but not terrible) and Tigers (awful, truly awful team).
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    No, Thome was replaced on a regular basis because the team had Joe-freakin-Mauer in his prime at catcher that season. Who do you choose in that situation to DH, Joe Mauer or Jim Thome? There isn't a wrong answer to that question. But it also doesn't diminish the sheer greatness of Thome in 2010. And if you want to bring up brittle, Thome didn't miss any time in 2010, but Cruz certainly has in 2019. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=thomeji01&t=b&year=2010
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Thome was... a DH. Cruz is... a DH. edit: OKAY, SERIOUSLY, I CAN'T LET THIS ONE GO. Nelson Cruz has not played a single inning on the field this year. Not. A. Single. Inning. So how on earth do you even make the argument that Thome was somehow compromised but Cruz is not? ALSO: Jim Thome did not play a single inning on the field in 2010.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Home runs and power are going at a discounted rate in 2019. 2019 Cruz OPS+: 171 2010 Thome OPS+: 182 Fangraphs has a similar take: 2019 Cruz wRC+: 169 2010 Thome wRC+: 177 Though Thome had a shortened season in 2010, even more so than Cruz this season so that should count for something. But Thome was an absolute beast that season and another good lesson about how baseball can change over just a few years. Looking at counting stats in 2010 doesn't tell the real story when comparing to counting stats in 2019. The same goes for 1968 versus 1974 or 1982 versus 1989. What matters in baseball is comparative stats and rate stats, how a player does in comparison to his single season peers, not overall in baseball history because baseball history is wildly in flux every few years.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    But in all seriousness, is Cruz better than Thome? Probably, but it's close.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Rondell White is sad right now.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep, look at Abreu. It's easier to pitch around a mediocre lineup with one superstar "greatest of all time" type of player in it than it is to pitch around a good lineup with that same amazing player anchoring it. Imagine putting Trout between Kepler and Cruz or Gregorius and Judge. The dude might OPS 1.400 on the year. A sample photo of Mike Trout hitting second in the Twins lineup:
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Yikes, that's a bit cold for even my blood. I'm fine with that temp in the winter but in the summer, I want less cold forced air being pushed through the room.
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