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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't think they shut them out that year without checking. But I remember they had some ungodly winning streak against them, like 12+ games. That may have extended over two seasons, though. Man, those Tigers teams were terrible.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    It doesn’t really matter to anyone but the owners. My point is that if I was managing a business and responsible for payroll, I wouldn’t just spend money because I can. And at $1.9m, I’d personally have a hard time justifying acquiring Hamilton for six weeks.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Hamilton is intriguing but he’s not 1.9 million reasons intriguing. I’m not one to defend not spending money but it shouldn’t be impossible to fill that incredibly specific role with a minor leaguer is it’s that important to the team. But on a minimum deal, sure, I’d take Hamilton.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    If Buxton is healthy, Cave is a quite good fourth outfielder. You can remove Kepler and swap in Cave and still be okay. Same goes for Rosario. But if you lose Buxton and have to rotate Kepler into center while Cave mans a corner, that's a big dropoff in two of three OF positions and really hurts the team. So stop getting hurt, Byron. And I say this as a person with a pretty immense dislike of Cave on an emotional level. He’s just a player I do not like for some reason.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Those were my settings before a baby came along, at which point I bumped winter to 70 (and 64 while sleeping, it used to be 58). I hope to start pushing those back down now that she's turning two years old and can figure out how a frickin' blanket works.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    I'd really prefer not to pick a "winner" between those two plays.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Are we now at the point of parsing intent behind phrases like “pretty good”, “mediocre”, and “decent”? Because ugh. Gibson still has an ERA+ of 107, btw. If you want to argue whether that’s decent, pretty good, or mediocre, have at it because I don’t care enough to participate in that kind of pedantry.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Mediocre pitchers have bad stretches. No league average pitcher goes out and throws 6 IP, 3 ER in every start. That’s not how it works.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep, Smalley’s timing on that one was impeccable.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. Gibson can be a disappointment while still being a pretty good pitcher. The Twins need more of a #2 performance from him while they’re getting a #3 performance this season. Not a massive drop off but enough to cost a couple of wins over a season.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    This site is really good at showing the disparity of last night's game. Look at the hard hit numbers on the right for each pitcher and then sort by exit velocity down below for hitters. Gibson actually pitched a good game and got burned by some bad luck and sequencing. On the other hand, the Twins were mashing the ball and had very little to show for it. That's baseball sometimes, as infuriating as it may be. While I'm pretty bent out of shape over the loss because the Twins need to win these games, I'm actually encouraged by Kyle's performance and command. https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/gamefeed?game_pk=567024
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    No tech is allowed in the dugout so Rocco isn't the person who actually sees the play. He has the final say on whether the challenge is deployed or not but he's working with limited information and a very short timeline to make a decision. And I suspect whoever mans the Twins film booth has a lot more first-hand knowledge of the rules and likelihood of a play being overturned than anyone here. That doesn't mean they're automatically right but as a person who has only seen a few of these plays since the rules change, despite watching a lot of baseball, I'm not in the position to say they were wrong with such finality.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Well summarized. This was not a gimme play that would automatically have been overturned. I don't know the percentages but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if New York let the call stand almost immediately. Would I have challenged? Sure, but I don't think it's some massive oversight where everyone on the Twins suddenly forgot the rules. What's more likely than the team forgetting the rules is that they have seen far more of these plays and know a challenge is likely wasted on a play of this kind.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I like what I see out of Thorpe going forward.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Jorge needs to get his defense in order. Tough play, easy to give a pass on if he hasn’t been such a butcher out there lately.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Now we know why that ump hates the high strike. Yikes.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I’ll concede the Sox May have a slight advantage in fielding but, despite drilling the ball and making outs pretty regularly on high expected average balls, the Twins have doubled the Sox hit total.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins outpitched the Sox, outhit them, and have made *much* louder outs. Neither team has looked good or bad on defense. That’s pretty much the definition of outplaying. And, in baseball, you occasionally don’t win when that happens.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins have drilled several balls at people and put two on the warning track. That’s just bad luck baseball. It happens sometimes and it doesn’t mean the team is doing anything wrong.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    How so? Because the White Sox have scored five runs with seven baserunners? The squeeze was a nice play but the Sox have lucked into this lead. The Twins have outplayed them on the field by a considerable margin.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    This game is awful. Gibson has deserved so much more than he’s getting.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    This ump truly hates the high strike. Called several strikes a ball on Nova, too.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Almost surely. Outside of that one inning (which wasn't even that bad pitch-wise), he's been cruising. Almost an entirely low effort game.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Dick or Roy mentioned the same thing happened to Morneau. When it tore, his wrist hurt like hell. Then it ruptured and was fine. *shrugs*
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm wondering how you've avoided noticing that until now.
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