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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Your post sounded like you thought this board undervalues Twins prospects while overvaluing opposing player values. As a person who has run a team-centric forum for well over a decade now, I can tell you with utmost certainty the opposite is true.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Definitely possible and frankly, I like what the Mets gave for Stroman. I just don't like what the Mets are thinking right now, and it seems most of baseball agrees. But also, why didn't the Twins offer a comparable package?
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins win the Yankees series with Buxton in center. He's just that kind of guy. During those close games when he's missing, it feels like at least once every game you say "damn, Buxton catches that". And it happened approximately 59 times during the Yankees series. Damn, that series was ugly. Also, I hate Jake Cave.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure, so now one WAR is replacement level. Why not two WAR? Why not -1 WAR? -2 WAR? The literal definition of the phrase ceases to have meaning if you play that fast and loose with it. First off, a "replacement player" is not necessarily available. You could go from what is close to a guaranteed +1 WAR to a -1 WAR without blinking. Or maybe you'll get a +3 WAR, who the **** knows? The point is that a replacement player's value is centered around a number. Cron is better than that. Therefore, by the literal definition, he is not a "replacement level" player. Because if you eschew the artificial definition of a phrase you've put as a baseline because it suits your purposes, the phrase ceases to have any meaning whatsoever. And keep in mind that the writer of that article couched his "replacement level" view of Cron based on three games as a designated hitter. Because that means something, right? Just admit it was a trash take and move on, Mike, If you want to argue the legitimacy of Cron's performance, do it honestly.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Even if you use fWAR, he's likely to end up close or at a one win value. Which literally is NOT the definition of a replacement player, unless we start using stupid math where the artificial value of a replacement player no longer means that artificial number is accurate if the player in question is one win higher than that artificial number and it fits our argument in the moment, which is totally not artificial at all.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes, because a team with an operating budget somewhere around $300m a year should definitely prioritize an $800 plane ticket. Also, maybe they should limit the number of player bats that can go on the plane to save on fuel.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I think there's a good lesson to be learned here about armchair GMing and actual GMing. There's a good reason why teams weren't lining up to pay that kind of price for Tulo, because look at what Tulo became (and it didn't happen out of nowhere, there were indications he was declining). And I say this as a person who wanted Tulo.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Eh, a little light on Syndergaard. I think it'd take someone better than Enlow to close that deal. Waaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy (and I literally cannot use enough "y"s here) too light on Diaz. If a team believed in Diaz, as they probably should, he alone should bring back Kirilloff, probably Kirilloff+.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, I think Stroman is a pretty good pitcher. I'd like him on the Twins, for sure. Stroman will probably be quite good in the NL, maybe even a tick better than he was in the AL. But he ain't Syndergaard.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    So we're holding it against Cron that he happened to have three hot days at DH, which "makes him look" better than he really is at first, where he obviously is incapable of having three hot days in a row? That Fangraphs writer kinda jumped the shark right there. Honestly, that's a **** take. I'm not in love with Cron but if we're down to parsing his performance over three games while being plugged into the DH spot on a team that rotates players constantly, that's about 47 bridges too far down the "analytics" hole than any logical person should go.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Woof. No. Syndergaard is the better pitcher by a considerable margin. Stroman has a 2.9 fWAR this year. Syndergaard, despite being "down" a bit in traditional metrics, is at 2.7. That's well into "career year" territory for Stroman while Sydergaard is just having a Syndergaard year. At the end of the day, one of these pitchers is short and having a career year while the other is still whipping his fastball at 98mph while being younger. There's a reason why smart teams like the Astros and Twins were all over Syndergaard news while most smart teams also seemed to have tepid interest in Stroman.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. A little heavy for Syndergaard alone, considerably too light if you tack on a reliever.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, that deal's light. Initially, the poster didn't have the Mets including the reliever, at which point I thought the deal seemed heavy for Syndergaard alone (it's not hard to loot Kirilloff and four pretty promising pitchers out of that pile).
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    All those green zeroes following Rogers' name is a welcome sight, that's for sure.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Being a fringe contender several games out of the second Wild Card berth is not even close to the same situation as being first in your division, only a handful of games out of homefield advantage in the American League. And I'm not giving them credit for anything except picking up Romo, to which I have said "good pickup, need more, better players" more times than I can count in the past 24 hours. What I'm not doing is complaining about them not making another move before I've found out if they make another move. The difference there is plain as day.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I wasn't necessarily only speaking of free agency but also via trade. Stroman isn't an elite arm, it shouldn't be terribly difficult to find someone of his caliber on the offseason market. But also, Stroman to the Mets... *facepalm*
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Going on the road and taking three of four against a bad-but-not-terrible team is not a given and the Twins absolutely hammered the Sox three out of four times. I’ll take it.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    And they finally have to play some real MLB teams starting on Tuesday (Houston, then the Angels).
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Like most things, the devil is in the details but depending on the prospect requirement and financial workings, I’d be all in favor of taking on Grienke.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    What’s even sadder is assuming that no moves are coming because past front offices were overly conservative and assuming that same ethos applies to an entirely new front office that we’ve never seen operate under these conditions.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, this is fun.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Attaboys all around.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Ah, good point, they do. I thought we were still a few days away from the next day off.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    1. Rosario’s L/R splits are pretty small for a LHB. 2. The Twins haven’t faced a lefty in several days and no lefties are scheduled in Miami.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    When it was released, it was called The Great Rocky.
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