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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Nope, sure looks that way. He shouldn't come in with a three run lead anyway. That's managing for a stat, not a winning season.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Please don't bring in Rogers. I don't think Baldelli will do it but the temptation has to be there. It's a three run lead. Go with your B option and roll the dice.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    GOOD GOD BYRON
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, same here. Maybe I wasn’t clear but I think he’d be worth a look because even if he fails as a starter, there’s a decent chance he’ll work out in the bullpen.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. He’s worth a flyer because, at minimum, there’s a decent chance he becomes a lefty specialist out of the pen.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Not terribly surprising.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Gibson is averaging just a hair over 5 IP per game and the MLB average is 5.4 IP. Adjust for starting the season with E.coli and then getting just a single inning in his final start of the first half (due to him pitching in that double-length extra inning game) and you have a guy right around or above the MLB average in start length. People really need to adjust their expectations of how many innings a modern MLB starter goes into a game. This has been going on for a long time now.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    They were also coming off a losing season where they finished third in the division. I remember being not happy about that but at least the team wasn't on a run of domination, as Cleveland was up until this year.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm sorry Doc but you missed my entire point. The eye test didn't really apply to Edmonds because he made plays look hard. But if you put all those plays in context, he wasn't very good because a guy like Hunter made those same plays look easy. I'm not bashing Edmonds, he was good... but he wasn't great. If you look at the defensive metrics - which I haven't - I suspect Hunter was MUCH better, even though Edmonds was heralded as a great centerfielder by the eye test. And, again, haven't checked but I bet Buxton is better than either of them. The eyes lie.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, I misunderstood your point. Yes, this team has amazing flexibility. And I'd never make the statement "all outfield spots are the same" or "third/first are interchangeable". My only point was that flexibility does not equate greatness. The Twins are decent in the field but hardly exceptional. That's what you get with flexibility. Whereas if you're great defensively, you're likely locked into a few players. Should one or two of them falter, you suddenly become mediocre or worse. Case in point, look at Minnesota and Cleveland. Minnesota has no real stars, Cleveland has 4-5. Minnesota has 25 legit MLB players (probably more like 27-28), Cleveland has about 15. There's a reason why Minnesota is six games up and I suspect that number will begin to grow again as time goes on. Cleveland had injuries, which sucks... but their injuries led them to a record under .500. Minnesota had a slew of injuries and has yet to play under .500 for even a week. If you can lose 3-4 players in two weeks and still play .500 ball, you're going to do okay for yourself.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    While I would never say Sano refuses to listen to coaches or is some kind of stubborn malcontent, as a hitter his pure talent exceeds both Kepler and Rosario. And that's the problem. Rosario overcame his pinwheel nature a bit and became a very good hitter. He's also athletic enough that his pretty good hitting makes him a solid left fielder. Kepler is a pure athlete but not the pure hitter Sano was in the minors. He has rounded out his game to become a very good player overall. Then we loop back to Sano. A guy with an amazing eye at the plate, jaw-dropping strength, and underwhelming results at the MLB level compared to his MiLB numbers. Not only does he fail to match the defensive athleticism of Rosario and Kepler, but he's not even exceeding them in hitting. He absolutely mashed in the minors to a level neither Kepler nor Rosario could come close to doing. Yet both of those players have surpassed Sano as not only MLB players but as MLB hitters. To quote Letterkenny, Sano needs to "figure it out". And that's not me ripping the guy, it's just saying that he's underperforming his amazing talent and ability.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I think it's even more complicated than the bold. Positioning and instincts play a role that we, as viewers focused on the batter and ball off the bat, almost never see unless you're there live to see it unfold without cameras. I call it the "Jim Edmonds effect". Jim was a pretty good centerfielder. Not stellar, but pretty good. I lived in SoCal during his prime seasons. He wasn't awesome defensively, but everyone seemed to think he was. Because the guy would lay himself out for a play and make it look spectacular on a highlight reel. It didn't matter whether he was maybe positioned incorrectly and simply wasn't that fast, his Charlie Hustle effect made all the difference in the world to viewers on TV. But if you were to put, say, Torii Hunter next to Jim Edmonds and watch them both play center, it'd be pretty ****ing clear who was *actually* good and who made plays *look* good within a few innings. Where Edmonds would dive and look spectacular, Hunter would glide in and catch it on his feet. Same ball, one is "spectacular" while the other is "nice catch". And then compare them to a guy like Buxton, who is better than either of them by a considerable margin.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. I've never understood the Grossman hate. He's not a bad player but I think that one defensive outlier year when he went full Washington Generals sticks in peoples' minds. He's a limited capacity player, a guy with deficiencies... like pretty much every other player on an MLB bench, otherwise they'd be a starter, not a bench player. Maybe it's the fact that Grossman's single skillset - getting on base - isn't really eye-popping so it tends to be ignored.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    A team should never give up trying to improve pretty much anywhere but on the 25-man roster, moving Polanco to second base probably doesn't rank higher than #23 on the list of priorities.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Morneau turned into a pretty good first baseman after a few seasons but I never read a single scouting report that even hinted at his ability to play third (and IIRC, he wasn't even highly viewed at first through the minors). Other than a handful of games at catcher and in the outfield, he never played another position other than first base as a professional.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins never cut payroll in the middle of a period of contention. That's a pretty big difference right there.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Yikes, no. There's a reason why so few third basemen are in the Hall. It's an underappreciated and quite unique position. Unless you mean that a third baseman can slide to first base, just like a centerfielder can slide to right/left field. But the inverse is certainly not true.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    I mean, I guess...? It's kind of like saying "he's in the NFL so he's very good at football". Sure, definitely. I'm not knocking Polanco, he's an MLB shortstop. But he's not particularly good at the defensive side of his craft and, until this year, was actually well below average at it. I'm still skeptical about this year's metrics but, at the very least, I'm glad that he has improved somewhat.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree in general but I don't see it as a pressing matter. The way Polanco has improved this season, he can probably stick at short for another year or two (unless someone in the org steps up and displaces Jorge, which is possible... though Lewis isn't exactly stellar at the position himself).
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I just can't figure out how America doesn't see the man in the White House as a menace. For example, while Trump's view on China isn't terribly different from my own, the US cannot face down China by itself. We need basically all of western Europe on our side because things may get ugly at some point. Weakening those alliances in Europe and the rest of the world is just one example of how the man has absolutely no idea what he's doing on a daily basis and shifting policy hourly is making everybody else nervous. Nervous is bad in international diplomacy. These were iron-forged alliances that spanned decades and he's undermining them in just three years. Meanwhile, Saudi is basically bombing and starving children for sport and Trump is basically "YAAAAAASSSSS".
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    We encourage people to put paywall links on this site. At Twins Daily, we view the entire baseball community as a, well, community. And, just like us, every site needs to pay the bills. Some go about it differently and that's okay by us. In short, share away,
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    As do I. While I grudgingly shop at Target, I will not shop at Wal-Mart. There are a dozen or so chains that I refuse to do business with but I generally do it quietly. I'm not really an "organized group doing something" kind of person.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Unless I'm thinking of someone else (can't check right now), I recall him making some pretty despicable statements over the years.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Home Depot is actually a decent company now. They even rated well on the list of best places for LGBTQ people work. Don't let the actions of a long-retired jerk stain a company that has moved on since he left.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    This has been happening for years because the co-founder of Home Depot is a real jerk who actively funded all sorts of far right groups and politicians. Unfortunately, it's a giant misunderstanding because, as you said, he's long retired from the company. The modern Home Depot is actually somewhat progressive.
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