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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    When you hit a lot of dingers and blow out a lot of games, some metrics tend to get out of whack. See examples Twins, Yankees.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    The ASG doesn't factor in such things but Castro is having another stellar year behind the plate, tenth in baseball with a 4.5 FRAA Adjusted from BP. By the way, Garver should be noted because he's around 0.7 on the same rating scale, a MASSIVE improvement on earlier seasons. And that's why Garver is my new favorite player. The guy straight balls; if there's a weakness, he improves upon it. I think there's a good chance he ends up one of the best catchers in baseball for the next few years.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    I want all of the Twins hitters to play in the ASG. I want none of the Twins pitchers to play in the ASG.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Maybe Smerf's post was unfair but it's not entirely inaccurate. Modern Christianity is rife with hypocrisy in regards to life. That's basically undeniable, though I struggle to see how it extends to healthcare, because then you enter the realm of government and lots of Biblical passages that basically say "nope". But I think the point is valid that modern Christianity (or most of Christianity from day one, really) fails miserably to live up to its own beliefs.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I *really* like Mayor Pete but hope he's honest enough to realize he's doing all of this for a cabinet position, or maybe even a VP nomination if he hits the right notes. He's not ready for prime-time, as evidenced by his woeful lack of actual policy. Warren/Buttigieg? Sign me the **** up, twice on Sunday.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    While I agree with your general sentiment here, your example is purely awful. Jesus is a guy written in a book, his teachings are pretty well-known and solid most of the time. Whereas you just coupled non-belief with belief. Absence of a belief in something does not create a singular belief through absence. In other words, atheist belief cannot be singular outside of its atheism... whereas Christian belief *can* be singular, because it *believes* in a singular thing and that thing has rules that must be followed.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    If the Twins continue to post 3-3 "down weeks", sign me up.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Very good points, though I think the change is likely the result of the Boston series and the change had not be implemented at that point. Sano was just too vulnerable to high fastballs in that series for me to believe he was already working on fixing it. Anyway, great to hear the team is working on it (of course they are, still good to hear it, though).
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Seeing Sano rip a bunch of homers is great, but I want to see him do it over a prolonged period of time against a team with both good pitching and an analytic approach. As we saw against Boston, I'm pretty worried about an analytic-forward team dismantling Sano in the postseason without even trying very hard. He needs to make more contact, particularly on fastballs high in the zone. He doesn't even need to hit them fair, just foul them off often enough to stay alive in the plate appearance. I never expect the guy to strike out less than 30% of the time and that's okay, but he needs to make more contact.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Weird, because I went to school in southern California close to 30 years ago and we had a problem with the pledge at that time. Maybe you don't represent the entirety of America. Just sayin'.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes. I believe this country was founded on secular beliefs and will protest any religious interference into its core beliefs. See, not all of us "liberals" are the same (I'm actually not really a liberal but whatever). Where Pseudo has an issue with the pledge, I do not. I believe America was founded on some pretty solid principles and I will pledge to those principles without hesitation. Where I think both Pseudo and I agree is that America all too often fails to live up to those principles. Therefore, "under god" is a bridge too far for me while Pseudo has a bridge a little further down the line.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Liriano is walking 4.5 batters per nine innings, has a FIP of 4.19, and an xFIP of 5.04. He is not "pitching well". He is "pitching lucky".
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    It's high time "Under God" was removed from the pledge, as its origins are pretty disgusting. Until 1954 and the Red Scare, the pledge had various incarnations, all of which were secular and about the unity of a nation, not allegiance to a deity. Fear of godless commies added "under god" and that hardly seems like a reason to keep it around in the 21st century as the nation becomes less and less religious.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    "A run" as in "singular run, not runs". In case the way I phrased that wasn't clear. Bunting with two on and no outs increases the chance of scoring a single run and decreases the chance of scoring multiple runs, hence my "a run" comment. For the record, I'm actually quite a fan of bunting for hits. I think guys like Buxton and Polanco should do it more often to keep the defense honest (unless they can't bunt for a good batting average, then quit it). I'm not a fan of putting a plodding quasi-slugger with no bunting skills in a situation to sacrifice bunt, though. Schoop is unreasonably slow for his athleticism and, as we all witnessed, cannot bunt for ****.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    This entire thread is aging like fine wine.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Pretty sure he meant no outs, in which case a strikeout is definitely the worst kind of out. Either way, it doesn't really matter because forest > tree.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    First, I don't think you want LIttell out that one batter longer than you absolutely have to pitch him. Second, the Rays had two lefties coming up the following inning. My guess is that it was a little of both of those factors.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Correction: not worried about anything other than the pitching. GIbson had to go out there and throw bullpen innings in a loss. Not awesome.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, the strikeouts are an effect of the problem. The problem is contact and how easy it has become to pitch around the holes in Sano's swing. Which is why I've been concerned about Sano since his MiLB rehab. The contact was never there, as evidenced by the strikeouts. When he got to MLB, he had a bit of a grace period but was still missing the ball way too often. It was bound to catch up to him sooner or later; I only hoped it wouldn't get this bad.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    One of the three greatest second basemen of the modern era? Sure, that's reasonable.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Ugly game, would have been nice to pull out the win. Gonna be a rough series in Chicago after that one.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Aim higher. Way higher.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    That groundball was 18” from being a hit because it was drilled. I’ll take that groundball every time.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Intentionally walking Cruz to get to Garver. Opposing pitchers must HATE facing this team.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    First paragraph: I don't think these numbers are correct but that's a little nit-picking. My (somewhat vague) recollection is that hitters generally only bunt a ball fair 50% of the time. Success is well under 50%. Anyway, that's not my real point. Second paragraph: Yes, and this is the exact point. The chance of scoring a single run increases slightly but the chance of scoring multiple runs decreases slightly. Those are literally the numbers. It was the seventh inning and the Twins' chances to score more than one run were diminished. If it was a tie game and the Twins needed just one run to win, it's a more defensible move. It's an easily defensible move if the same situation arises in the ninth inning, at which point it becomes the numbers move. The Rays' bullpen is kinda irrelevant in the argument because it's not as if the Twins get to face the Orioles bullpen after the eighth inning if they tie the game. They still have to go out and hack away against one of the better bullpens in baseball, only they do it with nobody on base.
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