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Everything posted by Brock Beauchamp

  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeesh, Trevor.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Pretty hard to read the sarcasm in that post, though I'm perfectly content to have missed it.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    May out for the save. Well, this is fun.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    The best baseball teams lose 40% of their games and the worst win 40% of their games. It's just baseball.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Adrianza is the best shortstop on the team and Cruz can't even play a position. I'm pretty sure that answers your question. But also, Adrianza is not very fast.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    See? All Sano had to do was not swing at one pitch and he got the job done. Nevermind that he almost swung at that pitch.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Simultaneously the last guy I want up in this situation and the most exciting player to watch at the plate.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, you even get past the eight hitter, Castro (who has a .933 OPS), and then you realize you have to face Byron Buxton. It's delightfully brutal.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    That was a ballsy move by Polanco. Remember when we were sold on Molitor teaching players to run like that and they so rarely chose the right spots to do it?
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    While I agree the risk is being overblown a bit by some posters, there's always risk in putting more than 10% of your payroll into a single reliever. The opportunity cost of money going to one player and not another always carries risk with it. Perhaps the riskiest of all investments is relief pitching, which ups the stakes in this particular situation. But overall, again, I'm mildly disappointed that the Twins didn't get Kimbrel and time will tell us whether they were right to back off a third year.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    One can feel it's a missed opportunity while not feeling it's a "huge" missed opportunity because of the risk. I'm disappointed by the Twins' failure to get Kimbrel but I'm far from heartbroken over it. As for "40 games" until a trade is made, two questions: 1. When do you expect Kimbrel to throw his first pitch for the Cubs? 2. When do you expect Kimbrel to throw his first effective pitch for the Cubs? The difference between "40 days to make a trade" and the answer to #2 may not be terribly different in the best case scenario and the answer could pretty easily swing heavily in favor of the trade solution without squinting too much. We're talking about a very good reliever, for sure, but one that will not have thrown a competitive pitch in 8-9 months when he takes the mound for the Cubs.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm assuming that this is about Tom's article... which it appears you didn't read? Because it was nothing but praise for Baldelli. The title was a tongue-in-cheek look at his managing style and how it's working. http://twinsdaily.com/topic/33229-article-baldelli-is-more-coddling-millennial-than-field-general/?hl=coddling
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    For starters, because Kimbrel is a moderate risk himself, particularly for 2019, which is what I really care about right now. Who do you trust more, a pitcher having a solid 2019 season (fill in your tradable reliever of choice here) or Craig Kimbrel? I lean away from Kimbrel in that situation because I think he's something of a wild card for the 2019 season. What bothers me about last offseason is that it appears they didn't even really try hard to find a reliever. They shored up the offense, spent a considerable about of money, but still came in under the previous season's payroll threshold while failing to pick up a solid relief arm. That really irks me. Other arms will be available. When it comes to trading players or signing free agents, I generally try to avoid clinging to a specific name. What I care about is acquiring a good player, not the player I've chosen using my limited knowledge and data resources.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, it can be both about the money and a sound decision. Whether we want to admit it or not, this is (mostly) a zero sum game. Time will tell who is right about Kimbrel (though if he fails, it's entirely possible the Cubs also expected it and simply do not care... that's the luxury they have of carrying a payroll well north of $200m).
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Weird. You listed a bunch of things, close of half of which I disagree with, while leaving off the one that really matters to me, his aggressive stance toward China (like most things Trump, I don't like his methods but I agree with the goal). So that's "hatred" on my part?
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    For starters, she has comprehensive plans to go after the banking industry, change healthcare, and she wants to begin exploring splintering the tech industry, which is wildly out of control.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, and 93 and 98. I figured "and other years" was good enough to make the point.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    You never even asked the question so stop playing the victim. Actually, I was the one who asked "why not Warren?" I just scrolled back two full pages and the entirety of your thought-provoking Warren commentary before the quoted post has been: "Elizabeth Warren?Wow."
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah... if you combine the plans released by every other candidate, Warren's numerous plans probably outnumber them all combined.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Lawton was traded in 2001 and proceeded to be pretty bad for the Mets.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    I shouldn't even ask this, but... why not Warren?
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    MLB integrated in 1947, which changed the level of competition, rendering old stats largely outdated. MLB expanded in 1961 (and other years), which lowered the level of competition, rendering old stats largely outdated. MLB lowered the mound in 1969, which gave hitters an advantage, rendering old stats largely outdated. The AL added the DH in 1973, completely skewering old team stats, rendering them largely outdated. Through the 80s and 90s, an influx of Latin players invaded the league, rendering old stats largely outdated. I could go on but you probably get my point by now.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Warren remains the obvious choice for me though if the party wants to go centrist, I'll take Klobuchar 11 times out of 10 over Biden, thanks.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    It's most definitely not "totally" due to the ball. Teams have figured out that a certain type of swing generates flyballs and that flyballs are more productive than groundballs. As a result, teams are drafting and developing players to use a swing that facilitates lots of flyballs/line drives. Add in improved conditioning and stronger players and you get more home runs. The ball likely has a role but it's far from the only factor in play here.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't think that's the case at all. The 2019 squad started the season with Sano, possibly their best slugger (though everyone's so good right now it's almost a moot point), on the IL. Later, they had their two best overall hitters (Cruz and Garver) go down for a few weeks each. The team played some of its best baseball during that stretch of play. If a pitcher goes down, things could get ugly, but thus far the team has weathered some really good players spending extended time away from the field and no one missed a beat.
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