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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    This offseason can best be summarized as “the sum adds up to less than the parts”. Individually, many (if not all) of these moves are fine but without a legit arm to go alongside Cruz’s legit bat, consider me underwhelmed (and more than a little pissed off, to be frank about it). Scrounging for deals is great and I commend a mid market front office for doing it... but if that’s ALL you do and come in way under budget doing it... no. Just no.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    I believe that. Dubya is a big sports fan so it'd make sense that he particularly enjoyed that part of the presidency.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Ouch. And these are essentially kids riding high on a victory, getting to meet the President of the United States. No offense, I'm going to have to research this more but I cannot believe Obama did that kind of thing (despite him being basically the anti-Christ, while simultaneously being one of the most dignified men I've ever seen).
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    People on this forum have known me for up to 20 (omg has it really been that long?) years. Seriously, 20 years. And I've largely been a "show restraint because it doesn't hamper long-term plans" guy. My track record over those 20 years shows that extensively and consistently. But if this ****ing team shows up with a $110m payroll, I'm going to be furious. I don't give a rat's ass about your "strategy", I don't care about your "long-term vision", I want you to spend within 30 MILLION DOLLARS OF THE AVERAGE PAYROLL. As a Minneapolis resident, my dumb ass is paying for your (admittedly beautiful) ballpark every ****ing day I step outside my house. If you believe in the team, hand out front-loaded contracts to players under control. If you don't want to do that, hand out free agent contracts. I'm sick and goddamned tired of using the excuse of a flawed-but-good team to ride the middle all the time. Pick a side; you're good or you're not. Act accordingly.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes, but it’s irrelevant to the spectating crowd. If a team is good at development, those A players will become AAA players but no one cares except the player, his family, and the coaches involved. But a good development team will also see AA players become backup MLB players and AAA players become MLB contributors. I guess the only difference is if you look up- or down-stream.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    I’m higher on Curtiss but it’s relatively close. I don’t really love either of them. At least Curtiss has age and untapped potential on his side.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Do not understand. Do not like. If the front office goes out and signs a legitimate upgrade to the bullpen, I no longer care about this deal. But that ain't happened yet, so... Do not understand. Do not like.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Pretty much, yeah. Oh, Gardy... your lineups.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    One of my favorite Cuddyer moments was when I read a lineup card and saw "Cuddyer, CF"... I believe it was against the Cubs. I don't think I spoke for a couple of minutes as I read that line over and over again, wondering if I had lost my mind or developed some acute, specialized case of temporary dyslexia.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm perfectly content back-filling a roster with cast-offs but consider me less impressed when that is the majority of moves. I'm fine with a Parker deal as the second or third bullpen acquisition this offseason... but I want at least one legitimately good arm in front of him, too.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, you're kinda right... but mostly wrong, honestly. Okay, so imagine this. You have a player with a .780 OPS. He's a wretched defender at a premium position. The difference between a .780 and .730 OPS is (using rough memory here so forgive any errors) is about 10 doubles and maybe a few singles scattered in. Anyway, roughly 30, maybe 40 bases scattered over a full season. If you're being generous, that's one base every four games in the season. Buxton hasn't been caught stealing since the Nixon administration (so he's literally adding bases to his OPS total). He also steals at least one base (but many of his catches take multiple bases away) with his glove on a regular basis. It's easy to forget that while you can score runs in baseball with big hits, you can also prevent them by taking away said hits. And a glove like Buxton does that almost with clockwork precision.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, I remember Cuddyer's "defensive versatility" too well (only said half tongue in cheek). I screamed for him to get time at third for a couple of years as the Twins trotted out some of the most atrocious third basemen in memory while Cuddyer rode the bench. With that said, he turned into a much better overall player than I expected, though he was never actually good in the field no matter where you put him. But that arm.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    I don’t think it’s quite THAT simple. A good bullpen piece could help the Twins hit 90 wins but in all likelihood, that guy is worth 2-3 wins by pushing the bullpen from acceptable to good. But this is likely an 80-85 win team if things break neutral. To me, you sign that bullpen arm in case things break RIGHT. If things break right, the team could easily cross 90 wins. And you put yourself in the position to be truly good if things break right, not in a position to be kinda maybe good if things break right.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Can they be competitive? Sure. Will they be competitive? Maybe, but it will require a pretty big helping of luck. And I don’t like relying on luck. One more good bullpen arm and this pen is adequate with an upside of good. Go get that arm.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree that the best way to fill out the back of a rotation is by making the front of it better but that's a really risky way to play and often turns out disastrous. Pretty much all of us wanted Darvish last season and... whoops. That didn't work out so hot for the Cubs. Still lots of time left on the contract but losing the first year, the year in which you're most guaranteed the performance you paid to get, makes it very difficult (and unlikely) that the contract will ever work out for the team. Though there's nothing stopping the Twins from making a trade for a guy they can control for 2-3 seasons.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Reliability in pitching, particularly at the back of the rotation, only really exists in hindsight. Any pitcher that sits at the back of a rotation is walking a tightrope; any loss of speed, control, command, whatever, and he's toast. In that respect, Pineda is probably less of a concern than most pitchers in his position, as he can lose a little and not be completely ineffective.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm still not convinced it's the one year deals so much as the players missed Spring Training and entered the season rusty. By the time Lynn turned around, Molitor had broken the back of the bullpen through aggressive overuse of its best pitchers, Morrison had gone and injured himself, Dozier was directionless, and the wheels were already falling off.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    I’ll take the over because I don’t expect to see Baldelli manage April/May games like it’s the middle of October, leaving more space for guys like Reed and Hildenberger to contribute for an entire season instead of crashing and burning 30-40 appearances into their seasons.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Heh, I'm generally okay with celebrations but even I think that one was a bit over the top. Tone it down a bit, tiger.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    It's not an exaggeration when I say literally half the hitters projected to make the 25 man roster can play first base. Even Kepler is an option there.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Now I truly know it's January in Minnesota. Someone wrote an article about Max Kepler breaking out in the coming season.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Maybe it's just me but one of the most disappointing things about this offseason has been the lack of extensions. And, oddly enough, the first person I'd call is Kyle Gibson. If you can get him for 3/$40m, I do that all day long. Next on the phone is probably Berrios.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Rosario took a huge step forward in 2018. His season tally was still .1 fWAR lower than Buxton’s partial 2017 season. In all likelihood, Rosario will be the better hitter. But Buxton is better at literally everything else and it’s not close. If Buxton can stay healthy and hit his way out of a paper bag, he’s immensely valuable.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    I was not particularly impressed by the Kirilloff pick but I love being wrong when it looks like this.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    On another team, sure.
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