Brock Beauchamp
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Why? It weights late innings over early innings (as it should, as that's the point of the metric) and Rodney faced the top of the Royals order with a one run lead. -
There's a reason I'm cheering Arizona (a place I absolutely despise) over Los Angeles (a place I lived for a decade and only mildly dislike but simultaneously hold mild affection for).
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Well, in their cases, it has become a self-fulfilling prophesy: Morrison, Dozier, Lynn... none of them will get the deals they wanted last November this coming November. Escobar, on the other hand... The lesson to be learned here is "keep your chin up, *******s".
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Yeah, that was bad but ultimately, it looks like it didn’t matter. The guy is one injury after another.
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Absolutely. I'm angry at almost every level of this organization, but mostly I'm angry at the players (mostly the veterans). The metrics were good on most acquisitions but obviously, mistakes were made in those acquisitions. At the end of the day, the front office can't control what happens when guys step onto the field. And it's the players' damned fault that they walked onto the field and **** the bed so consistently and thoroughly.
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Game Thread: Twins vs. Royals 8/3 @ 5:10 PM PT (7:10 PM CT)
Brock Beauchamp replied to Blake's topic in Archived Game Threads
I wish Sano was more athletic. -
Oh, so Lynn is the problem? And Dozier, as a team leader, couldn't isolate a pitcher who has limited impact on the position players? If you declare yourself a team leader, you get that **** in order and make it work. If you can't handle that job, don't try to step forward when things are easy and then back the **** up when things get hard. The thing is that I also place loads of blame on guys like Lynn. This isn't a situation exclusive to Dozier; from front to back, the veterans underperformed. That shouldn't be a controversial statement. Me being angry at Dozier does not mean I'm not angry at Morrison or Lynn.
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Exactly. We readily blame the front office for their mistakes but rarely square up on the players themselves - especially veterans - and do the same. Well, they’re the ones who step onto the field. If Dozier hated the clubhouse, fix it (Molitor too). Even then, a bad clubhouse is not an excuse to lay down and die.
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I'll be pretty bent at Dozier if he goes on a tear in Los Angeles. A big reason why the Twins weren't contending is because he basically took the season off. If he wanted to play on a contender, he had a chance from the beginning of April forward but failed to play like a contender.
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Ouch. Good point.
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Santana also went into a professional pitching academy at age 16. There’s a reason he was available in the Rule V draft at age 21. I’m not saying that means Stewart will figure out his stuff and refine a pitch but 24 years old isn’t exactly ancient. Just ask Roy Halladay.
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The pen is where they kept the tigers, chief. Man, you've really lost it with old age.
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That’s not how ERA+ works. The metric is drawn from ALL pitchers, including relievers, who usually pitch at a much lower ERA because they pitch in favorable matchups and hitters only face them once. A 95 ERA+ is virtually spot-on for a league average starting pitcher. As for Odorizzi’s declining ERA, I’m sure moving out of Tampa and then losing Buxton behind him for the season dinged his ERA a condsiderable amount, which is why I included FIP. And FIP says Odorizzi’s ERA is close to his performance (unlike last season, where FIP *hated* Odorizzi).
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The Twins have some interesting starting prospects coming up but the thing about pitching prospects is that they tend to disappear overnight. I'm not going to count my chickens before they're hatched. We see rotation attrition in every baseball season. If those guys are healthy and good, they'll get their shot as the pitchers in front of them are injured and/or ineffective. The Twins couldn't even make it to Opening Day this season without losing their 2017 All-Star starting pitcher. And if several of those prospects manage to be healthy and good at the same time, that's not really a problem... But counting on that to happen and trading away an established starter before they've proven themselves is a good way to enjoy a season of Andrew Albers at Target Field.
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Yeah, he is league average. ERA+ of 95, FIP in line with his ERA. He's right around league average for starters. Also, his 2018 FIP is just 0.20 above his career line. Odorizzi is actually having a consistently better season in 2018 than he did in 2017.
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Every year, the Twins have guys who can pitch like Odorizzi. The problem is that the Twins need to have guys who will pitch like Odorizzi. Every year we go through this rigamarole: too many starters, replace a league average guy with a prospect, yadda yadda yadda. And every friggin' year, it bites the Twins in the ass no later than May 1st, sometimes as early as Opening Day.
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Yeah, I think people are ignoring the importance of refining pitches and learning when to use them. Gibson's slider was always good but without the use of two fastballs to change eye level and location, the slider could be countered. Also, control certainly played a factor. Gibson so often lived in the bottom of the zone with his sinker and missed, which allowed hitters to ignore the slider. So refinement of the slider may (and likely) have been a factor but it didn't become miraculously better overnight, his other pitches helped set it up for success.
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I’m currently trying to program an IFTTT snippet that turns off my television if it hears the name “Belisle” spoken.
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You're forgetting Pineda. The Twins don't need two starters. I'm not sure they even need one if Romero goes into the offseason looking strong.
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I’m actually more interested in watching the team today than I was seven days ago. I *hated* this team earlier in the season. They were the most frustrating baseball team I’d ever seen. They’d beat Boston and then immediately collapse against the White Sox afterward. Rinse, repeat. Personally, I’m glad one-fifth of this team got the boot. I wish more would have been given the same treatment. They were an immense let down and embarrassing. Most of the veterans should be ashamed of how they laid down and died so many times in the first four months of 2018.
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Trade Deadline Discussion Thread
Brock Beauchamp replied to diehardtwinsfan's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Yeah, I’ll be really interested to see if there’s an off-season plan here. Depth is good but too much depth is a real thing in the minors. At some point, these guys will need to hit the 40-man roster and there’s not enough room for even half of them. The Twins system isn’t an inch deep and a mile wide but it’s getting kinda close to it. -
I'd also pick up his option without thinking about it too hard.
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Yep. This is the third consecutive season of Gordon looking strong and then collapsing in the second half. He's the anti-Buxton.
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Overall, I'm mildly positive about the deadline. I wanted to see Dozier go but this return is pretty ugly, particularly considering they're taking on Forsythe in return. But oh well, I don't think it matters in the end. Brian has absolutely collapsed since the ASG. It's a hope and prayer to think he suddenly gets so hot that an August deal or QO comes into play. I'm more in the camp of "tear off the Band-Aid and move on".
