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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    It is objectively funny. Too many sour grapes around here nowadays. This **** is funny, man.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    That's asking a bit too much.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    The Dodgers almost certainly wish they had made the deal. Considering that De Leon was the big piece in the rumored deal, the Twins should be quite satisfied they did not make that deal.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    So the Dodgers get Dozier and the Twins get Forsythe. We all realize this deal is hilarious, right?
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Let me clarify my point: I want to see if Ehire can become the 2019 "what we expected him to be on Opening Day" Escobar. In other words, a roving infield bat and glove, not a starter. Because I'm not sold on Adrianza being even the utility IF guy next season if other options are available.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    I'd rather see Adrianza than Dozier, to be perfectly honest about it. Not because I think Ehire is a better player but because I'd rather get a good look at whether he can become the 2019 Escobar. And if Gordon works himself into a September call-up, even better.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I take what I can get for Dozier and move on at this point. I'm more interested in getting a look at players coming through the system in preparation for 2019 than I am waiting on Dozier to get hot and maybe get a slightly (oh so slightly) better package for him in trade.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I think trading Odorizzi is a big mistake. A cost-controlled acceptable back-end starter has value on a team with pitching concerns. And we've all seen what happens when a team opens the season with six starters capable even meager MLB performance. By the end of May, we're watching Sam Deduno pitch every fifth day. I'm actually more down with trading Gibson than I am Odorizzi, if only because the return on Gibson should be significant. And I don't even want to trade Gibson, I'm just open to it if the offer is good enough.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    It would be even more amazing if the Twins started harassing Cleveland without Dozier or Rodney. The reason the Twins haven't been very good is because their veterans have been sub-par. Dozier is one of those players. Move players who won't contribute to 2019 and/or are expendable. Let the kids play and go into the offseason aggressive again. There's just so little to be gained by keeping guys this season for the 1% chance of catching Cleveland, doubly so when you're eight games behind Cleveland at the deadline largely because those veterans failed to play to their capabilities.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    No one can accuse the front office of sitting on their hands, that’s for sure. They’ve been far more active than Ryan ever was at a deadline. At least that part is interesting to see unfold. The return isn’t great because the Twins’ players aren’t great but at least it’s interesting.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Six of one, half dozen of the other. There's no excuse for Lynn, Reed, Morrison, et al performing at the levels they have this season. They're all veterans with established track records and none of them are old. To a lesser extent, there's no excuse for Sano or Buxton's seasons (though Buxton has something of a defense). I'm not giving the front office a pass because they pretty obviously chose the wrong players. But I refuse to give the players a pass, either, because they had either a veteran track record or the same coaching staff last year and played much better. It's their responsibility to get their asses on the field and play baseball at the level we've seen them do in past seasons.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    My point is that you're using old moves to craft an argument. My point was not that the infield has been handled well, it's that some of the examples you used were very defensible. If you want to make a point about how the front office should do things moving forward, highlighting your post with Dozier and Plouffe is not a good way to make said point, as both of them were pretty straightforward, with little to no fallback positions available to either player (Plouffe had some options, none of them optimal). I said in my original response that I think you're looking at this a bit backwards; you can't just make a player flexible. You need to find flexible players and mold them into what you need them to be. That means you draft and develop these players, you don't inherit them.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Lots of guys have underperformed. The signings were mostly bad in retrospect but that happens, especially when coupled with almost everyone else on the team taking a step back. But that doesn't change the fact that the players have no right to be "deer in headlights" after the Escobar trade. If they wanted Escobar on the team, they should have gotten their **** together and played up to their career lines. Escobar was doing his job; over half the rest of the roster was not.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure, I have a lot of sympathy for the guys who are playing their asses off out there but this team has vastly underperformed. I can put some of the blame on coaching but at the end of the day, there's no excuse for some of these players to have backslid as hard or quickly as they did. That's on them.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Maybe the team should have reconsidered being nearly ten games under .500 after the KC series if they wanted to compete.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    If you want to criticize the last front office and Gardenhire for their infield management, you’ll get no arguments from me. But I don’t really see how that applies to the situation at hand.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Maybe the team should have reconsidered losing three in a row to one of the worst teams in baseball if they didn’t want the front office to sell.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Cuddyer's biggest problem is that he wasn't good at any position. Sure, he was willing to play and kudos to him for that but he was bad everywhere on the field. In the age of defensive metrics, positional flexibility isn't something you just conjure through eagerness and team spirit. You can easily do more damage by moving a guy around and losing runs defensively than you gain by putting a good hitter anywhere on the field.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Brian, I agree with aspects of your point but you keep going back to the shortstop argument... but it's a terrible example to use for positional flexibility. Prospects are kept at short and centerfield as long as possible because they're far more valuable at those positions than anywhere else on the field. It's a matter of attrition. Play short at every level until you prove you cannot play short. Play center at every level until you prove you cannot play center. Dozier and Plouffe, two of your primary examples, are very good case studies why this happens. If either one sticks at short, they are immensely more valuable than they are at second or third. In their respective cases, the front office determined that Dozier had range but no arm. That forced a move to second base and he did well. On the other hand, Plouffe had no range but a cannon. The front office moved him to third as a result and he did pretty well for a couple of years. I'm all for positional flexibility and Rosario is probably a pretty good example of how that can be exploited to a team's benefit. But those players are pretty rare, I think... you don't make those players, you draft them and even then, you're going to fail a lot of the time. If a player can't stick at short, he can't stick at short. That's the end of the discussion. But that doesn't mean you're going to find a particularly valuable place to put that player, it likely means you have to slide downhill to a lesser position and the net gain is little or nothing.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not against trading Gibson but am reluctant to do so. If a return is to be had, it can't be A ball players. The org needs something closer to MLB. Maybe not a 2019 contributor but certainly a 2020 contributor.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    If you’re holding a four and a ten, it’s possible you can win. But holding on to that and doing it over and over again is a good way to lose over the length of a game. Play the odds, especially if playing conservative gives you a better chance of winning the next tournament. Again, not a big fan of selling here but it makes sense. I didn’t love the Escobar deal but I’m on board with the Pressly deal.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    As usual, an extremely well-put post from spycake. I'm not in love with selling but I understand it and reluctantly agree it's probably the right decision if you get a good return.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Eh... Dunno if I buy that because Houston paid for who Pressly can be under the right circumstances, not who he looks like on the Minnesota Twins. The front office got a pretty solid return on Ryan. And after the Escobar deal, I like how this is shaking out: the front office has middling confidence in the short-term of this team but isn't selling monster assets in a complete rebuild... but they're quietly building a hell of a minor league system to catch the wave surrounding Lewis, Gordon, Rooker, Wade, Thorpe, et al.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, I like this return. I was lukewarm on Escobar but I like this one. Celestino looks intriguing and he's my favorite type of player: swings right and throws left, just like my dumb ass.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't know if Sano is ready or not but they seemed to be angling for this for the past week or more. And unloading Escobar was the right move. His logical replacement is Sano. If they didn't feel Sano is ready again, I'd be fine with them throwing garbage at the wall for a few weeks, too.
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