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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm mildly surprised Rosario didn't try for home there just for funsies.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins are really making Price work. He's now over 12 pitches per inning.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    He's a righty. He can use his considerable momentum to fall and begin rolling toward first after every pitch.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I think both Lynn and Odorizzi can/will be exposed by some of the super-patient lineups in the American League. Old Gibson would have been equally exposed. I'm interested to see what new shiny Kyle Gibson will do.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Lynn should have been in a better position to receive the ball by hustling to the bag, I fully agree with that.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Fixed that for you.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I fully admit it was catchable... but it's a pretty outstanding catch and nothing even close to routine. Let's not forget that Lynn is on the move while all that's happening. And he's not the most... agile... dude on the planet. If Morrison gets that ball even three inches closer to Lynn, that's almost surely an out. The guy who has to make a way above average catch during a transfer doesn't get the error. The guy who put him in the position to fail that catch gets the error. If Mauer is on his stomach and a ball ricochets off his glove after a throw from Dozier, who gets the error? It's pretty obviously Dozier.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Mookie Betts is a real pain in the ass.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't understand how a bad throw that bounces off the top of the receiver's glove and goes astray is the fault of the receiver.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Dude... I grabbed the exact frame where it happened. His arm was fully extended, he was leaning toward the throw, and the ball was a snowcone at best.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    It was a terrible flip. Lynn had his arm extended and it tipped off the glove. But Lynn failed to hustle, for sure. But that doesn't impact Morrison's awful flip move.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    No way. Could Lynn have caught it? Sure, but... Edit: Grabbed the exact frame with the ball hitting the glove.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Mauer has that and yawns in the process.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Agreed but given the way he's trending and the circumstances that likely led to his initial struggles (late start to season), I think it's more likely than not he ends up have a decent season by his standards once you adjust to AL expectations.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Are you saying the Mariners aren't a lock for the postseason with their +8 pythag record and +7 BaseRuns record?
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    If the Twins want Escobar, I suspect they'll have more than a fair chance to keep him. Escobar is a hard player to predict and frankly, I'm more interested in keeping him if his OPS is .800 than if his OPS is .900 at season's end. I think he can sustain an .800 OPS for awhile but am incredibly skeptical of him holding at .900 for a prolonged period of time, which means I don't want to bid for him after a .900 OPS season.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Extending Escobar now is the literal definition of buying high. It's unlikely he continues this torrid pace all season and you get to affix a QO to him if need be, which gives you negotiating leverage in November. Just ride it out, see what happens.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Agreed. I’ve been as hard on Molitor over his bullpen usage as anybody but didn’t have a problem with how he managed the game last night.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Berrios has been allowed to go deep into games quite often and he didn’t have his best stuff last night, not even close. You thank the guy for his effort and let the bullpen take it from there.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    It's paranoia. Pierzynski did the same thing with the Giants and he was playing in one of the best markets in baseball. There were complaints about him watching Twins games after the trade. It's natural. You come up with an org, you learn its ways, you become part of the system. When you leave - especially as a person in their mid-20s after spending your entire professional life with one organization - it's going to sting a bit. Maybe you reject them entirely, maybe you only wish you were back at your "home".
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Inherited runners are really important but as a stat, it's pretty flawed. If you inherit a runner on first with 1-2 outs and let them score, that's bad pitching. If you inherit runners on second and third with no outs and both score, that's not really on the reliever (maybe you can make a case that the runner on second should only score ~50% of the time but the runner on third is a gimme). It's not terribly different than judging a starter on his win total. Sure, the outliers are pretty solid indications of good/bad (if a starter wins 20, he's very good... if he loses 15+, he's pretty bad) but the fat middle part of the bell curve is pretty hard to judge on that stat alone.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Why does it have to be one or the other (which may be your point)? The Yankees are in the luxurious position of being able to make absolutely asinine decisions (Ellsbury) and still be okay. But in Cashman's defense, he orchestrated their rebuild wonderfully. They retooled incredibly quickly, which indicates some savvy baseball moves but also a bit of luck that everyone stays healthy and pans out as expected. The (good) Yankees have never been all about buying players. They've always had a core mostly built on in-house talent; what separates them from the Minnesotas and San Diegos is that they can also go out and spend $100m a season on free agents. That doesn't give mid-market teams a pass for prolonged incompetence but it gives teams like the Yankees a huge leg up when they can go buy an additional 5-10 WAR per season on a regular basis.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Mientkiewicz is a manager born into the wrong era. In today's game, his outright disdain for analytics does not make him a fit with two-thirds of MLB teams. Thankfully for him, Detroit is one of those teams that doesn't seem to care. I wanted to like Mientkiewicz the manager because I liked Mientkiewicz the player. I have no use for Mienkiewicz the manager at the MLB level. If he can teach fundamentals and win at the MiLB level, good for him.... but I have zero interest in seeing him at the MLB level where the game has evolved and the managerial demands are different.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    If Santana is truly back and ready to pitch at a high level, I hate to say this but the odd man out is... Fernando Romero. If the team flounders over the next six weeks, you offload Santana, Lynn, and a few others and recall Fernando. But right now, Romero is not helping the team win many baseball games. And right now, the front office has about five weeks to decide whether to buy or sell at the deadline. You need as many wins as possible during that time and letting Romero work through some struggles isn't aligned with that goal. And if Santana doesn't move the needle, then you sell a bunch of players and let Romero pitch through the second half of the season.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I went into this offseason thinking I'd hate the rotation and love the offense. Instead, I love the rotation and absolutely despise the offense, as it's one of the most frustrating offenses I've ever seen in regards to its ability versus performance. Baseball is weird.
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