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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, I get that... which is why you argue in-game decisions, not 25-man roster decisions.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Seriously. This forum is killing me right now. Grossman had 18 PAs going into the night. When will we all realize that baseball is a 162 game season?
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Actually, no, it doesn't. It tells us the exact opposite. A hot bat is only hot as long as it stays hot and that changes on a daily basis.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Because baseball history has taught us we should put a lot of stock into Spring Training and the past 20 plate appearances.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Did you read what I wrote? I said "don't give one year longer than they demand". If you can get a guy for one year, don't give him two for "security" unless it's a favorable deal. If the player is amazing and demands five years and fills a need, you give him five years. NOT SIX.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Lamarre has literally eight plate appearances. Grossman has hundreds, and they're mostly pretty good.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't know why you keep beating the drum of "more years = better" when, from a team perspective, the opposite is true 90%+ of the time. The fewer years you can get a free agent, the better. Unless you're absolutely stealing a guy, you don't give him a single year more than he absolutely demands. You know risk analysis, Mike.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I can't believe that Molitor pulled Berrios - one of the fiercest competitors in the game - from a game he's rocking in front of his home crowd for bullpen reasons. But... I honesty hope I'm horribly wrong because the alternative means something is wrong with Jose. Remember that Molitor was a fierce competitor himself. He's not going to make that decision lightly or without reason (and I'm saying this as a person who isn't terribly fond of Molitor the manager).
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    We can have a serious conversation in a game thread. There is no rule against it. But seriously, Mike, the team won 25+ games year over year. And we're all of 12 games into this season... Don't you think it's a bit early to declare decisively that a decision was good or bad?
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Uhhh... Reed is pretty good. Lynn and Odorizzi are interesting but have pitched in some crap weather. Also, we're less than 10% of the way through the season.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I suspect there's something wrong with Jose. I don't see how Molitor pulls him from a start in his home country where he's absolutely rolling.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Well played.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes. My god, so much yes. He's literally the only person to ever walk this planet who can say "three batting titles as a catcher, suck it, haters".
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Yet another reason Joe is unique. Loads of players stumble before their landmark hit. Joe stumbles after it.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Check back with me in July.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    But we established there was a moderate correlation... which doesn't tackle the rest of the problem, that Mauer struck out more in 2014 than he had in any previous season while also hitting the ball more softly than any point in his career. BABIP and hard hit is a correlative argument but it still doesn't explain why Joe missed the ball so often and so rarely squared up. And, yes, his 2013 season saw an increase in strikeouts... but the rest of his stats, even the underlying ones, stayed strong. He posted one of the highest OPS seasons of his career with that strikeout rate because those underlying stats stayed at his career norms (his BABIP was a bit high but only .040 over his career rate, nothing even close to explaining a .150 OPS drop). So what changed? People who argue the concussion wasn't the most significant impact on his career throw out "shifts" and "harder-throwing pitchers" but that doesn't pass the smell test. It's not as if shifts and harder-throwing pitchers showed up overnight. Those are gradual game changes not implemented by every team to this day, yet it's used as a reason why Mauer went from great to pedestrian in ten months.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    You know, I was always bullish on Berrios but really, I'm starting to believe I wasn't bullish enough on the kid. Never underestimate the type of kid who cries when he's drafted, posts absurd offseason workout videos, and studies the game like a fiend. He's a gamer at a level we rarely see.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. Which is why I usually try to stick to discussions about the system. I honestly don't care about the individual and their potential issues, I just want to fix the ****ing problem. I'm not here to make myself feel good, I want resolution. Which is why I just take it on the chin when someone calls me out for my bull****. It hurts, sure, but once I get past the initial negative reaction, I remember why I care about this in the first place. And I've been called out in the past. Hard, and embarrassingly. The kind of stuff that sticks with you for decades and makes you wonder why your friends still speak to you.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes. Are we more interested in the problem or making ourselves feel good? Because that's what this argument about the argument boils down to: I'm okay with acknowledging the problem exists but god forbid that you even imply that I might be involved in said problem, even indirectly. Don't do that; I only want to talk about this at such an abstract level that it ceases to even have meaning, much less resolution.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Okay, I'll just say it: I'm racist. I admit it. My biases are something I work on regularly and have improved on drastically over time, but there are still some deep-rooted biases buried in there I have yet to overcome. As white society, we need to take some responsibility for building this construct that hurts so many people. Maybe our individual contributions are tiny but if we reject the notion we're part of this system in any way, shape, or form, these problems won't be fixed until white people are outnumbered in sheer voting population. Because if we're not contributing to this problem, how does it still exist? Do we just blame our parents and move on? Well, what happens when our kids see the same problem? Do they just blame us and move on? Secondly, there's a compassion component in this conversation that bothers me. We all acknowledge that white society has disproportionate control of society and how it operates. We all acknowledge that non-white people generally get the short end of the stick in pretty much every regard. It costs us literally nothing to stop, show a little compassion, shut up for a minute, and listen to a few things that may make us uncomfortable. Because our reality of facing uncomfortable discussion pales to the actual reality of getting dicked over by society and the government on a daily basis. In short, we need to check our egos at the door and think about what we're doing here.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    I've kind of danced around this question but I'll just ask it outright: If we're not allowed to suggest racial prejudice exists and applies to people around us or those we follow, how do we have this conversation? Seriously, I'm really interested in knowing how this conversation has any chance of proceeding when even the slightest implication that people (without pointing out individuals) might have racial bias is met with hostility.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    The dog was pretty standoff-ish to the baby through her first five months. It started to change when I'd bring the baby home in her car seat. The dog would run up, greet me, then spend 20-30 seconds snuffling the baby in the seat. After awhile, about half the time I'd put the baby on the floor and leave the room, I'd come back to find the dog laying next to her. Now, the dog lays next to the baby regularly and allows the baby to harass the **** out of her by pulling on her collar and slapping the dog (as babies do). The dog just puts up with it and doesn't move. Dogs are fascinating animals. The baby has become an accepted member of the pack and therefore worth protecting.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, in no way do I believe that the concussion is 100% responsible for his decline. But I'd be surprised if it's less than, say, 60% of the reason. Mauer didn't just decline... he literally lost 150 OPS points season-over-season. It's hard to suggest a shift could be responsible for even half that number.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Huh, interesting. I'm basically the opposite. I'm a lefty for writing, throwing, etc. but swing a baseball bat and golf right-handed.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Suggesting that Prior would have won the team a World Series is a bit of a stretch. Just as Mauer couldn't pitch his team out of the ALDS, Prior wouldn't have slugged his team out of the ALDS. Those playoff failures were a team effort. The Twins had the best pitcher in baseball and still couldn't get past the first round, for crying out loud.
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