Brock Beauchamp
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Yeah, Romero is the pretty obvious choice there. -
While I'm not against this idea, I'm not quite ready to jump in with both feet yet, either. It really depends on a few things. How does the rest of the AL look in July? Are the Twins vying for the division (more likely to trade pieces for a run) or the Wild Card (less likely)? The Twins still have a lot of control over their major pieces and they still have some interesting pieces in the upper minors. I'm not ready to start moving some of those pieces until I see what the team looks like mid-season.
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Can seasonal employees be paid salary? If yes, the way around this overtime issue is obvious and rather cheap (each minor leaguer would be paid for 5-7 months depending on league, which tops out around $28,000-$30,000 per season).
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This is likely Dozier's one and only shot at big money free agency. What makes you think he'll take a short extension? Back when he signed his current contract, he wouldn't allow the Twins to buy out even a single year of free agency. Frankly, Dozier would have to be kinda insane to accept anything less than a four year extension right now.
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Only three of them are starting regulars. Only two of them are above average. Only one of them is very good. Every team has players coming off the books every season. The Twins don't have some plethora of remarkable talent on expiring contracts, they have a few good players, most of which are eminently replaceable.
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Yeah... this. But the front office has given the team a legitimate shot to actually win through the playoffs, which is about all we could ask for this offseason. It's not a great shot, but it's a shot.
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It took me six clicks to get from this page to that article on the Strib. #WinningUX
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Yet the MLBPA gets to negotiate all sorts of rights for minor leaguers in the draft, international signings, and team control rights. Doesn’t exactly seem right, does it?
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You're taking a rather condescending tone when history has shown us that MLB will fight MiLB players gaining any kind of rights. You're laying out an elaborate scenario that, while not impossible, is highly unlikely given MLB's track record. The "reducing the MLB pot" argument doesn't really hold much water. You can increase the payroll of an entire MiLB team to a living wage for the cost of one minimum salary MLB player. Besides, the union having no interest in protecting MiLB players is one of the biggest problems in this entire system. I'm not exactly optimistic about them doing anything good for MiLB players, as they have a pretty miserable track record in that regard as well.
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You’re comparing Morrison’s altered approach that paid dividends over a full MLB season to Lamarre, who had ~50 really good plate appearances against rusty opponents, many of whom will either be waived or sent to the minors. Not really the same thing. And I’m not against taking a flyer on Lamarre, but I’m dead set against swapping him for Grossman, a guy who has shown he is a capable MLB player in games that matter.
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Whoa whoa WHOA. Grossman had a .770 OPS in the minors. Over his last three partial seasons, he had an OPS of: .914 .703 .823 Ryan Lamarre, on the other hand. He had an OPS of .814 in 2016. That's swell. His career MiLB OPS? .719. His highest OPS outside 2016? Well, he had a .767 in rookie ball in 2010.
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Getting on base is the new (but somehow now old) black. Seriously, if you don't appreciate a professional backup with a .360+ OBP, I don't really know what to say.
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I know the answer to this: No one cares. Really, that's the answer. It doesn't matter how much service time Granite does or does not have. At his peak, he's pretty much Ben Revere.
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Jake Odorizzi Named Opening Day Starter
Brock Beauchamp replied to Cody Christie's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Given these weather forecasts, no. Jesus, we've had like one day at 50 degrees or better this year and nothing that high is forecast in the next 15 days. -
Yeah, it was heart-breaking to hear the story but what really struck me was just how torn up the foster parents were about the situation. When we met them, they had run the gauntlet of foster classes (Hennepin county is pretty awesome, it has dozens of classes for all types of behavioral, birth defect, diagnoses, etc.) and they were at their wit's end. They had this child who was basically breaking their household, a child they had tried to adopt for years but were blocked from doing so. And so they were just throwing up their hands in defeat. As much as all that sounds terrible to say, their look of defeat was worse. As much as foster parenting sucks from within the system (and it's pretty brutal at times), the vast majority of us just want what's best for the child. Some of us are better at that than others (no judgment, just a fact) but we all try. And the government gets in the way of that happening sooooooo often. ICWA is one of the worst offenders of that idea. It exists for a purpose but its implementation is absolutely ****ing terrible. All it does is leave thousands of Native American children trapped in a system that is bad at everything. The state is not a parent. That state can barely manage to keep itself together, much less deal with the constant, ever-changing needs of a child.
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But I know you go to Ft Myers quite often. How many times did the Twins light up Spring Training and then go on to post terrible seasons? Hitters work on things, pitchers work on things. Sometimes, the lineups and split squads end up making a spring look bad but really, it means so little. Because, as we all know, a Luke Hughes or Ryan Lamarre do not a regular season make.
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This is the ideal solution but it's simply off the table right now. To even get this forum back to the standard I expect of a site I run, I literally have 400 hours of work to update, redesign, fix all the nagging bugs, and get the major site features up and running. I want to have it done by the end of 2018 but even that is probably an unreasonable timeline given my personal life constraints. And that simply isn't a possibility given how this site operates and what makes it so great. We don't have investors, we don't have milestones we need to reach for funding, we're just five guys who do all this **** for pennies on the hour because we love Twins baseball and we want to build a community that can enjoy it as much as we do.
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Sure, and I'm totally hearing you on this. But I posted an extreme use case (six paragraph post, one word edited). What if it's a two paragraph post and one sentence is outside our guidelines? What about two sentences in a 12 sentence post? Do we lose ten good sentences and remove two or lose all 12 sentences in one fell swoop? I'm not arguing with you, I'm merely trying to point out the enormous grey area we face when moderating the board. The black and white choices are easy and few complain about those decisions... but there are at least a dozen grey area choices made by moderators every day this forum is busy, as it was during the Sano discussion.
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I understand the reason for ICWA but it’s a terrible policy in its current guise. Tons of kids sit in limbo and the tribes are fully aware of it. Just last week I was talking to parents who were *finally* giving up on an 11 year old who had serious behavioral issues. The family had either taken the child out of the hospital or shortly thereafter and badly wanted to adopt the child, which gives them all sorts of additional options that aren’t allowed while fostering. A decade with the child and they’re giving up because ICWA.
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Kudos to you for taking on that burden. When we began fostering, we had all of one rule: no ICWA children, not ever.
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First off, thanks for the input. We're discussing this now. As it currently stands, there is no option of a moderation queue for a post where the user can edit their post after a moderator puts it on "hold" or whatever you call it. It's a feature we can consider adding in the future but for the time being, that option is off the table. Second, I understand while some (maybe even most) of you prefer removing the post over an edit, there are going to be a lot of posters who get really mad at us the first time we remove a six paragraph long, 1,000 word missive because literally one word was against policy. By and large, our editing is reductive. We remove content - not alter, only remove - to keep the majority of a poster's statement live on the site and furthering discussion. In other words, we try to take a "don't throw the baby out with the bath water" approach when we feel appropriate. There are no surefire solutions here. Wherever we land on this decision, it's going to irritate a significant portion of the forum. All I ask is that all of you keep that in mind before assuming that your preference is the board's preference or that there's a magic bullet solution that will make everyone happy.
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We've tried this and it simply doesn't work. When it comes to the type of poster who needs their post edited, they often simply ignore the edit request. And then that creates additional steps for the moderator: a PM, regular checking of the thread to see if it's been edited, and then the moderator having to edit the post themselves, rendering the entire rest of the process pointless. Meanwhile, during this entire process, the offending thread is live on the site, just begging for people to respond to it negatively, derailing the thread and adding yet more work for the moderator team as they respond to people who have responded to the original post that doesn't belong on the website at all. I'm not trying to talk down to anyone here but unless you've moderated a busy forum in the past, I don't think many of you realize just how many snap decisions need to be made and how much constant maintenance the forums require. And then we get complaints about over-moderation, yet people seem to ignore that there's a reason why this place never becomes RubeChat and why discourse, in general, is at a much higher level than pretty much any other sports forum you'll find anywhere.
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And therein lies the crux. How do you rebuild an entire culture's self-worth when you've spent centuries dismantling it piece by piece?
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No Suspension For Miguel Sano
Brock Beauchamp replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
As someone who knows Betsy both as a person and as a friend of Twins Daily, I really appreciate all of you who have participated in this thread and shown empathy for her situation without judgment. This is a difficult situation and I'm proud of how most of the posters on this site have talked about this delicate subject. Maybe it's time to move on. Maybe MLB didn't find evidence to suspend Sano (but let's not conflate lack of evidence with innocence). As an individual, I do not know what happened that night but I know Betsy and I trust her statements. That doesn't mean I want to vilify Miguel Sano or run him off on rails; but it does mean I earnestly feel for Betsy and the hurt she obviously feels over this entire ordeal and I think that's something everyone should keep in mind while posting in this thread, and most of you have. Again, I thank all of you for showing restraint, consideration, and a little understanding before you post about this topic. -
No Suspension For Miguel Sano
Brock Beauchamp replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Several of us actually know Betsy so I wouldn't call it "nothing". A few of the Twins Daily folks knew about it before Betsy said anything publicly.
