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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Lynn over Cobb, huh? I prefer Cobb but not for substantial enough reasons to really complain about it, I suppose.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Rumor has it they did it specifically for that reason.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Possibly, though I'm at a loss for whom.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    So we can assume this doesn't involve a free agent, as there's no reason to clear space on the 40-man for a guy you haven't signed yet. And if you've already signed him, you'd just say so.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, I agree, my point is more that guys tend to perform better and more consistently when they're healthy. Given that Mejia was pretty close to the line between "kinda bad and mediocre" last season, a healthier season could be what puts him into the 2-2.5 WAR range in 2018 and cements him as a rotation staple, albeit closer to the back than the front.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah... the Twins have a lot riding on Gibson stabilizing and Mejia taking a step forward. Thankfully, in the case of Mejia, the step forward can be rather small and he's suddenly a decent pitcher. Just keeping him on the field for 25+ starts would be a big step in the right direction.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not saying Lewis should be off the table, I'm only saying he should be off the table right now. Because I strongly feel that while he's a 25-ish prospect right now, he'll be a top ten guy by season's end. Which means he can centerpiece a deal for basically any pitcher on the market and other teams can't beat the offer. Right now, that's not the case. You'll be tossing in other quality prospects to match other teams, likely good prospects with real upside like Thorpe or Gonsalves.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, I'm not saying you are, only that it's close to impossible to get a very good starting pitcher without him being included in the deal. Here's hoping the Twins have a couple of prospects step forward in the coming years so that holes can be filled with legitimately above average players in trade.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes, and I hope the Twins do the same at some point in the next 2-3 seasons. I'm not against trading prospects at all, I'm just not willing to give up on Lewis right this moment, as I think his stock is going to skyrocket in the near future. If you're bullish on a prospect, you don't trade him in the present. You either wait for his value to rise and get more in return for him or you keep him and reap the rewards of having a good player.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I'll also let it drop but it's not that it's impossible to get good players, it's just a lot harder when you don't have a "gimme" pick at the top and then the ability to draft intelligently down the board. You only have the option to draft intelligently down the board and the hit rate between good and bad teams on those picks is a pretty small gap (but that gap makes all the difference in the world when you nail the pick on a guy down the board every other draft or so).
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Personally, I'm not terribly concerned about Odorizzi's BABIP. Will it raise this season? Almost certainly. But we're talking about a guy who fought injury issues most of the season and saw his home run rate spike... but his walk rate also spiked. That tells me there's a good chance he lost his feel for the zone due to nagging injury, a guy who might be having trouble finishing his delivery and therefore leaving an extreme number of balls up in the zone. Even if the BABIP jumps back up, as it probably will, a healthy Odorizzi should be able to counter that with a normalized walk and home run rate.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    DAMN IT YES IF YOU DON’T STOP THIS NOW I’M TAKING MY BALL AND GOING HOME
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    One can only hope the tide is shifting on this (and I'm rather pro-gun, just not irrationally so). Like so many other things, conservatives have drifted so far to the right that we can't even have a rational discussion about what should be some rather easy concessions to fix an obvious problem. I mean, you can line up conservative politicians from pre-1990 and so many made statements against what modern conservatives are arguing for today. It's sheer lunacy. I don't like to paint with broad strokes but modern conservatives seem to have absolutely *no* grasp of actual history, even of their own party.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Based on what I've seen, the Twins haven't had more than a three man rotation in years. ... Snark aside, a four man rotation is an interesting idea for teams that have four good starting pitchers, a decent swing man, and a good (and DEEP) back of the bullpen. Yeah, that's not the Twins. You can't just take away a bad starter from a kinda bad rotation with an acceptable bullpen and just expect things to work out. Who picks up the slack in that situation? Because you can't ask Hildenberger and Reed to throw 90 innings apiece.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Okay, first, this is a bug I have never been able to fix. The RTE on this site is buggy as **** and it's so embedded into everything that I have no hope of removing it and replacing it with something more adjustable. Second, ONE SPACE IS CORRECT. This is not up for dispute. Just because your stupid government job, academia job, or law degree told you two spaces is correct (which is actually correct in the legal profession, as they use monospace fonts), doesn't make it so. Find me one ****ing respectable digital publication that uses two spaces and I'll eat my hat. The typewriter age is dead, folks. I managed to learn how to type with a single space after a period once proportional fonts were introduced, so can you. But I guess the desktop publishing and computing age is only 25 years old. I totally get why you haven't had time to adjust.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Like all other teams, the Twins almost certainly had a BPA on their board. You trust your scouts and analytics and take the guy they tell you to take. Look at Houston. Their highest-drafted starting pitcher was taken in the supplemental round. If you draft well, you draft well. And I think a big part of that is always taking the BPA. After all, Houston was pretty widely criticized for their Correa pick, yet they managed to nail a pretty good starter in the supplemental round as well. That seemed to turn out okay because the Houston front office was smarter than a bunch of analysts and forum dweebs.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not sure what you're getting at here... doesn't pretty much every MLB front office agree that drafting for need is a terrible idea? Some practice it better than others, but I've never heard a front office stray from that line of thinking publicly. If the Twins liked Lewis best, they should have drafted Lewis. It's that simple, really. Worry about filling other positions further down the draft because, chances are, you'll think a pitcher is the BPA somewhere in your first 2-3 picks. And the Twins did just that.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm also expecting a four, will be very happy if he bounces back to being a decent three.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Red Cow is very good. Love that place.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Except the original post made no clarification if ERA or FIP was being used to say "the same". So let's say both are the same. That means Odorizzi will again post a low 4s ERA, making him much better than everyone except Berrios and Santana.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Ah, I see, you're saying that his FIP will be the same. Got it. I disagree on that front but under that definition, Odorizzi is not much of an upgrade.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Considering the drop off after Santana and Berrios, it should be.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    I see your point and I don't think it's a big issue. I guess you could summarize my point more succinctly this way: With three better shortstop prospects in the system, two "chasing" Palacios, it makes sense to move him and clear the way for guys you more regard more highly. On that note, how weird is it to talk about shortstop as a position of strength? I've been a Twins fan a little over 30 years and it hasn't happened during that time.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Ah, forgot about him!
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I think it's a bit unfair to compare the quality of 2013 pitchers to the quality of 2018 pitchers. Odorizzi and Reed are a head above anything the Twins acquired that offseason.
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