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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    I notice that with all the people disagreeing with my opinion on the chat, no one actually seems to want to debate whether the comment was dumb. Yet I'm the one projecting a "Keith Law hates my team" vibe. By saying Sullivan's comment was dumb. Not Sullivan, just the comment. And no one seems to disagree with me on that.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Where we disagree is that taking pointless shots at organizations is the only way to be entertaining.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    No, it's really not. In a professional setting, I type a lot of things to a lot of people. I somehow manage to not throw anyone under the bus unless I intend to throw them under a bus.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Actually, I had little to no issues with Souhan - I don't read local writers much so I had no reason to dislike him - until he wrote his first Sano-bashing article. So, my issues with Souhan primarily revolve around his articles about Sano.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    It appears random variance, at least from a glance. Archer has been relatively consistent with FIP/ERA over the course of his career and the Rays are a good defensive team.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    FIP versus ERA. Archer is underperforming his FIP by almost three-quarters of a run this season.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Agreed. This team is good/decent. My point is more that "good/decent" teams can go on short losing streaks pretty easily (hell, even very good teams can do this on occasion, see the Dodgers), especially teams that rely on offense as much as the Twins do. But with a bunch of teams with middling/good records, any one of them could turn hot or cold over 15 games, which would define their season. That's my concern; not that the Twins are vastly inferior to anyone else competing for the WC spot.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Thankfully, three of those teams are in the AL West and they all play each other down the stretch. That decreases the odds of going on a tear and passing the Twins.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    First, would it actually benefit his play? Second, why was that piece written after Sano took a foul ball off his shin and was injured? Why wasn't it written when he had an OPS over .900 and was helping the Twins stay in contention? Maybe Sano should lose a few pounds. Maybe he can't because that's what his body says it should be. Applying "conventional wisdom" to athlete weight is a lazy argument. Or maybe we should still see 180 lb pitchers and 210 lb linebackers.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    This is what makes baseball amazing.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Shannon Stewart, aka. Drunken Peter Pan.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Do they mention that Sano should lose weight or that he should weigh any less than he does now? There's a difference between "he's a big guy, but surprisingly athletic" and "he's a big guy, he should lose some weight or he's going to die of a coronary at age 31 and maybe kill every postseason chance the Twins have for the next decade".* *paraphrased but pretty spot-on with intent Weight shaming is not acknowledging the size of a human being, it's literally SHAMING them because of it. Not a difficult difference to spot.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, exactly. He's holding his own. Maybe that will cause injury issues but is this really a complaint in 2017? The guy fouled a ball off his shin and injured himself. That's not exactly an indictment of Sano's ability to play the field.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Mike Trombley. Terrible player but I managed to turn him into an 24 game winner in Triple Play 99.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Thank you. On top of removing agency from the player (and where your lawyer analogy falls a bit short) is the use of "did". That's not passive. That's declaring an act perpetrated by someone (in this case, named). Again, without evidence. With no bias, that statement would have read much more benign and would have pointed out a deficiency in peripheral stats, not an accusation of wrong doing. Doubly so in seven ****ing starts. Fangraphs writers know better than that, which is my real point. Are they attention grabbing ESPN talking heads? Are they Souhan? Or are they Fangraphs writers? I expect better of them because I know they're better, particularly in a situation that was so easily avoidable (and should have been avoidable by default minus bias).
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    This team managed to get though something like ten games in nine days and did pretty well IIRC. And they did it in August with a 25 man roster. I'm not worried about the games played or the opponents. I'm simply not convinced this team is very good, which can result in short losing stretches (to be fair, they're not very bad either)
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I'd even argue it's "good" given the situation in MLB. Optimal? No. But the best strategy teams can field right now? Probably, maybe even certainly.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Only being a little snarky here but it illustrates my earlier point. It's currently 13-0 in the sixth inning. We can all agree this is a low leverage situation, right?
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, yes. But hitters *are* better, which forces more pitching changes. Look at the lineups of 7-9 hitters even through the first half of the 80s. It's a different game. Never mind that pitchers now throw *much* harder, which limits how many innings they can throw in a season. I'm sure Chapman could throw 95 innings a season if you told him to lob it over at 91mph.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm just going to focus on this because it's so ridiculous. Standards weren't lowered; hitters got better, statistical analysis evolved, and the game changed as a result. If there were enough talented pitchers out there to eliminate the existence of the LOOGY, teams would have rejected the notion of a left-handed one out guy years ago. If you have the ability to field a pitcher who can reliably get three outs, of course you're going to prefer that guy over the one out specialist. Your idea is great in the abstract. Add in the reality of teams constantly clamoring for pitching that can retire MLB hitters and it falls to pieces.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    By which metric? Not arguing, legitimately curious. Radke was underrated but top 30 seems pretty high to me.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    No, he didn't. He said "name one pitcher that is a 4/5"...
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    You give those chat guys way too much slack, Mike. Sure, it was an off-hand comment but he basically accused the Twins of somehow breaking the guy when I haven't seen evidence they've actually changed anything about him at all. It's sloppy work to suggest a team did something wrong without presenting at least a sentence or two as justification. A truly neutral party would say "dunno, his peripherals have collapsed but don't know why it's happening... yet". There's absolutely nothing wrong with not having a perfect answer to every question and just leaving it at that.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    First, I'm pretty sure games like that 17-0 slaughter a week ago qualify as "low leverage". The same goes for last night's 3-11 drubbing. A "gimmick"? What, calling a guy up in September? This is what pretty much every team does whether they're making a run at the postseason or not. Third, "quality exclusively" is something two or three teams in all of baseball have a shot at achieving in any given year. Almost every roster in baseball has chaff at the back, particularly in September when your core guys are wearing down and you need warm bodies to fill holes, particularly in blowout games.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, a RH bat is a good route to take this offseason. The Twins don't really have anyone close to Minnesota who projects as a competent RH offensive threat.
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