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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, it's a risk either way but I think I'd prefer to see the bullpen lose this game than Berrios. And he gets the hook.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Double concur.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. I don't know if I agree but I hope it goes well.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I'd pull the plug. Let the kid go out on a high note. It's a long season.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Berrios comes out for the seventh, right? It seems to me you let the guy pitch and have a quick hook ready.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Ah, now that's scotch weather.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    3pm on a sunny 80 degree day is just about the last time I want to drink Scotch. And I looooooooove Scotch. I have over a dozen bottles in my basement.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Almost a month ahead of the 2016 pace. Yeesh.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    For the time being, I'd call it deference. When more information is available, judgment and/or opinion will come. We simply know too little about the process or objectives right now. Remember, the guy in charge of this organization was credited for building the AL championship pitching staff last season. Either we believe he lucked out or we're missing something here.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I know you hate appeals to authority but society can't function without them. I haven't done the legwork on climate change so I take the experts' word for it. We don't need to believe everything told to us but picking and choosing is a delicate process, lest we fall into a confirmation bias echo chamber.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Sorry, I was speaking more about the lamenting of past defensive alignments and the undervaluing of how Rosario can easily play the "Jacques Jones" role in the outfield. Yeah, he'll be irritating to watch at times but he brings value to the team as a starter.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Ah, thanks. I thought his rehab was tomorrow, not last night.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    I get your point about pitching but you're really diminishing the quality of the Twins positional players, IMO. It's impressive to call up over half a lineup in basically two seasons. I know you're down on Rosario but the guy just does his job. It's unlikely he'll ever be way above average but he's the guy with the lowest ceiling out of five players and his ceiling is still "pretty good player, above average overall". It seems pretty backhanded to say Rosario isn't a starter and then complain about bad outfield defense. He certainly has warts but he does a damned fine job of rounding out an extremely talented outfield defensive alignment.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    The Rays have De Leon for quite some time but he's off to a pretty bad start, a start many of us worried about during negotiations. It was entirely reasonable for the Twins to ask for a lot more than De Leon during talks. It was also entirely reasonable for the Dodgers to say "Forsythe is fine, thanks" in response. Had the Twins pulled the trigger on that deal and De Leon went under the knife eight months later, I'd be furious. And it's likely you would be, too. Maybe the Twins trade Dozier for "less" than De Leon. So be it. But right now, the Twins are challenging for first place in the division and Dozier has helped them get there while De Leon hasn't played a game in the minors, much less the majors. I can't speak for anyone else here but I'm sick and tired of watching a losing baseball team.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Can you honestly say that when the lineup currently has one star and four acceptable-to-good starters under 26 years old? That seems like a pretty unreasonable standard you're setting.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Interesting. I thought the end was surprisingly touching. The middle is what bothered me; the movie just kinda wandered around for 30-40 minutes. The first movie's plot allowed for the characters to shine. It was a game of football. "I have the orb, people are trying to take it from me. They have the orb, let's take it from them." That allowed the characters to be quirky and fun without bogging them down with plot exposition. The second film made the plot a bit more complex and it felt like the characters were trying too hard to get their quirky fun lines in.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Not as good as the original but very good. The first four minutes are worth the price of admission alone. It's so entirely perfect, everything about it. The title card might be worth $12 admission by itself.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    It's hard to look at the Dozier situation and say anything but "thanks, Falvey". Dozier is having a middling season by his standards but has heated up in the past two weeks, posting an OPS over 1.000. De Leon is injured, just as many of us worried he may be. While we can gnash our teeth about the lack of pitching, it's folly to point to the Dozier non-deal as anything but the right move. The Twins still have Dozier - a healthy, good player - while the Rays currently have an oft-injured pitcher who may not pitch again until mid to late 2018 (we'll see how this rehab goes). De Leon would have helped the Twins how, exactly? The team still has a tradable asset in Brian Dozier while the Rays have a big ol' question mark in De Leon.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure, I remember those guys too. But I don't think we should hold up old philosophies the Twins haven't used in years as evidence of current failure. Out of the guys you listed, only Hicks and Plouffe had anything to do with the past few seasons. Plouffe turned out okay, Hicks was a big miss. And even those guys date back 4+ years. The current crop of players are hard to fault. They pull and elevate the ball, they show discipline, and are modern hitters.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't expect Santana or Santiago to keep it up either but mediocrity from this pitching staff could be enough to keep this team in fringe contention. I think the lineup will be that good as the season progresses.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    I'd say this certainly applies to pitching but it's hard to say the Twins have done a poor job of developing position players.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Actually, promoting and expanding is a classic way for new management to infuse a department with new people and ideas, especially if the department isn't toxic (which is one of the few times you need to change culture, though it burns in the short term).
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    One truncated offseason is not enough time to build a scouting department or even identify the problem areas. I know you've worked in large organizations, Mike. Imagine someone coming in and firing an entire department. Nothing would work if that happened and the department would stop functioning because no one knows the password for the friggin' PDF that contains all the internal scouting reports. Never mind that it's highly unlikely every scout in the Twins organization should be fired in the first place. If 40% of a department is badly run but that 40% has louder voices than the rest, you've just needlessly fired 60% of a good department and it's unlikely you'll replace that 60% with equally qualified candidates (as we all know, even many "good" hires end up failing). This is basic management stuff here. As I've said many times in the past, if fans of baseball teams worked for companies that ran the way the fan wanted their sports franchise to operate, they'd scream bloody murder and cry management incompetence (which would be deserved, frankly).
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    At times, we need to step back and take a look at the scope of an organization as large as an MLB team and then couple that with the extremely limited talent pool available at any given moment. The Twins have, what, 50 scouts? More? And how many qualified scouting directors are available in November? Never mind the not-scouts who work under the director. And that's just the scouting department. Multiply those numbers through analytics, administration, coaching, etc. When large organizations see turnover, it's rarely fast and furious. It happens over a period of time as talent (or lack thereof) is identified, promoted, demoted, fired, and hired. I've worked in large organizations that saw management turnover. They didn't walk in and fire everyone on day one because the organization would literally stop functioning the moment that happened. You need to grandfather in the current staff, identify strengths and weaknesses, change philosophy, and then make adjustments. Firing everyone when you walk in the door sounds like a good plan but would lead not only to failure but catastrophic failure.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I think it's a bit unfair to say Ryan would have acquired this catching corps for the reasons Falvey acquired them. The others? Yeah, hard to see a lot of difference there but I think it's a mistake to assume the process is the same because the result is similar.
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