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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Except they can't, as evidenced by Sickels' preseason farm ranking of 15. Dead center in MLB.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Saying the farm system is fine is not the same as saying it shouldn't be better than it is.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    I would pay to watch Emma Watson read a book for two hours. I adore Emma Watson.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    He cracked one list a year or two back. Barely scraped in, if I remember correctly. It's damned near impossible for a reliever to make those lists, though.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins don't need an infusion of talent. They need to begin hole-filling. That can be done via trade or free agency. You're conflating top 100 prospect lists with organizational strength. There are loads of prospects who help their MLB teams without touching a top prospect list. The Twins have lots of those guys, they just don't have the Byron Buxtons in the farm system anymore. There's a reason why most farm system rankings have the Twins in the 15-20 range (ie. squarely in the middle of all MLB teams, if not a touch below). They have talent, it's simply not top 100 talent. If you want to see a truly barren farm system, look at the Angels or Tigers. They don't have talent of any kind. The Twins aren't in that category, not even close to it.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    We shouldn't ignore Romero either. He's not posting gaudy numbers right now but he's at a new level - perhaps the biggest jump in hitting talent outside of the transition to MLB - and holding his own. He's the type of guy who could easily adjust and dominate the second half of the season.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Lots of relievers that failed to become starters. And then there are the apparent draft mistakes like Kohl Stewart. This farm system is far from barren of talent, though. It simply lacks high-end talent (though with the way Gordon is playing right now, he could easily land in the top 30 or 40 after this season). There's a lot of talent in the system, it's merely lacking the impact players we saw from 2013-2016 (and for good reason, most of those guys are now playing in Minnesota). I tend to take early- and mid-season prospect rankings with a grain of salt.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I should really follow Sullivan's chats. He seems one of the most fair and reasonable guys on Fangraphs.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't know if Jose needs to pitch that well but if he's merely solid, Mejia probably needs to step in and be solid as well.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    We're all guilty of it to some extent and if you can't laugh at your own mistakes, life isn't much fun.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, I knew some would balk at that analysis. My point isn't that Hughes is good or that we can expect those win/loss results going forward, only that his actual on-field performance has not harmed the team (again, yet). And, ultimately, the season is about wins and losses. As of today, Phil Hughes has not negatively impacted the Twins' win/loss totals. I don't want anyone to read anything into my statement past that.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    If De Leon was Jose Berrios, maybe that's a fair deal (Dozier for De Leon). I'd still say it's a bit light on the Twins side of things but it's closer to the ballpark for sure. But De Leon isn't Berrios. He has a career high IP of 114. And he's injured... again. This time, it may end in Tommy John surgery. My concern with De Leon wasn't his talent, it's the fact the guy can't stay on the field. Compare that to Berrios, who is both younger and has been a professional workhorse since the age of 18. Good pitchers don't matter if they don't pitch baseball games. Maybe De Leon turns into a workhorse but there are questions about the durability of every pitcher in baseball. Deservedly so, there are even bigger questions about 24 year olds who barely topped 100 IP all of once in their career.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, the goal should be to get Duffey out of the bullpen, not add Mejia to it. One of Chargois or Melotakis needs to step up. Burdi is doing his job. The Twins need at least two arms in the pen.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, it has turned out to be a good month. I barely stayed ahead on my KC trip but once mileage was factored in, that made nearly half of last week's Minneapolis convention tax-free. Love that mileage deduction. I'll touch base with you soon on your recommendation. I have a few commissions to get through in the coming weeks (and another convention in eight days) but once that's clear, I'll have more free time through June.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    If Gordon settles into a .720 OPS guy again, maybe you think twice about trading for a reliever. But the .800+ OPS Gordon? Nuh-uh. No way.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Not to rehash the Dozier situation but there was no reason for Los Angeles to offer value for Brian Dozier. They were the only team in the mix for him and, as we found out, Brian Dozier Lite (Logan Forsythe) was available from the Rays. I would have done the exact same thing were I in the Dodgers' position. Try to get Dozier on the cheap and then fall back to Forsythe if things didn't work out. Giving up 2-3 good prospects for Dozier when Forsythe could be had for De Leon borders on no-brainer territory.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I'd have to look into it but that could be due to their expiring deal with Starbucks, where they got absolutely hosed and lost money. Square kinda retooled their business model at that point, realizing they're not going to get into massive enterprise solutions. They've been pushing more at small- and mid-sized businesses, expanding into pre-payment options based on past revenue and actual business lending. Enterprises like Starbucks can afford to negotiate extremely good deals with processing companies. I think Square's wheelhouse is in smaller markets where the current processing market is basically extorting businesses. I believe Square realizes that now and is pushing in that direction. Personally, I don't know where I'd be without Square. In the month of May, I'll process about $1500 through their service. That's an extremely high month for me (convention season) but that kind of market is where Square is booming. Paypal made a half-assed attempt to enter that market but they're Paypal (ie. they're bastards). Their processing system tries its best to keep all your money in the Paypal ecosystem, which is absolute ****.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, Hughes is skating the line but the Twins are 6-1 in games he has started. You keep a close eye on that guy but if the team is winning despite his scuffling, he's not hurting anything... yet.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    As an addendum, it's important to realize this: The Twins have given 30 starts to Santana, Hughes, Santiago, Mejia, and Gibson. That's pretty reasonable given the roster going into the season. Now Berrios will be added to that group tomorrow. The Twins have given one start to Nick Tepesch. One. Maybe Gibson should have gotten the axe a start or two earlier but when you really examine this rotation, the front office hasn't been handing away starts to junk pitchers off the waiver wire.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    They're not the moves I would have preferred to see but the team has been more than willing to bounce guys up and down the 25 man over the past few weeks. There has been a lot of roster action, it's just roster action that I don't really understand in the here and now. Remember how the old front office used to hang on to guys well past their expiration date in previous seasons. In 2014, the Twins gave a total of 19 starts to Deduno, Swarzak, Darnell, and Johnson. In 2013, they gave a whopping 30 starts to the likes of Samuel Deduno and Pedro-freakin-Hernandez. They gave another 28 starts to Albers, Hendriks, PJ Walters, and Cole De Vries. 58 starts, over 1/3 of a season, to those freakin' guys. My god, 2013 was unwatchable. By comparison, a spot start here and there to guys I don't want to watch pitch is like Christmas.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    No, but he's a journeyman that carries little to no weight in the organization. As I said when he was acquired, I don't understand why the front office went this route but I'll reserve judgment on Wilk's usage before getting upset about it. We often complained how the old front office would not only call up guys like Albers but keep them on the roster for months at a time. And that was a just complaint. If this front office uses guys like Wilk as the fungible assets they are, that's pretty normal for a modern front office. Pick up a guy to hold down a spot for 10 days and then dump him the moment you have a better option available.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    If Hughes can pitch like an acceptable #5 starter at 90mph, color me thrilled.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Given how people talk about Gimenez and how he handles a pitching staff, he should make that list as well.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    One thing to take away from the season thus far: young teams get better in a hurry and often unexpectedly. Time will tell if the Twins are one of those teams. Sure, with this pitching staff they'll scuffle through parts of the season but if their 25-and-under core of Sano, Buxton, Rosario, Kepler, and Polanco play at or above average ball all season, this team should be decent. Whether that's 78 wins or 86 wins decent remains to be seen. A whole lot rides on the arm of Jose Berrios and some of the relievers in the pipeline.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I think that will happen relatively soon but I understand the caution over quickly promoting a guy who essentially didn't pitch last season. I hope we see Burdi get a promotion in June. Whether that's to Rochester or Minnesota, only time will tell.
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