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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    No offense taken but just so you know, insults toward players and personnel are prohibited on the board (re: "mental midget"). As for the topic at hand, I agree that Berrios should be in the rotation based on the information I have available.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    From every report I've ever read, Berrios is a humble, hardworking guy who wants to succeed above all else. I doubt he'll develop a chip on his shoulder, particularly if the coaching staff is working with him to make him a better pitcher. Will he get frustrated? Sure, probably, he's competitive. But once he gets the call, I suspect that frustration washes away in a hurry.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Hey, I don't get the Tepesch thing any more than anybody else here. My hope is that Berrios is working on something specific in Rochester that the front office feels will prevent him from being a decent MLB pitcher.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Absolutely. And if the team was 8-16, I'd be a lot more aggressive about call-ups. But they're 13-11 and just half a game out of the divisional lead. I still want to see Garver, Berrios, Melotakis, Chargois, et al, but they need to perform better than the guys they're replacing. And other than Berrios/Gibson/Tepesch (gag), I'm not sure that would happen. Someone can certainly assist in the bullpen but with the Twins currently carrying nine relievers, I want to see who they cut before I demand the promotion of one of the prospects.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    The comp picks have changed with the QO. I can't remember the details but I don't believe the return is as lucrative as it once was. Or maybe the signing team just doesn't get punished anymore. I can't remember. Still, that makes the return less lucrative either way.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    To add to that, really impressive is not always the same as really good. We all love the long run and diving catch. It's super dynamic. But anyone who watched Jim Edmonds play for a long time realized that some guys could make several of Edmonds' catches without diving. Hunter and Cameron were two of those guys who played at the same time as Edmonds. I'm not taking anything away from Edmonds, he was a hell of a defender in his prime, just pointing out that he wasn't the fastest guy in the known universe. But his catches sure looked impressive. Sometimes, we miss some of the hardest plays because we don't really understand the difficulty of the catch and, from a glance, they don't look that impressive. That doesn't mean the catch wasn't really, really hard.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    That's fair but does it really matter? Is this front office averse to calling up someone directly from AA? I'm not sure. Maybe they slowed his development, maybe they don't care where he pitches before a callup. I don't know enough about the callup history of Cleveland or Texas to say for sure.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    This is going to be my last post on the matter but, yes, people very much get to say "but" and lay a small part of the blame on player behavior if they feel it emboldened fans to act like horrible jackasses. That doesn't excuse fan behavior, it doesn't make it anything but wrong and terrible. But if you can't accept that some people find causation in things you personally find irrelevant, the moderators are going to step into the thread. This isn't a witch hunt nor is it personal. Notice the complete lack of people agreeing with you in this thread and pursuing this line of thought. And, hell, I don't even know if I agree with saying the players' actions were a little bit responsible for what happened. Nor do I really care, when you get right down to it. I think both the players' and fans' actions have been terrible over the past week of baseball. Are they connected? Dunno. Don't care. In my opinion, there was enough jackassery all around for lots of people to be blamed for their individual actions.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    So much this. I'm incredibly disappointed that Berrios didn't get the call but given how he pitched last season and his apparent problems, I don't know if this is the wrong decision. It might be the wrong decision, it might be a necessary decision. I simply don't know. But I can still be disappointed that the front office doesn't feel he's ready.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    The thing is, you just described to me what I want from a "closer". Pitching one inning with no one on base and not giving up multiple runs isn't that hard. Most competent relievers should be able to do it at an 80%+ success rate. Kintzler keeps the ball on the ground at a good clip and doesn't allow cheap homers, which helps him in close games with no one on base. If one guy is going to lay claim to the ninth inning every time your team has a lead, that guy should be your second or third best reliever. Leave the best and second-best guys for innings 6-8 and critical men-on-base critical situations.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    On Aprll 20th, Buxton stumbled back down to a .257 OPS. A dozen days and eight games later, he's sitting at a .478 OPS. HIs K percentage, once sitting near 50%, is down to 36.6%, just one percentage point above last season. Over that eight game stretch, his K rate is at a high but acceptable 26%. I'm starting to get a little bit excited about the guy.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm saying that if a stat is consistent over 110-130 games per season for three years and you're pointing to 18 games, it doesn't carry much weight. In other words, SSS. Almost everything in baseball fluctuates over a 18 game data sample. Also, good framers change teams all the time and stay good framers. The same goes for bad framers. Suzuki was also bad before he was with the Twins.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    You just answered your own question in the same post. If a guy is consistently good in a statistic for three consecutive seasons, one month of fluctuation does not disprove the statistic's quality anymore than Buxton dropping three balls in a week of play suddenly makes him a bad defender or Dozier going three weeks without a homer makes him a bad hitter. One of the merits of framing is how consistent it is. You just pointed out how consistently it tracks individual players year over year.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Bolded: So you, as a fan, believe that something that is widely accepted by most successful MLB teams - including the two squads who faced off in the last World Series - are overstating the importance of a metric. You realize how that sounds, right? As for finding out what the Twins have in Garver, exactly what makes you think Falvey and Levine aren't interested in seeing that as well? But, here's the problem... Catching is really, really important defensively. We've seen what happens when the likes of Suzuki, Doumit, et al squat behind the dish. You see a pretty stat line that makes you want to see what Garver can do. That's great. I want to see what he can do as well. But I'm sure as hell going to defer to the front office on this one because if they don't feel Garver is ready, I literally have zero information beyond a stat line to argue with them over it. And a .935 OPS over 46 plate appearances in AAA isn't enough of a stat line to call their decision idiotic.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Victim blaming? Who here is blaming Jones? AFAIK, he didn't have a damned thing to do with any of this. I'm certainly not blaming Machado, whose slide I defended as accidental. So are the Red Sox the victims I'm blaming? Well, I guess I am. I'm blaming both the Red Sox (excepting Pedroia) and their awful, jackass, racist fans.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Dude, it's really not. I bet you and ChiTown agree 99% on this subject, you're just digging for that 1% over which to disagree. No one here is excusing fan behavior. ChiTown was simply saying the players feed into the mentality with their actions. I don't even know if I agree with that idea but it's pretty trivial in the grand scheme of the incident.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    As for Tepesch, I really hope the front office has Berrios working on something very specific that will make him a better MLB pitcher or it's hard to support that decision.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    This is what I typed: "There's something this front office likes about Gimenez and thus far, it appears to have worked in some capacity." I don't think we're really disagreeing here. I'm saying the front office has gotten some decent results from a lackluster pitching staff and part of that is likely derived from their choice of backstop corps. Out of all the problems on this team, I'm not going to raise my hackles over Chris Gimenez, a guy whose performance looks pretty acceptable and a guy who is on track to get about 150 PAs this season. And even if I wanted Gimenez off the team, there was nothing "idiotic" about the decision, which was stated in the post I quoted.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    It has to be or the statistic is meaningless. A FIP of 0.8 in 2.2 IP is meaningless. A FIP of 0.8 in 220 IP is historically good. But FIP, like ERA, does not count innings.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Hmmm. Disappointing.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure, they're somewhat responsible for Gibson. How much? I'm inclined to say "not much at all" because we've seen Gibson pitch. Gimenez and Castro are not telling him to miss the plate by an inch twice to every batter. Kyle Gibson's problem is execution (in that he doesn't do it). The catcher can't do anything about that. As for Mejia, he has made four career starts, only three this season. I'm going to need more information before I can say anything too positive or negative about him.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Except catchers, unlike position players, don't play in isolation. Can we really complain about the backstop corps considering how much this pitching staff has overperformed? There's something this front office likes about Gimenez and thus far, it appears to have worked in some capacity. Given the lack of information I have on what Gimenez does and what Garver does/doesn't do, I'm not going to make claims about who should be catching every third or fourth game. I want to see Garver join the team at some point but if the front office doesn't feel he's ready, then I can't really disagree because I simply don't know anything beyond a stat line. And a stat line does not a catcher make. Nothing about this situation is "idiotic" unless you're comfortable sitting at the far left edge of the Dunning-Kruger scale and making grandiose claims.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    It's the entire album, rewritten to tell the story of A New Hope. It's mind-blowing. The amount of effort put into this is incredible. Click through the YouTube icon and the entire album will play in order.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    I think it's too early to say they'll always give him trouble. The guy is only 23 years old and pretty thin. It's hard to say what he'll look like in two years, much less four or five.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, he's not going completely passive, a la Hicks. He's letting a few good pitches go by and making contact with more pitches in the zone. But it's still concerning that he's fouling off a lot of good pitches instead of putting them into play and he's still flat-out missing many pitches in the zone, particularly inside. But, adjustments.
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