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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    He's still swinging and missing a fair amount but he's laying off bad pitches that he was swinging at early in the season. From what I've seen, he's still struggling with the fastball inside but he's no longer flailing at pitches all over the place (up, down, inside, outside). It's possible the book on Buxton read "don't throw him strikes, he'll swing anyway". That book will need to be revised soon if he keeps it up. I've always believed this will be a baby step process. Byron needs to make several adjustments and it appears he has begun to make at least one of the necessary changes to his approach.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Over the last five games: 20 PAs 4 hits 7 BB 2 SO It appears Byron is making adjustments.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    LOL Sano has a .450 BABIP. I guess that's what happens when the ball comes off your bat at 198mph.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. I don't see the team getting Miguel for less than $20m a season in his free agency years. And definitely not a team option added on. Make those final two years $20/23m guaranteed and maybe Sano doesn't walk away from the table.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Maybe it's just me but I'm ready to see roughly half the bullpen be replaced. I don't really care in what order.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Hah, yes. BABIP doesn't really matter in a SSS with a guy who has a 33% HR/FB rate.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Kind of weird, isn't it? PItching prospect: "He only has 211 starts in Rochester. Not sure he's ready yet." Centerfield prospect: "He once visited Chattanooga as a child. Call him up and make him the starter."
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Right. Meant Gimenez, typed Castro.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    It's not something I'd do often and only against LHP. The difference between even Escobar and Kepler/Rosario is likely 150+ OPS points against LHP. Is that enough to offset the defensive dropoff between Rosario/Kepler and Grossman? I think it is. And those guys can't play 162 games anyway so in reality, you're likely talking about the difference between Escobar and Danny Santana, which is pretty freakin' huge. Basically, this would be my (occasional) lineup against LHP: 1. Dozier - 2B 2. Polanco - SS 3. Sano - DH/3B 4. Grossman - LF/RF 5. Vargas - 1B 6. Castro - C 7. Escobar - 3B/DH 8. Kepler/Rosario - LF/RF 9. Buxton - CF That's a pretty dangerous lineup against LHP.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure, I agree with that on Turley. He's not worth the effort to casually move through the system. You jump him to the next level and see what happens. I think he's 27 years old so if he's going to be an asset, it will happen soon. Either way, I'm hoping the bullpen gets a good cleaning in the next 30 days.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Good catch. The service time is still a consideration, though. As is stunting his development in the minors.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Aw man, Joe had a single to right field. That ruined my enjoyment of that spray chart. Thanks, though.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    There's a limit to those kinds of moves because: 1. The 40 man roster 2. Service time For example, Romero is on the 40 man but has no service time. You don't want to trigger an option if you don't have to, nor do you want to start his clock just for funsies. Inversely, Nik Turley's service time isn't a concern to anyone but he's not on the 40 man roster. So, to call him up, someone else needs to get the boot off the 40 man. Which is kind of pointless because we're talking about Nik Turley here. Maybe he's someone we care about in July but he doesn't have the track record to warrant a look in April.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, maybe there are injury concerns there given the TJ surgery and whatnot but if his arm is healthy, I personally do not have concerns about his arm strength or accuracy.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Good to see Romero turning it around. After Gonsalves went down and Stewart turned horrible, he jumped quite a ways up the depth chart.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I can see your point in the case of Polanco but do we have any concerns about Sano's arm? The guy has a rocket and it's pretty accurate to boot. Sano has plenty of concerns over at the hot corner but his arm has never been one of them, in my opinion. His lateral movement and range, sure, but not his arm.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    One of the things I wanted to see Buxton do was take more pitches in hopes that repetition of seeing in-game pitches will help his apparent identification problem. Which he seems to be doing, which is good. His pitchers per plate appearances has nudged over 4 whereas, IIRC, it was around 3.8 a few weeks ago. He has worked a bunch more three ball counts into his recent plate appearances, which is a good thing. I don't worry about Buxton ever becoming Aaron Hicks with passivity so erring on the side of patience is probably a good strategy at this point, even if he gets rung up looking on occasion.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Probably digging a hole in his backyard and filling it with concrete.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Also, it houses a very bad baseball team.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I didn't mind the move, what irked the hell out of me is that it happened on July 31st. The 2015 Twins were a lucky team with one glaring weak spot: the bullpen. And not a damned thing was done about it before deadline day. Had Ryan picked up a competent reliever at the end of June, I'd wager there's a better than even chance the Twins play in the Wildcard Game that season. It's my opinion that you shore up a weakness or two on a lucky team in hopes that luck continues but you don't go all-in on such a flawed baseball team.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Don't confuse my unwillingness to pay Sano league-leading money with my willingness to pay him lots and lots of money. But his position and defensive acumen will be a knock against his pay, just like any other contract. You negotiate down based on player weakness. Whereas you can't do that to Trout, seeing how he has no weaknesses and, as far as I can tell, is not actually a mortal man.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Boy, that's a tough call. I need more time to see how Dozier does after the weather warms and whether he reverts to a flyball happy pull hitter. Because, at that point, all bets are off. He's the type of guy who enters a month with 5 homers and leaves with 15. So...
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    I think this is more along the lines of what Dave is thinking during every Hicks at-bat this season: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes. Yes, it would. The Twins looked like they might have sufficient depth going into the season but with the Gonsalves and Stewart situations, that already-less-than-stellar depth disappeared in a hurry.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    It's not entirely irrelevant. $50m a season is Mike Trout money. Would you pay the same for Trout in his prime that you would to Miguel Cabrera in his prime? I wouldn't. Trout's up the middle defense transforms him from "first ballot Hall of Famer" into a "once every 50 years" player. Trout is basically the 21st century Willie Mays whereas Sano might be Killebrew or someone of that ilk.
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