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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    If Hughes is indeed a 90-91mph guy going forward, I'd be thrilled with that number. It's probably his ceiling at that velocity, IMO.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    That's why you pick and choose your approach based on situation. If you clobber the ball the first two times to the plate and the infielders take a step back in the dirt, you consider bunting in that situation. Don't walk to the plate with a bunt in mind, let the fielders make that decision for you. Of course, this means Buxton only bunts maybe 25-40 times a season. And that's okay. Normally I'd say "don't bunt at all" but Buxton is so bloody fast that it only takes one step back from a fielder for Byron to have a very good chance of reaching first safely.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    The Vargas injury certainly put a kink in the team's plans for Opening Day but I don't like the decision they made in its wake. To me, it was close to a no-brainer to put Park back on the 40 man roster the moment Kennys wasn't on the team for the opener. This team can afford to have two DH(ish) types on the roster. Mauer shouldn't play every day anyway. Grossman can take some DH reps and some OF reps while Park takes some DH reps and some 1B reps. This isn't the best roster the Twins could field for the opener and that's incredibly disappointing in so many ways. I can begrudgingly accept the bullpen decisions but I don't like this decision at all.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    We're still in March. Good to have this kind of optimism but I can't say I share it.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm sorry but I don't agree with this at all. If the opposing team gives you a bunt for a hit, you take it. Buxton shouldn't be bunting to move runners over but he should absolutely bunt if he has a better than even chance of reaching first base safely.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    So do I but I can't fault the Twins for not saying yes to that trade. They were in an unfortunate spot. Hopefully at this year's deadline, there is more than ONE team looking for a second baseman.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Fair enough. You've been skeptical of Dozier for years. Not saying that as proof of anything, just a reality.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm going to watch because, while this Opening Day roster is frustrating, there's a lot of talent on this team that will be exciting to watch. Too many are writing off this team. Yeah, this pitching staff has a low ceiling but what happens if Dozier, Buxton, and Sano hit at an .800 clip through April? Not only is that exciting baseball but I'm not ready to concede this team will be terrible before a single game is played.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    He's a streaky hitter, for sure... which is why I predicted 32 homers for him. If you put a gun to my head, I'd probably predict 28-32. On the plus side for Dozier, his power has increased every year he's been in the league. 24 homers seems a bit low to me, though it's certainly possible. But no way am I predicting 40 again. I hope it happens but I'm not banking on it.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I view Danny Santana as a placeholder for someone else, whoever replaces the guy who fails the hardest and fastest. It's one of the ways I keep myself sane.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes, this. The data is out there and has been verified many times over. ADJUSTED FOR A VARIETY OF CONDITIONS, people of color are treated more harshly in every aspect of our courts than the equivalent white person. Arrests, accusations, convictions, sentences, length of sentence served. Kirby, I'm sorry, but it's almost like you're finding ways to discount evidence that is quite clear and has been for a long time because everything doesn't tie together with a nice bow and 100% consistency across the board. We don't have to agree on the causation of the problem. We don't have to agree on the solution to the problem. But if we can't agree there's a problem - which is backed up by substantial evidence - we can't begin step one of the process.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Provided Kintzler is who he was in 2016, I don't hate him as the closer. Outside of swing and miss stuff, he has the traits you want in a pitcher who enters a game with the bases empty. He puts the ball on the ground, forcing multiple hits to score runs. He doesn't issue free base runners. He doesn't give up cheap homers, scoring easy runs. And it allows the best bullpen arm to operate in more flexible situations based on need.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Now you've completely lost me. How is it possible to even discuss societal issues under your imposed rules? Those numbers aren't identical but they're all similar and point in the same direction. How does one address a problem this large if we argue over minutiae and refuse to use corresponding evidence because it doesn't align with 100% accuracy? To put it in baseball terms, you're basically arguing that we should ignore SLG because it doesn't align with run creation at a 100% rate... while ignoring that SLG aligns with run creation better than any other metric available to us.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not giving them a pass. I question the Chargois move, for sure... but what bothers me the most was the acquisition of Belisle and Breslow, really. Just go get a decent reliever and pay a few bucks. Big deal, this payroll is too low anyway. No $12m contract over two years is going to hurt this team in any meaningful fashion. Nick's latest article sold me a bit on the Breslow deal, though. Really good info in that piece but more could have been done with the bullpen and it wouldn't cost much to do it. There was enough room in the pen to fit a decent reliever, a mediocre vet, and a young guy.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    I care less about the Opening Day bullpen than I do the front office's willingness to pull the rug out from under some of these guys in May. That will be more telling than the motley crew of mediocrity they assembled out of the gate. I don't mind occasionally winging it and hoping for the best - particularly in a situation as bad as the one they inherited last November - but I very much mind the refusal to cut loose bad players in a timely fashion.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Other than Chargois, very little here surprises me. So I guess it's not so much that I dislike the bullpen, it's more that I already resigned myself to this happening.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Watch The Hobbit films a few times. After that point, most other fantasy seems mediocre or better.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    I love Tom Holland as Spidey. For once, someone finally got Peter Parker right on film and directly translated the comic book character to the big screen. Not that some of the previous movies weren't good in their own right but they were never more than halfway there when it came to Peter Parker. QUEENS ACCENT. I was sold the moment I heard him speak and it only got better from there. The fact he never shut up while on-screen was so quintessentially Spider-Man. He's an annoying, but charming, kid. The earlier movies never drove that point home.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    77 games, eh? That's a bit more bullish than me but I hope I'm wrong. I'm still putting them in the 73 win range, maybe 74 if I wake up on the right side of the bed that morning.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, I know, just stating that while De Leon is good, I can't get too riled up about the lack of a move by the Twins on that front. I don't have enough information to really judge the situation.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    That's to be expected. He's a very good prospect. I still wouldn't have traded him for Dozier straight-up, though. And I have no interest in rekindling the conversation about what the Dodgers offered, whether it was De Leon, De Leon + Dodgertown, or De Leon + an assortment of Tommy Lasorda's discarded topsiders.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    I knew Sony would figure out a way to screw this up (I read that article yesterday). As for Homecoming, I'm tired of Spider-Man... but this movie looks good. I'm glad they found a way to reinvigorate the franchise, even if I'm kinda done with Spidey for the time being. (I love Spidey but he's been overexposed for the past 15 years)
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm really concerned about Buxton's arm.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    The thing is that I came to my conclusion by listening to people, lots of people, with very different life experiences from my own. My opinion on this subject has radically changed over the past 20 years as I left my relatively secure suburban high school in SoCal (which helped me better understand the latino perspective but little else) and into even more diverse neighborhoods and situations. And I'm the first to admit that I barely have a grasp on the enormity of the situation and virtually no idea how it feels to be in their position. I'm an outsider looking in, which limits my ability to fully understand the situation. It's not that I don't listen to other peoples' opinions; quite the opposite, actually. I was that opinion growing up in Minnesota and Utah. It's when I began to listen to people who weren't like me that my opinion started to change.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    We can't talk about societal issues if we don't occasionally generalize when we see consistent themes and over-arching trends. And that applies to everything that happens on a grand scale. It's akin to having a discussion about macroeconomics and only allowing the class to consider Microsoft's individual actions. And then force them to forget what they said about Microsoft and talk only about Exxon-Mobil. Big things require generalization to some degree. Language is clumsy and awkward. We try to power through it the best we can to get to the point we wish to make.
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