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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    This is the timeline I'd aim for if I was the Twins: June-July 2017: Garver gets a call-up, potentially earlier if Murphy is struggling and Garver is playing well. 2018: Garver starts as the back-up catcher, may play more often based on both his and Castro's performance. 2019: Garver begins to take more playing time from Castro, again based on performance. Castro is elite defensively today and his offense is good enough to play as the full-time catcher. As that changes, Garver can begin taking playing time from him. There's no reason to cut Castro's playing time to a partial role before he's played a single regular season game for the team. Well, not for Mitch Garver, anyway. The guy looks to have an adequate bat for the position but it's far from overwhelming. As a 25 year old, he posted a .750 OPS in AA over 400 plate appearances. That isn't exactly lighting the world on fire. An added bonus for putting Murphy out there, finding what he looks like, and gaining an extra year of service time for Garver in the process.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, catching works on a slightly different timeline. And is it more important for Garver to get reps two out of three nights in Rochester or one out of three nights in Minnesota? Given the roster construction and the signing of Castro, I don't see a reason to push Garver... but I don't really like the idea of Gimenez getting those reps, either. Run with Murphy and then make a decision on Garver as the season unfolds.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Somewhere out there, Scott Baker is crying that his career was cut short by injury.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    It shares very little in common with Old Man Logan, which I mostly consider a good thing. It has the tone and atmosphere Old Many Logan should have had, but instead went all super-duper comic booky.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
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  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Hah, fair enough. Actually, Myers causes me a bit of worry about Kepler. Both players are pretty athletic (maybe Kepler a bit more than Myers) and both were considered outfield "tweeners". They're athletic enough to play center in a pinch but aren't great at any outfield position, which shouldn't be the case due to their athleticism. I hope Kepler figures it out in the field where Myers couldn't seem to do it. I mean, Myers swiped 28 bags last season. He's got wheels on him.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Myers' problem has been health. He finally had his first full season in 2016 and posted a .797 OPS. The last time he was healthy was 2013, when he posted an .831 OPS in a partial rookie season. Again, if Kepler turns into a healthy Wil Myers, I'll be quite happy with that result. Also, 2017 is only Myers' age 26 season.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    This is a pretty reasonable take, though the 20/20 number for Buxton is a little nonsensical. I hate HR/SB numbers as a qualifier for a hitter. Buxton could easily have a better season as a 15/30 player than a 20/20 player. I'm not looking for a ton of long balls from Byron; if he's hitting a bunch of doubles and swiping bags at a good clip, that's more valuable to the team overall, IMO. I'll want to see the home run total rise as he loses a step but he's still a lanky 23 year old right now. As for Sano, 40 HR might be a bit of a reach in 2017 but he could be immensely valuable as a 35 homer guy so whatever. What I think is key to Sano is a .360+ OBP and 25+ home runs, preferably 30+.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    That was part of my problem. You only had a vague idea of what happened and who did it or even when it happened. It left an important bit of context out of the film. Were the bad guys in Logan responsible for killing the mutants? Were they part of the government and authorized to do it? Did the government do it without their help? Was the government involved at all? A little bit of context there helps explain the situation leading up to Westchester as well. Who was killed? Did Logan feel somewhat responsible for it? Xavier certainly did. A few sentences of information could have gone a long way toward cementing the Logan/Xavier bond and why Logan felt so indebted to Xavier that he took on his burden. It wasn't only a backstory element, it was crucial to the relationship being shown on film. I'm generally against backstory exposition but in this case, it was kinda crucial to everything happening on-screen. Telling us a bit more about the preceding decade helps the audience ground the character relationships and the villain.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Because it was terrible.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Usually, I prefer less is more but Logan took it a bit too far. The audience needed a few more sentences on what happened to the mutants and what happened at Westchester. I could piece together some of it but nothing approaching a clear picture. Literally 30 seconds of screen time could have satisfied my curiosity about those situations. The film left everything too ambiguous, which left me slightly confused.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Huh. This is really interesting. Thanks, Parker. It worries me whenever a player actively goes against current baseball trends but if Kepler can hit like a healthy Wil Myers, I'd be damned happy with that. Myers' batting average has dropped over the past few seasons but initially, he was a pretty contact-heavy rookie. I'd sacrifice a few points of slugging for lots of doubles and a higher batting average on this team. No one else on this team can hit for average anymore. It'd be nice to slot in a guy with a good average, high OBP, and decent slugging into the third spot of the lineup.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Nope, you should have received the email either last night or this morning.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Went to see Logan last night. Loved the first two-thirds of the movie, didn't love the third act. It was still okay but the western traveling vibe of the first two acts were stellar. Just what I wanted from the film.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    They'll collapse at some point but they won't be the first to collapse. They're specialized television, which is what people want now. And cable companies have to pay their asking price, as live sports are one of the last bastions of cable-only content. Ultimately, it will all collapse at some level. But the wagons have circled around sports, as it's the hardest to move to digital platforms.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, that's really Disney's goal with the MLBAM purchase. Ultimately, we'll see ESPN streaming to devices.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    The only person I predicted that would be moved is Santiago, who is a no-brainer trade in July if he's performing and the Twins are out of it. I said the other guys may be moved.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    There are a few ways this could happen: 1. We have no idea how quickly Falvey will cut bait with or demote underperforming pitchers. He isn't Terry Ryan. 2. July is trade season. If Santiago is still around and resembles a competent pitcher while the Twins are 10+ games back, he'll be moved. Santana may be moved. Hughes is probably here until he retires or sorts himself out. It's even possible Gibson gets moved if the Twins are in a position to do it and the minors are producing starters.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    During the steroid era, that was a pretty good pitcher. Radke finished his career with a 113 ERA+. He didn't only eat innings, he performed well while doing it.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I'd love to see that rotation... In July. Gonsalves and Romero are exciting but Gonsalves has 13 starts in Chattanooga while Romero has all of zero. If Romero was the guy with experience at AA, maybe the front office toys with that idea but not the other way around. Gonsalves isn't the type of prospect you jump two levels after only getting his feet wet in the high minors.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Off the top of my head, more focused, streaming content of actual sports mixed in with detailed analysis of said sports. Had ESPN acted earlier, offered more streaming, and broadcasted stuff like MMA and MLS games, I think they'd be better-positioned in the long run. Do the stuff nobody else is doing, that's what made ESPN great back in the day. The current crop of "scorching hot take, bro" talking head content has to go. It's utter nonsense. Who wants to watch that ****?
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    ESPN is in trouble. Their business model doesn't make sense in a world populated with Twins Dailys. Sure, they have high production video content but no longer do fans of a specific team need to watch two hours of Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter in hopes they'll get ten seconds of highlights on their favorite team. Cord-cutting is only part of their problem. I haven't had ESPN in a decade and can count on my fingers how many times I've missed the channel.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    And that's fair. If you get into the 69-71 win territory, you have to look at who provided performance and when they did it (eg. a late-season rise of Romero gives a lot of hope going forward). My problem is when the numbers dips below "bad" and into "terrible". And we probably agree on that.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    No offense intended but I don't really understand what you're arguing here. Again, "bottom five" is not the same as "fifth worst". Under the exact definition of "bottom five", the Twins would likely be a truly terrible team again. Sliding it to "fifth worst" only makes it marginally better. I guess if you want to take "fifth worst" as "bottom five", it's a slightly different conversation but why stop at five? Why not seventh worst? Why not second worst? If fifth worst is the intention, then the poster should have said "fifth worst" or even "70 wins". When I hear "bottom five", I hear "at best, a 70 win team but also equally as likely to be a 65 win team". And by that definition, a 66 win finish would be somewhat disastrous for this franchise, no?
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    And if Hughes suddenly developed a knee-buckling changeup out of nowhere, he could be pretty good, too. Hughes and Radke are very different pitchers. Hughes needs the velocity Radke didn't (never mind that pitchers, in general, have started throwing harder since Radke started his career 20 years ago).
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