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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    And what happens when you have a slightly below average offense and a historically bad pitching staff? You field a truly terrible baseball team.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Sequencing is largely a form of luck. If it was competence, explain why the Cubs actually underperformed their sequencing last season and not by a little bit. It was a significant number (-4 wins IIRC). And if you think the 103 losses were due to anything other than the pitching staff, I question whether you watched this team last season. They weren't 15th in the AL by a small margin; by many metrics there was a smaller gap between 10th and 14th place than there was between 14th and 15th place. The Twins' pitching staff was historically awful last season. Not just "last in the league" bad but "one of the worst teams of the past decade" bad.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    I suspect Murphy still has the inside track on being the second catcher, though I could be wrong. Garver isn't good enough to force his way onto the roster and a little more seasoning won't kill him. He only has 84 PAs at AAA in his career. I think Murphy gets one more shot - his 2016 was so comically bad and outside his expectations that it almost needs to be discarded - and then the team makes a decision based on John Ryan's performance early in the season.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    It's not like Dozier hit 42 home runs out of nowhere. His seasonal tallies since entering the league: 6 / 18 / 23 / 28 / 42 The guy has legit 30 homer power, maybe even better than that. I can't buy into the idea pitchers are throwing him batting practice, particularly when coupled with the idea they're doing it because the rest of the team is so horrible. If I'm a pitcher, I pitch around the lone good hitter in the lineup and then attack the bad hitters to get my outs. I don't give up a free run "just because". Besides, you're acting as if the Twins were last in the league in offense. Once you adjust for their terrible sequencing last season, they were close to the middle of the pack, if not a touch below. It's not as if the Twins were trotting the 2000s era Dodger lineup to the plate every night. Their offense was some form of competent.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Hard to say. I think the answer to that question depends on how the front office feels about Castro's backup catcher. If JR Murphy is a huge downgrade, then it makes sense to ensure Castro receives the young pitchers or a pitcher who fits a certain profile (for example, if Castro is vastly superior at getting the low strike, he catches Gibson). But if the drop-off between the two isn't steep, it makes sense to focus on offense instead and start Murphy against lefties as frequently as possible. Castro is going to get plenty of plate appearances against lefties either way, though. The question to me is whether he gets 200 PAs against them or 120 PAs against them.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    I believe the opposite would be true. If there's one guy in a lineup who can hurt you (and in a lineup with Miguel Sano, I don't believe that's the case), you make sure that guy doesn't hurt you, not the other way around. Why give up a free run (or two) when you can pitch around a single guy and coast through the rest of the lineup? It's not like this is the NBA where points/runs come fast and furious and a single point/run is mostly irrelevant. Even terrible teams win 30-40% of their games.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    When it comes to dealing with people of other races, I don't think we can give the benefit of the doubt to a guy who yelled and pointed "THERE'S MY AFRICAN AMERICAN" at a rally. It's so painfully obvious Trump doesn't have the slightest clue how to interact with people of color, nor does he care to try. I'm not sure my 90 year old, conservative, rural grandmother (rest in peace) would have said that because COME ON, NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND SAYS THAT. He's such an awful human being. I can't believe this country elected him president. And hell, my oldest and closest friend died in Iraq and I never thought Bush was a bad person for it. I thought he was naive and misguided but I never thought he was an evil man. Trump, though, he's just an awful person. I don't fully understand why people can't see it or, if they do, why they accept it.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    After listening to Hawkins at the Winter Meltdown, I see why the Twins snatched him up and gave him a role in the front office. That is one charismatic dude.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Generally, I feel the same way but I've found a few good narrators that turned me on to audiobooks. I still prefer reading and 90% of the books I consume are read, but I've gained a new appreciation for good audio in the past year. Gary Sinise narrating a John Steinbeck novel was pure bliss. He sounds exactly how you expect Steinbeck to sound. But I absolutely adore Steinbeck so YMMV.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I won't even try to predict the 2018 rotation, as it's firing shots in the dark. What if Kohl Stewart suddenly figures it out and starts striking out 8 guys an inning in Rochester? What if he bombs out entirely? The same goes for Gonsalves. Hell, even Romero isn't that far away if the front office decides to aggressively promote. The 2018 rotation may see massive turnover, as guys like Santana, Gibson, and Hughes are pushed to the margins. Or maybe they stick around because the farm struggles. I'm sure we'll have a better picture of this when June rolls around.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    While Neil Gaiman books are good to read, I highly recommend saving some of his books for audio. He narrates some of his own novels and he's fantastic at it. Bloody brilliant. I always have a hard time finding good audiobooks so when I find a good narrator, I save them for when I next need an audiobook.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    He should have a full workload. He pitched 170 innings last season. He should have crossed 180 except for the part where he was terrible and had a ton of short outings with Minnesota.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    I read nearly 20 Star Wars books after the election and burned myself out on reading a bit. I have a few things queued up right now, as I realized there are huge blind spots in my Neil Gaiman library. I recently read Ocean at the End of the Lane, which was quite good. I FINALLY read Stardust, which was even better.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Shores!
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Whaaaaat. That's not reasonable at all. She's a White House correspondent for a radio network. Her blackness doesn't mean she knows all other black people.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    And he called the Wall Street Journal disgraceful. The WSJ has caught hell in recent months for softballing Trump. There is simply no way this ends well. Within the year, he's going to have enemies in every major newsroom in America. And those enemies will be digging for dirt harder than ever before. Sure, he'll have his Breitbarts and puppets but those agencies are irrelevant when it comes to this sort of thing anyway. They don't have the resources or integrity to break open a Watergate in the first place.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I want to see both Berrios and May in the rotation but if I need to choose one on Opening Day, I'd choose May.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    John Ryan Murphy may be able to fill that role as well. His career OPS against lefties is .691, or about 130 points higher than his OPS against righties.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, I totally get the poster's point in that question but Castro isn't a great example. He's not terrible with the stick, just average or slightly below average. And it's not like $24m is a king's ransom in 2017. I mean, if you pay all 25 players on your roster $8m a season, that's only a $200m payroll.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't think Hughes would make a good closer even if healthy. A large portion of a closer's value comes from not giving up home runs, which are the easiest way to tie a close game in the ninth. And Hughes... Well, he's not exactly top-notch when it comes to preventing home runs.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    The Scott Baker word filter was a thing of beauty. To prevent a recursive loop that printed something like "Timothy Scott Moonshot Moonshot Baker Moonshot Baker" endlessly, we had to put 3-4 filters in place that ran one after the other. It was ridiculous.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    I suspect Pence views Trump has a conduit to getting what he wants, nothing more. I think the two disagree on as much as they agree. I think Pence would clean house if he had the opportunity. I've always viewed him as a guy who wants to push his far-right agenda but mostly do it through typical Washington channels, not outright lunacy. You can argue whether that's better or worse but it's certainly different. For example, I don't think Pence is on board with Trump's blatant (and not-so-subtley racist) nationalism. I don't get the feeling Pence is scared of brown people so much as he wants everyone to play by Christ's rules (as interpreted by Mike Pence).
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't really have a problem with this, as the team has no real closer candidates. But the leash should be short and the moment one of the younger arms start to show promise, they should be moved to the eighth and then ninth inning.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Only if you expect no progression from Sano, Buxton, Rosario, Kepler, and Berrios. All of those players were a mix of terrible, mediocre, injured, and part-timers in 2016. I don't buy into an 80 win projection but I see how they got there. Doubly so when you expect division-wide regression.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Hahahahah, yes. The pine tar debate that raged for months.
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