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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't disagree with your point at large about the toe tap but I take issue with the one size fits all approach. The Twins have several good veteran and young hitters. How many use the same toe tap? How many are pull hitters? How many are oppo hitters? How many use the entire field? Ground balls? Fly balls? Discipline? The "square peg, round hole" argument doesn't carry much weight with me. Have the Twins done all they could to ensure success, especially with Buxton? No, and I think that's a discussion worth talking about... But I simply don't see the evidence that they're trying to force all hitters to be the same guy.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    I have fewer issues with the Twins tweaking Buxton's swing than I do their refusal to let him stick at a level and refine that approach. If you're tweaking a guy's approach and/or swing, he needs more than three weeks to adopt the change.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Dozier has a legit chance at a 6 WAR season. Madness.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    This is my understanding as well. It's fine to have a long swing in high school when you're facing low 80s fastballs with no movement. That approach may even succeed through low A ball. But a smart team gets out in front of that and fixes it immediately. Again, not defending the Twins' treatment of Buxton.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I'd rather see the young players currently on the roster do well than get excited at the prospect of looking forward to 2020 and the emergence of super-prospect X.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Actually, that's pretty common for prep players. I'm not saying the Twins have done Buxton any favors but tweaking the approach of a raw prep player from a rural school is to be expected.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Bad teams should hang their head and be miserable until they are no longer bad. Because that makes sense.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Brian Dozier is a middle infielder with a career OPS of .762. He hasn't been a pumpkin since April of 2013. Yeah, he's prone to slumps and it's likely his value is at its peak right now but there's no indication he will turn into a bad player any time soon.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    If the Twins feel Sano is a DH - not a stretch given his elbow issues - then I'm okay with one more year of Plouffe at the hot corner. But if Sano can play third, then he needs to ****ing play third.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    See, now this pisses me off to no end. The Twins are a hopeless team in a lost season. 40% of their rotation consists of Pat Dean and Andrew Albers.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Mitch Garver has 74 PAs in Rochester. It's not fair - not even a little bit - to hammer away at the Twins for their treatment of Buxton or Hicks and then demand they promote a middling catching prospect through three levels in a season. Plouffe was blocking roster movement for all of a hot minute. Then he got hurt. Then Sano got hurt. Now Trevor is just kinda taking up space that no one else is really going to fill anyway. Sano is the DH and has elbow issues. Polanco is playing short. Exactly who is Plouffe blocking right now? The modest upside of Kintzler is higher than the value anyone will give you for him today. You just keep that guy, hoping he turns into a middle relief guy who performs acceptably. Do I really want any of these guys on the roster? No, not really. Do I care if they're on the roster for 30 more days? Not even a little bit.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Absolutely. In no way did I mean to imply that the Twins get a pass on the Span/Meyer trade. It was a failure. But I look more kindly upon a trade that looks good and makes sense (or a decent process) and ultimately fails because sometimes that just happens in this sport. The failure rate of prospects is high and sometimes good thinking leads to bad results.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Heh, not "stupid" per se, but there were several posters gushing about Beane and how the Twins should emulate his approach. Very little thought was given to results and the sentiment was that movement=success. We should all know better than that. Some of the most active GMs in recent memory were/are also some of the most mediocre. A move is not a good move by default. Sometimes the process is correct (as I believe it was in the Span/Meyer trade) and the result is wrong but sometimes the process is wrong which usually nets a wrong result as well. My only response in the thread was basically confusion because I didn't get what Beane was trying to accomplish... Or, maybe more accurately, I didn't see how his intended goal would be reached with this particular move.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, Suzuki cleared waivers. That is a strong indication of the value placed on him by other teams. Suzuki isn't Mauer or another player paid way more than his on-field value. He's a vet owed about $2m on an expiring contract. If a team wanted him, they would have claimed him and offered something roughly equivalent to a player to be named later. That's Kurt's value. If a team wanted him, they're not going to quibble over the price. They offer marginal value, the Twins accept, and everyone gets on with their day. Plouffe was returning from injury in a season where his numbers were down across the board. Kintzler is meh. Unlike many others, I felt Antony merely "did his job" at the deadline. He didn't overshoot the mark, he didn't fail. But I'm not going to get riled up that the Twins didn't trade a slew of players who may not even return a C level prospect. Who bloody cares?
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    I just found and read the Donaldson thread. It was painful.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Huh, I hadn't really looked at Garver's numbers in a few months. He's putting together a solid season. He's a bit on the old side but is also a catcher.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I'd say neither is really better or worse but one of them happened 15 years ago while the other happened less than two years ago. This board would be losing its **** - and rightly so - had Ryan traded Miguel Sano and he was posting MVP numbers somewhere else.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Unbelievable. I thought this team might stumble down the stretch but to see the pitching staff so completely and utterly implode over these last 13 games is somewhat surprising. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    I think Banks is an interesting comparison. 1100 games at short, then another 1200 at first with diminished offensive performance. There's a good chance Mauer ends up with a similar split, though lower numbers all around (currently with 900 games at catcher, should end season close to 400 at first base).
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Mauer is absolutely a better player than Mattingly, if only because he played good defense at the hardest position on the diamond, not the easiest. As for offense, if Mauer was a first basemen from day one, he has hundreds of more PAs at this point in his career. Maybe even 1,000. Maybe even more because of the concussion. Mauer crossed 600 PAs only four times while he was a starting catcher. Mattingly crossed 600 PAs five times through his age 30 season and 700 PAs twice. Add up those 50-70 PAs over a decade and you have nearly one full season that Joe didn't play and not because he was injured, but because he played the hardest position on the field.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Ding ding ding. They were basically the same player. Good average, good discipline, good power, good defense at a non-premium position. Both suffered career ending health issues too early, though Mattingly gets sympathy points for not eating himself out of the game. Mattingly: PA: 7722 Slash: .307 .358 .471 .830 OPS+: 127 rWAR: 42.2 Hrbek: PA: 7137 Slash: .282 .367 .481 .848 OPS+: 128 rWAR: 38.4
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't understand why people are so upset about the Tonkin piece of this article. Whether you believe Tonkin to be a decent middle reliever piece or not, he's playing out of position and that's an all-too-common theme around Twins Territory over the past several seasons. Maybe Tonkin isn't a great example of the problematic thinking behind this franchise but it doesn't really matter because he's one example of many. Put guys into the role where they are most likely to succeed. It's not as if the Twins have such bullpen talent that they can't find room for Tonkin. How many aggravating mediocre vets has this team rolled into close games over the past 4+ seasons? They put Tonkin into long relief because they wanted to put him in long relief, even though he has pitched 2+ innings in less than 10% of his career appearances. All of this points back to Nick's primary point: the Twins do not appear to have a plan. With too great a frequency, it appears they move a player around the diamond or change his role with a "let's see what happens" approach. Miguel Sano, Danny Santana, Trevor May, Michael Tonkin, Alex Meyer. It's a long bloody list. Occasionally, "let's see what happens" is an acceptable approach when you're in a pinch or backed into a corner. It should never, and I repeat never, be the first option. Hell, it shouldn't be the second or third option, either.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Putting all those decisions in a list triggered my gag reflex. Thanks, Nick.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes. Cynicism is easy. If you never give anything, you'll never lose anything. The world will ultimately conform to your viewpoint because discarding anything positive and laying in wait for the negative that inevitably comes will prove you right at some point.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Okay, I see what you're saying. I thought we were talking about relative performance and further down the WAR chain, not the top of it.
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