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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    I have an idea. It's a crazy idea but it just might work. What you do is actually increase Trevor's workload but do it sporadically. Like maybe once a week, or maybe even a bit more often than that. But not much more often. I'll say maybe every 4-6 days or so. It's crazy but it just might work.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    I can't believe no one has responded to this comic so I'm posting it again. It's so good.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Don't ask questions like that, it'll only lead to brain sprain.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    It's possible but we're talking about nearly 1100 plate appearances of extreme splits versus 350 of slightly reversed splits. Which do we believe? A ton of McCann's recent value came from home runs and his home/road splits on those are jaw-dropping (2014-15 35/14 home/road split).
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    It will be interesting to see how the Ramos situation plays out this season. I could see most teams offering three years and somebody winning him with a fourth. Or I could see some team losing its friggin' mind and offering him five years. You never can tell with players of that type. He's coming off a career year but plays a premium position. He's been oft-injured but looked good in 2016. It all depends on what teams decide to prioritize (and you never know some some lunatic franchise like Arizona will swoop in and do something silly).
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    One interesting thing to note about McCann is that he's been superficially adequate with that contract. I can't combine multiple years because B-Ref is acting up right now but he has something like a +.150 OPS home/road split since going to New York. He's been a very bad hitter on the road and a very good hitter in Yankee Stadium. If he's not playing in Yankee Stadium 50% of the time, it's likely we're looking at that contract and calling it a terrible deal. Year: Home/Road 2016: .706/.776 (actually better on road this year) 2015: .857/.663 2014: .784/.591
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    There's no reason to exclude Posey, as he's only in his age 29 season. Mauer's age 29 season was good for a 140 OPS+ (much higher than Posey's current 122). Mauer followed that with a 142 OPS+ season and then the concussion happened. In short, Posey still has plenty of time to collapse in a spectacular and unfortunate manner. If anyone was a virtual lock to age gracefully, it was Joe Mauer... And we all saw how that went down.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Because a guy who sits 91-95 depending on the report is not a "soft tosser". A soft tosser is a guy who sits in the high 80s and maybe occasionally hits 90-91. You're sliding the scale way too far north to fit your perception of Stewart, a guy who sits between the low and mid 90s. As of 2014, the average MLB fastball velocity was 92mph (and remember, this is including relievers who skew the number higher). That's toward the bottom of Stewart's range, though just barely. He has an average-plus fastball velocity.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    That's my take so obviously I agree. Gordon isn't scaring anyone with a single tool but he's decent-to-good at almost everything. In a shortstop, that means he could be a very good player overall, the kind of guy who posts 3-4 WAR a season but few fans ever seem to realize it.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree his return in July would have been better, if only for the longer period the new team would have him on the roster. But we didn't see much movement in the catching market this deadline, which leads me to believe teams just weren't very interested in shoring up catching.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I think it is. I feel the same way. I'm also fine if that external hire keeps some or all of the current front office. That's their call to make and I will defer to their inside knowledge of the situation, at least in the beginning.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I believe it's absolutely warranted. My problem comes with solutions, not questions. We don't know where the Twins have gone wrong. Is it the GM? Scouting? Analytics? Nutrition? Janitorial services? Or is it a little bit of all those things? And in which portions? I have lots of opinions about where the Twins have gone wrong and how they can fix some of the obvious problems. I'm also honest and intelligent enough to admit - at least inwardly - that I'm making this **** up as I go along.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    But we're not talking about moving multiple, organizational-changing assets. We're talking about moving a single prospect that most teams have many of, often in excess. And if the offer is absurd, the Twins can simply say "Eh, Suzuki isn't worth that much anyway. We don't need your crappy prospect. Get lost." And then the contending team that claimed him, the one that actually needed a catcher, is left out in the dry. They still don't have that catcher and they burned a bridge for no reason. This isn't as one-sided as you're making it out to be. When the overall value and return is low, there is very little to be gained by trying to strongarm your opponent. After all, your team is the one who needs a player to improve their postseason chances. The other team is floundering anyway, they don't have much to lose in the short-term. In my experience, most business transactions play out amicably, not like a scene from a Michael Douglas movie.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't think he'll be moved either but I think it has more to do with other teams' interest and offers than any greatness found in Kintzler. He's a lot like Grossman to me. A guy having a good season but not over a long enough timeline to move the needle. And you probably keep that guy because why not?
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Of course we can criticize. I didn't mean to imply that at all. But the breadth and depth of the criticism is eye-rolling at times. People make way too many snap judgments and casually speak well outside their realm of knowledge. With the exception of one person in this thread, we're all laymen. It's important to keep that in mind.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not saying McCann has been worthless, he has been adequate. At $17m per season, the Yankees can deal with "adequate". As we've seen with Mauer, the Twins can't easily absorb that kind of money for middling performance. But McCann had a 120-ish OPS+ in the six years leading up to the NYY deal. The Yankees surely expected decline but I doubt they expected a 20% drop in performance on day one and through the front half of the contract.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure, and that taps into the first part of my point. But there is willful ignorance on this board at times. I've seen people bitch about the medical staff of the Twins and I know full well those posters are aware of the turnover that happened in that department a few seasons ago. They forget because they want to forget. The inverse is also true.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    I see it differently. Santana is the only guy on that list whose value is high enough where it may be prohibitively difficult to move him in August. Suzuki is likely to be claimed... By a team that wants Suzuki. Every team has several C-ish level prospects, any one of which will get them Suzuki. They claim him, they offer up a middling prospect, hands are shaken, Suzuki wears a new uniform. Kintzler's value is lower than Suzuki.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Thank you Jack, this is an invaluable point that is too readily glossed over by posters. Part of that is because it's hard to gauge internal turnover at the ground level of an organization, part of it is because people make bad assumptions based on very little information.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Dunno, I guess I see it differently. McCann has been pretty underwhelming for the Yankees, hovering around a 100 OPS+ with 2+ more years on his deal. He's been nothing more than adequate at $17m per season.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not giving them a pass, I'm acknowledging that not all prospects pan out. Could the Twins have done better? Probably. Do we know for sure at this point in time? No, not really. If Meyer thrives with the Angels, that's a damning indictment. If Hicks turns it around with the Yankees, the same applies. Thus far, we haven't seen Meyer and Hicks is floundering with the Yankees. The Twins have thrown a bunch of prospects into the majors over the past few years. A few have thrived. A few have been acceptable. A few have bombed. How those ratios play out over 4-5 years will tell us a lot more than we know today.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Alex Meyer is definitely questionable and I was adamantly against many of the moves the Twins made with him but his core problem has been injury. I'm not sure that can be laid at the feet of the Twins, though they certainly didn't do the guy any favors. Eddie Rosario has been just fine. I don't know if the Twins could have done anything more with the guy but given that he's been a productive MLB player, I'd call that a small win. Aaron Hicks was mismanaged in my opinion but given his play with the Yankees, I'm not going to get too down on the Twins for how he turned out. The college relievers have definitely been a disappointment, though we still haven't seen that play out completely. The Twins are currently in the negative but we'll see.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    No doubt. My statement wasn't directed solely at Twins talk, more the attitude I often see in those chats.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    And Sano. The jury is still out on Berrios. The only big "failure" thus far has been Buxton and it's waaaaaayyyy too early to close the book on that guy. I think the comment was an unnecessary cheapshot, something I see too frequently lately in these chats (like the other guy who said the Twins were the most hopeless team in MLB).
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not against seeing Johnson or even Radcliff get a legit shot at interviewing for the position. But if that happens, I'd also like to see them split the presidency into business/baseball roles. At the end of the day, I'd like to see someone from outside the organization heading the franchise and if the organization continues to be littered with Twins organizational lifers below that external candidate, that's okay with me. But that's more of a perception approach than an actual improvement approach. If someone from outside the organization looks at Mike Radcliff and says "you do a good job, you keep doing it", that instills faith in Radcliff's abilities. But when it comes to actual "improvement", we're all basically firing shots in the dark. We see the end result and the failure that has come with it but we don't know enough about the process to form an education opinion.
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