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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    It's kinda funny, in a sad way, to see Nintendo stock plummet because PEOPLE ARE STUPID. Nintendo announced they only receive 32% of Pokemon Go profits and their stock immediately went into freefall. ARE INVESTORS DOING NO RESEARCH? I thought this was common knowledge, stuff I found out during casual internet searches a few weeks ago. The Pokemon Company - the real owner of the franchise - is split between companies. Then Niantic gets its cut. And Apple and Google get their cuts. The real winner here is Google. They receive 30% of all sales on Android and they own part of Niantic. The secondary winner here is Apple. They do jack **** and receive 30% of all iOS sales. Sometimes I'm baffled by how little the "experts" know about the **** they invest in. It's likely Apple is going to make as much from Pokemon Go as Nintendo does and they literally did absolutely nothing and are not involved with the game in any way.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure, the Twins could use Herrmann this season but are people really convinced the real Chris Herrmann has suddenly emerged from the ether? That's... Kinda insane, IMO. Chris Herrmann has 161 plate appearances this season. Well, that's... Not a lot. A guy can rake for a few weeks and look great with that sample size. Oh, wait, then we look at his splits: April: 31 PAs, .607 OPS, .118 BABIP May: 67 PAs, 1.122 OPS, .472 BABIP (whoa!) June: 48 PAs, .697 OPS, .344 BABIP July: 20 PAs, .824 OPS, .500 BABIP His 2016 BABIP total is .371. Maybe it's just me but my Magic 8-Ball reads "Reply Hazy, Try Again".
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    If the Twins move 2-3 pieces out of the pen, I could get behind a Storen signing. But I want to see a bunch of subtraction before any external addition occurs.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    That's fair. I think Plouffe is a bit overrated with the glove, at least around these parts. He's a solid glove at third base. In 2014, maybe he was a "soft plus" with the glove. He's very comparable to Dozier. Brian was once a stellar second baseman, now he's just pretty okay.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    *raises hand excitedly* Ooh-ooh-ooh, I can answer this one! "Yes."
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    That's cutting a pretty thin line for "average". If Trevor Plouffe was +3 on DRS (a small swing over the course of a season), does that put him "above average"? He'd be in the top ten at that point. I'd consider 12th of 20 qualifiers the very definition of "average" (and he was a virtual tie with Longoria who was ranked 11, also at -1 DRS). Plouffe is near the middle of six players who were +/- 3 DRS last season. In 2014, DRS had Plouffe ranked 10th of out 24 qualifiers. That's also pretty average. And, yes, Plouffe has regressed this season but he's also been fighting injuries off and on. The extent to which he has diminished defensively is still in question. Going forward, it's highly unlikely he suddenly turned into a -15 DRS player overnight (which is his 2016 pace extrapolated over 140-ish games). On top of all that, a full ten teams didn't have a 3B play often enough to even qualify. Those teams count, too.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Since September of 2013 (34 months ago), Miguel Sano has played 99 games at third base. There's good reason for him to be rusty and/or still developing.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Boy, that would be a real waste of athleticism.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah. While I doubt he'll ever be average and this experiment is likely to fail, Sano hasn't played the field much in the past few years. There was the TJS, then less than half a season in the minors, then DH for the Twins last year. Throw him out there and reevaluate in November.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I want to see the Twins remove pieces from the bullpen and build internally, not draw more has-beens to the roster. If they want to sign Storen to a MiLB contract this offseason, have at it. This season should be about figuring out what they have in Rochester and Chattanooga.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    IMO, the Park signing was the biggest mistake of the offseason. Well, okay, maybe the bullpen. That was huge. But I didn't see the point in signing Park. The Twins had Arcia, Sano, Plouffe, and Vargas competing for the DH/3B spots. The Park signing forced a bunch of bad decisions down the chain. A roster on Opening Day with Sano and Arcia fighting for DH reps is a decent approach. One Plouffe injury and Sano rotates over to third, opening a spot for Vargas. Given the market for third basemen, trading Plouffe was a non-starter in December. I can understand the front office's desire to not hand away a productive player under team control. But signing Park forced so many bad ideas. So many.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    This is kinda my thought and it doesn't cost much to find out. Whether the Twins finish the season with 64 or 66 wins is largely irrelevant.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Stop posting throwaway comments. Seriously. I never should have taken the bait but you reduced a multi-paragraph post into an argument over a single ****ing word. And with that, I'm done with this thread. Carry on with the conversation and sorry for the disruption.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not the one with the special definition. The Twins traded players for prospects. They held on to prospects. They didn't sign notable free agents for a few years. That's a rebuild. It wasn't a great rebuild but it fit the definition of the word.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    It's also partially a process and the Twins frequently met the requirements. - They didn't trade prospects. - They stockpiled the farm system. - They traded some veterans. - For multiple years, they didn't commit long-term money to expensive free agents. Listen, I get that you don't like the way the Twins rebuilt and, again, I agree with you. They did a lot of stupid crap and I disagreed with them on many occasions. But. It. Was. Still. A. Rebuild.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Park should be expected to adapt more quickly than a 24 year old but being results-focused from day one isn't a good approach, either. Park has 200-something MLB plate appearances. Now we find out he may have played with a dinged-up wrist. That puts into doubt everything we saw thus far (and what we've seen is a small enough sample to not know much in the first place). If Park has 500 MLB plate appearances and hasn't shown more consistency, it's a problem. He doesn't have a long timeline to enter boom/bust territory but it's certainly longer than a bit more than two months of a season where he may have been injured.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Or maybe Park didn't admit to them he was hurt. That's not an unusual thing to happen, particularly with wrist injuries... A slightly wonky wrist may only have a slight amount of pain but can drastically impact the results of swinging a baseball bat. In any case, drawing any kind of conclusion about Park on July 24th, 2016 is stupid. Time will tell whether he is capable of hitting MLB pitching.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Everyone here continues to argue "the way I want a team to rebuild is the only approach that meets the definition of the word". Rebuilding a team is to turn it over to young players that are cost-controlled and living or dying by the results they provide. However the Twins got there - and it was an ugly, frustrating ride - that's what they're doing.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Listen, I thought the Arcia decision was pretty dumb but this is a terrible rebuttal. It now appears Park was injured, which puts into question his early performance. And the Twins called up Vargas, who is absolutely mashing the ball. And all of these guys have a ridiculously SSS so none of this data is even a little bit conclusive.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins haven't rebuilt in the manner you'd prefer. Hell, I agree with you. But that's not the argument you made, is it? You took umbrage with the use of the word "rebuild" at all. The Twins have rebuilt... Well, maybe not "rebuilt"... They're still in the process. Notice I'm not claiming the Twins have done the best job possible with the rebuild. Hell, I won't even claim they've done a good job because there are soooooo many bad contracts that hinder the future, stuff that simply did not need to happen. But the Twins have one of the youngest rosters in baseball and a handful of young, good players that only look to get better in time. That's a rebuild.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    What makes you think Antony might have the chops to be a GM? Terry Ryan, for all his faults, was an adept evaluator of talent. He had a scouting background. He knew how to hire other scouts, likely due to his scouting background. Scouting was the backbone of Ryan's tenure, for all the good and bad that came with it. Ryan was, quite literally, a "baseball guy". Antony was raised in this environment but without any of Ryan's pre-GM background in evaluation. He doesn't have the knack for talent evaluation because he hasn't done the legwork to acquire that skill first-hand. And, because he spent his career under Ryan, Antony certainly doesn't have experience with the new side of baseball, either. He's not a young up-and-comer with a forward-thinking organization, ready to burst onto the scenes with new ideas and piles of data to back them up. So what does he bring to the table, exactly? He strikes me as middle management; not trained to be the guy in the head chair but not skilled at the down-and-dirty work of every day tradespeople, either (where Ryan got his start). And I don't want that guy as the Twins' GM.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, it's brutal... But lots of infielders are brutal when they're introduced to the league. Everything is harder hit, guys are faster, smarter... It's a tough gig. Trevor Plouffe was once a terrible third baseman. If the Twins were in this thing, I'd be screaming for Sano to go back to DH and rotate Nunez to third... But it's a lost season. Give Sano another 65 games at third and revaluate in November. It's likely he won't stick at the position but he can't improve defensively if he's the DH.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Just making a quip about how he didn't "earn" MLB playing time until he was 27-28 years old and the Mariners squandered seasons that likely would have put him into the HoF.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Eh, I'm tired of this argument... Not necessarily by you but the general consensus "the Twins haven't rebuilt". There is more than one way to execute an organizational rebuild. The end goal of a rebuild is to have a bunch of young players with upside as the core of your team. The Twins have done that. Roughly half of their position players are under 25 years old and project to be every day regulars. The other half of the position players are under 30 years old and have multiple years of control remaining. Did the Twins screw up along the way? Sure, that's pretty obvious. Lots of bad contracts, several bad roster decisions. But that doesn't mean they haven't executed a rebuild, albeit in a less-than-optimal manner (in my opinion).
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't see why it wouldn't be paid up front. The KBO posting fee is completely separate from the contract itself, which could have spanned any number of years. How the Twins treat the costs incurred from the posting fee could be spread out over multiple years, though.
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