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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Agreed but he's also not killing the team right now. He's providing a useful skill at a position where we thought the Twins had a roster crunch but, as it turns out...
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    We'd all like Mauer's slugging to be higher but slugging isn't the only stat that matters. Joe Mauer has the 7th best OBP in the American League. On a team chock full of players who swing from their heels at pitches over their heads, that has enormous value, whether you want to acknowledge it or not.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure. Better players means better team. I think that, with a few smart moves, the Twins could enter pretender status next season. If the lineup steps up and performs even adequately in the second half, that's a big step forward. Add in a 2017 rotation of Berrios, May, Gibson, Santana, Duffey/FA and that's another small step. A few bullpen pieces... And that's maybe a .500 team. The rest is where the general manager makes a difference. Ryan did a bad job of picking which free agents to pursue and an even worse job of picking which to extend. 2-3 smart moves and the Twins suddenly aren't terrible.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I think someone would have to be kinda stupid to pass on a pretty good GM job when they've been rotting away in the comissioner's office for five years and has publicly stated their dream job is general manager. And I think you're too fixated on ace pitcher = contender. The Twins don't need an ace to be a contender, they need a competent pitching staff that is above average in the aggregate. Loads of baseball teams have won big in both the regular and postseason without having an elusive "ace".
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I whole-heartedly agree that DSP and Pohlad shouldn't be making this decision without both internal and external help from baseball people. It's insanity to expect non-baseball people to pick the head of baseball operations without help. For the record, I don't love the Twins farm talent, either... But it's solid. Many, if not most, GMs inherit a lot worse (never mind the handful of potentially elite talent already on the roster with There's a lot to like about the Twins GM job, particularly if the person has never held a GM position and wants to make a mark on the league. A few savvy moves and you don't have to squint too hard to see a contender in 2018.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Read my last paragraph again. The Twins job is promising because it HAS prospects, not because they're elite prospects. GMs aren't usually fired and replaced with an outside candidate because they've been doing a bang-up job with the organization. If the organization is in salvageable condition, the GM either sticks around or passes the torch to an heir apparent. As far as job openings go, the Twins job is pretty attractive in the short-term.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not overrating anything. Read what I wrote. I said there's a core of young players with a well-stocked system to feed more over the next 3-4 years. If you don't believe that to be true, you're underrating the organization. In no way, shape, or form did I imply the farm system was elite or that there weren't holes in the system. My point is that most new GMs inherit a franchise in shambles and have to start from scratch. That's not the case with the Twins.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    If Ng was offered the job and turned it down, she doesn't deserve a GM position in the league. Minnesota may be "flyover country" but there are only 30 of these positions available and few will ever be as promising as this one (core of young players with a well stocked farm system to feed more over the next 3-4 years). Sure, ownership isn't perfect but they're not that bad, either. They don't stick their noses into the day-to-day very often and that puts them head and shoulders over plenty of other franchises. The Twins GM role isn't perfect but it's a pretty good gig if you want to make your imprint on the league in a hurry.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes, Beane was a good GM. He also only inherited one rebuild while Ryan inherited two. Ryan also left under dubious circumstances (not of fan of how he dropped Smith into such an awkward situation) but he left a team with a solid core of players. I'm not making excuses for Ryan but the situations were rather different. If Ryan was GM from 2008-2011, would things have turned out differently over the past five years? Hard to say for sure but it's impossible to deny he inherited a crap situation (again).
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Maybe, but I think there's more to it than that. Hacking, at least to me, implies a coordinated effort to infiltrate a system and steal data. Defrauding a million people and stealing a car from an open garage are both theft. This seems more like a crime of opportunity than hacking.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    And your new Minnesota Twins general manager is... *drumroll*
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    It's *technically* hacking but the colloquial definition of the word implies a certain skillset that allows a person to illegally access a computer network without someone handing them the keys. There's a reason most of the (real) tech sites I've seen have referred to this as something other than "hacking".
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    No, it's not. Someone from the Twins has to be involved with the hiring of a baseball operations manager. The actual baseball guys should weigh in on the subject. That doesn't mean you listen to everything they say and you cross-examine their choices with outside consultants but they're the people who actually understand the game.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    When it comes to hiring someone into a baseball-first position, I trust them a hell of a lot more than DSP or Pohlad.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Just to show how much I don't know what Krivsky does for the Twins, I completely forgot he was with the team even though I was reminded of it just yesterday.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I understand why they did it but if they wanted to give a legit candidate an opportunity to be GM for 3-4 months, why not go with Radcliff? I'm not a fan of the organization hiring anyone from within but if they're going to hire a person from 1 Twins Way, Radcliff is the least offensive option available.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, it feels a bit like a non-tech company letting their CEO hire the CTO. Hey, maybe they get it right and pick the right person... But are they truly qualified to make that call? In a perfect world, they lean heavily on both internal help (from the qualified department) and external help to make that decision. A large part of being a good leader is acknowledging you don't know something and aren't qualified to make a call. I hope everyone involved are smart enough to bring external help and guys like Radcliff/Johnson into the conversation. While Radcliff and Johnson may have ulterior motives (keeping their jobs), they've both forgotten more about baseball than DSP or Pohlad will ever know. And you have the external company there to not only discover qualified candidates but to counter any ulterior motives from established employees.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    So it turned out that Melania Trump rickrolled the convention last night. This has gone well past the point of bizarre. http://www.vox.com/2016/7/19/12221654/melania-trump-rickroll
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Eh, maybe technically but not really. Illegally accessing a network is a crime but this is the equivalent of someone stealing a television you left on your front lawn. Yes, the perpetrator should be charged with theft but some responsibility falls on the "victim" for being an idiot.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    The guy isn't a hacker any more than I'm a hacker when I discover a clueless tech person before me left the server password as "root".
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Hire Ng as president and let her name the GM (hopefully McLeod). That won't happen but a guy can dream.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not trying to pick on you but this is a clearcut case of the Dunning Kruger Effect in action. No, you wouldn't be better at Ryan's job than he was from 2011-2015. Neither would I. That doesn't mean there weren't better candidates available but Ryan had 35+ years of baseball experience and was at least moderately capable of performing general manager duties. Which is more than any of us can say.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    There was a huge outage on Sunday morning. I believe Niantic was doing a bunch of server work that morning. My point is that things have been improving by the day. The issues will exist, they just diminish by the day. When I first downloaded the game 10-ish days ago, it was unusable from 5pm-9pm every day. Now it only occasionally hiccups.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    How a person views Terry Ryan and Billy Beane seems to tell a lot about their personality (and blindspots). Because, when you get right down to it, they're basically the same guy, although they get there very differently. From 2000 until today, Beane's Athletics had nine postseason appearances, nearly all of them coming from a division with four teams (if you want your "the ALC is weak division" argument countered, there's a good place to start). That's great. Commendable from any GM. Beane's teams won a single postseason series. Against the Twins, naturally. Most of us think it was time for Ryan to go. As sad as it is to see, it became increasingly apparent by the day that he was well past his sell by date. The game had moved on in a way Ryan wasn't equipped to handle. All we can do now is look forward and choose a worthy successor.* *and if that successor is Rob Antony, I may shoot myself
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, I didn't state that part clearly but I meant to imply that both sides have their reasons to hold out and try to force a better offer.
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