Brock Beauchamp

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The Jays cover Canada, they’re not purely an east coast team. They’re also a huge market as a result, which means they probably don’t play at 10am or whatever ridiculous time MLB starts the first game.

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People are way overblowing Duran's volatility. Yeah, he's not Joe Nathan... few are. What I see here matches up with the eye test and it's pretty normal closer stuff. He occasionally gets wild and is occasionally BABIPed to death. That's what happens when a guy has small samples of high leverage pitches. Split G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR SB CS BB SO SO/W BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB ROE BAbip tOPS+ sOPS+ April/March 12 41 34 3 5 0 0 2 1 0 6 14 2.33 .147 .275 .324 .599 11 2 0 1 0 1 0 .167 89 66 May 8 39 35 2 5 1 0 0 1 0 3 15 5.00 .143 .211 .171 .382 6 0 0 1 0 1 0 .250 22 7 June 8 39 33 2 5 2 0 1 1 0 5 13 2.60 .152 .282 .303 .585 10 1 1 0 0 2 0 .211 85 62 July 10 48 40 10 13 4 0 1 3 0 3 13 4.33 .325 .404 .500 .904 20 0 3 1 1 1 0 .444 185 145 August 12 53 50 6 14 1 0 2 2 1 3 17 5.67 .280 .321 .420 .741 21 1 0 0 0 0 1 .387 133 100 Sept/Oct 7 29 25 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 9 2.25 .160 .276 .160 .436 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 .250 40 24

Do the Rangers have any pitchers left at this point?

It all depends on opponent, just like every other game. If the Twins draw Seattle or the Blue Jays, it's probably not the first game. If the Brewers draw the Marlins, that's probably the first game. If the Brewers draw the Cubs, that's not the first game. Too many variables in play to say anything for certain.

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Yer killing me, Seth. Just give me the names you want on YOUR top 20. :D

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I hadn't looked closely at the standings for a few days but wow, it looks like the Twins will face the Astros. Houston loses the tiebreaker to the Blue Jays (who are currently 1.5 games ahead) so catching them will be difficult. But the Astros also lost the tiebreaker to the Mariners, who are 1.5 games behind. It's more possible that Seattle catches Houston and knocks them out of the postseason entirely, though that would require the Mariners to actually win some baseball games, which they appear to be allergic to doing right now.

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I think it’s unlikely we see him again but there’s little to lose by trying. What’s he going to do, double hurt himself? There’s a good chance he’d do that anyway.

Yes, because game day action literally only involves the things a player does from innings 1-9.

Dunno, they could easily be giving him a day off to monitor inflammation. The way the Twins have been rehabbing injuries, one game then a day off has been a really common practice.

Absolutely. Not only does Kirilloff have the potential to be better than Solano, having a good Kirilloff and Solano on the bench makes the roster even deeper.

Definitely, but I think Kirilloff is of particular interest right now given the injuries and recent struggles.

I think the goal here is getting Kirilloff more PAs in hopes he turns it around. Solano doesn't need more reps.

Professional baseball players, I assume.

I stepped out of character and bought tickets for game one. I hope the Twins schedule doesn't conflict too much with the Brewers game, I'd like to watch both.

Yeah, he certainly didn't adjust but there were confounding factors in there: he stopped hitting the ball as hard as often after the concussion, full stop. That was the biggest cause of his decline. Second, the Twins franchise at the time simply was not capable of steering anyone in the right direction, as they were as far behind the game as anyone. My god, look what they did to Hicks and then Buxton. It feels like there was a significant portion of post-concussion Joe Mauer performance left untapped by a franchise that didn't have the coaches to identify and fix holes the modern game was exploiting.

Out of the draft Mauer was projected to be a 15-ish homer guy by pretty much everybody, his swing was too flat to ever be a legitimate power hitter.

The Twins haven't had a healthy(ish) team in October since 2004. It'd be nice to see it JUST ONCE.