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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, according to SpoTrac, Arizona's payroll is still $12m lower than the Twins. The info might be somewhat outdated but Greinke is listed for AZ so it's not completely out of line. Also, the Phoenix metro is considerably larger than the TC metro (4.5m vs. 3.5m). http://www.spotrac.com/mlb/payroll/ Double also, the Diamondbacks just signed a new TV deal worth something around $80m per year. The Twins? Under $30m per year. http://www.azsnakepit.com/2015/2/23/8097375/arizona-diamondbacks-tv-deal-1-5-billion So maybe Diamondbacks fans should be really mad right now.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm sorry to pick on you but this is a pretty tired argument. Yes, Nick Gordon could have a piano fall on him tomorrow. He could have his leg bitten off by a shark. He could suffer a career-ending injury via soda machine. With that out of the way, a reasonable floor is futility guy. I have no problems projecting a guy who looks to have few flaws (but few stellar assets as well) to a part-time MLB role at some point in the future. Maybe he sticks for one year. Maybe he sticks for a dozen like Jamey Carroll. The only problems I have with use the "floor" is when respected sites like FanGraphs give a guy like Alexis Tapia a "floor" of "Kevin Jepsen". Wait, what? So his floor is "above average reliever" even though he hasn't really pitched above A ball? No, man, no. That's just ridiculous. But using "floor" as a substitute for "reasonably negative projection that doesn't involve something disastrous happening" is a perfectly fine way to use the word in the context of baseball prospects.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    The best part of Superman was Richard Donner because he left, Reeves stayed, and the movies sucked hard.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I've never been a big fan of Superman myself but having read many of his stories over the years, I realize the character has potential in the right hands. I also like my superheroes more fragile and human but when done right, Superman can be compelling. He's a tricky character, one that few people seem to understand how to write properly. As for your first sentence, that could be Supes III or IV but I've successfully wiped those movies from my memory so I'm not sure.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    There are plenty of good Superman stories to be told - after all, his legacy has spanned nearly 80 years and 2,000+ comic books - but what most film writers miss is that the best Superman stories are often about internal conflict, not external conflict. Richard Donner got it, nobody else really has since then. Because, as you said, it's really hard to present a reasonable external conflict for Superman. You can do that a few times - physically through Doomsday, mentally through Brainiac, politically through Luthor, etc - but the well runs dry rather quickly. Which is why they've ****ed up so badly with BvS. The Dark Knight Returns is about the internal conflict between Superman and Batman, how their world views have drifted so far apart that conflict is inevitable. Two former friends forced to fight each other because one world view has to die for the other to thrive. And that's why it's a horrible decision to lead with that story. All of that internal conflict - the really important stuff that fuels the narrative - is missing. That leaves you with only the lopsided external conflict, which isn't very engaging. A fantastic example of this is Grant Morrison's All-Star Superman. It's a 12 issue mini-series where Superman discovers he's dying and has 12 months to right as many wrongs as possible before he passes on. It's all about Superman and what drives him to do right by a world that hasn't always treated him fairly. And it's ****ing fantastic.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, I'm not sold Gordon can post an .800 OPS at any level, though it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree, not cut and dry but I believe Gordon still has the advantage, as he doesn't have any glaring flaws in his game. Polanco has gone from "question marks about defense" to "not likely to be an MLB shortstop" in the past couple of years and Vielma can't hit a lick at any level. Those are big hurdles to overcome. Gordon, while unspectacular thus far, has no such issues.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Absolutely... But we're talking about a lanky 19 year old kid with ~750 PAs who drastically improved as the season progressed. There's some upside in Gordon, only time will tell how much.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure, I understand that... But it's possible, maybe even likely, that Gordon improves as much or more than the other guys in the system. It's possible he becomes a very good defensive SS who posts a .750 OPS in the majors. In today's game, that's a top five shortstop.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Possibly... but each of those players require pretty drastic improvement in some facet of their game where Gordon merely has to keep doing what he's been doing to reach the majors in some capacity. I think you're undervaluing the "acceptable at everything" aspect of Gordon, especially from a guy at shortstop.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I mostly agree but Gordon makes the majors barring injury. Given his "entirely adequate" skillset, he has a floor of futility guy. He's not exceptional at anything - at least it appears that way - but he's not bad at anything, either (unlike Polanco and Vielma). That guy makes the majors almost every time. In essence, he'd be Levi Michael with defensive ability. If Michael could play short, he's probably with another team in the majors as a backup infielder going into Opening Day.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    My problem is that's the kind of thinking that led to the stunted development of Carlos Gomez and possibly Aaron Hicks. Gomez, as we later saw in Milwaukee, had the same raw talent Buxton has today. Don't screw that up by forcing the issue if it's not the best thing for the player. If Buxton looks like he won't embarrass himself, yeah, he should be in Minnesota. If he's flailing away at breaking pitches like Bugs Bunny, do what's right for the kid and that's a demotion back to Rochester so he can work on development without the glare of The Show pressuring him to perform.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    I think that's (mostly) fair. Gordon has fewer flaws than Polanco (defense) and Vielma (offense) but Palacios is interesting, for sure. I know little about the kid, though. Gordon is more of a sure thing than the first two guys, though... He's kind of a mix of the best traits of each (Polanco's acceptable bat and Vielma's very good defense).
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Being smart and realizing what he's doing only makes him a worse person.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    I absolutely do not want to see Santana as the Opening Day centerfielder but the ball is in Buxton's court. If he doesn't perform in spring and/or look ready to face MLB pitching, then the team has to send him back to Rochester for his own good. I do not want to see Carlos Gomez version 3.0. Do what's right for the player, not what fans want to see. The Twins have done that with two talented centerfielders in the past decade, we shouldn't encourage them to do it a third time.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. If the Twins do that... *shakes head* Boy, I hope Rogers has a very strong spring.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Hard to say much about risk/reward when we're just two years past the draft. Not every player develops at the same rate and Gordon might take additional time to get there, time will tell. IMO, as far as #5 picks go, he was a relatively low ceiling guy. And that's okay if his bat pans out because, by all accounts, the defense is there to be a fixture at short for a long time. For me, the most important thing is how Gordon adjusted to A ball pitching last season. He went from a first half .250 .325 .301 line to a second half .302 .347 .416 line. Sure, he's not hitting many homers but his doubles went from eight in the first half to 15 in the second half. When talking about a 19 year old player with a slight frame, that's a very positive sign the homers will come at some point, even if he'll never be a power hitter. 2016 will be telling. If Gordon rips 25+ doubles in Ft Myers and hits zero home runs, that shouldn't be cause for concern. When it comes to a 20 year old guy in Ft Myers - a notorious pitcher's league - we should be looking at gap power, not home run power.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    He's quick but not in the class of his brother. Few players are. Most people believe Nick can swipe 20-ish bags at the MLB level.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    It's unlikely Antony had complete control but it's likely that lack of control applied to guys like Aaron Hicks, not Jason Bartlett. The guy was almost an afterthought in spring, as most 24/25th minor league invites are in March. My goal isn't to defend Ryan, it's to point out there are plenty of reasons to hate Miguel Sano in the outfield without resorting to specious examples from two years ago when the guy wasn't even with the team in Florida.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not pushing an agenda. The dude had cancer and was away from the team. It's highly unlikely he saw Bartlett play and basically impossible that he saw him work out or shag fly balls. Yet we're pinning that horrible decision on him? Terry had to rely on Antony for information and if that information was flawed, it's not Terry's fault (unless you want to indirectly blame him for hiring Antony, a point I won't dispute). I'm not pushing an agenda, I'm blaming the people who were actually there. That Bartlett decision is what permanently soured me on Antony ever being in the GM's chair so it's not like I'm ignoring the decision and its ramifications.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    I think he's pretty smart, actually. And that's what is most horrifying about this situation. He knows what he's doing and pulling all the right strings to do it. In this case, it means he's being the very definition of a demagogue. His entire campaign is emotion-based with little to no logic behind it. Trump knows this but his followers are too damned dumb to realize it.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Pretty much. I used to watch ESPN every single day. I haven't had cable in close to a decade and it's largely because I no longer care about ESPN.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, this. The Gomez debacle was an attempt to prove to the fanbase the team received something exciting in exchange for Santana. "Carlos Gomez's development" was not the top priority. It was painfully apparent the guy was too raw for MLB and needed more minor league development. Maybe he could have turned into a better player more quickly had the Twins taken a more patient approach to his development.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Was he talking to Antony? Yeah, almost surely... But when it comes to the 25th man on the roster, a guy Ryan didn't actually see play during the entirety of spring training, it's damned hard to pin that decision on Terry unless you're pushing a personal agenda. Exactly how much thought do you think Ryan put into Jason Bartlett while being treated for cancer in Rochester? The answer probably falls somewhere between "none" and "about 20 seconds". There are plenty of reasons to dislike some of Ryan's decisions without bringing up a 25th man decision while the dude was being treated for cancer halfway across the country.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    People need to stop bringing up Bartlett to make a point. No one involved in the Bartlett decision is in a decision-making position with the team today. They're either out of the org (Gardy) or put back into their regular role (Antony). Yes, it was a terrible decision. Yes, it makes me question whether Antony should be within 100 feet of the GM's chair. No, it doesn't reinforce anyone's point about what Ryan and Molitor are doing today.
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