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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, this. It's a fine move but it irritates me Ryan didn't start patching the pen in early July.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    There's an Australian CSI: Miami rip off called The Strip that is hilariously awful. Only lasted 14 episodes. Used to be on Netflix but I have no idea if that's still the case.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    My reaction is "Eh, whatever." Fixing the bullpen would have had a hell of a lot more impact with 80 games left in the season, not 40. At this point, I'm not sure it matters.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Win 61. Game #: 2015: 122 2014: 139 2013: 137 2012: 148 2011: 159 (!)
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    If May wasn't making a move back to the rotation permanently, he never should have received that spot start. The problem wasn't with Duffey so much as it made the Twins' best reliever unavailable for 5-6 days when most of the pen was in full implosion. I still can't believe the Twins thought that was a good idea. I don't call many of their moves stupid but... That was *really stupid*.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not calling Santana a bust or anything. He can turn into a nice player, I merely think he deserved about half the plate appearances he received this season and that Molitor's stubbornness hurt the team.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I hear stuff like this about Vielma but is he really that much better than Gordon? I'm not arguing, it's an honest question.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Defensively, he has potential, not value. At least at short. I really couldn't care less if he has value in CF because the Twins now have three guys with more value at the position.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Not to be curt, but... Santana has defensive value?
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Jorge Polanco received all of 12 PAs before being demoted. I don't call that "an opportunity". Again, Santana wasn't merely bad, folks... He compiled a -1.2 WAR in just 260 plate appearances. He was awful and played for a contending team while other - better - options sat on the bench. If Santana was the only mistake the Twins made this year, I'd say "harrumph" and get on with my day. But that's not the case. They made mistake after mistake after mistake and now we're watching a team with a record under .500. One bee sting isn't too bad. It hurts a little but you'll get over it. 100 will probably kill you.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree the most recent nominees have been (somewhat) reasonable but could you imagine what kind of Scalia-esque monstrosity we might get if a GOP Congress gets to vote on a SCOTUS nominee presented by a GOP President? The mind reels. Right now, most of the Supreme Court is (somewhat) reasonable. The two exceptions are Thomas, who is a blundering ass, and Scalia, who is very intelligent but seems to derive more enjoyment from being a prick than reasonably evaluating a case. The thought of getting another Thomas or Scalia on the court scares the hell out of me.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Vargas was raking when they demoted him, IIRC. And he's raking again. Why does Santana get so many failed opportunities while other players succeed in the minors yet don't get another opportunity? And to further this point, what about Escobar's development? The guy was worth 2 1/2 wins last season in partial play. Why didn't the Twins prioritize him earlier in the season? He's only 26 years old. edit: Vargas had an .893 OPS over his final ten games with the Twins.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree the Twins should show patience with developing players. But being one of the worst players in all of baseball is well beyond the argument of "player development". And if we're so interested in player development, why didn't Arcia get a shot at the majors after his great July? Why haven't we seen Vargas since the demotion? Those players should get a longer leash to develop at the MLB level, too (both players have posted vastly superior numbers to Santana in their respective MiLB careers).
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    The "inept" and "bumbling" Twins personnel have managed to put together a fringe contender, much to our surprise. You may not like the things they've done. Discuss where you think they went wrong. Check the unnecessary personal insults at the door.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Season altering mistake? No, probably not... but if you add a bunch of medium-sized mistakes together - as we've witnessed the Twins do over the past three months - you leave a bunch of wins on the table. It's really easy to say "Santana only cost one win" and you know what, a team that isn't making other mistakes up and down the roster can probably swallow that lost game. The Twins aren't that "one mistake" team. They're a flawed team with some pretty glaring holes that could have been patched with internal solutions. The Twins kept playing Santana. He kept playing horribly. They lost games in part because he was so horrible.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    How so? Even if you give them a pass for the first (bad) stint of play, how do you explain the five week redux we watched in June and July? And it's not like Santana was out there providing awesome defense while we suffered through his struggles at the plate. He was equally awful on the defensive side of the ball. He didn't get to the point of being one of the worst players in baseball as rated by WAR through bad luck or bad plate appearances. He was a terrible player in every facet of the game. Also, he was doing all of that on a team that spent June and July holding down a playoff position.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    There's going to be so much damned left-handed craftiness out on the mound tonight, it'll make our heads spin. Prepare yourselves for an 89mph bonanza of left-handed pluck, everybody. You may want to belt yourself to your couch because it's going to be intense out there.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Hey, don't knock Windows Vista. It's better than the Windows 3.1 install we were running before that point. Hold for a moment... The server just bonged and told me I've Got Mail!
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    That's a really good point. I forgot about the Fielder fiasco and unfairly pinned that asinine signing on Dombrowski. If anything, he should get positive points for managing to unload that idiotic deal ownership thrust upon him. (the Fielder and Ellsbury deals were my two most LOL-worthy contract moments of the past few years)
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Most of the board expected manageable regression with Santana but I take some issue with Santana-Rosario comparisons. Santana had a ridiculous .400 BABIP. Rosario has a high .350 BABIP. One is completely unsustainable, the other is too high but not crippling when evaluating future performance. It's possible Rosario is legit a .330 BABIP guy going forward. There are players who consistently thrive in the .320-.340 BABIP range for many years. Santana is a MiLB career .278 hitter who hit .318 in MLB. Rosario is a MiLB career .291 hitter who is hitting .281 in MLB. Rosario had legit power in the minors. His legit power has translated to the majors. Is it a bit inflated right now? Maybe, but not the extent I'm terribly worried about it. Rosario MiLB OPS: .820. Santana MiLB OPS: .710. Rosario has proven his talent in the minors and it's tracking consistently in the majors. Is he a flawed player who swings too much? Yeah, probably... But he's not a complete aberration like Santana was in 2014. People are kinda acting as if Rosario is posting some ungodly .800+ OPS in Minnesota... His OPS is a somewhat pedestrian .754. He's not outpacing his MiLB numbers. He's a good two-way player that derives a ton of his value from running around in the big green part of the field.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Also, I just checked... Santana's OPS on May 15 was .616. By the end of May, it was just .549 with a ridiculous two (!) BB in 172 PAs. That's a player who is floundering badly and needs to be demoted. The Twins did demote him... But then they inexplicably called him back up and played him almost every day for five weeks and June and July. Defensively, Santana has a wince-inducing -14 DRS in just 568 innings this season. UZR is equally dismissive of his play in the field.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Last night was a perfect opportunity to ignore a stat line and test a young pitcher's mettle by sending him into the eighth in a blowout game. Duffey scuffled a bit and that's okay. Hopefully he learned from the experience.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    It's not hindsight. Maybe it wasn't May 15th, maybe it was May 25th, but I started calling for the removal of Santana around that time. He wasn't only bad with the bat, he was terrible with the glove as well. He was killing a team that quickly became a contender and surely helped the Twins lose a few games they sure could use in the win column today. On top of the bad stats, Santana looked lost at the plate. The pitcher could have rolled the ball to the plate and Danny had a 40% chance of swinging at it. It was obvious he wasn't suffering from a tough stretch of play; his fundamental approach was broken. And young players with broken approaches need to fix their problems in the minors, especially on a contending team.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    OMG. I'm dying over here.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Reply hazy, try again later. That's my take on Duffey right now. His MiLB numbers were decent but far from eye-popping. He was drafted out of college but never thrived at missing bats. He has shown to be very good at preventing the walk, which is necessary from a college guy who doesn't have overpowering stuff. In short, it's hard to say. Right now, his only plus pitch is that nasty curve. The rest of his stuff is pretty pedestrian (but under the tutelage of Allen, one can hope that change will improve). Will hitters adjust and spot the curve coming out of his hand as film is compiled on Tyler? Only time will tell, I suppose.
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