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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, it's kinda humorous they believed in him enough to get him in trade but lacked the faith to play him every day after his good 2014.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    A fair point. I know I kick myself for sitting on money for too long and investing later than I should have invested.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    It's only two starts but Duffey has already exceeded my admittedly low expectations by a wide margin. I hope he continues to prove me wrong(ish). I was never really down on Duffey, I simply didn't care and didn't expect much from him.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    For the record, in no way am I criticizing the front office for starting the season with Santana. I would have done the same in their place. On the other hand, by mid-May at the very latest, it was apparent Santana needed a reboot. Any playing time Santana received after May 15-ish was a mistake, and a big one.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I think it was six of one, half dozen of the other. Santana shouldn't have been on the roster. That's on Ryan. Santana shouldn't have been on the field. That's on Molitor.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Escobar did the same thing last year as well. I spotted two segments of the season where he consistently played at short: 5/11-6/10 - .749 OPS 7/3-9/28 - .723 OPS That looks like an acceptable shortstop to me. Eduardo appears to be something close to neutral defensively so that's not killing him, either. He's a -1 DRS in 1350 career innings at short.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    After giving that list a cursory glance, it lines up with my own opinions much more closely than Spector's list. I'd shuffle a few teams down (Bal, TB) and a few teams up (KC stands out) but mostly, the teams seems to be within +/- 2-3 spots of where I'd rank them if I didn't put too much thought into it.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Exactly. Hell, I might roll into 2016 with Escobar at short if better options don't present themselves this offseason. He's not the guy you *want* starting at short but given the potential in Santana, Polanco, and later Gordon, he might be acceptable as a stop-gap player. People tend to forget Escobar is only 26 years old with ~1050 MLB PAs. In those latest 760 PAs, he has an OPS+ of 96. On the other hand, I'd do everything in my power to avoid letting Suzuki vest his option and stick with the team in 2017. That should be priority #1 this offseason and something needs to be done to avoid that situation.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    No way do I have the time to put the amount of thought needed to do that properly. But obviously, Terry Ryan would be first on the list because of course he's the best.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Bwahahahahahah, I just ran through the back half of the list. Who's the worst GM in baseball? #30: Alex Anthopoulos, Blue Jays That's hilarious.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I think Dombrowski was a pretty good GM and while he built a perennial contender in Detroit for a half decade, he also let the organization rot from the ground up and now Detroit is in a very unfortunate place, probably for a long time. But #4 in MLB as of June 4th, 2015? No, man. Come on. How is Mozeliak not #1 on this list? He took over the Cardinals position in 2007. After stumbling a bit in that inaugural season, the Cardinals have not won fewer than 86 games in a season and have crossed 90 wins in five of eight seasons (including this one, the Cards are a shoe-in for 90 again). I know this is a popular line on the internet, but... That list is terrible. I expect better from Spector.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Oy, that list hurts my brain. #14: AJ Preller: media darling, LOL results. #4: Dave Dombrowski: wait, what? #1: Billy Beane: are you trolling us, Sporting News? I love Beane as much as the next guy but best GM in baseball? No, man. NO. That goes to a guy who wins it all.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm glad you're so sure of this because it's not like Nick Blackburn started 145 games in the majors or anything. You accuse people of being absurd and make a comment like that? Come on. Utter nonsense.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    It's not absurd when there have been repeated mentions of this strategy. Does that mean the Twins are still employing this approach? No, and that's why some of us really want to find out what's happening. Is it likely the Twins are using such an unorthodox approach in Stewart's third season? No, I don't think it's likely... but it's possible. All I want is an answer because I'm not a fan of trying to form a conclusion with such incomplete information.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    .286 .364 .469 .833 in 55 PAs. It's enough to make me want to tear my hair out. Half this board called for Escobar to start FOR MONTHS before he finally got "the job", albeit sharing duties with Nunez. Speaking of Nunez, here's his slash line: .259 .286 .296 .582 in 28 PAs. Meh, whatever. Bad but only 28 PAs. Escobar isn't an .833 player over the long term but this kind of output is exactly why he should have been starting in May. I want to like Paul Molitor but I find crap like this baffling and completely unacceptable. How many wins did the Twins leave on the table by running Santana out there two months past his expiration date?
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    That's a pretty bold prediction because if you took 2015 Rosario and extrapolated his PAs to a full season, he's already a 3 WAR player.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    True. I suppose there is a possibility of that, though I think it's unlikely. Given Sano's young age, he can take the financial security today and still hit the free agent market as a 29/30 year old. That's kind of the best of both worlds for him.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, pretty much this. I have concerns about Eddie but he's a much better hitter than Santana.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Holy ****. I just logged into MLB.tv. LOL.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Ultimately, I don't think it matters. After the absolute steal the Rays got with Longoria, I don't see players giving huge discounts to sign super-early. If Sano signs today, I don't think it's a huge savings over signing him 14 months from now. Maybe $5-10m. Spread out over 5+ years, that's not enough to get worked up about. But I'll be disappointed if the Twins haven't approached Sano by November of 2016 if he continues to produce the way he has thus far.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    True, but I'd like to see the Twins make a showing by staying ahead of Baltimore and Tampa, two equally flawed teams.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Rainy days always get me down. (and Mondays)
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    The problem with your analysis is that you're not taking into account three things, all revolving around A-Rod: 1. He was 25 years old when he became a free agent, which is absurdly young. 2. He was nearly a shoe-in for the HoF at age 25. He was that good. Free agents of his ability come around maybe once a decade and almost never at his age. 3. The Rangers went absolutely insane and bid against themselves during negotiations. They had the top two or three offers on the table IIRC. As Markos pointed out, remove A-Rod's special circumstances and you have a much more linear upward graph for the elite players in baseball. To imagine the 2000 A-Rod situation and compare it to a theoretical situation, pretend it's 2017 and Mike Trout is a free agent. He's 25 years old and is coming off yet another 8-9 WAR season. Can you imagine a situation where he doesn't get a 10 year, $350m+ deal in that situation? Stanton got $325m and he's not even close to Trout in ability. Kershaw has a contract that bought out his free agency years at roughly $35m AAV and he's a friggin' pitcher. That was the A-Rod situation in 2000. A-Rod was an outlier that should be removed entirely because he screws up the entire curve, just as this hypothetical Trout would in 2017.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    I think that's because elite position players stopped hitting the market, not due to any reluctance in offering a $30m a year contract. It's hard to offer Mike Trout a $300m deal when the Mike Trouts of the world get locked up for 8+ years the moment they hit the show. A-Rod was 25 when he signed that monster deal with the Rangers. We simply do not see players of his calibre hit the free agent market at age 25 anymore. Hell, we rarely see them hit the market at age 28 anymore. Who's the best player to switch teams in a monster deal in the past few years? Cano? Sure, he's an elite player but he was 32 years old and he's elite, not legendary... A-Rod was a legendary-type player and was worth ~20 WAR over Cano during their first ten seasons in MLB.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Player salaries have eclipsed inflation by several magnitude over the past 40 years.
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