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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    It's starting to piss me off to see Kepler remain in the lineup daily. It's getting ridiculous.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Are we tracking home runs or infield fly balls? My vote tracks very differently depending on that.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Jose Miranda is a massive overpay for a few months of Chapman.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I think it's just boiling frustration. Kepler does not give off "good vibes" as a player. He goes on the IL constantly, then doesn't rehab. His performance is swirling down the drain. He doesn't play a position of need that better hides his offense, despite being capable of doing so. All in all, it kinda combines to this:
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    This is what I would have been doing a long time ago. Kepler doesn't need to start against RHP but he should start in CF against a bunch of them. And as teams try to bring in righties to pitch to MAT in late innings, Kepler should be on the bench to pinch hit (and vice versa). That's a pretty useful tandem in center.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    I tend not to try to dig into why a player does what they do. Kepler taking himself out of games and going on the IL is fine, really, and more players should probably do it. But there's also something to be said for a player like Buxton, who could show up to TF in a wheelchair and tell Rocco he has a first base mitt ready for the game. And Buxton gets trashed on the regular.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Kepler's rigidity is exactly what annoys the hell out of me about him and has for quite some time. This is a relatively progressive organization, they surely know his weak contact is not going to lead to good performance. Yet all these years later, Kepler still has the same swing with the same problems. He won't play center even though the team desperately needs a glove there and his offense plays a lot better up the middle. Even his refusal to get vaccinated, leaving a competitive team short-handed in an important series... it all just adds up to a guy who is gonna do what he's gonna do. I've seen enough of him. I saw enough of him two years ago.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, shows how much I care about Max Kepler before I've finished my morning coffee.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    I think the most likely scenario is making him the utility infielder, as I don't believe you can get enough for him to make it worth the effort. But if a team is out there willing to give you literally anything for him, absolutely do that.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    It is still the case and have been for decades.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Also, based on the eye test, accurate.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    It feels like MLB is finally taking strides to fixing their broadcast problems. They literally hired a former network executive to figure out how to end blackouts and resolve some of these decades-old problems.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
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  14. Brock Beauchamp
    If MLB takes over broadcasts, they'll likely do the same thing they did with the Padres: create a new channel that will be available on your current cable package.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    It takes 100+ years of baseball and gives a win expectancy based on previous outcomes in that situation. It's not magic, it's based in actual baseball history.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Listen, I'm really tired of people being intentionally ignorant of metrics. You can look it up, the same as me. WPA is purely an offensive metric.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    You're wrong. he has a +1.0 WPA this season. No, he hasn't been great as a DH. But he's been valuable when it counts.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    He batted leadoff almost all of that season. You go ahead and figure it out from there.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Other than the fact he has something like a +5 Win Probability Added over the past three years, which is outstanding.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Dunno, hitting 57 home runs over his last 846 plate appearances kinda feels like he's a home run hitter.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    I view those players very differently. Correa will figure it out unless he's injured or old. Buxton will figure it out unless he's injured. Gallo is a volatile player but is still pretty good. Kepler will never figure it out.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't really think Carlos Correa, one of the best players in baseball over the past eight years, needs motivation. He's just struggling, let's not make this a work ethic issue.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh yeah, they're both slow, which is why I found the substitution hilarious.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Okay, I laughed out loud.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    The thing is that the team wasn't built to be so strikeout-heavy. Miranda isn't a K fiend under good circumstances, neither is Correa. Those are just two examples of players that have wildly underperformed to date. There are others. And there are guys like Kirilloff who are not strikeout-heavy, either. This roster has shifted into whiff-heavy, it wasn't really built that way.
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