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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Based on the first two weeks of spring training, Tim Stauffer's official role will be "fan punching bag".
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    I think the decision had a lot more to do with getting innings for Pelfrey, Milone, May, Meyer, and Stauffer than it did Berrios. There are some pretty critical decisions coming in the next two weeks and Berrios only confuses the situation.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Couldn't have played that ball any better but he still looked safe. Not that it matters.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    The way Nunez got up, he seemed rattled for some reason. Not sure if that was a failure to execute or just a guy with his bell rung a bit.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Stauffer has been brutal. Yikes. Time to send him back to a relief role.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    No surprises here. Buxton needs ABs and Berrios isn't breaking through the mediocrity logjam that is the Twins rotation.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I love these split broadcasts. So good. So good.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Fair enough... But Perkins always threw his fastball a lot, much more often than Nolasco does.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Absolutely. If the team thinks he's ready, I'll defer to their judgment. I may be skeptical of the decision but they certainly have more information than I do.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't think anyone has turned on Santana or Escobar as much as they're tempering their expectations for the two players.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep, and I believe Horton is going to be in the Twins' booth again tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Of course. Liriano has huge upside when his head is right. Ask me in July when Liriano is scuffling and on an expiring contract. Then the decision becomes much more difficult.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    The core of my argument is this: Eddie Rosario's reasonable ceiling is "competent MLB starter". He's not a great prospect. He didn't have a good 2014 and scuffled pretty much the entire season. He's only entering his age 23 season. Why are so many in such a rush to see this guy in Minnesota right now? Let him face MiLB pitching to start the season and see how he does. Make a decision after you see how the kid plays in April and May. He's not the type of prospect you trip over yourself in a rush to promote him to MLB. He's a solid prospect with decent upside. Let him mature and rise through the system at his own pace, don't force the issue.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Ick. I don't see Nolasco having any real value unless he's starting. Unlike Pelfrey, he doesn't throw particularly hard and he relies on a mix of pitches to succeed; that doesn't seem like the makings of a good bullpen arm in my opinion. Whereas Mike Pelfrey is basically a bullpen arm that starts games. He throws his fastball an overwhelming amount of the time (~85% if you include both versions) and he throws 92-93 as a starter. If he could turn that fastball into a 94-95 pitch out of the pen, there's a chance of success.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    This is my take. Personally, I think Escobar was in over his head last season but that doesn't mean he's not a valuable player; even if his OPS drops to .670-.680 and he stays consistent with the glove, that's a valuable player in today's game. Given the Twins' enormous question marks at short, I'd keep Eduardo unless the offer was too good to refuse.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't see anyone offering good value for Santana right now. I sure wouldn't... I haven't seen a Twins player scream "REGRESSION" that loudly in a long time. Sure, you can trade Dozier but then you just open another hole in the lineup. I don't see much sense in that. Nobody is blocking Polanco because Polanco isn't ready for MLB. His first taste of the upper minors returned a .665 OPS in 2014. That stew needs to cook a little longer.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I wouldn't say "lots of players contribute at 23 or younger", particularly position players. The ones who manage to contribute at 23 or younger tend to be more highly regarded than Rosario (a borderline top 100 prospect, not even as well-regarded as Hicks was during his MiLB career). I really don't like comparing Danny Santana to anybody. He's the kind of outlier that influences bad decision-making. Nobody - not even the Twins front office - expected anything resembling Danny Santana's performance in 2014, Ryan even admitted as much. Rosario isn't a Miguel Sano or Byron Buxton type talent where you're tempted to throw him out there and let him rely on raw talent to at least hold his own against MLB pitching when he probably isn't ready. He's a lot more Aaron Hicks than he is Mike Trout; it's prudent to protect those players a bit and give them all the possible tools to succeed before throwing them to the wolves.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Cardinals broadcaster. His name is escaping me. I really like the idea of a dual broadcast, one announcer from each team. It's a lot of fun.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    If he was ready for MLB, he should have been better in July and August of 2014 (which were his best months of last season so I'm not cherry-picking here). July: .250 .282 .471 .753 August: .248 .289 .425 .714 The guy had a New Britain OBP of around .285 in July and August. It was 231 PAs so we're not talking about an insignificant amount of playing time. That doesn't look like a guy who's ready to face MLB pitching. He had ~250 PAs before that time to shake off the suspension rust so that can't be used as an excuse for his mediocre play. Sending a guy who played a shortened season in 2014 out against MLB pitching - a guy whose .285 OBP in AA screams "can not identify a pitch" - is asking for Aaron Hicks, Episode II. If the guy can't identify AA pitching and lay off the occasional pitch, MLB pitchers are going to crucify him out there. Rosario isn't Ben Revere; he's not an extreme contact hitter so you can (somewhat) overlook his lack of walks. Eddie isn't a strikeout machine but he's not particularly good at making contact, either. That tells me he struggles with recognition and guesses a lot. If Oswaldo Arcia struggles with that problem in MLB, it's likely that Rosario will be embarrassed in MLB should he be promoted too quickly (Oswaldo is a much better hitter than Rosario and his wrists are lightning fast, allowing him to compensate for guess swings a bit).
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    FTR, I'm all for calling up Rosario as early as May if he's raking against real, established competition in the upper minors. But not after a handful of exhibition at-bats against some pretty shoddy pitching. No way. That's just asking for Aaron Hicks all over again. And for what? 75-100 plate appearances in April? That seems like really foolish decision-making, the kind of knee-jerk reactionary stuff that people deserve to get fired for doing.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm just floored that so many people advocate calling up Rosario after: 1. Aaron Hicks was placed in a similar situation and failed so spectacularly 2. This Rosario hype is based on AFL and Spring Training stats, just like Hicks in 2012 3. Rosario was not a very good baseball player in 2014 Let the kid prove he's ready for MLB pitching in non-exhibition games and then promote him. Crikey. How many times are we going to make this same mistake? On one hand, we have people banging the "Spring Training games don't matter" drum (rightly so IMO) and then we have some of the same people saying Rosario should get a shot... based on AFL and ST games that amount to roughly 100 exhibition plate appearances apiece against mixed competition. The mind boggles.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Pretty sure I covered that in the last paragraph of my post.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    This, this, and this. Let's not repeat the Aaron Hicks mistake. Throw a Hicks/Schafer platoon out there to start the season, hope one of them succeeds, and then hope either Rosario or Buxton rises quickly if that doesn't happen. Eddie Rosario isn't Aaron Hicks. He might succeed immediately... But given how rusty he was in 2014, there's no reason to take a gamble like that in April. Let the kid figure it out in the minors and then promote him if he proves he's ready.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Great. I've heard that from a few sources now. It didn't take long for that site to get whitelisted.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Just uncoupled myself from today's soccermania long enough to tune in.
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