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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't get the logic in this. I think you could say "the Twins want all their pitchers to pitch well" but I don't see a scenario where Ryan says "boy, seeing May become a solid starter would be nice but I hope he tanks so Mike Pelfrey looks good and that contract is justified". Ryan looks good if the Twins win ballgames. Nobody cares about the Pelfrey deal if the Twins win 85 games in 2015 and if Trevor May helps the Twins win more ballgames than Mike Pelfrey, I think he'll be the one taking the ball every fifth day (or Milone or whoever the Twins have the most faith in heading out of Ft Myers).
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    There isn't much strategy in the NL game most of the time. It's the same routine over and over again. Yeah, once a blue moon you'll see something interesting happen with double switches but that will be more than offset by replacing .500 OPS hitters with .750 OPS hitters in NL lineups on a daily basis.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    I think it's part of old-school baseball etiquette. When is the last time we've heard a front office say "we offered Player A for Player B and Team X didn't accept" after someone else successfully negotiated a trade for Player B? I can't recall that situation happening in recent memory.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Potential winner? Sure, but it requires damned near everything to go perfectly. Mauer rebounds, Nolasco rebounds, Santana rebounds... That requires three guys on the wrong side of 30 to return to perfomance levels of years past. But even more is required than that... Hughes has to maintain his 2014 level of performance. Gibson has to hold steady or improve a bit. Perkins has to shake off nagging injury concerns. Vargas and Santana can't slip much, if at all. Dozier has to post another .750 OPS season (actually, I think the chance of this happening is pretty good). Hunter and his creaky bones can't slide offensively. If all that happens, the Twins are probably an 85-90 win team. Possible? Yeah. Likely? Uh... No. I think the Twins are a 75-81 win team if their luck stays neutral in 2015.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
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  6. Brock Beauchamp
    And that's just it. When Ricky showed up to a Wild game in a Dodgers hat, I didn't care... But after 2-3 more minor incidents, it's getting old. He was paid a boatload of money to pitch in Minnesota. If he didn't want to pitch in Minnesota, he shouldn't have signed here. I don't say this about many people/players but honestly, he gives me the perception that he's an ass. If he can't say anything nice about Minnesota - particularly after the $12 million dumpster fire that was 2014 - he needs to just keep his mouth shut.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    The dude just doesn't get it. Stop bashing Minnesota weather, Ricky. The fanbase is going to hate you for it in time. At least pretend like you want to be here. Somebody gave you $50m for what has been about a buck-fifty worth of performance thus far. Keep your mouth shut.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    As much as some don't want to see it, Nolasco has to be given a shot out of Spring Training. He has a long track record of success in MLB - albeit rather middling success - and had a really bad, off year in which he was hurt. I think his leash should be short but his track record demands he get a rotation spot out of ST.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
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  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, we are Minnesotans. The way I picture a Minnesota riot is hordes of middle-aged white people aggressively serving one another hotdish. Some may go as far as saying "thank you but I'm not hungry" as few as two times. It'll be utter chaos.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I think we're obligated to riot if that happens.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    We have placed a bag of tickets in the forest somewhere north of Bemidji. Godspeed, everyone. (just give your name at the door)
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    This is how I feel as well. May showed enough last season that, barring collapse, he deserves the first look. I'm also in favor of sending Meyer to the bullpen to start the season, provided there's room for him.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Sausage King of Chicago reference. Nice.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    I think the BB rate has to regress. The HR rate... Well, it'll probsbly land somewhere between his 2014 season and his old AL East/Yankee Stadium numbers. As you said, all of that could be offset by a reduction in BABIP. I think Hughes will continue to be good, though I'm not sure how good. He could easily repeat 2014 or he could slide toward 100 ERA+ territory. Neither would surprise me.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep, no worries at all. You might want to give a moderator or admin the heads-up before posting, though. We have no issues with users posting things that other users might want, we simply don't want the boards to become full of spam "trade/buy" posts. If we get to that point, we can create a trade/buy thread on the forum, though.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    We're letting this post stay on the forums but just as a precaution, we at Twins Daily take no responsibility for the legitimacy of this offer. Not trying to scare anybody away, just making sure we're clear in this regard. For all I know, this offer is completely legitimate and awesome.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Trevor was credited with 10 errors at home in 2014 but was only credited with four on the road. If he's paying off scorekeepers, someone should explain to him that there's a better way to do it because it appears that he's not very bright.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Really nice article.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Trevor doesn't get enough credit among Twins fans. He has turned into a competent starter with a decent glove. He's not the type of guy you sign for four years but he's certainly the type of guy you can win with if you have flashier players at other positions around the diamond. He's no Corey Koskie but few are... And even Koskie was largely unappreciated in Minnesota during his tenure. He was a hell of a player.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Dozier is a complementary player. He should be what Michael Cuddyer was eight years ago. A good player with the occasional very good season. He's not Joe Mauer, Johan Santana, or even Justin Morneau. Good teams typically have 2-3 Dozier types on the roster. A guy who isn't a headliner but gives you 3-4 WAR every season. That's how I view Dozier, anyway.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah... This shouldn't even be a question. A team OPS+ of 114 with good OBP? Yeah, that's a championship caliber squad easily. No doubt about it.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    I think a lot of this boils down to young teams either break out or they don't. The Cubs and Twins are rated as the youngest teams, though the Cubs are quite a bit further along in the process. Teams like the Twins tend to be rated *really* lowly until a bunch of young players break out in the same season... If it happens at all. The Twins are poised to go big at any moment but they also have a decent chance of stumbling badly because prospect development is a fickle beast. There's as good a chance the Twins win 75 games this year as they win 85, IMO. There are just too many variables on this team right now to make an accurate prediction (Gibson, May, Vargas, Santana... and that's not even throwing Buxton, Meyer, or Sano into the ring). If two of those guys suddenly turn into All-Stars, the Twins are a pretty good team in 2015... But, again, one can't bank on that happening in any particular year so until things gel, the Twins are considered far from contention going into every season.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Actually third farthest but yeah...
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Here's a study of the 30 MLB teams and where they stack up in regards to age and competitiveness both now and later... All bundled into a nice graph so everyone can laugh at the Phillies. http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2015/1/14/7546735/baseball-predictions-math-hella-graphs
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