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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    When I sense that kind of disturbance in the Force, it usually means I better find a bathroom in the next five minutes.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Okaaaayyyyyy. So now we need a Vargas double just for funsies.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    In all seriousness, I appreciate people pestering me on Facebook if the site is down. Sometimes I don't realize we have an issue for half an hour or better. Or the easy-to-remember brock@twinsdaily.com also works, though I'm pretty good at ignoring email notifications on my phone.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
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  5. Brock Beauchamp
    As long as it ends with Ricky Nolasco being shot to the moon within the next five years, I'm cool with that.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Don't look now but Ricky Nolasco has been a pretty decent pitcher for the past few weeks.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    When do we send Nolasco?
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, it's not a matter of whether his BABIP and LD% will remain as high as they are today, it's more a matter of whether they will normalize to an acceptable level or whether they stay so high that his strikeout numbers can't compensate. Those September numbers aren't great but they're progress... and at this point, that's all I care about.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    That's a possibility but no one will know for sure until he logs a bunch of innings. And that's kind of my point... The Twins can't continue to sign veteran players at the expense of guys coming through the system. Rookies are going to struggle. Some will succeed. Some will fail. You won't know which is which until you let them play. Maybe May's LD% and BABIP remain obnoxiously high. Maybe they won't. It's a mystery until he throws a lot more pitches. This is part of the rebuilding process. The Twins scored big on Hughes. They did the opposite on Nolasco. The answer to that Nolasco failure is not to go out and sign another FA pitcher and take innings away from the Mays, Meyers, and Berrios of the world. If you can move Nolasco (unlikely) and sign someone else, so be it... but don't take playing time from the top prospects in the organization. They're the backbone of your next winning team.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Agreed. After his first couple of starts, I went as far as saying I didn't really care how he performed in 2014, he just needs to log the innings and get through his rookie status. Now that he's performing much better, I'm pretty content with the Twins penciling him into the 2015 rotation unless something crazy happens between now and the end of March.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Agreed. I don't think it's a coincidence that Twins pitchers continue to underperform when they have such a wretched outfield defense behind them. Give them three good outfielders and I think the current pitching staff goes from "horrible" to "acceptable" overnight. They won't be world-beaters but they should hold their own. Byron Buxton cannot arrive quickly enough.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not interested in seeing Johnson start ten games in 2015, either... But to contend, you're going to need young arms at the minimum. The Twins can continue to patchwork a rotation together but it's likely that their rotation won't be truly competitive until May, Meyer, and Berrios (with Stewart and Thorpe in the wings) start winning ballgames. For them to start winning ballgames, you need to give them MLB innings and learn the game at the highest level. This pitching staff could be 50 runs better with an adequate outfield defense behind it. If you want real ROI on the pitching staff, that's the first place to look and it will cost you much less than a front-line starter that might bomb out by the time your best prospects are legitimate MLB players. Plus, with that same money you're also improving the offense. It's a two-way fix for less expense than buying a potentially volatile "ace" starter.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    But they can't get big league hitters out if you don't give them a chance to do it. Meyer should start next season in Minnesota, provided he's healthy. That means you have Gibson (good enough to get another year), Hughes (the no-brainer of the bunch), Nolasco (no way he's getting moved or demoted yet), May (given his recent run he should get strong consideration next season), and Meyer in the rotation. And then you have guys like Johnson, Pelfrey, and Milone as sixth starters. Not to mention that Berrios is going to be in the mix at some point if he keeps it up. The Twins are finally starting to graduate quality pitching prospects. Now is not the time to push them out of the way with veteran mediocrity. Focus on the outfield defense if you want to help the pitching staff get better.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I have a hard time calling this organization weak in pitching at the higher levels when they have Berrios and Meyer in AA and AAA. They also have another interesting arm in Rogers. I'm not sold on him by any means but he's worth keeping an eye on next season.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    I heard someone reference mid-90s, which is promising. Anyone else watch the gun consistently?
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Just flipped over to the Twins. Hey, May's box looks pretty good so far... Missing lots of bats.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    FIFY.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't think that's really fair. He's OPSing right around .750 in an era where a .750 OPS is a decent number for a corner outfielder. And he's still a very good defender and solid baserunner. He's a pretty complete package outside of batting average (which I thought would go up this season with a dip in power but he's pretty much the same guy he was last season).
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    I've never been much of a Gardy fan. I simply think that in most cases, the manager doesn't impact games that much and in previous years, he did enough to keep a job (he seemed to handle the clubhouse pretty well). Now? I don't see him doing many things right.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I intentionally left out 2011. I give the Twins a pass for that year because everything that could go wrong did go wrong. There's no way to rebound from 5-6 top players getting injured or massively underperforming for no apparent reason.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    I think he's a good second baseman. The type of guy who will hit .850 for a month and then settle into .700 for a couple of months, then hit .800 again, and end the season in the .750 range. He misses the ball a lot and doesn't hit for average. He's going to be streaky with the OPS because it's driven so much by extra base hits. As long as he keeps taking walks, I'm fine with that.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    This team is amazing. I'm starting to drift into the "get rid of Gardy" camp. This team isn't that bad. It played somewhat competent baseball for four months of the season. There's no excuse for this type of play for the third consecutive season. Yeah, I get losing to the Angels, Orioles, and Royals. They're good teams. But the White Sox? Nah, man. That's unacceptable.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Not worried about it, as his peripherals are still pretty good. If he wasn't taking walks and was missing the ball a ton, then I'd be worried.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Wow. Big news going into the home opener. http://vikingsjournal.com/_/minnesota-vikings-news/minnesota-vikings/report-adrian-peterson-indicted-r101
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    This team makes my brain hurt.
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