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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    You can view the page at http://twinsdaily.com/content.php/3281-Twins-Daily-will-be-down-Saturday-morning-7-26
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    At this point, the Twins need impact prospects, not a bunch of flyers with upside. When combined, that's an impressive group of kids but if the Twins were to deal Perkins, I'd want one blue chipper and a couple of lesser guys, not a slew of question marks. The Twins are already loaded with question marks in the system. Perkins is a very good MLB player. The Twins already have a bunch of guys in the low minors with significant upside. I'm not interested in trading a very good MLB player for guys who won't reach the majors until 2018. They need to start the MLB rebuild now, not continue to rebuild the farm system at the lower levels. If they continue to sacrifice MLB players to rebuild the lower farm levels, then we're in a situation where they easily waste half of Buxton, Meyer, and Sano's service time as the lower minor guys catch up. That's a bad strategy.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Not as far as I can tell. My phone is blowing up with orders right now.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    To be clear, I stated multiple times that Perkins should not be offered in trade, not that he shouldn't be traded if someone approaches you with a blockbuster deal. Several people have suggested that he should be put on the open market. I don't agree. There's a significant perception difference between those two things. If a GM calls you and blows you out of the water, you listen to him (in fact, I said just that earlier in either this thread or the Trade Percentages thread). It never hurts to listen to someone talk. But to openly dangle Perkins on the market after he just signed a team-friendly deal to stay in the home town he grew up in, a community he and his wife have embraced with their charitable work? That's a slap in the face. Of course, all of this hinges on talking to Perkins first. If he's okay with it, then obviously it's okay but I don't believe it's good business to treat your best employees badly just to get a leg up on the competition. To me, it's completely irrelevant whether Perkins makes $20m a year or $20,000 a year. He made a decision based on more than money and that should be respected, even if it only means you keep that guy in the conversation and let him know what's happening.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    As long as Hughes isn't badly hurt, this could be a good thing. It gives the team one more reason to call up Meyer and May.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Can't be Griffey. The Mariners weren't that bad in back to back seasons.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Griffey?
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    The site load time isn't because of the ads... the Twins traded Morales. We've had far more users than normal today.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    It's gotten worse? Good lord. I've reached out to every ad network we use. If you see the ad, screenshot it and email it to brock@twinsdaily.com. /picardfacepalm Ugh. Just ugh. Sorry about the hassle, everyone. I almost never see these things so I don't know when they're running.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Not gonna get much for a DH OPSing under .600. Glad the Twins took a shot on Morales, not terribly surprised the return isn't exciting.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    That's a question only Glen Perkins and Terry Ryan can answer.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Glen Perkins is not going to hinder this team's ability to add talent. This team has oodles of money available and nobody is due to get a significant raise for three years. Expiring contracts are going to be replaced by internal guys at the minimum. If anything, this team's payroll is going to continue to decline and they're already well under their payroll ceiling. Besides, Glen Perkins' value is no higher today than it will be in 12 or 18 months unless his arm falls out of its socket. For the reasons you just listed, teams will balk at his length of contract, particularly because the contract option flips to a player option if he's traded. Trading Glen Perkins right now is a good way to burn bridges for no real reason. He made a good faith gesture to the team by signing a very friendly contract. There's no reason to piss all over that goodwill.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Indeed. I like the bunt. It's an exciting play when used properly (late in the game, playing for one run and the win). Baseball is exciting because it holds suspense unlike any other sport in the world. In a tie game with a runner on base in the ninth, the game can literally end at any second. A well-executed bunt puts multiple players into motion at a single time during this height of suspense and the entire game can turn in a split second. It's fun to watch. On the other hand, I've turned off baseball games - even Twins games - because I was so angry after seeing a bunt in a 0-0 game in the third inning (not including bunt attempts for hits here).
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    It's foolish to want to see the bunt go away. What's not foolish is to expect modern managers to understand the basics of the bunt and when it damages your chances of winning a baseball game. The problem isn't the bunt, the problem is that too many in baseball have a "we've always done it that way, rub some dirt on it and walk it off" attitude when there are mountains of statistics that tell us when to use the bunt effectively and when to avoid it like the plague.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    To put it bluntly, I despise this thinking. The notion that business and basic morality/ethics cannot coexist is a bad one and it does a lot of damage to everyone involved, excepting those at the top who make piles of money by betraying the trust of those below. Sentimentality that leads to the signing of Jason Bartlett? That's bad business and pretty dumb on all fronts. Sentimentality that leads to the retention of an elite employee, one that signed well under market value because he wants to work with your organization? That's good business and should be applauded. Everyone wins financially, performance-wise, and morale is high. Right now, both parties are getting exactly what they want from the other. Perkins is playing for his childhood team and his hometown. The Twins are getting an elite player for millions less than it would cost to replace him on the open market. Maybe trading Perkins in the future is the right move for everybody... But to do it less than 12 months after he signed an under-market deal to play for his hometown team is, as I put it in another thread, just like walking straight up to him and kicking him in the nuts. These are human beings, not cattle to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. It doesn't hurt to take that into account from time to time. It's one of the things about Ryan that I most respect, as he seems to genuinely care about his players.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. I believe Tony LaRussa, when asked about the DH, said it's just as hard - if not harder - to manage in the AL because of the DH and superior AL lineups. The vast majority of the time, switching out the pitcher in late innings is a no-brainer situation. You simply construct your lineup differently and fall into a different routine, one that is less engaging for the audience as you shuffle ineptitude around the field to accommodate a guy who shouldn't be holding a bat. In the AL, when do you pull the pitcher? Do you throw him out there another inning? Most of the time, AL switches are made based on performance, not a rule that hinders your team's ability to be effective on both offense and defense. When do you make that lineup switch in the AL? When it benefits your team the most in late innings, that's when. You're not rolling out a guy in the sixth - often your best bench bat - for a single meaningless AB, after which he's out of the game. You keep that guy for the eighth or ninth when it really matters and when you really need him. NL baseball is often bad, boring baseball. I lived in San Diego for a decade and Los Angeles for another decade after that. I've watched at least a thousand NL games. Give me the AL and DH any day of the week.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Except for all those division titles and playoff appearances last decade. Unless you're only counting WS wins, in which case most of baseball has been rebuilding for two decades or better... including teams like Tampa Bay and Texas. Were they both rebuilding over the past five years? This argument is such nonsense yet you continue to use it.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    I think it has a lot to do with perception. A struggling pitcher will lose the game. A struggling hitter will lose games, but he probably won't lose you the game. It's much easier to quantify wins and losses behind a starting pitcher. Bad hitters just bleed you to death.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    A tough question. I'm not sure... I may cut him if no team is willing to take him by mid-August.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm all for holding on to guys if the return isn't good but Correia needs to go, if only to clear 25- and 40-man roster space.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    But you're only using one constant: the catcher. Pitchers, umpires, and everything else that influences the metric change and in time, their inconsistencies are negated.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    No, but theoretically, the law of large numbers would balance it out. It's the main reason why I'm skeptical of short-term usage of pitch framing, particularly when the catcher plays for a single team with a very good/bad pitching staff. Over the long haul, I think it's a good metric. It could probably use refinement but it's a step in the right direction.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Not me. I'm of the opinion that Meyer should be called up before he comes close to his innings limit. Get him 40-50 innings in MLB and shut him down for the season.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure. If you can get a top shortstop, the trade makes sense. It's unlikely the Twins will get a top shortstop, as teams don't often trade them.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    It's definitely worth it.
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