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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Everything you just said is exactly correct.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Ricky Nolasco sure makes a lot of mistakes.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    So, Ricky Nolasco.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Ahahahahahahah. Great pic.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Even Ortiz could outrun a bunt with a shift, provided he can get it past the pitcher. The run and throw from a third baseman coming from short would be insanely difficult.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    As long as those big market teams see fit to continue giving massive contracts to the Jacoby Ellsburys of the world, I'm fine with no cap.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    What about bad sinkerballers?
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Well said.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    It drives me insane. Bunt, damn it. Beat their shift.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    If I was a MLB pitcher, I'd prefer to throw to the guy who knew opposing lineups like the back of his hand and prepared for the game. I wouldn't care whether the guy was vocal. In fact, it might irritate me if I felt he was deficient in another aspect of the job. It's really hard to say exactly how pitchers felt about Mauer behind the plate. His bat was an obvious asset so they may have overlooked some aspects of his game because of it. And it's really rare to hear pitchers disparage catchers at all; that's why most of us were surprised by Perkins' comments about Pinto.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    He has some good peripherals going for him, that's for sure... But the likelihood of continued success with a 1:1 K/BB rate was pretty low. He needed to make an improvement in that regard and lately, he has done just that.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Sinkerballers. Past that, yeah. Not so much.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    In my opinion, expiring contracts don't really apply. There is virtually no risk on an expiring contract whether the player is high or low. The player simply goes away at the end of the season. My comments were more directed at the concept of "selling high or low" on players with considerable time left on their contracts. I should have been more clear in my post. I don't think a team is going to do an extensive risk analysis on the $75 owed Suzuki for the rest of 2014 or how his career trajectory has looked over the past 3-4 years. They care about how he's playing right now and little else. The Twins are probably the only team that really cares about whether Suzuki is playing over his head right now, as they're the ones most likely to retain his services for 2015.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Absolutely. I felt Gibson was a ticking time bomb unless he started missing more bats and cut down on walks. Well, he has done just that. If he keeps it up, we're looking at a pretty good starter for quite some time.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Therein lies the rub. The notion of "selling high" is a flawed concept much of the time, particularly when it's bandied about on internet forums. If you, as a fan, can recognize the potential lapse of a player, don't you think professional MLB GMs can do the same? That doesn't mean you can't get peak value out of a guy but it does mean that GMs are going to lowball their offers to mitigate the risk of player collapse.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    30 year old rookies who throw in the high 80s don't inspire much confidence.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    And that's the $64,000 question. I expected 71-73 wins going into the season. Now I think they'll be a bit above that mark, maybe a 75 win team. Is is possible they approach the .500 mark this season? Absolutely, but I'm still skeptical.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins promoted Stewart to low A, making him the youngest pitcher in the league. They then promoted Thorpe to low A and he's 13 months younger than Stewart. I don't think the Twins worry about age quite as much as we think they do.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Really, Levi? Foolish? I'm not demanding transparency, I'm acknowledging that I don't have enough information to declare something "the wrong approach".
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't have any faith in Pino. With that said, he earned another start.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah. Bad baseball teams take time to get back into contention most of the time. Should Astros fans not be optimistic about their team showing flashes of competency? They're still a bad team.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Not all that transpired but some information is useful to make a judgment. We have virtually no information about 2012 Willingham past some anonymous person saying "Ryan is asking too much". That's not enough on which to base an opinion because we don't even have perspective on that person's definition of "too much". As for Berrios, I'm also hesitant to bash the Twins for call-ups because I don't get to see the player. Can I be disappointed that someone isn't called up? Absolutely. I was disappointed when May didn't get the call earlier this week. But at least with prospects, we have extensive stat sheets that give us a good indication of how that player is performing in the minor leagues. While not all the information possible, it's often enough to form a somewhat informed opinion on the matter. It's not moral high ground. It's shrugging my shoulders because I don't have enough information to state an intelligent opinion. Take last July, for example. I remember saying something along the lines of "while I can't complain that Ryan didn't trade any individual player, I'm really disappointed that essentially nobody was traded". I haven't been a big fan of Ryan's recent deadlines. He's definitely not above criticism in my mind, I simply don't believe that we can declare any move that didn't happen a mistake without more information.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    No, but I require some facts or information to form an opinion, of which you have none. You don't have names of players offered. You don't have details on what was offered or even how much interest the team really had in Willingham. You don't even have the names of teams potentially involved in a potential Willingham trade or a single substantial quote from an MLB GM about the situation. Yet you call Ryan's approach wrong. You realize how obviously biased that sounds, right? At the time, I was 50/50 on the Willingham trade situation. I thought that it'd be tough to get good value for him. I still don't know if Ryan did the right thing, nor do I claim to know.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    I actually think Smith did some very smart things as GM. You probably shouldn't assume you know my opinion of the man and how he did his job. He made what were possibly the two worst trades in Twins history. That doesn't mean he was awful at everything or that you need to defend him for his obvious mistakes.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I can't call it the wrong approach without actually knowing what happened.
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