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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    These statements are not contradictory and Perkins uses very relative terms in "young" and "fast". What I'm most curious about is why you're trying to hard to go after Perkins. He's one of the most stat-savvy players I know of, yet you accuse him of "not understanding" the metrics when, in fact, his statements about Pinto were accurate. Pinto is an awful pitch framer. He's second to last in the league but you don't even have to use a metric to know that... he looks bad. This shouldn't even be an argument. Should Glen have said that about Josmil? Dunno. I find it odd, for sure... But I'm not going to bash him for it, either.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    I made it pretty clear that I wasn't defending Ryan for not trading Willingham because - again - we do not know what was offered for him. If the return was crap, it was the right move. If he turned down a solid prospect, it was the wrong move. We simply do not know. What we do know is that Ryan, when offered value for two centerfielders just a few months later, did not hesitate to trade them both and leave a hole at the position.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Uh... Per game, Suzuki is a better framer. Not good but he's better than Pinto. http://www.statcorner.com/CatcherReport.php
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, no worries. Mine weren't acquired playing traditional sports anyway. One was riding a bike, another was a freak accident where I face-planted into a curb in high school screwing around with friends. I've also been in a myriad of dirt bike crashes. It wouldn't surprise me if I accumulated a few more that weren't so obvious that I had to go to the hospital.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, I've had at least two concussions. Definitely a not awesome experience.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Fair enough. I seem to remember a concussion but that could be my imagination.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins are now on the unlucky side of the coin. 32-38 overall record, 33-37 expected pythag record. 9-13 in one-run games. Essentially, they rode incredible luck through April and have been incredibly unlucky after that point, ending up close to neutral.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm pretty sure he had at least one with the Twins. I just looked through his game logs. Crikey, that dude was injured a lot. Only played more than 150 games once with the Twins.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Agreed. Willingham was a big risk in 2012, still having ~17m owed to him. I doubt the return offered was anything of enormous value, or Ryan probably would have taken that deal. After all, he didn't hesitate to trade two (!) centerfielders just a few months later. And despite Ryan's sometimes apparent faults, I prefer a GM who sits on a player for two long, asking for a good return over a GM who hands away talent like it's no big deal (eg. a certain GM that succeeded Ryan for a few years). In the end, we'll never know what was offered for Willingham so it's really a moot point. Giving him away for the equivalent of what can be had for him in the next six weeks wouldn't have thrilled the fanbase, just as sitting on him and watching him struggle through 2013 didn't thrill the fanbase.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't see what the Twins could possibly do to minimize concussions. It's a brain injury. As far as I know, treatment entirely consists of "sit around, don't hit your head on anything".
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Absolutely, but it's impressive to hold any MLB offense to 5 (?) runs over three games. Well, maybe not 2003 Detroit but you get my point.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    He's had a couple of his better seasons since getting paid (2010 and 2013). Catching is really hard. I think it's really unfair to say that a guy who has posted 5 WAR seasons of 5+ - two of those coming since getting paid - doesn't have passion for the game. Joe can be a bit of a robot out there. It's a large part of how he prepares for and plays the game of baseball. Let's not confuse that with a lack of passion to win or play the game.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Going into the season, I had the attitude "the Twins can't possibly be that unlucky on the concussion front to see Joe falter like other players have in recent years". In the past decade, they've had three guys go down for obscene amounts of time due to concussion-related symptoms (Koskie, Morneau, Span). I don't follow other teams that closely but the Twins must have the worst luck with concussions in MLB. They were due for a typical concussion bounce-back with Mauer. It's pretty damned frustrating that Joe might be suffering from the same ailments previous Twins suffered from in the past ten years. Aggravating. This team just can't catch a break.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Maybe it's just me but I walked away from the Boston series with a positive outlook. Was it frustrating? Absolutely... but playing that team straight-up in Boston and shutting down their offense bodes well for the rest of the season. Hitting is up and down. Pitching is what wins games over the course of a season. If the pitching has turned the corner, that's a much better sign of what's to come than the offense stumbling through three games on the road and losing three close games.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    For good or bad, GMs have weird trade deadline habits. Josh Willingham had 2 1/2 years on his contract and was available as a FA just six months previous to that deadline. GMs seem reluctant to offer value for that kind of contract, the same way they seem to be reluctant to offer value for any player with 1+ years on their contract at the deadline. GMs seem willing to overpay for expiring contracts but we just don't see many long-term contracts swapped at the deadline. I'm not making excuses for not trading Willingham. I don't know what the offers were and what Ryan asked in return but it's a mistake to look at a 2+ year contract at the deadline and expect a fair return. It just doesn't seem to happen that way. Personally, I think it's really dumb.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Becoming the best player in baseball (2009) happens without passion and is often the result of dumb luck. He's better at baseball than anything any of us will do in our lives, period. It's absurd to believe he achieved that lofty mark without passion for the sport. A guy doesn't need to yell and scream to have passion for something.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Great post. I can't wait to see May pitch in Minnesota.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Like.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, **** this. I'm gonna go learn to knit.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    *face on desk* Ugh.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Looks to me like Mr. Gibson has figured out how to pitch on the road.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Google Drive is nice - I also use it for backups - but it's only built to back up folders, not the computer. And should your HDD fail, having a complete back up of the computer will save hours during the restore process.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    This. It works a surprising amount of the time. Be sure to enclose the HDD in a plastic bag with as much air removed as possible to avoid condensation. If you get it back up and running, invest in Crashplan.com. It's worth the $6 a month to back up your entire HDD off-site. I have all my data backed up to a server in-house and then to a remote server with Crashplan. You never realize just how valuable data is until you lose some or all of it.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Johan Santana was the best pitcher in baseball from 2004-2006 and it's not really close. He's 1-3 in postseason play. Aces can help. They guarantee absolutely nothing.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Agreed. Good players are a necessity. Great players are a bonus that help you advance but are hardly necessary if the team is firing on all cylinders.
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