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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Absolutely, I was just pointing out that his hit rate is padding his stats a bit... Like you said, his walk rate is the key. He has always missed bats but if he's walking 3-3.5 per 9, he should be okay.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    No appearances yet, which is a good thing because he's slotting into Deduno's long relief role. If your long reliever is out there, that means your starter was terrible or he got injured.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Based on ERA. After stringing together several solid starts, the Twins' rotation has now passed the Diamonbacks with a 5.32 ERA, good for 29th in baseball. Progress! For the record, last year's rotation posted a 5.26 ERA. It's strange that somehow this rotation has managed to be worse than last year's, though that's incredibly unlikely to continue.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I haven't been able to watch Gibson every start this season but it seems to me like it's a combination of two things: 1. He's still dancing around the plate too much 2. His stuff just ain't that good Hopefully it's more of the former than the latter.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm fine with either May or Meyer getting the call. It'd be nice to see the Twins encourage the competition between the two players and give the nod to the pitcher more deserving of a promotion. Right now, the two look pretty much in lock-step with one another.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    It really depends on who is pitching well on the Twins roster. Hughes and Nolasco will not and should not lose their spot. Too much talent and/or history of competence there to bail on them in 2014. If it's Deduno and/or Correia, you make that replacement. Gibson... Eh, hard to say. It really depends on how he looks, not so much his stat line.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Just tempering expectations. Hughes is the real deal, IMO. Always been bullish on him. Nolasco should be just fine. Gibson needs to miss a lot more bats or he's Nick Blackburn 2.0. Deduno is a wildcard as only Samuel Deduno can be. Correia has a ceiling of mediocrity. Much improved over last year? Absolutely. Still a lot of room for improvement, though.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't think anyone is questioning that Meyer is a future MLB player. He has the stuff. At this point, we agree that Meyer would not be "rushed" if he was called up today. On the other hand, with him now developing a new pitch that still looks a bit inconsistent based on his last outing, I don't think it's a bad idea to let him refine that pitching to AAA hitters. But if he strings together 3-4 good starts, he should absolutely get the nod, provided that the Twins rotation has the space (and I think we can all agree that for Meyer, they should make the space).
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    They're getting close to last year's 18-18 mark. But unlike last year, I doubt they will go 48-78 the rest of the way.This pitching staff should keep them in a lot more games now that it doesn't look terrible.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    And the Twins are back at .500. I was worried we might not be able to say that again after the Dodgers series.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    To be fair, Trevor May has a say in this as well... And it's hard to fault the Twins for potentially going with the guy who is already on the 40 man as opposed to the guy who is not on the 40 man and is currently refining a new pitch. Man, it's hard not to be impressed with Trevor May this season.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    So we have one honeymoon in The Cleve and another in the most segregated city in America. Buncha wildcats here at Twins Daily.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm fine with Santana sitting on the bench as long as Gardy isn't starting Flo-- Oh, &*^%.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I'd be surprised if he didn't receive 10 starts this season. Last year, Gibson received 10 MLB starts and didn't have nearly the success in Rochester that Meyer is having this season.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Agreed. After the Twins refused to address shortstop in the offseason, I thought they should give Escobar the job.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not necessarily against approaching Dozier about the move this season, I just don't see a reason to do it right now. He could move back to short on September 1st and that would give you enough time to know whether he can hack it or not. The guy spent most of his career at the position. And in September, the Twins will have a better idea of what to expect from Rosario.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Outside of "small chance for improvement", I don't think Escobar is much of a step up from Florimon. I hope I'm wrong, I just don't expect much from the guy but he's been playing quite well so far. My guess is that the Twins will enter this offseason with the same questions about shortstop that they (should have) had last offseason.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    It's my opinion that it's a mistake to even consider moving Dozier from second until you have someone ready to replace him. Right now, you're just shuffling deck chairs without any potential for actual improvement while risking messing with the head of your best player.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    The thing is about fringe hitters like Florimon is that when they collapse, they often don't drop to a .550 OPS; they have a tendency to utterly and completely collapse. Bill James wrote a fantastic article about aging and how fringe players often drop out of baseball entirely in their late 20s because they're fringe players who can't compensate for loss of skill or league adjustment. There's a good chance Pedro Florimon falls into that category of player. If you asked me "What's more likely: Florimon OPSing at .400 or .650 in May?", there's a good chance I would have replied ".400". The writing was on the wall that this guy had a good chance of imploding violently and spectacularly at any moment. He is old-ish. For a speed guy he misses the ball far too often, negating his ability to leg out a hit. He puts the ball in the air too often. He has no discipline. He relied on a decent early 2013 before fading pretty badly in the second half, indicating that he's not adjusting to opposing pitchers. Too much of his OPS is powered by homers, a fickle thing to rely on from a marginal power guy playing in Target Field. Pedro Florimon might be able to turn it around. There's always a chance of that happening. My point all along is that the chance of that happening and his ceiling prevent any rational team from wasting the time to find out.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Priceless.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not arguing that at all, merely pointing out that blowing up the franchise a la the Astros adds more time to an already lengthy rebuild process. I find it very unlikely that the Astros build a winner before the Twins because the Twins had a few (albeit too few) quality players on the roster who look to contribute to the next winning team. The Astros don't have that, which makes an already tough job just that much tougher.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, their minor league system looks great. The problem is that they have virtually no talent on the current roster. Even if all seven prospects pan out, that's still less than 1/3rd of an MLB roster. Basically, it's the Twins minus Mauer, Dozier, Plouffe, Hughes, Nolasco, and Perkins. A good place to start but the Astros need a lot more pieces to build a contender, not to mention that they need almost all their prospects to pan out to be good in the next 2-3 years. Blowing up the team was the right move to make for the Astros. They needed to overhaul not only their on-field players but they needed to blow up the entire organization, scouting and front office included. But if someone is frustrated by three consecutive 95 loss seasons by the Twins, they'd stop watching baseball if they lived in Houston and had to watch that team for the past 500 games.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Tell that to Houston fans. The Astros have the following win totals over the past three years: 56, 55, 51. They're easily the worst team in the AL again with only 10 wins in their first 31 games. While I understand that rebuilds take a lot of time, it's going to be a long time before the Astros are relevant again. They've dug themselves into such a hole that it could be a decade before they emerge from it.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    One bad inning offsets all the good innings he has pitched in the past five weeks? The only ugly thing about Hughes' line right now is his ERA. He has been considerably better than his runs allowed thus far and his ERA has been plummeting as his luck normalizes.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    No, that walk rate probably isn't sustainable but it's likely that his BA will continue to rise as his walk rate drops. Overall, the OBP is probably sustainable, or something close to it anyway. And I'll take "really good leadoff guy" all day. Dozier doesn't need to be the "perfect leadoff guy" to stick in that role for the time being. Right now, he's one of the best leadoff guys in baseball, if not the best leadoff guy in baseball. And with Plouffe slotting into the third spot of the lineup so nicely, it's not as if the Twins are really sacrificing production by having Dozier leadoff.
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