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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Agreed fully. I was never a big fan of Hicks getting the call out of Spring Training in the first place but I can't fault the team too much for aggressively pushing for roster turnover in an attempt to right the ship.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Good point about the innings limit. Forgot about that.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Whether Arcia rejoins the team has zero bearing on whether he's an elite prospect. He mashed at AA as a 21 year old player. He did the same at AAA as a 22 year old. It amazes me how little patience people show with prospects. Haven't we been through this a dozen times already? Was Morneau no longer an elite prospect because he OPSed at .650 in his rookie season? What about Cuddyer? What about Kubel? What about Hunter? What about Santana? Guys scuffle when they come up to the big leagues. They get sent back down. They come up again and maybe stick. Maybe they get sent down again. That doesn't mean they're suddenly a bad player.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Or maybe it just takes time to rebuild a minor league system. Look at the Astros. Look at the Pirates. Look at Kansas City. It didn't take any of those teams three years to rebuild a system, it took them all 6+ years. People forget the glacial pace at which baseball rebuilds happen. It takes a long time to build something in this sport and prospects don't arrive all at once, they arrive in batches over a 3-4 year period.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I think the hitters have done pretty well, all considering. Arcia has been adequate, though he needs to control the zone better. Pinto has been a revelation. Dozier and Plouffe look like legit hitters. The one disaster is Hicks. I'd say that's a pretty good percentage of failure. On the other hand, the pitching has not performed as expected. I find it impossible to defend Rick Anderson at this point. Whatever he's doing, it's simply not working.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not sure who you believe should have gotten the call. Meyer was coming back from an injury. May was inconsistent. Rosario is suspended. Sano got hurt. They gave both Gibson and Hicks a shot on Opening Day. One has done pretty well... the other, not so much. They also gave Pinto a shot out of Spring Training. Who is left at that point? I'm sure we'll see more prospects as the season progresses but the Twins called up the guys who deserved a shot while the other guys who might have been ready (Sano, possibly Rosario) were sidelined for various reasons. The front office didn't have many choices left. They aggressively promoted when they could but performance and/or injury forced their hand in many cases.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    This catch-phrase of the week is getting really old. I'm sure the front office understands the concept of a sunk cost. The problem is that they like to sink costs too often on players they shouldn't sign. I honestly don't even know what this means. Ryan has made a career of building bullpens off the scrapheap. Florimon, yes. It amazes me that people are so willing to throw Hicks to the curb. Yeah, he's been bad. That doesn't mean you give up on the guy after 400 PAs. Pinto, Gibson, and Arcia are a pretty good trio of players to call up in a 12 month period. And they weren't even considered the elite prospects of the system. You realize it's May 2nd, right? We might see Meyer by the end of the month and we'll surely see him this season. That's four good-to-elite prospects in two seasons' time, five if you include Hicks. I'm not really sure what you expect to happen. Teams don't call up 10 guys in one season. That never happens.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not sure what you expect from a AAA rotation. The Twins have one guy who looks to front the rotation soon, another guy who has shown enormous growth this season and could slot in as a #3 guy if he continues missing bats and minimizing walks, and then they have 2-3 guys who are fringe prospects. That's a very good AAA rotation with depth.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree that they make too many mistakes on issues that seem pretty obvious to even casual fans. I'm not defending every move they make. I'm simply responding to Mike's implication that the entire front office is indefensible. They do a lot right. I'd like them to do more things right, just like everybody else.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree that going back appears to be his biggest weakness as a defender but, again, that's a tough play and I've seen multiple-time Gold Glovers make similar "errors" in calculation while going backwards mid-jump. It was a damned tough play for any outfielder. We've all seen Hicks do some pretty baffling things in the field but I have a hard time counting that play as one of them.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. If Jimenez is off at all, it's not hard to see this team chasing him in the fourth inning with 5-6 walks. Let's hope he's off tonight.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I really think you're underselling how difficult that play was to finish. Hicks wasn't running full speed but he was moving at a good clip and got leather on the ball.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm skeptical that we'll see him before Meyer. I think the Twins are going to want to see more than six innings per start in AAA before he gets the call. Either way, it's hard not to like what he's done thus far.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I think it's a stretch to say his MiLB 3.6 BB/9 indicates that he'll walk 6 in 4 innings as an MLB starter every time. Like I said, I don't really like Johnson but I don't put much stock in one start against a good team.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    It's only a 50/50 split if you ignore all the things they're doing in the minors. The Twins have one of the best minor league systems right now, their rotation at Rochester is looking really good, and they've stumbled a bit with their position players lately through injury and/or suspension but it's hard to fault the front office for that. It's tough to watch the MLB team but there are bright spots there as well. Pinto, Plouffe, Dozier, Mauer, Hughes, the bullpen... All strong points for the team going forward.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    While I'm not a big fan of Johnson, it was one start against a pretty potent offense. Let's not base his entire career on it.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    He'll get one soon enough. If he keeps pitching like he has this season, I think we see him called up when the Twins tire of watching Kevin Correia take the mound every fifth day.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    I whole-heartedly agree about shortstop. I was all in favor of picking up someone who could play an MLB shortstop. Centerfield is a little more difficult. With Buxton on the way and the need to find out what they have in Hicks, going after an established centerfielder just didn't make a lot of sense, not to mention that established centerfielders would shy away from wanting to sign with the Twins for those very reasons.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Absolutely, I'm just a bit surprised that they pulled from Rochester's rotation, that's all. But it makes sense if they're planning to slot Deduno into Pelfrey's spot in the rotation.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    The fact that they called up a starter makes me wonder if Deduno isn't getting Pelfrey's spot in the rotation and they transfer Darnell to long relief. In the short term, that gives them an extra pitcher to relieve a tired pen, in the long-term it allows them to restructure the rotation a bit and ease Deduno into a starting role.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    We're calling that play a "folly"? Really?
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Phil Hughes looks pretty good. Dozier is tearing it up again. Plouffe looks to have turned the corner.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    I think that's a mistake and unnecessary. Find out why he's throwing fastballs at 89mph before you throw him in the ditch. There's no reason to cast him off on May 2nd. He shouldn't be anywhere near the rotation (or even the active roster, IMO) but there's no real point in throwing him away, either.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Maybe because they do as many things right as they do wrong? It's not nearly as one-sided as some make it seem on either end of the spectrum.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Jesus Christ, Chief. You can never have too much pitching. (before anyone gets insulted, this is a riff on a quote from Terry Ryan in an interview with John in 2012)
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