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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Shortstops are allowed to hit doubles? Is that a thing in baseball?
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Maybe I've missed it but I haven't seen anyone defend Rosario's decision to smoke pot, only that it's a bad policy to punish him for it in the first place.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    I think a move back to short becomes a real option if he continues to hit. We can deal with subpar fielding if the guy is OPSing at .800 or even .750. Not that Dozier is necessarily a subpar shortstop but it'll probably take some time to get him back up to speed at the position. With that said, I don't want to see Dozier moved this year. He deserves the chance to get his feet under him and cement himself as a productive hitter before the team messes with his head at all.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Eh, I don't really buy into this. The employee is giving up roughly 50% of their waking life to work for a company. Does that employee get to go through financial and human resources records and make sure that they're not wasting their time by taking a job at a company that will go out of business or treat them poorly? Risk is assumed on both sides but only one gets to dig into the other's life.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Which is a good principle in theory... if this country hadn't spent the past 30 years undermining the natural free market lobbyists for the workers' rights, trade unions. Because, let's face it, the free market does a pretty bad job of balancing rights when all the power is in business hands while we continually chip away at trade unions and allow businesses to aggressively union-bust (hi, Wal-Mart). Unorganized workers simply cannot stand up to the power of conglomerated business interests. It's like putting Mike Tyson in the ring with a herd of mice. *thread jumps off the rails*
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    He's 20 years old.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    It's worked thus far. Been employed in a good career for a long time and I've never taken a single drug test. As I mentioned earlier, the requirement for me to take one might be a deal-breaker for any job offer. There are lots of jobs out there and I'm pretty good at mine. I can go work for a place that doesn't try to tell me what to do in my free time.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Heh, fair enough. Don't get me started on that.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Again, I feel that is irrelevant. If Byron Buxton goes out tonight and gets plastered drunk, does he get a 50 game suspension? Why not? It's illegal. Sporting leagues are not law enforcement agencies.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Except that testing only punishes one of those things. There are a million ways to be inefficient, yet we've chosen to punish just a few of those things through testing. At some point, we as individuals have rights. We are not property of whomever is employing us at any given point. I show up to do a job and then I go home and do whatever I please. If my employer doesn't like what I do with that free time or feel that my actions are disrupting my performance, they can fire me.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    It won't be hard to find a dozen options who have a floor higher than Eddie Rosario, a guy whose bat barely profiles as a corner outfielder anyway.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    If the public is at risk, sure. I don't see how it's my employer's business what I'm doing in my free time any more than it's my right to tell them which politicians to support through lobbying. My job involves no risk to the public if I'm on medication/drugs. If my employer wants to fire me for bad performance, so be it. That's their right... But it's not their right to control my private life if it's not impacting my performance.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    True, it's a hitter's league but it's also only the first month of the season at a new level. I think it's safe to say Correa's numbers will continue to climb as he adjusts. But I didn't take it that you were disparaging Correa.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Um, no. That won't happen, but I like the Duensing addition.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. If I get asked to come on as a full-time employee at my current job, I'll have to take a drug test. I'm considering rejecting the offer if it comes for that reason alone. I'll pass the test without issue but that's not the point.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    It would have to be Pinto because he's the most likely to continue hitting at an above-average level if you exclude Dozier. And I'm excluding Dozier because I expected him to have acceptable offensive production. To me, the only surprise is that he has continued to hit for this much power.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree but I think it's a decision that doesn't need to be made right now. Rosario has 300 pretty unimpressive PAs in AA. He's coming off a suspension that's going to eat nearly half of his 2014 season. He would have to play out of his mind for the rest of 2014 to even be a consideration for the 2015 Opening Day lineup.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    To me, that's irrelevant. Sports leagues are not law enforcement agencies. It should only matter whether the athlete is gaining a performance advantage from the use of a drug, at which point they are competing unfairly within the bounds of their own profession. Anything that doesn't fall under that jurisdiction, have at it. Do whatever you want, it's not my career to ruin.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    I'd say he's doing more than holding his own. He's 19 at high A and has a .300/.366/.463 slash.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep, looking at the forecast, I'd say their chances are pretty good. Though it looks like they might have difficulty playing a doubleheader tomorrow. We might be getting more rain in the early afternoon with it clearing up in the evening.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    I never have and never will understand why marijuana is a banned substance in professional sports testing. May as well ban supersized meals and double cheeseburgers while we're at it. It would have lengthened Sidney Ponson's MLB career.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    I love these write-ups on your experiences. Thanks again, AJ.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Except that contending teams in June can't go buy Kevin Correia on the open market. If they need back of the rotation help, they have to trade for it. Will it get the Twins a great prospect? Absolutely not, but it should land them a low minors guy with some upside.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    It's really best to pretend that ERA doesn't exist when examining MiLB pitchers. Bad fielding, bad fields, and sloppy play is the name of the game a lot of the time in the minor leagues. You're better served by looking at strikeout rate, walk rate, LD/GB%, and other such statistics. They tell a much more accurate story.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I think you're underselling what capable starting pitching is worth, even if its ceiling is mediocrity.
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