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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Since Johnson signed this early, that tells me he had a specific set of goals for a comeback season: he wanted to be in a big ballpark in the National League. If I was him, I'd do the same thing. Smart move and I question whether the Twins could have snagged him at any price... He's obviously fixing for a big contract in 2015. If he was worried about a 2014 paycheck, I doubt he would have signed before the Winter Meetings and at a lower price than most of us expected.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    If Phil Humber and his good three months is your opening salvo, yes, please keep going. Because I'll see your three months of good Phil Humber and raise you four months of Scott Diamond, 2 1/2 seasons of Nick Blackburn, and one year of Carl Pavano in return. Do I think Rick Anderson is responsible for all those good seasons? No, probably not. And that's my point. The Twins had a lot of former players appear in the All-Star Game this past season... The Twins also let loose a ton of good players in the past 4-5 years from their division-winning 2000s squads for age, health, and/or cost reasons.... and only one of those guys was a pitcher and improved after he left (ironically, that guy also spent half a season under Don Cooper, apparent savior of Phil Humber, and was a massive failure).
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Again... No, there are not. In the rotation, there is Francisco Liriano and RA Dickey if you absolutely feel the need to put him in there. In the bullpen, you have Neshek (injury issues) and Balfour (injury issues). Hardly a hatful. People try to throw Kyle Lohse in there as some redemption story upon leaving the tutelage of "throw teh strikes" Rick Anderson but his league-adjusted stats were hardly different with the Cards than they were the Twins. Sure, the Twins gave up on him too early but that's not Rick Anderson's fault. The problem with the Twins (probably) hasn't been Rick Anderson or Ron Gardenhire. It's been the fact that the pitchers they drafted and the FAs they acquired weren't very good at throwing a baseball.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    It's not nit-picking the player, it's nit-picking revisionist history. Guys come out of nowhere and shock the world. Dickey is one of those guys. Every team in baseball passed over RA Dickey several times. He was 35 years old when he broke out with the Mets, who were a bad baseball team and only put Dickey in the rotation because they literally had nobody else better. Most of us complain when the Twins sign or retain a 35 year old player who is league-average, much less a guy who couldn't pitch when the team is fighting for a playoff berth, as the Twins were in 2009. What's nit-picky is blaming the Twins for not predicting that a guy is going to roll snake-eyes 17 times in a row and go from a really bad pitcher to a Cy Young candidate at age 35.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    You're right. The 2009 Twins should have stuck with Dickey in the rotation. No brainer, right? Obviously, he was the type of guy you keep in the rotation at the expense of Francisco Liriano, Scott Baker, Glen Perkins, Kevin Slowey, Nick Blackburn, or Carl Pavano. Because we all know that success in baseball is found by bumping mid-20-something prospects and durable veterans for a 34 year old journeyman who had never posted an ERA below 5.09. *bangs face on desk* I'll eat my damned hat if any of you can find ONE comment you made pre-2010 that talked up the potential of Dickey and argued that the Twins should keep him in the rotation... No, wait. I'll be satisfied if any you argued he should stay on the roster, period. ONE COMMENT. Since the Twins screwed up so badly, this shouldn't be hard to do, right? If memory serves me correctly, I remember one person suggesting that Dickey should stay... Nick Nelson, who made the argument "why not?" more than "Dickey will be good".
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. In the end, chances are that the numbers will wash out once you factor success and failure. Sure, some guys respond better to certain coaches and don't respond to others. It happens. These are human beings, after all. Which is why I don't believe in judging coaching from a third party perspective unless we're talking about on-field management of players. I give Gardy the benefit of the doubt because it seems he has run a pretty tight clubhouse for 10+ seasons. But do I really know if he's a good clubhouse guy? Nah, not really.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Eric Milton. Matt Guerrier. Juan Rincon. Carlos Silva. That's off the top of my head. As for players who did better, who is there? Francisco Liriano, sure. Pat Neshek is another one. Kyle Lohse is up for debate once you look into his peripherals. The move to the NL was the biggest change there. The Twins certainly gave up on him too early and didn't get enough for him, that much can be said. Guys like Matt Garza, Johan Santana, and Jesse Crain were good with the Twins. No surprise that they continued to be good with a new team. Grant Balfour was let go for injury and 40 man roster reasons. I don't think anyone was down on him if he could stay healthy... I know I certainly wasn't.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    He ordered them online from some guy with the Twitter handle v_conte_was_framed, who assured him the pills were legit.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    For some reason, I'm just not that high on Arroyo. It's probably his age. Maybe it's just me but for similar money, I'd rather take a flyer on Hughes.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I certainly understand your frustration; most of us share that frustration. But this sentence is patently untrue. Yes, there have been some success by former Twins pitchers. There has also been complete, unmitigated failure. Most have fallen somewhere in between. In other words, about where you'd expect things to fall once you average out results.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    In Twins Daily terms: The Twins have hired a company that employs a guy who runs behind the ball with a pendulum and approximates traveling speed. At the end of the game, the Twins test him with several "if two trains are traveling at 60mph" questions, after which they study the results and then draft a pitcher.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    With a couple of breaks, the Twins could graduate a stellar class of prospects this season and still be a top five system in 2015/2016. The mind reels at how many guys there are in this system who could be impact players. And thankfully, many of the "second wave" guys are pitchers.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Agreed but the Twins can't sell high on Kepler this offseason. He'll need to put together a strong 2014 before his value rises again... 2013 wasn't horrible but it wasn't very good, either.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    So after a team graduates seven top 100 prospects in two seasons, they'll be middle of the pack? I'll take that all day.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Didn't we learn anything from the Aaron Hicks fiasco? Good-but-not-great prospects should be put on a "slow and steady" path to the majors and at no point should they be rushed past their ability level. Rosario should start in AA, earn his way to AAA, and only then should we see him in Minnesota. July at the earliest, maybe not in 2014 at all.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins need more players who talk about themselves in the third person.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Ah, good to know. I cranked down the security settings a bit after that first day of chaos and it appears that enables captcha-based entry instead of blocking the user entirely.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    For those of you wondering about the like button, I'm hoping it will make a return soon. I had to disable it in its current incarnation due to a possible security vulnerability caused by the overall software package, not the like button itself. I'm looking into other solutions and hope to have something up and running within a week or two.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    That's my thinking as well. And I'm okay with that. Ease Pinto into the situation and see if he can hold on to a spot in the lineup. If not, fall back to Doumit (ugh) for back-up catching duties.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I haven't seen this issue on my end of things. It could be your Flash player... No ad we're running *should* be able to crash the Flash player but given Flash's player's inherent instability, it could be the case. But it's not necessarily our site or anything we're doing... any site can cause Flash player to crash because it's, well, a piece of crap. I know, I know... Flash sucks. Trust me, I hate it more than you guys, as I've had to deal with that piece of &*^% for a decade now. But on an ad-driven site where ad revenue is our main revenue stream, it's an unfortunate necessity. If more ad companies started writing in Javascript or JQuery, I'd be all over it. But those languages are still extremely cumbersome when dealing with animation. Flash is really the only viable game in town.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Page loads are nearly instantaneous for me now. Gee, all it took was banning half the world's population to do it.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    I've been working on various things for the past two months but it turns out that part of the problem has been these DDoS attacks. I have safeguards up in place now. You probably noticed a redirect screen that appears as it checks your browser. That is temporary and will go away soon... I've cranked up the security measures for a day or two while we figure out how to best prevent this in the future. Apologies in advance to those of you using proxy servers and/or people visiting the site from Russia, China, India, Indonesia, or a handful of other places. They have been permanently blocked from accessing TwinsDaily.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    We're in the middle of a Denial of Service attack. I'm routing all traffic through a new service in hopes that it will thwart our Chinese and Russian friends who think it's fun to shut down a random Twins website with a bot attack.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    We're bullish on Hughes because he is a pretty good pitcher when he's not in Yankee Stadium. That stadium punishes guys like Hughes. Looking at his overall stat line doesn't tell the entire story. Get him out of that park and he could easily be the second coming of Scott Baker.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm sure Ryan, Bell, & co were really pushing contraction because being unemployed is every competitive person's dream scenario. And don't come back with the kickbacks argument. That is based on nothing more than malicious speculation with absolutely no evidence. There are plenty of reasons to dislike and argue over this front office. I do not understand why you feel the need to fabricate elaborate conspiracies about an event ten years past.
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