Brock Beauchamp

Great job staying up late through these negotiations, Ted. I couldn't hack it anymore after 11pm or so.

Yep, Larnach "graduated" out of prospect status with 301 plate appearances in 2021.

Thanks for keeping me up to date on this. What browser and operating system are you using? And are you trying to watch them from the forums or the video page? Is the page background white or black?

No problem, thanks for asking and prompting me to finally put a disclaimer on the video page explaining that this can be a problem if any user can't see our video content.

It was so much worse than that. Guzman literally started his swing after the ball hit the glove. It was maybe 2000-ish so finding video is probably impossible.

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Oh man, the errors. Guzman was an athletic fielder with good range but he was so sloppy in the field.

To this day, the worst single baseball swing I've ever seen in MLB was from Cristian Guzman. He was caught unprepared for a fastball and about half a second after the catcher's glove popped, Guzman started the most pathetic swing you will ever see from a professional hitter. Everyone just kind of stopped and stared for a moment. It was super awkward.

Shortly after this photo was taken, Minneapolis city council banning me from wearing those jeans within city limits due to "it not being fair to everyone else".

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Calendar year of the article. I pulled data from Jan 1-Dec 31 for each year and grabbed the top five.

He didn't only fail to pan out, he pitched just 26 innings in the majors. Ouch.

Except Rose wasn't banned for cheating, he was banned for gambling on baseball, which is explicitly against baseball rules and is probably the number one NO-NO in the entire sport. And even then, had he been able to keep his mouth shut for even a second, he'd still probably be in the hall.

No matter whether they cheated or not, I believe Clemens and Bonds should also be in. They were simply too good at baseball to not be enshrined, especially given some of the questionable morality of many others in the Hall. *shrugs* But hey, the upside in so many falling off the ballot this year is that it likely paves a smoother path for Mauer to gobble up votes when he's eligible in two years.

If I’m comparing two players, yeah, I’m gonna evaluate whether the Green Monster gave one player an advantage the other didn’t have. If we don’t make an attempt to factor in individual advantages and disadvantages, there’s little point in comparing players at all.

Carew was better and I don’t think it’s a close contest. Puckett was barely above average as a hitter outside the Metrodome. Put Rod on that turf and he hits .400. Hell, he damned near hit .400 *without* turf.

Thank you, my memory is going in my old age...

Which Ober do you expect, though? He struggled mightily early in his 2021 debut. His first ten starts: Date Tm G GS GF CG Rslt Dec DR IP H R ER BB SO HR HBP ERA FIP BF BA OBP SLG OPS BAbip Pit Str StL StS GB FB LD PU Unk GSc IR IS SB CS PO AB 2B 3B IBB GDP SF ROE aLI WPA acLI cWPA RE24 DFS(DK) DFS(FD) May 18 to Jul 25, 2021 MIN 10 10 0 0 5-5 W-L:1-1 5.1 43.1 42 26 25 13 45 11 1 5.19 5.36 182 .251 .308 .521 .829 .277 733 66% 18% 9% 0.52 24% 7% 0 48 ---% 2 3 0 167 6 3 0 2 1 3 .91 -0.460 .14 -0.07% -3.36 107.90 202.00 His remaining ten starts: Date Tm G GS GF CG Rslt Dec DR IP H R ER BB SO HR HBP ERA FIP BF BA OBP SLG OPS BAbip Pit Str StL StS GB FB LD PU Unk GSc IR IS SB CS PO AB 2B 3B IBB GDP SF ROE aLI WPA acLI cWPA RE24 DFS(DK) DFS(FD) Jul 31 to Sep 24, 2021 MIN 10 10 0 0 7-3 W-L:2-2 5.1 49.0 50 19 18 6 51 9 0 3.31 3.84 197 .265 .284 .460 .745 .313 743 68% 16% 14% 0.54 21% 10% 0 53 ---% 1 0 0 189 10 0 0 5 2 0 .93 0.532 .00 0.00% 6.62 150.65 270.00

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I agree, though I'm a lot less confident in Ryan. Ober went through lineups multiple times, pitched back-to-back against the same teams, etc. I'm more confident his stuff is legit, provided he stays healthy. Whereas I still have lingering concerns that Ryan's secondary stuff just isn't good enough and he'll ultimately revert to a one-trick pony. I'm still optimistic he can be good, there's just more concern surrounding him in my eyes.