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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    It will be interesting to follow this story and see how MLB implements it in 2023 and what that means for 2024 and beyond. A lot of catcher value - and the type of catcher MLB teams want to employ going forward - hinges on their decision. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/35434317/sources-all-aaa-parks-use-electronic-strike-zone-23?fbclid=IwAR0Nvtf3X9grmRQnaJOfMS3QeXERaIRJwL-TQOCy7hI4JiRhHxdwa2O7WZo
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, but the fact Garlick has done it at the MLB level a couple of times now inspires a lot more confidence in me.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, but the fact Garlick has done it at the MLB level a couple of times now inspires a lot more confidence in me.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Kyle Garlick has been a part-time and oft-injured part of the Minnesota Twins for the past two seasons. He's limited to corner outfield and doesn't even play that very well. In the wake of yesterday's Carlos Correa deal, the Twins waived Garlick off the 40-man roster. But what he does is pound left-handed pitching beyond what anyone with his skillset should be able to do. In his brief MLB career, he has a .538 slugging percentage against southpaws and an .839 OPS. As good as he is against LHP, he's equally bad against righties, posting an abysmal .582 OPS against them. But he's cheap and fills a very specific role the Brewers could use in 2023. View full rumor
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    More information about "Dear Brewers, Please Go Get Kyle Garlick"
    Kyle Garlick has been a part-time and oft-injured part of the Minnesota Twins for the past two seasons. He's limited to corner outfield and doesn't even play that very well. In the wake of yesterday's Carlos Correa deal, the Twins waived Garlick off the 40-man roster. But what he does is pound left-handed pitching beyond what anyone with his skillset should be able to do. In his brief MLB career, he has a .538 slugging percentage against southpaws and an .839 OPS. As good as he is against LHP, he's equally bad against righties, posting an abysmal .582 OPS against them. But he's cheap and fills a very specific role the Brewers could use in 2023.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    I mean, maybe. It's a definite possibility but Correa also made it pretty apparent he wanted to go one place for a very long time. He didn't try to negotiate any opt-outs from day one from the rumors I've heard, he wanted guaranteed years with a no-trade clause. There are so many variables that go into these decisions, let's not ignore the actual desires of the player and the type of deal they're looking to sign in the first place.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    That’s a big gamble, though. He’d be going into his age 31 season under market conditions none of us can predict, never mind the huge health questions inherent in any player, much less Correa.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Correa is going to make slightly more in 2023 and 2024 than the contract he opted out of after the season, $36m compared to $35.1m.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    On the old site I’m pretty sure there were more steps involved than there are now but I only used it once or twice so I don’t remember the old process very well.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, I see the dugout mug wasn't enough. Do we need three dugout mugs plus back massages guaranteed for three years? All of this is pending a physical, mind you.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Which is why I said "Correa" and not "Boras". As usual, Scott Boras got the best money possible for his client and did it by leveraging teams against one another. That's his job and he does it amazingly well. If there's another client that has tried Boras' ability to extract money from teams more than Carlos Correa over the past two months, I'd love to hear that story. Boras took a bad situation that somehow kept getting worse and turned it into $200m guaranteed money, He's real good at his job.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not really sure where to put this so I'll leave it in the Brewers forum for now. But one recommendation to all users is to think about how to make people want to converse with your topic. This isn't a call-out, just a mention of how that if you want people to talk about a cool thing you found and want to talk about, title it in an interesting manner. Original title: GM Survey New title: Baseball Executives Surveyed About Prospects Which one makes you want to click and discuss more?
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, he was around consensus #10 in one year. But that doesn't really change the metrics on this kind of risk because it's such a small risk. Say you sign someone like Chourio to an $80m contract the moment he enters the league. You'd get 6-7 years of team control, usually 1-2 years of guaranteed money at a reasonable rate, and maybe an option. Obviously, $80m is a lot of money. But the upside is that Chourio could literally provide $300m of value during that time and $80m is roughly Chourio's 50th percentile value at this point. You're betting on the middle with huge upside while the downside is you eat $10-20m a year in 4-5 years when the average payroll is probably $170m or more. It's a massive payday for the player with pretty minimal risk for the team and in the case of Chourio, he'd still probably enter free agency around 29 years old.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, I honestly don't see them moving a starter, particularly Houser, because I don't see the return being significant enough to warrant the move. In some ways, I'd be less surprised to see them move Burnes than Houser.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, I honestly don't see them moving a starter, particularly Houser, because I don't see the return being significant enough to warrant the move. In some ways, I'd be less surprised to see them move Burnes than Houser.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I think it's definitely something to keep an eye on but after being traded and having a bad season by his own standards, frustration isn't surprising. I mean, we all have our moments of acting like asses when stress levels rise. We'll see whether Winker learned anything from his 2022 season soon enough.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I think the Mets were intentionally being unreasonable to distance themselves from Cohen blowing his horn over basically having a deal finalized at 11/$315m. I think a lot of what the Mets did was cautious backpedaling and the form they employed was a flat-out unreasonable demand, the likes of which we've never seen in baseball. Think about it from Correa's perspective: you think you have a really great deal with the Mets and then they start backpedaling. Their final offer after pretty much betraying your trust is that you have to trust their doctor to clear you every single year or you don't get paid. That's not a real attempt to salvage the Correa situation. The Mets knew it. Correa knew it. People were claiming all along Boras was using the Twins to leverage the Mets to a higher number. Now that the dust has settled, I think it's the other way around. He was using the Mets to leverage the Twins, a place Correa is obviously comfortable playing, trusts their front office, and likes his teammates. I suspect quite a bit of bad blood arose between Correa and Cohen over the past few weeks.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, we've been bouncing between sources for the Twins, Mets, and Boras Corp for weeks now. And it was just as tumultuous from the inside as it appeared from the outside. There were prolonged stretches of time where it appeared no one had a clue what the hell was going to happen. Literally reports of "the Mets got him" followed by "the Twins are close" within hours of one another... and that was like 4-5 days ago.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    So ridiculous. I've devoted so much time and energy to this over the past couple of months. Last night I was up until 1am because we knew a deal was close and I had to talk to writers, create graphics, and set the plan for when it happened. Then it happened this morning while I was in a fugue state. I went into overdrive for like three hours and I'm just exhausted. I'm gonna go read a book about dragons or something; I can't do any more baseball.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I think a lot of the concern is as he ages but that's just the feeling I've gotten from this mess. Teams aren't nearly as worried about ages 29-32 Carlos Correa but they're really scared of age 35+ Correa.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    It's mostly a formality at this point. The Twins need their own doctor to sign off but have had Correa's recent medicals for at least a week now, probably longer.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins gave him a medical and saw him play for a season. It seems they felt they knew him better than others. And I suspect it became a war of egos with Cohen, which is why he's not already on the Mets.
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  24. Brock Beauchamp
    I believe this can be true for front office personnel but aren't managers always publicly extended? Or is this just a thing that has flown under my radar and gone unnoticed over the years?
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    On paper that's a pretty fair deal IMO but the Twins aren't looking for Houser-leveal talent. They have Gray, Mahle, Maeda, Ryan, and Ober along with several AAA prospects. If the Twins acquire a pitcher, he almost needs to be as good or better than Sonny Gray for it to make an impact.
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