Brock Beauchamp
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Well that's funny. My first Twins board had a beef with Aaron Gleeman (now Twins beat for The Athletic), though we buried that hatchet ages ago. I don't even know how it started, Gleeman is a really good writer, some of the board users just liked to harass him for whatever reason.
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I'm just curious what Jays fans think of him and his writing. I know he has moved publications a few times and is currently out on his own with The Batflip. With most of you being more on the analytical side of things, curious to hear your thoughts on him.
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Official MiLB/Prospects Thread
Brock Beauchamp replied to Krylian's topic in Blue Jays Minor League Talk
Oh absolutely, it's on our list of things to figure out. Daily minor league recaps are A GRIND and it requires a group of fanatical nerds to produce them for six months. That group of fanatical nerds is hard to find and put together but we're brainstorming ways to streamline that process a bit. One of our core missions is to provide daily minor league coverage. It only appeals to the hardest of hardcore fans but hardly anybody provides that coverage (because it's hard). I don't know if we'll get there in the 2025 season but we're gonna try to get the ball rolling on it. Here's an example of what we produce over on Brewer Fanatic: https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/brewers-minor-league/brewers-minor-league-link-report-921-chad-patrick-caps-off-a-tremendous-season-r2651/ -
This is a good point. If you know a thread is going to piss people off, don't be surprised when it does exactly that. One aspect posters often overlook is the "beating the dead horse" aspect of a conversation and this applies to almost everybody at one point or another. If you're a staunch supporter/hater of literally anybody involved with the team, the more you repeat those same points across the site, the more people get irritated and punch back. Everybody knows how you feel, everybody knows your position. At some point, it's best to just talk about other things for awhile. This only magnifies if you drag that pet peeve into every topic you post or create additional threads about it. Take a breath before hitting that submit button and think "have I already made this point a bunch of times in the past few days?"
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What happened to the thumbs down button?
Brock Beauchamp replied to jaysblue's topic in Jays Centre Issues & Suggestions
People were thumbs downing people largely for who they were, not the content. If people are going to aggravate one another with a reaction, I'm just gonna remove it. I have a task list a mile long, hearing people complain about reactions just isn't something I'm interested in dealing with. -
Would they have been fired under a "usual situation"? I don't think that's true. And to be clear, if I had the reins I probably would have fired both of them. To come out of that young core with no playoff success, no long-term players, and a bottom third farm system is... not good. But front offices tend to get longer leashes than fans like. When dealing with a decision as important as who runs your billion-dollar business, not making rash decisions makes sense and giving guys a little too long a leash is going to happen.
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Sure, and that’s a normal way to feel. But it’s not how teams operate. Ownership will either fire them during the offseason or keep them through the season. It’s just how these things work most of the time.
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No need to make it personal. But on topic, isn't Shapiro in his last year under contract anyway? The Jays aren't going to do anything right now and if the team flounders in 2025, it feels like this problem will take care of itself.
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Literally? Where do people even find tar nowadays? It's 2025, for crying out loud. Link plz
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Well, I guess 1 out of 100 guys have to be, but... yikes.
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GDT: Spring Training Games, Week of 2/23 - 3/1
Brock Beauchamp replied to Pendleton's topic in Game Thread Archive
I thought about it and figured that about a week of ST games is right for a thread. As we progress into March, people tend to lose interest in the daily action as they await games that actually matter. -
Possibly? But with back problems, they just seem so random. You never know what guy is going to suffer from them and once back issues appear, it seems to be really hard to get rid of them entirely. 2025 will be interesting for Yelich. He claims he feels good, we'll see if the back surgery paid off. He was having a REALLY good year in 2024 before the injury, on pace for 6-ish wins.
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Yelich is an interesting case. He had a run where he hit 80 home runs over two seasons. But at the end of that second season, his knee exploded off a foul tip. He hasn't been the same player since and while the knee has healed, it seemed there were some lingering mental effects of the injury and then he started fighting back problems constantly, undergoing back surgery in 2024. So were those homers a blip in Yelich's production or was he derailed by other factors? Dunno, I can make a solid case for either argument. But you're right that guys who hit a lot of grounders tend to just keep hitting lots of grounders for eternity. But with the technology and knowledge we have now, even bumping those grounders down a few ticks can pay off big over a season.
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I find it more interesting why Vlad, after all these years, is still putting the ball on the ground so often. Does he refuse to listen to coaching? Is coaching just not addressing this? Or is there something inherent in his swing that prevents it? William Contreras of the Brewers has a very similar problem and tracking the progress (or lack thereof) of both these players is interesting.
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I just listened to this and thought it was a great conversation. Not because it was two people pushing a narrative but because they clearly disagree and… they’re both right. They run through a bunch of player comps, possible upside and downsides, and come to very different conclusions. Warning, it’s long, at least 30 minutes of discussion. https://www.sportsnet.ca/podcasts/at-the-letters/no-deal-for-vlad-jr/
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I don't know, guys are so intense with their offseason regimes nowadays that maybe he's just throwing that hard. Some guys come into camp with low velo, just as everybody did decades ago, but some guys train so hard in the offseason that they enter camp at 100%, or close to it. The other day a young Twins starter who sat 94 last season threw a 97mph pitch in his first appearance. Personally, I struggle to see how this is good for young arms but I don't know anything about biomechanics.
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Feel free to not read the articles. Seriously, just don't if this is your attitude about a bunch of inexperienced people trying their best to learn a craft.
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GDT: Spring Training Games, Week of 2/23 - 3/1
Brock Beauchamp replied to Pendleton's topic in Game Thread Archive
HEY LOOK EVERYBODY BASEBALL -
This was a really fun read, well done!
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Yeah, the three of them are killing it. Super-happy with the content they're producing.
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And if that's true, the Jays made the right decision. As I said several days ago, it's going to be in someone's best interest the leak the number. Whose interest that is depends on the numbers exchanged but I think we'll find out at some point.
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It's a spectator sport that involves fans and increasing competition for their eyeballs and their willingness to invest their personal emotion into the product. Ignoring the human element is a bad long-term plan and perhaps one of the biggest flaws of the early sabr movement. Though it's entirely reasonable to not believe Vladdy is worth an overpay. I happen to disagree.
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It's also a growing process. A lot of these writers are new and have a lot to learn. The only way to effectively learn the craft is repetition. Some of the early pieces aren't going to be great. It's part of the process, just bear with us. You've all been quite patient with me and our group. When we launched Brewer Fanatic, oh lord... man, did I catch hell from that community. It was relentless. "You don't know what you're doing", "you're not a Brewers fan" (I am), it was non-stop. By Brewer Fanatic's third season, it was widely regarded as the best and most sabr-heavy Brewers site on the internet. We're gonna have our bumps along the way. We're gonna stumble and not be perfect. But many of these writers, largely under Davy Andrews' tutelage, are going to grow and become really good analysts. We're just not there on day one. With that said, I want to give a shout out to @sackydude, @Condor13, and @LetTheBallFly. Their minor-league coverage has exceeded all of my expectations, they're killing it from day one.
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That's entirely fair, obviously criticism is welcome. Personally, while I may not have put it quite as hyperbolically as Megan, I agree that not getting a deal done with Vlad is a massive fail by the front office. Whether that deal happened two days or two years ago, I don't really care. At the end of the day, the job was not done and someone has to be the fall guy for it. And I'm fully aware and accept Vlad's flaws. I don't think he's going to be a player who ages gracefully. Still I believe he should retire in a Jays jersey, wearing only a Jays jersey for his career.
