Brock Beauchamp

Hi everybody! I'm super-excited to be here and nurture this community into the future. A few things about me: I'm part of a group of five who founded Twins Daily 12 years ago. We all had our own individual sites (I founded mine in the mid-2000s) and combined them into one of the first team-specific supersites around. Over the years as the Twins floundered in the postseason, I found myself wanting to explore other fandoms and apply our knowledge of baseball sites to other fanbases. Personally, I've lived all over the country and at one point or another, became fond of several other teams (Brewers, Padres, and Angels based on where I've lived). So a couple of years ago, we found a Brewers community much like this one and over the course of a year, turned it into Brewer Fanatic. We have extensive tools to focus on user interactivity (which I'll talk about more in time), along with videos, news/analysis articles, user blogs, and a bunch of other cool stuff. At my heart, I'm a baseball fan and don't follow other sports much (I dabble in basketball but that's about it). As a career web developer, my baseball fandom and technical knowledge has allowed me to focus our platform specifically on baseball and nothing else. While my other business partners play around with sites focusing on other sports, I just do baseball. And I'm crazy-excited to explore the Sox fandom and see what new things we can bring to the experience. If you have questions, please ask away! This is a collaborative experience. We chose Talk Sox because of the community; there are plenty of baseball communities out there I won't touch with a ten foot pole because they're toxic. You all seem like a good bunch of people and when it comes to the direction of the community, all of you have a voice in how things are managed.

I like that baseball is thinking up ways to return starting pitchers to prominence but I don't know if this gets them closer to that happening. The real problem - at least IMO - is max effort all the time and I don't know how to fix that problem.

Thanks! Do you listen to any Sox podcasts that focus more on the MLB team?

Hi all, I'm wondering who you're listening to and why. I tend to skew toward analytics in my baseball discussion but if you're listening to a Red Sox pod, please mention it here and what you like about it. Thanks!

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Thanks! I don't agree with a lot of the ideas in that article but it's certainly an interesting read.

I'm trying to do some research into the Sox blogosphere and I'm wondering who you're reading. My preference is toward the analytical side of the game but I'm open to any recommendations you might have. Thanks!

It's super weird to me that James is railing on modern analytics. Like, what did you expect to happen? I don't blame modern analytics for the state of baseball; the game is constantly changing and MLB needs to adjust their rules to compensate for those changes. 2022 was a good start but I feel there's more work to be done to get pitchers to return to length, reduce max effort all the time, etc. But I personally have absolutely no idea how to effectively change those things.

What are peoples' thoughts on Breslow thus far? How much of the Sox's (somewhat surprising) first half are you attributing to him?