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  1. ashbury
    If the Twins are smart they will follow league rules. There are exceptions and maybe Varland's case is one, and they can do it. But ordinarily a pitcher must stay in the minors 15 days after being sent down. I'm unclear on the exact details of his being brought up for one game and then for another. His mlb.com page says he was "optioned" again on June 12, and then again on June 17, after having come up for a game each time as a "27th" player.
  2. ashbury
    Twins Bullpen: Destroyer of Dreams.
  3. ashbury
    There are 150 players who have enough PA this season to qualify for a batting title. Only 10 of them have 30%+ strikeouts. None of them are Twins. Too selective? There are 543 players who have 1 or more PA this season. 112 of them have 30%+ strikeouts. The three Twins in that group are Julien, Wallner, and Camargo. All three have been demoted to St. Paul. Across the majors, hitters strike out 22.2% of the time. Twins batters strike out 21.8% Old tropes just won't die.
  4. ashbury
    "Kepler strikes out on three pitches." Is there an echo or feedback loop in the broadcast audio?
  5. ashbury
    No doubt E5, but 3 played a role - very playable ball that Santana wishes he could get a second crack at.
  6. ashbury
    Really embarrassing to get caught on that schoolyard play.
  7. ashbury
    I can not, good Sir, but take this remark personally.
  8. ashbury
    This Christian Vázquez chap is an extremely slow human being. / ninja'd on my own joke
  9. ashbury
    This Byron Buxton chap is an extremely fast human being.
  10. ashbury
    Not a great jump or initial read by Martin, but he pulled the fat out of the fire at the last instant.
  11. ashbury
    Don't look now but coming into the game his June OPS is .824. Jeffers for comparison is .337. No one in the Twins brain trust is going to stake anything on such small samples - but the trend is that he's earning starter's minutes once again.
  12. ashbury
    Really? The Yankees demanded a high price in return for taking Donaldson off our hands. I did not want to see my Adopt-A-Prospect go.
  13. ashbury
    Martin's catch in LF? Indeed. I was talking about checking some boxes when Austin hauled in that home run in center the other day; this catch today addresses another box I mentioned, of making good decisions when coming in. Unless Buxton could pull a rabbit out of his hat, that ball had inside-the-park HR written on it if Martin completely whiffed. I was half-expecting that. Instead, really nice play that required a correct decision and then execution.
  14. ashbury
    Weird Al Yankovic and Hyde.
  15. ashbury
    Guys are lauded as "gamers" as long as they still produce.
  16. ashbury
    Rooker is tied for the AL lead in strikeouts. The readership here would be going nuts if he were still on the team.
  17. ashbury
    Good point and maybe it carries the day. But if Wallner were added to the roster, at the expense of Farmer, then against a righty you start the above group, and when a LHP is brought in to face Larnach you pinch hit the righty Margot, and then next time around the batting order you have Wallner to counteract the RHP relievers the rest of the way. (Or start Wallner and have Larnach as sub, they're kind of interchangeable even if not identical.) Don't know if it stretches the talent too thin in the infield. But Farmer just isn't getting the job done at bat and he's no longer better than average at any defensive position to make up for it. The subtraction of Farmer would leave a 40-man spot open to bring someone up (or in) if the need arises.
  18. ashbury
    LOL, no.
  19. ashbury
    LOL, no.
  20. ashbury
    Life isn't money, money isn't life, and you will dispute the most anodyne expression of well-wishes to someone who got bad news, for no reason I can possibly think of. Have a nice rest of the evening.
  21. ashbury
    Are you really asking Riverbrian to elaborate?
  22. ashbury
    Hope he figures out how to pick up the pieces and find his way forward in life.
  23. ashbury
    Almost by definition, we can't answer the question usefully, because if we could, they wouldn't be undercover anymore. 😀 But there was one guy for sure. He wasn't undercover, and was validated as who he said he was; funny story. He still stops by occasionally.
  24. ashbury
    I wouldn't trade nearly as much as The Athletic says I should. And therefore I will be outbid at the deadline, because some other team always will.
  25. ashbury
    How many games do you believe Lewis would have played at SS so far this year? 😀 He's appeared in 12 games for the Twins, and that would have left 60 for the shortstop stylings of Kyle Farmer.
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