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  1. ashbury
    No doubt E5, but 3 played a role - very playable ball that Santana wishes he could get a second crack at.
  2. ashbury
    Really embarrassing to get caught on that schoolyard play.
  3. ashbury
    I can not, good Sir, but take this remark personally.
  4. ashbury
    This Christian Vázquez chap is an extremely slow human being. / ninja'd on my own joke
  5. ashbury
    This Byron Buxton chap is an extremely fast human being.
  6. ashbury
    Not a great jump or initial read by Martin, but he pulled the fat out of the fire at the last instant.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. ashbury
    Weird Al Yankovic and Hyde.
  11. ashbury
    Guys are lauded as "gamers" as long as they still produce.
  12. ashbury
    Rooker is tied for the AL lead in strikeouts. The readership here would be going nuts if he were still on the team.
  13. 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.
  14. ashbury
    LOL, no.
  15. ashbury
    LOL, no.
  16. 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.
  17. ashbury
    Are you really asking Riverbrian to elaborate?
  18. ashbury
    Hope he figures out how to pick up the pieces and find his way forward in life.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. ashbury
    Depends on the player, and the team's ability to finance their payroll, but I do agree that it's a tad premature to be gloating quite yet. Those teams didn't back out because they didn't think he could put together numbers like we're seeing right now, they backed out due to injury concerns, as I understand it. Long way to go yet, on the guaranteed part of that contract. The backers-outers could still be proved right.
  23. ashbury
    Since his BA on the road is .402, that's the main component of his SLG, the difference of .087 being an ISO that isn't one of a slugger either. It's an oddity of the terminology, nothing more; it takes nothing away from his being very good at what he (actually) does, which is mostly hit singles in any ballpark.
  24. ashbury
    To go back to the metaphor I used in the post you replied to, I didn't say he'd checked every box on the list yet. 😀 Consistency is something that can probably be acquired; I also haven't formed an opinion on the related matter of his game intelligence, such as coming in and deciding to be a Hero on sinking line drives, AKA Jake Cave Disease. The arm probably is not something that can be corrected if it hasn't been corrected by now. But not absolutely every box needs to be checked, in order to be a productive major leaguer. He profiles better in LF due to that arm. But we lived through a season of Ben Revere in RF, so nothing is impossible. Another unchecked box for him is power at the plate. That's another one that is looking unlikely. A three-tool player if he turns out to be that... there are uses for those.
  25. ashbury
    Martin: one of the boxes Austin had yet to check for me was the ability to play the outfield wall. The time or two I'd watched him try, it hadn't been impressive (or successful). As of today, that box is unchecked no longer. He may still fail to close the deal on a long, difficult fly ball from time to time, but it's not as though he simply can't.
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