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  1. ashbury
    Then with a blown mind, go ahead and sign Nolasco anyway, and give away the time machine to a kid on the street. Can't win.
  2. ashbury
    Escobar's ceiling on defense is "steady". Except... every now and then he isn't, and silly mistakes occur. Which... he can't afford, given his un-spectactular range. As a backup or utility infielder, that's fine. But as a starter, he's, well, "acceptable" on defense. That's a half-a-step down. Still a full step up from "adequate", a definite left-handed compliment in the baseball world. Nunez is what you call adequate at SS. Maybe. Which means Escobar's offense needs to continue to be where it's been as a starter, namely very good for a SS. And I'm starting to be a believer. Which... is a jinx for sure.
  3. ashbury
    Won't be seeing many texas leaguers dropping in for hits with all five patrolling the outfield. / OK, Arcia can just stand there someplace and try to catch the ones hit straight to him
  4. ashbury
    Yeah, potentially better hitting than Punto, and lacking the arm to make a manager comfortable plugging Michael in as a true utility infielder, makes them not very comparable after all.
  5. ashbury
    Ohhhh, let me think about that one for a while, I'll get back to you.
  6. ashbury
    Skip this movie, if you ask me. Total anti-climax. It turns out Bruce Willis is dead almost the whole time. Oops, sorry, didn't see this, at first.
  7. ashbury
    I wind up telling this one every now and then. I was driving from Boston to Maine in the middle of a vacation with my family, and we had the radio on. The date was, through no particular baseball planning of our own, October 17 2004 - thanks to the magic of the Google I can look it up to make sure. We listened to WEEI 850 AM. The Red Sox were down to the Yankees in the ALCS three games to none. The game the night before had been a humiliating 19-8 loss, right there in Boston. The fourth and surely final game would be that night. This was a call-in show. It was glorious listening. We heard Bill Flippin' Buckner this. We heard Bob Freakin' Stanley that. The fans were calling in to relive all their collective nightmares, one more time. Just like every post-season appearance. Over and over, in every detail imaginable. The Red Sox were doomed to this kind of disaster, yesterday, today, tomorrow, forever. Forever. Fans were likewise doomed, to the honorable, noble misery of being a Red Sox fan. The misery would never end. Glorious. We all know what happened after that, starting that very evening. My boys and I (plus the long suffering wife and daughter) were lucky enough to experience Boston at its very very best, its ultimate, that afternoon in the comfort of our rental car. It will, it can, never be the same again.
  8. ashbury
    At least Arcia/Zunino is a buy-low/sell-low swap. I'd go for it. Maybe add a very young prospect on both sides, just to make it a little less painful to either GM if one player breaks out and the other continues to scuffle.
  9. ashbury
    http://i.ytimg.com/vi/j95kNwZw8YY/mqdefault.jpg
  10. ashbury
    There's no tool like an old tool.
  11. ashbury
    Yep. I make it a point to not mention my winning last year's edition. People just feel too intimidated by my deep knowledge of the game, when I forget and bring it up.
  12. ashbury
    I re-read my own posts immediately and then frequently thereafter. I also quote myself liberally - it brings spice to my writing.
  13. ashbury
    I remember when the newly-minted Nixon administration began in 1969. Then "only" a Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger (I believe) gave a big interview for Time or Newsweek that was titled, "Our Theme is Pragmatism". I liked it at the time. For some reason it stuck in my head, and I became less enamored with the term over the years. There's nothing wrong with being pragmatic. A good president has to be. I just don't like the word. BTW, among female politicians I view Sarah Palin and now Carly Fiorina as having the chip on the shoulder that helped define Nixon. "Nixon in a dress" I called Palin back in '08. Hillary's not in their league that way, but I could see her being Nixonian to an uncomfortable degree.
  14. ashbury
    Not to plagiarize Chief or anything, but do we have a ready young glove at 3B? That's my big unknown. I wish Sano hadn't injured himself in September, relegating him to DH duties only.
  15. ashbury
    Honestly, I think A's scouts and/or front office would have traded similar value for our two guys even before the 2015 season. Kepler's season has the earmarks of looking like an outlier in his overall career, in retrospect another season or two from now - which is not to say that he won't put up more-than-solid MLB numbers when the time comes - and I think talent evaluators aren't going to overpay for that. And Berrios likewise was considered our best young pitching prospect, and all 2015 did was solidify that - indeed Beane might have put Berrios on his 25-man this year - Berrios for 2015, Kepler for the future, a good Beane trade. These are simply two really fine prospects and Beane would go for the trade, then or now, if he's willing to trade his best pitcher that is. / edit - if anything, it might be Gray at the peak of HIS value - a year ago would we have been discussing this trade after just one full season like he's had?
  16. ashbury
    The mods don't always have the entire User Manual either, but I was surprised to learn recently that the Edit button is there for one hour. Brock can correct me if I have some facet of that wrong.
  17. ashbury
    Check his splits before you go making assumptions. His numbers are even better on the road.
  18. ashbury
    Ohhhh, that's what made the question oh-so-plausible.
  19. ashbury
    Very low BABIP. One season, can easily be a fluke. Two seasons, well, two flukes can happen every now and then. But a few guys, Kershaw for instance, seem to maintain it. And anything a pitcher has in common with Kershaw, well, unless it's something trivial like hair color I have to kind of like it. Still, Berrios plus Kepler is too steep a price for me. Right now. At this stage of the rebuild. To get us over the hump after a strong season, 90 wins followed by disappointment in the post-season? Might be a different story. If 2016 is that kind of season, there will be other aces and other top prospects to discuss hot-stove style, a year from now. And I respect the view that asks, how do you GET to that strong season where you can be even thinking about getting over the hump, but I still view our farm system as the way, for now.
  20. ashbury
    Fun question - plausible scenario. I say no. Both those players are too likely to play an important role very soon. Gray's an obvious talent but I'm also a little leery of believing too much in a pitcher whose home park is Oakland. Although, as already pointed out, his road splits are better than at home. A package of 5 slightly lesser prospects would interest me more, and Billy Beane probably less.
  21. ashbury
    Yeah, leaving out one guy like those, Revere, who brought back one guy, May*, who might yet spoil this narrative to any degree. * Also Worley, so, well, yeah.
  22. ashbury
    At least I now know why every picture in existence of Bernie Sanders has him pointing a damn index finger at something. It's because he's pointing a damn index finger all the damn time!
  23. ashbury
    How about, to ascend as rapidly as his bat will allow, which hasn't been super-fast but hasn't been agonizingly slow either?
  24. ashbury
    Looking forward to Ben's take on this....
  25. ashbury
    I didn't stay up to hear the closing statements, but I had thought O'Malley already acquitted himself well during the evening. A solid third alternative* if you don't happen to like either of the front-runners. Webb and Chafee look like they'll remain one-percenters, and not the rich kind. * At least pending Biden's coming decision whether to enter the race.
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