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  1. ashbury
    I looked it up in order to check my guess, and learned that Nolasco is even "ahead" of Big Pelf at .369 but lacks the innings to qualify.
  2. ashbury
    Trevor Plouffe is the only Twin to get any love in the recently-released SABR Defensive Index for the first half of the season. Plouffe is 15th in the AL, however four other third-basemen rank higher. Plouffe is probably not the most interesting topic in this list, but he's our guy, and it's nice to see that his defense makes the numbers light up, at least. Plenty of other data to chew on, such as TB's center fielder Kevin Kiermaier going off the charts. http://sabr.org/latest/sabr-defensive-index-rankings-released-through-july-12-2015
  3. ashbury
    Where does he rank in OBP-against?
  4. ashbury
    They wanted it more, all of a sudden.
  5. ashbury
    The Twins should be concerned about power rates against RHP and LHP. If there is a discrepancy, then which side of the plate that power comes from is a means by which to take action. / this is just the other side of the coin of the manager who says "I don't need a LOOGY, I need a pitcher who can get lefty batters out."
  6. ashbury
    I hate deadlines of all types. It's why I retired.
  7. ashbury
    I wasn't going to comment on Colin Cowherd getting himself fired over comments on Dominican baseball players, shortly in advance of him leaving for another network anyway. But inveterate tweeter Old Hoss Radbourn posted the following which I found amusing: R. E. Lee joins the Confederacy. Union press release: Gen. Lee's actions are inconsistent with our values. He will no longer fight for us.
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    Old Hoss Radbourn
  9. ashbury
    Doesn't look like St Lou gave up much to get him. 25-year-old reliever at AA, with good K/9 numbers but not that much overall success. I happened to see Cishek pitch in Boston and I wasn't much impressed, but his defense didn't do him any favors that inning either. Seems like a good arm to add to a bullpen mix, where there's some upside, and I would have been happy to see a similar deal done by us.
  10. ashbury
    You outbid all 29 other GMs for the guy's services. No one else wanted him at that particular price. Now you want one of them to take him off your hands, without any additional concessions from you? You paid market rate for a player, for which you sacrificed no players in return. Now you want a fellow GM to give you players, for that same contract? You trade a player in his first year. Then you ask future free agents to commit to you without a no-trade clause, and expect them to listen?For all these reasons, I agree, trades of this sort can be expected to be rare.
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    harmonykillebrew.256
  12. ashbury
    Pretty well puts to rest the concern I had that we were on another 90-loss trajectory.
  13. ashbury
    My cat clickerycup832 finds these different points of view troubling.
  14. ashbury
    I get dejected anytime I see mention that 3 years of anything is needed. Time frames like that, or larger, are appropriate for looking back - gauging someone's HoF credentials and the like. But for forecasting, which for me is 90% of the interest in coming up with numbers, I need something that is a little more nimble than waiting 3 years to see how a guy's major league career is already panning out. Not to mention, as jimmer states, it's too difficult to hold talent level constant for 3 years, whether of an individual player himself or of some aggregate like a whole team. Or, to extend Chief's automotive analogy a little, if I want to look forward to the 0-60 times for an array of cars, I probably will learn something from their respective 0-10 times, even if I acknowledge it suffers from Small Sample Size and will have to wait for the more reliable numbers. And I'll probably be able to rule out that it's a Maserati if it's really a Pinto.
  15. ashbury
    It's a dilemma. By no means sellers, but I don't go all in either. If I'm Ryan I make small moves only, to avoid the PR nightmare of falling out of contention "without even trying". Indeed you don't take contention for granted, and you have to embrace it when it's there. But I foresee them falling out of contention regardless of any steps short of mortgaging the future. http://www.jewmalt.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Arran-53-300x240.jpg It's not soup yet.
  16. ashbury
    First we need to trade for Richardson. Then we can cut him. Priorities, priorities.
  17. ashbury
    Yeah, Ervin is the luckiest pitcher on the team. He's always vulturing wins by being out there when the other team isn't scoring any runs.
  18. ashbury
    You've probably crossed a line of some sort with that'un, yeah.
  19. ashbury
    This is pretty well done. Thanks for bringing it to light. The full website has more.
  20. ashbury
    Gotta get that update, I guess. Previously it just tells me that I'm close to a deal but he can't accept. This is a bit more realistic, in that you could ask the guy and he'd tell you something. / yes, I play it often. Far too.
  21. ashbury
    From the play-by-play it looks like the players arrived, but the bats and gloves missed the flight. Apparently "Mauer fists one into center field" was literal this time. Hopefully they just got misdirected and will arrive in the dugout for tonight's game.
  22. ashbury
    Marriage based on a fair market price for the milk probably isn't going to last through the first economic downturn anyway.
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    John Smith. First baseman for the Red Sox in 1931. Because, John.
  25. ashbury
    In terms of wins, what they need to do is play at a .100 higher clip than the Royals do the rest of the way. E.g. if the Royals slump and only go .500 they'll still finish with 90 wins, so the Twins need to play at .600 to nose them out. If the Royals do better than that, the Twins need to do just that much better. So far we are pleased that they have just made it to .550. As said above, the Royals have to fall really hard for this to be enough for the Twins. As for what they need to do to achieve more, higher performance (compared to the cumulative so far) in several areas discussed elsewhere stand out. Offense from almost every position, and the bullpen. There are several beacons of hope at various positions, due to youth or past production, but hope needs to become actual production, for this winning scenario to come true. And a couple of spots do not currently have even a legitimate hope. It's not just one silver bullet.
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