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  1. ashbury
    But we may be facing him in Game 7 this fall.
  2. ashbury
    WHAAAAAAAAAAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
  3. ashbury
    Too many imponderables, so I'll go with Mauer and Hughes. / edit - missed that two names were wanted
  4. ashbury
    Give or take.
  5. ashbury
    IMO it's clearly a mechanism for batters to make sure they are composed and ready for each pitch. By now it's become simply a crutch, and/or evidence to a coach who has been on his case that his head is in the game. If the rules forbade it, they would all find a different mechanism instead (popping oneself on top of the helmet, for instance), and the game would move faster with no loss of focus by the batters. Ditto for pitchers who have developed similar routines between pitches, pawing at the mound and so forth. It's gotten out of hand on both sides, baseball has the ability to add a rule when things get out of hand, no big deal.
  6. ashbury
    From the article: “There was a six-pack of Falstaff in the refrigerator. We sat at the kitchen table, drank two beers apiece, and I haven’t had a drink since.” Two Falstaffs in a row could cause me to swear off beer too.
  7. ashbury
    Depends on what you think the purpose/meaning of a list like this is. Who was the best in 2014? Who will be the best in 2015? Who will be the best for longer than that? Who would return the most in trade? Who will... well, if they call it Top Ten Right Now!, right now it's February, so maybe they are predicting who will look best doing drills in sunny climes.
  8. ashbury
    I didn't try to say it wasn't useful. Just that it comes from a different perspective than a fan of the team might have, and might not have the interests of the team foremost. You can still glean something from it, and maybe understanding the difference in perspective forestalls a pointless argument about some conclusion drawn there.
  9. ashbury
    Forecasting is hard, whether it's done by eyeballing or by using a set procedure. I'm just saying that it's a judgement call at the moment whether to view 2014 as the outlier, when maybe in 2017 we'll look back and view 2013 as his sophomore jinx or something. It's a reason I've gotten less and less interested in ranked lists of this type.
  10. ashbury
    I guess it's obvious after you start reading it, but this article is written from a fantasy standpoint. Since it's all about relievers, it's mostly on an equal footing, one player and another. But it's looking at things strictly from a 2015 stats perspective, I believe, and thus bigger-picture issues such as giving playing time to guys like Pelfrey are not considered.
  11. ashbury
    A career high WAR by a 24 year old. Imagine that.
  12. ashbury
    Wouldn't be the first off-by-one bug I ever introduced.
  13. ashbury
    Meh. Mauer's soft. Martinez is a gamer. / and if anyone takes this bait...
  14. ashbury
    Was Bill Tuttle really that slow?
  15. ashbury
    I think so too. Well, maybe humor enwrapping a kernel of truth, but no, I wouldn't "base" my judgement on any one thing. Was just sayin'.
  16. ashbury
    Who does this put more pressure on, the player or the team? I'd say in more cases it's the player. Perhaps in most cases it's not much of a factor at all. Just git'er done.
  17. ashbury
    I'm not blown away either. Someone asked what the pedigree is. This seems pertinent. Pedigree doesn't assure success.
  18. ashbury
    I hesitate to interrupt the genital hijinks to get back to the topic, but I must. The pedigree also needs to include seasons at age 24 and 26 where he pitched 200+ innings with better than league-average ERA. That represents a valuable property; being league average at an important position is always a trade chip if nothing else. His record says to me, when healthy he can pitch. Health has been the issue ever since, not the pedigree. Four years of bad health (I'm going to chalk up 2011 to some kind of degeneration) leads me to be skeptical, but along the lines Brock says above I am content to let the new on-field brain trust make the judgement this time.
  19. ashbury
    Also a little off-topic, but I attended an Astros game last July, where (I looked up) the stated attendance was 19K but it seemed like there were fewer than 10 thousand butts in seats. During a home team rally, the noise level crested and I looked around and said, disgustedly, no way.
  20. ashbury
    He's clearly not on any kind of track toward the Hall of Fame. But the word only isn't being used here in that sense. He could still have a significant major league career, age 27-32 or thereabout, putting up say a couple of 14 win seasons or maybe better. That's worth trying to develop. If someone reaches age 26 with a track record demonstrating an inability to get enough batters out, you probably ought to flush him, but when injury has been involved it makes sense to give him some more time.
  21. ashbury
    From the article: This has been attempted within the best of my ability to match the same size type and in substantially the same manner as the alleged original posts in this thread. Looks like the guy simply cut-and-pasted the letter he got from the woman's lawyer, as a bit of passive-aggressive snark while complying with the request. I like it.
  22. ashbury
    I also missed that the tangent had taken on a life of its own and I contributed to it. Sorry. The tangent had a defensible connection to start, drawing a contrast to Mauer's propensity for walking versus Walker's perceived need to walk more. To the extent that connection needs to be pursued, so be it, but I agree (speaking now as a site moderator), let's stick to the thread subject of the players in this segment of the top 20.
  23. ashbury
    Or at least, why they (run/field/throw) are considered separate tools on the mythical five-tool scale and not just lumped together. Several of the assists shown here would also be made by someone with a better arm, and that better arm would make additional plays; but on these plays (with about 2 exceptions) even my arm would have sufficed and my vintage ball team had me at first base.
  24. ashbury
    And I'm saying that if the pitcher has decided he's not going to let you beat him in this situation, you're playing into his hands to get aggressive at the nibbling.
  25. ashbury
    Moderator's note: Both of you please tone down the personal attacks a notch, and then another notch again.
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