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  1. ashbury
    Tommy Lasorda's winning edge came from never growing a beard? Who knew?
  2. ashbury
    The complicated answer: an awful lot more has to break right than break badly in order for them to contend. The ceilings are there at most positions, the risks of under-performance are there too. The simple answer: Starting Pitching. Starting Pitching. Starting Pitching. If this highly variable commodity comes through, weaknesses elsewhere could be finessed. If you're looking for a key, a few weeks into the season, pick a stat you like, even a crude measure such as Quality Starts, and see if 4 out of 5 starts are solid each time around. OK, so it took me a few more words to express my simple answer.
  3. ashbury
    That would be progress, of a sort, I suppose. The best thing they can do is win as many as they can, and if the stars are aligned against them in some way such as a stacked division, well that's baseball. In the meantime you'll have been treated to a high level of ball being played during the season.
  4. ashbury
    I'll get to work writing a song about that.
  5. ashbury
    Contraction also makes the numbers come out.
  6. ashbury
    ITYM "Bye Bye"?
  7. ashbury
    The rumor contained the names of two players who can be ruled out. Come on, they're practically doing your homework for you!
  8. ashbury
    He only led you on in order to get the sweet sweet TD marketing machine going with that retrospective of his career highlights. Suckers.
  9. ashbury
    Maybe if they included cash... oh wait, I see what you did there.
  10. ashbury
    Jack Goin and his team need to be ready to study GráficosFanáticos for useful nuggets of information.
  11. ashbury
    http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lolicmi01.shtml Height: 6' 1", Weight: 170 lb. Ell. Oh. Ell. Maybe at Durham in 1959 when he was 18. Also this photo caption: "DID MORE THAN JUST EAT INNINGS."
  12. ashbury
    Read the article I linked. We've listened to Terry Ryan say things for a long time now. What he said didn't strike me as a long way of saying "I can't talk about this now". And he's not the kind of person who shows a lot of guile in his public pronouncements, IMO.
  13. ashbury
    The link you provided goes to a page discussing Duquette and the Jays.
  14. ashbury
    Ryan a few weeks ago was quoted on the subject of the Toronto job as that he wasn't interested and did not have the necessary skill set to be anything above the GM role where he is now. I inferred that he likes having someone like Dave St Peter above him to handle the tasks he's not that interested in doing himself - the non-baseball side of the business.
  15. ashbury
    Making a modern day Ron Hunt or Don Baylor additionally valuable to his team.
  16. ashbury
    We can still have a World Series, though, right? / spring training games too...
  17. ashbury
    He just hires the guys that do.
  18. ashbury
    My working hypothesis (total speculation of course) is that the Dodgers broke his heart after he got traded to them, by offering him less salary and for fewer years of guaranteed money than the Twins did. His agent convinced him that he could not pass up the security of a 2 times greater total package. And so it's a classic case of his head telling him one thing but his heart another.
  19. ashbury
    Working from Seth's, Cody's and Jeremy's top 10 lists in the TD Prospect Handbook (i.e., a top 12 or 13 collectively), I'd list my upside picks from outside this group as: Max Kepler Travis Harrison Max Murphy Zack Larson Adam Walkerand Stephen Gonsalves Chih-Wei Hu Jason Wheeler Taylor Rogers Jake ReedI omit guys with too short a professional track record to gauge. Upside doesn't mean likelihood, of course.
  20. ashbury
    Fangraphs uses a different algorithm and has Slegers at 250 pounds.
  21. ashbury
    With 13-man starters plus bench, or even sometimes just 12, platooning is rare these days. But maybe this is the year to try it, unless and until Hicks figures out how to hit righties.
  22. ashbury
    If every break goes our way, yes the team could be above .500. The ceilings are there, for most of the positions you named, as opposed to hoping for career minor leaguers to somehow become above average, and there's a partly-new coaching staff to try and get the most out of everybody. And maybe it's time for the breaks to trend our way. I'm optimistic, until the first three-game losing streak. I'm also typing this after consuming a delicious Sierra Nevada Porter, alcohol 5.6% by volume, so I reserve the right to return to sanity at some point in the future and expect a difficult but interesting season.
  23. ashbury
    By coincidence, someone asked me just today, "Do Twins fans even consider the old Senators when talking about the history of the franchise?". I basically snickered and said "nooooooo". Your post reminds me that not even the Twins organization itself acknowledges that part of their history in this way.
  24. ashbury
    That's a thing, is still a thing?
  25. ashbury
    I tuned into the TwinsFest live video feed, just in time to hear a reference to what could be the solution: have Hrbek take Nolasco out ice fishing. That should change Ricky's attitude about the place!
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