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  1. ashbury
    My bit of snark regarding his seemingly aging to dust before our very eyes is not meant to obscure the ton of absolute respect I have for how he came back from that horrific beaning. People misuse the word bean for any HBP, but what he endured is the scary side of the game.
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    White Sox? Feckless? LOL no. They are feckful. Chock full of feck. They went to the feck store and stocked up.
  3. ashbury
    Farmer feels like we are witnessing a rapid-aging scene from a movie in real time.
  4. ashbury
    MLB.com has a remarkably good glossary that covers topics like minor league options. https://www.mlb.com/glossary/transactions/minor-league-options "Once an optioned player has spent at least 20 days in the Minors in a given season, he loses one of his options." The game OOTP is usually pretty good with details like this, and lists Larnach as coming into the 2024 season with 2 minor league options remaining. But looking at his seasonal game logs, I don't see how he didn't consume more than 1 option during the past few seasons. The Twins' first game this season was March 28 and Larnach was called back up to the majors on April 16. By my math, that's 19 days, but there could be technicalities as to when a "day" starts. So it is possible that the FO made the move just under the wire and his option this year is preserved (for now). Sorry, this isn't definitive, but maybe provides a few facts that help the thinking process.
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    His HR came when the game was all but decided. Earlier in the game, before it could be known what the Twins pitchers would give up, he 1) lined out with the bases loaded in the first inning, 2) popped out with a runner on base in the fourth, 3) flied out with nobody on in the sixth. He twice had ducks on the pond and didn't come through. That hurt. (Also a quibble, what was reported wasn't WAR but win probability. Yeah, his WAR for the game probably looks fine.)
  6. ashbury
    He was my Adopt-A-Prospect back when he was drafted, so I will say yes. 😊
  7. ashbury
    Heh, I am a bit of a broken record where it comes to Martin. I'd love to learn of some anecdotal evidence the other way, as you asked. It's all still small sample size, and he still has room to grow and learn.
  8. ashbury
    Martin's fielding in the seventh inning left something to be desired. Luckily he had Buxton alertly backing him up.
  9. ashbury
    You are one of us! One of me, anyway.
  10. ashbury
    Of course it is. He's been nothing short of dominant; the article said so. 😀
  11. ashbury
    His good results are based on a BABIP of .154, a stat that fluctuates a lot in the early season, so batted balls have been finding gloves at a rate that isn't sustainable. His 42.9% strikeout rate is beyond elite, but I'd hold off on crowning him Fireman of the Year quite yet.
  12. ashbury
    He seems to offer a much different look from some of his fellow bullpenners, and that can be a very good thing if he continues to thrive, with a little bit of a ripple effect.
  13. ashbury
    The Twins are right about league average so far in 2024 with 5.1 innings per start. Last season of course they were nearly at the top of the majors in innings per start. This canard that Rocco pulls his starters lightly just won't die. With a collective ERA among his 2024 starters that is 29th out of 30 teams, one could make the argument that he's been unnecessarily patient with them.
  14. ashbury
    You are off by 100%. 😀
  15. ashbury
    I was on record a long time ago that you would say this.
  16. ashbury
    All the responses here are interesting, but I believe a promotion this early would be for one reason: the talent evaluators on the Wichita staff, and perhaps roving staff as well, have watched and declared that he has nothing left to learn at AA. Stats are almost incidental to this. Other players such as Larnach likewise. We fans can only guess from the stats, and small sample only begins to explain the problem with that. The evaluators will factor in the quality of the pitching he has seen on a day to day basis, the quality of his swings and the quality of his non-swings (10 walks already tells us something but not enough), and so on. It doesn't really matter that he's faced only two opposing teams, if (and only if) the pitchers he's faced have fed him quality offerings and he's connected against that. If he's fattened up on get-me-over pitches, or against pitchers whose stuff just isn't good enough in the first place, let him continue to develop where he is. If the evaluators think they have a Juan Soto situation on their hands, they could move him up to AAA tomorrow.
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    He held back from making a boulder statement.
  20. ashbury
    If true, hardly shocking.
  21. ashbury
    Note to self after Julien's strikeout just now: Next time I'm attending an Umpires Panel at a SABR meeting or whatever, I'll have to figure out a good way to phrase my question: "when a young guy comes up and has an elite batting eye, you look to cure him of that ASAP, right?"
  22. ashbury
    Darin Mastroianni had his, uh, "moments". A Ft Myers highlight for me years ago was hearing Tom Kelly admonish Darin after an adventure in center field, "let's keep the 360s to a minimum out there, okay?"
  23. ashbury
    It used to be. Now it's postposterousness. As for the topic at hand, loading up on high injury-risks and marginal talents in the bullpen is a bit like the way banks were loading up on sub-prime mortgages leading up to the 2008 financial meltdown, thinking that somehow risk was mitigated by a portfolio of way-too similar instruments.
  24. ashbury
    Fair. Jake Cave still lives rent-free in my head.
  25. ashbury
    Rocco's just preparing to unleash the Wallinator in the later stages of the game!
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