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  1. ashbury
    "Better Lucky Than Good." -- Mrs Ash just now
  2. ashbury
    DOINK!
  3. ashbury
    Ah, so you mean the Orioles will make a trade, not that the Twins-Orioles specifically will trade. I was confused by the word "they".
  4. ashbury
    I feel liberated to snark in either direction as conditions dictate!
  5. ashbury
    Third time's the charm, LOL.
  6. ashbury
    Didn't tune in in time to see the earlier play where they went for it instead of taking the points, but if it was an error, then this one feels like just compounding it.
  7. ashbury
    Then Falvey will be able to spend more on free agents, just with a new team. He won't be sidelined for longer than the next off-season, as some team with deeper pockets will like his resume. St Peter, yeah, he gone.
  8. ashbury
    Involving Pablo Lopez? Or a smaller-scale trade?
  9. ashbury
    Hustle Coach Gettin' After It Coach Battlin' One's Tail Off Coach Headfirst Sliding Coach All these positions are currently open, so he can take his pick.
  10. ashbury
    Deal from positional oversupply only after you've established positional oversupply. Cartaya is a project at this point.
  11. ashbury
    Yes, I still remember the lobotomy they required when I too moved into the Bay State. / At least, I think I remember it....
  12. ashbury
    Concur. I keep going back to the MLBTR article, 5 days old now so possibly out of date, which had a headline of "Sale Of Twins Could Be Reached By Opening Day" but the body of the article had a more circumspect "a sale agreement could be in place as soon as Opening Day." Anyone who has bought or sold a home has had a similar situation - you get an agreement signed, and then there is a period of time until closing, during which any of several steps could still fall through. I tend to go with the "agreement in place" wording until we hear something more definitive; any loosening of the payroll pursestrings will not likely occur just due to an agreement being put in motion. Of course, it is possible that the agreement IS already in place and due diligence is underway and we won't hear more until the "closing" date is much nearer - buying a ballclub isn't totally similar to buying a house and the Twins aren't a publicly traded corporation where transparency is required.
  13. ashbury
    Someone in the front office talks about payroll? Let's switch to our personal pet peeve. Which players are you talking about, anyway? Max Kepler played 100% of his defensive innings in RF in 2024. Byron Buxton was in CF when he played. Carlos Correa was at SS when available. Carlos Santana was at 1B, and Jeffers and Vazquez both were at catcher except for a couple of emergency stints at 3B for the latter. Royce Lewis had 3B to himself except he got injured for a long while and then in September they decided to try him elsewhere; his backup Jose Miranda played there basically all the time during his absence. There was some DHing mixed in for several players since there wasn't a fulltime DH on the roster. That leaves LF and 2B, which might have been more stable except for the injuries elsewhere which opened up temporary needs. The regulars played where they belonged, except when they got injured or played themselves out of a starting role and got sent to AAA. If the complaint was that backups like Willi Castro and Manuel Margot and Austin Martin moved around a bit, well, that's the nature of being utility players. It's not like the manager said, "hey, lets swap 2B and 3B just for the fun of it, this coming week, then we'll switch back." They tried several people in CF in Buxton's absence, and no one grabbed the opportunity.
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  15. ashbury
    The Other, Wrong, Downright Awful, Very Bad Lopez.
  16. ashbury
    "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln..." 😀
  17. ashbury
    They won't be welcome at this website, either. 😀
  18. ashbury
    I like projection systems as a quick and dirty way of thinking about many things. But such systems necessarily operate on a conservative basis - "if present trends continue, things will remain about the same." It's just too early to try to say anything definitive about a trade of a guy who will be 31 this coming season versus two guys who will be 26 and 24. I've been down on Martin since the trade was made, but I still hold out hope that he finds one or two tweaks to his game that let him be productive - a little more comfort at the plate and he's suddenly a valuable leadoff hitter for a few years. SWR was always the key to the trade for me, and if 2024 was a kid-gloves approach to him by the manager and pitching coach, maybe 2025 is the year the constraints come off (maybe with the aid of some additional off-season conditioning?). Martin and SWR could of course turn out to be the latest incarnations of Nick Gordon and Fernando Romero respectively. Not ready to make any real judgements.
  19. ashbury
    Hope you find a way to work the events of Sunday, September 27, 1987 into your bio of Newmie - one of the most electrifying moments in Twins history in the top of the first inning!
  20. ashbury
    Seems like a team-friendly deal that gives the player the guarantee he wants - win/win. Factoring into that is full-time DHs just don't get paid the same (for similar offensive production) as a position player, which is what made Nelson Cruz so affordable to the Twins for instance. Makes this deal a little less team-friendly than at first glance. Simply a good, fair deal.
  21. ashbury
    It wasn't my intent to get into platooning per se, merely make the point that you stated at the end. Our new friend hadn't mentioned Kjerstad himself, so I was just reacting to a bit of what I read at their site, which is to be expected since fans of other teams won't necessarily be aware of details like this. But it's the details that make or break a trade proposal.
  22. ashbury
    One thing I haven't seen mentioned in this discussion is that the Orioles' best young players lean heavily toward lefty bats. The Twins already have a bit of an overload of corner outfielders who bat from that side, which could make matching up needs a bit hard, even at other positions. Seeing names like Kjerstad mentioned at O's Hangout strikes me as not realistic; a third team would have to be brought into the mix. Mayo and Westburg bat right but I'm not sure how well they'd fit into the current Twins roster. As an aside, I do enjoy the atmosphere at your site. Good, thoughtful posters there.
  23. ashbury
    Concur. It's easy to second guess any particular play. But some plays put the game on the line that very moment, while a better choice leaves you the chance to try again if it fails. It was a gamble that forced them to try pass plays only, after that. Bad gamble.
  24. ashbury
    You meant to include a smiley face on that one, right? 😀 But Mrs Ash and I have walked from our budget motel to the ballpark entrance, which is the long way around, and never felt uncomfortable. I'm willing to give a ballpark some bonus points for the neighborhood atmosphere - Fenway and Wrigley remaining the best examples - but I'm disinclined to deduct points for the neighborhood, especially the cases where the standard thing is to take mass transit or just drive into a huge parking lot where there is a lot of tailgating/grilling to enjoy the aromas even if you're not partaking.
  25. ashbury
    There are indoor stadiums I would rank lower. And for whatever the faults, the surroundings at O.co or whatever it was called at the end did not detract from my enjoyment of Bailey Ober's masterpiece last summer. It helped that I could afford seats directly behind home plate. Affording them was helped by their costing only $35. I don't know of a MLB park with consistently better weather to watch a game in - a trait they instantly lose in muggy Sacramento and eventually in convection-oven-like Vegas. Mount Davis never bugged me in the slightest, and that seems to be the biggest knock against the venue. / I hope this doesn't turn into a threadjack. Just didn't want to let the opinion go un-dissented.
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