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  1. ashbury
    Dozier's tipping his swings, with that grimace.
  2. ashbury
    Erstwhile Eddie, per the Twins announcing team.
  3. ashbury
    He forgot to do his stretching exercises before the game and the umpire called him out for trying to do it impromptu.
  4. ashbury
    Cola has the right idea pouncing on a first-pitch strike. Bummer about the wheels though.
  5. ashbury
    Whew, tough crowd here tonight.
  6. ashbury
    Nice to give credit where credit is due.
  7. ashbury
    One of the reasons behind MLB having 40-man rosters is to allow teams to handle injury situations. Having to juggle the 40-man to handle injury is itself an embarrassment.
  8. ashbury
    The last time Wilson was DFAed he was claimed.
  9. ashbury
    September 11. I'm going to remember that date as a bad one.
  10. ashbury
    I was thinking more along the lines of Schroedinger's Cat. If the cat's alive to read the box scores in the morning paper, we find out whether Santana's a SS or not. If the cat's dead, there's just no knowing.
  11. ashbury
    Suzuki has an even more favorable ratio of 11/7.
  12. ashbury
    Moderator's note: a side comment about an ex-GM does not need to turn into a retrospective on that GM's career. Several people couldn't resist the bait. Let's end that aspect of the discussion, here and now.
  13. ashbury
    It's a fine line between Wild Cards and Fifty Two Pickup. Samwell tends to erase that line.
  14. ashbury
    [video=youtube;oraeyE3M6ns]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oraeyE3M6ns
  15. ashbury
    I'm going out on a limb to guess that the hole doesn't reside between his feet and the inside edge of home plate, but somewhere beyond that.
  16. ashbury
    Drop Dozier to 7th in the lineup, put Mauer 8th, Plouffe 9th. Problem solved.
  17. ashbury
    I laughed. A guilty pleasure, but I laughed. Looking forward to the transcript of Gardy's advice to Deduno before his coming start.
  18. ashbury
    I took a look a few weeks back at the Cardinals, and was struck by their practice of having their young solid starting pitchers spend their first major league (or at least their late callup) season mainly in the bullpen. Wainwright jumps out as an example. Lance Lynn. Jaime Garcia and Shelby Miller to a degree. Wacha is the big exception. I think it was a more common practice decades ago, and there is still considerable wisdom to it if you are in build mode rather than win-now. Maybe it's less good of an idea for some players than for others, I don't know.
  19. ashbury
    We know to be respectful to fellow TD posters, among others. http://twinsdaily.com/showthread.php/8837-Twins-Daily-Comment-Policy-latest-revision-September-2013
  20. ashbury
    I've heard variations on this before, and except for maybe the shoo-in hall of famers it's probably pretty central; one player at a given level is essentially as good as another, but some of them are good more often. It ties in with that word "consistency". A related comment, from Terry Ryan at the SABR convention a couple years ago, which I will paraphrase since I don't have a transcript: there are dozens of guys who could hit .400, if MLB played games only once a week. I don't know whether it is healthy or unhealthy that he can rattle off the names of the guys ahead of him in the pecking order like that - but there seems to be no artifice about him. / edit - I notice as I come back to this thread that I'm the only responder who didn't say "Great interview!", and I'm saying it now, because it was. Great interview!
  21. ashbury
    I'm very happy that my guess was wrong.
  22. ashbury
    But that's not a fair comparison because one of those numbers is a composite of... oh wait. Some kind of California math? Please, show your work.
  23. ashbury
    Most threads IMO have been pretty civil lately. Better to flag such instances to the moderators' attention, rather than taking matters into one's own hands and/or waiting for a moderator to wander by and notice. That said: yes, this topic can be discussed in terms of the player and not in terms of the posters and what they "know".
  24. ashbury
    There's no guarantee Dozier sees the same pitches further down in the lineup, and his HR rate could easily go down.
  25. ashbury
    Tonight we are all glad he didn't walk.
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