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  1. ashbury
    Very good range of comments on that site. I have no idea how to offer a sleeper prospect there, our good prospects are well known. I could post "Rosario" and then when someone protests he's good but not a sleeper, I can say "I meant the other one", and if someone protests that he's not unknown enough either, I can say "I meant the other other one".
  2. ashbury
    I meant to bring this up in another thread, but it had escaped my attention until recently that Randy has made his way pretty far up the Cubs front office hierarchy.
  3. ashbury
    My recollection is that it was all about the money. Toronto offered him more, and more of it was guaranteed. This was when MLB minimum was in the neighborhood of $100K, so a difference of around $1M, which I think it must have been, was a big deal, like $4-5M would be today.
  4. ashbury
    If Bailey is unwilling to sign an extension with Cincinnati, it's not clear to me why he would sign one with the Twins. If he's focused on free agency, he'll likely view any Twins offer as something a bigger-market team will top.
  5. ashbury
    Yeah, and it's only the fourth inning. Could be the Best Game Thread Evar!
  6. ashbury
    Great game thread. Didn't even need Carnac to pass the time.
  7. ashbury
    I would rather have had one player with upside than these two fringe players. Apparently that was not an offer on the table.
  8. ashbury
    I always cringe when flipping is mentioned as part of the strategy. How many pitchers moved for prospects this year? Scott Feldman is the only FA pitcher I recall being traded, and he fetched a 27-year-old reclamation project starter and an OK 28-year-old reliever. If you're hoping for a Span-for-Meyer caliber of trade by signing a FA pitcher, it would be odds-against, IMO. I'd like to see the team strengthened through FA signings, period. Roster management after that point should occur organically, not because the plan is to flip a particular acquisition.
  9. ashbury
    Folks, a day later, and several recent posts have the greatest potential to get off the tracks again. Please avoid going off on tangents that are obviously contentious with no chance of solving anything. Also please avoid grouping people needlessly, such as "anyone who agrees/disagrees also must think..."
  10. ashbury
    In addition to the many points raised about the dilemma of adding Kepler to the 40-man, I would add that it means there is no slack left for a "lost season" in the next three, say a strained hammie costing him 6 weeks in May and then a broken collarbone ruining the final half of his season.
  11. ashbury
    Come visit me out here in the mountain West. I'll show you some shortcuts that do not get you to your destination faster.
  12. ashbury
    Baker managing the Twins is an interesting thought. I'll start a separate thread about that.
  13. ashbury
    I see that Dusty Baker made himself expendable in Cincinnati by not winning in the post-season. Given that the Twins just re-signed their own manager for two seasons, it's an interesting compare and contrast situation. A wag mentioned in another thread here that he'd like to see Baker ruin a few of the lesser arms in the Twins AAAA roster. At least, I HOPE and TRUST he said it waggishly. Me, I would love to see how well Trevor Plouffe and a few of the other allegedly mellow guys would get along with crusty Dusty.
  14. ashbury
    I'm not going to dig out the quote, but I remember Mastroianni saying something very similar, about *himself*. He was being the good soldier, when faced with the fact of Hicks getting the starting job at the beginning of the season. But, it was still a very "aware" thing to say.
  15. ashbury
    Of course walks contribute to WHIP. What I'm getting at is, if you're going to assume or imply motives and other activities going on between the ears of FO people, alluding to pitch-to-contact or whatever, why not give credit that they saw beyond ERA (which wasn't that hot anyway) and used some more-analytical methods (that go beyond even WHIP?!?!?) to determine whom to demote?
  16. ashbury
    Roenicke's WHIP was bad this year. Might not the explanation be that simple?
  17. ashbury
    They still can battle it out, if the guess is correct that he and the other players removed from the 40-man won't be claimed. While it may be true that one of these three will be the opening day CF starter, in the larger picture they all profile as a 4th outfielder on a contending team and it's not a great use of 40-man space to keep three of the same thing. I reserve judgement until I see what they choose to fill these newly open slots (presumably young'uns who need protection from rule 5), but all four removals make general sense to me. / edit - small point: since teams don't usually announce anything during the waiver process, I guess this announcement means the four players already passed unclaimed. Is this the time of year that waivers are revocable? If so, then maybe others were waived, claimed, and pulled back.
  18. ashbury
    Is that the baseball version of "In bed"? Good news will come to you from far away... in AAA. Your eyes will be opened to a world full of beauty... in AAA. Your present plans are going to succeed... in AAA. You are going to have some new clothes... in AAA.
  19. ashbury
    I'll take a crack at it as a fellow moderator, though I don't want to further derail discussion: your post was a case of "talking past each other" rather than addressing anything in the OP's lengthy thesis, and in particular the turn of phrase "failure at trying to be mediocre" seemed intended to inflame rather than encourage civility.
  20. ashbury
    Twins win! (Two of the ex-officio variety, at least.)
  21. ashbury
    Their being lefty/righty, and how much Gardy likes platoons, why choose?
  22. ashbury
    Came here to say, McCutchen has a sweet swing, but you scooped me on that, Jimmy Olsen.
  23. ashbury
    He sucks. / cause, you know, Hoover vacuum clea--- oh, never mind
  24. ashbury
    I don't keep up with the National League and was about to ask whether the Pirates lost any games this season, but this statistic gives me pause.
  25. ashbury
    Yeah, but we've the Reds' setup man, in Burton. They can just eat their hearts out. And if the Pirates need a #5 starter in this game, well, we've got theirs - too bad for them, no backsies.
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