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  1. ashbury
    It was Babe Ruth. He had 20 career plate appearances batting eighth. Hit only .067 there. Truth. I get him mixed up with Royce all the time. 😁
  2. ashbury
    This belongs in the "No Fun With Numbers" thread. 😁 Their mark against lefties was exactly average across the majors (.704), and most teams hit better against righties (.725), but not our Twins! Better results, better players, I don't really care - we just need BETTER. League average or worse gets us nowhere.
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  4. ashbury
    / edit - Oh, gosh darn it, I misread who I was looking up. Never mind.
  5. ashbury
    If Tristan Gray can take any part of Brooks Lee's job, it says more about Lee than it does about anything else. We are transitioning from "let's see what we've got" to "you're 25 and need to start showing us something more."
  6. ashbury
    You were responding to someone saying 3-4 years, and Total System Failure in 2016 took until 2019 to bear fruit - 3 years in line with that poster, not the one-year turnaround you suggested.
  7. ashbury
    Every signing at this time of year is an extreme long shot to contribute meaningfully to the major league club. Best case is they will fill some innings during the long AAA season and maybe earn a short call-up. Likely case is a quiet parting of ways in six weeks. Signings like these are routine every year for most franchises.
  8. ashbury
    That 2018 squad closed their season on an 11-3 run. The dispirited 2025 edition finished 6-12. In a new season anything's possible, but I'm not seeing a lot of parallels if that's the picture you want to draw.
  9. ashbury
    Is that what the Hope-O-Meter is supposed to be measuring? I don't think the question posed to respondents is how their team ranks to (other) bottom-dwellers. Colorado has had decent attendance, above 2.4M last year, in support of a ballclub that hasn't sniffed .500 for seven years. Minnesota's fan base is in a foul mood, and it needn't be that way. Twins ownership and their FO delegates should be studying the Rockies franchise to understand where the "fun factor" is that accounts for people coming to the ballpark for a good time even "if they don't win it's a shame."
  10. ashbury
    In response to Chief's gauge: (Also, I found a givea****meter, another in a similar vein, and an even more vulgar givea****meter, and I'm providing links instead of the direct images to those so you can decide for yourself how affronted you wish to be. You're welcome. The Rick-Astley-O-Meter is zero for each of these links.)
  11. ashbury
    In the spirit of the season: h/t to ... well, they'll know.
  12. ashbury
    75% of which is receiving throws from players trying their best (and not always succeeding) to make it easy for him to catch, as opposed to batters trying their best (and not always succeeding) to hit fly balls that are difficult to catch.
  13. ashbury
    Reverse splits that persist are rare, and for his career he had been very weak against lefties, so I'm happy to see him be playable against them and let the splits start to normalize. If he can manage a .700 OPS against the lefties and then start to totally mash righties, he'll have a nice career.
  14. ashbury
    I've been a broken record about Matt Wallner's lack of timely hitting in 2025, so I am very happy to give him his due for staking his team to an early lead. Facing a lefty, even sweeter. The article referred to a quality start for SWR, but 5 innings isn't a Quality Start by the usual definition. It kinda sort meets a reasonable expectation for an early season start.
  15. ashbury
    Can we afford to play him on the base paths? He cost us an out yesterday.
  16. ashbury
    They sell apparel at the souvenir shop. Did you resort to that?
  17. ashbury
    So what's the prescription?
  18. ashbury
    I haven't ponied up for mlb.tv as yet, but on Gray's double did we nearly end up with two baserunners at third base? Gray was barreling in there and on the replay it looked like Larnach had barely broken for home plate. Could have had an embarrassing double play there - indeed, was there a case to be made that Gray committed interference when the third baseman tried to throw home? Meanwhile what was the third base coach signaling all during that?
  19. ashbury
    Um, who is paying whose salary?
  20. ashbury
    Brian Dozier made a good living feasting on mistake pitches high and inside. The open question is whether Royce Lewis can be similar about staying alive long enough on the assortment of other pitches he sees. But I can enjoy this one today.
  21. ashbury
    Do you have a recommendation for one that isn't? I'm still looking. Though, they're gradually getting better. A couple of years ago I tested one by asking a) which team won the American League pennant in 1899 (it always insisted the Boston Pilgrims did, despite there being no AL until 1901) and b) how many US senators had a birthday that year (it demurred by saying it didn't have access to all their bio data). Can't trick it the same way anymore. But last week I got tipped off to try telling it, "I need to go to the carwash. It is 500 meters from my house. Should I walk or drive?" Guess what it answered.
  22. ashbury
    Here ya go. Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
  23. ashbury
    Like I always say, the bullpen is the easiest part of the roster to rebuild. Follow me on FB for more hawt taeks based on a given day's game outcome.
  24. ashbury
    I picture what we saw Thursday and will continue to see as a combination of "let's use the first weeks to find out what we've got," and a best guess at what has a chance of working. Topa coming in when he did, despite a rough spring, is an example. Sands warming up and being held in reserve and then not used once the lead was gone is another. The risk is that every member of the bullpen is not quite up to the role they are assigned. Funderburk didn't get the lefty out to start an inning, for example, and it snowballed. But it's not just matchups. A Duran would bump everyone down one slot and they might do better; a Jax in addition would bump everyone down two. It's water under the bridge of course but not having replacements for those two, plus trading away the best candidate to plug in for them, is the cause of the trouble with this part of the roster. Talent is the issue, until we have evidence it's not, and strategy can only go so far.
  25. ashbury
    RIOT places the Twins magic number at 140 to reach the postseason.
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