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  1. ashbury
    Dallas Keuchel. Aaron Sanchez. Chi Chi Rodriguez. One can go back through the seasons and find a few signings like these who got called up. Probably the Twins will sign someone like these in 2024 (so I'm not disagreeing with your outlook), maybe our old friend Odo, to join this fraternity, and with similar overall consequence.
  2. ashbury
    The Twins should try any and all approaches. But what kind of quality pitcher settles for a minor league no-obligation contract? It will be almost certainly a move with no upside and likely no impact. Keuchel's a pretty good example.
  3. ashbury
    There's another way that works. Play your butt off at AA, then use a Jedi mind trick during the off-season to make the FO trade away your competition for the starting job. Then get injured in your second game so that the team has to use the glove-only backup they signed in that same off-season. Joe Mauer swears by this technique.
  4. ashbury
    I'd say that's his ceiling though.
  5. ashbury
    Scouting reports say he's a one-dimensional player but I think this underrates him a bit.
  6. ashbury
    Sounds like the Twins got the point.
  7. ashbury
    I hope he gave his athletic supporter at least a quick rinse.
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  9. ashbury
    You mean, we'd have to include cash to get someone to take him off our hands, right?
  10. ashbury
    Glad you took it the way I intended. I don't do grammar/spelling flames. But if a typo is genuinely funny, sometimes I can't resist putting a lampshade on it and seeing if I can improve on it. Oh, and good luck with the health issues.
  11. ashbury
    Expect to hear umpires shout this with great regularity: Steee-rike!
  12. ashbury
    How mbarrassing.
  13. ashbury
    Is there a statistical bias built into this analysis? The selection of LH batters to face LH pitchers isn't random or uniform - the manager chooses who does and who does not play in that game. You displayed in your table the four young lefty hitters whose results against lefty pitchers were abysmal, but you didn't show the numbers for Kepler and (gasp!) Gallo, who were weaker against lefties but not so horrible as to seem like black holes in the lineup. More skillful, or at least more experienced, batters would make a difference in these outcomes (for the Twins, and for any team), wouldn't it?
  14. ashbury
    You think that's bad, wait until you hear the outcry today over Buxton playing only 4 innings in CF and then apparently needing to be "rested." {sarcasm^2}
  15. ashbury
    I gleaned more than I wanted to glean, when Chapman hit that fly ball to the wall and fortunately into MAT's reliable glove, with two men on base and just a two-run lead.
  16. ashbury
    That corresponds to my memory. I'd go farther, that Carl wasn't even enthused about the business investment, but as the richest guy (by far) in the area he was persuaded that it was a civic undertaking to keep the team in town. The phrase "a cold Omaha" was current in that era, to describe the effect of losing one of the major sports teams. Sid Hartman, I believe, coined the polite fiction that Eloise was some kind of driving force. You phrased it probably exactly right - she liked baseball, and Sid played it up on his radio show and/or in his column. None of us are insiders, but I do think we have it about right.
  17. ashbury
    That's an alternative explanation, sure. I was countering speculation about Martin with something I thought similarly plausible.
  18. ashbury
    Same might be speculated about the Dodgers and Manuel Margot, though.
  19. ashbury
    I think they already announced that Winder goes on the 60-day.
  20. ashbury
    Yes, this game told us everything we need to know. The Twins need to make sure none of the pitchers Bowman, Jensen, Harris, and Burrows are on the Opening Day roster. Oh wait, none of them are on the 40-man roster. Never mind.
  21. ashbury

    So What Now?

    ashbury commented on Doctor Gast's blog entry in Doctor Gast's Blog

    Sure, it's easy for you to say that, now.
  22. ashbury
    Louie finished the season on the major league roster and pitched in the post-season. The issue of course is whether he will be allowed to return to starting - which I'm sure is your point as regards the number of pitches in his mix.
  23. ashbury
    Batting your DH 9th. Gotta love spring lineups.
  24. ashbury
    The Truth Is Out There! By the way, if the OP does the "investigative research" we are joking about, I hope he thinks twice about bringing the name of the place breathlessly to this thread. There are many who know, including law enforcement and the team and probably various journalists, and they've kept their mouths shut. Some kind of ethics could be at play here, and it might harm someone not at fault for the word to get out. Conversely it's hard to think of anything in the public interest that demands the information be revealed. Maybe I'm just stating the obvious. It's just, who doesn't like a good mystery?
  25. ashbury
    Never heard this story before, whatsoever. Thanks!
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