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  1. ashbury
    Correa looks like his usual self at shortstop, which is to say state-of-the-art-reliable. But Buxton is only a fraction of himself defensively, unable and unwilling to lay out for difficult chances lest he tweak the hip (or whatever the risk is). He goes back to the wall just fine, but since his return I recall at least two dying-quail liners that he's allowed to drop in front of him when I felt confident that the Buxton of years past would have grabbed them. So even having our guys back doesn't mean it's all the same. We've all said that Byron needed to learn to protect his body, but this is the cost; he's just another center fielder at the moment.
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    See this a lot. What's the source of this recurring opinion about what's inside someone else's noggin? Just an echo chamber here, after someone once said it must be so? Meanwhile we have thread after thread full of people who are certain they are smarter, and tell us so, repeatedly. So who actually deserves to be labeled this way? Some folks might ask themselves, Reddit-style, AITA?
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    "Played the OF more." Boo hoo. Move the goalposts now, sure. SMH.
  4. ashbury
    I'll start watching the Farm Dog report on CNBC.
  5. ashbury
    Rain rain go away. Come again some other day when the Twins aren't in town.
  6. ashbury
    I think the other day you pegged his odds at 50-50. Is there some futures market I can invest in, to play these volatile percentages? 😀
  7. ashbury
    Other than Buxton and Kepler, you mean. SMH. https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/MIN/2024-fielding.shtml#all_players_standard_fielding_of And Margot didn't have a start in the outfield until game 7 of the season. He played more, after that, due to injury and/or non-performance of other players higher on the depth chart. But you wanna blame Rocco for adapting to conditions, nothing's gonna stop you.
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    Maybe a Minnesota record but not yet a franchise record. I checked on bb-ref.com and Senators star Kid Elberfeld took 25 in the ribs or noggin or wherever, back in 1911. Of course he was only a kid then (age 36). And no, he wasn't really a star but he did rack up 33 WAR in his lengthy career, mostly with the Tigers and Highlanders. But even Elberfeld is a piker by comparison. During spring training back in the 1970s, Ron Hunt and Don Baylor would sneak out to the bullpen before the game and throw baseballs at each other's head to warm up, just for the fun of it, when their respective teams met. You Could Look It Up!* * And not find it.
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    Fortune favors the lucky.
  10. ashbury
    Those here who have met me will recognize a selfie when they see one.
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    You misspelled "ThE bEsT wIn of tHe YeAr!" which is how Cory said it.
  13. ashbury
    The article doesn't provide any real explanation why a different defensive position would be easier on the specific symptom that has sidelined Correa. It's true that aging players get moved "down" the defensive spectrum, but that is almost always due to diminished skill with age, not (to my recollection) to avoid trips to the IL. Even the extreme move to DH isn't a panacea. We all saw the results of trying to keep Byron Buxton in the batting lineup, last year. If a guy's hurt, he's hurt. You have to make athletic moves at the plate and on the bases, too. The heel of the foot being subjected to torsion can happen in many other ways than going all out for a grounder; anyone with plantar fasciitis can attest to that. No, if I'm the manager, I continue to ride Correa at SS until the man tells me he wants a different position, or shows me through his performance that he can't handle the position anymore.
  14. ashbury
    Clearly some if not all of the quotes are made up. No competent business would allow the term "right-size" to be used in public, with or without attribution.
  15. ashbury
    I was unaware of Talk Sox. Seth's mention of it is the first I've seen. I wish it had existed* when I lived in the area 2015-21. I took a look just now, and found a thread entitled "fire alex cora". First post was October 19, 2017. Cora was hired three days later. That's the Sawx fanbase for ya. (The thread is still getting posts now and then.) * ... in its present form, I mean. It appears they took over an older site and put it into a TD-like format.
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    Including while he was on the Injured List. 😊
  18. ashbury
    Man, you can't buy this kind of publicity! (Oh wait, they did, but um, errr...)
  19. ashbury
    This whole health topic is one that I would love to have a discussion with the Twins analytics department. I suspect that each team has their own closely-guarded angle on forecasting player availability. For instance how much of a role does body type play in forecasting pitcher durability? Jose Berrios had some detractors as a prospect due to his physical makeup - but in regard to being there to take the ball every 5 days, he's been rock solid. By contrast the big strong guys who look like farmboys that nothing could harm, break down right and left - or at least that is my subjective recollection. But the teams have access to injury records that I would find difficult to acquire, and maybe I'm wrong, and there are tons of Berrios physiques who spend time on the IL and there are plenty of Tyler Mahle clones (to pick a name) who turn out to be bulletproof. Teams probably each have some kind of special sauce in this area that they rely on. Bottom line, this area is way above my pay grade to try to play armchair GM, so all I can do is grumble and believe I could do better than our FO, without any actual reason to think so. They might already be using all of my little ideas, and then some.
  20. ashbury
    For some other team maybe. Odds would be even lower than that, for the Twins. Though Helman didn't get much chance to show his ability in MLB this year, I'd put him ahead of Farmer as a choice for Opening Day 2025 - and I actually would peg him for St Paul to begin the season, so that means no role for Farmer.
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  22. ashbury
    My snap reaction to the headline was "no." But the choices aren't plentiful, and as a "Plan B" going into this season he's turned out better than he could have; Chief's blackjack analogy strikes me as about right. Santana's a secondary decision, after the braintrust huddles in the early off-season to determine what they honestly think of the young(er) core they have, plus the guaranteed contracts on the roster. A lot hinges on what they think of Julien and how much they are willing to gamble that he'll be okay. It's too soon to make a determination of "should". For now I'll go with "might."
  23. ashbury
    You will, if Brooks Lee ever gets his batting average up to .337
  24. ashbury
    Who is being removed from the AAA roster?
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