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  1. ashbury
    I think scouts look at a lot of factors, such as parents and other upbringing, to help project how a 17 year old is going to turn out. Nick Gordon coming from a baseball family seemed to have played a role in the Twins selecting him, if I'm remembering correctly. A kid's current coach will often drop hints about leadership or detestability with teammates. And so forth. You can't know, but you can make educated guesses what he'll be like at age 25.
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    This list of picks spans the reign of two front offices, so I feel the last of the names on the list are worth discussing in a separate context. Terry Ryan had this reputation as a pretty conservative guy. And yet, he would surprise observers with flat-out gambles, apparently in the spirit of "if you do what everyone else does, but with fewer resources, you can't win." Putting Miguel Sano in RF was a gamble that few others would make, for example. Tyler Jay was another such example. i'm not sure if a couple of players from Asia were gambles in the same spirit, or simply failures of scouting and player evaluation; the trade of Aaron Hicks for a catcher who couldn't perform was another. I seem to remember there were a few more of this nature, but can't pull them from the memory banks at the moment. Anyway, Tyler Jay prompts a stroll down memory lane, doesn't he.
  3. ashbury
    He won't have to face Mets batters anymore, so the 7.04 ERA he put up against them last year comes off the top. 😄
  4. ashbury
    Since they can't seem to drive up demand, they will drive up prices through scarcity.
  5. ashbury
    If the speculation is that the Twins would go after DeSclafani, his injury history the past two years and his not-insignificant salary lead me away.
  6. ashbury
    Precisement.
  7. ashbury
    Yeah, the team should aim high. Make this playoff embarrassment meaningful!
  8. ashbury
    "Pitching wins games." Simple. That's all I was responding to. I don't disagree with your more nuanced position.
  9. ashbury
    Three teams won 100 or more games in 2023. Those three ranked #7, #13, and #15 in the majors in ERA. They ranked #1, #2, and #7 in runs scored. Make of that what you will.
  10. ashbury
    "Logan Morrison was on the Orioles?"
  11. ashbury
    Minor quibble, 2020 was the Covid year and he played reasonably close to a full season in the majors; moreover, there wasn't any "down" to come up from, or vice versa. 😄 FangRaphs shows him with 2 minor league options remaining now.
  12. ashbury
    He didn't have many RBIs, either. 😄
  13. ashbury
    Never trust Google Translate, or you'll end up telling a Hungarian his hovercraft is full of eels. I checked with a genuine Canadian (admittedly from Toronto, but he's not an uneducated boor like me) and he says "walk" is ""but sur balles". Only now do I realize I should have asked for the plural, "walks", so I'm not sure if it should be "de" or "des" in your version, but he'll really wonder what's wrong with me if I go back and ask again.
  14. ashbury
    "Most valuable player assets." "Through the scope of team-building." "The vision of building a champion." So the premise seems not so vast as to demand a dynasty, nor so narrow as to say we're going for it in 2024. Vague but bounded. I know the intent isn't to belabor the absence of Buxton, until Nick publishes another article on that particular topic, but I have to say that if the goal is to set up the Twins for a championship sometime in the next several years, several years of Buxton (even with the high risk of injury) moves the needle more for me than one year of Kepler, for example. I don't see Buxton in the top 10, but probably somewhere in the high teens.
  15. ashbury
    What would we be looking to receive from Seattle, for Polanco? My assumption had been pitching, but if they have parted with Ray does that leave them feeling they have surplus arms to trade from anymore? They have 5 guys they presumably like, but do they want to part with any?
  16. ashbury
    The Mariners also traded away Robbie Ray, so do they still have excess pitching they would consider parting with now?
  17. ashbury
    "So was I."
  18. ashbury
    Spring Training, I believe.
  19. ashbury
    Many moves remain under the radar because they never reach liftoff. Dangit, we passed up this guy when we drafted Keoni Cavaco.
  20. ashbury
    And, a bit north, if you want people from the extended San Francisco Bay Area to think you are a complete goober, call their big city Frisco, whydontcha, just like my dear mother-in-law from Chicago.
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  22. ashbury
    Or, to add a hall of famer from the Twins franchise history, Goose Goslin.
  23. ashbury
    One can construct balanced trade proposals that both teams would say no to. This seems like such a proposal.
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  25. ashbury
    I find it hard to envision a contending team looking at him as a third baseman; it's the same arm there as got him booted off of shortstop. Even at second base his arm makes every grounder an adventure for the poor guy covering first. The bat's good, if the health holds up, but I find it also hard to see a team offering a major league ready starting pitcher for him as a centerpiece; as Cory says above, significant additional pieces would have to accompany Jorge.
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