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Article: Monday Morning Madness
ashbury replied to Brad Swanson's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Louder! And: Funnier! -
I fail to see why it "doesn't work" or how what you said is much different than what I said. Pick the player they want, assess the system as a whole after that, then trade if there is significant overweighting in one area.
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He's a corner outfielder, which isn't exactly a position the Twins are crying out to fill. Getting waived twice by age 24 seems like a red flag. But to my eye his minor league stats project to something maybe similar to Willingham eventually, which would be nothing to sneeze at for free.
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Like Nurse, I'm not sure what you were looking for here. Better answers? Better questions?
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This was the secret to my success playing OOTP franchise simulations. Players would turn down a 1-year contract for X dollars, but might sign if I threw in a team option for a second year at a lower price.
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You saw how they kept Doumit in the game Monday night; they'd likely bring up whichever AAA catcher is healthy.
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My take: if the Twins do choose an outfielder at #4, the trade winds will immediately start blowing. Can't trade the pick within the first year, but someone else big could go for pitching help. It's possible the Twins have such a trade already lined up, and are waiting until after the draft just because you never know who might drop from the top 3. Of course, making such a trade will be a risk until the draft pick proves himself a little; but then taking a pitcher with that pick is also a risk. No getting around that #4 is big-risk big-reward.
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We're talking about offense, and Jamey's WAR on b-r.com is split about evenly between offense and defense. Honestly it seems strange to me that a .660 OPS from an infielder would translate into as many as 21 runs above replacement, but so be it. But you were asserting that "predictable that the offense would get much worse with ... Jamey Carroll's lessened role", and now you're saying that putting him back in there wouldn't help, so I'm not sure what point you were really trying to make about him.
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Nishioka Having Decent 2013 Season So Far
ashbury replied to strumdatjag's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
She's actually a lovely woman, and I wish them both the best. -
Article: Prospecting in the Rapids
ashbury replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition. -
Depending on where the single was hit to, and the arm of the fielder there, sounds like a run-and-hit that happened to work to perfection.
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I have nothing to add, except to express my awe at people who have intelligent-sounding opinions about amateur players who don't crack top-75 types of lists. Thanks for the insights on these second/third/fourth-round sleepers.
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Tell Brock that when you post a comment, you need to F5 refresh to see the Like button on any other comments that arrived in the meantime. Or at least that's what happens to me in Firefox.
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No, we like him.
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The team hasn't laid down in the ninth after all.
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That first inning still hurts.
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Someone wrote one with that title already, but when his agent suggested he copyright it, the copyright office refused.
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Well, one run in the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth. Boston water torture.
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So, what's the over-under for number of batters in the 9th? I say 3, and I'm almost willing to take the under.
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I was about to bawl out Willihammer for the pic of Pedroia that apparently jinxed us, but you're right, I didn't help.
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15 LOB (opportunities) at this writing. You kind of know where this one is going.
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Never seems to work that way with ex-Twins.
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That would totally work.
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When I suggested that you do, I meant for the BETTER, you nincompoop.
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Funny. But if I were the umpire, I'd run him so fast his head would spin. I'd ask my union to lodge a request for a suspension. And the next game I had with the team, I'd run him again just for saying "good evening, sir" to me. Show me up. Nuh uh.
