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  1. ashbury
    We keep hearing that a trade for a pitcher will happen, with Pablo Lopez held up as a model. Pablo wasn't earning league-minimum when we got him. The guy we get this time probably won't either. With other holes to fill, that leaves several million to spread around, not to concentrate in one individual. We'll see. They have the wherewithal to pay someone a lot, but not the inclination.
  2. ashbury
    Money the team has more or less said they aren't spending. We can dream.
  3. ashbury
    Innings eaters are a thread the needle type of pitcher. You have to get batters out, otherwise you won't consume many innings. If you get a lot of batters out while keeping runners off the bases, you're a mid-rotation mainstay. If runners are getting on base, you're not getting them out. Because pitching success varies from year to year for many guys, I don't find the definition very useful for thinking about roster construction. Like the concept of a fifth starter, a guy's an innings eater until he suddenly isn't - he improves into someone you want to feed innings to, or he gets worse and you want to minimize his innings, possibly all the way to zero.
  4. ashbury
    I don't know why you wouldn't move your defense around, depending on who was up to bat. L/R platoon splits being only one reason. Athleticism of your players isn't really the reason, you just want to optimize where you expect the ball might go, whoever you have put out there. I guess I'm missing the point of this article. That, other teams, somehow, don't shade? That would be surprising.
  5. ashbury
    Wonder if Ohtani thought ahead and asked for an opt-out clause after year 10, in case he suspects a better offer might be out there at that far future date.
  6. ashbury
    80s? Obligatory...
  7. ashbury
    Judging by his 2023 game log on b-r.com, the Dodgers also didn't trust him in high-leverage situations - lots of middle innings in games that weren't close. The one high-leverage outing was in the 11th inning, and he allowed the game-losing run, albeit unearned. At age 27, unless the Twin think Pete Maki is capable of suggesting a tweak that the Dodgers overlooked, Louie's older brother doesn't look like any kind of sure contributor. It's a nice thought. Next?
  8. ashbury
    Li'l bit of a cheap shot, I'll admit, and the current FO has never quite plumbed the depth's of Terry Ryan's self-pitying "sometimes you can't get free agents to take your money". But Correa and Donaldson, even at their prices, both in retrospect look like maybe weren't being competed for due to perceived warts on their overall resume. And Donaldson in particular proved to be expensive to get rid of; so would Correa although the situations aren't similar and it hasn't and probably won't ever come anywhere close to that for Carlos. So I'm not sure I'd use either of them (or Christian Vazquez for that matter) to deny that when a free agent is highly sought after and competed for, the Twins won't come out on top. Yet they want at least a little of that PR love that comes from being "in on" a player.
  9. ashbury
    (Barney was managing, not pitching, by that time. And I didn't really mean to do a threadjack, with my little flight of whimsy.)
  10. ashbury
    The 1930 squad would be better remembered today if they hadn't had to deal with the juggernaut Philadelphia A's who also beat a great Cardinals team in the World Series that year. And they won just as many games as the 2010 edition, in a shorter schedule to boot. Bump Hadley, General Crowder, and of course Joe Cronin, all deserve to be held up as franchise icons. They should be number #10.
  11. ashbury
    Acquiring established top of the rotation pitching is the hardest thing a FO can do.
  12. ashbury
    Replacing a bullpen arm whose innings were managed in the second half as carefully for low leverage as Pagan's is not the place to start when thinking about next season's bullpen. In fact it's about the last. They need to bring in a couple of live arms, and then figure out the shifting tactics of using all 8 in the bullpen at any given time. A year from now we might find that someone ended up with a usage profile like Pagan's 2023, or maybe not.
  13. ashbury
    Crazy thought: the guy who led the team in innings there in 2023, maybe?
  14. ashbury
    Is there any evidence for or against the idea that Martin will be, you know, actually good in center field? I mean, Chris Parmelee was given some innings in CF too, once upon a time. I know he's reputedly fast, but does Martin take good routes? Does his weak infield arm somehow play up as an outfielder?
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  16. ashbury
    He's played a grand total of 9 innings in CF across the past two seasons. If Max logs 30 games in center, something has gone terribly, terribly not-according-to-plan.
  17. ashbury
    Key is just the wrong word. Wildcard might fit the situation better. If by some unlikely miracle Buxton has a full season of what he showed in pieces 2019-2022, he could be awesome. That's a wildcard for planning purposes.
  18. ashbury
    The annual pageant of being "in on" this or that player who is clearly out of our little-town team's budget. "Darn, we just missed. And gave him a competitive offer, too."
  19. ashbury
    I'm going to give it some time before deciding whether to laugh.
  20. ashbury
    Good point, "Old-TImey Member."
  21. ashbury
    Miriam Webster. Noah accepted input from his wife during his life's work, I suppose, but I thought her name was Rebecca. Maybe this was a cousin instead.
  22. ashbury
    I hope he works on his baserunning technique, more so than simply being cautious. I don't think I've ever seen such awful slides from an otherwise talented athlete, as he has showcased for us from time to time, some of which looked like a miracle that they didn't result in torn structures of one type or another. Can't speak to similar concerns about how he patrols the outfield grass, but there might be a few things likewise that court trouble, I'm not gifted enough to spot subtleties like some of the blatant basepath stuff.
  23. ashbury
    I was thinking about that too. They lose someone: "Woe is us!" They lose no one: "Woe is really us!"
  24. ashbury
    Rule-5 guys invariably earn Major League minimum salary. So had the Twins filled up their 4 open spots on the 40-man this way, we'd be using that as evidence of miserliness instead.
  25. ashbury
    He'd better not be key to the FO's offseason planning. They should find a solution like MAT was in 2023, and then treat any CF contributions from Buxton as gravy.
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