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  1. ashbury
    Thanks for provoking more or less the negative of that response.
  2. ashbury
    Well, he did play CF for the Holiday Inn Express company softball team one year.
  3. ashbury
    Sure, guys are available. Ones like Florimon are available via waiver. Other guys are not; Escobar so far is in that latter category. Using, as you did, Florimon as some sort of evidence that Escobar is not of value ("marginal" or whatever) is just not valid. People have been banging sticks on the ground for a while now that Escobar and Florimon are interchangeable, but the minor league record says they are not, the transactions wire says they are not, and the evidence so far this season says they are not.
  4. ashbury
    In Aesop's story, the lion decided how much everyone's share was. Usually it would be 100% for himself, but here I think he'd be generous and take zero.
  5. ashbury
    I happened to come back to this mid-game comment, and had to laff.
  6. ashbury
    An implication that Pelf isn't tough enough or whatever just sounds crazy considering nobody's come back from TJ surgery faster. What if he already bore down the previous inning, and is simply physically exhausted? You can't just keep telling the guy "yeah, do that, *again*". Well, you can, and he'll try. But.
  7. ashbury
    Agreed. OPS is a crude tool, and in most cases the conventional wisdom says it under-weights OBA significantly. However, on a team of table-setters only, I have to guess that OBA somewhat overstates the run-scoring potential; it takes 3 non-outs to score a single run most times, while even just a double can plate multiple table-setters before him. Just another example of the zen-like balance found in baseball.
  8. ashbury
    Escobar > Florimon. I was fine with going with the Florimonster to start the season, just to make sure, but the two players are demonstrating who is the better one to keep on a 40-man. This is why Florimon was available on irrevocable waivers before, and why Escobar (to my knowledge) has not been.
  9. ashbury
    Gardy pretty clearly has different rules/principles for young players than for established veterans. I'm not sure I would go that route every time, but I bet he could explain it to me if he had a motivation to try.
  10. ashbury
    We all want this for you.
  11. ashbury
    There's a lot to what you're saying here. And in the view of the long season, Gardy might still be playing the "what will it take to win the Division" game. In that case, one of the cards that has to fall into place is Pelfrey contributing. I can see that inning as "it's April, still the time to see what we've got in him." But where I disagree is that this wasn't the inning to do that. I was fine with sending him out for the additional inning, and was OK for the first batter reaching base. When the second one did, and Fielder coming up, then it is hardly second-guessing to say that this was enough for one day. The stretching out can continue in the next game; there was equal importance to having a good game (up to and including those two batters) as something to build upon.
  12. ashbury
    You don't think it'd be Gene Glynn? Maybe I'm not getting the joke.
  13. ashbury
    I purposely gave the name of the speaker to incite. But notice the present-tense of his statement; he must have still been a player when he said it, indicating that he was not always decrepit and out of things to say.
  14. ashbury
    Probably, but if someone had gotten on, Arcia came next, and she helped with that home run the other night.
  15. ashbury
    I'd been thinking about doing a blog entry, though it seemed self-indulgent and off-topic to go there. Rally avatar is up. Was good for 3 runs the other day, only need 2 now so I am hopeful. /edit: Morneau does not like her. /edit^2: and neither does Parms.
  16. ashbury
    And it's not even second guessing to say "exactly one batter too long".
  17. ashbury
    Anderson doesn't even have a good fastball anymore.
  18. ashbury
    Well, now we need a rally. By trial and error, I've found the pretty ones don't work for that purpose. Beware.
  19. ashbury
    Oops, I said a bad word, and now the moderator has been called in. I blame Prince Fielder.
  20. ashbury
    Crap.
  21. ashbury
    So now what? Two men on, none out, as I type this.
  22. ashbury
    Pitch count being low, I suspect he continues. I hope it's a short short leash.
  23. ashbury
    The double play turned out to be timely, considering the triple that followed.
  24. ashbury
    Maybe the ump is over whatever hissy fit it was.
  25. ashbury
    SPEED by the Florimonster!
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