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Everything posted by ashbury

  1. ashbury
    Six fouls and counting. Where's the out pitch?
  2. ashbury
    *cough* Kurt Warner *cough*
  3. ashbury
    Isn't Cruz the guy who sorta cost his team a World Series win a couple of years ago?
  4. ashbury
    Not a sexy draft so far, but sometimes that's where you build a championship.
  5. ashbury
    Gah. No one use that for an avatar, please.
  6. ashbury
    I hope TF attendance isn't in a slump like TD attendance. Folks are missing out on the new game avatar, courtesy of Willihammer.
  7. ashbury
    Well, CMU did go 7-6 this season, so I guess their big guy up front was doing something right.
  8. ashbury
    So, three batters up, three down. Avoided the first inning pitching jitters.
  9. ashbury
    Is that the name of the JPG you use as your avatar?
  10. ashbury
    Doesn't that suggest an opportunity to deploy your scouts in a way that maximizes what can't be automated?
  11. ashbury
    I put "batting average eating goblin" with the quotes into Google and it came back with 4 hits. So you're on your way to your goal. Of course, all 4 hits are of this article in various forms, but you gotta start somewhere. / edit: I'll save some wag the trouble of comparing this number of Google hits to the hits Aaron has collected so far - they are the same
  12. ashbury
    Jason Tyner's only 36? I thought ballplayers were in their prime during their 30s.
  13. ashbury
    My strong impression from watching the news as the Griffith family tried to sell the team is that Carl Pohlad had very little use for baseball itself. Sid Hartman used to joke about it being Carl's wife who had any interest. The Mark Cuban analogy doesn't even begin to hold. So, why *did* Carl buy the team? If my memories are correct, it was out of a sense of civic duty. He didn't want to see his Twin Cities becomes the "cold Omaha" that was predicted if MLB was lost to the region. In that view, the Pohlads already performed their act of charity simply by buying a team that no one else wanted and which would have become the Denver Rockies or the Tampa Bay Rays several seasons sooner than played out.
  14. ashbury
    I'm not sure I ever heard that one.
  15. ashbury
    1. Sign rehabbing pitcher 2. Suffer through several wretched starts 3. ???? 4. PROFIT!!! / sorry, couldn't resist trotting out an old meme
  16. ashbury
    He's tipping his pitches. If I noticed a couple of pixels out of place, I'm sure the batters can too.
  17. ashbury
    His OPS is currently .760 and that figure wouldn't be likely to go higher in the majors. Plus he's not on the 40-man, so who would you expose to waiver claims to get a few weeks of his services?
  18. ashbury
    When Mauer, Morneau and Baker (among others) had downtime, the meme became Small Market Is Bellyaching.
  19. ashbury
    Well, I think the spirit is that it tries to condense into one number what normally takes two numbers. You want to know a pitcher's ERA, but if it wasn't across a lot of innings then he didn't actually contribute as much to his team as someone with a little worse ERA but 200 innings. Unless, the ERA is as bad as what you could have gotten from someone off the waiver-wire. WAR sort of does all that. But for most situations, you can tell from ERA and IP how two pitchers compare; and if it's close, other factors may play a greater role depending on what decision you are trying to make. And, as others have said, I don't see much that a pitching coach would use, by knowing it.
  20. ashbury
    Someone in a position to pay a good deal more than you or I can afford probably would too.
  21. ashbury
    I expect he'll actually carve out a career as a useful relief pitcher. He could pitch until he's 35, for a succession of teams two or three seasons at a time. 40-man roster rules and the state of free-agency seems to rule out developing a guy like him and keeping him for any length of time. Once a high-school prospect fails as a starter but is seen as able to relieve, the original signing team might just about as well cut him, like he's a bust, except he's not a bust. In Burnett's case, putting up below-par numbers as a major leaguer at age 22-23 sealed his fate with the Twins. It's an aspect of the game I don't like. Admittedly, no team rues losing a "useful relief pitcher" - they are widely available to a smart GM.
  22. ashbury
    I think you have to drink the whole bottle, not just one shot, when you hear this one.
  23. ashbury
    I was referring to the full sentence in the original post, which referenced getting on base in one fashion and slugging in a different fashion. It was odd enough that I took time to look at some other writing by the author, Cassavell - he normally writes clearly enough, so this one was an outlier.
  24. ashbury
    Ha ha, he thinks outspending other teams gives them additional privileges as well. Ha ha.
  25. ashbury
    Maybe something needs to be added to Bonnes's posting guidelines: "The Twins are doing it wrong." Cool. "You other poster(s) are doing it wrong." Not cool. Of course, calling someone out on #2 is itself a violation. I don't like to invoke what seems like the heavier machinery of reporting a post, if a bit of self-policing seems possible. But I digress...
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