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  1. ashbury
    I was on record a long time ago that you would say this.
  2. ashbury
    All the responses here are interesting, but I believe a promotion this early would be for one reason: the talent evaluators on the Wichita staff, and perhaps roving staff as well, have watched and declared that he has nothing left to learn at AA. Stats are almost incidental to this. Other players such as Larnach likewise. We fans can only guess from the stats, and small sample only begins to explain the problem with that. The evaluators will factor in the quality of the pitching he has seen on a day to day basis, the quality of his swings and the quality of his non-swings (10 walks already tells us something but not enough), and so on. It doesn't really matter that he's faced only two opposing teams, if (and only if) the pitchers he's faced have fed him quality offerings and he's connected against that. If he's fattened up on get-me-over pitches, or against pitchers whose stuff just isn't good enough in the first place, let him continue to develop where he is. If the evaluators think they have a Juan Soto situation on their hands, they could move him up to AAA tomorrow.
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  5. ashbury
    He held back from making a boulder statement.
  6. ashbury
    If true, hardly shocking.
  7. ashbury
    Note to self after Julien's strikeout just now: Next time I'm attending an Umpires Panel at a SABR meeting or whatever, I'll have to figure out a good way to phrase my question: "when a young guy comes up and has an elite batting eye, you look to cure him of that ASAP, right?"
  8. ashbury
    Darin Mastroianni had his, uh, "moments". A Ft Myers highlight for me years ago was hearing Tom Kelly admonish Darin after an adventure in center field, "let's keep the 360s to a minimum out there, okay?"
  9. ashbury
    It used to be. Now it's postposterousness. As for the topic at hand, loading up on high injury-risks and marginal talents in the bullpen is a bit like the way banks were loading up on sub-prime mortgages leading up to the 2008 financial meltdown, thinking that somehow risk was mitigated by a portfolio of way-too similar instruments.
  10. ashbury
    Fair. Jake Cave still lives rent-free in my head.
  11. ashbury
    Rocco's just preparing to unleash the Wallinator in the later stages of the game!
  12. ashbury
    Guessing, or did you see something stated?
  13. ashbury
    My mistake. He scored a run (after leading off an inning with a walk) and drove a run in (sac fly later). No actual hits.
  14. ashbury
    Larnach played a rehab game in Ft Myers yesterday and got some hits, FWIW.
  15. ashbury
    Willi Castro at SS, Kyle Farmer at 3B, Austin Martin in CF. Just like they planned it in the off-season.
  16. ashbury
    Good. I hate batting averages when they are empty.
  17. ashbury
    When I look at league-wide splits and they are as narrow as that, it makes me wonder if putting up with a guy that has a high platoon split is even worth the bother on average. And it especially makes me question the Twins' apparent strategy to load up on left-handed hitters - the upside doesn't look as high as I thought.
  18. ashbury
    You should seek out a second medical opinion. Ask your cat's vet what the research is on the harm to the cat.
  19. ashbury
    Don't let him see the definition of Fielding Error either, since there is reference in it to "ordinary effort".
  20. ashbury
    The Twins went 19-13 in the games Pablo Lopez started last season. The Dodgers went 29-12 in the games Sandy Koufax started in 1966. I think that's the stat you're looking for, and you might as well add them up through the career for the 300-game winners that you want.
  21. ashbury
    Their owner periodically disposing of all their main major league talent, plunging the team into years of futility, predates their arrival in Oakland.
  22. ashbury
    A long, long journey for him, fulfilled at last. He gets to tell his grandson someday, "I was a major leaguer." I don't get to tell my grandson that.
  23. ashbury
    Three runs, six hits? LOL no. Sounds like a fun game, which I had to miss due to other commitments, but let's tap the brakes a little on this offensive "outburst."
  24. ashbury
    Insane Julien Passivity?
  25. ashbury
    Great stop, sure. And I admire the "find the pony somewhere in the pile" mentality tonight. Whee, a solo HR.
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