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  1. ashbury
    In both cases the advice would be to reduce the exposure.
  2. ashbury
    Also while bourbon is not directly comparable to Drew Butera it takes away some of the pain.
  3. ashbury
    Yeah, and I found him talking out of both sides of his mouth in that paragraph: What we didn't want to do, is we didn't want to sign another pitcher or two. We were talking with Joe Saunders til the very end. There were some other pitchers we had an interest in earlier in the off-season, but we didn't want to get into a situation where you go in and you have five guys locked up and you basically freeze out Liam Hendriks and Cole De Vries and Pedro Hernandez and some other guys, the Dedunos and Walters. We wanted there to be some competition, and we didn't want to be in a situation where guys came in and they knew they didn't have a chance. So then why were they talking to Saunders at all, at that stage of the offseason? IMO it's because the truth is that they *would* have signed him, at their price, and then figured out what to do with the guys they'd "freeze out"; but he turned them down. Just say that.
  4. ashbury
    Can't listen to the clip, but assuming you mean offense by his "hot streak", he also needs to demonstrate he has completely mastered second base. Maybe that is Dougie Baseball's assessment, that he has already. Quick learner, if so.
  5. ashbury
    The answer comes back to risk. Unless you think the '13-'14 squads are playing for the postseason, you are taking on the risk of injury in those years for the value of having the guy in '15 and beyond. Unless you think Grienke is the last bus leaving this station for the next three years, wait until the offseason after next to pull the trigger on that one stud pitcher; then the risk and the reward match up.
  6. ashbury
    Who are their Drew Butera and Anthony Slama comps?
  7. ashbury
    Like most major leaguers, he "could" play CF, and has played an inning an emergency once, but this is not what should be considered a plan.
  8. ashbury
    Wonder if he knows "The Handshake"?
  9. ashbury
    As a technical question for someone who actually knows: the waiver process doesn't work this way, does it? I thought that during the waiver period on a player, teams put in their claims, and then after the deadline expires, the league office goes through and sees which claim has the highest ranking. In other words, it's a blind process for the individual teams. Am I right?
  10. ashbury
    There are a lot of variables in play regarding Carroll's role, and Seth covered them well. I don't think any of them can be ignored, in particular the vesting clause, but no single one of them is a sole cause for anything either. He's in the mix, and it's still early in the season, that's all.
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  12. ashbury
    He's an interesting comp. But, part of what goes into a HoF career is longevity, so cherry picking only the years Radke pitched leaves out part of a legitimate case for Pettitte. That said, he doesn't have my "vote".
  13. ashbury
    Sounds like (to plagiarize Willihammer) it's Hammer time.
  14. ashbury
    Normally I'm not too interested in trying to gauge mental aspects of a player's game, but as I said during the game last night in this particular case I am open to the notion that we are seeing a much more mature Anthony Swarzak after that cracked rib "horseplay" incident.
  15. ashbury
    Careful. This may scare Aaron Hicks more than the pitcher, if he doesn't start collecting some hits to go with them. / Almost said may "spook" him. Triple pun, but could be taken way way wrong.
  16. ashbury
    And now and then you'll see a pitcher barking at the umpire as he departs the mound after the 3rd out, three batters and two runs (say) after getting squeezed on a 1-2 pitch that turned into a walk and two more batters reaching base. You can try to reason with the pitcher and say that those were 3 legitimately off-the-plate pitches after the contested one, and then two more baserunners that he could have avoided. But the gist of his hollered comments will be "those two earned runs are on YOU, Blue."
  17. ashbury
    That. You win teh +1 internets.
  18. ashbury
    To DL, or not to DL, that is not the question. To me it's a red herring. Instead it's a nagging injury that the Twins' medical staff did not find an answer to. It "lingered", in Terry Ryan's word (makes me worry the implication is "malingered", too), for a while, finally they decided in some fashion for him to just play on it, and a day later it became enough of an issue to DL him for it. Doctors and trainers aren't miracle workers, and I'm sure every team goes through diagnoses and prognoses like this one. Still, now that we are sensitized to it, it rankles to go through the maybe-he-can, maybe-he-can't, status for Darin for several weeks. If it's some kind of stress fracture that wasn't caught until repeated stress made it acute, that's bad. I don't know how to judge a medical staff, you just have to collect anecdotal evidence until a bigger picture emerges. That, to me, is what the hoohah is about.
  19. ashbury
    This is easy to check and you just should. Go to 2012 Major League Baseball Standard Pitching - Baseball-Reference.com Scroll down to "Player Standard Pitching". After the full page has finished loading, click on "SO/9", to sort them by strikeout rate. You'll see a little check-box for "Hide non-qualifiers for rate stats", which by default I think is always checked anyway. This weeds out the relievers who didn't have enough innings for the ERA title.
  20. ashbury
    But you started this sub-thread with the statement "Strikeout guys struggle to complete more than six innings", which is just not supported by any evidence anyone has presented, in fact quite the opposite. I normally enjoy reading your posts and I kind of hate to seem to hammer on this, but it seemed so fundamental to your position.
  21. ashbury
    I muddled through writing a lengthy response to an earlier post, only to discover after posting that several others had answered more concisely. So I'll summarize my thoughts by saying that sure, once you have a Blackburn under contract, you may as well maximize what you've got. But that doesn't mean shying away from better talent acquisition under some misguided notion that strikeout pitchers don't go deep into games. Because, they do.
  22. ashbury
    Yeah, my bad. I somehow misread what you wrote, to mean that this was the threshold for being happy with him and his princely two-year salary. Snark withdrawn.
  23. ashbury
    Sorry, I missed the reference until you spelled it out, dude.
  24. ashbury
    *sigh* Joe Benson, my adopt-a-prospect for 2013, is no longer a top prospect. C'mon Joe.
  25. ashbury
    Hippie.
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