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  1. ashbury
    I don't see how you pinch hit for a guy batting .500.
  2. ashbury
    Never could stand those Canajuns.
  3. ashbury
    Hm. After five innings, three hits. Mauer, Morneau and Florimon: One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other Ones...
  4. ashbury
    Dozier in the 8th slot makes for a potentially decent comp as well, unless you are forecasting really bad things.
  5. ashbury
    Not possible to edit an article? Not good form to change content in reaction to comments of course, but to fix a glitch seems worth it.
  6. ashbury
    Presumably we'd have to put him on the 40-man. Who would you drop? What's his upside?
  7. ashbury
    I had good luck hanging back and picking Mastroianni from the dregs left over, so I'll probably wait until we hear the official word.
  8. ashbury
    All right, my brother, maybe I'm being unfair, so let me go back to the first thing you said in this thread, which started me toward framing a response: > For me, (and I'm not even "down" on him, more "not sold on him") I just get a little nervous that there is a reason why Philly was so quick to give up on him so soon. So "a little nervous" isn't really understatement, you do mean only a little. Still, would you ever *not* say something like this about *any* prospect the Twins would ever trade for? Are you a little nervous about Alex Meyer, that there is a reason Washington was so quick to give up on him? Why shouldn't these teams be "a little nervous" that the Twins scouts have spotted a small tweak that can be made to turn these pitchers into even more than they have shown so far?
  9. ashbury
    Urban Dictionary: flop sweat
  10. ashbury
    To me, Burnett offers an object lesson in a problem with drafting high school pitchers. He was 17 years old at Elizabethton, and his progression through age through age 21 looked pretty nice. I forget the roster rules but at some point around then he had to be added to the 40-man. Even with all the concerns about his stuff, his record suggests a guy who will have a productive career age 26-30 or so. But a guy drafted young and not progressing faster than that, becomes expensive both in terms of the 40-man roster spot to protect him until he finishes developing, and in terms of salary when he actually becomes productive since he now has 3 years of service time already. We know drafting HS arms is risky, but Burnett is an example of a hidden kind of risk, where some other team stands to gain whatever benefit from your own lengthy investment of time and resources.
  11. ashbury
    Yeah, I'm more on the fence with him, but it's troubling that even when he was racking up the gold gloves he was on an All Star team only 3 times, and earned a couple of votes for MVP just one year.
  12. ashbury
    Well, it's basically my fault. I didn't see a thread for the day's game, I wanted to make a tangential comment that I didn't think was worth a thread of its own, and this thread was already discussing an aspect of the game so I thought it might fit. No intent to threadjack, but mea culpa anyway.
  13. ashbury
    And I guess if I'm hearing what you're saying, one would never make a trade with another team for a player who's been in the pros for more than a year.
  14. ashbury
    I for one learned something last season about the relative value of arm versus legs in that position.
  15. ashbury
    A lot less than I wound up getting, and I wasn't even trolling, honest. / except the part about Slama
  16. ashbury
    Almost every personnel decision could be seen in this light. For every trade, there's another team's scouts who gave it the green light to give up the stud your scouts say to get. For every draft pick except #1, there is a team ahead of you whose scouts said not to pick the guy your scouts want. For every free agent you succeed in signing to an offer, there are 29 teams' scouts who evidently weren't as high on him to offer as much. Ultimately, you can pay attention to the red flags, but trust in your scouts more than the other guys'.
  17. ashbury
    I have an opinion on whether a Civic is better than a Sentra, too, but what I really wish is that a 911 was in my garage.
  18. ashbury
    All your points are well taken, but don't really address my point, which is that when someone feels they have a legitimate complaint, being told it's even worse elsewhere doesn't likely cut it. I doubt your parents let you slide by pointing out that other kids in middle school were even worse. (Well, actually, maybe you *were* the kid my parents warned me about. )
  19. ashbury
    tl; dnr /
  20. ashbury
    Right, and I have no sympathy for second-guessers and bandwagon-hoppers. If Correia goes 16-9 with a 3.50 ERA there will be plenty of people saying they knew it all the time. Not me; I'll tip my cap to Ryan for spotting a pony in the pile that I missed. And if instead his photo wearing a Twins cap goes into the dictionary beside the word "mediocre", then we can ask Ryan to give several of us props.
  21. ashbury
    I don't know if you mean my post in particular, but I was more motivated by a perceived double standard. I doubt if such a pitching line would have drawn no comment had it been Deduno's name beside it, or Gibson's. Or Slama's.
  22. ashbury
    Oh crap. Now someone has to trick him into saying his name backwards so he'll go back to his own universe.
  23. ashbury
    I think this is not a totally rare position change for a young guy. Past a certain age it tends to go the opposite direction of course. Hope it goes well for him, though to me it somewhat smacks of desperation.
  24. ashbury
    > Welcome to the Internet. The comments here are tame compared to most. This is the argument I use when I work blue and get called on it, but I don't honestly expect it to hold sway.
  25. ashbury
    > And those overall numbers were dinged heavily by 52 terrible innings from Jeff Gray I won't do the research but I suspect most bullpens could locate 52 innings from one or two bottom of the barrel staff members to bolster their argument for a stronger year this year.
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