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  1. ashbury
    It was one of those "mutual" options, and those almost never suit both parties involved, a year later. Sort of like declaring being BFFs in middle school. 😀 His contract was for $8M last year, and the option carried a $4M buyout by the team. In effect he was paid $12M for 2023, and had no say in continuing the contract for 2024. That said, apparently no bridges were burned, carrying out the business side of the deal, and they were able to reach agreement on $3M (plus an equal amount of incentive pay) for 2024. 2023: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/12/white-sox-in-agreement-with-mike-clevinger.html 2024: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/04/white-sox-to-re-sign-mike-clevinger.html
  2. ashbury
    Thank my son Cashbury who works there.
  3. ashbury
    My post was full of my usual annoying qualifiers (if, maybe, don't have an opinion), and I explicitly said MAT spoiled us last season, so to say "call judgment" seems like an overreaction. I left lots of room for the possibility Martin improves in center - but the man just turned 25 years of age so it's not as high a likelihood as someone younger. Perhaps another Gold Glove type of player right there in the same clubhouse can mentor him. Teams with intentions toward contention should keep the caliber of play we saw on Sunday in CF to a minimum. Martin's stylings on defense didn't by itself cost the game on Sunday, but in a closer game it could have. If this were a rebuilding year for the Twins I probably would feel differently; but we've all been through enough of those seasons, by now. Learning the ropes in CF needs to occur in the minors and it's regrettable if that hasn't happened for him yet. If Martin was part of the team's off-season depth plan at CF, they seem to have seriously misjudged, for the opening series anyway. Or else their intentions are just pretensions of contention.
  4. ashbury
    This. Or that.
  5. ashbury
    That would be a desperation move None of Duarte's MLB organizations have given him a start, even in the minors, since he was 19 years old.
  6. ashbury
    This article is revisionist history. The Twins intended for DeSclafini to compete for the rotation, and expected him to be healthy. Mind-reading is not my forte, but when a well-connected beat reporter (Do-Hyoung Park) states that "[t]he Twins believe DeSclafani is healthy, and he could perhaps push Louie Varland out of the starting rotation," I'm inclined to take him at his word as to what insiders told him. https://www.mlb.com/twins/news/twins-trade-jorge-polanco-to-mariners-in-5-player-deal The Twins believed he was healthy. It didn't prove to be so. That doesn't change the thinking at the time, which this article tries to portray.
  7. ashbury
    MAT comes to mind for sure. I don't have an opinion on Margot as yet. We got spoiled last year with Taylor as backup, on the defensive side anyway. It's not just range, not even the routes, it's the surehandedness to close the deal on a challenging fly ball like that one. Martin tracked it okay but couldn't close the deal; maybe it's just a matter of more experience, particularly at the wall, but that attempt marked him for me as Not Ready If Ever.
  8. ashbury
    This one is in the running for worst game of the season so far.
  9. ashbury
    Burn the device while you are at it, just to make doubly safe.
  10. ashbury
    Uffda. This one is in the running for worst game of the season so far.
  11. ashbury
    Welp, like others, I'm off to do more compelling things than watch this travesty. We got a foot of snow last night and I'm now out of excuses for not dealing with it.
  12. ashbury
    It's unfair and the umpire really needs to step in and correct the obvious cheating. KC put a major league pitcher on the mound. Ringer.
  13. ashbury
    Welcome, and good first post. Hopefulness is always gladly received by every poster here. 😀 Pitching could be good. We have some good starters. There are hopes that the front office has assembled a reasonably strong bullpen. Some are, ahem, more skeptical than others.
  14. ashbury
    Who replaces Ober in your rotation? It's going to take a while before his ERA descends below 4. 😀
  15. ashbury
    I think I'd rather still have Berrios in the game today than Martin, TYVM.
  16. ashbury
    Skill and poise. Both notable by their absence today.
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  18. ashbury
    Funderburk, WTF.
  19. ashbury
    Yes and no. An offense can't bury the team for an entire game in just the first two innings. Ober did.
  20. ashbury
    Dis-concur. If you have a BP pitcher throwing useless offspeed pitches, miles from the plate, you get another BP pitcher.
  21. ashbury
    Clearly the game is out of reach unless the bats really come alive and nothing else bad happens while KC is up. So Rocco is trying to preserve the pen, and asked Ober to do the reliever's job and just get through some more innings. And in response, yes, Ober relieved himself on the mound, all right.
  22. ashbury
    Pete Maki's got a project to work on in the coming week.
  23. ashbury
    Perez can't score from first, against that arm? The old man is SLOW.
  24. ashbury
    Held Perez to a single. Progress.
  25. ashbury
    Oof. Difficult play in CF there. But ultimately, catchable.
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