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  1. ashbury
    I wanted to switch away from sabrmetrics but my wife won't let me.
  2. ashbury
    LaTroy's little brother? Or wheelchair joke or voice-synthesizer joke, but maybe that's just me. Imagine the digitized voice offering "well then, how about Ramos for Capps?"
  3. ashbury
    Unless you've played the game at some certain level, you have no business on a discussion forum. We get it already.
  4. ashbury
    Maybe he would have had a better second half in 2012 if he hadn't been suffering from morning sickness.
  5. ashbury
    That's a nice fact to know.
  6. ashbury
    Those guys did not have enbough talent.
  7. ashbury
    I was referring to 2009, when he stopped pitching after August. I assume he would have been unavailable for any post-season work, which is a prime reason for acquiring a talent like him, even if the Mets fortunes didn't work out that year. I think you're right that his 2010 season also ended early, this time with a career-interruption.
  8. ashbury
    And then it's Lannan's choice with whom to go, so if there's bidding for his services you take a chance on losing out. Question then is whether it's worth paying his arbitration-based salary in 2013, to assure having his services.
  9. ashbury
    I think there may have been a contract issue involved. Without the DFA, Lannan was likely due a raise over his $5M 2012 salary, by either the Nats or whoever acquired him. Once he was DFAed, he could sign with anyone for any (lower) amount. In any case, all this moaning over a pitcher whose K/9 is on a (low) par with other pitchers who can't miss bats that we love to complain about, and who did not do well in AAA, baffles me.
  10. ashbury
    The parallels look intriguing until you get to that last sentence. Hopefully the talent in the 2013 pipeline turn out better than Naulty, Roberts, Serafini and Miller.
  11. ashbury
    We keep talking about signing players who can later be flipped. Then here we are with Lannan, characterized as decent but simply an odd-man-out, and the Nationals weren't able to do anything with him except DFA him. This doesn't add up.
  12. ashbury
    Does heavy reliance on this pipeline sow the seeds of 40-man roster trouble down the road? I already commented about that in regard to Santana. Maybe you are just proposing a little more of this, like one or two. If you have to hang onto a dozen young players on whom the jury remains out, because you signed about four of them every year for several years, then it doesn't seem sustainable.
  13. ashbury
    Santana is probably one of the prime examples Ryan uses when talking about the risks of multi-year deals. The Mets probably loved the contract, up through around August of the second year. After that, it got scary for a year, and then the two years following have been a virtual waste of the money.
  14. ashbury
    I'm no Correia apologist, but he doesn't have much to do with this trade. Lannan spent the year in AAA and did not distinguish himself at all, while Correia contributed at the major league level. If we're asking why Ryan didn't get something else in the Span trade, it may be because both the Twins and the Nationals view Meyer as a potential front-line starter and Span even-up was the correct deal, and Ryan wasn't interested in trying to add mere filler if he'd have to give anything whatsoever to the package.
  15. ashbury
    > By the end of the session, Diamond's second in as many days, Pinto was crouching almost on top of the plate. Obviously, he won't be allowed to do that once the games start They should petition for this. It could be a good way to shake the Twins pitching staff up from their usual pitch-to-contact ways; and aren't pitchers always looking for ways to take a few feet off their fastballs? Hopefully the catcher wears an extra-heavy-duty helmet.
  16. ashbury
    Could be a trade neither team would go for. From Boston's perspective, Bogaerts looks like a sure thing, while Buxton will become one only after another good year. Harrison has potential but there are questions about his glove, while Santana is a 40-man roster issue because he was signed so young and looks not close to ready yet. From the Twins' perspective, being in rebuilding mode, Bogaerts would be huge at SS, but if all three of their current players develop according to plan then the team is probably stronger in 2016 by keeping them all. As always, it comes down to first-hand talent evaluation so Terry Ryan and his scouts hold all the cards over an armchair-GM like me; if they see ceilings on Harrison and Santana that will limit their major-league usefulness, then it's close to just Buxton for Bogaerts and probably they'd go for it. My take is that this wouldn't happen.
  17. ashbury
    Love this kind of analysis. Moar!
  18. ashbury
    I can't put my finger on it, but there is something wrong in the analysis leading to 102 wins.
  19. ashbury
    Too much to hope for from a guy who has never pitched 2 innings in a season in the major leagues.
  20. ashbury
    /rimshot
  21. ashbury
    A slight variation on the comments already made is that Gardy will want to remember what a prospect was like if roster moves later on are being discussed, including September callups.
  22. ashbury
    Maybe it never occurred to Ryan to ask for a pitcher he didn't think has the goods, a view that Washington later seconded.
  23. ashbury
    We're slipping... no one has snarked yet that they stay in a Motel 6 just outside of Oconomowoc? Because, you know, the Pohlads are teh cheapness?
  24. ashbury
    The article indicates the "twinge" in his elbow occurred after he already had been putting up mediocre numbers in Rochester. Maybe there was already deterioration and the twinge was the final injury. Granting he was only 23, it's still a reason I'm not on board with the idea that he'll suddenly be our ace. At this point, he has a chance to be a major leaguer, and I'm not confident of much else. An ERA of 5 for 2013 is well within the range of possible, all things considered.
  25. ashbury
    > if all is going great, the team can jack up the price of the ticket to whatever the market will pay. Let's say some season, probably not 2013 but who knows, the Twins come out of the gate much stronger than expected and by July the Twins are the hot ticket in town. Tickets fixed-priced at $32 suddenly will command $45 or $80 or whatever, on the open market. Maybe *you* aren't willing to pay $45, but the people who will are pricing you out of seeing games. Scalpers swoop in and buy up as many tickets as they can, pocketing $13 or more per seat. Question is, why should scalpers get that profit, and not the team? I don't know for sure that part of the money will go toward paying ballplayers if the team rakes it in, but I do know it won't go to the players when the scalpers get it.
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