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  1. ashbury
    When's the last time a manager was fired holding a winning percentage above .550?
  2. ashbury
    Larnach!!!!
  3. ashbury
    I look forward to seeing the umpire scorecard after the game.
  4. ashbury
    Twins situational pitchers are pitching afraid.
  5. ashbury
    My only change would be to make them DIShonorable Mentions for LVP.
  6. ashbury
    You monster.
  7. ashbury
    I'm intrigued by Carson Benge, OF, Oklahoma State (15). Quite the overachiever to be in college already at such a young age. 😀
  8. ashbury
    By the numbers you might think this Twins offense is top-8 based on a nice runs per game that has been boosted in recent weeks. But then they face a good pitcher not having an off-night, and they put up two runs in six innings, and none in the four innings of relief they faced including a 10th inning gift runner at second. They run up the score when a good pitcher has a bad game, or against pitchers who don't belong in the majors in the first place. And, if they make the playoffs, guess what kind of pitchers they don't face very often? Despite the potential we've been seeing for years, this team still doesn't know how to shift strategy and "find a way" against a pitcher who is making his pitches. Yesterday they stuck with Plan A, apparently, and scored one homer for two runs as a result. I don't have a specific remedy to offer but that's the job of the batting coaches, and probably the others involved in strategy.
  9. ashbury
    I don't know.
  10. ashbury
    Tonight our batters face a very tough opponent in Logan Gilbert. I wish the Twins had traded Polanco for Gilbert last off-season when I suggested it, instead of Desclafani. No way the Mariners were trading Gilbert for any conceivable price I would agree to, and certainly not for Jorge alone.
  11. ashbury
    Glad to see we've got a game thread for tomorrow already up. 😀
  12. ashbury
    Twins batters are indeed getting hit a lot, leading the majors or close to it. But their pitchers are around the middle of the pack for hit batsmen, so it's not like they're shying away from pitching inside. I'm not in favor of retaliation in most cases.
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  14. ashbury
    So you have had, how many, days to research this important topic and come back to us empty-handed?
  15. ashbury
    Why does Vazquez's chest protector have green on it?
  16. ashbury
    This article would be tongue-in-cheek except I have it on good authority that Lou Hennessy had an emergency glossectomy performed several months ago.
  17. ashbury
    We gotta protect Willi Castro from crazy swings at changeups!
  18. ashbury
    Stop rotating your head and you'll notice I'm just covering all the bases. 😀
  19. ashbury
    Yeah, but that 20-9 game in St Paul last Sunday is a little difficult to look past.
  20. ashbury
    Apparently the talent evaluators aren't bothered by the three home runs in his final two AAA starts. This is always a case where I don't bother trying to form an independent opinion. His overall stats look good enough this year and if the guys who earn a living watching players say he's ready, I'm not going to argue against, nor second guess if he lays an egg his first try in the majors. I'm just a fan.
  21. ashbury
    Imagine Trevor Bauer saying something like the following, 50 years from now. I said I would never want to do it again.* I walked into restaurants and they would point at me and say, ‘The rough sex guy can’t eat here.’ I would go to a hotel and they’d say, ‘the rough sex guy can’t stay here.’ We went to a country club for a welcome home dinner for the team and they pointed me out with the R-S words, ‘he can’t come in here.’ The owner marched the whole team out. … Finally, they let me in there and he said, ‘We’re going to go eat hamburgers. We’ll go where we’re wanted.’ Quite the trail-blazing pioneer, eh? * paraphrasing Reggie Jackson's comments the other day about Birmingham, of course
  22. ashbury
    https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/23/sport/trevor-bauer-woman-charged-fraud-spt/index.html He has had multiple accusers. This one is named Darcy Adanna Esemonu. There is also a Lindsey Hill, who as far as I know is not involved in legal proceedings now.
  23. ashbury
    Wonder which AAA team has the highest payroll this year?
  24. ashbury
    Looks like Jackson is accepting the minor league assignment. No surprise, he'd have to be pretty mad at the team to take a pay cut to play somewhere else. Not that $1.3M (plus the $200K buyout) the Twins are on the hook for is that huge, but money is money and the difference is a lot to walk away from.
  25. ashbury
    If the complaint is that defense isn't included, tell me a defensive stat that everyone agrees with, and we can improve WPA by using that. To the degree that the individual events correspond to what the fan experiences, I think WPA usually stacks up pretty well. The batter gets credit for a base hit. He loses credit for a strikeout. A strikeout to end the inning with runners on base and a close score, well, don't we groan when that happens? Adding them all up during a game tells one story, listing individual numbers tells another - but for those who call it a garbage stat, nothing TD does will satisfy them. (Individual events will almost always favor the batters, won't they?) Margot getting thrown out at third base to give Royce Lewis an undeserved additional negative score for what should have been a fly out is just noise in the system, by comparison. That kind of stuff evens out during the course of a long season. But people want to throw it all out instead of looking for the information that does get imparted.
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