Jump to content
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

ashbury

Verified Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    42,487

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    471

 Content Type 

Profiles

News

Minnesota Twins Videos

2026 Minnesota Twins Top Prospects Ranking

2022 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

Minnesota Twins Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2023 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

The Minnesota Twins Players Project

2024 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

2025 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker

2026 Minnesota Twins Draft Tracker: Picks & Bonuses

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by ashbury

  1. ashbury
    Fat Matt Capps, for the loss.
  2. ashbury
    There's lack of power and then there's lack of power. I don't think pitchers are afraid to throw strikes, because yes he might get a hit but it won't be for any extra bases at all. Unlike most hitters with a good average, I don't think Ben can decide to be more selective and draw more walks - not enough pitches out of the strike zone (though, I have not looked up anything to back up that guess).
  3. ashbury
    With some guys you could hope for a better batting eye, but Revere seems like a guy who a pitcher always wants to be in the strike zone with. Good stuff on your pitches of course, but even if you make a mistake down the middle he can't hurt you with an extra-base hit. Can't really manufacture many walks out of that.
  4. ashbury
    After the Twins cut him, he was signed by the Yanks. On June 2, it says, New York sold his contract to Baltimore. That seems very odd, between divisional rivals. Kind of a courtesy move, more like what you'd do for a last place team in the opposite league that needed a spare part, that I can't envision happening between Detroit and Cleveland for instance. And Baltimore's not even a cellar dweller this year.
  5. ashbury
    There's always that possibility. I'm basically agreeing with you, that it's a very odd thing for a pitcher to have said, so I'm inclined to think it can't be taken at face value. Even if he does throw first-pitch strikes, it's reverse-reverse psychology, in my overwrought way of looking at it.
  6. ashbury
    And a righty on the mound no less, with reference to the other discussion on Morneau's woes against southpaws.
  7. ashbury
    When you said it was a scoreless inning I figured a couple of hits or something. But, just one 1 walk. That means you've got a no-hitter going.
  8. ashbury
    It might be what you want them to hear if you're a poker player, or even a chess player. I took a look at yesterday's pitch-by-pitch log at espn.com, and the first time through the lineup the first pitch was a strike every time. Afterward, the first pitch was a ball as often as not. Gamesmanship, I think.
  9. ashbury
    In the four starts where he has allowed a home run, he is 1-2 with a 4.56 ERA. Here's what's sad: this ERA would still be second on the team among all the pitchers who have started games, just behind DeVries 3 starts at 4.20.
  10. ashbury
    I agree. I expect the thinking is that he's been effective enough (just a bit below his effectiveness against righties) through most of his career, and this is the last hump to get over in his rehabilitation. I note that the year after his MVP season he tailed off rather sharply, and most of it was due to a sudden drastic downturn in hitting lefties. (Nowhere as bad as this year, of course.) It would be interesting if there was any "organizational memory" of what went on that year, and how it got corrected in 2008.
  11. ashbury
    In the stock market, there are fundamental analysts and there are technical analysts - one researches what is behind the company, the other watches for wiggles in the stock price and tries to gain insight from that. Both are valuable. Most of what's on TwinsDaily qualifies as technical analysis, good in its own way, but Parker gives fundamental insights that really buttress anything technical. Kudos.
  12. ashbury
    I wonder if Gardy is the type of manager who growls about "don't tell me about every ache and pain" when a player or trainer brings him such news, and then growls that he wasn't informed when the problem turned out to be serious. I suspect "I can't get loose" happens every now and then during warmup, and sometimes the pitcher probably gives up a run or two in the first inning then seemingly settles down because he finds a way to get around the discomfort or it just works itself out on its own. Yogi Berra has the apocryphal quote that pitchers are all liars and crybabies. I suspect many managers share that view to some degree; they can remember cases where a pitcher said he wasn't sure he'd be able to last even three innings today, and then throws a shutout. I really hope Gardy isn't guilty of second-guessing here.
  13. ashbury
    You're right. I actually thought I was posting my little rant in the game-day thread. Maybe I'll go duplicate it over there.
  14. ashbury
    Golden Boy?
  15. ashbury
    What we are missing is any sense of the number of times pitchers "can't get loose" during warmups and struggle through a first inning where they give up a run or two, then things work out better and they get through 5 or 6 or 7 innings all right after all. Some of this discussion strikes me as pure second-guessing, for a case where things worked out about as badly as possible.
  16. ashbury
    Am I correct in thinking that both these players are just over 16 years old? While it's exciting to get a talent like Sano, it's also something of a commitment to making a potentially difficult decision a few years down the road if the player turns out to have a somewhat lower ceiling. I forget how many years these younger players can remain off the 40-man roster, but at an age of something like 21 or 22 you can be in the position of deciding whether a player, who is younger than some of the college guys you are about to draft, will ever make it or not. Too many of these and your 40-man can become a little clogged with players who are not close to making a contribution to the major league club, and this can limit your maneuverability for trades or for callups. Or, the alternative becomes that you invest 5 years or so into a youngster and then wind up cutting him anyway, only to see him develop eventually into someone's fourth outfielder or useful relief pitcher, or even better.
  17. ashbury
    I may have missed someone else stating this point of view, but Thome's 4th inning homer increased the lead from 7-3 to 9-3. When the home team is already getting stomped, and this now just adds to it, it makes it much more forgivable IMO to stop concentrating on the home team winning and appreciate any secondary aspects to the game such as individual accomplishments. Applauding a fan favorite in this manner seems classy, not lacking in home spirit. No one could know in the 4th inning that these would be the last two runs the Phillies would score in a one-run win. I really doubt that the same ovation would have occurred if, say, the homer had happened in the top of the 8th or 9th to retake a lead.
  18. ashbury
    http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=4417132 "[slama] sustained the injury last night [June 6], when Norfolk's Miguel Tejada lined a comeback off his right leg in the sixth inning."
  19. ashbury
    We both really went there? Guess we did.
  20. ashbury
    Was the medical staff alerted to wheel out the oxygen bottle to meet him at third, for when he eventually arrived?
  21. ashbury
    That would be epic.
  22. ashbury
    Thome singles to shallow right, two runs score. I assume no throw to the plate was attempted by Revere.
  23. ashbury
    Old Timers Game, 2032. Blyleven will throw him a meatball from his walker just for grins.
  24. ashbury
    Ryan should work on thoroughly gruntling Valencia first, then.
  25. ashbury
    Man, you do NOT want to think about what replacement level means at a high school. Ninth grader, thick glasses, no signs of puberty yet ... geesh.
×
×
  • Create New...