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  1. ashbury
    This is great. Can you also give me a heads-up as to the day I should sell short on crude oil?
  2. ashbury
    Finally! Someone willing to speak up with unalloyed optimism!
  3. ashbury
    Pretty ding dang good stuff! I haven't taken any of those through-the-chain-link-fence photos in a while and maybe next year I can make is a priority to get back down there to Ft Myers.
  4. ashbury
    Despite all my snark these past couple of years, I would happily attend this event and enjoy the fun if I weren't 2000 miles away tomorrow (and every) afternoon.
  5. ashbury
    I used b-r.com's Stathead feature to refresh my memory, and the 1998 edition rolled out players like Marty Cordova, Todd Walker, Otis Nixon, David Ortiz, and Ron Coomer (still trying to man the hot corner!). The metrics don't appear to have been kind to them. Let's hope our guys this year don't given them a run for their money.
  6. ashbury
    61. I have no money wagered on it.
  7. ashbury
    Second prize: two pairs of tickets.
  8. ashbury
    So now we need a seventh?
  9. ashbury
    Little known factoids: Wee Willie Keeler was only one inch tall, and Eddie Gaedel was measured by physicians in the negative numbers.
  10. ashbury
    That's fair. But at this writing, it's no longer working for him. I can't tell him what to do, but can only report my own experience. My time in slo-pitch would have been cut short* had I tried it his way. * Er, uh, even shorter.
  11. ashbury
    I believe you're right. I must have been thinking of cases where a 10-day list guy was transferred to the 60-day and the days so far would count against the 60. But if the player wasn't on the 10-day then probably retroactive isn't allowed, and in any case the retroactive portion couldn't be nearly as long as all of Spring Training. I'll trust Zoll and crew to know these rules backward and forward.
  12. ashbury
    Already is. The 60-day comes back into play around the time pitchers and catchers report, give or take. The Twins official roster already reflects his removal. https://www.mlb.com/twins/roster/40-man I believe new assignments to the 60-day can be retroactive to that first day of camp in February, if the injury legitimately dates back to then and they've just been monitoring hoping for improvement. Festa could be such an example, though I'm not sure. It puts a player on track to return to action around mid-April, rather than a full 60 days after the start of the season. Unless rules have changed or I simply misunderstood, either of which is possible.
  13. ashbury
    Also too, the vast majority of Gallo's positive offensive output that season came when his teammates already had secured a lead; his batting average was under .140 when the score was tied or the Twins were behind. As Casey Stengel was reputed to say, you could look it up.
  14. ashbury
    Kody Funderburk turns 30 a few days after the Twins WS victory parade.
  15. ashbury
    Particularly noticeable are the ads for, "be a caretaker". 😀
  16. ashbury
    Last season there were exactly 3 pitchers with 200 IP and they all sported ERAs 3.22 or lower, so the last definition would mean essentially no innings eaters at all, just three aces. Above the 175 IP threshold only Zac Gallen was above 3.81, and his was 4.83, so he just barely missed your criterion for eating innings and all the rest were too good to be called that and were just mid-rotation guys. Above 150 IP there were 70 pitchers, and including Gallen I see 17 guys with ERAs above 4.20. (Keeping in mind that league average last year was 4.15.) I think the mark of an innings eater is that his manager keeps running him out there despite not being hugely successful, so I would suggest changing the point of view to the ERA being a lower threshold and not an upper one for the role. You can pick a different lower bound than the 4.20 that I used for counting purposes above, but in any case there are only a relative handful of innings eaters if you use that number of innings as the lower bound. I might suggest looking also at guys between 100 and 150 innings - too low to qualify for the ERA title - and who compiled an ERA above 4.50. There were 19 guys like that - pitchers who kept getting the ball and who kept scuffling. They were arguably there to soak up a percentage of the team's innings for the year.
  17. ashbury
    Is there a definitive list/roster of who is still in camp and vying for an Opening Day spot? It can't be very many higher than 26 by this point, can it?
  18. ashbury
    100? Pff. Make it 200.
  19. ashbury
    This year's edition is shaping up as the team that finds a different way to lose each game. Chandler Simpson not only hit 0 homers for the Rays last season, but has hit only 1 of them in 1197 minor league Plate Appearances; try and find that way of losing on your bingo card. 26 players on the regular season roster; 25 spots on a standard bingo card. I'm thinking only Buxton or Ryan might be exempt - Austin Martin by way of contrast strikes me as the Free space in the center of the card, as he's bound to find some wacky way of confounding expectations at some critical point in a game.
  20. ashbury
    Mental gymnastics? Strikes me as General Manager 101. And I'll repeat, the stakes on this decision are low. Am I concerned? No. Do I like to play Armchair GM? Sometimes yes.
  21. ashbury
    I think it's more complicated, even though the stakes are ultra low. If the FO sees the choice between the two players as being close, then a consideration is which move has the best chance of keeping both, one of whom would be at AAA. If you DFA Kreidler, then what are the odds someone claims him? If you keep the status quo, what are the odds that Arcia opts out?
  22. ashbury
    Not corner outfielders. We have 'em all.
  23. ashbury
    The Twins lack an honest to goodness fight song. This article points up the need.
  24. ashbury
    Has he tried throwing with his right hand? I'm no pitching coach, but most people do better throwing from that side.
  25. ashbury
    These guys have the over. I'm taking the under. Sorry I can't be constructive anymore. This team's a mess.
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