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  1. ashbury
    Maybe try posting in a place the admins will see. There are instructions here:
  2. ashbury
    You were there too? How come you didn't stop by to say hello?
  3. ashbury
    Who else do you suppose the Pohlads have chosen as their supplier?
  4. ashbury
    b-ref.com splits page for the player provides another, related point of view. If you divide up his plate appearances between situations where the game is within 4 runs, or not within 4 runs, he racks up immensely more OPS value in the latter instances. Across the majors you might see 4-5% better OPS during garbage time, and that's sort of intuitive. It's not typical for a player to be 50% better. Almost all of Wallner's above-average OPS is built up when the game is more or less decided already. Without those PA he has a below-average OPS. It's statistically amazing, really. He's totaled just under 1000 PA by now, and the garbage time is basically 15%, but it's so off-the-charts that it moves up his overall numbers misleadingly. WPA is the only commonly cited stat I can think of that tips us off to look deeper into his splits. I'm not a hater. I'm a rooter. I'm rooting for Matt Wallner (and his coaches) to figure this out and make the majority of his appearances productive.
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    He gave up earned runs in five consecutive appearances Sept 10-19, The 10 ER in those five games account for a large proportion of the 36 he gave up all year. He closed out the season with four games of one-inning scoreless ball. Exactly how to cherry-pick the extremely bad stretch, I don't know - it all counts - but for forecasting it suggests more confidence in him going forward than maybe the aggregate season numbers suggest.
  6. ashbury
    Howcum Plouffe didn't sprinkle the pixie dust and wave the magic wand on himself, back in the day?
  7. ashbury
    Those article are coming soon - when players report to camp. All of the Twins will be injury-free for the first time in years, and they all will be reporting In The Best Shape Of Their Life™. Every single one. Enjoy reading about it.
  8. ashbury
    Yeah. You can find relievers that way. Problem is the opportunity cost and the time it takes (measured in seasons) to sift through the candidates. By the time you have identified a few, some of them are approaching free agency and you need to deal them away or lose them. In effect you're doing the rich clubs' dirty work - they skim off the cream of the crop and you repeat the process. Life as a bottom feeder team isn't glamorous.
  9. ashbury
    Here is a free idea for a Satire by RandBalls Stu. An opinion piece titled:
  10. ashbury
    He even had the TJS already - he'd fit right in.
  11. ashbury
    I want to add another snippet from Falvey's remarks in the article, because it hits hard for me. My two grown sons and I flew in from our respective corners of the continent to attend that series. I can only echo Derek's description. It was electric for us. A Twins memory I'll take to the grave. Derek says he'll never forget that; why weren't the Pohlads similarly moved? It absolves Falvey or Rocco of nothing, to say that ownership punted it all away when they right-sized.
  12. ashbury
    Were these quotes taken from a Bobby Nightengale column in the Strib a week ago? If not, where did the quotes come from? I presume TD didn't get an exclusive sit-down with the pitcher. Is providing attributions not a thing anymore?
  13. ashbury
    Pitchers probably have the arm for this position too .... range and hit-tool another story of course.
  14. ashbury
    A welcome to a new member. Welcome, new member! 😁
  15. ashbury
    In any normal version of reality, the Pohlads would have found a suitable buyer last year, decided that the price they were receiving was what the market would bear, and closed the deal. The new owners would have thanked Derek Falvey for his years of service to the franchise, but stated that they wanted to see the team move in a new direction, and brought in their own person for the big chair. The new PBO (of whatever title) would have thanked Rocco Baldelli for his years of service to the franchise, but stated that a new atmosphere was needed in the dugout and in the clubhouse, and brought in their own person to manage the team. The Twins, naturally, have performed these steps in precisely the opposite order.
  16. ashbury
    I thought it was Neil.
  17. ashbury
    I don't know, "Tom" in MN - ask the rest of your Pohlad clan what they have in mind. j/k Welcome to the site.
  18. ashbury
    Zoll's first press conference should be interesting. I don't recall anything until now telling me that he's ready for prime time. Nothing in the other direction either - he's been mainly a pleasant behaving cipher. Now it's go time for him, and the franchise.
  19. ashbury
    Got any tips on lottery numbers to pick, while you are on a roll?
  20. ashbury
    Maybe the Dodgers are in the market for another assistant executive and Rocco can put in a good word for him.
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  22. ashbury
    The speech he gave in Waseca was probably his undoing. Or was that the other guy I'm thinking of...
  23. ashbury
    That's my working theory also. Some small disagreement between Falvey and ownership escalated, lines were drawn in the sand, and next thing you know it's "You can't quit me, I fire!" That hypothesis will be discarded as soon as we learn further. 😁
  24. ashbury
    "Be careful what you wish for, you may get it." Strap in and buckle up, fans.
  25. ashbury
    I was hoping an actual Spanish speaker would explain, but absent that, I believe that because the letter 'J' is ordinarily aspirated* ('Juan') similar to an English 'H', then if someone wishes to name their child with the sound we are familiar with (sounding roughly like 'Dj' in some renderings), they include the 'h' after the 'J'. This is difficult to get across in writing and would be simpler face-to-face. But as an example, if you recall hearing our recently traded closer Jhoan Duran's name mentioned in broadcasts, it wasn't "Yo-hann" or similarly, it was more like "Joe-hann". That's what the 'h' does. Pereda's parents must have wanted his name pronounced about like Johnny is in English, so they included the 'h' so that people wouldn't guess and say "Yonny" or "Honny" or similar. I'm not 100% certain and if someone who knows wants to correct this explanation, I'd love to know. * I checked my understanding using ChatGPT and it tells me to say "voiceless velar fricative." I'm sure that will aid in everyone's understanding 😁
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