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  1. ashbury
    There are a ton of successful leaders in all kinds of business ventures who will attest otherwise. Looking backward is the elementary part of analytics.
  2. ashbury
    Are you intentionally channeling James T. Kirk with that line? Dr. Gillian Taylor : Don't tell me! You're from outer space. Kirk : No, I'm from Iowa. I only work in outer space. Anyhoo, same general story for me, here at TD.
  3. ashbury
    Congrats to Max Kepler for making baseball-reference.com's top-10 list of hitting performances for yesterday. A homer and 3 RBIs will tend to do that.
  4. ashbury
    Derek Falvey picked up the phone. It was one of his bird dog scouts in the Dominican Republic. "Boss, you gotta sign this schoolkid! He just struck out all 27 batters for a 9 inning perfect game! Only one batter got so much as a foul ball off of him!" "You numbskull," Falvey replied, "send me the name of the kid who hit that foul! I keep telling you, we need hitting!"
  5. ashbury
    Roster spots are kind of a precious commodity. but if the FO is ready to move on from some 25-year old at Cedar Rapids and also have a promising young arm in the minor league complex they are ready to try at low-A Ft Myers, then Culpepper has put himself in line for a promotion with his performance this year. As a college draftee, he's not super young, so keep moving him up if his current coach thinks he's mastered what he's at low-A to learn.
  6. ashbury
    The last time they fired a front office, it was mid-season. Unless we're going to get into semantics of "resigned" versus "fired". If they wanted him to ride out the rest of the season, he surely would have.
  7. ashbury
    Offense Wakes Up Late sounds like the beginning to a Randballs Stu headline for an article where the Twins had to forfeit. Glad that instead it was a winning situation.
  8. ashbury
    He's on the borderline for putting himself into the HoF discussion if he has a few more years at his established level of performance. At age 33, that's not a sure thing. And if you look at the proverbial Bus Test, I think HoF voters will see him below the borderline level.
  9. ashbury
    Big Sexy certainly managed to have a long career.
  10. ashbury
    Hitting is FUNdamental.
  11. ashbury
    It's been a Long Game Thread's, um, Afternoon. I've been postin' like a dog.
  12. ashbury
    Do You Want to Know a Secret? Sadly, it just may be.
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  14. ashbury
    Scoreboard watching is always fun during the pennant drive.
  15. ashbury
    KEPLER!!!!
  16. ashbury
    No WAY.
  17. ashbury
    CORREA!!!!
  18. ashbury
    Aside from his own wishes, Royals FO probably has a marketing department, and if they say Perez is one of only two or three bankable players for pulling in revenue, that has to factor in as well, versus what they could get in prospect capital via trade.
  19. ashbury
    That has been conventional wisdom for a long time. Raya is 170 pounds (according to b-r.com) so he is indeed small for a player, particularly a pitcher these days. Yet we go out and acquire 217 pound Chris Paddack and 210 pound Tyler Mahle, and they wind up with arm issues too. If there is one thing I'd like to be able to tap into MLB analytics, it is how different aspects of body type correlate to what kinds of injuries. I am certain that the better teams have gotten more of a handle than I have on it; and, possibly (certainly more importantly), more of a handle on it than our Twins do.
  20. ashbury
    At this writing the team OPS for the game stands at .220. As expected. "What's our record?" "32-32." "32-32. How'd we ever win 32?"
  21. ashbury
    I don't like the word "lucky" either. A W is a W is a W. But we haven't won a game by more than 1 run so far in the month of June. At this point with our offense, a one-run W is about the only kind of W to hope for. What I like better is "repeatable," and recent history isn't giving me that warm feeling right now. A bunch of things came together just the right way in this game, and they don't always.
  22. ashbury
    Listen to the video of Gray's post-game comments, provided in the above article. He implies it was the right decision - "kinda made sense to shut it down there." Gray's a battler and he's pretty much never going to ask to come out of any game, but this is how he phrases it.
  23. ashbury
    Wow, really threaded the needle for this win.
  24. ashbury
    No.
  25. ashbury
    It's a stretch to read "tension," as the subject line of this thread suggests, into the reporting. Those who believed Kepler should have taken second base are confirmed, both manager and player agree about that at least for public purposes, and that's about the substance of it. When someone is known for not throwing his players under the bus, it can have extra impact when he does speak in a negative way about that player's performance in a particular game. It's possible to read more into it than that, but risky.
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