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  1. ashbury
    The Rays went to the World series leading the majors in SO. That wasn't a million years ago. Just 2020. Outs aren't good, every strikeout is an obstacle, but strikeouts correlate weakly with failure.
  2. ashbury
    The Tigers, who have scored the fewest runs in the majors at this writing?
  3. ashbury
    Frustrating series? How about incompetent series, at the plate anyway?
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  5. ashbury
    Yes but the proposed trades would all start with Kepler packaged with Pagan for some team's #2 guy.
  6. ashbury
    If I cherry-pick exactly the right way, I can come up with his 8 most recent games at .936 OPS. Not quite sustained, as yet. But more than a couple. But, expand to 11 games or shrink to 6 and it's hard to keep calling the numbers a success, with OPS down in the .700s and at AAA so the major league equivalent would be worse. Like I said, I cherry picked.
  7. ashbury
    When the team has a winning record, even if there's a sense sub-optimally, the manager has to weigh "don't rock the boat" with all the other factors. As we slip below .500 though, it becomes time to rock several boats.
  8. ashbury
    SS01 is one of the less-satirical posters here on TD. I really think his response can be taken literally, as a good start for Lewis to follow but maybe there's more?
  9. ashbury
    To address the post with some seriousness: this topic is discussed in endless variation in other threads at this site, and yet, I don't think it is overplayed. Despite a few outbursts in a scattered few games, leading to a superficially decent total of runs scored, this offense can not hit major league pitching. It can take advantage when a good pitcher is having a bad day with his command, or AAAA types who don't have the command in the first place, but when an established pitcher is on his game, this team fails to hit. I believe they are coached on how to capitalize to the maximum extent on pitching mistakes; whatever strategy it is leaves them totally vulnerable when those mistakes don't happen. We see some of the young hitters do well at AAA and then stop hitting when called up. I don't know specifically why. Say it again: this offense can not hit major league pitching.
  10. ashbury
    The moment Buxton sings Put Me In Coach and Rocco finally taps his foot and hums along.
  11. ashbury
    If you don't go to other people's funerals they won't go to yours. Can you think of another word for thesaurus? Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: bananosecond.
  12. ashbury
    268 runs since last November. About a run a day.
  13. ashbury
    Someone else wrote your headline, then?
  14. ashbury
    Glad to see someone finally holding Terry Ryan accountable!
  15. ashbury
    Not to mention, Wallner's L/R splits this year do not show him to be incapable of hitting lefties. Last year, same*. As the old saying goes, I don't want right-handed batters, I want batters who can hit left-handed pitchers. (And vicey versy.) * If the team is going to let 18 PA during his September call-up outweigh much larger samples at AA and AAA I really don't know what to say about their analytics.
  16. ashbury
    No offense, but I take offense at this Twins offense.
  17. ashbury
    I watched him in Arizona last fall. He played in two of the three games I attended, one at SS and one in CF. He badly messed up a room-service DP grounder, so my view of him at SS is now set in stone. He was, unfortunately, completely untested in his game in CF, handling one or two can-of-corn flyballs at most, so I came away with no impression or opinion at all of him out there. Hopefully someone else here has more to add.
  18. ashbury
    I thought my bit of satire was self-evident, as the OP clicked Like on my message, but just so there's no misunderstanding: what I did was quote his own self-deprecating phrase, verbatim, after another poster or two had kindly pointed out that the loophole he thought he'd discovered had already been addressed by MLB's rules. I agree, there's no place for meanness at this site. Sometimes my sense of humor works at the edges.
  19. ashbury
    He wants starter's minutes, and then for his option for next year to be picked up. 🤩
  20. ashbury
    I somehow feel the urge to add, if the agent's saying it, then Royce himself is really saying it. Because never would it be the case that years later a player would tell his biographer, "I wanted to play CF but my darn agent wouldn't let me." 😀
  21. ashbury
    Gray won AL Pitcher of the Month. Only thing is, it wasn't our Gray.
  22. ashbury
    Package Kepler together with Pagan. I bet some unsuspecting team is dying to ship us their shutdown reliever in return. And then, we can sit back and watch Kepler engage in World Series heroics* for his new team, a la Eddie Rosario. * I realize, we non-tendered Eddie, not trade him
  23. ashbury
    Who do you propose play CF, without the names you slated for replacement, considering Buxton is too banged up at the moment even to DH, and Nick Gordon is out with a broken leg? Wallner and Larnach among your wishlist would be poor options there, and the other two aren't even respectable infielders at present.
  24. ashbury
    In the past 3 games their on base percentage was .281, .294, and (if I did my math correctly from the box score) .206. Not batting average, but OBP. The situational hitting they need is, "ain't nobody on base, see if you can change that situation."
  25. ashbury
    Unless they plan more rehab for him, 3 innings from Maeda does not suggest he's ready, at least not for the major league rotation. 45 pitches before being pulled, likewise. Bullpen, or more rehab time, seem like the choices.
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