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  1. ashbury
    What kind of prospect haul is some team going to offer at the deadline?
  2. ashbury
    More comfortable now, 4-2?
  3. ashbury
    He walks a lot in any situation, but yes.
  4. ashbury
    Julien stands to set some kind of record one of these days by getting charged with an Error by the official scorer when there's nobody on base and a putout is made.
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    Just need to know where to look. b-r.com has stuff like that. Career splits for Joey: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.fcgi?id=gallojo01&year=Career&t=b#all_bases Man on third, less than two outs, there are 154 plate appearances. 6 HR but only the 3 sac flies as Chief stated.
  6. ashbury
    Arguably the best $7,500 the Cincinnati Reds ever spent. I mean, you try and acquire 2.5 WAR for that bargain price.
  7. ashbury
    Did that already, 10 years ago, and never looked back.
  8. ashbury
    Yabbut, see my followup missive two up from yours. Which is the joke and which is the serious take? Dun-dun-DUNNNNN!
  9. ashbury
    Wallner is on the roster because he's the perfect complement to Buxton. The latter right now is a glove-only player who doesn't take the field, and our young guy is a bat-first player who doesn't come to the plate. Genius platooning!
  10. ashbury
    God grant me the serenity to accept the opinions I cannot change, the courage to change the ones that I can, and the wisdom to cancel that first request and blast every incorrect view to absolute hell! -- Reinhold Notreallybuhr
  11. ashbury
    Troubled by others holding opinions contrary to your own? Ask your doctor or pharmacist if The Internet is right for you!
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  13. ashbury
    I'd like to see Wallner in there tonight too, but the approach of the trade deadline makes roster tactics take precedence, unless we have a sure Cal Ripken being blocked by Pedro Florimon or whoever. I'll wait two weeks to see what if any return is gotten. If both Kepler and Gallo are still on the roster on August 2 and with poor performance blocking Wallner and Larnach both, then my pitchfork is ready and I know how to light a torch.
  14. ashbury
    There's a reason he hasn't put up big innings pitched numbers: he's been placed on injury status (scroll to the bottom at the linked page) so many times 2021-23 that the Guardians renamed it the Aaron Civale List, in his honor. Send them Mahle for him. They might accept him, TJ surgery and expiring contract and all, as the better injury risk.
  15. ashbury
    He's got outfielders who stand on that side of the plate, I'll grant him that. Unless, that is, he pronounced the word "o-fers." Those, he's got.
  16. ashbury
    I think you know what I meant by "crippled". Crippled by overt action in July. Perhaps "consciously depleted from current levels" would be more accurate? Yes, the OF is not what the FO thought they were drawing up in the winter. In any case, I don't see this as a WS winning team either, and fixing that on the fly is too expensive. I just want to field a roster in the post-season (if we have one) that is representative of what got them there. It's kind of like when minor leagues have a playoff between the first-half champion and the second-half champ, except the first-half team no longer even faintly resembles what got them there. I'd like that our presence in the post-season not be described as bush league.
  17. ashbury
    League-wide in 2023 the usual platoon splits are in evidence: Our Twins exhibit the same trend, except our lefties are even more extreme and just aren't hitting, period: "Now tell me one I haven't heard," you say? https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/split.cgi?t=b&lg=MLB&year=2023 https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/split.cgi?t=b&team=MIN&year=2023 (Ignore the yellow markings - I screwed up taking the screenshot and am too lazy to redo it.)
  18. ashbury
    Gah, I double posted somehow. Mods, feel free to delete.
  19. ashbury
    Personally I'm somewhere in between the extremes on what to do at the deadline. I don't believe our post-season chances are very good and changing that outlook would be super-expensive, so any "buy" actions should be for expiring contracts and only if it can be accomplished with assets like rule-5 eligible prospects who may not be protected this year anyway. It might not be possible to swing any trades like that, and probably I'm fine with such outcome. But conversely I do think our chances of reaching the post-season are good, and in that situation I do not want to enter Game 1 with a crippled roster; I think that's an insult to paying fans in attendance. So, no to trading away Gray at pretty much any conceivable price. Perhaps we can interest another team in 25-year old prospect Seth Gray? All this assumes no ridiculous offers, in either direction and about any player. Of course I'd listen to those. Chip and a chair doesn't quite describe my view. Just, play the hand you're dealt. The AL Central determines my view for 2023.
  20. ashbury
    Let the Cubs eat Bellinger's remaining salary, we'll eat Gallo's, and trade them even-up. Fair and square.
  21. ashbury
    Yes we swept Oakland but each of the games looked like it was in jeopardy and the sweep might have gone the other way. It's maddening not to put away an opponent of that caliber when you can. It's like watching the box scores for Dallas Keuchel in his time with St Paul so far - yes the ERA is shiny, but he's allowing runners on base (or putting them there, WHIP 1.4) and just generally not putting away these AAA hitters like you would hope for someone who may turn out to be needed. The results in both cases are what you want, but the forecast of how it would go against the next level of competition isn't as rosy. I think that's where the glass half full / glass half empty discussion is coming from. We swept Oakland, yay, three wins closer to the post-season, against teams who won't be Oakland.
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  23. ashbury
    If I were chief of baseball operations for a team, I'd try to rein in the urge to micromanage, but I'd set out a general principle to my GM that anyone not on his 40-man at age 25 and above is either at AAA or else has been given The Talk: "we think you might be a good coach someday, and if you would like to continue your playing career until then we'll find a spot for you to work with the younger players coming up and teach them your good work ethic by example." And then I'd want my GM's monthly written report to me to contain a section on "25-year old non-roster player progress" for the occasional exceptions to this rule. IOW, concur. Why TF is Seth Gray or DaShawn Keirsey in Wichita? Make a decision - give yourself some meaningful AAA data to make that decision - and even if you guess wrong there'll be another crop of 25-year olds this time next year.
  24. ashbury
    This explains a lot about the "business" side of signing draft picks. #20 suddenly looks like a smart pick, at less than 10% chance he actually signs. I mean, by #20 you'd otherwise be picking someone not on any other team's radar anyway. So, go sign whoever you would otherwise have taken, as an undrafted free agent, and others, to fill out whatever low-minors roster gaps you still have.
  25. ashbury
    Living near Reno, I am always skeptical of gaudy hitting numbers in the PCL, and often intrigued by a starting pitcher who can maintain a 4.50 ERA there. With International League ERA sitting at 5.57 currently (PCL is 5.88) further re-calibration might be necessary; Oklahoma City Dodgers have a 4.30 team ERA, make some small trades and grab that talent! I favor automated ball-strike calls, but I think I've said for a long while that it will favor hitters and probably some slight tweak will be necessary to maintain whatever balance in the game that the powers that be deem desirable. Pitching is all about disrupting the batter, and taking away any type of uncertainty from the batter will be to his benefit. Pitchers will appreciate getting a consistent strike called on a daily basis, but will be dismayed that marginal batters suddenly stop fishing for previously borderline pitches as much. Anyway, congrats and good for you, Trey!
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