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  1. ashbury
    We can't have 27 active on the roster though.
  2. ashbury
  3. ashbury
    Yeah, pretty unconventional strategery there, with a righty on the mound.
  4. ashbury
    So that means keeping Kepler until close to the trade deadline. It's unlikely other teams offer anything of value until then.
  5. ashbury
    What's your alternative?
  6. ashbury
    Yes. Sorry if I was cryptic. My phrasing was unambiguous to those of us of a certain age.
  7. ashbury
    Got called E3 but that's a surprising hometown call on their own batter.
  8. ashbury
    So, does anyone remember who we got for Dobnak when we traded him to Houston? / ducking
  9. ashbury
    My dad in the Pacific Theater.
  10. ashbury
    I posted just as quickly as I knew how.
  11. ashbury
    LEWIS!!!!
  12. ashbury
    Pretty tricky, Chief.
  13. ashbury
    Okay. But Rule 5 is the gift that keeps on giving, or at least threatens to. At some point he'll be advanced enough that another team might be enticed, and yet not advanced enough to give our team an easy decision. I wish the league rules (and/or Basic Agreement with the players) were a bit more relaxed where it comes to young signees. I realize the rules are there to prevent deep teams from smothering a player's chances for too long, and also to give bottom-feeder teams some hope, but it feels out of balance to me - let the top-10 revenue teams help stock the bottom-10 revenue teams' rosters and leave my team alone. Anyway thanks for the fact-check.
  14. ashbury
    They extended him before last season, and for some reason didn't do a press release. We're only learning of it now.
  15. ashbury
    Promising. How long until they have to make 40-man/Rule-5 decisions on him. Pretty soon, yes?
  16. ashbury
    Dating back to the 60s, if hippies were to embrace any professional team sport at all, stereotypically it would be baseball. They certainly didn't care much for the violence and aggression of football. Baseball was mellow, man. Now here we are. CBD, THC, LSD. Bring back those Astros rainbow uniforms. The colors, man, the colors; who cares if they're all shades of orange and red, if you concentrate long enough you see the ultraviolet spectrum too.
  17. ashbury
    The trade was not complex, despite the headline. The idea of trading up-the-middle talent for up-the-middle talent was solid. They identified decently enough that Hicks would not be head and shoulders the best of that current crop of outfielders, and tagged him as the trading chip. But we got back zilch. One of the worst moves of Terry Ryan's career, and an absolute flop of player evaluation, at least on the catching side. Sound plan, botched execution.
  18. ashbury
    Playing the games is just a tedious formality, when you come right down to it.
  19. ashbury
    Print those World Series tickets.
  20. ashbury
    "Max, you just had a setback with that hamstring. Yes. You did. To the 60-day list you go."
  21. ashbury
    As I suspected, this morning b-r.com shows a positive .169 for Wallner in yesterday's game. The only Twin above zero, in fact. I don't know whether there's a different methodology in play, to account for the digit 5 versus 6, but yesterday's number was likely a transcription error with the minus sign.
  22. ashbury
    Don't know where the author picks up the WPA numbers on the same day of the game, but that Wallner outcome looks like a straight-up typo, or mistaken copy-paste from somewhere. I look forward to cross-checking with the game log on baseball-reference.com tomorrow. You're right to question it, but the instinct to blame the stat itself could be misplaced.
  23. ashbury
    Are you sure it's only two? I thought it would be more, but I found 4 games in his log where the win-probability-added was negative. That's far from a perfect stat, but for the purposes of identifying bad games for a reliever it's a decent place to start. It's not always the earned runs charged either - an inherited runner scoring can change the tide in a close game. Aside from those, WPA gave him a nearly neutral outcome when he allowed an inherited runner to score in that 16-3 laugher we won against the Cubs. "Only" letting that one run in but garnering two outs moved us closer to that win, LOL. Your general point that the majority of Pagan appearances haven't been implosions is right, though. The offense has been the culprit far more often than the bullpen, and Pagan isn't the only bullpen member who has produced clunkers. He's not "THE" problem with the Twins season. But that's a kind of low bar to set, isn't it?
  24. ashbury
    Days after us finding out. It happened quietly a while back, for some reason. Prior to last season, in fact.
  25. ashbury
    We're already down one when Pagan is available for duty.
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