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  1. ashbury
    Cardinals show heart and tie it up. Can they complete the comeback in extras?
  2. ashbury
    I was just messin' around. 😁
  3. ashbury
    Scoreboard watching in April!
  4. ashbury
    They gave up sole possession the day the Twins clawed their way into a tie. Now they're clinging to what's left.
  5. ashbury
    That one was meant more light-heartedly than you may suppose. I save my diatribes for actual threads. 😁
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  7. ashbury
    Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, uh, your chapped ass, man.
  8. ashbury
    Rocco must be sitting in his recliner chair in Woonsocket feeling pretty dumb right about now. Either that, or grumbling into his ice-cold Narragansett, "well, sure, if they'd given me a roster like THIS."
  9. ashbury
    11 reactions | “I Got You Babe” / “Hallelujah” #mashup #leonardcohen... WWW.FACEBOOK.COM “I Got You Babe” / “Hallelujah” #mashup #leonardcohen #cher #sonnyandcher #igotyoubabe #hallelujah #acapella Not sure I enjoy the mashup, but did one composer borrow the another?
  10. ashbury
    It just part of the fun!
  11. ashbury
    Ran across news of the death of a still-young ex-Viking due to a car crash. https://nypost.com/2026/04/13/sports/former-nfl-player-chris-payton-jones-30-dead-in-a-florida-car-accident/
  12. ashbury
    Very efficient offense, several of these last games.
  13. ashbury
    Batting Average is incredibly important. But if the topic is "pop" in the bat, BA contributes a lot to the slugging percentage (and again, rightly so for the purpose of counting total bases). I would look at a stat like ISO which separates out the extra-base component of the hitter's contribution, and lifetime Arraez is .096 vs Martin .088. League ISO is typically more like .150 or .160, so I wouldn't say either player has much and the distinction between them in terms of "pop" is minimal compared to the gap from them to just an average player.
  14. ashbury
    Small Sample. Small Sample. Small sample. He's drawing walks right now at a higher rate than Aaron Judge and Juan Soto, who led the majors last year - power has something to do with their success at that. Martin's batting average on balls in play is like Aaron Judge's last year. Without power, these numbers won't be sustainable - pitchers will just start throwing him strikes and take their chances on a more typical non-HoF BABIP, and the overall value will start to normalize. Two SB and three CS add to the picture of "less value than apparent."
  15. ashbury
    ... Chicken Dinnah!
  16. ashbury
    Here ya go. Rick Astley
  17. ashbury
    Even if he homers in his last at bat, that poor decision on ABS might have been the final nail.
  18. ashbury
    Clemens is a good example to consider. He didn't actually start out hot last year but in mid-May reached a high-water mark of 1.034 OPS after 68 PA. The rest of his season, consisting of a more representative 318 PA, was a very pedestrian OPS of .649, in line with his pre-Minnesota track record of OPS .666. These hot streaks happen, and good for him, and they benefit the team - but don't bank further on them. Gray's track record has no full season in the minors, where the pitching is easier to hit, with an OPS above .815, so the OPS this season of .979 at this writing (mid-game today) likewise looks unsustainable. His hot streak has happened and good for him, and it has benefitted the team - but don't bank further on it. (Enjoy it if this hot streak at the baseball craps table continues. I certainly will.) There's no rush. He'll have the rest of the AAA season to figure out something if he can. I had hopes for him, but he's currently unplayable and with 13-man rosters you can't have someone with that tag on him. DFA tomorrow? (Hoping this is a reverse jinx for the rest of the game today, for his sake.)
  19. ashbury
    GRAY !!!! The other team can not hope to stop Tristan Gray - they can only hope to contain him.
  20. ashbury
    If the playoffs started tomorrow they'd be in as a Wild Card. I call that Now In Contention. 😁 They may fall out of contention shortly, of course. Smart money might even be on that side of the bet. Me, I'm slightly nervous about my dire prediction of 61 wins this season, but they may well come through in the course of time.
  21. ashbury
    At ease, soldier.
  22. ashbury
    Ipse Dixit, and Appeal to Authority for good measure. Don't you read my blog here? (In case any other readers don't get the original joke, such as it was, it's that a few years ago professional baseball recognized several Negro Leagues from the era prior to Integration as true major leagues. And Brock's playing along satirically.)
  23. ashbury
    Well yes, but I think the article may have covered this point to some degree. 😁
  24. ashbury
    If the discussion is the majors, I just took a look on b-r.com, and in 1946 almost exactly one-third of players were in the Negro American League, and/or the Negro National League - not all the players were American but a lot. In 1932, the ratio appears to be even higher. In 1920, the first year that this kind of analysis can be done, it was still pretty high. There are years that conform to what you have in mind, but it may be necessary to go back further than you expected.
  25. ashbury
    The Twins Desperately Need My Mental Version Of What Kaelen Culpepper Could Be When He's Promoted.
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