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  1. ashbury
    Just goes to show how crucially important it is to get the right hitting coach.
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    Wow, four pitches from Gomez, three outs.
  5. ashbury
    Such as the choice to use Funderburk rather than Rogers yesterday? Maybe these are 10/10 pitching choices. 😉
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    How much do you think a contender is willing to shell out for a guy they can reasonably expect to fade by the time the post-season starts?
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    Connecting the two clauses I highlighted, don't you think there is at least a teensy risk that statistical bias was introduced?
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    Cruz was indeed a late bloomer, but in AAA at age 27 (same as Sabato) he was putting up an OPS of 1.123. Granted that Oklahoma City tends to inflate batting numbers, but we're saying the same of all of AAA these past several years. Sabato has a ways to go before Nelson Cruz becomes a meaningful comp, which you acknowledge, so I'm not quite sure the real point of invoking him.
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    You also said we're all just effing around. This is a game thread, where that goes double. Enjoy.
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    Noam Chomsky says Appeal to Authority is the worst logical fallacy.
  11. ashbury
    Yes.™
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    So we're in agreement, no pitcher on the 40-man was claimed on waivers. Which is what I said but you wanted to play gotcha or something. As I went on to say in a followup post, IMO this is actually worse than waiver wire pickups. We know this franchise is perpetually strapped for resources. That they spend any resources at all on these marginal guys means they are not devoting those same resources to something more productive. The fact that an occasional pickup seems to work out for a while has to be weighed against the bad results on the field while sifting through. They're trying to find the pony in the pile.
  13. ashbury
    No, that's not how it works. Once a player is on the waiver wire they can't be taken off. The cash considerations were to persuade the other team not to do it.
  14. ashbury
    From the post-game: "yeah, thought about [bringing in Rogers] a little bit but just decided we're going to go with Fundy there and, obviously, it didn't work out." Story of the '26 bullpen. No good options.
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    But he is not an Out man.
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    He's a Good man. Not an Out man, by way of contrast.
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    I think it's fair to look at least skeptically at those last-inning runs. The Rox had a six-run lead when they brought in Zach Agnos and his 7.21 ERA. The Twins raised an additional lump on him and he exited at 7.71. Had the Rockies not extended their lead against Funderburk and then Raya, it's reasonable to suppose someone else would have pitched the ninth for them (I don't know the Rockies and a glance at their '26 stats don't reveal who they believe in). I don't know how to define a metric, and I'm sure every team scores nearly meaningless runs facing subpar competition over the course of a season, but I maintain that a lot of the supposed strength of this club's offense is as substantial as a field of dandelions gone to seed. It's fine with me to say that the Twins scored two legitimate runs today.
  18. ashbury
    Jeffers is in the I'm Heading To Free Agency camp.
  19. ashbury
    I would not like to see Trevor Larnach wither. ("Wither? I've never even met 'er.")
  20. ashbury
    C'mon Martin, 3 to tie, 4 to .... dang it.
  21. ashbury
    Goodman has more HR this season than Ohtani. As expected.
  22. ashbury
    If by that you mean improve his range at shortstop, I'm all in.
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    "That's my teenage daughter, you jerk." Man, if I had a nickel for every time ....
  25. ashbury
    Yes, because if a player is considered a defensive liability, it means he makes zero plays the entire season.
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