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  1. ashbury
    Maybe our friend Peter is the Dr Jekyll to this poster's Mr Hyde. Has any of us been in the same room with both of them?
  2. ashbury
    I can't let that explanation of the ninth inning double play on Saturday pass. It had nothing to do with Josh Bell's running speed and everything to do with fundamental base running. Lee ought to have been more situationally aware as well, but Bell owned the situation in the first place. Kudos to Caratini for not straying and getting tagged out on the same play, I suppose. 🥳
  3. ashbury
    Three games after the 2025 All-Star break, the Twins were 48-51. Now in 2026 three games after the break, they're 49-51. Glad you're having fun and are excited.
  4. ashbury
    Their best chance to make it a post-season worth taking part in would be to win the division outright. Could be easier than getting the wild-card. All moot if .500 is too big a hurdle.
  5. ashbury
    They've been prioritizing catchers for a year now.
  6. ashbury
    Some rides are more fun than they look.
  7. ashbury
    Where Have You Gone, Ryan Kreidler? A Nation Turns Its Lonely Eyes To You, Woo Woo Woo Hm, maybe a little verbose for a screen name.
  8. ashbury
    I am curious what happens to the incentives in a contract if the player is picked up by another team. The salary itself is already covered by the team that released him. The bonuses hadn't vested at the time of the release, so do they just disappear? Surely not - a loophole would lead to shenanigans. So when the bonuses do get triggered, does the team that released him have to pay those too, or does the new team that signs him have to pay?
  9. ashbury
    Bickering.
  10. ashbury
    We keep giving you better ones but you aren't reading.
  11. ashbury
    If I counted correctly, the Twins are 21-16 in games Kreidler started. That's a 92-win pace. I wish we had more contributors with records like this, we might be in genuine contention in that case. You commented that people are "defending" Kreidler. That's silly; he's a utility player. We're just responding to bad takes.
  12. ashbury
    Productive out by Lewis, there. Good omen.
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  15. ashbury
    I dunno. At the moment he's 1-for-2 today. That brings him up to .188.
  16. ashbury
    I hate to say this in certain company, but Ryan Kreidler leads the team at the moment in OPS when the margin is more than 4 runs (either for or against, b-r.com doesn't differentiate), with 1.099, and it isn't close for second with Cody Klemens at .776
  17. ashbury
    Yes, because it seems like every time we do start them, the opposing manager obliges by penciling in a right-handed starting pitcher for us.
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    Jenkins is merely an additional factor if they want to bring him up - which they indeed may not. But in an era when one carries 21 pitchers, 10 outfielders (which Keaschall is now) just seems unwieldy as it is. You can play (bringing up and down) only so many of one type.
  20. ashbury
    The surplus is greater than you may think. Currently there are 10 outfielders on the 40-man roster, and space is possibly needed for Jenkins. Larnach is part of that glut, but so are several guys like Kyler Fedko, Gabriel Gonzalez, Alan Roden, and Hendry Mendez who may or may not even fit into the Twins' long terms plans. It wouldn't be "mortgaging the future" if any of these names go in a package to obtain a good rental arm. You could end up losing some of these outfielders for nothing if something isn't done.
  21. ashbury
    Also we're watching for roster moves these coming few weeks leading up to the trade deadline. I believe there are currently 10 outfielders on the 40-man roster, which makes it already a little out of balance versus the infield, and Jenkins has to be added if he is to play for the big club, which would make 11 (along with 3 catchers, 5 infielders, 1 DH, and 21 pitchers). At the moment the only position player you might try to slip through the waiver wire is Tristan Gray, but he's an infielder and doesn't address the outfield glut. Jenkins is worth moving people around for, but we'd be yelling about bad stewardship by the FO if, say, Gabriel Gonzalez were let go for nothing tomorrow. The right trade or two, and then we're good to go.
  22. ashbury
    The nice thing about Ryan Kreidler is that he doesn't cost $25,454,545 a year, and that's kind of who Bogaerts is now. 😁 Do we really have room on the roster for two players with the same skillset? Alternatively, would you pay $25,454,545 for seven years to Mason Miller if he were on the free agent market, which may be for longer than Miller will actually be with the Twins? That's in effect what you are proposing - except you're also giving up prospects for the privilege. If there is a new salary floor, other bottom-feeding teams will be faced with the same need to deploy new funds - they will use it on talent to help their team, we'll still be paying down Bogaerts's salary long after the talent that is Mason Miller is gone. I don't see how the $10M residual cost of Correa can be turned via ju-jitsu into a positive thing for also taking on Bogaets. The Padres would package Miller with Bogaerts only for salary relief, not to retain any or take on something new. I like outside-the-box thinking, but it needs to be in the service of creating some realistic new box no one ever thought of before. This one doesn't seem to accomplish that.
  23. ashbury
    How do you feel about my rendering of Uffda?
  24. ashbury
    He's either the 1B of the past or of the future, because it's been more than a month since he started a game there.
  25. ashbury
    No question this is true. Still, in post-season baseball, you get only a few days to prove yourself. Many times, a game will be win or go home. If this is even the slightest problem for a player, I'd rather learn about it during a "tough position" in July or whatever, than in October. I don't point fingers at any particular player as not being clutch. You can never know with certainty, in part because of small samples, in part because you can't look into the player's soul. Still, the nature of most sports or competitions is that infinite patience is not granted. The best course for players trying to establish themselves is "prove it." Then prove it again, and prove it again, until the sample is no longer small. Bad luck if they can't, and it's part of the game. The team has provided Roden opportunities against right-handed pitching. Maybe another team finds the treasure in our discards. You did go on to say much the same, but I think it bears reflection.
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