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  1. ashbury
    They're not counting his church league softball game last Sunday night.
  2. ashbury
    And fewer than three outs when it's their turn.
  3. ashbury
    As expected.
  4. ashbury
    "You have to EARN that sponge, son."
  5. ashbury
    / edit - ninja'ed by RickOShea, though maybe I get some points for artistic merit
  6. ashbury
    Welp.
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  8. ashbury
    Fastballs flying all over the place today.
  9. ashbury
    Given the opponent, tighty Whities?
  10. ashbury
    If you set the over-under at 3.5, I'll take the under. I.e., the Lo-Pez. / edit - ninja'ed by Chief, and better at that
  11. ashbury
    If someone other than Vazquez were behind the plate today, say Garver or Jeffers or Sanchez, we'd be complaining about the inability to block pitches in the dirt. I'm personally not seeing the elite defensive magic that our off-season signing brings.
  12. ashbury
    Thanks Byron. Now all we need is 4 shutout innings from our bullpen to win this thing. ('Cause we ain't scoring in the 9th and won't score in the top of the 10th if we get that far. I think this offense will manage to push the ghost runner home in the 11th.)
  13. ashbury
    I've never had high expectations, and every time I start to believe, he looks pretty hittable. Maybe he can take one further step to improve consistency from game to game, and thereby achieve his ceiling. Until then, I think of him as just another guy in the bullpen, nowhere close to a top gun or elite arm.
  14. ashbury
    I rarely see much daylight between woba and ops+ as tools for analysis.
  15. ashbury
    That could be selective memory. b-r.com shows 30 Twins plate appearances with the bases loaded, and 5 strikeouts. The majors as a whole strike out 24.5% of the time in that situation so far this season. Make of that what you will. I think it still comes back to small sample sizes, when looking for answers. Yet I do believe there is a problem underlying the results. No, I don't know how to frame it as yet.
  16. ashbury
    Larnach can be sent to the minors while Kepler can not, and since Kirilloff already has a spot on the 40-man it's not necessary to trade Kepler abruptly. Larnach has had his moments at bat, like a couple of key sac flies that don't show up in OPS, and his stats with men on base are way better than when the bases are empty, but his leading the team in RBI seems more an outcome of opportunity, and others with similar opportunity have been putrid. His defense has been better than I expected. All in all, though, I'd option Larnach if Kirilloff is raking at AAA a week from now - I want better than a .705 OPS from my corner outfielder (not that Max's .741 is markedly better). Basically, it's the move that can be revisited later, versus an irrevocable one.
  17. ashbury
    Sub-par performance in all respects.
  18. ashbury
    I was expecting it to become a blowout on Pagan's watch, but surprise surprise.
  19. ashbury
    Pitching Change: Jovani Moran In Play, No Out
  20. ashbury
    If you're not going to bring Pagan into a blowout situation, when can you?
  21. ashbury
    Don't worry. Some other month our guy will have the greater number of wins, and they'll award it to a Yankee based on ERA or OPS-against or K/9.
  22. ashbury
    Warning to other teams: you can not hope to stop Nick Gordon, you can only contain him for a while.
  23. ashbury
    The versions of baseball I know of before the 1870s didn't usually permit fastballs. Well, perhaps in games played by ruffians for money, but such were not contests of skill, merely brute force.
  24. ashbury
    That's why I don't use ERA as my main way to judge relievers. OPS-against makes great sense to me. And on a game level, I like to see "clean innings" from relievers - no walks, no hits, no nothin'. Not that I expect good relievers to shut down the opposition every time. But if you are good, then on a regular basis you should be able to get three batters out in a row and tip your cap to the crowd and call it a successful day. Jax had a clean inning yesterday. Good for him. I took a quick look back and it was the first clean (full) inning for any reliever in several games. That's not good. Put runners on base, bad things will happen. For the young season, our relievers not named Emilio or Jovani have had good OPS-against. But lately the trend has been worrisome. And they're not throwing clean innings most of the time.
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