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  1. ashbury
    "Pitching wins games." Simple. That's all I was responding to. I don't disagree with your more nuanced position.
  2. ashbury
    Three teams won 100 or more games in 2023. Those three ranked #7, #13, and #15 in the majors in ERA. They ranked #1, #2, and #7 in runs scored. Make of that what you will.
  3. ashbury
    "Logan Morrison was on the Orioles?"
  4. ashbury
    Minor quibble, 2020 was the Covid year and he played reasonably close to a full season in the majors; moreover, there wasn't any "down" to come up from, or vice versa. 😄 FangRaphs shows him with 2 minor league options remaining now.
  5. ashbury
    He didn't have many RBIs, either. 😄
  6. ashbury
    Never trust Google Translate, or you'll end up telling a Hungarian his hovercraft is full of eels. I checked with a genuine Canadian (admittedly from Toronto, but he's not an uneducated boor like me) and he says "walk" is ""but sur balles". Only now do I realize I should have asked for the plural, "walks", so I'm not sure if it should be "de" or "des" in your version, but he'll really wonder what's wrong with me if I go back and ask again.
  7. ashbury
    "Most valuable player assets." "Through the scope of team-building." "The vision of building a champion." So the premise seems not so vast as to demand a dynasty, nor so narrow as to say we're going for it in 2024. Vague but bounded. I know the intent isn't to belabor the absence of Buxton, until Nick publishes another article on that particular topic, but I have to say that if the goal is to set up the Twins for a championship sometime in the next several years, several years of Buxton (even with the high risk of injury) moves the needle more for me than one year of Kepler, for example. I don't see Buxton in the top 10, but probably somewhere in the high teens.
  8. ashbury
    What would we be looking to receive from Seattle, for Polanco? My assumption had been pitching, but if they have parted with Ray does that leave them feeling they have surplus arms to trade from anymore? They have 5 guys they presumably like, but do they want to part with any?
  9. ashbury
    The Mariners also traded away Robbie Ray, so do they still have excess pitching they would consider parting with now?
  10. ashbury
    "So was I."
  11. ashbury
    Spring Training, I believe.
  12. ashbury
    Many moves remain under the radar because they never reach liftoff. Dangit, we passed up this guy when we drafted Keoni Cavaco.
  13. ashbury
    And, a bit north, if you want people from the extended San Francisco Bay Area to think you are a complete goober, call their big city Frisco, whydontcha, just like my dear mother-in-law from Chicago.
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  15. ashbury
    Or, to add a hall of famer from the Twins franchise history, Goose Goslin.
  16. ashbury
    One can construct balanced trade proposals that both teams would say no to. This seems like such a proposal.
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  18. ashbury
    I find it hard to envision a contending team looking at him as a third baseman; it's the same arm there as got him booted off of shortstop. Even at second base his arm makes every grounder an adventure for the poor guy covering first. The bat's good, if the health holds up, but I find it also hard to see a team offering a major league ready starting pitcher for him as a centerpiece; as Cory says above, significant additional pieces would have to accompany Jorge.
  19. ashbury
    On that inaugural Twins team in '61, Billy Martin's first name was only a nickname. His name at birth was Alfred Manuel Pesano, Jr.. He got the nickname "Billy" because it sounded like "Bello" or handsome, as I recall it. His mom took the last name Martin later on. Camilo Pascual was mistakenly thought to be Little Potato, due to a mis-translation of his Havana nickname of Shorty. You could add "Kitty" Kaat to the list.
  20. ashbury
    20/20 hindsight. Some injuries are "obvious" what needs to be done, say when you tear an ACL or break a bone. But many others are in a gray area where "let's try rest first" is the physician's recommendation. In Buxton's case they tried light/partial duty, and it didn't work, but this outcome doesn't mean it was "obvious" in April or May or June or July, whatever you consider to be "early." I'll say that if I were in charge, I wouldn't repeat the same approach in 2024. If he's not good to go in CF, then he DHes for one game and otherwise sits, and if he sits for more than a couple days then he goes to the IL. The DH-to-save-him-for-October approach did not work. But that's not because it was obvious going into 2023; we have 2023 to go from, now.
  21. ashbury
    According to b-r.com he was never traded in his entire career. Granted free agency five off-seasons in a row. I would "hate" getting released, too.
  22. ashbury
    Ha ha, mention a New York team in your headline and watch the page hits roll in, ha ha.
  23. ashbury
    The resolution I would ask of the team is to teach the young lefty batters how to cope with lefty pitchers, at least as well as Max Kepler and (yes) Joey Gallo were able to do last season. All of Kirilloff, Wallner, Larnach and Julien put up putrid numbers (OPS below .500) against left handed opponents, and I remain convinced that those numbers do not truly reflect their talent, merely a missing bit of coaching on how to deal with challenging pitches coming from that direction. Wallner in particular I know is a very tough guy, from observation at the Arizona Fall League with Chief a few Novembers ago when he took a pitch on the jaw* and yet came back to play some more in the AFL with no decrease in performance; there is no reason he can't learn and the others should be able to too. Left handed hitters you don't have to platoon for would raise the floor for this team by a lot. They already murderized righty pitchers for the most part. * No more tough than Kyle Farmer this season, just a bit luckier
  24. ashbury
    Thank you for referencing SkiUMah Toilet. I just wasted ten minutes viewing a selection of those TikTube videos.
  25. ashbury
    So among lefty-hitting, early-draft outfield picks, there are good players, and bad players, and others in between, and with luck Jenkins could be one of those types. All righty then!
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