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  1. ashbury
    Not to mention, Wallner's L/R splits this year do not show him to be incapable of hitting lefties. Last year, same*. As the old saying goes, I don't want right-handed batters, I want batters who can hit left-handed pitchers. (And vicey versy.) * If the team is going to let 18 PA during his September call-up outweigh much larger samples at AA and AAA I really don't know what to say about their analytics.
  2. ashbury
    No offense, but I take offense at this Twins offense.
  3. ashbury
    I watched him in Arizona last fall. He played in two of the three games I attended, one at SS and one in CF. He badly messed up a room-service DP grounder, so my view of him at SS is now set in stone. He was, unfortunately, completely untested in his game in CF, handling one or two can-of-corn flyballs at most, so I came away with no impression or opinion at all of him out there. Hopefully someone else here has more to add.
  4. ashbury
    I thought my bit of satire was self-evident, as the OP clicked Like on my message, but just so there's no misunderstanding: what I did was quote his own self-deprecating phrase, verbatim, after another poster or two had kindly pointed out that the loophole he thought he'd discovered had already been addressed by MLB's rules. I agree, there's no place for meanness at this site. Sometimes my sense of humor works at the edges.
  5. ashbury
    Package Kepler together with Pagan. I bet some unsuspecting team is dying to ship us their shutdown reliever in return. And then, we can sit back and watch Kepler engage in World Series heroics* for his new team, a la Eddie Rosario. * I realize, we non-tendered Eddie, not trade him
  6. ashbury
    Who do you propose play CF, without the names you slated for replacement, considering Buxton is too banged up at the moment even to DH, and Nick Gordon is out with a broken leg? Wallner and Larnach among your wishlist would be poor options there, and the other two aren't even respectable infielders at present.
  7. ashbury
    In the past 3 games their on base percentage was .281, .294, and (if I did my math correctly from the box score) .206. Not batting average, but OBP. The situational hitting they need is, "ain't nobody on base, see if you can change that situation."
  8. ashbury
    Unless they plan more rehab for him, 3 innings from Maeda does not suggest he's ready, at least not for the major league rotation. 45 pitches before being pulled, likewise. Bullpen, or more rehab time, seem like the choices.
  9. ashbury
    Hope he's okay after that collision.
  10. ashbury
    I'm not allergic to giving players one-game pressure. The post-season, should the team get there, is all about that kind of pressure. (For that reason, some of the logic* used to defend getting guys like Gary Sanchez, where getting him out of Yankee Stadium will turn his career around, has always seemed short--sighted. Great, we're in the post-season, now we head to... Yankee Stadium.) A right handed hitter like Garlick, on the short side of the platoon, had better have a microwave mentality and be ready to heat up instantly. *expressed by fans, not necessarily the FO
  11. ashbury
    FO reads TD and has been listening to you, and is giving Kyle his chance!
  12. ashbury
    We've already taken 2; today will be "of 4." 😀
  13. ashbury
    So, Why Didn't the Twins Unlock Yennier Cano's Talent? I guess the world will never know.
  14. ashbury
    Larnach. It's Larnachs all the way down.
  15. ashbury
    He threw only 90 pitches. The opponent's starter threw 95. The team whose starter throws the most pitches usually wins. Therefore: Leave him in! 😀
  16. ashbury
    I disconcur with my own unconcurrence of your concurrence in this important matter.
  17. ashbury
    Betteridge's law of headlines, in action yet again. Which means the answer can be inferred, without further reading, to be "No."
  18. ashbury
    Nor Gwynn. There was a chap named Carew, though.
  19. ashbury
    This is really quite amazing. He has been brought in 7 times with runners on, and has given up literally 0 hits in those appearances. He's walked a few (one each in 4 of the games). He has stayed in the game to begin another inning several times, so his total is 8 innings of no-hit work. Which makes his other appearances just all the more baffling. An OPS-against of close to .000 when brought in to bail someone out; closer to .800 (corresponding to an ERA above 5, usually) in other appearances, if my back-of-the envelope math checks out. Amazing, weird, or just a fluke of an up-and-down young pitcher?
  20. ashbury
    Out of five games, Holland gets pitcher of the day for a solitary 1-2-3 inning? I'm not going to pore through the box scores nor second guess this choice, merely offer this reaction: oof, bad day at the office for the Pitching Pipeline ™ 😀
  21. ashbury
    I enjoy these writeups because they could prove interesting and useful for getting up to speed if one of these players happens to get drafted. But using an early draft pick for one of these? I don't think so.
  22. ashbury
    According to Wikipedia "he signed with the Twins in 2009 for US$800,000, the largest signing bonus given by an MLB franchise to a European-born player." That's why.
  23. ashbury
    He did not live through the Fernando Rodney Experience like the rest of us, so, yes, inexperienced. 😀
  24. ashbury
    Meaning, to hit worse than he has since 2018, when he had a broken pinkie finger that kept him out two months?
  25. ashbury
    Ah, well then, if you pay good money then it can't possibly be a scam. 😀
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