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  1. ashbury
    Dating back to the 60s, if hippies were to embrace any professional team sport at all, stereotypically it would be baseball. They certainly didn't care much for the violence and aggression of football. Baseball was mellow, man. Now here we are. CBD, THC, LSD. Bring back those Astros rainbow uniforms. The colors, man, the colors; who cares if they're all shades of orange and red, if you concentrate long enough you see the ultraviolet spectrum too.
  2. ashbury
    The trade was not complex, despite the headline. The idea of trading up-the-middle talent for up-the-middle talent was solid. They identified decently enough that Hicks would not be head and shoulders the best of that current crop of outfielders, and tagged him as the trading chip. But we got back zilch. One of the worst moves of Terry Ryan's career, and an absolute flop of player evaluation, at least on the catching side. Sound plan, botched execution.
  3. ashbury
    "Max, you just had a setback with that hamstring. Yes. You did. To the 60-day list you go."
  4. ashbury
    As I suspected, this morning b-r.com shows a positive .169 for Wallner in yesterday's game. The only Twin above zero, in fact. I don't know whether there's a different methodology in play, to account for the digit 5 versus 6, but yesterday's number was likely a transcription error with the minus sign.
  5. ashbury
    Don't know where the author picks up the WPA numbers on the same day of the game, but that Wallner outcome looks like a straight-up typo, or mistaken copy-paste from somewhere. I look forward to cross-checking with the game log on baseball-reference.com tomorrow. You're right to question it, but the instinct to blame the stat itself could be misplaced.
  6. ashbury
    Are you sure it's only two? I thought it would be more, but I found 4 games in his log where the win-probability-added was negative. That's far from a perfect stat, but for the purposes of identifying bad games for a reliever it's a decent place to start. It's not always the earned runs charged either - an inherited runner scoring can change the tide in a close game. Aside from those, WPA gave him a nearly neutral outcome when he allowed an inherited runner to score in that 16-3 laugher we won against the Cubs. "Only" letting that one run in but garnering two outs moved us closer to that win, LOL. Your general point that the majority of Pagan appearances haven't been implosions is right, though. The offense has been the culprit far more often than the bullpen, and Pagan isn't the only bullpen member who has produced clunkers. He's not "THE" problem with the Twins season. But that's a kind of low bar to set, isn't it?
  7. ashbury
    Days after us finding out. It happened quietly a while back, for some reason. Prior to last season, in fact.
  8. ashbury
    We're already down one when Pagan is available for duty.
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    Rocco's comments rarely are pointed. Today, while he threw no individual under the bus, his remarks were pointed. He's not a fire and brimstone manager, so one can smirk over his use of the word "disjointed," but there was depth to his meaning. How that translates to better performance, I can't say; this roster has its limitations.
  12. ashbury
    I don't know how well he tracks the ball when in the outfield - on the popup today it wasn't clear that he did, particularly on the initial jump. But in addition to tracking, you want your CF above all to be both decisive and correct*, and on that play he slowed up then sped up again, and that's going to cost now and then. He's only got 13 complete games of experience in CF so I wouldn't go so far as to say he can't play it. If he finds himself playing games again for St Paul, that would be a good place to hone the skills in center. * Jake Cave for example tended to be decisive but incorrect at times, which is probably worse than the other way around.
  13. ashbury
    This article aged well.
  14. ashbury
    I've had compliments before, thanks.
  15. ashbury
    Kind of a Catch-22. If Buxton becomes injured, then he shouldn't come back and play CF when healed. And if he's not injured, well, why mess with success?
  16. ashbury
    He's the complete package. It's rare to find a 14-tool player.
  17. ashbury
    I don't know if I said much at the time of his signing but I recall liking the idea of stashing in St Paul a youngish player who at one time seemed to have a ceiling of major league regular. His progression through his mid-20s suggested he was ready to contribute, and then he scuffled at bat for two years at the major league level after a fairly promising showing as a 23-year old in the weird Covid year of 2020. So he wasn't far from being an asset, and it's slightly surprising the Tigers gave up on him with a minor league option remaining. He just turned 26 and may be simply a late bloomer where it comes to major league performance. Their loss, our gain.
  18. ashbury
    .... against the meat of the Toronto lineup. The fact that this part of the lineup came up again in the 9th inning is the fault of the pitcher who succeeded* him by not taking care of business against the bottom of the order, not the fault of the bullpen strategy. * I use the term "succeed" loosely
  19. ashbury
    It makes my blood boil when people take a figure of speech literally.
  20. ashbury
    We got a taste of their strategy less than a year after they drafted Chase Petty.
  21. ashbury
    Given the change in pronoun, I will be pleased to bring you a wheelbarrow of our excess zucchini later this summer.
  22. ashbury
    If your stuff isn't swing-and-miss, you're just a guy in the bullpen and will suffer periods of what they call bad luck.
  23. ashbury
    Only catcher Cardenas and right fielder Kala'i Rosario are hitting worth a hoot in that lineup. Somehow CR is above .500 despite giving up more runs than they've scored. So far. Let's hope for an upswing, no pun intended, from the hitters.
  24. ashbury
    I'd need a considerable promotion to become an underling. Also, a paycheck signed by Falvey.
  25. ashbury
    Sadly, Las Vegas already has a hockey team, otherwise they could invite the Edmonton Eulers to move down and collaborate with this new E's franchise in some scholarly work The result could be transcendental.
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