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  1. ashbury
    Li'l bit of a cheap shot, I'll admit, and the current FO has never quite plumbed the depth's of Terry Ryan's self-pitying "sometimes you can't get free agents to take your money". But Correa and Donaldson, even at their prices, both in retrospect look like maybe weren't being competed for due to perceived warts on their overall resume. And Donaldson in particular proved to be expensive to get rid of; so would Correa although the situations aren't similar and it hasn't and probably won't ever come anywhere close to that for Carlos. So I'm not sure I'd use either of them (or Christian Vazquez for that matter) to deny that when a free agent is highly sought after and competed for, the Twins won't come out on top. Yet they want at least a little of that PR love that comes from being "in on" a player.
  2. ashbury
    (Barney was managing, not pitching, by that time. And I didn't really mean to do a threadjack, with my little flight of whimsy.)
  3. ashbury
    The 1930 squad would be better remembered today if they hadn't had to deal with the juggernaut Philadelphia A's who also beat a great Cardinals team in the World Series that year. And they won just as many games as the 2010 edition, in a shorter schedule to boot. Bump Hadley, General Crowder, and of course Joe Cronin, all deserve to be held up as franchise icons. They should be number #10.
  4. ashbury
    Acquiring established top of the rotation pitching is the hardest thing a FO can do.
  5. ashbury
    Replacing a bullpen arm whose innings were managed in the second half as carefully for low leverage as Pagan's is not the place to start when thinking about next season's bullpen. In fact it's about the last. They need to bring in a couple of live arms, and then figure out the shifting tactics of using all 8 in the bullpen at any given time. A year from now we might find that someone ended up with a usage profile like Pagan's 2023, or maybe not.
  6. ashbury
    Crazy thought: the guy who led the team in innings there in 2023, maybe?
  7. ashbury
    Is there any evidence for or against the idea that Martin will be, you know, actually good in center field? I mean, Chris Parmelee was given some innings in CF too, once upon a time. I know he's reputedly fast, but does Martin take good routes? Does his weak infield arm somehow play up as an outfielder?
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  9. ashbury
    He's played a grand total of 9 innings in CF across the past two seasons. If Max logs 30 games in center, something has gone terribly, terribly not-according-to-plan.
  10. ashbury
    Key is just the wrong word. Wildcard might fit the situation better. If by some unlikely miracle Buxton has a full season of what he showed in pieces 2019-2022, he could be awesome. That's a wildcard for planning purposes.
  11. ashbury
    The annual pageant of being "in on" this or that player who is clearly out of our little-town team's budget. "Darn, we just missed. And gave him a competitive offer, too."
  12. ashbury
    I'm going to give it some time before deciding whether to laugh.
  13. ashbury
    Good point, "Old-TImey Member."
  14. ashbury
    Miriam Webster. Noah accepted input from his wife during his life's work, I suppose, but I thought her name was Rebecca. Maybe this was a cousin instead.
  15. ashbury
    I hope he works on his baserunning technique, more so than simply being cautious. I don't think I've ever seen such awful slides from an otherwise talented athlete, as he has showcased for us from time to time, some of which looked like a miracle that they didn't result in torn structures of one type or another. Can't speak to similar concerns about how he patrols the outfield grass, but there might be a few things likewise that court trouble, I'm not gifted enough to spot subtleties like some of the blatant basepath stuff.
  16. ashbury
    I was thinking about that too. They lose someone: "Woe is us!" They lose no one: "Woe is really us!"
  17. ashbury
    Rule-5 guys invariably earn Major League minimum salary. So had the Twins filled up their 4 open spots on the 40-man this way, we'd be using that as evidence of miserliness instead.
  18. ashbury
    He'd better not be key to the FO's offseason planning. They should find a solution like MAT was in 2023, and then treat any CF contributions from Buxton as gravy.
  19. ashbury
    The long-rumored move to Nashville is happening. Target Field will be taken apart and shipped on a fleet of flatbed trucks headed for Tennessee. Ultimate impact on the Minnesota Twins still TBD. They are looking at existing facilities in Anoka.
  20. ashbury
    Here's an explanation (from 2019 but it's probably nearly the same today): https://www.milb.com/news/the-rule-5-draft-explained-311955076 Basically, after the major league phase is completed, each team can protect 38 more players in the minors. The same rules of eligibility (number of seasons played, depending on age when they started) apply, so no recently-drafted or recently-signed prospects can be drafted in either of the phases.
  21. ashbury
    Not nearly as uneven (or downright paradoxical) as the raw stats would indicate. His BABIP at AA was absurdly low. Seemingly the Twins FO took that into account and promoted him to AAA anyway, where he suddenly reversed his BABIP to a likely unsustainably high value. His real potential is probably somewhere in between and if you deduct a factor for what he would do if promoted another level higher to the majors, it's not totally surprising no one took a flyer on him.
  22. ashbury
    Twins take no one, lose no one, in the major league portion of the draft. They've taken a pitcher and catcher in the minor league phases, but these usually are just organizational fill.
  23. ashbury
    Look at the nonsensical contracts being handed out. Why aren't we being aggressive too?
  24. ashbury
    I think of it as the GM's "you're wasting your time and mine" list. More succinct ways to state that have already been rejected or would violate site standards.
  25. ashbury
    Can Keirsey play in the majors? Probably. Can he lock down a 4th outfielder role? Uncertain. Would he do as well as MAT in extended duty in CF in case of injury to the starter? IMO no, either with the glove or with the bat. Hard to envision another team investing a 26-man slot on that kind of ceiling.
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