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  1. ashbury
    Each getting a hit. Bring them up!
  2. ashbury
    I wasn't thinking about rosin specifically so much as rules in general. Maybe we see a couple of ticky tack balks called, for instance. Pablo gets squeezed on a few borderline strikes. "Rocco wants to play by the letter of the rules, huh?" Umpires don't like to be shown up.
  3. ashbury
    Then why ask him to wash it off?
  4. ashbury
    Any bets it won't be a Twins pitcher they suddenly take an interest in holding the hard line on? BTW I would love to know what Rocco said that finally got him thrown out. I'm thinking, "look, you have to throw me out, I can't go back to the dugout after this, just throw me out, please don't make me say a magic word or anything, just throw me out, I don't want to have to involve profanity or crude metaphors or anything, just throw me out, I will if I have to, but just throw me out, I ask this man to man but, just, please, throw me out."
  5. ashbury
    If Journalism is the first draft of history, then the comments section at a website might be at best the first draft of journalism. And then what you replied to was my poor first draft of that. 😀
  6. ashbury
    While you were typing up your fully justified response, I was amending my post to say much the same. Better?
  7. ashbury
    I hope the Twins' hands are completely clean (no pun intended, but I'll own it) before making accusations of others, even if justified. / Edit - I posted the above before realizing there were provided three separate videos of people who had been on the field, discussing the matter afterward. Rocco checked all the boxes for me with his remarkably disciplined remarks. In particular there were no accusations, and that's fine.
  8. ashbury
    It's exactly what the IL rule is for. A player tells the team he's not ready to go, a few days in a row, and they make a move that both lets him recover and puts someone else on the roster who they can use instead. Plus, they signed him for $11M a few months ago. They're not already looking for excuses to "get rid of him," for any length of time. If you didn't like the signing, then maybe you are. But why project your own negative spin onto the decision makers?
  9. ashbury
    Hard for me to view a 35-year old 10-year veteran as a diamond in the rough. Unappreciated gem maybe, but whatever polish he has acquired is about all he's going to ever have by now. That's nitpicking a headline of course, and I'm glad we have him. I didn't see much purpose to the signing when it was announced.
  10. ashbury
    Apparently not.
  11. ashbury
    A $30M contract isn't a king's ransom in this day and age, but it kind of moves Vazquez out of hidden gem territory.
  12. ashbury
    Being that his defense is not well-regarded, and his only way of being useful is as the short end of a lefty-righty platoon, it's probable that other teams feel like they have someone like him already. You know the saying of 5-tool players, "he can beat you in so many ways." Kyle Garlick can beat the other team in exactly one way, namely if a lefty is pitching when he comes to bat and the opposing manager doesn't make a pitching change to counter him. That isn't nothing, and maybe someone does claim him next time he's made available, but it's not such a unique skill that he has trade value. You DFA him, and hope he passes through waivers yet again, hoping also that he's happy enough that he doesn't elect to void his contract. I just checked, and Kyle seems to have a minor league option remaining. That does increase his value by a little bit, I suppose, if he's our 41st best player and some bottom feeder would see him as maybe their 37th best. (As always, but it bears repeating every so often: "IMO".)
  13. ashbury
    In the Not-Fun With Numbers department (and I brought this up in the Twins game writeup last night), I watched as much of last night's Mets-A's game as I could stand, and it finished 17-6 after I gave up midway through at 13-5. Took them 3:29 to complete, with Mets pitchers totaling 4 walks and 12 strikeouts, and the A's issuing 17(!) free passes and striking out 7, plus a couple of HBP and I forget what else. A total of 408 pitches were thrown, of which 228 were strikes. Pitches outside the strike zone are part of the game, but 180 of them to sit through? That's a pair of crisply pitched complete games for the two teams, just about - complete games where absolutely nothing happens except guys walking from base to base. Yeesh. It could have been worse: I mean, without the pitch clock shaving 10 seconds of wasted time per pitch, this could have been a 4.5 hour monstrosity, instead of the 3.5 hour monstrosity it actually was.
  14. ashbury
    Did you think the first inning of Thursday's beatdown of the Yankees was a little unusual? Well, I mean yeah, but in terms of something that had never happened before? A kindly member of SABR's Retrosheet project confirmed my conjecture that never have the #9, #1, and #2 batters in a lineup ever hit consecutive homers in the first inning. The lowest starting point in the batting order for three such homers prior to now was the #5 batter, done three times in history (once was actually a 4-homer sequence, just last year when the Cardinals beat the Phils). It takes an incredible string of good outcomes for things to only get really rolling with batter #9!
  15. ashbury
    Watching the A's local broadcast right now, 12-4 after five innings, 2:20 to complete even this much - Twins and Yankees were completed in this amount of time Excruciating, with walk after walk after walk. Some styles of play are not cured by the pitch clock alone it turns out. Mrs Ash wants to take a trip down to northern California in a couple of weeks and I am debating whether I am even geared up for taking in one of their games. I like the Twins 2023 edition better. Today's win over the Yankees was outstanding spectator entertainment.
  16. ashbury
    I tuned into that broadcast briefly, and turned it off due to the eyestrain. Ughhhh.
  17. ashbury
    More wins than losses, and contributions from the good prospects. Plenty to like!
  18. ashbury
    Just messin' with ya. Most typos are just typos. Some, they're funny to see.
  19. ashbury
    Probably set some kind of major league record by going from having 9 runs in the bank to only 2.
  20. ashbury
    It's a TD Game Thread, minus the Chief jokes.
  21. ashbury
    And a beta version at that, with plenty of bugs remaining to be found, much less fixed.
  22. ashbury
    You think it's a conspiracy? You think this is all just made up? Sure, sure. That's what they WANT you to think.
  23. ashbury
    Handwriting is on the Wall-ner, heh. Bad luck for him to not have gotten more than 11 PA, but he didn't provide instant offense, next please. Hopefully he keeps up his hitting at AAA and is given a better opportunity next time. Sands clearly seems destined to be sent down to make room for Varland. Apart from the 2 innings yesterday he's barely been used. No confidence from the manager, next please. If Megill ends up being Varland's replacement on the roster I hope he's used the same way Sands has been. He's not simply "break glass in emergency;" if used, he becomes the emergency, next please.
  24. ashbury
    Maybe a visiting team would concede if allowed, I don't know. A home team should never concede. Even if 99% of the paying fans have departed, the ones who remain deserve a show. Maybe a memorable sequence will occur in the bottom of the ninth, even in a losing effort. The fans who want to concede, have left. I'd feel different for low-cost or free contests.
  25. ashbury
    I wondered at the time also whether he was tipping his pitches. The Twins seemed ready to pounce on every offering.
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