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  1. ashbury
    Now that Indiana has won the Super Bowl I hope the Vikings can get moving with their off-season plans.
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    My favorite thing was Cignetti being interviewed after the game and, in response to a question about that 4th down touchdown, he didn't give typical coach-speak about trusting his stud player or whatever, he gave us X's and O's. This guy is an accountant in deep cover posing as a football coach.
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    And Miami shows heart right away. They figured something out about Indiana's defense at halftime. Actually, shortly before.
  4. ashbury
    I took a look at the Dominican Summer League for 2015, and spotted these significant future major leaguers among the league leaders, then looked up their signing bonuses: Keibert Ruiz: Dodgers, $140,000 William Contreras: Atlanta, $10,000 Johan Duran: Arizona, $65,000 There were additional future major leaguers, either ones who have already washed out or who have bounced around (including two who eventually found their way to the Twins, Diego Castillo and Vidal Brujan). My interim assessment is that there certainly were some gems to be found, but it involved a whale of a lot of sifting to find them among the dozens and dozens signed that year, and that the bonus outlay doesn't strike me as highly correlated to success. My scanning wasn't systematic and I could have missed something important. Someone could redo it, perhaps some other methodology, and reach a very different conclusion. I also don't know where to get a complete list of 2015 international signings to see how those investments went - maybe those players didn't go to the DSL.
  5. ashbury
    I could practically adopt you as one of my sons.
  6. ashbury
    I would feel sorry for the Bears today except they happened to be facing my all-time second favorite* team: "whoever is playing against the Bears." 😁 * okay, tied with "whoever is playing against the Packers."
  7. ashbury
    These quotes sure sound a lot like Royce Lewis back in the day. Confidence is good. 2025 went exactly as he and the team hoped. Maybe Culpepper will be one of those lucky players who never encounters adversity. We can hope, for his sake and for the Twins' sake.
  8. ashbury
    If it was a prize fight the ref would have stopped it some time ago.
  9. ashbury
    Full-strength, full-size, but you have to bring your own time machine.
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    Pressly

    ashbury replied to mnfireman's topic in Other Baseball

    He used the word "bittersweet" in his announcement. That's the word for this MN fan as well. Lousy trade. I liked the concept well enough when it happened, or at least cautiously optimistic, but I'm enough of an admitted second guesser to point fingers and say the team blew it on prospect evaluation and/or development. Good luck with the next phase, Ryan.
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    Just saw this, had to share.
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    A player who is slow afoot and provides almost no defensive value needs to be THE best hitter if he wants to be assured of a roster spot. Otherwise someone better takes his job. He's been pretty mediocre at the plate for someone in his actual role, he's no longer young with upside and his salary is no longer low. That is what makes him a trade candidate. Not that I expect much of a trade return. It's an indictment of how poor the Twins' 2025 offense was, that Larnach's numbers would rank among their leaders. He drove in fewer runners than Brooks Lee. Brooks Lee. I think the Twins have numbed you to what a defensively challenged LF should be producing at the plate. This is a catcher thread so I'm not going to get into a back-and-forth on Larnach here.
  14. ashbury
    Zero or infinity, whatever way you define a betting line. He's not on the forty-man so doesn't need to be Designated For anything and is already qualified to be Assigned to one of their minor league teams at the conclusion of Spring Training, assuming they still have room for him then. Anyway, Bad Hitters 'R' Us™, that is our 1B pipeline. Maybe one of the guys listed hasn't yet proved to be officially Bad - let's pin our hopes on him for 2030.
  15. ashbury
    Merlo's signing seems to be confirmed, among others.
  16. ashbury
    Re: Photo Dear Twins Daily, Why do you hate me? Please pick a better photo than the insipid one of me you keep using that someone snapped while I was listening to yet another idiot fan explaining why I should bring back nickel beer day. Regards, Derek
  17. ashbury
    The article and headline made clear they are talking about lineups, in response to something on MLB Network. I'd sacrifice some defense and put Killebrew at third to get Hrbek's better defense at first and put Cruz at DH.
  18. ashbury
    You're going to have trouble covering your next mortgage payment if you lose.
  19. ashbury
    I'm married to an amazing woman in STEM. (In case I really need to establish my credentials to make a satirical joke. If you're being satirical too, um, never mind. Oh wait, you did click thumbs up...)
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    Bad Major Leaguers™:
  22. ashbury
    So did the Twins. I hate this aspect of the DFA/waiver process so much. The Twins do it too, so I'm not saying it as a partisan fan. It's not a good-faith roster move. And before someone rebuts with "it benefits the player", please include a nod to the view that it's merely a zero-sum game for the players who get added versus removed.
  23. ashbury
    I'm not having any luck finding news about a knee problem. Looking at his transactions page I see he got optioned to the Arizona Complex League during September. Could this be the "ACL" he came back from? He was optioned and then recalled about 5 times in 2025, his stints in the majors always being for just a few days at a time. He turned 30 last July and as yet hasn't really established himself. Sorry, I don't mean to make this sound like some kind of hill I would die on; I'm eager to cash in Larnach for something. But Ron Marinaccio looks more like someone to wait to find (again) on the waiver wire, than to trade for.
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    Seems like a random choice of waiver-wire-level relief help. He had a productive 10.2 innings this past season with the Padres, coupled with very unimpressive results in more extensive duty at AAA. Do you have a deeper insight you'd like to share about the pitcher?
  25. ashbury
    If he thinks there might be any 9th inning leads to protect.
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