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  1. ashbury
    I want a lot more than this from SWR. I nearly don't care what Austin Martin does, short of building a Hall of Fame career, but if SWR doesn't pan out then the Berrios trade counts as a failure in my book. Pitching is the coin of the realm and when trading away 1.5 years of control of a very good pitcher you have to get excellent future pitching in return. Accepting just one talented prospect arm in trade means all your chips (for that trade) are on him. He still doesn't turn 23 until September, so maybe he can develop further, but almost 100 pitches and not completing 5 innings isn't "sharp", as the article described the outing.
  2. ashbury
    "The food at this restaurant tastes terrible. And, such small portions!"
  3. ashbury
    That's my concern. If he's lost much weight, and my guess is he has, then he's going to need time like it was spring training all over again, to get into game shape. He seems to be a tough guy but self-discipline will only carry an athlete so far. A 60-day IL stint still seems like it's not out of the question after a beaning like that. Now watch him prove me wrong and start playing again on May 2.
  4. ashbury
    A .700 OPS would be better than he's achieved in any season since 2017. Starry-eyed optimist, you.
  5. ashbury
    I see a goodly number of walks in his recent game logs for St. Paul.
  6. ashbury
    Didn't Larnach make bad throws on consecutive plays?
  7. ashbury
    You might have to sit through a few seasons to ever get to test out this hypothetical.
  8. ashbury
    Farmer looking badass in that video. I guess he's thinking, "hell NO, Castro, you can't just have my job."
  9. ashbury
    Given the weather, are there actually ANY good seats except the luxury boxes?
  10. ashbury
    Make sure to dress him in one of the red jerseys from seasons past, when this happens.
  11. ashbury
    A sweep, barring injuries.
  12. ashbury
    I liked the acquisition of MAT as a good backup CF. And I'm happy with his start to the season, as detailed here. But if he winds up being the team's MVP of 2023, something will have gone very, very wrong.
  13. ashbury
    I did not enjoy Pagan's Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly™ in today's game. ™ 2023 Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), all rights reserved
  14. ashbury
    "Gabriel, Will, Xzavion, go have dinner together somewhere nice, on us, and let us know your Yelp review. of the place."
  15. ashbury
    Last year the Dodgers had the best runs-against total in the majors with 513. So yeah, pitching probably can be expected to regress.
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  17. ashbury
    Very interesting. He's under team control through 2027 I believe, so it's way too early IMO to think about a long-term extension that buys out a year or two of free agency. That in turn means there's a lot of time before salary "games" being played now might have any effect in terms of hard feelings during negotiations when Duran has the clout. So, I view this as the FO just drawing a line so that other young players see what to expect - "accept a small raise, or get none at all, no matter who you think you are." I phrase that a little combatively, for humor's sake, but to me there's nothing inherently wrong with being a tough but fair negotiator. The downside, maybe, is that different humans react differently, and one gets the sense that Jose Berrios for example was butting heads with the FO over money and all of a sudden he was traded and he expressed more surprise and regret than I would have expected. Anyway, 6 thousand here and 6 thousand there, and pretty soon you're talking 50k.
  18. ashbury
    Super performance!
  19. ashbury
    I haven't seen any mention here of the news that the Oakland Athletics have purchased some land for a ballpark in Las Vegas. https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/as-moving-las-vegas-stadium-land-deal-oakland/aeqk570w53qeb6wrfncvcp2w Mrs Ash and I are headed down to Oakland at the end of the month and will watch the A's play the Reds. I know I'm in the vast minority, but I will miss the Coliseum, a green cathedral in a location with temperate weather and blue skies, where I have happy memories watching baseball when the snow is still piled up back home.
  20. ashbury
    You may say that. But he's not the only one.
  21. ashbury
    Lefty killers are apparently expected to kill, when the opportunity is given and the team already is in dire need of a spark.
  22. ashbury
    Unless they intend to let Ober pitch, he'll be just a drain on the bullpen. Last year he got past the 5th inning only 3 times in his 11 starts, including 4 starts where he did well but was pulled. I'd like to see him up, but not the way he's been used, and if they feel they have to treat him with kid gloves then he's a ticking time bomb in the rotation; find some other role for him in that case.
  23. ashbury
    Miranda kept the Twins in the game with his play in the bottom of the 10th. Kepler may or may not have had a chance to follow it up with a similar game-saver to send it to the 11th, but he sure didn't put himself in position to try. Very disappointing, in a late-innings period full of them.
  24. ashbury
    Apart from 2 games not really demonstrating readiness, after 2 bad ones, I also wish they would let him pitch more than 5 innings (73 pitches) at a time before calling him up. (Last game was 6 innings but an unbelievable 67 pitches.) Let him keep going, let's find out! Otherwise he'll be the drain on the bullpen that we thought the team just got itself past. Or, will being in the majors suddenly make him the guy they trust to throw 100 quality pitches?
  25. ashbury
    True story as to the conversation taking place, I hope. Not a true story he was telling you.
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