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  1. ashbury
    Shoved? Punchies? Dig that hip lingo all you cool cats out there!
  2. ashbury
    Ask Carlos Correa. He can probably share some insights into the process.
  3. ashbury
    Ryan currently is locked up for 5 years counting the current one. The FO has been averse to pitcher contracts longer than that, and I'm not sure the potential reward is high enough to counter the financial risk of guaranteeing salary for years that the team can still go year-to-year with, on Ryan.
  4. ashbury
    Closer to the former than the latter IMO. Compared to a true free-agent scenario, the money commitment is a fraction. But, and this is important, it's not a free-agent scenario. From the player's perspective, he has to balance the brass ring that free-agency could represent, versus having to go nearly 2 full seasons until that moment, during which his performance could fall off to merely "average starter" or even suffer an injury. The Twins could just go year to year, but instead are underwriting the player's risk to a significant degree. For the Twins it's a fair deal. It has very high upside, but they are assuming what sounds like 4 years of risk by guaranteeing even 1 dollar beyond this year. In effect some portion of the $73.5M is an insurance policy for him. He's set for life now. Win-win, but IMO not a steal, nor would I want it to be.
  5. ashbury
    Dang it, the site software tricked me into pressing Submit twice, again!
  6. ashbury
    $20M per year seems market correct, and the years seem a bit short, so the risk versus reward is favorable to both sides I suppose.
  7. ashbury
    I just saw this morning's baseball-reference.com's daily summary, and this makes two days in a row that a Yankee starter had the top performance. Great job, Twins offense! 😗
  8. ashbury
    Where in Yankee Stadium were you seated? My son was way down the third base line today.
  9. ashbury
    I know I'm just one data point in MLB's Big Data mining operation, but I am watching a lot more games all the way through than in the past several seasons. This game today was hard for a Twins fan to take, and yet watchable.
  10. ashbury
    The box score reveals the game highlight for me. 2:07 to complete nine* innings and get this monstrosity behind us. * okay, eight and a half
  11. ashbury
    Ughhhhhhh. Did not see that mentioned before. Ughhhhhhh.
  12. ashbury
    I wouldn't call either of these "least aggressive" assignments too conservative at all. Julien is demonstrating that he's still got something to learn at the plate against major league caliber pitching, and his play on defense still has rough edges that possibly can be smoothed out so that he can be at least adequate. AAA was a good choice for him and remains so. Brooks Lee is doing well in 7 games at AA and there will be plenty of time to promote him to AAA in May/June before adding him to the 40-man irrevocably, perhaps in September. If these are the mistakes, the FO has overall done well IMO.
  13. ashbury
    May 45th, perhaps.
  14. ashbury
    Oops. Wrong thread this time.
  15. ashbury
    Each getting a hit. Bring them up!
  16. 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.
  17. ashbury
    Then why ask him to wash it off?
  18. 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."
  19. 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. 😀
  20. ashbury
    While you were typing up your fully justified response, I was amending my post to say much the same. Better?
  21. 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.
  22. 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?
  23. 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.
  24. ashbury
    Apparently not.
  25. 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.
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