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  1. 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".)
  2. 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.
  3. 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!
  4. 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.
  5. ashbury
    More wins than losses, and contributions from the good prospects. Plenty to like!
  6. ashbury
    Just messin' with ya. Most typos are just typos. Some, they're funny to see.
  7. ashbury
    Probably set some kind of major league record by going from having 9 runs in the bank to only 2.
  8. ashbury
    And a beta version at that, with plenty of bugs remaining to be found, much less fixed.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. ashbury
    I wondered at the time also whether he was tipping his pitches. The Twins seemed ready to pounce on every offering.
  13. ashbury
    In baseball-reference.com's list of top-10 performers for yesterday, four Twins achieved that ranking - #3 MAT, #5 Correa, #9 Vazquez, #10 Julien. Interestingly, #1 was occupied by old friend Brent Rooker for his day with Oakland. Annoyingly #2 was taken by Anthony Rizzo of the Yankees. I don't know their algorithm for these rankings, but apparently "garbage time" is not a factor. (Of course after one time through the batting order, the Twins' plate appearances also would qualify.) #1 game score for pitchers was Joe Ryan.
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    It was mentioned in the game thread that the MLB game feed for a time described one of Taylor's homers as "homered softly to center." Which of course is ridiculous, and must have been put up by a Yankees fan. But the phrase rang a bell, and here's my rendition: I heard he swung a good bat I heard he had a style And so I came to see him To watch him play a while And there he was this young man A stranger to my eyes [Chorus] Gripping the bat with his fingers Tapping the ground with his cleats Homering softly to center Homering softly... to center Thrilling the whole crowd with his swing Homering softly... center field.
  16. ashbury
    What a game! A little something for everyone. If Yankee fans prefer their home runs during garbage time, that is.
  17. ashbury
    And if "current market value" had gone up would Diamond be handing over an extra wheelbarrow of cash? ... is the question I'd be asking if I were the bankruptcy judge.
  18. ashbury
    Can't tell you how many times I've been hospitalized after trying to avoid walking into a fellow passenger at the commuter rail station, just that same way. And that was just walking - can't imagine doing it at full speed. So I feel ya, Carlos. ALL the feels.
  19. ashbury
    We should cut him and spend the money we save on someone better. / I'm gonna save this one and use it for every player on the 26-man roster.
  20. ashbury
    Nooooo! Don't tell the other teams about who the good prospects are! Just us!
  21. ashbury
    Hey, I see you lifted this straight from Brewer Fanatic. Expect to hear from their lawyers.
  22. ashbury
    Nobody will ever truly duplicate the formula here at Tw-.... wait, oh.
  23. ashbury
    Got the wrong E-Rod in your link. Are you using ChatGPT to flesh out your articles? / edit - checking something else later, I see the same thing thing happened on Noah Miller's link. WTWhat? It would be an interesting study to try to dig into why some players get opportunities like Yake does, and others don't. With absolutely no evidence to back it up, I'll speculate the team views him as a strong possibility to be a good coach by his late 20s.
  24. ashbury
    If you're going to subtitle this series Personal Cheeseballs you're going to need to explain the terminology in every installment so that people coming into the article cold won't be confused.
  25. ashbury
    Many of us, yours truly included, play armchair GM in these threads. How refreshing to read about the fan experience at a great ballpark!
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