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  1. ashbury
    As one who may have started this tangent through a bit of snark, I feel bad about that. It was marginal and if I'd known you'd take it badly I probably would have held off.* I count myself as on the analytic side of the aisle at TD, but I do like knowing if an experienced scout looks at a player and says, "he reminds me of a young ____ _____." Qualitative observations can be used analytically quite well, IMO. So comps are good with me. I don't know Ty France that well, but with a quick look at a source or two, he does seem like a pretty solid comp for our Miranda - height, weight, handedness, and the basic skillsets according to scouts. Nice find. I'll note that the two players are almost exactly 4 years apart in age, but France being born in July puts him in a different arbitrary cutoff for age during a season on b-r.com, and I think when doing a comp it's reasonable to keep that in mind. In that view, Miranda has come up to the majors almost exactly a full year younger than France did, and on average there is some forecasting value to that, though not a game-changer. Your article's headline might not have needed alteration if you had used France as the comp instead of Manny, but perhaps you'd have felt the message was less compelling. For me? I'd have liked it better. France is a valuable player and it's good to know our guy could track like that. Your article as it is contains more caveats than I like in a comp between players. Doesn't mean it was a bad, bad article, so again, I'm a little sheepish over my snark. * Which is perilously close to the non-apology apology, "I'm sorry you feel that way." Sorry for that too, but it does summarize that my reason for regret is impure. "Mistakes were made."
  2. ashbury
    There's unfair, and then there's probably pointless.
  3. ashbury
    Yes, that is exactly how injuries on a roster work.
  4. ashbury
    "This week, on Spell-Correct Software Gone Wild..."
  5. ashbury
    Is there any real evidence that a pitcher's build correlates with injury? They say you pitch with your legs, but a massive lower body could thus translate into higher stresses on the joints in the arm. I'm not an engineer though, and certainly not a biomechanics guy. Berrios isn't a big man really, and he's held up, for example. It could be that wiry guys who can bring the heat are the ones to bank on.
  6. ashbury
    It's like, he has been the party in the arrangement who has control.
  7. ashbury
    Satire, a definition for which is kindly provided at the top of the article if you come to it from the Front Page. Some (but sadly not all) responses here might best be viewed in the same light. It's fun to play along.
  8. ashbury
    You know what? Googling simply "marshmallow salesman" turned up all you need to know on the first hit, at least when I tried.
  9. ashbury
    Maybe just a matter of money. He might feel he's worth more to some team than the $4M he got from the Twins last season, and no team has met his price yet. Bottom feeders wouldn't want to pay more than that, and top teams might set their sights higher than him, so it could be a limited market in-between, and he's waiting them out? Maybe he'd rather retire than come down enough in asking price to attract a team with zero postseason hopes? Professional pride can sometimes play a factor. Here's the latest I could find, from a month ago. Cardinals, White Sox, Red Sox? https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/players/dylan-bundy
  10. ashbury
    The marshmallow industry isn't the cutthroat business it once was. These days, company reps are almost universally nice guys. Please discard your outdated stereotypes.
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  12. ashbury
    Not a corner bat at #5, please!
  13. ashbury
    I foresee Rocco in the Twins' front office someday, possibly even soon. He's just too much on the same page with FalVine for them to ever cut him loose, even if the on-field performance dictates a change in personnel in the dugout, which is almost every major league manager's eventual fate.
  14. ashbury
    And these are the same people posting these wildly divergent opinions from one day to the next?
  15. ashbury
    And he's still usually viewed as the primary chip toward acquiring front-line talent. It will take more than this one article before he's truly the sweetener that Duensing was.
  16. ashbury
    All this indignation over a man's indignation? That kind of thing kind of riles me up. Almost to the point of indignation. Almost. Almost? Nah, let's be honest. I'm indignant. I'm all in.
  17. ashbury
    MLB isn't college football, where the hometown heroes can go 2-10 but the season is a success if they beat Iowa and Wisconsin. Unless the rivalry during a particular season is organic, I'm not too interested in that aspect. Cleveland and Chicago certainly look like the main challengers in the Central, but I don't feel like worrying about them until it's too late.
  18. ashbury
    It occurs to me that there might be a bias toward readers rather than video watchers in these comments, because the readership gravitated here in the first place. Bonnes could be reaching a new audience.
  19. ashbury
    I tend to avoid podcasts and the like, too, but an aggressively edited two-minute video was hardly a deal breaker for me in this case.
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  21. ashbury
    I'll quibble with third over second, if you mean defensive importance. Last season third base ranked behind only first base in aggregate OPS. That seems to me strong evidence that managers will strain to get a good bat into the lineup at that position. Catcher is unique IMO and belongs at the top of your list. Aggregate OPS for catchers ranked last.
  22. ashbury
    Eddie Mathews was not drafted.
  23. ashbury
    The over, but not by much.
  24. ashbury
    Good move to name that one field for Tom Kelly. It was a highlight of my visits to watch him hold court at first base, especially teaching the fine points of the position to players not ready to learn them.
  25. ashbury
    Does Buxton have any minor league options remaining? Send him down and bring up someone who can hit.
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