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  1. ashbury
    Seems like our Twins have an awful lot of players with OPS below .600. More to the point, they have an awful lot of plate appearances invested in players with OPS below .600. I just took a look at the Blue Jays and sorted their batters by plate appearances - you have to go down to #9 to find their first guy with such a low OPS. On the Twins, you find them at #2 and #4.
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    Well, the sequence I mentioned just now didn't involve switching devices or anything. It occurred within 10 minutes at most, maybe just 2 or 3.
  3. ashbury
    Are there multiple servers - or multiple virtual machines anyway?* Because the symptoms are hit-and-miss for me as well. I tried to click Like on somebody's post and got the error popup, and then a moment later I Liked someone else's post and it registered. * I acknowledge that my terminology may be outdated or even stupid. I used to do IT as part of my job, but 20 years since those days renders me unhirable if I ever were to try to get back to it. Hopefully you get what I'm asking.
  4. ashbury
    Amen can be used to mean, "it's over." 🙃
  5. ashbury
    I just clicked like on this and likewise got the correct result. Whether by luck or design, maybe something is fixed.
  6. ashbury
    One other possible clue: while I am unable to click "Like" on anybody's post (to my knowledge), I did receive notification that Chief "liked" one of mine. Don't know what might be different about his account than mine.
  7. ashbury
    Not sure when it started. Since I saw all the multiple posts, I was careful - the symptom I see is that when I click "Submit Reply" nothing visible happens, but if I open a new TD window my post is there. Meanwhile someone in the game thread posted this tidbit:
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    Very true. I was responding to someone's plea to cut Outman. If I were in charge, I would call up ERod to replace Wallner who I would send down to AAA for some kind of tuneup. Outman's role limits the harm he has done so far at the plate. Wallner's not very suited as a backup, and if his bat isn't producing he doesn't even have the other tools that Outman does.
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    Ted Six is a new nickname to me, but the Red Sox were in the postseason in 2021 and 2025.
  12. ashbury
    It's getaway day. They're just planning to forfeit.
  13. ashbury
    The consistent use of the word "anyone" permeates roster discussions, and honestly I don't find it constructive. We can release Rogers. The next guy will probably have an ERA in the 7s as well. The FO owns this, and by extension ownership does. We don't, and it's not up to us to cast about for solutions among the wreckage.
  14. ashbury
    Releasing dudes that offend us is the easy part. Who do they get replaced by? Simply calling up guys who aren't ready or never were or never will be is not a solution. Outman for ERod is the only combination that makes any sense with this depleted roster.
  15. ashbury
    Bad offense. Bad bullpen. Bad ... result from an off-season that barely addressed these issues.
  16. ashbury
    Alex Jackson has superficially decent overall AAA stats, but I looked at his game logs and he has base hits in only 5 of his 12 games. For reference, Ryan Jeffers has had base hits in 11 of his 17 starts at catcher or DH, and that's against major leaguers. Baseball averages are basically the "mean", and I've often wondered whether a second-order measure such as "standard deviation" would be revealing about certain players having uneven performances, but I've never invested the time to try to investigate. Anyway, my working theory (lacking real analytics) is that Jackson is one of many hitters who knows how to feast against lesser opponents, with Plan A being "wait for your pitch," but who has no Plan B and flails when the opponent has the command to put his best stuff where he wants it time after time. Last year's breakthrough at Baltimore appears to have been a mirage. If the need arises to bring Jackson up, I don't expect good results. I realize this is a controversial take, not to mention answering a question no one has even brought up. 🙃
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    Do you remember the illustrious Twins career of Jaime Garcia? Recker was part of that fascinating sequence. The Twins stashed him at Rochester for the remainder of the season.
  19. ashbury
    If you have one apple, and someone takes one apple away, how many apples do you have left? 😁
  20. ashbury
    Will our offense find a way to surmount this deficit?
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    There are too many names on the 26-man roster that don't belong on a contending team, and not enough replacements worth an audition. Who can they bring up to replace Banda that will make the team better? I'm sure you'll say "anyone!!!", but as soon as that replacement from St Paul puts up an ERA of 7.00 we'll all be lobbying for someone else again, as though magic will make a AAA player like Matt Bowman suddenly become an asset. Who can they bring up to replace Clemens that will make the team better? I'm sure you'll say "anyone!!!", but, well, there isn't anyone. Different warts on the next guy perhaps, but just as many. ERod is the only one at St Paul who seems like a good bet to deliver average offense or better (though some worry that the Ks will loom larger in the majors), and promoting him makes sense as a replacement for Outman but doesn't do much to fix the problem we all see with Clemens. If ownership is really serious about this year being one for contending, they need to let the FO take multiple steps to fix things. But I don't really buy that PR in the first place.
  23. ashbury
    Reunion time for Taj! Hope there's lots of handshakes and good vibes.
  24. ashbury
    I think they are not for you and me, who scan most articles daily and contribute to some. TD broadcasts some of their articles outside the website itself, and this series strikes me as in this "marketing" vein.
  25. ashbury
    Just about how you'd expect a couple of bad teams to slug it out.
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