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  1. ashbury
    Who leaks that the player prefers Team One but Teams Two and Three are in play? Not Team One. Not the other two teams. The player's agent? Why do they want to tell Team One to keep lowballing them?
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  3. ashbury
    What would the Cardinals do? I'm more interested in emulating a franchise with an engaged fan base.
  4. ashbury
    (Actually it's the shoulder for Lopez if I recall correctly.)
  5. ashbury
    So, something good from Milwaukee to Oakland is yet to be disclosed?
  6. ashbury
    I continue to wonder whether the trade has been reported accurately.
  7. ashbury
    Purely speculation on my part, but maybe the talks reached a level of seriousness that medicals were exchanged, and one side said, "whoops, uh oh."
  8. ashbury
    Is it a condemnation or just looking at what it would have taken? If I'm looking at this three-team trade, the A's get two MLB-ready starting pitchers and a position player with a good bat. (Plus a throw-in veteran catcher to hold the roster spot for the time being.) By my very simple comparison, maybe we would have matched that haul with Simeon Woods-Richardson, Austin Martin, and, say, Cole Sands. And maybe the A's like the particular package they wound up with, in which case we'd have to beat it by a little bit. Would our FO have pulled the trigger on that? Would I? Tough call.
  9. ashbury
    This leak is only for plausible deniability for later, when they need to say, We Tried™. The tipoff, and this has already been mentioned, is the phrase "far beyond anything in franchise history." The leak comes from the Twins side, not the Boras/Correa camp. I'll be happy to eat crow on this if Correa does sign.
  10. ashbury
    You're the one talking about free agents avoiding the Twins, not me.
  11. ashbury
    Put a question mark on Mrs's first remark, give yourself a snappy comeback to that too, and you've got the makings of an Abbott and Costello routine.
  12. ashbury
    I assume that to be a Chief-like "rhetorical yes" to Brian's rhetorical questions.
  13. ashbury
    Paddack and Gray were trade acquisitions; the players themselves had no say.
  14. ashbury
    I said at the time he never should have answered (I think it was a reporter's question) with anything but a platitude like "I can't think about this now but I just hope it all works out after the season" or whatever. It's why you hire an agent, to handle this kind of topic. Number 1 the agent should be more experienced at it, and number 2 any stink that comes from it attaches to the agent instead of to you.
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    Everybody knows you gotta give 110%.
  16. ashbury
    Fair counterpoints although I think the fairest guess for now is platoon player ultimately. I think he's a smart player, as evidenced by the very different, walk-heavy, approach to facing lefties, but it's not enough as yet.
  17. ashbury
    Old-timey guys, and Tony Gwynn. Interesting comps. (Though Tony hit lefties nearly as well as righties.)
  18. ashbury
    Not mentioned, I think, is Luis's inability to excel when facing left-handers. He's played enough by now to have a significant track record, consisting of 1) a .261 career BA, fairly empty at that except for the walks, and 2) being sat by the manager a lot when a lefty's pitching. His walk rate is actually a lot higher against lefties than righties, and his profile is almost like two entirely different people in one body. He's really good in a platoon but is that a marker for the kind of player who'll keep a high profile?
  19. ashbury
    His career is young, so perhaps he is one of the few players who will turn out to be able to sustain a batting average on balls in play (BABIP) at .340 like he had in 2022. They exist (Goldschmidt, Yelich, Judge, Trout, to name some prominent ones) Otherwise he seems like a candidate for regression to a lower level of offensive output, and I would not bank on him being anything close to our best performing outfielder in 2023. I want to like Gordon, and I do like him, and I'll own up to being slow to rate him as a major leaguer, but I still hold some skepticism on him being more than a role player for the long term.
  20. ashbury
    Neither do the Marlins.
  21. ashbury
    Pablo Lopez faced 736 batters in 2022. On the batting side, Marcus Semien led the majors with 724 plate appearances. (There are 28 pitchers who faced more batters than Lopez did. A teammate of his faced 886.) Starting pitchers have the potential to have as much or more impact during any season than batters do. The good ones are incredibly valuable and you can't trade for them easily. This every fifth day argument doesn't hold water.
  22. ashbury
    Yeah, I don't think a guy taken at #27 overall is much of a comp for what we're looking at now. If they had had #5 the year they took Sabato, maybe they would have selected... um, looking it up... some guy named Austin Martin? Name rings a bell.
  23. ashbury
    I think the concern is hitting righties but your principle is spot on.
  24. ashbury
    I'm so sorry, the panel has agreed that Dior remains the metaphor for the remainder of Correa's free agency.
  25. ashbury
    This to me is an outstanding example of analytics. Those who believe analytics means figuring out some new formula no one ever thought of before are overlooking all kinds of opportunities. It sounds like this approach needs more validation but is something a team should at least be looking at and tinkering with. Everyone understands clubhouse chemistry is important, no one really claims they can quantify it, but this at least is a step toward qualifying it. Kudos also for the brilliant graphic of the eight players. Visualization in analytics is often key to getting buy-in. Clubhouse chemistry is surely more complicated than any 3 dimensions can portray, but it gets the gist of the idea across and then you let the computer do the work of sorting out the 10 or 20 dimensions that might be of importance.
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