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  1. ashbury
    He's far exceeded my expectations. Seems to have the bulldog mentality that you look for in a young pitcher. Nice to have a welcome surprise for a change. Fifth starter is generally not a role, just a waypoint on the journey, but for now he's a pretty good one.
  2. ashbury
    "You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put 'whistle how to' into Google and then click the first link and follow the instructions."
  3. ashbury
    And yet, somehow, some way, you just did.
  4. ashbury
    I don't know whether The Twins Front Office Has Difficulty Admitting When They Are Wrong, but I'm pretty sure they fail miserably at Admitting When TD Posters Knew It All Along.
  5. ashbury
    It is interesting to look up, and you're not wrong. It's hard to measure apples-to-apples, using raw totals (Opening Day for instance can skew things), but across the majors, and looking at the team ranked 15th respectively each season, attendance is down about 500 per game from last year. Our Twins? Down about 1900. Numbers aside, Dave St Peter needs to take a vow of silence. He makes the mistake many public figures do, of saying what he knows, instead of saying what helps. Whether he's technically the FO, he speaks for the Twins and people take his words at face value. Our new guy Joe Pohlad needs to do what DSP's underlings have apparently failed to get across, and politely tell him to STFU and just do his job, which as far as I've been able to figure out is making sure enough packets of mustard are ordered so the concession stands don't run out, or whatever. The business-side of the franchise presumably is doing well; he should stay out of PR if he can't stay on-message.
  6. ashbury
    Don't look now, but we've jinxed the young man, with all this hopeful talk. A pair of 0-for-4s in his last two games, 4 strikeouts total. We Can't Have Nice Things.™
  7. ashbury
    "We are going through a difficult period of time with, obviously, some health issues." -- Rocco Oh, that darn injury bug. I guess pneumonia is an injury to the lungs. I'm still going with my pre-season prognostication of 93 wins, barring injury. If it's valid for them, it's valid for me. Looks like I need to update my terminology though. Barring health issues.
  8. ashbury
    Well, see, I think I've found the problem - we've been letting the evil twin pitch instead of the guy we intended.
  9. ashbury
    Announcers often have insights from coaching personnel, so this sounds like a definite nugget. Thanks.
  10. ashbury
    I came here to lament Mack's demise as well. I expected something from him when he was drafted. Ft Myers has always had a reputation of being a hard place for the hitters, so the .723 OPS didn't bother me, his being a high-school draftee and all, as I don't hold the same bar for catchers as at the offense-minded positions. But he hasn't hit a lick at Cedar Rapids where I think of bats as sometimes coming alive, for two seasons now, and I guess his work behind the plate wasn't good enough to save him. Mack's only 3 months older than Cossetti, but the difference in bat looks pretty undeniable and that spelled the end. I bet he catches on (heh) with another organization, assuming he still wants to go through the grind and all that.
  11. ashbury
    It's a site bug that I believe occurs when you are composing a reply and meanwhile one or more other replies come in that cause the site to construct a new page. You click Submit but it doesn't take you to the new page and you don't see your published post, just the WYSIWYG editor with your text. So you naturally think it's just a glitch and your comment didn't take, so you click Submit again. Over-under is about 3 times, I find. Some post half a dozen duplicates before catching on (or giving up).
  12. ashbury
    Hur dur, hur dur. I will wait to form my opinion about this condescending article until the hivemind informs me of whatever decision coalesces. Meanwhile I will continue to seethe impulsively in my mindless bloodlust for seeing Royce Lewis in a major league uniform on or about June 1 And I reserve the right on or about June 3 to call for his DFA and release if he has an o-fer in his first game. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a festering, bile-spitting pet demon to go feed. Hur dur, hur dur.
  13. ashbury
    The problem is that run-scoring isn't evenly distributed, because there's no upper limit for a game but the lower limit you can score is zero. So there's a skew to the stats which affects simple averages like the mean. Individual high scores move the running average more than a low score can. Some of these near-nohitters the Twins have suffered deserve lower than a 0 for runs scored. It's why this offense feels worse than season run totals would have us believe. Because, IMO, it is.
  14. ashbury
    I'm with you but the specific bar you set seems a tad high. Currently there are only six teams with even one such hitter (ATL has two), and this includes Oakland with the ultra-consistent Brent Rooker. We're still in the small sample size of one-quarter of the season, which always leaves room for flashes in the pan. For the full season in 2022, only three teams in the majors had the luxury of one "really good" hitter by this standard. Two years ago there were five, and when talking about consistency none of those five have been at .950 this year or last. But your point is still hugely valid. Who on this roster is a threat to pull a Nelson Cruz type of season out of his ear, starting now to the rest of the season? Kirilloff, maybe, but he's got less than a season of experience under his belt and fails the "consistent" criterion. Gallo's kinda sorta on that track at the moment if he pops another homer or two, but he's never put a full season together at his current level and even at that he falls short of .950. And in fairness, the standard you set does have a certain kind of merit: last year two of those three teams with a .950 OPS hitter faced each other in the ALCS, and one of them went on to win it all. (That third team, St Louis, went home after losing the wild card series so it's not a sure-fire solution, not that you were saying it was.) So I've kind of talked myself into a circle and am back to supporting your point after all. I think it's just the implication by the repeated plural that there are scads of hitters out there and we are failing to scoop any of them up. They are rare, rare, rare.
  15. ashbury
    The bar is lower for the bat, when it's a catcher. He's maintained similar stats as he's moved up to higher levels, and that's not stagnation but progress. He needs to maintain for the rest of '23 and then progress with the bat two more times, of course, to become relevant; that's one reason I suggested 2025. (The other reason is that the system is so bereft of catching prospects, so he'll get every opportunity* once he's deemed "close".) Wait, I just noticed, he bats lefty. This young man will live forever as a catcher! * Need I say, everything I post comes with "IMO" implicitly sprinkled freely throughout
  16. ashbury
    And that's just their own pitching lines. Doesn't include the inherited runner charged to the starter. Very poor showing after a fine start that had us in a pitchers' duel to that point.
  17. ashbury
    Do they like Pat Winkel's defense? Looking at his progression since being drafted, he's on course to hit the majors in '25, as a quality backup if his glove plays.
  18. ashbury
    Still almost two weeks until league rules allow him to be activated.
  19. ashbury
    He's the lead singer of Maroon 5, referenced in the article. Impressive tats, for those impressed by that sort of thing.
  20. ashbury
    Not on an empty stomach, anyway.
  21. ashbury
    Some can claim the partial defense of having wanted to be close to their mother when they were born, and now going back to see her now and then.
  22. ashbury
    As a Twins fan I feel like the statue, and I look up in the sky to see Pagan taking aim.
  23. ashbury
    Catcher's ERA is one of those will o' the wisps people want to believe, but to my knowledge every study that has tried to pin it down wound up finding thing that would carry over from one period of time to the next. I, too, want to believe that the catcher makes a difference in pitchers' records, but I remain skeptical of whether to give more than about 0.05 credit where ERA is concerned.
  24. ashbury
    Wait, there's two of him?
  25. ashbury
    Which, if nothing else, suggests a floor of "very good reliever." That makes him useful, and gives him a career. It's the starters who always give up first-inning runs, and then settle down, who bug me. What exactly are you supposed to do with the guy, just accept being down 3-0, and then depend on the offense to catch up and the bullpen to be close to perfect, after he wobbles through four more innings of tightrope-walking?
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