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  1. ashbury
    They're surely not just adding him to the 40-man, but also the major league roster. Is it stated who goes down? Moran, I assume. I'm not sure what success to expect from Stewart, but his good AAA stats are despite an astronomical .467 BA on balls put in play. Good thing he struck out so many!
  2. ashbury
    The cool spring temps had nothing to do with the Yankees' difficulty on offense. That is an excuse we reserve for ourselves.
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    That's where averages can sometimes fool you. He's got one of those weird careers where all but one of his seasons (until this year) have been below his career average. 2017's OPS of .806 looks like a blip now. On the other hand all his other seasons have been remarkably consistent, in the .638-.676 range. Now, .020 is not very much variation so .700 isn't "unreasonable". Players oscillate by that much, routinely. I'm just pointing out the historical record. The last time he was above .700, he was 26 years old. He's 32 now. That's a lot of track record to overcome, by this point. And .700 really isn't very good, no matter how stellar the defense is, so if that's what he achieves, my main view on him doesn't change anyway. "M.A.T. can't OPS .700" isn't some hill I would want to die on, because it doesn't matter if he does it. He's a desirable backup and he will have his moments over the course of a season.
  4. ashbury
    How do you propose to do that? He has 0 minor league options remaining.
  5. ashbury
    Pretty sure he meant What's His Name.
  6. ashbury
    It never bothers me to see people misspell the names of players on other teams. I mean, it's hard to keep them all straight.
  7. ashbury
    My view on trades is a mix of "process" and "results". The players involved are human beings and each part of the trade may, or may not, turn out as hoped. I don't particularly care if my team "wins" a given trade (trading away relative peanuts in return for blue-chip talent, say), but results do matter, and what I want is that the original aims eventually pan out. So what we trade away doesn't matter to me very much, in terms of results after the trade. That's true whether we're the one acquiring proven major league talent, or we're acquiring prospects. In the case of Berrios, we traded a very valuable, established, starting pitcher. That remains true even if he turns into a pumpkin after he's gone; at the time of the trade is what matters to me, for what we send out. He started out very well for Toronto, then things went kind of bad, but he finished 2021 with a string of 7 highly professional starts. So things in 2022-23 are more on them, than on us. But trading for prospects is ALL about results, and you can't know for several years. But at the time I would have preferred the Twins hedge their bets, assuming they really liked SWR as the best arm available in trade, with a couple of other good quality pitching prospects in addition, instead of Austin Martin. I am guessing that Toronto held firm on giving up additional arms, and apparently the Twins thought Martin was can't-miss with the bat. Oops. He could still be a productive major leaguer, but that's not a good return when trading away pitching.
  8. ashbury
    I want a lot more than this from SWR. I nearly don't care what Austin Martin does, short of building a Hall of Fame career, but if SWR doesn't pan out then the Berrios trade counts as a failure in my book. Pitching is the coin of the realm and when trading away 1.5 years of control of a very good pitcher you have to get excellent future pitching in return. Accepting just one talented prospect arm in trade means all your chips (for that trade) are on him. He still doesn't turn 23 until September, so maybe he can develop further, but almost 100 pitches and not completing 5 innings isn't "sharp", as the article described the outing.
  9. ashbury
    "The food at this restaurant tastes terrible. And, such small portions!"
  10. ashbury
    A .700 OPS would be better than he's achieved in any season since 2017. Starry-eyed optimist, you.
  11. ashbury
    I see a goodly number of walks in his recent game logs for St. Paul.
  12. ashbury
    Didn't Larnach make bad throws on consecutive plays?
  13. ashbury
    You might have to sit through a few seasons to ever get to test out this hypothetical.
  14. ashbury
    Given the weather, are there actually ANY good seats except the luxury boxes?
  15. ashbury
    Make sure to dress him in one of the red jerseys from seasons past, when this happens.
  16. ashbury
    A sweep, barring injuries.
  17. ashbury
    I liked the acquisition of MAT as a good backup CF. And I'm happy with his start to the season, as detailed here. But if he winds up being the team's MVP of 2023, something will have gone very, very wrong.
  18. ashbury
    I did not enjoy Pagan's Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly™ in today's game. ™ 2023 Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), all rights reserved
  19. ashbury
    "Gabriel, Will, Xzavion, go have dinner together somewhere nice, on us, and let us know your Yelp review. of the place."
  20. ashbury
    Last year the Dodgers had the best runs-against total in the majors with 513. So yeah, pitching probably can be expected to regress.
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  22. ashbury
    Very interesting. He's under team control through 2027 I believe, so it's way too early IMO to think about a long-term extension that buys out a year or two of free agency. That in turn means there's a lot of time before salary "games" being played now might have any effect in terms of hard feelings during negotiations when Duran has the clout. So, I view this as the FO just drawing a line so that other young players see what to expect - "accept a small raise, or get none at all, no matter who you think you are." I phrase that a little combatively, for humor's sake, but to me there's nothing inherently wrong with being a tough but fair negotiator. The downside, maybe, is that different humans react differently, and one gets the sense that Jose Berrios for example was butting heads with the FO over money and all of a sudden he was traded and he expressed more surprise and regret than I would have expected. Anyway, 6 thousand here and 6 thousand there, and pretty soon you're talking 50k.
  23. ashbury
    Super performance!
  24. ashbury
    I haven't seen any mention here of the news that the Oakland Athletics have purchased some land for a ballpark in Las Vegas. https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/as-moving-las-vegas-stadium-land-deal-oakland/aeqk570w53qeb6wrfncvcp2w Mrs Ash and I are headed down to Oakland at the end of the month and will watch the A's play the Reds. I know I'm in the vast minority, but I will miss the Coliseum, a green cathedral in a location with temperate weather and blue skies, where I have happy memories watching baseball when the snow is still piled up back home.
  25. ashbury
    You may say that. But he's not the only one.
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