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  1. ashbury
    It's exactly what the IL rule is for. A player tells the team he's not ready to go, a few days in a row, and they make a move that both lets him recover and puts someone else on the roster who they can use instead. Plus, they signed him for $11M a few months ago. They're not already looking for excuses to "get rid of him," for any length of time. If you didn't like the signing, then maybe you are. But why project your own negative spin onto the decision makers?
  2. ashbury
    Hard for me to view a 35-year old 10-year veteran as a diamond in the rough. Unappreciated gem maybe, but whatever polish he has acquired is about all he's going to ever have by now. That's nitpicking a headline of course, and I'm glad we have him. I didn't see much purpose to the signing when it was announced.
  3. ashbury
    Apparently not.
  4. ashbury
    A $30M contract isn't a king's ransom in this day and age, but it kind of moves Vazquez out of hidden gem territory.
  5. ashbury
    Being that his defense is not well-regarded, and his only way of being useful is as the short end of a lefty-righty platoon, it's probable that other teams feel like they have someone like him already. You know the saying of 5-tool players, "he can beat you in so many ways." Kyle Garlick can beat the other team in exactly one way, namely if a lefty is pitching when he comes to bat and the opposing manager doesn't make a pitching change to counter him. That isn't nothing, and maybe someone does claim him next time he's made available, but it's not such a unique skill that he has trade value. You DFA him, and hope he passes through waivers yet again, hoping also that he's happy enough that he doesn't elect to void his contract. I just checked, and Kyle seems to have a minor league option remaining. That does increase his value by a little bit, I suppose, if he's our 41st best player and some bottom feeder would see him as maybe their 37th best. (As always, but it bears repeating every so often: "IMO".)
  6. ashbury
    Watching the A's local broadcast right now, 12-4 after five innings, 2:20 to complete even this much - Twins and Yankees were completed in this amount of time Excruciating, with walk after walk after walk. Some styles of play are not cured by the pitch clock alone it turns out. Mrs Ash wants to take a trip down to northern California in a couple of weeks and I am debating whether I am even geared up for taking in one of their games. I like the Twins 2023 edition better. Today's win over the Yankees was outstanding spectator entertainment.
  7. ashbury
    More wins than losses, and contributions from the good prospects. Plenty to like!
  8. ashbury
    Just messin' with ya. Most typos are just typos. Some, they're funny to see.
  9. ashbury
    Probably set some kind of major league record by going from having 9 runs in the bank to only 2.
  10. ashbury
    And a beta version at that, with plenty of bugs remaining to be found, much less fixed.
  11. ashbury
    You think it's a conspiracy? You think this is all just made up? Sure, sure. That's what they WANT you to think.
  12. ashbury
    Maybe a visiting team would concede if allowed, I don't know. A home team should never concede. Even if 99% of the paying fans have departed, the ones who remain deserve a show. Maybe a memorable sequence will occur in the bottom of the ninth, even in a losing effort. The fans who want to concede, have left. I'd feel different for low-cost or free contests.
  13. ashbury
    I wondered at the time also whether he was tipping his pitches. The Twins seemed ready to pounce on every offering.
  14. ashbury
    In baseball-reference.com's list of top-10 performers for yesterday, four Twins achieved that ranking - #3 MAT, #5 Correa, #9 Vazquez, #10 Julien. Interestingly, #1 was occupied by old friend Brent Rooker for his day with Oakland. Annoyingly #2 was taken by Anthony Rizzo of the Yankees. I don't know their algorithm for these rankings, but apparently "garbage time" is not a factor. (Of course after one time through the batting order, the Twins' plate appearances also would qualify.) #1 game score for pitchers was Joe Ryan.
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    It was mentioned in the game thread that the MLB game feed for a time described one of Taylor's homers as "homered softly to center." Which of course is ridiculous, and must have been put up by a Yankees fan. But the phrase rang a bell, and here's my rendition: I heard he swung a good bat I heard he had a style And so I came to see him To watch him play a while And there he was this young man A stranger to my eyes [Chorus] Gripping the bat with his fingers Tapping the ground with his cleats Homering softly to center Homering softly... to center Thrilling the whole crowd with his swing Homering softly... center field.
  17. ashbury
    What a game! A little something for everyone. If Yankee fans prefer their home runs during garbage time, that is.
  18. ashbury
    Can't tell you how many times I've been hospitalized after trying to avoid walking into a fellow passenger at the commuter rail station, just that same way. And that was just walking - can't imagine doing it at full speed. So I feel ya, Carlos. ALL the feels.
  19. ashbury
    We should cut him and spend the money we save on someone better. / I'm gonna save this one and use it for every player on the 26-man roster.
  20. ashbury
    Nooooo! Don't tell the other teams about who the good prospects are! Just us!
  21. ashbury
    Hey, I see you lifted this straight from Brewer Fanatic. Expect to hear from their lawyers.
  22. ashbury
    Nobody will ever truly duplicate the formula here at Tw-.... wait, oh.
  23. ashbury
    Got the wrong E-Rod in your link. Are you using ChatGPT to flesh out your articles? / edit - checking something else later, I see the same thing thing happened on Noah Miller's link. WTWhat? It would be an interesting study to try to dig into why some players get opportunities like Yake does, and others don't. With absolutely no evidence to back it up, I'll speculate the team views him as a strong possibility to be a good coach by his late 20s.
  24. ashbury
    If you're going to subtitle this series Personal Cheeseballs you're going to need to explain the terminology in every installment so that people coming into the article cold won't be confused.
  25. ashbury
    Many of us, yours truly included, play armchair GM in these threads. How refreshing to read about the fan experience at a great ballpark!
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