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  1. ashbury
    Still some games to go, and a miracle finish is still possible. But if I'm upper management, I'm getting ready to demand a Get Well Plan from the baseball operations people, and also a good reason from them why I should let them be the ones to implement it instead of bringing in this other earnest couple of guys from some other front offices to construct their own Get Well Plan. We're approaching the end of Year 6 of the previous 5-year Get Well Plan.
  2. ashbury
    The average team scores 4 runs a game. Score more than that, your chances of winning are good. Score fewer, your chances are not. Baseball's a simple game like that, sometimes. Season on the line, and our Twins scored 3.
  3. ashbury
    Put up or shut up time, for Rocco and his charges. And vindication time for the FO, if things go their way.
  4. ashbury
    Oregon State University =/= University of Oregon Maybe there's an interesting anecdote about when the two teams played?
  5. ashbury
    'Ryan Flirts With' seems like the wrong headline. The team flirted with him, then got coy after letting him get to seventh base.
  6. ashbury
    Thank you for reminding me about the movie that ended my career.
  7. ashbury
    A 29-year old who has not tasted the majors yet. Minor league free agent signing in July. I can't find a TD article that mentions the signing, though.
  8. ashbury
    2021 was much more frustrating, as they were coming off consecutive division titles and went the opposite direction. I was expecting a continuation of the poor results this year, so the early quick start was a pleasant surprise and the reversion to form merely expected.
  9. ashbury
    I checked on b-r.com and, to date, nobody drafted ahead of him that year has done better.
  10. ashbury
    "Twins Lose No-Hitter in Ninth Inning" Regular readers here would be excused for thinking, based on a too-rapid reading of the headline, that the Twins lost the game 1-0 or similar on some kind of weird walk/error/wildpitch scenario.
  11. ashbury
    But you're saying the idea is on the table. Good. Baby steps.
  12. ashbury
    No.
  13. ashbury
    What did you think of the Angels' 2021 draft of (essentially) all college arms?
  14. ashbury
    So you think it's 50-50 they gain four and a half in three weeks?
  15. ashbury
    What kind of odds would you consider fair? 50-50? I'll stand by my characterization.
  16. ashbury
    Sure, and I don't care much for I-told-you-so's, but, An article titled "5 Twins Predictions Certain to Come True" begs to be revisited, and It took only a week, not the month for winning the AL Central to look like a longshot rather than a certainty
  17. ashbury
    Friday and Saturday look like the defining moments of the season for me. The two free agent starters the FO selected both came up small when the situation was big. Bundy allowed 4 runs in the first inning. Archer made it through 2 innings before succumbing to injury, after five months of light duty for a starter. I don't question the two pitchers themselves, who I have no doubt worked hard and performed to the best of their abilities and who might have contributed to a championship caliber team in some different role. The Front Office's judgment, however, I do question.
  18. ashbury
    Well, sure, the sweep happened at home, but I'm confident things will change when Cleveland hosts them soon. Everything is better on the road.
  19. ashbury
    That's fair. Even before the opt-out date, the Twins do have a decision whether to try to negotiate some different deal that keeps him with the team for a different period of time than the present agreement.
  20. ashbury
    Not 100% sure from the way you phrased it, but I hope it's understood the Twins have no say regarding Correa. They are committed by contract. Correa is the one with a decision to make.
  21. ashbury
    As this roster was being constructed starting last November, half the names on the list given were known injury risks (or in the case of Maeda were already shelved for at least the first part of the season). The Front Office is getting no sympathy from me, not even patience, if they are moaning "oh, the injury bug!" Some injuries to unexpected players are an inevitable part of baseball, but this roster was constructed to court injury.
  22. ashbury
    "No idea." Apparently! Ell oh ell oh ell oh ell. So much for my reading comprehension of game logs. Thanks for the gentle tap with the Clue Bat.
  23. ashbury
    Reliable sources tell us that Cleveland is offering to pay the 2023 options/salaries for both Bundy and Archer. To stay with the Twins another season.
  24. ashbury
    The rankings I gave were for MLB as a whole, not just the AL. While the 60-game season was certainly an unusual case, my own experience dealiing with data leads me to be very wary about discarding data. "Small sample" by itself isn't a good reason, as you go on to point out by slicing the current season into segments - shall we throw out the first 43 games of this season, while we're cleansing data? It's all data to consider.
  25. ashbury
    Concur that 5 innings isn't some kind of rule. But the examples you give are outliers to what is probably their actual intention. Daniel Gossett is a 29-year old retread, and I have no idea what conditions led to him throwing 120 pitches that day but I wouldn't imagine he represents any kind of typical plan for development. Derek Rodriguez likewise is a 30-year old retread, but his 6 inning stint required only 62 pitches. Instances like Festa, well he was efficient that day too, and threw only 75 pitches to achieve that innings total. Jordan Carr likewise, with 79 pitches. At the major league level they worry about 3rd time through the order and all that. But for development, they just want to see the young arms get a measured amount of work, likely in terms of pitch counts (maybe they even get down to requiring an exact mix of fastballs vs breaking stuff, or have other measures for "work" than raw number of pitches), so innings worked is only an indirect measure of anything.
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