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  1. ashbury
    I wouldn't push the chips all in on 2022, no. But the FO should be able to shore up the bullpen some, without mortgaging the future in any significant way. First place is still worth something and it would be dereliction to not even try after the good start.
  2. ashbury
    I think I would have preferred a lightly regarded pitcher, if the aim was to save $1M in slot money with this pick. I don't understand taking another SS; the one scouting report I saw on him questions his ability to even stick there.
  3. ashbury
    Um. Thank you?
  4. ashbury
    For someone who was thought to be top-20 talent, apparently a few dozen picks were made with risk the overriding factor in skipping him.
  5. ashbury
    It may be that they needed to draft someone under-slot for the $1m that this pick represents, if the demands of their first two picks are over-slot. Otherwise, it's a puzzling choice. He hasn't got a schobel's chance in hell of being a major leaguer.
  6. ashbury
    It's a fuzzy phrase, thus two people will disagree because they assign two different meanings to it. I would argue that if the phrase is as you say, it wasn't worth someone investing the electrons to type it in the first place, as it's meaningless. Funny you should mention ACL, though, since a top Twins prospect was just lost for a year to re-tearing his.
  7. ashbury
    Of course "if healthy" has kind of been our FO's mantra of late. I am super enthused with this risky pitcher at #48, but it's in keeping with the house of cards mentality if things start to fall apart.
  8. ashbury
    Very prescient article.
  9. ashbury
    Do you know why these baseball ballet scenes are so suspenseful? Because the count is always tutu.
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    Parada to the Mets. A big market move IMO.
  13. ashbury
    Hope the Royals were in the market for a Max Kepler type, because that's what I think they just got in Cross.
  14. ashbury
    Yeah!
  15. ashbury
    Hoping for Lee.
  16. ashbury
    Concur on those two. I don't see Cross sticking in CF unless the cupboard becomes completely bare for that position, and with that assumption I'm not keen on a high draft pick for another eventual corner OF.
  17. ashbury
    I'd like to see a catcher with a high pick - just not our very highest at #8. That's a problem with not taking a pitcher with your top pick - you then feel it necessary to load up with multiple higher-risk pitchers in the early rounds, and here in this mock we don't take a catcher until round 5 where the book on him is "a chance to stick at catcher". Ugh, no. I like how Rortvedt and Jeffers have played out so far, even if 2022 hasn't proven what I feel to be their eventual value - and I'd like a similar pick this year with our second or third pick. I do want pitching of course - and I'd settle for not choosing a top OF prospect, in return. Cross in particular looks like could turn out to be a tweener, never quite comfortably fitting into a starting role in CF and then everything depends on his bat as a corner OF. Of course, I don't know who would be a good pitcher to take at #8, since all the draft prognosticators find warts on them all. If our FO agrees that no pitcher merits consideration at #8, I'm fine with that, especially if one of the top 7 drops - but I hope they can buck the conventional wisdom. As someone said elsewhere, there should be someone who turns out to have a good pitching career in this draft, and at #8 it looks like our FO will have their pick of everyone - so, show us your evaluation chops, and find that guy!
  18. ashbury
    Is that Sisk on the mound? His motion looks like a balk move toward first base - except I don't think there's a baserunner there.
  19. ashbury
    Oh, and:
  20. ashbury
    I want to like the guy but he makes it so dang hard. And if his throwing heroics would not have been necessary if not for the drop, then I'm reluctant to give him full credit. "He can beat you in so many ways... after he tries his best to beat himself."
  21. ashbury
    There's a reason Gilberto is plying his trade across the river from Jake.
  22. ashbury
    Montas has shown his mettle this season by pitching well in 4 games against possible playoff opponents, Yankees, Rays, and Astros. Weirdly, the Indians have cuffed him around in the two games he pitched against them. It's just worrisome that he had some arm pain recently. Given their recent experience when they traded for Paddack, I hope our FO properly interprets whatever medicals they are given.
  23. ashbury
    The weakest hitters on our current major league squad are just barely below league average, and none except maybe Miranda when he's at third seems like an absolute butcher on defense. So whoever sits for a given game is a capable substitute if the need arises. That relatively high "floor" does seem like an underappreciated asset.
  24. ashbury
    I don't disagree, but you named 3 corner guys whose value is in their potentially big bats. CF, at least IMO, has to be considered as (nearly as) separate a category as starting pitching.
  25. ashbury
    I'd part with Gordon far quicker than with Celestino, if that's the question. The latter is young, while the former really isn't anymore and his SS skills are below par and thus not a factor in my thinking. My only perplexity is that Celestino hasn't displayed the home run power that seemed to be emerging for him in the minors in 2019-21. But he's still only 23 and I'm betting we haven't seen his "career year" yet. We might well be witnessing Gordon's career year right now. OTOH it appears that the Twins no longer consider Kepler as anything more than emergency use in CF, while Cave and Contreras at AAA merely are marginal candidates. So I challenge the notion that we have an oversupply in CF. As with catcher this past off-season before the trades, I think 3 is actually about the right number to have on hand, with at least one possessing minor league options. If there's actually an oversupply, shall we package Cave and Contreras for that relief help? No takers from other teams? So much for an oversupply.
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