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  1. ashbury
    Gilbert makes a lot of sense, just from a glance at his numbers at Tennessee this year and that they played him in CF. Horton seems like a late first-round pick at best, again just from college numbers assuming he's got a big arm that hasn't quite put it all together yet. Maybe he falls to the Twins in the second round. What's the argument for him?
  2. ashbury
    Lopez (mentioned in a comment, not the article) worries me, unless for some strange reason he could be acquired cheaply. Until last year he was a mediocrity, even in relief. He's been elite for less than a year, and I have visions of him turning back into a pumpkin - apart from the pumpkin-turning the Twins inflicted on him this past week. / Update: he gave up a run yesterday against Texas too.
  3. ashbury
    Not having a particular outstanding tool to tout reminds me of the argument in favor of Nick Gordon when he was drafted. That pick has been, um, polarizing for the fan base. Doesn't matter what the fans think, of course, and it depends on how happy the FO is with the way Gordon has turned out. I would support drafting Neto if the more electric top choices don't fall to #8, but it's not a pick I'd be super excited about either. But maybe that's the nature of #8 - your odds of a superstar are low compared to the top few, but you do want to make sure to come away with a solid major leaguer.
  4. ashbury
    Concur on the concurrence. I mean, there are a few seconds for the runner to work with, so use them wisely. Maybe first instinct is to take off and/or go partway, but gotta keep an eye on the ball and fielder and be prepared to reverse course and tag. You also have the luxury of a uniformed team representative, standing a few feet away from you in foul territory, who is permitted to also judge and give you some guidance, such as "no no no!" (unless that sounds too much like "go go go"). The pitiable part, for these runners and the respective base coaches, is that their eye is apparently not as adept at tracking the ball (and Buxton's progress toward it) as Buxton himself.
  5. ashbury
    I was speed-reading and misread the cap.
  6. ashbury
    Joe Kelly, class act. I didn't see the game, live - any idea what that little hissy fit was about?
  7. ashbury
    My son Stashbury was at the game in Louisville tonight. From the photo he sent, looks like a nice green ballpark.
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  9. ashbury
    Of course with hindsight you take the Hall of Famer, and put up with any of the "negatives" I listed. I'm saying that without hindsight, I gamble on picking the Hall of Famer who plays CF or SS or SP, if I possibly can, because they come with fewer headaches. #assetmanagement.
  10. ashbury
    Joe Mauer, though I loved him dearly, cured me of ever wanting to draft a catcher in the high first round. A good catcher generally contributes in only 2/3 of a team's games. And if he's better than that, so that his bat demands a DH slot on his resting days, then you deprive yourself of the ability to go get a Nelson Cruz type, meaning your DH isn't that great on the day your catcher is actually catching, also possibly being tempted to carry a third catcher to cover when he's DHing, and otherwise generally putting yourself in a continual strain on roster management even during his peak years. I'll get my starting catchers from supplemental/compensation* first-round picks, or rounds 2 and 3, thank you very much. If one then overachieves and you have a stud at catcher after all, it's a problem you can live with, assuming you got a stud at some other position with a higher pick first. Up the middle is the way to go, I agree, though. Even at that, if those start to look overly picked-over, by #8 you do have to be pragmatic. I wish the pitching crop were more promising, but it's just not. * they keep changing the exact rules
  11. ashbury
    If we were drafting at 20 and a player like this fell to us, he'd be an interesting bat-only gamble. A DH has to profile as a .900 OPS type, like peak Nelson Cruz, to be of any eventual value. At #8, I'd rather not. / Edit - ha, failed to read all the way through the thread, and DocBauer hit the points I wanted to make.
  12. ashbury
    Feel lucky, do you?
  13. ashbury
    Fine. Your prerogative.
  14. ashbury
    The one-time Bomba Squad gets beaten by 3 solo homers, while they scratch out an orphan tally during a double play.
  15. ashbury
    You don't suppose having a broken bone in his spine might have had a teensy effect?
  16. ashbury
    Unless I am suffering from selective memory, wins suddenly are hard to come by for our farm teams, particularly the three highest ones.
  17. ashbury
    Or, help deplete the bullpen by one. They run with a pitching staff of 13, 5 starters and 8 relievers. Those 8 starters are available only once every 5 games, typically, while the relievers might appear in every other game (or consecutively, in a pinch). Now if you assign two pitchers in piggyback, neither one is available sooner than the same five games as before, and you probably will still need to utilize a closer for some of their games, and/or an emergency reliever if either one of the two has a bad outing. That leaves 7 relievers to cover the other 4 games in the rotation, in their usual alternating fashion. They're maybe a little more rested up than otherwise, at least the less-talented ones, due to that one day out of five, but I'm not sure this offsets much. It might be close to a wash overall, and when things go wrong you're basically down a reliever for the coming four games I'm not saying it can't be done, but it seems to me it makes the manager's job just that little bit harder, not easier.
  18. ashbury
    I may have missed this being mentioned elsewhere, but a source tells me that two walk-off losses followed by two walk-off wins has never happened before, at least in the American League.
  19. ashbury
    B-r.com offers a daily email recap, and this morning's shows Buxton's shot as the biggest game-changing play of the day across the majors.
  20. ashbury
    Losing to the Guardians was bad. I think by now most TD members know how I feel about bad things: I don't like them.
  21. ashbury
    I'm about as big a "process" guy as anyone else at the site. but I wouldn't take it that far. Results at the end of the day are what will determine the front office's future - at some point if the results are bad you would have to question the process itself. We are a year or three from knowing the answers on this trade, but eventually it will be how you judge it, along with a myriad of other decisions the FO makes.
  22. ashbury
    Great reference list for the coming month! Overwhelming in fact.
  23. ashbury
    Been a while since I took an independent look but I think I'd be ecstatic if we got Green.
  24. ashbury
    He said he wanted to be around his family less?
  25. ashbury
    I made a slight tweak right away to my comment to include mention of those higher up in the organization. It does show up in the text you quoted, so I guess it was just one of those TD weirdnesses in the user interface. But yeah, it was in jest. Zero trade value.
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