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  1. ashbury
    ALL-STAR ARRAEZ! / hawt take of this mid-game moment
  2. ashbury
    Yeah, that poor wolf won't even see it coming.
  3. ashbury
    I'm glad someone still knows how to compose one.
  4. ashbury
    Which of their haikus did you find most memorable?
  5. ashbury
    A national broadcast team wants to fire Rocco?
  6. ashbury
    Kudos to perennial whipping boy Pagan for his clean ninth.
  7. ashbury
    Offer him Brian Duensing?
  8. ashbury
    This post aged well.
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  10. ashbury
    Maybe the Twins just got caught up in a vortex of near-lightspeed travel. Moving clocks run slow, or so Einstein told us - took forever for that popup to come down and still nobody got it.
  11. ashbury
    Fair analysis on all the trades, IMO. I hadn't thought about Chih-Wei Hu in a very long while. I believed he had real potential. As he rose to the high minors with Tampa he washed out as a starter candidate, but as I look at his record he seemed to be effective in a relief role. Tampa gave up on him and the teams he was with next never had success with him, and I really wonder why.
  12. ashbury
    I don't know what's taking them so long, TBH. He's 25 years old, no reason to wait. I realize they have a lot of arms at AAA to sort through, but you don't let mature prospects get blocked while you do that.
  13. ashbury
    Besides Alcala, Coulombe is on IL too; the FO seems to like him enough to have him on the major league squad when available. Stashak is done for the season and he was their choice for a roster spot during April. There's other guys on the respective injured lists (Dobnak, Romero) who the Twins might otherwise be deploying in the bullpen if available. As for the assertion that no one's on the way, that may be easier to agree with, especially if you demand that the arms be drafted by the team and be part of the vaunted Pitching Pipeline (tm), but a couple of young(ish) arms at St Paul look like maybe could contribute if given more than an inning for the big club (Pinto and Hamilton), and a couple of retreads they signed likewise are doing OK at AAA and might be able to step in (Petricka and Sanchez). (None of the four guys at St Paul are a "hill" I would die on, of course.) At AA, Evan Sisk (obtained when we traded Happ last year) is age 25 and putting up quite good numbers, and might be worth jumping to the Show. I don't quite know what Cody's point was.
  14. ashbury
    That 8-1 win probably means we're going to win the World Series, but we're still doomed. Rocco should be fired and it doesn't matter who they hire to replace him because the team has no heart. We won, 8-1, woohoo! Woe is us.
  15. ashbury
    Kind of the nature of parks with roofs. I'm sure someone has done an article ranking the ballparks, just the ones with roofs. This one looks nicer than the one in Tampa/St. Pete, for instance. Nicer than the Metrodome too.
  16. ashbury
    Yo, sup y'all? ?? / disclaimer: any social literacy present in this post was provided by son Stashbury
  17. ashbury
    Two position players for a starting pitcher of any stature? Do teams make such trades anymore? Pitching is the coin of the realm.
  18. ashbury
    Baldelli's approach to pitching changes is squarely in the mainstream of other major league managers. In order to succeed, he can't simply mimic what the others do, and needs to vary from this overly conventional approach, in some way that I haven't quite decided yet. / there, is that what you were hoping for?
  19. ashbury
    Baseball haiku's weird. Hard to register an out. Why not just 6-3?
  20. ashbury
    Teh Pitching Pipeline (tm) .
  21. ashbury
    He's had above league average OPS the past week and a half, so let's fix that by cherry picking away the good part?
  22. ashbury
    All our vaunted offense asked was for the bullpen to throw 4 shutout innings, to preserve a 2-1 victory. What's so hard about that?
  23. ashbury
    I fear this draft may contain only about 4 sure things, and at #8 we will be left to choose someone who isn't quite of the stature you can get in some other years. Bad timing, to have had a poor (but not quite poor enough) season in 2021.
  24. ashbury
    It's Nick Gordon's world - we're just privileged to live in it. I was at the game today, along with Mrs Ash and son Stashbury, way down the third base line near the foul pole. I was delighted to be mocked for my disparaging comments about our left fielder, as he came through again and again with key plays. The only flaw I choose to pin on to Gordon's game today is my opinion (not shared by my son) that the first run of the game was by the Tigers not respecting Gordon's arm in left. I imagine Willi Castro is a good leadoff baserunner, but it still seemed to me that with no outs the coach might have held the runner if someone with a threatening arm had been in left. As it turned out, with a lineout and a double play to follow, maybe a conservative approach would have cost the Tigers the run they earned - so I'm not saying the choice to send Castro was wrong, just that Gordon's arm gave them not even a second thought. As for Emilio Pagan... ugh. I've taken a whimsical approach to his recent appearances, as he has wriggled out of trouble time after time, and I unironically applaud his apparent coolness under pressure. "All he does is win," I've joked. No more. I don't want to see him when the game is on the line unless there are no competent late-inning options available that day.
  25. ashbury
    Take every team's platoon masher out of the picture, if you want to make that comparison.
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