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  1. ashbury
    Oops, wrong Noah Miller in the link.
  2. ashbury
    Concur with the general logic. Perhaps a corner outfield prospect can be part of the mix in place of either batter, depending on Oakland's taste. You won't be able to trade for a starting pitcher without giving up at least one young starter to compensate, and Jordy Blaze might have to be that arm - I view it as Montas is what we hope Balazovic becomes, so we have to provide more value on top of him to compensate. Have to trust the Twins FO talent evaluators and negotiators to decide which of our pitching prospects is destined to burn us the least when we trade them, while still submitting a winning offer. Although, dang it, Montas's most recent start was a clunker. Oh well, by the trading deadline, one start in June won't be remembered.
  3. ashbury
    It's possible for the front office to consider the impact on attendance and revenue, and put in a good word to the manager whom they employ at will, without going to silly extremes.
  4. ashbury
    SWR really hasn't been anything special at AA since his first four games of the season. Is he physically okay, or trying to battle through something that keeps lingering?
  5. ashbury
    I saw him just once, when Rochester came to Pawtucket, but I likewise formed a poor opinion of his defense. He has been much better than I expected as a major leaguer. Still below average, and stretched as a CF as we saw the other night, but he makes the most of his skills. I would still consider him a prime candidate for an upgrade if one becomes available.
  6. ashbury
    That describes his defense, and his bat isn't strong enough to make him an asset at any other position. Even as a utility guy, it's not fun to be worse than the day's opponent at whatever position he's slotted at. He's a candidate to lose a roster spot if any upgrade presents itself to the team.
  7. ashbury
    ALL-STAR ARRAEZ! / hawt take of this mid-game moment
  8. ashbury
    Yeah, that poor wolf won't even see it coming.
  9. ashbury
    I'm glad someone still knows how to compose one.
  10. ashbury
    Which of their haikus did you find most memorable?
  11. ashbury
    A national broadcast team wants to fire Rocco?
  12. ashbury
    Kudos to perennial whipping boy Pagan for his clean ninth.
  13. ashbury
    Offer him Brian Duensing?
  14. ashbury
    This post aged well.
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  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. ashbury
    Yo, sup y'all? ?? / disclaimer: any social literacy present in this post was provided by son Stashbury
  23. ashbury
    Two position players for a starting pitcher of any stature? Do teams make such trades anymore? Pitching is the coin of the realm.
  24. 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?
  25. ashbury
    Baseball haiku's weird. Hard to register an out. Why not just 6-3?
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