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  1. ashbury
    Well yes, but I think the article may have covered this point to some degree. 😁
  2. ashbury
    If the discussion is the majors, I just took a look on b-r.com, and in 1946 almost exactly one-third of players were in the Negro American League, and/or the Negro National League - not all the players were American but a lot. In 1932, the ratio appears to be even higher. In 1920, the first year that this kind of analysis can be done, it was still pretty high. There are years that conform to what you have in mind, but it may be necessary to go back further than you expected.
  3. ashbury
    The Twins Desperately Need My Mental Version Of What Kaelen Culpepper Could Be When He's Promoted.
  4. ashbury
    No it wasn't. Psych! It was.
  5. ashbury
    Larnach at a literal loss for words for the first 10 seconds of the post-game interview. Baseball's a game of emotion.
  6. ashbury
    Pictured: six prior members of the bullpen about to be beamed down to the surface of a benign looking diamond.
  7. ashbury
    He truly was a three-tool player, and of his two deficiencies (both about 20 on the 80 point scale) Power is the more important one to a position player than Arm, so I wouldn't disagree. Why didn't you just do that for him? He would have thanked you.
  8. ashbury
    Highly respectable response.
  9. ashbury
    It's important for a starter to be able to relieve himself on the mound rather than ask someone in the bullpen to help.
  10. ashbury
    Enjoyable - the runner had absolutely no clue this ball could possibly be caught. Note that the cutoff man* may have thrown the ball for greater distance than Ben did. 😁 * one of two, as was the custom when Ben roamed the grass
  11. ashbury
    I know the following doesn't really remove all scope for arguments, but with the alleged precision of the camera system, a rule could be instituted that the umpire's call in-the-moment stands, unless the measured discrepancy is more than half an inch, or whatever threshold gets chosen. Eventually fully automated ball-strike calls will happen, but as long as there's an umpire calling pitches, I see no reason to hang one dry by reversing ticky-tack distinctions.
  12. ashbury
    Round numbers, even perfectly round ones, are okay too, if preceded by a straight number.
  13. ashbury
    Says hi. At least I haven't seen Martin two-bounce it to his cutoff man. Yet.
  14. ashbury
    This is why Shelton earns the big bucks, to make these extremely clear distinctions.
  15. ashbury
    Guh, and then Martin negates it by getting caught.
  16. ashbury
    Martin succeeded on his challenge. The Gameday diagram shows it to be very close. With two outs and nobody on, not my preference, but if it works, it works.
  17. ashbury
    I speculated in a different thread, but if you have two mediocre arms in the corners, it may be best to just give up on the right fielder having any effect on runners rounding second when the ball is hit out there, and put the slightly better arm in left to deter the extra base on balls hit there. Making the best of a bad lot. Or, it's just that with a righty on the mound for the Twins, they want the faster corner outfielder in right to try to combat the lefties in the opposing lineup.
  18. ashbury
    Do you know nothing about jinxes??? Keep that hand raised until conditions change for the worse.
  19. ashbury
    Nice inning by Ryan in response to his team staking him to a big lead.
  20. ashbury
    Never too soon to quit. 😁
  21. ashbury
    LARNACH!!!!
  22. ashbury
    Crooked number! Keep it up!
  23. ashbury
    Holy crow. That bases-loaded RBI for Jeffers was easy!
  24. ashbury
    Switch him to third base; that bat's too good for shortstop.
  25. ashbury
    Halve a nice day, Brooks!
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