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  1. ashbury
    I think of myself as a Large Hall guy, and for some reason Torii doesn't register with me the way some others that I bring up (Lou Whitaker, Vada Pinson) do. Probably I need to get on the bandwagon. But, in the real world, not Ash's Hall, he's pretty much the definition of borderline. and there are a lot of candidates who also need attention and votes. So I'm not high on his chances.
  2. ashbury
    Wow, ten wins more than whoever would have replaced him. They should come up with a stat for that. I bet he would lead the league in it.
  3. ashbury
    I enjoyed reading this arti- OH WAIT I JUST GOT A LIKE ON FACEBOOK
  4. ashbury
    Signing Buxton opens the potential for two extreme outcomes (of many): getting nothing for a lot of money, or getting a superstar level of performance for the length of the contract. A trade likely splits the difference in terms of some blended outcomes. I suppose we'll learn some more about our FO's tolerance for risk, from this episode as it unfolds.
  5. ashbury
    If Ortiz isn't in on the first ballot, I'm going on my usual rant about Baseball shooting itself in the foot with it's incessant message about favorite players not being all that hot.
  6. ashbury

    Thanks

    ashbury commented on Richie the Rally Goat's blog entry in Blog Sconnie

    I'm thankful for people who have the good grace to be thankful. And of course for Twins Daily.
  7. ashbury
    We're now past Wait 'Til Next Year mode, and are jumping straight to 2025. Plausible roster, though. Hope some of these arms pan out.
  8. ashbury
    We both have hair coming out our ears. What we need is good hair.
  9. ashbury
    No. We also need pitching.
  10. ashbury
    Whichever of the top teams in the SSS (Seiya Suzuki Sweepstakes) lose out, we should approach concerning a trade package for some of our glut of corner types. Red Sox, Rangers, Mets, Giants and Mariners, show us some pitching!
  11. ashbury
    I have a feeling Miami's stance will be "here are the five guys we want for our rotation of the future, but you are welcome to #6, in return for your best catcher plus some younger pitching arms as a sweetener." Wait and see.
  12. ashbury
    For once we are not thin at catcher, and the two young ones have minor league options allowing them to be shuffled at will. And beyond Rortvedt there isn't a really good pipeline in the farm system. For controllable top-shelf pitching I'd be willing to make a trade and suffer the need to make do at C, but I'm skeptical that our guys are what will pry a top pitcher loose from someone like Miami.
  13. ashbury
    Hated his glove which went "clank" whenever I watched him as a Twin. Was that small sample size?
  14. ashbury
    "Running the team into the ground" is the unfortunate phrase that keeps coming to my mind. For the moment it is framed only as a question.
  15. ashbury
    Twins Are Rebuilding, Not Retooling, if They Trade Buxton Honestly, you could have gone with the headline alone, no story, and I would still have clicked Like in agreement.
  16. ashbury
    Thanks. It means a lot!
  17. ashbury
    Cave's retention probably is another indication that Buxton is departing. You don't deplete your CF depth chart until you have adequate replacements on board. If they acquire a couple of competent center fielders, Cave will follow Buxton out the door, albeit for slightly different rationales.
  18. ashbury
    How do I know you exist?
  19. ashbury
    Uffda. Aside from that, I'm in agreement.
  20. ashbury
    Maybe this franchise is just jinxed. On one hand we take a risk by waiting to trade him during the season, since his track record is he could be injured at just the wrong moment. On the other, we think we want to sign him long term. These two points of view are pretty incompatible. Tough outcome for the team, and an unsolvable dilemma, regarding a former high draft pick
  21. ashbury
    Major league ballplayers who are any good are underpaid for the first 4 years or so, compared to the value they bring to the team. We're going to veer off into a discussion of the entire economics of the game, terminating probably with "they could cut ticket prices if not for....", and I'm checking out of this thread in advance of that dead end.
  22. ashbury
    I don't see why it's ridiculous. It serves as a compromise between fully-guaranteed pay, and heavily incentivized pay-bumps each year. If the Twins' opening argument was, "you haven't had more than 511 PA in a season, how can we guarantee a contract for a whole bunch of years?", escalators would be a response saying "okay, if he plays (say) 150 games in a season, will that be enough to ease your worries?" Escalators aren't as team-friendly as incentives, but they still represent a form of risk-sharing rather than the team bear all the risk. Every multi-year player contract, no matter the track record on health, carries significant risk.
  23. ashbury
    Not gonna contribute to a threadjack. You threw shade on the players for no reason, that's all.
  24. ashbury
    The owners are all about below-market salaries for the first several years of a major league career. Two sides of a coin.
  25. ashbury
    I think it was Brock who brought up the possibility that it's not incentives per se that are the hangup, but escalators. If Buxton's camp is insistent that achieving one level of incentives in a given year locks in that level for all future years in the contract, I could see that the distance between the two sides is greater than we understand.
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