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  1. ashbury
    He'll do, until one of our prospects pushes him out.
  2. ashbury
    It's Spring. Every player has arrived in the best shape of his life, and every pitcher has a little extra hop on his fastball.
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  4. ashbury
    That's a baseball idiom I don't know that I've heard before. "Eat." What does it mean? Get a major league salary?
  5. ashbury
    He has sufficient major league service to refuse a demotion to the minors, even if he passes through waivers I believe, so the choice would be to cut him and eat the salary in that case.
  6. ashbury
    Probably moves the needle some. Depends on how the other team views the specific players of course, and what other offers are out there, but all that's true of any proposed trade. I'm thinking that specific 6-for-3 package is still light in terms of prospect arms, and the A's might choose a different team offering top-100 prospects.
  7. ashbury
    (Reposting from a thread where it didn't really belong...) Warning, I'm going full-geek mode on this. I've said before that I like to play the Out Of The Park computer baseball game. After a slow start, this Twins offseason has become an OOTP offseason. Namely: before making any moves, examine your roster carefully and among other things identify the salary you consider an impediment; then pay what it costs to get that salary off the books, even with lopsided trades in terms of talent. Then, redeploy the freed up money to acquire something really good. I'm sure every FO has a plan to guide their offseason. I held a lot of doubt that our FO was going to be able to execute theirs. For a long while it wasn't evident that their plan was aggressive at all. Then for the better part of a week, it looked very much like a half-completed plan had run into a serious snag. (Indeed, my guess is that it did, and they pivoted from Story to Correa with an offer that carries a steeper risk-to-reward ratio than is appreciated.) But the plan now looks clear. Several steps remain to be completed. Next, if they can pull a OOTP style of trade involving several prospects whose Rule-5 eligibility has arrived, in return for one stud pitcher with years of team control, I'll REALLY be impressed.
  8. ashbury
    What was your secret to success when you moved up to the majors?
  9. ashbury
    Fair enough. Sometimes the word "maybe" gets interpreted as a ceiling.
  10. ashbury
    A .750 OPS at DH would be disappointing, and likely put us at a disadvantage in the batting lineup versus the day's opponent more times than not.
  11. ashbury
    Getting two major league pitchers and giving up only one pitching prospect would be the steal of the century. Not going to happen. Position players who aren't up-the-middle are over valued in MLBTV.
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    ?
  13. ashbury
    He might not. Think through the worst case. There's no such thing as a bad one-year contract. This isn't one year.
  14. ashbury
    Yankees had no room for Sanchez at DH, with Stanton on the roster. If we get 2020-21 Sanchez at bat, Sanchez has no place on the team, but if his hitting bounces back to what it has been at his peak, I'd be fine with him as our replacement for Nelson Cruz. We need a better second catcher than Godoy, though.
  15. ashbury
    Gonna be a long rebuild.
  16. ashbury
    This is a financial aspect to this contract that I haven't yet seen explored. But that's for another day, or maybe another hour if I get antsy. For now: woo hoo! We're in Win Now Mode and I like the feeling.
  17. ashbury
    Low expectations here. Hope he's worth the roster slot, because those are about to become scarce.
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  19. ashbury
    Leading with Chi Chi? Gold!
  20. ashbury
    It's a great start. Couldn't be happier at this turn of events. Now let's shore up catching and starting pitching a little better.
  21. ashbury
    Dunno, but maybe some practice at calling pitches, and framing, would help his own pitch recognition when at the plate.
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  24. ashbury
    Spoiler alert: that other Godoy never shows up to spring training.
  25. ashbury
    Do the same analysis age-against-age between Rortvedt and Butera. Ben's not Drew. There's no guarantees in baseball, and certainly no guarantees regarding prospects. But the same kind of analysis allowed folks to identify Jorge Polanco as a player whose bat had a good chance of coming around, even though his numbers at AA weren't too good. I don't suspect Rortvedt develops into an All-Star. But we gave up someone of value when we traded him to the Yankees, and we replaced with with someone from the waiver wire. It's a downgrade.
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