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  1. ashbury
    Man! The moderators are going to be all over you, like stink on a skunk!
  2. ashbury
    I didn't know that algorithmic projections were capable of Hawt Taeks. This sure sounds like one, although pleasant.
  3. ashbury
    "Home run hitters drive Cadillacs and singles hitters drive Fords.” (Said of Ralph Kiner just the other day... oops I mean in the 1940s.) See also this 1950s newspaper commentary regarding how to deal with the shift: Why doesn’t Ralph Kiner hit to right against the lopsided defense played against him? He doesn’t want to. When Kiner came up to the Pirates and teams began overshifting on him, he toyed with the idea of hitting to right. Fritz Ostermueller. then a veteran pitcher for the Pirates, told him: “There aren’t any Cadillacs for you in right field, Ralph. Your money is in left.” Nothing new under the sun.
  4. ashbury
    Look at the bright side, why don't you. If the lockout persists, our Twins will be tied for first place on June 1.
  5. ashbury
    While fruitlessly searching for that swing-after-miss, I did find this entertaining if mis-titled example of what his speed could do:
  6. ashbury
    Filling out the rotation to have exactly 5 starters in no way fixes anything for a long season. We are in a world of hurt.
  7. ashbury
    His birth date is September 27, 2000. He's 20th Century, and old Millenium. /pedantic
  8. ashbury
    He'll fall through a hole in the ice and suffer a (rolls dice, consults chart) dislocated cranium, missing (rolls dice) a season and a half for rehab. Because, Twins.
  9. ashbury
    Imagine how much better the 1965 WS would have gone if the Twins had thought to use a center fielder.
  10. ashbury
    Concur. It's a question of game balance, and there were discussions of a forerunner to the DH at least as far back as the 1930s so the recognition of this problem is hardly a new thing. (The 1930s are closer to the beginning of professional baseball than they are to the present day.) The impact of a pitcher's arm on a game is far greater than any contribution he can make with the bat, and people recognized the fact once overhand delivery became legal, and certainly once the Dead Ball era was over. It wouldn't have mattered last year if Matt Shoemaker had been uniquely capable among pitchers of hitting like Nelson Cruz, and all other pitchers hit like Walker Buehler, and there were no DH - using him on the mound meant a likely loss in each game he appeared. That's a structural imbalance which the NL chooses to live with. Baseball is exceedingly conservative. Movie footage of old football or basketball games look hardly at all like their modern incarnations. Baseball still has pitchers hitting.
  11. ashbury
    "Merely" reaching Gagne's offensive level would make him an asset at SS.
  12. ashbury
    82 is over ten times more than 8.1. Sounds like we won this trade!
  13. ashbury
    Jamie? Jaime? Gomez? Garcia? Potayto. Potahto.
  14. ashbury
    Thatsa lotsa trading, but it's part of the fun of OOTP.
  15. ashbury
    You keep banging on the same drum, though, that salaries are the issue, and choosing questionable historical end points to make the argument.
  16. ashbury
    You're not addressing the big picture here. It's billionaires (owners) versus multi-millionaires (players) versus millionaires (ticket buyers) versus Ordinary Joes. The Joes are being outbid for tickets, and that's why prices are high. It's no coincidence that people often remember best the games they saw when their employer gifted them some good seats for a game against a lesser opponent that the employer didn't happen to want to attend. If the teams did unilaterally cut ticket prices by half, scalpers would snap them up and sell them to the highest bidder, and the price to see a game would remain about the same, only the money goes into some other pockets than the team owners and the players. And these scalpers aren't your old-school sleazebags on the street corner - they are corporations like StubHub now - so we're back to talking about billionaires again. I'm not proposing revolution, but we should try to see things as they are.
  17. ashbury
    I assume you are a big free-markets guy. So why in the world would you choose 1970 as the starting point? Curt Flood sat out that season because he didn't wish to play for the Phillies. The players began to get some semblance of control over their destinies after that. So of course their salaries have grown faster, the closer they come to a free market for their services (and they are a long way still from that). That's a good thing! You should be thrilled.
  18. ashbury
    I don't know the name, but it will be someone we're all terribly disappointed in by 2028.
  19. ashbury
    I found Odo admirable in his prime, but that is in the past. I would not count on him to be available for 32 starts, nor for much more than 5 innings per game, nor for above-average performance in those innings. "We're getting the band back together" kinds of moves don't usually work out.
  20. ashbury
    Kudos! I was hooked on day one.
  21. ashbury
    Who do we trade to the Pirates to get him?
  22. ashbury
    Literally anyone who makes it to the major league level can be discussed as a DH. That doesn't mean they are an asset in the role. The bar is set high for that. Nelson Cruz spoiled us, and despite drafting bat-first hitters at times, there is no heir-apparent. Sano doesn't hit well enough to be an asset at DH. He needed to develop as a fielder. Arraez, I don't even want to talk about him in the role.
  23. ashbury
    No one, including Brockmire himself, will ever surpass the home run call in S1E1: "That ball cannot be buried in a Jewish cemetery because it just got tattooed!"
  24. ashbury
    For me, it's a Hall of FAME, and wins above replacement is only a starting point for discussion. Papi (and Kirby for that matter) was famous to a degree that Torii could only imagine. A borderline candidate can go in or stay out based on his level of fame.
  25. ashbury
    Just a missing colon character in the URL. Try this: https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/01/29/missing-jersey-finds-twins-player-25-years-later
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