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  1. ashbury
    Let us remanufacture your old, bald pitchers, with our patented process! Before: After:
  2. ashbury
    He does no such thing. He did contribute in yesterday's game, so hurrah - he's on my team and I root for that when I watch a game. The trouble is that he needs to do it more frequently. They keep statistics on players, and guys like Polanco and Donaldson contribute frequently enough to be a net positive for the team. Guys like Sano and Simmons and La Tortuga do the opposite, by that I mean their positive contributions at the plate do not balance out the more frequent inability to get on base or move runners over to score. It doesn't require modern analytics like WPA, either. Just look at the RBI and Runs racked up this year by Astudillo, per plate appearance. Neither number is any good at all. He's been a little better in other years. I want him to do better. We all should.
  3. ashbury
    Right, because last year's world-champion Dodgers sealed their coming success back in August when they made the surprise call-up of... wait, um, no, they didn't. I don't mean to make a federal case out of it. All teams make moves like this one from time to time. But even if the Twins somehow managed to poison their reputation with third-tier free agents, while still keeping all their other options open, I don't believe their fortunes would suffer. Guys like this don't move the needle. Let the "future possible signees" like this one flock to the Pittsburghs and Baltimore for their chances at one more major league payday.
  4. ashbury
    If MLB had 60-man or 80-man rosters to play with, maybe I could support this kind of farting around like we see with Beau Freaking Burrows. But they don't, so I don't. Then again, if the rosters were larger, then the waiver-wire pickings would be even slimmer, and the flyers this team takes would still be impossible to support. This is the kind of Brownian motion that bottom feeder teams do when trying to improve themselves, not a team that styles itself as a contender. Oops, wait, this year we are a bottom feeder team. Again. I still don't have to like these moves, and I remain a skeptic even when they seemingly catch lightning in a bottle with the occasional Matt Wisler (only then to manage to convince themselves that it was all smoke and mirrors and let him go). I'd like to just ignore today's ballgame and pretend it didn't happen, and move Burrows off the roster ASAP.
  5. ashbury
    He built those stats on abnormally low batting average on balls in play. When his BABIP bounced back to league average, guess what: no more dominance. Like magic. I don't trust small sample size numbers for relievers, and Tyler Duffey is an example of why. I don't trust Tyler Duffey on the mound. He's an average MLB pitcher, so he has skills and can be on a major league roster. But let's not hold him up as a benchmark for the next pitcher we have high hopes for.
  6. ashbury
    I hate to throw effluent into anyone's cornflakes, but even at his peak Doof was never more than serviceable, certainly not dominant or lights out.
  7. ashbury
    That won't help the pitchers hit any better when it's their turn to bat.
  8. ashbury
    Is there a term for Polanco's defensive performance today? Badarmitis?
  9. ashbury
    Watching this afternoon's game, and comparisons to Tyler Duffey seem like a kiss of death for a prospect.
  10. ashbury
    Sano is not a "good" defensive third baseman overall, and never was. But even back when we (and the team) were trying to sort out his best role, his first year or three, that was the play he would consistently make as well as anyone there is. He would charge accidental slow rollers or intentional bunts with complete authority and confidence, and his arm was never suspect. If Altuve thought it was a good gamble to test him on that play, after a long absence from the position, well he lost.
  11. ashbury
    Where was this extra-innings moxie earlier in the season when it might have made a difference?
  12. ashbury
    You're describing a bottom-feeder team. I don't actually care very much how my team fills in some holes when they are in that role. Simmons would be fine, not-Simmons would be fine.
  13. ashbury
    He's so easy to root for. Glad his bat has bounced back!
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  15. ashbury
    His actual words were "it's hard to quote but easy to paraphrase."
  16. ashbury
    I appreciate your response, because as I was typing that analysis I knew I was being That Guy again.
  17. ashbury
    Sure, that can be the opening negotiation tactic. But does a negotiator buy his own rhetoric? At the end of the day trade deadline, a wise negotiator looks at the actual offers in hand, and decides if the best one is good enough. Doesn't matter how high they aimed.
  18. ashbury
    A clickbait article with a question mark in the headline - I reviewed it and one, maybe two, responses indicated support for that. I could post an article titled "Did the Sun rise in the West this morning?" and probably get a couple of positive responses. I'll stand by what I said before.
  19. ashbury
    Not that this affects your point (2021 Twins are bad), but I count 17 other seasons where the franchise had a winning percentage below .415 since 1922, including the 100-loss team of 2016. They have turned in some real clunkers. The First-in-War First-in-Peace Last-in-the-AL Senators were known for putrid showings before 1922, also.
  20. ashbury
    Celestino with a 1.400 OPS at AAA. Maybe time to call him up and see what he can do against big league pitching?
  21. ashbury
    You're about the last person I'd expect to view the trade deadline as a poker tournament. Sure, there's a little fog-of-war. But don't you think the FO fielded whatever offers there were, tried to get the other teams to sweeten them a little, and concluded that no one was offering much for an average-ish starter, and decided to stand pat on that one? Oops, poker terminology after all.
  22. ashbury
    I don't think there is hate for Donaldson. There is some nervousness about the risk of significant injury in the later years of his contract, and if there is no hope of contention in 2022 then we're carrying that risk for 1.3 seasons with little in the way of possible reward to balance it. Those who foresee contention in 2022 will judge that risk differently of course. And that was probably the dilemma the FO faced as they considered whatever offers they got for him. The broader fan base wants to contend every year, and the projected return from trading him would have been a PR hit they decided not to take. IMO of course.
  23. ashbury
    We ruined him already??? Nah, I missed that about him when the trade was announced. He pitched a week ago and finished a game to earn a quick win - wha' hoppened?
  24. ashbury
    Then again maybe Wes works his magic on Gant.
  25. ashbury
    The bigtime stuff and the control questions which recently surfaced could be related. That video of his nasty curveball looked to me like with a different umpire and/or on a different day could have been called outside of the strike zone. As he's moved up to AA now, he's facing more-experienced batters, who are more likely to be able to lay off, leaving SWR at the mercy of the day's ump - same story for every prospect worth talking about. It could be that his stuff is MLB-ready but what he needs to polish up is that ineffable ability to persuade the ump to give him the borderline calls, inning after inning - a single pitch every inning or two can be the difference between a successful outing and an unsuccessful one.
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