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  1. ashbury
    The pundits all said the record would stand until it was broken, and that's exactly how it worked out.
  2. ashbury
    Whatever deep pockets team gets Trevor Story will be disappointed in the .750 OPS he puts up once outside the warm embrace of Coors Field.
  3. ashbury
    No better than Polanco at shortstop, maybe even a little less range. If we had an opening at 3B then maybe, but we don't. I don't dislike him as a bounceback candidate with the bat, but we have nowhere to put him. Pass, on investing resources to get Gleyber.
  4. ashbury
    Cedar Rapids: I always enjoy an X-to-X game. You never know what to expect.
  5. ashbury
    At the moment I see the trade as win-win for both teams. Starters are more valuable but a good reliever with longevity is not chopped liver. While I agree with those who say that purpose of trading is not to "win" them each and every time, I do think that retrospectives like this are valuable - you want your team to do good stewardship of its resources, and constantly overpaying even for good talent in return will eventually take its toll. Graterol for Maeda looks equitable; Gil for Cave, for example, does not.
  6. ashbury
    With that as the criterion, the Twins haven't contended since 2014 when they signed Hughes and Nolasco 1991 when they signed Morris.
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  8. ashbury
    I want to see some extended video of him from the other direction. It's got to be that he's mastered the art of delivering all his pitches from one or maybe two release points? Not enough to have stuff, you have to have command and also deception. Twins coaching staff, don't tinker with this guy, in pursuit of one or two additional MPH or spin rates or whatnot, unless you know for sure how to maintain the deception.
  9. ashbury
    Great satire of the optimistic spirit we all sometimes fall prey to. Keep 'em coming!
  10. ashbury
    Okay, I'll bite - when did the Twins ever sign Worley as a free agent?
  11. ashbury
    We all need to click Like on this blog post of Brock's so that he can keep the prize he so clearly esteems.
  12. ashbury
    Did they change how Rule 5 works? I thought the drafting team paid a price, and then if they don't want to keep him they offer him back for half price, assuming he clears waivers.
  13. ashbury
    Dunno how long he can continue to play the youth card. The "young man" turns 30 next month.
  14. ashbury
    WPA pays no attention to defensive contributions, so for a player like Simmons it's not surprising if WAR and WPA differ greatly. Between the two, I would rely less on WPA for assessing "value". However looking at Simmons's two values in conjunction helps suggest the limits of what a good glove alone can contribute. For the list of five, I'd go with Colome, Cave, Shoemaker, Astudillo and Happ in some order - is it really important to rank them, with 2 gone and 3 more who should be absent next spring?
  15. ashbury
    I watched him a couple of times when Rochester visited Pawtucket. At SS he had a knack for making the two tough plays he was given look difficult. Perhaps he has improved in the past two years. I'm no scout, and if you mistrust the opinion of professionals who have seen him more frequently and more recently, maybe you'll find my amateur POV persuasive. If the Twins don't think he has improved, I won't demand to see him at SS again with my own eyes. IMO Gordon at SS *is* out of position.
  16. ashbury
    When I started collecting in the sixties, the draw was the fun of potentially collecting the whole set. The draw today is asset appreciation. I don't think that would have drawn 10-year old ashbury in, but I could be wrong.
  17. ashbury
    Opening Day will be pitched by whichever pitcher among the starters on the roster has the most MLB service time. Possibly Pineda if they re-sign him. Otherwise someone new they sign. Not Ober, not Dobnak, not Ryan. Hopefully they sign someone good, and not another Shoemaker caliber arm.
  18. ashbury
    Don't forget to light the paper bag on fire first.
  19. ashbury
    I believe Falvey's relative youth played a role in his hiring, and then likewise with Levine. The point of hiring youth versus a retread is that there is the potential for growth. I'm not impressed with the results so far, but I expect that ownership will give this FO a lot more leeway to continue to improve, than I probably would. Replacing at the very top is an expensive proposition in multiple dimensions, versus letting the FO learn from mistakes. The key is whether they view anything as mistakes versus bad luck. I expect they talk a good game when reviewing results with ownership.
  20. ashbury
    So the plate umpire basically told both managers, "I'm calling a strike zone as wide as the Mississippi River. Tell your batters to be up there hacking"?
  21. ashbury

    Just Dreamin'

    ashbury commented on mike8791's blog entry in mike8791's Blog

    You'll get a lot of seeing-eye singles that way.
  22. ashbury
    Great trade! Remind me again, who'd we get? Yes yes, Alex "Injured Pitcher" Scherff.
  23. ashbury

    Just Dreamin'

    ashbury commented on mike8791's blog entry in mike8791's Blog

    Acquiring truly good pitching is going to be an "overpay" situation, whether free agency or trade or anything else. That's the fallacy of loading up with sure-thing bats - you have to bundle too much of that to translate it into pitching, but that is the fault of the metrics we're using to evaluate pitching versus batting. Package up Larnach and Arraez and low-minor-league corner bats and see how much of Miami's pitching you can get! (If they're foolish enough to answer your phone call.) Don't trade away catching, though.
  24. ashbury
    ... wanting to discuss the bullpen situation.
  25. ashbury
    Gleeman's stat/split is the mark of a so-so offense, not a strong one. A strong offense can not totally make up for bad pitching, but it would do better than this in those 6+ run games. If the Twins' pitching were of championship caliber, we'd be looking harder at the offense as the anchor holding them back from true contention. As it is, the team's record in 2021 has been a complete team effort.
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