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  1. ashbury
    This game just brought us a new way to drain our resolve. Abandon hope all ye who watch the 2021 Twins.
  2. ashbury
    Three games. Four runs. This team.
  3. ashbury
    Had the Twins offense scored 6 runs they would have lost. There can be plenty of blame to go around.
  4. ashbury
    I was hoping for either wins or clarity as we approach the trade deadline. Guess I'm getting the latter. No false hopes being raised!
  5. ashbury
    There's rough and then there's rough. It's one thing to say that once contention for the post-season is out the window, it doesn't matter how many losses there are. But finishing strong versus finishing in abject failure could be the difference in millions of dollars of season-ticket sales during the coming off-season. The FO has to take many things into account besides just roster management to avoid a death-spiral on a par with Pittsburgh and Baltimore. Finishing with 90 losses is rough but finishing with 100+ is rougher.
  6. ashbury
    Couldn't help noticing that all our hits in game 2 were from guys who might be gone by the end of the month, with the exception of Polanco, while all the o-fers were guys discussed to be the future/young core, with the exception of Kepler. Going with the kids could be rough the rest of the way.
  7. ashbury
    Hamilton's not on the 40 man. I think he was waived already once this season, so if they bring him up and then need to send him down again, they lose him. I may be shaky on the rules and someone will correct me, but all in all I suspect it comes down to roster stewardship. By contrast they can add Minaya and DFA him without fear of losing him, because hey he's Minaya and no one's going to lodge a waiver claim, or something like that. MLB roster rules sometimes work against a particular player.
  8. ashbury
    When you phrase it that way, the question kind of answers itself, doesn't it?
  9. ashbury
    It would be exciting if he shines in this audition. If he disguises his pitches, the changeup can be devastating.
  10. ashbury
    FalVine have yet to demonstrate they can put together the "sustainable" pitching staff that their words in 2016 suggested we'd have by now. For them to deal away both Berrios and Rogers would be, as the trope (which I used once already today) goes, "a bold move, Cotton," moving them farther from the goal rather than closer. They really would be gambling that their heretofore unproven prowess was about to be triumphally confirmed.
  11. ashbury
    Isn't that going to be the case for literally every pick after the first handful? There is a lot of group-think in baseball's scouting circles and front offices, but there will also be shades and variability. So the teams will rank prospects in subtly different ways, and whoever a team happens to pick wasn't at the top of the (remaining) list for anyone else before them when it was their turn to pick, pretty much by definition. "It's just math!" Of course there is also the other side of the coin, related to the "winner's paradox" or something like that. "If the guy we've decided on is so great, how come none of the other geniuses picking earlier than us snapped him up?" Comes with the territory, I'm basically saying.
  12. ashbury
    I seem to remember that when he was sent down earlier this season, Rocco or someone said that his defense needed to improve. Maybe his bat is what's improved enough, but bat-only is a really high hurdle in the major leagues. Has he shown any ability to play an acceptable defensive game?
  13. ashbury
    A ton of Physics majors do.
  14. ashbury
    Anybody here know with certainty how to pronounce his last name? The online sources I found for the word in general would make it sound like "hah-YAR". If he's of Arabic extraction that might be about right, but the draft day announcer had it as "HAD-jer", and it wouldn't surprise me if it was something like "HEY-jar'.
  15. ashbury
    I love watching two evenly matched teams play. I've been known to pull over on the road when I spot a game in progress at a town park with no spectators, in case there might be entertainment. Or, two last-place major league teams? Could be a good battle, with a little less taken for granted and thus more surprises. Seesaw lead changes can be great. But when it's my team, which was supposed to be putting together a roster for a deep post-season run? I don't enjoy watching them get clobbered by the good teams, and I don't enjoy a contest between them and another "evenly matched" bottom-dweller team, because it just hurts too much. The game the other day when they had a walk-off win against a mediocre team after blowing the lead meant absolutely nothing to me except further pain. I've been watching the games on radio with the sound off, mostly.
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  17. ashbury
    His stats at AAA are still riding on the coattails of his insane first game. Good for him, but take that game out and his AAA OPS is around .660 and dropping. I can't imagine the front office is contemplating an imminent trade of Donaldson just to accommodate the prospect.
  18. ashbury
    Back in 2016 Falvey's promise was "a sustainable and championship-caliber team and organization that Twins fans across Twins Territory will be proud of". I'm the little kid in the back seat of the car - are we there yet? are we there yet? are we there yet? We ain't there yet. Lack of a discernible pitching pipeline and reliance on astute short-term signings isn't looking very sustainable right now. The youngest guy on the pitching staff who is delivering positive value is Berrios (Ryan's guy, need I point out), and he isn't actually young anymore.
  19. ashbury
    Very fair take.
  20. ashbury
    IMO this has reached public view because the Twins wanted it to. They are shopping him hard and want other potential suitors to know that at least one team is interested. That's all it is, at this point - marketing of a trade chip. He's worn out his welcome.
  21. ashbury
    Then you REALLY wouldn't have liked Jonathan Swift's article a while back about all the best ways to cook Irish babies.
  22. ashbury
    If you limit consideration to those who played anything other than LF less than, say, 35% of their innings while with the Twins, Ward deserves some attention. Guys like Allison played a lot of RF. OTOH Allison played a lot, period, so maybe his contributions in Left still outweigh Ward's. Left really isn't chock full of top candidates. And Ward is pretty underrated by now - never any great shakes on defense but he got the job done, and he could hit.
  23. ashbury
    No love for Gary Ward?
  24. ashbury
    The first rule of Byron Buxton is - you do not talk about Byron Buxton. The second rule of Buxton is - you DO NOT talk about Buxton.
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