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  1. ashbury
    Seems like there is a shortage of arms at AAA St Paul, due to injury or whatnot, so why not bring Cano up a level? Chandler Shepherd would have appreciated an early shower in Thursday's game, I believe.
  2. ashbury
    ISWYDT. I could be wrong but I have seen his face before He was the man that I saw at the bullpen door We owe him money and he gave us something more Two more runs Two more runs He will be what he is just the same
  3. ashbury
    There's considerable opinion here that the FO does carry the ultimate blame for the lack of options in yesterday's game. If so, it's asking a little much of Rocco to throw his bosses under the bus.
  4. ashbury
    I assume the AAA staff is in a depleted state too, and the manager warned his starter, "if you run into trouble I'm not coming out there to get you and bring in a reliever. You'll just have to relieve yourself on the mound." The b-r.com "game score" was a rousing negative-fifteen for this start. Considering it's based on an intended zero-to-one-hundred scale with fifty being average, that is quite a feat.
  5. ashbury
    He is hitting .450 when he puts the ball in play. I don't expect that is sustainable.
  6. ashbury
    He can? His appetite for innings was missing, his previous time out there. If a guy's going bad, he's going bad. Now, if you put him in the bullpen and tell him to change his approach, "go as hard as you can for as long as you can," in the hopes he'll have better success, well maybe. But then you're not telling him to eat innings. "You're a reliever now, go hard on every pitch, but still give me innings," is about on a par with "throw strikes, but don't give him anything good to hit" as pitching advice If he could do either of those, he'd be in an asset the rotation. I don't claim my view is constructive. We now have Colome and Shoemaker both worthy of only mop-up duty. Modern bullpens can't function that way.
  7. ashbury
    Probably doubly painful for the third-base coach to watch. Did he suddenly get struck mute, on that play? Is "get back, get back, get back" no longer a thing?
  8. ashbury
    Then again, I like pitchers who respond well to pressure.
  9. ashbury
    Came here to say something similar. Article didn't age well.
  10. ashbury
    Concur that a mere $2M signing like Shoemaker can't be the problem. You could sign an entire roster at that price and spend only about fifty million. You could flush him the day after signing him and not feel a budgetary pinch. The problem is how many innings he's been asked to pitch, given the poor results; said differently, the problem is they stopped after this $2M signing; said differently still, a $2M veteran stands a good chance of being merely a roster clogger since you have only 26 spots.
  11. ashbury
    I meant to add, we enjoyed Q39 for barbecue on our most recent trip there in 2018. My son had heard that LENIII swears by the place. We didn't know what to expect and it might be a little too slick and polished, maybe trendy, for some tastes, but the food was good. Arthur Bryant's has the long-time reputation, but this morning I see that it has bad Yelp ratings. Then again, it is possible that BBQ is exactly the wrong category to rely on Yelp for.
  12. ashbury
    No no no. It's just this stutter I've de-de-developed.
  13. ashbury
    Concur concur concur. Kauffman Stadium is in my upper echelon of ballparks. It's got character, for sure.
  14. ashbury
    It's been a while since any outfielders have been added to the IL. We were overdue anyway.
  15. ashbury
    Two scouting sources I use for quick and dirty ideas (mlb.com and OOTP) both suggest Brujan's arm is the limiting factor - on a par with Polanco's would be my interpretation As mentioned just above, he's played more corner outfield than middle infield in 2021 (but in fairness also some CF). The guy may turn out to be another tweener who profiles better at 2B. If so, do the Twins move heaven and earth to get him when they have someone like that already under control through 2025 and two other guys with similar skill sets too?
  16. ashbury
    Colomé hasn't pitched since Wednesday the 2nd, has he? In his last 4 appearances he has faced 16 batters and 8 of them have reached, two of those with homers. The ERA of 9 across those 3 innings is indicative. So Rocco has let him rot on the bullpen bench, just as we all would hope, presumably until such time as a game is sufficiently lopsided to let him eat an inning and try to prove he's getting better, or else a string of close games and/or bullpen overwork forces the manager's hand.
  17. ashbury
    He does not.
  18. ashbury
    And yet, somehow, I think you just did.
  19. ashbury
    I should do some kind of study on the cities I consider "good baseball towns" and see if my theories hold water.
  20. ashbury
    I like it enough to have been a paying user for several years now, even when they increased the price (and added functionality and I guess changed the name) for 2021. I probably don't use it enough to justify the cost to Mrs Ash, so don't bring it up at the next TD gathering, but probably I use it at least once a week, just to answer a casual question like Rocco raised. I'm not even real good at database queries, and so I feel I only scratch the surface of what this tool can do.
  21. ashbury
    Rocco asks rhetorically, "how many guys at this age have stolen a base?" A metric butt-ton, Rocco. Names like Cobb and Musial and Henderson and Bonds ring a bell? Dozens, anyway - 411 such games since 1901, though I didn't sift down to unique players. Heck, I just looked it up, and 19 games have been played where a player at Cruz's age (40 years 338 days) or older hit a HR and also stole a base. Tell Nelly that Davey Lopes is sitting at his home near Providence laughing at your punch-and-judy 2-for-3 this afternoon. https://stathead.com/tiny/oMZaH (I think this link should work for any/everybody, Please tell me if you try and it doesn't)
  22. ashbury
    I'm not hungry enough for that. Make it just a small jumbo shrimp for me. Rocco thinks they played a well-played game? Grammar/style quibbles aside, I would prefer a higher standard than to call it that.
  23. ashbury
    In his last 10 games, going into this afternoon's contest, he's given us 47 PA worth of .947 OPS, built on a .308 BA, 5 walks, and a couple of homers. That's small sample size territory, but not cherry picked particularly, to suggest he's on an all-star track for now. Please keep it up, Josh!
  24. ashbury
    I guess I should let this tangent drop after this, because I have no data one way or the other compared to other markets, but my impression of the TC fan base (present company most definitely not included) is not good. "Low Information Consumers" might sum up a sizable proportion, particularly from outstate. Some arrive wondering why Mauer isn't in the day's lineup. The steady drip-drip-drip of a losing season may be only vaguely registering; but when there are headlines in the straight news section of the paper that the nearest team is trading off their assets, the tour buses may stop rolling in from points south and west of the cities. If they're gonna be low-information, you don't want to push the information faster than you have to. Which wasn't to say that early trades can't be made. Just that it's an additional challenge for the FO to pull off.
  25. ashbury
    You could make that assumption in some markets, but my impression of the Twin Cities is that the fans are willfully punitive - "I'll withhold my support, THAT'LL help 'em to get better." Probably the MBAs in the front office have numbers reflecting Demand Elasticity or whatnot. Not much can prevent a collapse of day-of-game ticket sales after late July when the white-flag trades no longer can be deferred, but every dollar not reaped between now and then (falling short of projections, say) likely comes out of the FO's hide in one form or another.
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