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  1. ashbury
    Oddly, I don't think I've seen it brought up that Rocco alluded to an "individual achievement," in his post-game explanation for the "quick" hook. He said that the run Buxton scored was instrumental. With the lead, Berrios was suddenly in line to collect the "W". Take him out, and he can not be saddled with an unlucky "L". Instead, the downside for our prized arm was only a non-decision. That logic wouldn't apply if the score had remained 0-0, and Rocco implied Berrios would have gone another inning in that case. I can't know if the pitcher accepts this logic as partial compensation for losing the chance for a no-no, but my guess is that it helps.
  2. ashbury
    You need to ask the grounds crew to look at the basepath near the plate and fix those two places. As for Donaldson, he's not 99 years old like you are, so I would expect somewhat better.
  3. ashbury
    Yeah, right.
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    Once a player, particularly a pitcher, is added to anyone's 40-man, the odds of an in-season appearance surely shoot up dramatically. Nobody gets added, no matter how unready, without there being some sort of contingency plan for when he might get called to the majors; Polanco is an example to remember. There are 7 pitchers on the Twins' MLB.com roster page currently marked as assigned to the minors, and Ober probably is near the bottom of that pecking order, but it's a long season. Probably the relevant question is the over/under for the date he gets a call. I'll toss August 1 out there for grins. (It would be interesting to look at a previous season's opening-day 40-man, and check how many appeared in a major league game that year, but I don't know of a repository for that.)
  5. ashbury
    This sounds like the punch line to one of Chief's game thread jokes, that I'm not quite remembering.
  6. ashbury
    Both starters put on a master class. Topic: Command. When the umpire gave them the outside strike, they both capitalized.
  7. ashbury
    Please let me know when is the time. I like to plan ahead, but am willing to do just-in-time when the supply chain is reliable. OK, but less flippantly, the inning pointed up exactly the value of having a strikeout profile as a reliever, which the article kind of dismissed in passing. 7 PA and no K's, and any of four of those PA being a strikeout instead of in play stood to have changed the way the inning came out. Colome won't go the season without strikeouts, but more is better, and his seasonal trend has been in the other direction.
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    Years ago I told my children not to trust Brett Favre in a Vikings uniform. He might raise your hopes for a while, I warned, but he was sent here by the Packers to find the optimal time to Break. Your. Heart. I may have been incorrect, but I was not Wrong. This new guy blew his own cover way too early.
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    Eddie Rosario looked good at 3B that one game in Boston. We could shift him there and call u-... oops. I think I want to look at the batting order, taking Donaldson out, and decide who on the 40-man is the best bat to replace him. For me, that's Rooker. Adjusting the defense to put all the batters in their best deployment leads to Arraez at 3B. It's not ideal, but aiming for a slightly better defense leads to a dropoff on offense.
  10. ashbury
    You just described the conflict between the Twins having a "top" bullpen in 2020 versus having actual multiple shutdown bullpen pieces to use. I accept that the stats tell us the bullpen isn't trash, but I have a hard time thinking of them as being better than average, which means they will get exposed by top opponents when the games are close - i.e. the post-season is different than the regular season. I think there must be stats that bear this admittedly subjective view out.
  11. ashbury
    Use Dobnak in regulation rather than in extra innings. He can cover multiple innings, and may be less at a disadvantage than a fireballer when the courtesy runner is not placed at second.
  12. ashbury
    I remember the thinking among my friends in 1987. Before Game 1 against the heavily favored Tigers: "I just hope they don't embarrass themselves when the spotlight is on them." Before Game 2: "Hey, they actually won a game! Good for them. We've used up our allotment of good luck." Before Game 3: "This can't last." Before Game 4: "Yep, what I expected. Now comes the onslaught." After that, there still was never confidence that this was really happening. Hope similar guarded pessmism works out in the team's favor in 2021.
  13. ashbury
    Rocco alluded to defense, so I took that to be the tie breaker. Go to StP, polish up the defense a little, and be back up to the majors in June (barring injuries calling for him sooner).
  14. ashbury
    We turn the tables on Koufax and rough him up a bit?
  15. ashbury
    Derek Falvey played baseball at Trinity College. Thad Levine played baseball at Haverford College. Were you still playing at a level comparable to NCAA when you were in your 20s? You really should give the FO credit for having the experience that you say is important.
  16. ashbury
    Should give the player quite a Lyft. If Cinderella suddenly turns into a pumpkin, the team is saddled for five years with a payroll-crippling average annual expense of almost two millio-... uh, never mind. Looks like the Twins' analytics team likes him more than the average player rating outfit does, but assuming so, then this does look like a win-win contract. Dobnak's rep no doubt spelled out the scenarios, but even if the player likes to bet on himself, a hard-eyed look at his situation should include the view that if he encounters any bumps on the road he wouldn't get as many chances to redeem himself as a more highly touted player might. He may have settled a little cheaply, but he's locked in a good life outcome, so it makes sense from his side. And the Twins, being the larger partner in this deal, can afford to underwrite the risk, while potentially reaping some financial savings if he turns into a mid-rotation workhorse for several years; he doesn't even have to be a 50-50 shot at achieving this to make it a good bet for the team.
  17. ashbury
    Either the announcer was being nice, or else the guy in the control booth was in his ear telling him dead air was unacceptable so just say something.
  18. ashbury
    Upon second reading, I guess I want to complete my thought by saying that this reductio ad absurdum leads me to think that Happ was actually doing more than just "hitting spots" that the other team's announcer was saying. I would hope.
  19. ashbury
    "Hitting specific spots" seems like something that can be done in drills, and doesn't require an opposing batter to stand there and swing (or not swing). If he's not ready to actually pitch, so be it, he got a late start; but give the innings to someone who is actually ready.
  20. ashbury
    I would profess embarrassment, when out-of-town friends and family would accompany me to ballgames. It was a concrete dungeon. Possibly best of its breed, but still bad. It also was home to some of my happiest baseball memories. So go figure. I look back at the place and smile. It may have been a dump but it was OUR dump.
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  22. ashbury
    When's the last time a hitting coach was fired during Spring Training?
  23. ashbury
    When reached for comment, Nicollet Park and Lexington Park wept with envy.
  24. ashbury
    Every good comments section starts with this sound principle.
  25. ashbury
    Hall of Fame. Inner Circle at that, for most of those you named. I dunno, a CFer can play for my team, and yet not reach quite that lofty standard. In CF I'll trade some of the bat for some more of the glove. In RF, I'll trade a little bit of bat for a whole lot of glove, I guess. Kepler's 2020 bat was getting close to too much of a downgrade.
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