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Everything posted by ashbury

  1. ashbury
    There is talent on this team. Some guys, most of them really, need to be looking in the mirror for solutions.
  2. ashbury
    My game today at Fenway was rained out, and I still had the feeling I had a better day than the fans at Target Field. Glad you could enjoy the experience.
  3. ashbury
    /season
  4. ashbury
    Unless we're handing out Participation Trophies, a starting pitcher having a shaky first inning resulting in a run scored, and then getting knocked out for good during just the fifth inning, more than negates clean innings 2 through 4, and qualifies as a rough day. Going five quality innings is the new low bar for starters, and achieving less than that puts your team in a real bind that day.
  5. ashbury
    Haphazard tangents like this are a Happ hazard anytime he pitches.
  6. ashbury
    If the team makes a push to sign him, and the player's agent tells the GM, "look, whatever you offer him, the Yankees or Dodgers will top next year. We're testing free agency," I think you have to look into trades like the ones discussed here.
  7. ashbury
    Happelujah.
  8. ashbury
    Eliminate the home run. Its time has passed. When my brother and I hit the ball in our backyard as kids, we called anything over the fence an out, because one neighbor owned prized rose bushes and she didn't like us coming over to retrieve the ball, and the other neighbor had an aggressive dog. We should make the batter ring a doorbell and ask the fans in the cheap seats for permission to climb up the wall and get the ball he hit out, then politely hand it to the umpire who registers the out. J/k, but not entirely. The reward for a long fly ball is vastly out of proportion in today's game. It results in uppercut swings, and pitches that exploit that, and an unwillingness to swing at anything not launchable. Time for a reboot. Babe Ruth didn't kill the game, as it turns out. Dave Kingman did.
  9. ashbury
    Quicker than you even knew!
  10. ashbury
    Yeah, "the ump squeezed me on that one pitch" probably isn't going to go over well.
  11. ashbury
    This catcher. This bullpen. That is all.
  12. ashbury
    The Kernels game summary here left out how their 2 runs scored, and I was curious. Neither of the extra-base hits factored in - instead two different opposing pitchers labored to walk the bases loaded and then walk two more batters. That's how an 8th inning can go in the minors, sometimes. Yeesh.
  13. ashbury
    Yes. The defensive spectrum is long- and well-known for some position changes, such as SS->2B or 3B->1B or CF->LF (or RF), either due to eroding skills or else just a simple expediency for a time. Trying to go the other direction in these pairings is inadvisable, except in real emergencies. But we've seen middle infielders shift reasonably successfully to the outfield, in recent Twins cases like Arraez (LF) or Royce Lewis (CF). And in the reverse direction it's not likely that Jake Cave (when healthy) or Max Kepler would make even a suitable emergency SS. So that is another defensive spectrum that is less talked about but is there when needed. Up the middle talent is extremely valuable, as a general principle, with SS even more so than CF when it's a close choice. The bat still has to play, of course.
  14. ashbury
    A satirist is wise to choose a worthy target.
  15. ashbury
    Someday when brain function is just a little better mapped out, Ethan Adams will be understood to have suffered from Early Onset Something Or Other, and be pitied rather than made fun of.
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  17. ashbury
    Without looking, take a guess which MLB team has the longest win-streak going, as of this morning.
  18. ashbury
    We seem to experience that same shortage every Friday! Go figure.
  19. ashbury
    Ever heard Tom Waits's version of the Disney song Heigh Ho? If you don't recognize the full lyrics to the song, and you hear it unannounced, it sneaks up on you.
  20. ashbury
    No visible family resemblance, to say the least.
  21. ashbury
    We can't know what the conversations were in Sept/Oct 2016 when Falvey was hired. Those had to have centered on what to do with the emerging core that was being inherited. The degree to which Falvey can tell the guy who signs his paycheck, "this is one of the scenarios I laid out for you almost five years ago, remember?" will be the degree to which he can commit to a rebuild. My previous post indicates what I think that degree to be. "Last place in 2021, Berrios and probably Buxton dealt at the deadline? Um, no, I don't recall that particular scenario coming up."
  22. ashbury
    The question I have is whether a FO can survive making such a white-flag trade, admitting failure on not just their 2021 chances but for the entire window of contention for this core. My thought is, "no". They might convince ownership that trading Berrios is the right thing; the corollary is a change at the top of the FO too. Thus I can't see it happening.
  23. ashbury
    It is an unwritten rule that when someone breaks an unwritten rule I must angrily denounce ALL unwritten rules. I should know, because I just un-writ this one myself. Grrrr!
  24. ashbury
    You have brought TD comedy to a new and higher level.
  25. ashbury
    From BAH-stahn.
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