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Everything posted by ashbury

  1. ashbury
    You're arguing from a different straw man than I was.
  2. ashbury
    May 7: All posts pertaining to the Twins on social media are required to include the phrase "teh analyticses" to point up the negative correlation of Covid-19 vaccines to team performance. May 28: The letters A, N, A, and L must be capitalized in such posts.
  3. ashbury
    Dobnak threw 30 pitches on April 28 and then 41 pitches on May 1. Yesterday he threw... 59? If they're stretching him out, it's gonna be a while.
  4. ashbury
    Hyde has been optioned to St Paul and they've called up Heckle.
  5. ashbury
    Same intangibles he brought in 2018 when the team went 78-84?
  6. ashbury
    “We think this is a championship-caliber club” -- Thad Levine, February 17
  7. ashbury
    It's just math!
  8. ashbury
    I think they had opening-night technical problems to work out nationwide, and it took a few innings for AAA and AA Twins affiliates. I am guessing things will be smoother tonight, regardless of what tactics we try at home.
  9. ashbury
    Maybe he can be the new Brian Duensing for every coming trade rumor.
  10. ashbury
    When TD debuted in 2012, it ushered in a long trek through the wilderness for this team. I hope the re-launch doesn't turn out to come at a similarly ill-fated time.
  11. ashbury
    He pitched ball one and ball two to Calhoun to begin the ninth. I was watching a minor league game or something, at that moment, so I don't know whether those two pitches were unlucky. The home run that followed did not beat him, but if you reconstruct the inning it seems very likely that no runs at all would have scored despite a couple of unlucky turns of events, had Rogers managed to retire Calhoun instead of giving up a dinger. Sometimes you make your own luck.
  12. ashbury
    He has cooled off considerably since then. Ironically, that means he is now a hot mess.
  13. ashbury
    The late-inning bullpen should be expected to extract a win from a 2-run lead in the ninth. 40% But scoring 3 runs in 9 innings is not winning baseball. Yes, Kyle Gibson is a pretty good pitcher. But if this team flatters itself to think it's playoff-bound, they will face pretty good pitchers each and every game in Octoberball. This loss is in great part attributable to the bats. 30% The starter consumed 101 pitches and covered only 16 outs. That is not winning baseball either. The game was handed to the bullpen in the 6th inning, and for a few innings they actually did their job, but you can't expect perfection over and over, so the starters have to succeed for longer. 20% The damage was done before Rocco had to choose a 10th inning arm, but he did choose strangely. 10% This loss was a team effort, and that's how I'd allocate blame.
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    He was my adopt-a-prospect for a while, for this reason. The bat will determine whether he has a major league career, obviously. He's always been young for his league, which for me means to look for him to maintain an acceptable BA and OPS as he moves up, even if he never wows you with his numbers. He's not that much younger than Arraez though (nor his most direct competition Jeffers), so the youth argument won't apply for much longer. He's not very tall, but has the potential to be powerfully built by the time he's 26 or so, and power numbers could come in that make him desirable as a starter and not just a good-glove backup. He's on the options-clock now and has 3 years to make his case. I'm optimistic.
  16. ashbury
    How you likin' Wallner and his double? / no, I'm not starting a competing game thread for the minors
  17. ashbury
    Watching on MiLB.tv. Wave if you see a camera pointed your way!
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    Rogers is among the least of my worries as well. That is not a comforting thought.
  21. ashbury
    People on seven-game hitting streaks are often renowned for their positive demeanor.
  22. ashbury
    Midseason? Time really flies!
  23. ashbury
    He's the best-hitting Rosario on that team!
  24. ashbury
    Or wonder whether you tip your pitch?
  25. ashbury
    A win's a win, they all count, beat the opponents you should beat, it moves us one step closer to a post-season slot, yadda yadda. But this game doesn't move the needle on my opinion about the Twins' chances if they reach the post-season. There they won't face teams like the Rangers, who gave us run after run after run in the 6th inning on balls in play that were charitably counted as extra-base hits. (The one unearned run in that game was ironically more like bad luck on a long throw, than outright ineptitude.) This team doesn't look built to succeed against good opposition.
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