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  1. ashbury
    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.
  2. ashbury
    How you likin' Wallner and his double? / no, I'm not starting a competing game thread for the minors
  3. 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.
  7. ashbury
    People on seven-game hitting streaks are often renowned for their positive demeanor.
  8. ashbury
    Midseason? Time really flies!
  9. ashbury
    He's the best-hitting Rosario on that team!
  10. ashbury
    Or wonder whether you tip your pitch?
  11. 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.
  12. ashbury
    FTFY
  13. ashbury
    Quite possibly he is.
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    Buxton gets incredible reads on fly balls.
  16. ashbury
    Alcalá turns 26 in three months. He's not some baby-faced phenom. Time for trial by fire.
  17. ashbury
    Or, an entire page of DSM-5.
  18. ashbury
    Came here to say something about like that. Some stats like RBI and ERA try to tell you what happened. Some stats like BABIP or exit velocity try to help you forecast what may come next. But in no case is anyone trying to spin losses into wins. It's just insulting when someone implies that.
  19. ashbury
    Swinging through pitches in the strike zone isn't affected very much by the liveliness of the ball.
  20. ashbury
    Respect the Turtle by rendering his nickname correctly in Spanish: La Tortuga.
  21. ashbury
    No reason to think this isn't a last-place team, and I did not see it coming. The bullpen, sure, I expected to hold the team back from being elite. But this is looking close to the Total System Failure at the end of Terry Ryan's tenure, all over again.
  22. ashbury
    Because most runs score on wild pitches?
  23. ashbury
    Some of us had been saying that for quite a while, yes. Don't get me wrong, I like Polanco a lot. I was on his bandwagon earlier than some. He's got a major-league bat, which is not usually a given for a middle infielder, although his 2020-21 results are worrisome. His demeanor on the field has always been great, especially his eyes when he's at the plate, and I can't recall his last bonehead play. But he's proved to be not a major-league caliber defender at shortstop. It had been speculated he'd do better at second, but we've got a logjam there. It's always been about the arm-strength in particular, IMO - when he goes all out, the ball tends to be scattershot instead of straight to first base, and when he stays within himself and aims it then it arrives on a bounce. I remember seeing him short-arm a throw (with a bad result) even from second this season. He's tried that weird sidearm motion when at short, which apparently helped some, but all in all if it were correctable, it would have been by now.
  24. ashbury
    With Simmons on the shelf, we really don't have a shortstop on the active roster, do we.
  25. ashbury
    I clicked Like because there isn't an I Hate You button.
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