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  1. ashbury
    Give 'em all metal parts like the rod that's in our first baseman's leg!
  2. ashbury
    You forgot to say my name 3 times to make me appear, but I'll post one for ya anyway.
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  4. ashbury
    When traveling to the US, it's important to bring your own stash due to the widespread shortages faced here.
  5. ashbury
    Isn't the period supposed to go inside the quotation mark?
  6. ashbury
    I think Scott Boras is one of the more astute minds concerning the business of baseball. In fact, I think he would make some team a great general manager, except that not even the Yankees or Dodgers could afford him!
  7. ashbury
    I tried to start a blog of my own but people told me I was overqualified. Now I understand.
  8. ashbury
    I don't see Marquez and Gray as interchangeable targets. Gray has one more season of team control; and the fact that Marquez signed a nice extension suggests that Gray (and not the Rockies) was the one unwilling to come to terms for a similar deal. Seems like Gray wants to test free agency. Unless the Twins have some secret sauce that the Rockies don't have for getting people to sign, we'd be trading for just one year of Gray, and I think I would save Sano for a different trade target than that.
  9. ashbury
    It's nice to dream, but that contract says to me Colorado has Marquez on the inner-circle of their Untouchable list. Is he mentioned anywhere in the rumor mill?
  10. ashbury
    A top notch DH can be a cost-effective way for a mid-market team to fill out the lineup card. Nelson Cruz is Exhibit A. Paying $20M a year for that doesn't count as cost-effective, though - that kind of money needs to come with a good glove included (or, preferably, a pitching arm instead of a bat), and Ozuna's glove appears to be not really stellar. And if they would spend that kind of money on a corner outfielder with middling defense, they should have just kept Rosario for less.
  11. ashbury
    Make that small edit, and everything else he wrote still stands, IMO.
  12. ashbury
    I dislike RBI as a measure of a hitter as much as most of the rubes here, as you flatter yourself to call us. So I feel qualified to offer a little counter-commentary. Let's look at WAR instead. That's a good rube analytics number, right? Over on baseball-reference.com's Twins page, if I take out the positional component of the offensive WAR and just look at raw offense, I see Nellie's contribution at 2.3 wins over replacement for the past season. The corresponding number for the team as a whole was 7.5. 2.3 divided by 7.5 gives 30.7%. So I'll see your 30% and raise you. Have a little patience before calling names, friend.
  13. ashbury
    Rule-5, I agree. My side comment was limited to the waiver machinations.
  14. ashbury
    From my perspective as a fan of a team, my first instinct is to feel the same way. Over the course of several years discussing such moves here, I've had impressed on me that certain roster rules like waivers and Rule 5 are intended for the benefit of the minor league player, and so I've become a little more philosophical about it. / It still bothers me when I can't reason out a tangible benefit to the player, though - such as repeated waiver claims and re-waivers that result in the player becoming simply a minor leaguer in some new organization.
  15. ashbury
    The IL can help soften the burden of carrying a player who can't yet contribute, but not entirely eliminate it. From MLB.com's glossary: "A Rule 5 Draft pick can be placed on the Major League injured list, but he must be active for a minimum of 90 days to avoid being subject to the aforementioned roster restrictions in the next campaign." I believe there might be exceptions for cases of major injury that overlaps the end of one season and the start of the next, but that second season must involve the player being on the active roster to complete the 90 day minimum (and maybe those exceptions became viewed as loopholes and have been eliminated because I couldn't actually find mention of them anymore).
  16. ashbury
    Good one, RBStu. You had me, right up to the very end. Yeah, like a Borat thing. Let's see how many rubes drive eastbound on I-94 and fall off the edge, as a result of your article. Epic prank. Hope the witness protection program, or whatever you use to hide, works well in the aftermath.
  17. ashbury
    The Rays-Rangers trade looks like Tampa Bay adjusting their prospect pool toward greater positional flexibility. No pitchers among the 5 players on the move.
  18. ashbury
    I was reacting mainly to your comment about some kind of hidden magic in an arm. But there's no "versus" when looking at who is coming and who is leaving. The major league phase is based on 40 protected players (plus all the players not yet eligible); there's some possible talent to be had there. The AAA phase comes after a great many additional players are then protected. Every player taken by every team in the AAA phase is viewed as organization filler. The AAA phase isn't some 3-dimension chess match between opposing GMs and their armies of scouts and analytics types. It's just filling in empty spots. We lost a couple of arms during the major-league phase - filling in this way is perhaps more convenient than signing someone to a minor league contract. Again, maybe your comment about "magic" wasn't to be taken too seriously.
  19. ashbury
    Players taken in the AAA phase don't have the roster restrictions on them that the first phase has. It's roster shuffling and nothing more.
  20. ashbury
    Good call on De Geus. Rangers took him #2.
  21. ashbury
    There won't be. The Appalachian League as a whole is switching over to be a summer college league along the general lines of the Cape Cod.
  22. ashbury
    Don't be a negative nelly.
  23. ashbury
    Also, the cool thing about math rules is that the feeling tends to be mutual. Math rules don't care about you - they just are.
  24. ashbury
    The problem with each and every one of the non-tender guys is that the team that knows them best passed on the unilateral decision to keep them. Still, the case laid out here is intriguing, and perhaps is a better fit for the Twins than for other teams whose needs in CF are either greater or less.
  25. ashbury
    You just have to make sure to use at least 3 such players in the rotation. If Player A is half the hitter that Cruz is, and Player B is half the hitter that Cruz is, and Player C is half the hitter that Cruz is, why, that's 150% of Cruz's production right there! Let me explain to you sometime how I get 200,000 miles of use out of a set of four tires plus a spare that are rated by the manufacturer for 40,000 miles which I rotate every few days. It's just math.
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