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  1. 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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    When's the last time a hitting coach was fired during Spring Training?
  4. ashbury
    When reached for comment, Nicollet Park and Lexington Park wept with envy.
  5. ashbury
    Every good comments section starts with this sound principle.
  6. 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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    Note to self: a reliever's low velocity a few weeks into Spring Training may or may not mean anything.
  8. ashbury
    There appears to be a hitch in your swing.
  9. ashbury
    This being a known problem with Spring stats, it's maybe not too surprising that somebody has tried to do something about it. 2021 Spring stats are being kept at baseball-reference.com, and in that site's basic display they show a column called "OppQual", which as the name suggests is a measure of the average quality of the opposition (MLB, AAA, AA, etc) in a batter's plate appearances. To my surprise, the Turtle's opposition quality is exceeded only by Simmons (who has only 6 PA so far) - if there's any padding, it's not of his stats.
  10. ashbury
    I want much more than one, but one is the obvious starting point.
  11. ashbury
    If I hadn't seen the news reports elsewhere, I might have assumed this meant a really thorough round of flossing. Not just the particles of meat - that sprig of parsley placed on the steak by the fancy restaurants can really stick between the teeth! (Not to make light of what was described as a root canal. Poor guy.)
  12. ashbury
    That first video = 10 minutes of happiness
  13. ashbury
    "Throw strikes but don't give him anything good to hit." I think that strategy has been around a while. This was a nice drill-down on the basic notion.
  14. ashbury
    This article makes a great argument why the Twins would jump at this deal.
  15. ashbury
    Artificial? It's oh-so-real. Target Field has less seating capacity than did the Metrodome and Metropolitan Stadium, by design. Is that artificial? Are you outraged by the scalping opportunities it must have introduced? You and I get outbid because our economy has a lot of wealthy people. Free market, baby.
  16. ashbury
    Shut Duffey down and get him checked out medically, then ease him back into throwing drills until the velocity is where it needs to be. This has the earmarks of trying to pitch through pain (*cough*SamDyson*cough*), and it's gone on long enough.
  17. ashbury
    My understanding was that Castillo would have been available ONLY in a package with one or two of their big contracts that have negative trade value. It's hard to imagine the package of prospects necessary to interest the Reds in dealing Castillo alone.
  18. ashbury
    I asked because by now it the whole topic is a sabrmetric chestnut (not just the leadoff spot), and yet not even a last-place team with a lame-duck manager has said "nothing to lose, let's stack the batting order by OPS, see if there's anything to it." The notion that you give your best hitters the most PAs doesn't seem controversial, and yet so often you see a mediocre guy batting second because of his "bat control." (If the bat control is so good, why isn't he hitting .400?) Batting Cruz lead-off could have negative impact on clubhouse chemistry, I suppose, if he took the attitude "I'm a power hitter, I want men on base in front of me, no offense intended to you #8 and #9 guys." He, and other great hitters, are only human and the manager has to consider their professional pride.
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    What's the closest example you can think of to a team having done this?
  20. ashbury
    Yeah, Randballs Stu, you need to step up your game a notch. You got beat by Reality. Next time go big or go home!
  21. ashbury
    Kenneth Tuss? For an editor I would have gone with Mark Tupp, or Adeline Moore. And Kyle Garlick's parents should have named him Eureka, instead.
  22. ashbury
    I echo the question about Royce Lewis. I thought his hit tool was considered near-elite.
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  24. ashbury
    "Railing and bars... that's where the ushers come in." Nice private entrance. I gotta get a job as an usher!
  25. ashbury
    Pretty sure both are scaled to have 100 be league average. wRC+ on fangraphs is park-adjusted, as is OPS+ on b-r.com. WAR is the only commonly-used metric I can recall that contains a defensive component. On b-r.com their offense component to WAR even contains the defensive position adjustment, which for some purposes may be useful but usually I find a nuisance.
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