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  1. ashbury
    He'll fall through a hole in the ice and suffer a (rolls dice, consults chart) dislocated cranium, missing (rolls dice) a season and a half for rehab. Because, Twins.
  2. ashbury
    Imagine how much better the 1965 WS would have gone if the Twins had thought to use a center fielder.
  3. ashbury
    Concur. It's a question of game balance, and there were discussions of a forerunner to the DH at least as far back as the 1930s so the recognition of this problem is hardly a new thing. (The 1930s are closer to the beginning of professional baseball than they are to the present day.) The impact of a pitcher's arm on a game is far greater than any contribution he can make with the bat, and people recognized the fact once overhand delivery became legal, and certainly once the Dead Ball era was over. It wouldn't have mattered last year if Matt Shoemaker had been uniquely capable among pitchers of hitting like Nelson Cruz, and all other pitchers hit like Walker Buehler, and there were no DH - using him on the mound meant a likely loss in each game he appeared. That's a structural imbalance which the NL chooses to live with. Baseball is exceedingly conservative. Movie footage of old football or basketball games look hardly at all like their modern incarnations. Baseball still has pitchers hitting.
  4. ashbury
    "Merely" reaching Gagne's offensive level would make him an asset at SS.
  5. ashbury
    82 is over ten times more than 8.1. Sounds like we won this trade!
  6. ashbury
    Jamie? Jaime? Gomez? Garcia? Potayto. Potahto.
  7. ashbury
    Thatsa lotsa trading, but it's part of the fun of OOTP.
  8. ashbury
    You keep banging on the same drum, though, that salaries are the issue, and choosing questionable historical end points to make the argument.
  9. ashbury
    You're not addressing the big picture here. It's billionaires (owners) versus multi-millionaires (players) versus millionaires (ticket buyers) versus Ordinary Joes. The Joes are being outbid for tickets, and that's why prices are high. It's no coincidence that people often remember best the games they saw when their employer gifted them some good seats for a game against a lesser opponent that the employer didn't happen to want to attend. If the teams did unilaterally cut ticket prices by half, scalpers would snap them up and sell them to the highest bidder, and the price to see a game would remain about the same, only the money goes into some other pockets than the team owners and the players. And these scalpers aren't your old-school sleazebags on the street corner - they are corporations like StubHub now - so we're back to talking about billionaires again. I'm not proposing revolution, but we should try to see things as they are.
  10. ashbury
    I assume you are a big free-markets guy. So why in the world would you choose 1970 as the starting point? Curt Flood sat out that season because he didn't wish to play for the Phillies. The players began to get some semblance of control over their destinies after that. So of course their salaries have grown faster, the closer they come to a free market for their services (and they are a long way still from that). That's a good thing! You should be thrilled.
  11. ashbury
    I don't know the name, but it will be someone we're all terribly disappointed in by 2028.
  12. ashbury
    I found Odo admirable in his prime, but that is in the past. I would not count on him to be available for 32 starts, nor for much more than 5 innings per game, nor for above-average performance in those innings. "We're getting the band back together" kinds of moves don't usually work out.
  13. ashbury
    Kudos! I was hooked on day one.
  14. ashbury
    Who do we trade to the Pirates to get him?
  15. ashbury
    Literally anyone who makes it to the major league level can be discussed as a DH. That doesn't mean they are an asset in the role. The bar is set high for that. Nelson Cruz spoiled us, and despite drafting bat-first hitters at times, there is no heir-apparent. Sano doesn't hit well enough to be an asset at DH. He needed to develop as a fielder. Arraez, I don't even want to talk about him in the role.
  16. ashbury
    No one, including Brockmire himself, will ever surpass the home run call in S1E1: "That ball cannot be buried in a Jewish cemetery because it just got tattooed!"
  17. ashbury
    For me, it's a Hall of FAME, and wins above replacement is only a starting point for discussion. Papi (and Kirby for that matter) was famous to a degree that Torii could only imagine. A borderline candidate can go in or stay out based on his level of fame.
  18. ashbury
    Just a missing colon character in the URL. Try this: https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/01/29/missing-jersey-finds-twins-player-25-years-later
  19. ashbury
    I'm no longer sold on the concept of Opener, as a particularly desirable outcome for a pitcher's career trajectory. However, it might prove to be a valid waypoint along that trajectory, while deciding what his best use will be. "One time through the lineup, and now and then we'll allow you to try to prove you can do more," would for example constitute a plan that I could see catching on better than "one inning... next!" Doesn't have to come at the beginning of a game, for that matter, nor be literally exactly 9 batters faced - bring someone in to pitch to the bottom third of the lineup, say, and keep him in until goes all the way through again to the #9 hitter, relieving him of course if he struggles.
  20. ashbury
    Garcia earned 0.1 WAR in his stint with the Twins. Extrapolated to a full season of starts, that would be 3.2, well above average. Even more encouraging, his BABIP while with the team was an unsightly .421, relative to his career rate of about .300, suggesting even better results if his luck had been closer to normal. All in all, it's high time the Twins retired Number 24 (maybe a co-retirement recognizing Ryan LaMarre). Oh yeah, my favorite Jaime Garcia moment has to be that one time, it is very, very fair to say.
  21. ashbury
    All men are immortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore Socrates is immortal. By coincidence, I was talking to Socrates, just the other day. He said to watch out for false premises. Doesn't matter whether the rest of the logic is sound or not; the conclusion can be ignored. When you say we're in danger of missing the opening of the season because of the players, in a situation that's manifestly a lockout, none of the rest bears close examination. When you suggest the players are uniquely fortunate, it's an omission and half-truth that likewise invalidates the argument. It's not worth going through point by point. "Look what YOU made me do." That's the mating call of the abusive partner. The owners had the choice whether to initiate a lockout or not. You're in too deep and it's probably too late in your career to reexamine your own allegiances, but your biases can be called out whenever they affect the discussion.
  22. ashbury
    You complain that posters have biases. Yet you use your own evident anti-labor bias to continually frame the discussion. I'm not having it. As for missing part of the season, bear in mind that it's a lockout, not a strike. You want to see the world through a funhouse mirror, fine. I'll call it out when I see it, but I'm not engaging in some pointless back-and-forth. We're very aware of management's position.
  23. ashbury
    Each generation of owner is far more fortunate than the previous.
  24. ashbury
    His days as catcher probably are numbered. Unless the Twins think he's capable of developing into another Nelson Cruz, a rare commodity indeed, once relieved of catching duties, I'd say no to an extension.
  25. ashbury
    I'm pretty much on the pessimistic side with regard to this injury. I expect it to be chronic and to flare up occasionally.
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