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  1. ashbury
    Smeltzer? He barely knowz 'er. / for old times' sake
  2. ashbury
    Perkins wasn't starting games past 2010, so if you use that year as a starting point these are the career leaders in games started for the Twins (b-r.com's Stathead tool): 72. Francisco Liriano 2010-2012 58. Scott Diamond 2011-2013 52. Brian Duensing 2010-2015 40. Tommy Milone 2014-2016 29. Martin Perez 2019 25. Adalberto Mejia 2016-2019 25. Hector Santiago 2016-2017 19. JA Happ 2021 19. Devin Smeltzer 2019-2022 I took the list this far because it kind of demonstrates how the number of lefties starting for the Twins has dwindled. Depending on how you want to frame the question, I could nominate Liriano as the last real lefty starter, or Perez, or Happ. But all the other names, particularly Diamond, provide some entertainment value, as frequently used lefties in their respective eras.
  3. ashbury
    Ken Schrom's, Allan Anderson's, and Albert Williams's 15 complete games* each as a Twin might be untouchable in today's game, I don't know. 😀 * to say nothing of Blyleven's 141 and Kaat's 133.
  4. ashbury
    Not sure what Zoll means to "chase" it, assuming that the "it" is "soreness". I will guess that chase means to try rest first, and if that's not the answer then they would start the more aggressive treatments like anti-inflammatories, with a notion of playing catchup at that point. He goes on to describe their course of action as playing it safe, and maybe that's the medical opinion of 99% of qualified doctors, I wouldn't know. I probably would have reversed the terminology and called "rest" the play-it-safe option. Not word salad, exactly, but his quote took more than a little parsing on my part, and I'm still left uncertain.
  5. ashbury
    The Spiderman confrontation? I think it's still going.
  6. ashbury
    As far as I know Enron™ is still registered too. Probably equally valuable. 😀
  7. ashbury
    Zoilo being such an uncommon name, I asked ChatGPT about it. That AI tool is never wrong, so I am providing its answer verbatim and without fact-checking anything, just in case anyone else finds the background interesting.
  8. ashbury
    The only "cost" would be opportunity cost if he robs even one genuine prospect of playing time. But the vaunted Pitching Pipeline™ isn't nearly so full at present for that to be a worry.
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  10. ashbury
    Not related to treadmills, but if you find that drum catchy, maybe you'd like the Pogues. Here's an old track of their's that the Byrne one called to mind - something Irish-y about his instrumentation, maybe, I'm no expert.
  11. ashbury
    I wish the Twins would use advanced analytics more. Sure, Kreidler's OPS was a paltry 1.103 in his short stay with the big club, but his BABIP of .111 suggests that with better luck it could have been higher. Oh well.
  12. ashbury
    As expected.
  13. ashbury
    Do they leave Outman at DH for the bottom of the 9th or remove him for a defensive specialist?
  14. ashbury
    James Outman: on-base machine!
  15. ashbury
    Oops. Shoot. Wrong Luis Garcia.
  16. ashbury
    Good job, front office!
  17. ashbury
    I've looked at Wallner's career splits more times by now than is probably psychologically safe, so I will just say that there are other splits than calendar months that worry me more about him. For example, league-wide the pitchers b-r.com categorizes as "power" do a little better than their "finesse" counterparts, but Wallner's splits along that dimension are much more extreme.
  18. ashbury
    That's why they're on the bench - the league demanded a fair contest.
  19. ashbury
    You have that backwards. Duran made the gesture and was criticized. The story that came out afterward provided balance and context to the situation. "Defense of the fan" seems unimaginable. Some people nevertheless find the need to pile on by repeating the criticism of Duran ad nauseam.
  20. ashbury
    That's what some of us have been calling optimistic. 😁
  21. ashbury
    They literally do not. 2023: 2 2024: 2 2025: 5
  22. ashbury
    https://www.sportsfield.com/products/baseball-softball-equipment/pitching-mounds/seasonal-bullpen-pitching-mounds/ Among the features: "Interlocking sections for quick and easy assembly" Looks sturdy. Took only a bit of internet searching.
  23. ashbury
    I don't give a darn.
  24. ashbury
    In my imagined monologue for him, that would be the crux of it.
  25. ashbury
    LaTroy Hawkins, still sitting alone in the bullpen an hour after the game, to self: "What did I get myself into?"
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