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  1. ashbury
    13. What a disappointing article! Each Friday I look forward to a bit of trenchant satire here, and I see now that with RandBalls Stu having been kidnapped and replaced by a swarm of drones it's going to be a long, long winter where I will have to fall back on the creaky old Onion for my LOLs.
  2. ashbury
    Jake Cave IMO has zero to do with decisions the team makes about the glut of marginal pitchers needing attention on the 40-man.
  3. ashbury
    Are you from The Future? Are you here to tell us this won't be his only one?
  4. ashbury
    I wish they had chosen different timing, later on when a flood of players are all hitting the waiver wire at once. I don't think Colina is super unique as a target for acquisition, it's just that this looks to me like a temporary move by the Rangers, who will in turn put Colina on waivers and likely be able to stash him in the minors but off their 40-man. That's the aspect I'd like to have Falvey elaborate on.
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  6. ashbury
    If it's an overpay situation, fine, I like good pitching as well as the next fan. But a trade of Garver means the FO has to turn attention to finding another catcher for the 40-man who is either strong enough for us to want in the majors all season or else is acceptably good and has minor league options. Those aren't for sale cheap, which is why Miami would want one of ours. I want to have a competitive advantage at several positions around the lineup, and Garver's offense provides that at catcher. You don't build a contender by being average everywhere. I don't believe a tandem of Jeffers/Rortvedt is championship quality for 2022, nor do I expect to incur no injuries to need to work around. None of Tomas Telis, David Banuelos, and Caleb Hamilton fit the job description, for me, as a viable third option. I'd rather Rortvedt remain the third option, until his bat develops further. OTOH, catcher is about the last position where I value having a total stud, since either he plays only 60% of the time or else brings roster problems by needing to DH on his days off (you can't attract a Nelson Cruz type if you have a Joe Mauer type). So my mind isn't closed to the idea. I just need some assurance that there is a plan beyond "gee, this looks like a good trade." That seems like should go without saying, but too often I've wondered about a move, only to find several months later that the plan was "we'll make do with what we have."
  7. ashbury
    Similar in that respect to Mauer; and with a similar necessary outcome for a signing.
  8. ashbury
    To save glunn (or any other lawyer at this site) the embarrassment of being "that guy", may I point out that a "council" is a group of people, whereas "counsel" is the word I think you intended to mean a lawyer or similar representative who gives advice? You're so very, very welcome.
  9. ashbury
    I can't separate Baldelli to any meaningful degree from the front office. With regard to pitch counts, for example, it seems plain he implemented the front office's vision. I give them all a D. Maybe it should be an F, but I'll regrade it to that retroactively if 2022 gives further evidence they're running this franchise into the ground. And conversely maybe this should be a C grade if next year reveals 2021 to be just a blip toward their own benchmark of sustainable success.
  10. ashbury
    baseball-reference.com computes their "Pythagorean" record as 70-60, so the difference must be losing a few too many close ones, and might account for what you felt.
  11. ashbury
    The rubric of one game for each month imposes some difficulty, but if the focus is on season-defining moments, for me the April category has to at least consider the April Fools Day game where Josh Donaldson hits a double in his very first plate appearance and then has to come out due to a leg injury. "Season Over," we joked. Yeah, kinda was. Could have said, "Season Defined."
  12. ashbury
    His baseball-reference.com page shows his nickname as The Doof. (He went to Rice University so the term is surely a fond one - he's not a doofus.)
  13. ashbury
    The off-season begins the day after the World Series is over, and those initial roster decisions have to be made by then.
  14. ashbury
    Ditto on the kudos.
  15. ashbury
    I appreciate the analysis and the attempt to locate value in our player, but I feel the bar is set too low. A bat-first player who costs you runs when on defense is basically only breakeven if his OPS is .800. He needs peripherals more like in the Nelson Cruz range, to be an asset. Our 40-man roster is kind of thin with outfielders, once you discard the 30-year old placeholder corner guys, so I'm not eager to likewise discard Rooker for a bag of balls or similar. But I'm not very high on him and it's mainly the sad state of our roster that makes me open to investing further in his development.
  16. ashbury
    Yeah. Pointless understatement. How about, THE most disappointing result in the history of human endeavor.
  17. ashbury
    Swagger is all well and good, but how about command, and also consistency? Too many times I've seen him come out there with no ability to put the breaking pitch where he needs to, and then the hitters sit on the fastball. Some days he looks like he's found it, and then the next time out, zilch. I haven't seen him often enough lately to know whether I still feel the same; but consistency is partly about not getting too enthused about any individual outing. He's had a good September, fantastic really and nearly spotless except for one outing, but I'm uneasy that it's built on a BABIP of .111 - and the one blemish was against a top team. I'm going to withhold judgement about him being at a new and permanent level of elite achievement at least through next April, and against top teams when those opportunities roll around.
  18. ashbury
    Any team with the Doof as closer probably is looking at 90+ losses. Not because he will personally blow 20 saves, but because the rest of the bullpen must be really mediocre and there won't be too many leads to save.
  19. ashbury
    The front office went to great effort to provide "depth" in the pitching department this year. Three of the arms acquired during the process stunk it up tonight. Sammons at least has come up through the ranks, and he acquitted himself well, but at age 26 his time may be about up. Not many bright spots in this game.
  20. ashbury
    Hey, look! Someone painted the word "gullible" on the ceiling.
  21. ashbury
    Did you know that the word "gullible" doesn't actually appear in any dictionary? Look it up!
  22. ashbury
    That's the idea. Starve the team of resources.
  23. ashbury
    It's OK to say ass at this site, you just can't say **** or **** or especially ************.
  24. ashbury
    Keeping Jake Cave isn't a hill I would die on. I've been on record a long time for not liking his game very much. If you or someone else want to keep Garlick as the OF place holder instead, it's not terribly consequential, but IMO we have an oversupply of options for the corners. Celestino is on the 40-man and I would of course keep him, but I'm not confident he'll be ready on Opening Day - his good AAA numbers are built on a rather high number of hits dropping in. I drop Refsnyder and Garlick because their bats aren't any better than Cave and they do not have his range - Refsnyder hurt himself trying to play CF, after all. Dropping Cave too, brings the OF count down to 5 and that's too thin. The acquisition of someone better than Cave in center will make his departure assured and painless. We are short on up the middle talent.
  25. ashbury
    Two aphorisms come to mind: For every complex human problem, there is a solution that is neat, simple and wrong. – H. L. Mencken Things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. - Albert Einstein So I'm kind of trying to thread the needle here, between two smart guys.
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