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  1. ashbury
    Cano's stats at AAA aren't good yet, and even throwing out that first game you want to see numbers more dominant than he's showing because they will get worse when called up to the majors. But it may be that he's pitching in a bit of bad luck, with a batting average on balls in play above .400 there. He may still be someone to watch for a major-league chance late this year or early next.
  2. ashbury
    Hadn't checked up on Sabato for a while. He's batting .187, but his on-base percent is almost double that, .356. I guess they must be coaching him to not swing at crap and he's doing that just about better than anybody* - so when he does swing, is it right through good pitches??? The contact tool is probably the one closest to indispensable, and it seems like one that can be taught if there's any aptitude at all. *Edouard Julien is no slouch in this department, and he's batting .290 on top of that.
  3. ashbury
    That's the type of game our 2021 Twins can win. If the left fielder makes an accurate throw on the first try, and then with Simmons coming to bat, the rally is probably snuffed.
  4. ashbury
    IOW they've been playing roughly .500 ball for a while. Better than they started out - but still, big whoop, from my vantage point.
  5. ashbury
    While true, it doesn't mean there has been any inning where he's been actually, you know, good. Second inning has a 4.76 ERA in 17 tries for the season (.844 OPS so if anything he's been lucky), all the other frames are worse. And it's likely that in the second inning, a pitcher faces batters lower in the lineup than any other inning, unless he faces the minimum in the first two innings and gets to pitch to the 7-8-9 batters in the third.
  6. ashbury
    Physicists, not physicians, should have been consulted on this question. The effect of a singularity when they come within a certain radius, such as a tag play outlined in the article, could start a chain reaction resulting in the Universe as we know it being extinguished, or at the very least a spell of even worse weather.
  7. ashbury
    I can't believe he has much trade value. He remains my sleeper candidate for Rooker of the Year, though.
  8. ashbury
    So if I have this straight, you are complaining about...
  9. ashbury
    This line of reasoning completely overlooks the value he brings while he is on someone's roster. That value for 2021 is low for the Twins and and any other team out of contention, but for a team trying to make the post-season there is value he can deliver in the coming couple of months, and then for the post-season there are additional teams with stronger credentials who will also find him of use when trying to win one short series after another. And then, for a contending team, the logic starts all over again in 2022. Two bites at the apple before he departs. You think that doesn't have value to a select group of teams?
  10. ashbury
    ... in which case we're suddenly asking the moon for him in trade.
  11. ashbury
    Twins 3, White Sox 2 Seems so very, very long ago.
  12. ashbury
    This game just brought us a new way to drain our resolve. Abandon hope all ye who watch the 2021 Twins.
  13. ashbury
    Three games. Four runs. This team.
  14. ashbury
    Had the Twins offense scored 6 runs they would have lost. There can be plenty of blame to go around.
  15. ashbury
    I was hoping for either wins or clarity as we approach the trade deadline. Guess I'm getting the latter. No false hopes being raised!
  16. ashbury
    There's rough and then there's rough. It's one thing to say that once contention for the post-season is out the window, it doesn't matter how many losses there are. But finishing strong versus finishing in abject failure could be the difference in millions of dollars of season-ticket sales during the coming off-season. The FO has to take many things into account besides just roster management to avoid a death-spiral on a par with Pittsburgh and Baltimore. Finishing with 90 losses is rough but finishing with 100+ is rougher.
  17. ashbury
    Couldn't help noticing that all our hits in game 2 were from guys who might be gone by the end of the month, with the exception of Polanco, while all the o-fers were guys discussed to be the future/young core, with the exception of Kepler. Going with the kids could be rough the rest of the way.
  18. ashbury
    Hamilton's not on the 40 man. I think he was waived already once this season, so if they bring him up and then need to send him down again, they lose him. I may be shaky on the rules and someone will correct me, but all in all I suspect it comes down to roster stewardship. By contrast they can add Minaya and DFA him without fear of losing him, because hey he's Minaya and no one's going to lodge a waiver claim, or something like that. MLB roster rules sometimes work against a particular player.
  19. ashbury
    When you phrase it that way, the question kind of answers itself, doesn't it?
  20. ashbury
    It would be exciting if he shines in this audition. If he disguises his pitches, the changeup can be devastating.
  21. ashbury
    FalVine have yet to demonstrate they can put together the "sustainable" pitching staff that their words in 2016 suggested we'd have by now. For them to deal away both Berrios and Rogers would be, as the trope (which I used once already today) goes, "a bold move, Cotton," moving them farther from the goal rather than closer. They really would be gambling that their heretofore unproven prowess was about to be triumphally confirmed.
  22. ashbury
    Isn't that going to be the case for literally every pick after the first handful? There is a lot of group-think in baseball's scouting circles and front offices, but there will also be shades and variability. So the teams will rank prospects in subtly different ways, and whoever a team happens to pick wasn't at the top of the (remaining) list for anyone else before them when it was their turn to pick, pretty much by definition. "It's just math!" Of course there is also the other side of the coin, related to the "winner's paradox" or something like that. "If the guy we've decided on is so great, how come none of the other geniuses picking earlier than us snapped him up?" Comes with the territory, I'm basically saying.
  23. ashbury
    I seem to remember that when he was sent down earlier this season, Rocco or someone said that his defense needed to improve. Maybe his bat is what's improved enough, but bat-only is a really high hurdle in the major leagues. Has he shown any ability to play an acceptable defensive game?
  24. ashbury
    A ton of Physics majors do.
  25. ashbury
    Anybody here know with certainty how to pronounce his last name? The online sources I found for the word in general would make it sound like "hah-YAR". If he's of Arabic extraction that might be about right, but the draft day announcer had it as "HAD-jer", and it wouldn't surprise me if it was something like "HEY-jar'.
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