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  1. ashbury
    My interactions with Tom Froemming have always been great, and I'm blissfully unaware of most of the work that he puts in, besides just his own writing/blogging/videoing, so I'm glad to see that highlighted. Thanks Tom!
  2. ashbury
    It's been a long thread and I've posted more than my share, but I don't recall defending Pineda, and I don't know what you think I'm "hoping" for. You didn't specify which posts you were thinking of, when you asked your question. Maybe someone else defended and hoped. It's late and it feels like a strawman to me. To want the record to be straight regarding PED, versus the banned masking agents (which have medical purposes other than masking), is not "defending" his suspension. The fact he didn't work with team doctors is so obvious, I didn't feel the need to address it until now.
  3. ashbury
    Has anyone stated that Big Mike shouldn't be suspended? He was caught with a banned substance in his body fluids, full stop. That's the part that's black and white. But he disputes the "intentionally" part, and the arbitrator (or whatever the person was) did reduce the length of the suspension from the normal length. Those two seem congruent with one another.
  4. ashbury
    The Twins currently have the third most wins in the AL. Assuming this holds up, validation of the regular season will have Houston and New York playing for the right to be in the World Series.
  5. ashbury
    I hope you're not asking why MLB bans PEDs. That's a rabbit hole for a different thread, probably. Opinions differ and no one's will be changed. PEDs and stimulants are taken by players to gain an edge on the playing field, and are banned substances for that reason. Diuretics and other masking agents may be taken by players for other reasons (blood pressure control, for one), and are banned because of the first group of banned substances. If not for PEDs and stimulants, MLB would not take an interest in diuretics. Is that what you were asking? I'm really not sure.
  6. ashbury
    Congratulations, Nick!
  7. ashbury
    That is a whopping level of skepticism in an era of random unannounced testing throughout the season. I doubt it's 0%, and have my suspicions about a few players, but not at that kind of level. It's been mentioned already, but you really should take a glance through the official document the league uses for defining it's processes. Section 2 ("PROHIBITED SUBSTANCES") lists everything they test for - PEDs and stimulants and masking agents alike. It seems pretty thorough, and if it were just a charade, you probably wouldn't see a suspension like this one at this time in a season. http://www.mlbplayers.com/pdf9/5450924.pdf
  8. ashbury
    Came here to post along these lines. It's hard reading (MLB doesn't hire the clearest of writers), but really necessary in order to speak definitively. I think people were looking at a Wikipedia page, where some misinformation exists.
  9. ashbury
    Pineda was suspended for 10 games for pine tar on his neck. Using that as innuendo for what is being treated as a first-offense of the drug policy, itself reduced by an arbitrator based on exculpatory evidence, is disingenuous. And my comment did not address the post-season, which obviously is affected the same with or without the reduction. Which leads me to... Moderator's Note: It should be obvious, this thread will be monitored for disrespectful posting and for trolling, according to the usual site policy.
  10. ashbury
    The arbitrator reduced the standard suspension, which suggests there was no evidence of other substances being masked.
  11. ashbury
    "Hydrochlorothiazide is a diuretic and masking agent prohibited under Section S5 of the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) Prohibited List. ... Diuretics can mask other prohibited substances by increasing urine volume, thereby diluting the presence of any other substances present in a urine sample." https://www.sportsintegrityinitiative.com/jockeys-ban-raises-questions-hydrochlorothiazide-sanctions/
  12. ashbury
    Gut punch. Thanks, Mike.
  13. ashbury
    Not too much different. Since we didn't score in the bottom of the inning, it suggests all that the DP would have done is let us live to see another inning. The repeated inability to push across just one more run in any of the previous FIVE innings is what did us in.
  14. ashbury
    Chief was responding to a statement that "I have seen Eddie gun down several dozen base runners trying to stretch in the past couple of years". Most of the 47 occurred before "the past couple of years", when teams were still challenging him. He had 9 assists last season and 7 so far this season. I felt, same as Chief apparently, that there was no need to exaggerate to such a degree. Doing that cheapens the praise for Rosario's arm rather than enhances it.
  15. ashbury
    109 pitches against Oakland in July, upon checking, but yeah, good memory, I would have guessed more than that. Concur on the blame. It's fun to debate how to eke out a close win, because sometimes you'll have those situations and want to win your share, but through 9 innings the pitching and defense did their job and the offense mostly did not, and we should not have been faced with Graterol or whoever in a high leverage 11th inning situation if the offense had.
  16. ashbury
    Seems like imminent peril of getting ahead our ourselves here.
  17. ashbury
    The videos/tweets are embedded in the article. What browser are you using, and can you easily switch to another, to see if that's the problem? If you are able to see the videos, and are wanting to capture the URL, in Firefox I found that I can do that only while the video is running and then right clicking. Here are the URLs in this article, disguised (so that the site software doesn't try to embed the video) by removing "https://twitter.com/" from each: fsnorth/status/1169794725898907648 ParkerHageman/status/1169815777236545536 Adam_Henning/status/1169812759103623168 jcmccaffrey/status/1169803619971031041 TomPrecourt/status/1169804876077064193 Hope any of this helps.
  18. ashbury
    Rosario's game last night brought to mind the old saying "he can beat you so many different ways." In the post-season we're back to 25 man rosters so there isn't the luxury of carrying a player who can beat the other team in only one way. Ian Miller's AAA track record suggests an OPS in the low .600s in the majors - way low for an outfielder no matter how polished. The scouting report I checked indicated he has range but not much arm. He seems to have a good eye but major league hurlers will just throw him strikes. His one way (baserunning) of beating opponents might be superior to that of others vying for a spot, but I don't see how Miller beats other teams enough different ways, to be anything besides a longshot.
  19. ashbury
    Weigh your reply carefully, CB.
  20. ashbury
    Far Away the best post we'll see today.
  21. ashbury
    They weren't really running "on" him. It was just baseball being played as it should be, on both sides, and Eddie met their move with the required counter. One out would have been a different story.
  22. ashbury
    I can watch that video of The Throw again and again and again. Wait, can? Have. And again.
  23. ashbury
    Yeah, that glosses over the absolute rocket that was directed right to his own midsection, which luckily he got his glove up in time to make a "look what I got!" catch. Ball went in at 99 MPH, came back at probably 120. Good for him, for making that play, the only out recorded against Betts last night, perhaps the only way an out COULD be recorded on that guy.
  24. ashbury
    The folks at Fenway gave Berrios a nice hand for his play on the slow grounder. I always feel that I'm among baseball fans, and not just home-town rooters, when I'm there. But they do love their Mookie, too.
  25. ashbury
    That is the position I was very afraid the Twins would be in, during their rough patch. Very glad it's not.
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