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  1. ashbury
    Unless you're comparing Berrios video to some base case, it's just a pretty picture. Which doesn't reduce the enjoyment.
  2. ashbury
    Has he ever done an overlay of an ineffective pitcher to show why? It's fine, and fun, to see a curve and a fastball (or whatever) diverge, but probably that looks similar no matter who is throwing. Or, maybe not?
  3. ashbury
    With most players, this sort of thing seems like Results Merchanting. With Trevor, I tend to think we are reacting to something actually different in him from one day to the next. If he can bottle the Lurch persona, and bring that to the mound every time, he could be pretty good, I think. Trust your stuff and go after them, is a less pop-psych way of expressing it, I suppose.
  4. ashbury
    Principal shooting is complete, it's in post-production. Working title "Kill Khan vol.1". It's pulp science fiction! Here's the trailer: Memorable lines abound: "'What' ain't no planet I ever heard of. Do they speak Klingon on What? Klingon, my friend, DO YOU SPEAK IT?""Each and every man under my command owes me one-hundred Romulan ears. And I want my ears.""Aw, man, I just phasered Lt. Marvin in the face.""So, pretty please … with sugar on top. Clean the Vulcan starship.""Is there a sign in front of my house that says 'Dead Redshirt Storage'?""I'ma get 20th Century on you.""And I will strike down upon thee, with great vengeance, and furious anger, my photon torpedo.""Oooh, that's a Fizzbin! Is that the way you say it? 'That's a Fizzbin?'" "No. You just say Fizzbin." "How fun!" / Jokes shamelessly lifted and modified from the comments section of the above video
  5. ashbury
    Wow. Eight foot five. That IS tall. Downward plane FTW.
  6. ashbury
    I'm sure you understood I was just throwing some absurdist humor at you. I love positional flexibility. I want my best players to get the most innings*. I don't think there is a contradiction between these two views. *and with injuries being a fact of life, and one pitcher not being the same as another, "best" is a fluid term from game to game
  7. ashbury
    Yeah, McCann can get a little salty. I notice that he didn't stick around behind the plate to shake Sano's hand when Miggy came back around. "If my center fielder is giving up, I may as well too."
  8. ashbury
    130 AB and 45 days of service time (outside of September callups) are the standard, I think, so yes. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Luis Arraez: Major League Baseball Player.
  9. ashbury
    If you rank the truly top MLB pitchers last year, you'll probably find what I did this morning when I used WAR as the ranking, that among the top ten, Trevor Bauer is the shortest at 6'1", Aaron Nola is listed at 6'2", and the other eight are taller. I do not believe Law has ever stated "cannot make it in the majors" regarding pitchers under 6'2". That would indeed be a position easy to debunk. But if you are trying to identify the best prospects, you might want to weed out the guys who don't profile the same way as the top guys who actually are established - there will always be exceptions like Pedro but you want the volume to be on your side. You can get good innings from a lot of sources, but if great gobs of good innings are coming from the taller guys, it doesn't mean every tall guy is destined for greatness, but conversely height "really is not all that important in baseball" might be going too far.
  10. ashbury
    As long as Byron is the 1st outfielder, Max is 2nd, and Eddie is 3rd, I'm not hung up on labeling the other outfielders.
  11. ashbury
    Just a guess, but I'll go with "not an issue" with his buddies. It came across to me as "that's game, let's get 'em tomorrow." More professional than some kind of histrionics, or fake hustle going to the wall to watch the ball clear it by 50 feet or whatever.
  12. ashbury
    A hearty thanks to Mr Acuña for a very classy reaction to that home run. Little things like that make a memorable game stick in your mind.
  13. ashbury
    Giants: "Our Motto: Satisfaction Guaranteed, Or Double Your Prospects Back. No, Not Really."
  14. ashbury
    I do not understand how you can think you know this. The likelier explanation is a nagging injury.
  15. ashbury
    My working assumption is that Eddie is a gamer and is working through a difficult nagging injury. I'm not personally in favor of inferring anything about his mindset.
  16. ashbury
    Any news on Nick Gordon's status? His knee injury after getting HBP looked worrisome to me as he hobbled off the field Friday night. Just painful, and day-to-day?
  17. ashbury
    Perhaps Andrew will write a follow-up article about defensive metrics for the infield.
  18. ashbury
    Some days: "Errors are a worthless statistic. The Official Scorer never calls them." Other days: "Oh noes! We are tied for 10th in the majors for most errors." I'm far from considering infield defense a strength for the team, but the number of throwing errors isn't enough to warrant name-calling.
  19. ashbury
    Perhaps so. Someone could do a deeper study, but just this quick and dirty look at Twins AAA affiliates at 20 year intervals of average age (weighted by PA or IP or something, I believe) indicates a possible trend: 1979 Toledo Mud Hens: batters 24.5 pitchers 24.7 1999 Salt Lake Buzz: batters 25.5 pitchers 25.7 2019 Rochester Red Wings: batters 26.8 pitchers 26.4 QED.
  20. ashbury
    Wow, that's early. Do we have a boxscore yet?
  21. ashbury
    De Aza! I forgot to mention in my comments about Friday's game, that he had a really nice catch in RF. I thought the ball was laced for extra bases, but he tracked it well and got to it just in time. I don't take that for granted in AAA.
  22. ashbury
    Moderator's note: All right, I understand the temptation, but let's not make this be about fellow posters, or vague groups of "sports fans". Counter an opinion you disagree with, with something better.
  23. ashbury
    LOL, I am now seeing a lot of online ads for selling my baseball cards, apparently from my having done one simple google search verifying what I was about to post the other day (about how far back sets of cards need to be, to be worth more than the cardboard salvage value). Still, better than the ads I was getting after Carole suckered me into clicking a link of hers in a game thread.
  24. ashbury
    That part of my comment, I had more in mind the other direction - removing guys from the 40 recently because they wanted them off of the 25 - thinking that it bodes well. Likewise Arraez somewhat leapfrogging Gordon for getting a major league look-see, but indeed they were both on the 40-man. Smeltzer, Poppen, Stashak, all were going to be eligible to be taken from us in December. So no, nothing like direct evidence. We see what we want to see, sometimes.
  25. ashbury
    Thanks for thanking Carole. It's nice to be nice to the nice.
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