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  1. ashbury
    Has anyone else watched Sherman's Showcase on IFC? It hearkens back to Soul Train and In Living Color. I found the sendups pretty fun - as with good parody, there is genuine love for the originals behind the skewering going on.
  2. ashbury
    Minors always have lots more errors. I think the groundskeeping has some of the blame, because often a good prospect suddenly becomes a much "better" fielder when moving up a level, even as the batting average goes down. It's possible that minor league Official Scorers are not quite on the same page with their MLB counterparts. It kind of doesn't matter where the errors come from, though. At the moment, the average MLB team has committed 73 errors, while the average Midwest League team has about 130, as an example. https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/league.cgi?id=7dc93b9d#all_league_fielding https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/2019.shtml#all_teams_standard_fielding
  3. ashbury
    If you are trying to get Arraez out of the pun police...
  4. ashbury
    Chattanooga won. Yay! Oh wait. Booo!
  5. ashbury
    It's that kind of lack of attention to detail that got me fired from my last three jobs.
  6. ashbury
    Only if he can approach it differently, such as not pacing himself to try to go six innings. Max-effort, in other words.
  7. ashbury
    Step three: Profit!
  8. ashbury
    Missed that. Good to see. At least, I picked the right guy.
  9. ashbury
    Another poor game from Wander Javier. At this point in the season, is there anything being gained by putting him out there on the field? Is there someone else who should be getting his innings? Is there someone at Elizabethton (Spencer Steer?) who would benefit from a headstart in single-A? I'm not saying to flush the guy, just to suggest a reset and start again next March. Let him sit on the bench and think about it the rest of August, rather than stink it up further?
  10. ashbury
    Unless they had acquired five starters better than Berrios, the same logic probably would still apply - he's better than whoever we could bring up - so that's a bit of a red herring. The article is about Berrios's performance, not the trade deadline.
  11. ashbury
    I don't necessarily disagree, but it might be more layered than that. Maybe Gibson had success three years ago when he started going after batters, if the book on him was that he wouldn't. Later, if the book on him caught up, batters might have been jumping on pitches, causing him to back off. It's a game of constant adjustments - while on top of that, his problems with command are self-described as fatigue. It is indeed frustrating to see how many of his pitches have no chance of accomplishing anything - someone needs to invest a stat "waste of time pitches" and keep count. Pace, likewise, is a two-edged sword. Get the ball, get the sign, fire... you can have men on second and third with no one out, before you even realize it. Coaches tell their charges, "slow the game down". Of course hitting coaches tell their batters the same thing, so if the pitcher has enough moxie to hurry them even a little, it can indeed pay off. Until, suddenly, it doesn't. Constant adjustments, once again.
  12. ashbury
    That is fine, in March, but as the results actually unfolded, I was expecting more of a pivot by the FO in July.
  13. ashbury
    Two age-old rules of thumb point in the same direction in this case: Don't make the second out at homePlay for the tie at home, for the win on the road
  14. ashbury
    THERE'S NO TYING IN BASEBALL!
  15. ashbury
    It's gonna be close ... too close to call ... probably the call's going to get challenged...
  16. ashbury
    Moderator's note: One of the core principles at this site is respect toward others. Comments should not be to mock the player. The writer of the article has taken the time to bring forward a thoughtful analysis, please respect it with constructive discussion. Review the site's Comment Policy if you need to.
  17. ashbury
    Funny. Could be the first time I clicked Like and handed out a warning point on the same post! J/K, but kinda not...
  18. ashbury
    They do. The guy in the lineup just above the leadoff hitter, i.e. usually the guy who made the last out the previous inning, starts on 2B. (Do they allow a pinch runner?) Makes for slightly different earned-run determinations, as the runner is treated as though reaching base on an error - you can be the losing pitcher without giving up any base runners, even by error. I didn't see the play, but I am presuming they attempted to get the runner going to third, resulting in no outs. That's kind of the purpose of the rule, to put pressure on the defense from the beginning, to result in more runs and get the darned game decided. It isn't baseball anymore, IMO, but it's not a stupid rule and it was conceived for a purpose. If I'm at a AAA game I may not really want a 15-inning experience. And the teams definitely don't want it. I like the rule better than the 25-yard-line rule my wife alluded to - that REALLY isn't football anymore.
  19. ashbury
    I find his affection for ash... deeply disturbing.
  20. ashbury
    I think there is zero chance the rule comes to the majors. Its purpose is to get minor league games over with quicker. If I'm paying for a minor league ticket, I just have to accept that I am watching player-development, and not genuine competition.
  21. ashbury
    Interesting AAA game there at the end, judging from the box score and PbP. O'Rourke was brought in to face a succession of mostly right-handers, unless I misread - not a LOOGY audition by a long ways. Walks factored into both innings, resulting in bases loaded in the ninth, which he wriggled out of, and a run given up in the tenth. The Red Wings' leadoff batter in the bottom of the tenth reached base on a fielder's choice. I read that item to Mrs Ash, who gave me the hoped-for look of puzzlement - she knows enough to know that that sounds odd, but didn't know the answer of why*. Do you, without looking it up? * After I explained, she commented, "like starting at the 25-yard line." I married well.
  22. ashbury
    Reference probably goes right over the heads of the nice folks in Pensacola. Ought to save that'un for a Cedar Rapids player.
  23. ashbury
    The sitcom dad Randy Dobnak had a terrible episode last week; it was really obvious he hadn't memorized his lines and was reading from cue cards. I won't be surprised if the show's cancelled, if he's this bad again.
  24. ashbury
    Maybe he watched Mike Clevinger on teevee and said, "hey, I could do that!"
  25. ashbury
    Moderator's note: The article makes this assumption plain: "if the Twins do make the postseason." Let's give the author the courtesy of considering his actual points, as opposed to contradicting the premise. There are plenty of other threads for that.
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