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  1. ashbury
    It's been a good season. I used baseball-reference.com to locate all major league catchers with at least 50 plate appearances, who have played at least half their games at Catcher. Mitch's OPS of 1.223 coming into today's game is tops. Of all time.
  2. ashbury
    The last I knew, I was responding to a sub-tangent about Chase De Ball. But these conversations do meander...
  3. ashbury
    ... until they are DFA, off of the 40-man, and assigned outright.
  4. ashbury
    In other news, we have had 15 multi-HR games so far this season.
  5. ashbury
    Maybe the medical diagnosis will turn out to be Forgot-Howtopitchitis but I'd want to rule out an undisclosed ailment before giving up on him.
  6. ashbury
    Rochester's runs-against average is a full run worse than the league average, so I don't think you can gloss over the troubles quite as easily as that. But it does suggest caution with interpreting batters' numbers, for instance Randy Cesar's .859 OPS needs to be scaled back quite steeply if you want to extrapolate to what he might do if called up. Gordon's start looks good, but only Raley's record stands out to me, early in this season.
  7. ashbury
    Just going by heights and weights Malone seems like he has a good build, 6'3" 205 lbs. Thompson seems kind of skinny, and Manoah looks already pretty heavy. But opting for the high school guy is always the riskier choice, as we've seen. So, while I prefer a pitcher, none of these seems ideal. The two shortstops seem fine, with Stott being a little tall for the position at 6'3", but certainly there have been good ones at that height. The younger one isn't enough better to justify the age-risk, to my mind. Busch's lack of a good defensive reputation means his bat needs to be off the charts, and I'm not sure that's really the book on him. Langeliers is intriguing at catcher. While we have a few good guys in the pipeline, I'm not sure it's ever a problem to have too many. But I've expounded at length on why I would resist ever again taking a catcher with a first round pick, and I'll leave it at that. Misner doesn't seem like he excels in any particular area, nor does he have a particular weakness. I don't see a compelling choice among these, but I guess I'd take the SS Stott, or the pitcher Manoah.
  8. ashbury
    He had a couple of very good September games in a row, but lacked a signature third one that our guy Martin has given us. It's true, that September (actually very late August also) was Ricky's high-water mark as a Twin. Good times.
  9. ashbury
    Still waiting for Ricky Nolasco's 3-game hot streak with the Twins, on a par with Perez's.
  10. ashbury
    Just to be clear, I wasn't endorsing puckstopper1's plan.
  11. ashbury
    Don't. / advice for a friend
  12. ashbury
    Sanó has a minor league option remaining, if they choose to use it in the way puckstopper1 suggested.
  13. ashbury
    Milwaukee, also too.
  14. ashbury
    I think if luke had included the word "then," as in "slumps and then sulks," the intent would have been clearer. At least, that is how I took it on first reading.
  15. ashbury
    You're saying that when he's not throwing a clunker, he's good/solid, not electric (or other superlative)? That's pretty faint praise, if so.
  16. ashbury
    It needs to go, then. "We Have Tickets"??? That seems like a minimum level of competence expected when running a team. Did they hire RandBall's Stu as their ad agency, using Falvey's middle-school nephew to do the graphics?
  17. ashbury
    I don't own an Internet device, so I was unable to read this article. It probably sucked, anyway. Usenet was so much better.
  18. ashbury
    OK.
  19. ashbury
    Stats are useful, of course, but early in the season I thought Reed had good movement on his pitches. By the time his stats had gone bad, his pitches were either straight or else not for strikes. That's my subjective recollection. I assume that "something" happened, whether or not he immediately went on the DL* right away. * I know it's IL now. It's 2018 I'm talking about.
  20. ashbury
    What the heck were you looking for when you ran across this old article?
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  22. ashbury
    Hey! Next time, mark the subject line with "SPOILERS!!!" or something. You just ruined my weekend, chump.
  23. ashbury
    Gotta find a team thirsting for lots of players needing 40-man space. And yeah, a rebuilding team might fit that description to a tee.
  24. ashbury
    Is Kirilloff eligible for the Rule 5 Draft next December? If not, then that's a good reason to not add him to the 40-man roster, unless you feel absolutely certain he is ready to face major league pitching. The extra option year you "gain" is just a wash, compared to just not starting the options clock yet, if you think in terms of his 2022 or 2023 or 2024 seasons - the ability or inability to option him will be the same in those seasons either way. I guess we're all assuming he's a lock to be major-league ready, which colors our thinking on this. But angling for an extra option year is letting the tail wag the dog, isn't it? 40-man slots are precious. You don't use one merely to give a promising kid a speculative look-see, because then you can't easily remove him in favor of someone else.
  25. ashbury
    Oh, that's right! I wonder what their plan is, then.
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