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  1. ashbury
    I suppose a hallmark of good satire is the number of people it inadvertently lures into genuine conversation. Maybe that's even healthy.
  2. ashbury
    Target Field when asked for comment sniffed, "Joe Mauer left that Teflon-topped, Heftybag-decorated hussy for me. 'Nuff said."
  3. ashbury
    I keep telling myself that no one cares to know my inner dialogue, but I still can't help doing it.
  4. ashbury
    Astudillo breaking yet another unwritten rule of baseball or two, after hitting homers in the Venezuelan Winter League:
  5. ashbury
    I'll have to go locate my 3-D glasses in order to properly view that Rob Friedman video.
  6. ashbury
    Yes, although it is out of date. There was a documentary made some years ago concerning the next stage, which I believe is our Willians's lineage. You may remember seeing footage of him flying around the bases that one time last year.
  7. ashbury
    A wahoo is a fish, related to mackerels. The team chose blue for local reasons. The Pensacola Bay Area is the official home of the Blue Angels.
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  9. ashbury
    Explains why it was so easy getting a front-pew seat at church, and also why they skipped the sermon.
  10. ashbury
    Quite the novelty, having a Spanish-speaking player on our team. (I've gone to that well myself plenty of times.)
  11. ashbury
    You may rely on it. It is decidedly so.
  12. ashbury
    Unless... their judgement was that a player is more likely to slide through waivers a few days after Opening Day, when other teams are making their first adjustments just like we are. There are probably numbers that tell, one way versus the other; I don't know where to look up transaction records that show historical waiver claims.
  13. ashbury
    i know, and yet I see other teams' catchers pull the same stuff and get the calls. I think the good umps, of which there are many, filter that mitt stuff out.
  14. ashbury
    I'd also start bunting more and otherwise playing for one run, after a certain point.
  15. ashbury
    Fun With Numbers: This is the first time since 2016 that Ben Rortvedt has gotten a base hit in his first game of the season. OK, that's not so unusual, but I'm happier to see a good start to his season than a slow one.
  16. ashbury
    I find this link useful for some purposes too: https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/affiliate.cgi?id=MIN
  17. ashbury
    It could be that the lack of chances goes deeper than that. For example, as I've said before, the one game I saw of him in person, at AAA last year, I believe I've never witnessed a player make his way out to left field to start an inning slooooower than he did. He didn't happen to get tested there in any meaningful way during the game, so I had only that one small impression to stick with me, and an assumption we'd be dealing with a Josh Willingham-level of skill out there*. There could be other things like that with Willians, I have no idea. Scouts have a deeper repository of views of a player, than my one little observation time, but still little things could stick with a player if seen at the wrong time. Maybe a scout has been burned by players who chose to turn on the effort only at certain times. Vague observations lumped together with a lethal comment like "questions about makeup" could stall a guy's chances in an organization. I don't give much credit to charley hustle types, but I really was perplexed when I saw him, considering what I had heard. The reality, after seeing him several more times on teevee, seems to be a ballplayer with a nose for the ball on defense. I would actually love to see him faced with a challenging play in LF. He may just have had terrible luck in when the people who matter saw him. * I always rush to add, Josh's spine was badly damaged by the time we got him, and I don't hold his lack of an all-out effort against him in the slightest. He just was who he was, by that point, and is my benchmark for substandard left field performance that you choose to live with anyway.
  18. ashbury
    Byron Buxton: Reckless or Aggressive? Yes.
  19. ashbury
    La tortuga dorada.
  20. ashbury
    I like it when posters say nice things.
  21. ashbury
    http://www.quickmeme.com/img/08/0848cba1a97180c12eb83fc7f228d6c535ddb1e5994d198a0b8eae2d602a25fa.jpg
  22. ashbury
    I love his bat, but does Jorge Polanco have a major league shortstop's arm?
  23. ashbury
    Longer than I thought. Three more seasons to try to make the selection work.
  24. ashbury
    Eventually, and I think not too far down the road, he can elect free agency.
  25. ashbury
    FanGraphs has taken a crack at this. I'm not sure how successfully. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/introducing-the-batter-specific-run-expectancy-tool/ I agree that we're a long way away from using actual RE tables to make game decisions. They're just (IMO) interesting as a way of setting a baseline for discussion. Fast/slow runner on second, a good/bad hitter at the plate, a good bunter on the bench... all these will adjust the numbers, at the risk of cutting down the numbers to Small Sample Size, meaning that the manager using his noodle to decide is still probably for the best.
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