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  1. ashbury
    Always a first time, honeybun.
  2. ashbury
    He's one of those players of whom opponents say, "he can beat you, even when he's not hitting." Which of course indirectly underscores how important the hit-tool is in our game most of the other times. He needs to figure out breaking-pitches-away, toot sweet.
  3. ashbury
    At catcher we have two guys coming off injuries that can have long-lasting consequences. In my thinking, either guy could come down with a recurrence, or a related malady, that suddenly leaves us short. Injuries are part of the game, and many are unforeseeable, but this situation seems higher risk than average. Who do we have stashed at AAA on a make-good contract, in case Willians suddenly is our starter and we have no backup?
  4. ashbury
    There actually is a Rule 6. But it's not a draft, it just explains what is done subsequently to drafting players via Rule 5.
  5. ashbury
    Ask Cuddyer to do that magic trick where he makes your drink disappear.
  6. ashbury
    Moderator's note: This bickering tangent, about who knows anything with certainty, has nothing to do with Seth's response to someone complaining that Buxton will receive a pay increase relative to 2018, namely that the arbitration system under the Basic Agreement bakes pay raises into the system, and I ask that it stop.
  7. ashbury
    Nothing about a MiLB deal obligates the team to do anything. I think the concern being expressed is about the front office not having the discipline to leave the spare tire in the trunk if none of the tires on the ground are running flat. And maybe, given past experience, that's a fair concern. But a signing itself, if one does occur, shouldn't be.
  8. ashbury
    I suppose the hope would be to use such luck to balance out certain kinds of bad luck. For instance a couple of starters go on the 60-day DL during spring, and only one of the young guys is deemed ready to face major league hitting full time. With spots on the 40-man thus available, you have someone you can plug in right away; if he does well, then you have an interesting decision to make in 60 days. I believe that would be the thinking.
  9. ashbury
    Get a few new guys and then depend on Team Chemistry to solve everything.
  10. ashbury
    Besides the mystery guest, what are the chances that Brian Duensing is also included, as a sweetener to the deal?
  11. ashbury
    Your memory is apparently better than mine, and I don't have time to go back and re-read my review of it earlier in this thread, so I guess we'll go with that.
  12. ashbury
    At this moment, I believe the chance is low of Buxton filing an official grievance regarding the lack of September call-up. But... would the formal offer of a long-term extension give him ammunition for one? "Hey, apparently I wasn't good enough in their eyes last September, now four months later they want me on a multi-year contract? What changed during the off-season?" I'm no lawyer but my instinct would be to tread carefully if I were in the Twins front office.
  13. ashbury
    Peter Griffin's long-lost relative?
  14. ashbury
    I find it appealing to know that the HoF's voting rules specify that automatic standards are not to be applied. It's assumed that voters should use their judgement. If eras change, voters should take that into account. The fact that nobody hits .400 or wins 30 games anymore doesn't mean the players all turned crappy or anything.
  15. ashbury
    It worked! The Twins gave up and went to plan B when Slegers answered the phone.
  16. ashbury
    Well, "character" is one among several explicit criteria. From the Hall's statement of the rules for election: 5. Voting: Voting shall be based upon the player's record, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character, and contributions to the team(s) on which the player played. I applaud that character is permitted to be considered by the voters. But there isn't a separate statement about morals, such as "only those of high morals may be selected," which a phrase like "morals clause" will imply to some readers. And the voters are at liberty to weight these various criteria any way they see fit. If eventually the voters elect Bonds or Clemens, there is no clause in the voting rules saying they shouldn't have.
  17. ashbury
    Brinks truck, guarded by Pinkerton's finest.
  18. ashbury
    Yeah, but I slept better at night, at least until I noticed Direct Deposit had stopped.
  19. ashbury
    When times turned tough at Control Data and then Cray Research, I found that fingers in the ears and "la la la la la la la la la" worked best for me.
  20. ashbury
    About 14 pages. <*rimshot*>
  21. ashbury
    I think the signing wasn't officially announced until today, and the team has some small number of days to add him to the roster. He may stay in DFA limbo while they work the phones to construct some sort of trade that would make room, for example.
  22. ashbury
    Carter's a one-tool player. Bad contact tool, no defense/arm/speed tools. Was there ever a time that a one-tool position player was in high demand (say, $10M+)? Power isn't even considered the most important tool, compared to hit/contact. And if there ever was a time, analytics seems to have weeded those contracts out by now; astute bottom feeders like Tampa and Oakland didn't swoop in to outbid the seeming lowball offer, either of the past two years. Carter's an especially poor example, given that he was indeed out of the majors a year later, putting up suspect PCL numbers at Salt Lake in short duty. The non-bidders were right. Carter brings absolutely nothing to the table other than the homers. An OPS+ just north of 100 is not valuable when no defensive value is combined at all. The similarity to Cruz, an arguable two-tool player, is the risk at his age that he loses a tool. His 2017 numbers are worrisome with his hit-tool, and with another degradation he's Chris Carter. I want to go back to what you said earlier, which launched this tangent: I don't think power hitting has lost market value. Anomalous bursts of power that might not prove sustainable, or power that may soon degrade, or power not augmented by anything else, probably have.
  23. ashbury
    LoMo had a breakout 2017, too, and it was discounted by league GMs. I think TheLeviathan's principle applies just as well to Cron. Show you can do it twice, stay young, and then the big money may flow.
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  25. ashbury
    Not sure if this belongs here, it being Amazon Prime, but I saw episodes 1 and 2 of The Marvelous Mrs Maisel on my flight the other day, and I recommend it highly. Rachel Brosnahan does a, well, marvelous job. The supporting cast is fun too.
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