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  1. ashbury
    A desire to not repeat the BRE*? * Ben Revere Experience
  2. ashbury
    Like a lot of strategies, it works, until one day it doesn't. You have to somehow know whether you're betting against the smart money, or the other kind, when being a contrarian.
  3. ashbury
    Outfit our players with these. Problem solved. You're welcome.
  4. ashbury
    It would be threading quite the needle to trade a prospect exactly when you determine that he can't succeed but other teams' scouts are still in the dark. And the PR effect of trading a former #1 pick who is seemingly on track for the majors would have to be taken into account too. You can't trade him and then immediately crow about how you snookered the other team.
  5. ashbury
    I'm surprised to hear his defense has improved immensely. The things he's praised for here are the things that were said when he was drafted, and also were the things that jumped out at me when I saw him in Spring Training in 2017. "Improved immensely" usually is more of a left-handed compliment. Also, I am amused/intrigued about the squared jaw and so forth. It's a cliche that old-school scouts look for "the good face", and here it's stated in almost comically direct terms. It's fine, and may even be shorthand for valuable traits (such as adequate testosterone for the tasks at hand), but still seems less than a scalpel-sharp way of going about it in these analytically-aware times. Does the Collective Bargaining Agreement permit blood tests and DNA testing? Is Ben a 75 on the Face Tool scale?
  6. ashbury
    I checked a more definitive source: Out Of The Park Baseball 19.
  7. ashbury
    Would a video montage of him laying off breaking pitches in the dirt for the next 3 weeks help change your opinion? Here's hoping that it's possible to compile such a video, at AAA season's end. Which is my way of saying... we have a few more weeks to decide on Nick's question.
  8. ashbury
    Are you sure? Unless the Twins messed up the paperwork when they sent Byron to the minors on rehab assignments in 2015 and 2017, I count only 2016 and 2018 as exercised minor league options. That would still leave one, as Diehard says above. But I'm no expert on the arcana of these rules - it's all black magic, I tell ya!
  9. ashbury
    One of the decisions a TD moderator has to make is which forum a given article belongs in. After seeing this one's title, I had to stop and think - major league forum, or minor? After reading Nick's article, I'm no more certain than when I began. / I'm kidding - I think
  10. ashbury
    Oh, I suppose. But the Gibson saga has been painful to go through. Now that Gibby seems to have "arrived", maybe it was worth it, but it sure required a lot of losses along the way to get here. We can't afford that in every part of the building cycle. If I knew in advance that this would be Kohl's career arc too, I might be inclined to allow some other bottom-feeder franchise to "win" his services.
  11. ashbury
    Didn't seem to help that batter.
  12. ashbury
    I was on the verge of a mother-in-law joke in the same vein.
  13. ashbury
    He's old enough he should be ready, but I'd like to see a bit more success in high-leverage situations at AAA, before making him a priority for the majors. He didn't do well in a couple of recent first-inning "opener" stints, where he faces the other team's best batters right away. His last two outings have been better, but mid-innings or when you're behind are less pressure. That's my concern with him for now.
  14. ashbury
    That only matters if he turns out to need all three, in which case it doesn't matter.
  15. ashbury
    I've already got your belated birthday card for last year picked out. If someday they each sire quadruplets born on 9/29 I'm gonna declare a pattern's emerged.
  16. ashbury
    It stands out a mile once it's pointed out. I never would have picked up on it. Outstanding contribution! This is why I pay Chief the monthly membership fee to belong to this site.
  17. ashbury
    I wonder if Nick Gordon gets the Kohl Stewart Treatment next season. Along around August 2019: "Kid... you're ready. No, we said you're ready. Time to show us what you've learned by now. We got decisions to make."
  18. ashbury
    This uncertainty has prompted me to dash off a quick email to MLB's address provided on that page. I'm certain this burning issue of an out of date web page will capture their attention immediately, and I'll be sure to report back with their abject apology or whatever response I get.
  19. ashbury
    You injure something, you nurse it along, it's some amount better, then you tweak it again. Lather rinse repeat. I don't know if it necessarily is something that even had an "exact" start, as far as having an effect on him goes. It could have been progressive, or something fluctuating. Athletes deal with this a lot - no press releases are usually issued. Treat LoMo's good weeks as evidence, lacking other info. (Not that many to look at. )
  20. ashbury
    But but but... the site I linked stated plainly, "The eligibility rules to play in the AFL are simple."
  21. ashbury
    So it's probably thumbs down from him also on the manager's chair in Chattanooga, or an ownership stake in Elizabethton?
  22. ashbury
    There are rules about whom you can send. With Lewis and Kiriloff both at Ft Myers, I don't think they both (and some others mentioned) can go to AFL. I thought there also was a rule that a player couldn't go to AFL twice, but I don't see it here. Eligibility Rules The roster size is 30 players per team.Each Major League organization is required to provide six players subject to the following requirements: All Triple-A and Double-A players are eligible, provided the players are on at least a Double-A level roster no later than Aug. 1. One player below the Double-A level is allowed per Major League team. One foreign player is allowed, as long as the player does not reside in a country that participates in winter ball, as part of the Caribbean Confederation or the Australian winter league. No players with more than one year of credited Major League service as of August 31 are eligible, except a team may select one player picked in the most recently concluded Major League Rule 5 Draft. To be eligible, players on Minor League disabled lists must be activated at least 45 days before the conclusion of their respective seasons.
  23. ashbury
    It's not clearcut like a broken femur. First you try therapy on an injury. Then you try rest (he was DL'ed mid-July, right?). Surgery's the last resort, and you prefer to put that to the off-season. With the team in sell-mode, that choice was finally faced, sooner than later for the benefit of the player. I give the player props for playing through, rather than making a public issue of it. That effort has to stop at some point, where management (at some level in the org) makes the call, on behalf of the player, for the good of the team. But until the manager is told by the player "I can't go", it remains a judgement call - are they better off with their first choice playing only at 85% (realize that such "percentages" result in a steeper than linear dropoff in actual production), or their backup plan at that position or role. We can quibble about when it became apparent "it can't get better on its own". I hope people will resist the urge to assume downright malfeasance. This outcome clarified, for me, why they stuck with him as long as they did, through what appeared to us fans to be just a terrible slump.
  24. ashbury
    "So far, no good." He was better in this second start than in his first for the new organization. Baby steps.
  25. ashbury
    You have a rookie pitcher working with a rookie catcher, and there was an allusion to a post-game debriefing between the two. This is great, but I hope to goodness that the pitching coach is implicitly included in this activity, mostly keeping quiet but offering a tidbit or two. You can let two veterans toss their ideas back and forth on their own.
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