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  1. ashbury
    Especially compared to guys who never had a step? 😁
  2. ashbury
    At age 48 he has lost at least a step.
  3. ashbury
    If the Gameday feed is correct, one homer went out on a curveball, one was a four-seamer. I'm sure the coaching staff is on top of this, but might Taj be tipping his pitches?
  4. ashbury
    You have a mole inside the clubhouse, to think this? Who's to say that this motley collection of arms hasn't bought into the program Shelton and Maki and Hawkins have put together? You may appeal to "common sense", but common sense also suggests a bunch of competitive men like the idea of everyone being given equal opportunity, considering the lack of impressive resume any of them see in each other.
  5. ashbury
    CJ is considerably taller but the headshot photo doesn't make that clear.
  6. ashbury
    Opposing teams know you can take liberties when facing the Mets.
  7. ashbury
    Former Twins luminary A.J. Achter too. Wikipedia has a list of other players (I didn't spot other Twins).
  8. ashbury
    Just another day at the office for him. (I feel sure he never gets tired of this comparison.)
  9. ashbury
    This guy has.
  10. ashbury
    I did a quick scan of highly drafted college players last year to see how they did in their first exposure to pro ball, and I can't remember finding any at all who performed better than they had before being drafted. Class A is good baseball.
  11. ashbury
    "Son, your role here is Get Guys Out." 😁
  12. ashbury
    He's striking out guys for Minnesota at a much higher rate than in his previous major league stints. I'm inclined to guess the Magic Pixie Dust disappears from his wings pretty soon. Likewise the batting average in the low .200s when the ball is put in play, since he was never able to sustain that before either. I don't hate having him, and there's nothing wrong with giving him some save situations in this closer-by-committee, but I'd pump the brakes a bit on expectations of a lights-out reliever.
  13. ashbury
    Give it another hour?
  14. ashbury
    1) Current ticket prices reflect generally what the market will bear. and StubHub and other secondary marketplaces iron out much of any remaining arbitrage there is to be had. If the owners unilaterally lower ticket prices, scalpers will swoop in to an even greater degree and snap up all available tickets and wait then for their market-correct price to be eventually met. Either that, or fans who tell the world "give me cheaper tickets" will instead sell their windfall in the same way to other fans who are willing to pay more than you or I. 2) MLB already has a problem of luring good athletes who may also be NFL or NBA candidates. If the salary pool is decreased, that problem becomes only worse - imagine the next Joe Mauer throwing touchdowns for Florida State. It's a fantasy/dream that the "greedy" athletes will somehow be punished into toeing some arbitrary line. I'm no free-market woofer, but anyone proposing to go against the market needs to have a plan for how to deal with the discontinuities their plan will raise. The money is there to be had, and if the athletes don't get it then someone else does, but not you or me.
  15. ashbury
    I hope we all can distinguish between skepticism about the front office, humorously couched, and contempt for a player. (This should have been directed toward the poster you were responding to, jorgenwest, but now that I clicked Quote on the wrong reply I don't know how to repair it fully. Plus, now I see that someone else already had addressed my concern first.)
  16. ashbury
    The Dwight meme, hopefully, revealed the tongue-in-cheek humor that was intended, namely that our team invested scarce resources in a player no other team wanted.
  17. ashbury
    Advanced analytics seem to indicate that he has a 1.03 ERA at AAA Reno. The Twins FO wants to prove they're not to be trifled with in the bleeding-edge tech areas.
  18. ashbury
    False. The Twins paid good money for him just last off-season.
  19. ashbury
    I don't need to speak for the panel, but because you asked them specifically about a "moment," and because I put a fair amount of work into it, I'll still provide this link to my own take(s) at the time: You might decide it's impossible to pick one favorite moment.
  20. ashbury
    We need a Duensing, too. Something, something, trade sweetener, something, PROFIT!!!!
  21. ashbury
    Soccer has "stoppage time" at the referee's discretion to take into account instances where play stopped for injury etc.
  22. ashbury
    What are your thoughts on Dug Mintkayvitch?
  23. ashbury
    Be careful what you wish for. He's put up good stats since he's been here but built on a foundation of .207 BABIP. Increase the BABIP by 50% to a more normal proportion, watch the OPS-against increase by 50% as a consequence, and watch the success turn into more mediocrity for this bullpen. Or maybe he could, you know, continue to defy the odds. The present high strikeout rate does suggest he's less susceptible to BABIP fluctuations. Can he keep that up? His time at Tampa Bay doesn't suggest so.
  24. ashbury
    Not everyone is worth trading a valuable pitcher for, either. I was always of the opinion that SWR would be the key to the trade. If you trade away current pitching, you need either current pitching or even better future pitching in return. You can always find a team willing to trade you a bat for your good pitcher. SWR didn't develop the way the Twins expected him to, and Martin didn't establish any important but unanticipated tools such as power or shortstop ability. So for me the trade is a failure.
  25. ashbury
    The manager chose to use kid gloves, as one does with fragile items.
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