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  1. ashbury
    He's either the 1B of the past or of the future, because it's been more than a month since he started a game there.
  2. ashbury
    No question this is true. Still, in post-season baseball, you get only a few days to prove yourself. Many times, a game will be win or go home. If this is even the slightest problem for a player, I'd rather learn about it during a "tough position" in July or whatever, than in October. I don't point fingers at any particular player as not being clutch. You can never know with certainty, in part because of small samples, in part because you can't look into the player's soul. Still, the nature of most sports or competitions is that infinite patience is not granted. The best course for players trying to establish themselves is "prove it." Then prove it again, and prove it again, until the sample is no longer small. Bad luck if they can't, and it's part of the game. The team has provided Roden opportunities against right-handed pitching. Maybe another team finds the treasure in our discards. You did go on to say much the same, but I think it bears reflection.
  3. ashbury
    Seems like we've completed a 360 degree return to where the discussion started. The article leading to this thread essentially began, "[t]he moment everyone wanted to talk about [my emphasis] happened in the fifth inning, and it had nothing to do with a pitch or a swing." The incident involving the crowd was the opposite of unnoticed. No one's defending the incident. The article we're discussing provided important context. Everyone's had their say that's going to. It's faintly possible this topic from April has run its course.
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  5. ashbury
    I wish the Like button had a wider array of choices than they give us, so I have to resort to emojis. 🖌️🚀🐮☔🚬🌴🌈
  6. ashbury
    I hope the Kangaroo Kourt fines Josh Bell for that baserunning blunder in the ninth, and I hope he cheerfully accepts such judgment, and I especially hope he remembers his basics next time. /edit - I see now that Chief Justice Shelton has already ruled during the media scrum, relieving the lower Kourt of their obligation and solemn duty. 😁
  7. ashbury
    Walks will haunt, and maybe the ghost of .500 will rise again too..
  8. ashbury
    I give Lee only a little blame. You rely on your teammates to do right, and the runner scores from second on that play 101 times out of 100, and Caratini takes third - no matter how slow the wheels. Expect the unexpected, but not from your own guys. Bell's correct to watch from a short lead to see whether the catch is made, and then when the ball skips away even an inch he goes full speed toward third and picks up the coach to learn whether and how far the ball really got away. I don't think this is hard.
  9. ashbury
    Conservative is fine but he was loafing going into third and only belatedly noticed the coach's signal.
  10. ashbury
    It's here, just for the record. https://www.mlb.com/video/jacob-webb-in-play-out-s-to-brooks-lee Turrible. Josh Bell is no longer a baseball player, just a hitter.
  11. ashbury
    Careful. We're verging into Satire now, not Sarcasm.
  12. ashbury
    How's the rating for "Plays Well With Others"?
  13. ashbury
    Counting McNuggets before they hatch also comes to mind. 😁
  14. ashbury
    Hey, that was the name of the Emo band I was in a while back.
  15. ashbury
    Genuine question: how many minor league Rule 5 picks in, say, the past decade, ever played an inning in the majors, any time following their selection? I'm thinking it could be zero, but would be interested to know a counter-example or three. I think of that phase of the draft being strictly to fill out AA/AAA rosters in areas of need for the long season.
  16. ashbury
    Didn't refresh the page before I posted my theory. This is more useful. I was also going to speculate that Shelton was benching Lewis because he hasn't had a base hit since July 11. (All Star break? Details, schmetails.)
  17. ashbury
    Ditto. Clemens!
  18. ashbury
    We have three catchers, and we're trying to shop Bell. That would be my guess - gotta DH a catcher now and then, and you don't want to be seen benching a guy you want to entice someone to take.
  19. ashbury
    You don't need some grizzled, avuncular figure in the dugout to tell you how to improve the defense. See how that works? 🙃
  20. ashbury
    That's quite the logjam. Better work on some trades this week or next. 😀
  21. ashbury
    No shout out to the analytics department?
  22. ashbury
    Small counter point: if early second rounder Tinney doesn't stick behind the plate, he could be the next Rooker, for good or for ill.
  23. ashbury
    Ditto. There's so much to unpack in that introductory paragraph and life is short.
  24. ashbury
    I'm just in no position to second guess the guys who study the prospects, since I don't. Ordinarily second round is a great time to draft a catcher if they think he'll reach the majors. That's how they got Jeffers. Best player available remains the mantra. So I'm not disappointed, to use your word. If they end up with two major leaguers, things have a way of working out.
  25. ashbury
    Never mind
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