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  1. ashbury
    They went 4-7 last fall. Perhaps he lost a bet and the penalty was having to wear his own school's garb.
  2. ashbury
    Are you sure?
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  4. ashbury
    Our advice would be to not try to be either of these guys. But, if you can pull off the look with aplomb like they do, after apparently losing a bet, we won't say a word. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0m5QePrcVNk/UvS_FNo5aLI/AAAAAAAABN0/Ed8iQNHUaMg/s1600/20140207_b.JPG
  5. ashbury
    And a dog has 5 legs, if you call its tail a leg. Unless you let Abraham Lincoln have his say.
  6. ashbury
    Moral of the story, don't lurk. What's your position on the important issue of Russian Blue versus Golden Retriever?
  7. ashbury
    Let me think about this a bit.
  8. ashbury
    Perhaps the old and stale jokes seen so far have convinced you something is deceased here. If you mean how to follow the game itself, for free there is a running log of the play-by-play at mlb.com - look at the menu on the left at that site and pick the Twins game. If you want to watch the game, and are outside the Twins monopoly area geographically, mlb.tv will do the trick but it costs money. Inside the Twins region, you probably need cable. BTW, the game is in Seattle tonight, so it won't start very early.
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  10. ashbury
    Picky, picky, picky!
  11. ashbury
    Well put. Among the "known unknowns" are whether the team is in contention for a playoff spot. As for the "unknown unknowns", injuries involving 60-day DL stints could open up 40-man spots early.
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  14. ashbury
    There is an old moderator at Twins Daily.
  15. ashbury
    Well then throw out everything I said. Some people like knowing which starters achieved a difficult accomplishment.
  16. ashbury
    Do you object to the notion of identifying who had a good start and who did not? The threshold has to be set somewhere. And pitchers aren't robots, so nobody is compiling cheap QS, game after game, at exactly 6.0/3. The guys who lead the majors at the moment in QS have names like Kluber, Verlander, Cole, and Scherzer - no bad pitchers are sneaking in as QS league leaders, just under the wire. It's a useful quick-and-dirty metric, and indicates who is giving their team a chance to win, arguably better than the venerable W/L stat. Choose a tighter threshold, and you'll be throwing out a lot of starts where the guy's team won without scoring a ton themselves.
  17. ashbury
    You can. Click Unlike, then click Like again. Anyhoo, Nick's right to say that the Twins didn't sign Carter as an instructive lesson for Sano. But the parallels are there if Sano wants to be a student of the current market.
  18. ashbury
    Came here to say this. You said it better.
  19. ashbury
    When he had his productive season in 2016 he hit 23 solo homers and 18 with someone on base. That's about in line with the major leagues as a whole that season. He had at least one homer in every combination of men-on-base. Whether he has those same skills to offer today is another matter, and he's been a low-average strikeout-prone hitter throughout his career, but there's no particular reason I can see to question his RISPiness.
  20. ashbury
    Goodrum's glove is not good enough for middle infield duty. Until such time as the team decides Sano isn't their third-baseman, Goodrum doesn't make sense on their 40-man. He had no trade value. So, I don't know what good option there was.
  21. ashbury
    I usually preach against mind-reading, but in this case you read one moderator's mind, at least.
  22. ashbury
    From a site moderation standpoint, it would be well for this round of bickering to end here.
  23. ashbury
    All these other teams... have a grand total of 2 hitters in the majors at the moment who are younger than Kiriloff, and 1 additional guy a few days older but still in his age-20 season. And none of these players missed a season due to arm surgery. Next year you say, but still, the narrative that the Twins slow-play their prospects is questionable.
  24. ashbury
    Then that gives us three MI who profile best as starters at 2B, and everyone else who profile as backups (on a contender). Polanco's suspension raises a shadow of doubt for me, depending on how far back his illicit usage went during his development. If he loses just a tad of arm strength, or a smidgen of power in the bat, my amateur scouting opinion of him changes greatly. I agree with never ruling out a SS high in the draft. They are just too valuable and you never know who will pan out and stick at that position. Gordon looks MLB ready, and Lewis has the chance to advance quickly, otherwise MI help is far far away in the low minors. Plenty of talent to follow as fans, but with a long lead-time.
  25. ashbury
    If only there were some way to put something in the article title to clue readers in for what's coming.
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