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  1. ashbury
    Someone (spycake I believe) the other day kindly pointed out Adam Rosales became the subject of a turf war between Oakland and Texas a few years back: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rosalad01.shtml August 2, 2013: Selected off waivers by the Texas Rangers from the Oakland Athletics. August 8, 2013: Selected off waivers by the Oakland Athletics from the Texas Rangers. August 12, 2013: Selected off waivers by the Texas Rangers from the Oakland Athletics. Ell Oh Ell. So let's go for the record, shall we?
  2. ashbury
    Try this: https://twitter.com/michaelholmdahl/status/946620730371985408
  3. ashbury
    While Spring stats should be taken with multiple huge grains of salt, it seems to me that this view takes it a little too far. Management wants to see how players operate under all different kinds of pressure, given that the ultimate goal is to win the WS where the pressure is at its highest. Telling all the players that their job may ride on how they perform in Spring, and backing that up with the occasional reward/demotion for others to see, is part of that. If a guy stinks in Spring, with an excuse of just getting warmed up for the season, I see nothing wrong with sending him to AAA and being told to show he's ready there, if management chooses that route, taking his entire body of work into account of course. As with most things in management, it's a balancing act, dependent in some part on the personality of the individual player, and in some part on the group. You don't want management to be tyrants, you don't want them to run a country club.
  4. ashbury
    BTW, this article from the STrib in 2011 mentions that Scott Diamond cleared waivers before the Billy Bullock trade could be made: http://www.startribune.com/twins-deal-prospect-to-keep-diamond/118817039/ "Diamond was selected by the Twins in the Rule 5 draft and had to remain with the major league club or be offered back to Atlanta for half the $50,000 fee. If a team wants to keep a Rule 5 pick and send him to the minors, that player must clear waivers and then the team has to work a trade with the club that previously had him."
  5. ashbury
    The official rules are on-line, for anyone who doesn't want to accept someone else's summary. https://registration.mlbpa.org/pdf/MajorLeagueRules.pdf If you go down to Rule 6, which logically enough follows Rule 5, the procedure for removing the player from the major league roster is detailed. There is no mention there of trading. Presumably what teams do, when a trade is desired, is to go through the entire process (mainly the Waiver process), and then the player is returned to the original team in exchange for half the draft price. At that point, the two teams can proceed with a trade (perhaps with the half-price money going back where it came from). As has been said in multiple ways, above, this is somewhat fanciful - a player that no other team wants via waivers probably isn't worth trading for anyway. But it could happen. Oh, and the Cub Reporter site seems to have given a good summary. No quarrel there. It's just, the actual rules aren't really that opaque.
  6. ashbury
    I'm at a loss for words to express my pleasure at this news Guess I need an editor to assist me.
  7. ashbury
    Takes one to know one, bub.
  8. ashbury
    I would have expected a warning ticket, and not immediate revocation of their license to drive.
  9. ashbury
    Humble prediction: they're all gonna be tough.
  10. ashbury
    Maybe one of the MDs who read this site will chime in, but my impression is that B-12 and Iron supplements are both commonly taken by injection, at least in the quantities needed to move the (ahem) needle. Oral supplements likely are just excreted.
  11. ashbury
    Don't we have to get Aaron Judge's permission first?
  12. ashbury
    I'm not convinced Gordon's offense would exceed Aybar's yet, and his defense is likely worse.
  13. ashbury
    Haven't seen evidence to indicate he's ready.
  14. ashbury
    Maybe because they get to stay in the game longer than guys who have trouble putting batters away?
  15. ashbury
    They want him to pitch in the Cleveland series at San Juan, and starting on Opening Day would likely throw him off schedule for that.
  16. ashbury
    None of our guys can hold a candle to Mickey Marble.
  17. ashbury
    Articles are the pieces that the site software places on the front page. John Bonnes has posted similar links to his weekly podcast in this way for many years now, for example. You'll see "Article" pre-pended to the title if you come to a front-page piece via the Forums. It's simply the terminology used.
  18. ashbury
    Good analysis. I'd just add a counter-weight by saying that starting Castro against a lefty increases (for his career, though not 2017) by a small margin the chance of that lefty having a good game and lasting through eight.
  19. ashbury
    I dig.
  20. ashbury
    http://www.quickmeme.com/img/49/498794749f1ab35f1868fc509391c6f875e514ae6857d2382deee16176442a1e.jpg
  21. ashbury
    With left-handedness taking prominence, I just want to point out that Cave did display a significant platoon disadvantage against lefty pitchers in 2017, but both Wade and Granite were close to equally good against pitchers of either hand. So it's not like the AAA choices are all platooning candidates. I'd expect that Kepler and Cave would make for a more difficult duo to manage around, if ever on the same 25-man roster.
  22. ashbury
    What is it about catching that causes a prospect not to make enough strides until reaching AAA? Is there something too simple about being a receiver for low-level pitching?
  23. ashbury
    This is so thoroughly opposite how Molitor handled his backstop tandem last season that I am curious what prompts you to anticipate this now.
  24. ashbury
    Zero-sum game, then? I win!
  25. ashbury
    Abusing old friend Sugar Shane!
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