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  1. ashbury
    Moderator's note: Enough.
  2. ashbury
    He's one of those uncommon players who has played full-time at each level followed by a promotion each time. And weak second-half or not, his season stats in 2017 were his best yet. The same logic they used in prior years would suggest AAA. What good will another hot start at AA do him, anyway? Observers, both professional and just us fans, would still say, wait, we don't know if he will fade. I would just bump him to Rochester and see how he does. If the questions are more about his glove, he won't learn more in AA than AAA on that aspect of his game. And he's so young, a bad 2018 at AAA still wouldn't mean very much for his long-term chances.
  3. ashbury
    Tigers? I haven't seen all his videos, but the one that was brought to our attention in another thread had him in a Mariner's jersey (I didn't recognize the meaning of any of his other attire). His brother Dee just signed a big contract with the M's. It's hard to find something sinister about idolizing one's big brother. This seems like a tangent worth dropping, in a thread about a player's ranking.
  4. ashbury
    There's no hidden agenda. I responded to what I was seeing. Since it's not a thread about stats, I'll bow out of the tangent.
  5. ashbury
    "Balls [put] In Play" isn't only a portion of the performance?
  6. ashbury
    This response seems like splitting hairs. Sure, it's just a computation. But using it, such as to say "the number for this guy doesn't look sustainable," does imply some assumption about the meaning it delivers.
  7. ashbury
    What else would you expect a team to say after a trade, though?
  8. ashbury
    I think we got another Vern Bickford. Remember "Spahn and Sain, then pray for rain"? Bickford was the overlooked guy in that rotation, coming off a bad year still in his 20s.
  9. ashbury
    I have the feeling that the reports coming out on that signing must be in conflict in some way. Unlike some other sports, a major league contract is by its nature guaranteed. And an MLB deal must result in a 40-man spot. The solution to this conundrum may indeed be that Sanchez gets added and someone gets removed. But Odorizzi's signing was immediately connected to Pineda going to the 60-day DL. Why wouldn't Odorizzi need a day or two, as well? (Perhaps now that pitchers and catchers have reported, he's already passed his physical.) Maybe Pineda is incorrectly linked and it's Sanchez who was added. In any case, I think some small detail has been miscommunicated by the beat journalists. Which... isn't the end of the world, I just want to understand.
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  11. ashbury
    The team has used some very high draft picks for position players even when the team's perceived need has been pitching. The argument in favor of this has been better certainty. If that's your strategy, at some point you have to turn some of the hitting pipeline* into pitching. This is a good use. * Of course Palacios wasn't acquired via the draft. But Royce Lewis makes Palacios expendable, or at least that is the most direct line I want to try to draw.
  12. ashbury
    Still under team control this year and next. Just won his arbitration case, earning $6+M this season.
  13. ashbury
    Psst, Brian. I think most here would be delighted if Derek and Thad just screwing around resulted in the baseball equivalent of a hole-in-one.
  14. ashbury
    While many scoff at the usefulness of W-L for individual pitchers, it is nevertheless true that by MLB rules each win and loss will be assigned to someone. Care to take a crack at allocating those decisions to the pitchers currently on the 40-man roster, in a way that plausibly adds up to 90-72?
  15. ashbury
    I was about to make note of that, but you ninja'd me.
  16. ashbury
    I don't believe it's automatically bad advice. Depending on the age of the player, a guaranteed 2-year deal for even as low as, say, $25M, might be preferable to 1 at $17.4M. Ditto, 4 years for $50M. These numbers of mine are purposely low; but bring them up a little, and they still are a lower AAV and yet preferable.
  17. ashbury
    In fairness, I found this quote at the end of Rhett Bollinger's report of the trade. The phrasing is unattributed, and thus I interpret it as his own synthesis of what he has heard and what he independently dug up. https://www.mlb.com/twins/news/anibal-sanchez-twins-agree-to-contract/c-266622502 The relationship between reporters for mlb.com and the teams themselves is not clear to me. This quote may reflect the front office's planning, or it may be a slight fun-house mirror version of their actual thinking.
  18. ashbury
    Good. I'm glad that's settled. Many Twins fans share your outrage.
  19. ashbury
    "Let's not make baseball out to be any more important than it really is. It's just a diversion that keeps us from pondering our own personal hells. So what do you say, folks? How about we kill another three hours on our slow and painful march to the grave? All right, top of the first. Should have a good one here this afternoon." -- Jim Brockmire
  20. ashbury
    I feel an Abbott and Costello routine coming on.
  21. ashbury
    Then you and Mr Sanchez have something in common.
  22. ashbury
    I think that is a decades-long "tradition" for this team. I've heard it explained under various rationales.
  23. ashbury
    We can save one of his minor league options by simply bringing him north with the big club.
  24. ashbury
    Maybe teams believe that instead of paying a free agent for proven power, they can teach launch angle to their low-cost hitters and get the same result.
  25. ashbury
    Yeah, but at that age you're just playing for fun.
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