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  1. ashbury
    Put it this way: I'd sure hate to be in our shoes at the moment.
  2. ashbury
    When you pick your moments carefully and always do it with perfect hindsight, it's a useful trope. 😀
  3. ashbury
    On the fence about signing Naylor to play, but let's do a Kickstarter* to get Jomboy as the color analyst beside Provus. * Is Kickstarter still a thing? I do not keep up.
  4. ashbury
    His past 13 games has him sporting a .532 OPS. The Small Sample Size giveth, the Small Sample Size taketh away.
  5. ashbury
    Since fielding percentage is your thing, I'd like to mention that across the majors, .976 is the average for all shortstops in the year of our lord 2025. https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2025-specialpos_ss-fielding.shtml I'm not sold on Brooks Lee at SS either but you'll need to dig a little deeper to convince me with numbers that there's something wrong.
  6. ashbury
    See, that's the heart of what was bothering me about the article. It didn't define its terms and left the discussion fuzzy. It didn't quite come out and say what anyone was doubting. "We doubt he's in the top 5" -- FangRaphs - that's about the closest to a specific thing that the player could try to "prove" is wrong. Jenkins's season is good but I really doubt that a writer is now muttering, "guess I was wrong, he's #5 now." Missing in action during most of April and all of May can't have shut anyone up about the durability concerns.
  7. ashbury
    I don't even want to think about your and my respective numerous contributions here, then. 😀
  8. ashbury
    I don't know how to conduct a careful study, but I suspect that hiring the unsuccessful people from other organizations usually works out even less well. 😀 And then there's hiring from within, AKA promoting. That can lead to stagnancy, a county-club atmosphere, and other bad things. Except when it works out well, and then forget all that naysaying. I'm sure there's no single formula for success. When hiring for any interesting job, it's difficult to know what the person will do until they've been doing it awhile. If the job is interesting enough, the candidate won't actually know for certain either.
  9. ashbury
    "Who is Mr Twin?" The average baseball fan across the nation but outside the team's core market might say Kirby Puckett - maybe a few are old enough to say Harmon or young enough to say Joe Mauer. "Who is Mr Marlins?" I bet most of those fans would be stuck for answer, to name even one Marlin. (By WAR for the team, it would be Giancarlo Stanton or Hanley Ramirez - and I doubt most people would associate the Marlins with either one.)
  10. ashbury
    b-r.com and its game logs plus Wikipedia can make anyone, even me, an expert on the 50s Braves. Covington continued to play in July, August, and September 1957, but Bruton's last game of that season was on July 11. He was taken out in the bottom of the first inning of that game, after he sustained a knee injury when he collided with Mantilla the shortstop both going for a short fly ball. Andy Pafko was brought into the game, but as a right fielder as they shifted Aaron to CF. That substitute alignment remained for more than two weeks. Manager Fred Haney showed no imagination whatsover, by playing the same outfield game after game, with the original trio before the injury and then the modified one after. But why oh why did it take the Braves' front office until July 29 to realize they were sitting on a gold mine, and to bring Hazle up from Wichita? Took 'em until the 31st to even let him start a game. (I think I have my facts straight but tongue is firmly in cheek a couple times in this post. 😀 )
  11. ashbury
    Meet the new Rocco. Same as the old Rocco.
  12. ashbury
    None other. Before my time - uh, at least as a fan. 😀
  13. ashbury
    It's been done a Lucky 13 times in the majors by Twins pitchers, most recently Chris Archer in 2022. Trevor May, back in his days as a starter, did it in 2014. It's true that none of those 13 achieved what Rojas did: limit the damage to only 1 run scored. Joe Decker and Roger Erickson managed to escape with just 2. I thought it was interesting, anyway. If Stathead (b-r.com) made it as easy to look up minor league results as for the majors, I'm sure there would be plenty of such outings to be sifted through. https://stathead.com/tiny/wx0sV (And none of this of course disputes what you have personally 'seen.' 😀 )
  14. ashbury
    "Wanted" is one of those fuzzy terms that lead to disagreements without anyone necessarily noticing. A player can "want" more than one thing at a time. He could want to remain with the Twins. He could want to not leave money on the table. The Cardinals offered him $75M in guaranteed money. We don't know what, if any, extension the Twins offered, but the QO represented a small fraction of that guarantee. We do know that Gray was quoted as saying that, even after the Twins explained to him that they didn't have the "resources" to make him a competitive offer, he had his agent give it one or two tries anyway. I don't read anything in the MLBTR item the next season suggesting Gray didn't want to be here. Gray didn't want to play for Twins money. AKA right-sizing.
  15. ashbury
    Does Joe Ryan wish that Nelson Cruz was still with the Twins? 😀
  16. ashbury
    We have no idea what's been said behind closed doors. It's true that he'd be fired for being openly insubordinate. "Why do I play Outman? Ask the FO why they traded for an Out Man" would be just an indirect way of saying "I quit but I still want my money." There is a happy medium (unhappy for many observers), where Rocco isn't fired per se but promoted to the front office. I mean, Falvey's always said things like Rocco is a partner in everything they plan and do. My scenario of course assumes Rocco is ready to put aside on-field duties, permanently or even just for a time. Maybe he'd prefer to be someone's bench coach elsewhere. and just accept a contract buyout. *shrug* But we'll get someone just like Rocco as a replacement - a promotion for Tingler, or someone "new" brought in with different facial hair or maybe more hair on top of his cranium but the same philosophies as Falvey.
  17. ashbury
    Hurricane Hazle maintained better numbers than Martin's in 155 plate appearances. So I'll join you in waiting a bit before declaring Martin integral to anything. (Who writes these headlines? ClickbaitBot2.0? The word "integral" wasn't mentioned in the body of the article.) He's striking out less and walking more. Power's about the same as last go-round, which is to say still nearly nothing. I don't feel confident with his defense anywhere on the field, but the summary on b-r.com is less dire than last year so maybe I'm slow to adjust my perception. Baserunning is at best a work in progress. He's scored 11 runs this year and driven in 2 so if you extrapolate to 600 PA he's the second coming of Luis Arraez, i.e. not the run-scoring engine you might imagine from the on-base percentage. All in all, he's earning another chance. Maybe by the time he's achieved free agency in 2031 he'll have turned himself into an asset. 😀
  18. ashbury
    Well, that's why I put the funny little Trademark symbol on it, you know?
  19. ashbury
    Been a long time since I saw that movie and I couldn't have told you one thing about it. Thanks for saving me the trouble of looking it up and watching it through again. 😀
  20. ashbury
    Enjoyable deep-dive into a "moment" not too different from any other in the course of a long season - from the respective perspectives of the 1) PBP announcer, 2) batter-runner, and 3) fielder. Baseball rewards the attentive fan.
  21. ashbury
    Do you know that there are exactly TWO players named Kody-with-a-K-and-not-with-an-I-or-an-EY who have ever appeared in a Major League game? And guess what, WE'VE GOT 'EM BOTH! Right now! But, there are still some Kodys languishing in the minors. Dalen, Hoese, Huff, Putnam, plus maybe a few recent retirees and/or college players who haven't even gotten a chance yet. You've started the project, FO, but now your mission is: COLLECT THE WHOLE SET!
  22. ashbury
    This Article Aged Well.™
  23. ashbury
    Rooting against the Twins is a different type of pathology that we're seeing here and there, too.
  24. ashbury
    Don't be deceived. The Royals may have scored only eleven runs off the Twins' pitching staff, but that's because they were permitted only eight innings to try. Just one of those funny little quirks about the sport of baseball that make us love it even if there can be no possible rational explanation for the discrepancy.
  25. ashbury
    Ask the Pohlads. I just provided a data point you can think about. How much IS enough? Keep adding dollar increments until we're up with the Dodgers? Where is your data for what an incremental dollar of payroll returns in revenue? Do you know what an S-shaped curve is, or a hockey stick graph? There are days of the week where I say, it takes money to make money. Today is apparently not the right day, sorry.
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