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  1. ashbury
    All these 40-and-up types, pointing out how things aren't like they used to be. They didn't used to do that back when I was a kid.
  2. ashbury
    You just made the best argument possible for getting off of dead-center and bringing in a free agent starter of note. For a FO to go into the season believing that Gibby is integral to your team's success would be a firing offense in my book - dereliction of duty, willful negligence, whatever you want to call it.
  3. ashbury
    Their seeing-eye dogs are remarkably talented however. The way I have umpires pigeonholed, they would take a comment like Trevor's and say "like hell you got any gifts, we called 'em right every bleepin' time", and then would double down this coming season with called strikes for him on every borderline pitch. (j/k, maybe)
  4. ashbury
    Early in my career (not a burger box store, but whatever) I worked for companies that did little to disguise that they hired young engineering types and expected a high turnover. It still was apparent which were the managers who "thought young" and could relate to us young-uns without a lot of effort, and which were not. A couple of the former, I kept in contact with for decades afterward - and I think they drew the best out of me, as opposed to a very few who operated in a more obviously judgmental/strict/negative-feedback mode. There's nothing new under the sun.
  5. ashbury
    I dunno. Molitor sounds about one step from, "kids these days, I tell ya, with their boomboxes and their crazy haircuts and their smart attitudes, I just don't know," and two steps from "get off my lawn".
  6. ashbury
    There have been various studies. Here is one: https://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2015/1/29/7921283/baseball-game-length-visual-analysis Among his conclusions: the time between pitches has increased by 1.5 seconds since 2007, which amounts to almost eight minutes a game.game length has increased when holding constant the number of plate appearancesTake a look and see what you think.
  7. ashbury
    Those two get mixed up for each other all the time.
  8. ashbury
    Rodney's no great shakes, on that we can easily agree.
  9. ashbury
    The visits to the mound don't account for very much of the growth in time over the years. Stepping out of the box is a problem, but that's often done in response to the pitcher taking a long time. The cat-and-mouse game between the two adversaries needs to be addressed equally, by limits on both of them. If you restrict the batter from stepping out, you need to restrict the reason for it, which comes down to time. Enforcing the present rules seems like the right idea.
  10. ashbury
    Kintzler is an asset, but he's an awkward combination of a closer mentality without closer stuff. My take is that he gets you through the regular season, but is just another guy when the post-season comes, confirmed this past October when he gave up runs in two of the three games he appeared in. Of course, the Twins are not yet in a position to take the regular season for granted.
  11. ashbury
    Hooray for Google Translate, which completely clarified Darvish's tweet which was in Japanese: "Brewers participating in full-scale participation in winning Darvish pitcher who is FA from Dodgers. There is also the possibility that the fighting battle where "interdigitation" has continued with six teams such as old-fashioned Dodgers, can progress at a stretch."
  12. ashbury
    Just to finish beating the dead horse, I finally was pointed to an online version of the official rules that govern the teams in matters like these: https://registration.mlbpa.org/pdf/MajorLeagueRules.pdf It contains the verbiage concerning the 60-day DL beginning when pitchers and catchers report. (Page 10, rule 2g3F)
  13. ashbury
    A bigger strike zone will just mean pitchers nibbling at a different perimeter, with batters choosing to take just about as frequently.
  14. ashbury
    There's never going to be unanimous agreement, so there being a "good number" thinking things are hunky-dory isn't enough reason to do nothing. As for the strawman solutions you raised, they appear to me as being possibly strawmen.
  15. ashbury
    Obviously you're just another poster in the pocket of Big Turnip. (Or, maybe I'm just being arugulamentative.)
  16. ashbury
    With regard to the fidgeting on the mound and the batter stepping out of the box, baseball needs to confront why they're doing that. The players don't do it to be irritating to fans, they do it to "slow the game down" so that they are focused. That, or to try to get into each other's head. Whether they are correct in their belief or not, batters and pitchers alike, they're going to find every way they can to maximize whatever time between pitches is allowed. Trying to get to the root cause, if possible, seems like a better solution than an arbitrary time limit With regard to pitching changes, I'm not in favor of limiting the number, but why do we have to sit through several warmup pitches, after the reliever has been doing exactly that for the prior ten minutes? Make the reliever come to the dugout before the pitching change can even be called, and then have him trot straight to the mound and get to work. (Bullpens may need to be redesigned so that there is a good route to the dugout while staying off the field of play. A tunnel can be dug, as a last resort.)
  17. ashbury
    What causes bubbles is that in each case the people investing say "oh, but these aren't tulips."
  18. ashbury
    He does Spring Training in Fort Maiers.
  19. ashbury
    Mrs Ash and I saw Three Billboards last night. Not necessarily an easy movie to watch, but very rewarding for the performances.
  20. ashbury
    No, that's ペイントチキンイカ. It's a subtle language.
  21. ashbury
    Thank you. I wish I had thought of looking for empirical evidence. I even sifted through the CBA, which can be found on-line, and learned all about how players are compensated for taking part in the Home Run Derby, but not this basic detail governing the teams. And thank you to Nick, as well, for challenging the point. My read on it was shakier than I realized and I would hate, hate, hate to be spreading misinformation. OK, I did have one other source, which I was too embarrassed to reference: the game Out Of The Park lets me DL guys as soon as Spring Training starts. But they play fast and loose with various rules, so I wouldn't consider them even as definitive as Some Guy On The Internet, so I went with that.
  22. ashbury
    Oy. I hope my source is any good. I looked into the ins-and-outs of the DL a few weeks ago, and tucked that little nugget away as a useful milestone of the off-season. But now that I go back to find it, I don't know how authoritative it is. https://www.thecubreporter.com/book/export/html/3538 It's on the Internet, it must be true. That's my source. 9. A player cannot be placed on the MLB Emergency Disabled List (60-day DL) after the conclusion of the MLB regular season, and during the post-season and off-season, up until the start of Spring Training (beginning on the date that pitchers & catchers are scheduled to report). A minor league player can be placed on a minor league club's 60-day DL only during his minor league club's regular season.
  23. ashbury
    Since we're reviving the small hall - big hall debate, I'll repeat my wish that we eventually have both.
  24. ashbury
    Good list. I don't see Lamont Wade as particularly similar to Granite. Much better power bat, not enough speed to be considered a CF for a good team.
  25. ashbury
    One advantage of a February signing, though, is that the 60-day DL becomes available when pitchers and catchers report. No need to free up a 40-man roster spot, since we have at least one player who will not be healthy at the start of the season. Not that I think a team would take a risk like that. Just a thought.
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