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  1. ashbury
    I watched the first half of the episode that was on last night after the game, before being called away to other matters - was that a rerun of the pilot, or the second episode? It had the dude sitting on an egg. I loved Family Guy, was meh about the teddy bear movie, but this is so strained. I can't see this show lasting another month, but I am usually wrong about episodic TV.
  2. ashbury
    Ballplayers without a paunch, or downright beerbelly for that matter? I'm with ya.
  3. ashbury
    Concur. That is gen-you-wine authentic Molly Hatchet fan behavior. PS. That was the band that began the groundswell to fire Paul Molitor.
  4. ashbury
    If the GM sees this train headed toward us, the way off of the tracks is a couple of trades that net us "anything" instead of "nothing". The benefit to the team acquiring the prospect is no need to actually keep the prospect on their 25-man all year. That's worth something, if only as a sweetener to a larger trade. Hey, we suddenly have several Brian Duensings!
  5. ashbury
    This is obviously true, and someone posting an essay on probabilities or scenarios doesn't deny it. So I'm not sure what you are trying to get across in the context of this topic.
  6. ashbury
    Niekro plus Carlton together probably add up to Grandpa Bartolo. He's no Einstein, that's for sure. Albert got "i before e" wrong, TWICE. Some genius.
  7. ashbury
    He's the new Les Straker.
  8. ashbury
    With this many runs scored tonight, it's not just chicken dinnah, it's chicken extravaganza!
  9. ashbury
    Annnnnnd.... I was wrong. Welcome to the Bigs, Gabriel Moya!
  10. ashbury
    How many of the hitless guys get DFAed tonight?
  11. ashbury
    I will be surprised. My memory is that Molitor likes to ease rookies into the major league environment. With expanded rosters, there is no rush to provide respite for the rest of the bullpen, and I expect Moya will be allowed to look around his new environment for a couple days before being asked to take part. They keep track of these things, so someone can and probably will check whether I'm just imagining things. But I think Granite for instance was handled this way.
  12. ashbury
    Guess you're not watching the game tonight. It's gonna be this way the rest of the season - a homer in every inning!
  13. ashbury
    Moderator's note: Threads that touch on non-player personnel have a tendency to spiral into a broad narrative on the state of the front office or the franchise in general. Please, we've gone about far enough down that rabbit hole for this thread. The topic raised here was Molitor's lame-duck status. The purpose is not to squelch opinions or discussion; but start a new thread if you really feel compelled to launch a big-picture retrospective.
  14. ashbury
    Mauer has been a revelation, and has come of age as a first baseman this season. He has saved many runs. He has the numbers and he also passes the eye-test. Still, there are other good fielders in the league at that position and I doubt that voters will see Joe as a hands-down winner. Guys like Carlos Santana, who don't necessarily look the part, have highlight reels of their own that demonstrate they are not immobile statues waiting for easy chest-high lobs from the infielders. They have numbers and pass eye-tests too. Personally I would need to do a lot more watching of other teams before handing the crown to Joe. Buxton is a different story entirely. An easy nod.
  15. ashbury
    I wouldn't want to give too much tiebreaker weight to this, or the AAA guy would win every day, even giving up 7 runs in 2+ innings.
  16. ashbury
    This would potentially have been a good title.
  17. ashbury
    Mike, just to pile on, your Messenger inbox appears to be full. You might want to clear out some space.
  18. ashbury
    Blame arcane MLB roster rules, created in negotiation with the players' union. Veterans have more negotiating power than the young guys who lack seniority. When facing a choice among several non-surefire alternatives, teams will invariably try out the alternatives that they would otherwise lose via waiver claim, opt-out contracts, etc, and wait on the players over whom they have absolute control.
  19. ashbury
    They keep track of things like this. The Twins' situational stats this year are in line with the rest of the league. https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/split.cgi?t=b&lg=AL&year=2017#all_bases https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/split.cgi?t=b&team=MIN&year=2017#all_bases It says there that, for the season, the Twins are hitting .317 with one out and men on first and third, the situation in question here. It's small sample size territory, but it doesn't stand out as a problem.
  20. ashbury
    It took me more searching than I anticipated, so to save others the trouble, go to this URL: https://www.americanassociationbaseball.tv/event/1157/st-paul-saints-vs-winnipeg-goldeyes Get to about the 53-minute mark and then watch the routine throw home after a routine base hit. The throw reaches the plate quite high and the catcher is in a vulnerable position trying to reach it. All looks normal, until the very end when the runner coming in to score looks more interested in initiating contact than in hook-sliding into the plate. The ball's high, the runner surely wants to go low, and yet didn't. I don't like that aspect of the play at all. If I'm the ump I find an excuse to eject the runner. (That's probably why the job offers aren't pouring in.) But I guess you're asking why the runner is safe, and like you I need a qualified ump to parse that one. I call the runner out, FWIW. But the ump was looking, looking, looking at something at the very end of the play, so he was watching for something that evidently hadn't occurred yet - the catcher tagged the runner not once but twice and so I don't think it was a matter of dropping the ball or not. Something else was going on there. A tag to the helmet is a legal tag, right? It must be a call on the catcher blocking without the ball, and the ump was simply waiting for the runner to touch the plate; but with interference isn't the base automatically awarded? Next contestant, with your guess?
  21. ashbury
    As a general principle, TD has always encouraged cross-pollination among baseball writers on the Internet. I can not imagine today's blog entry from Brandon being any kind of exception; as usual, significant content is provided, along with the invitation to come explore further. What would not be acceptable is a simple "come visit my site" post.
  22. ashbury
    It's normal to have regression when the Pythag and the actual W/L are that seriously out of whack. The run scoring has now come along to approximately match the W/L record. As expected. That is how it works, right?
  23. ashbury
    Not at this website, we don't. http://dxuoddg10rgxw.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/17023346/scoff.jpg
  24. ashbury
    A healthy Byron Buxton is beer?
  25. ashbury
    Yes, and the good news is that .500 BABIP looks sustainable.
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