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  1. ashbury
    Shields tried to pitch him like a chump on 3-2. Good for Kennys.
  2. ashbury
    Google is persnickety like that. My search for "hottest twins" failed to reveal who had even a decent batting average, despite my devoting several hours of intensive study to the results the search returned.
  3. ashbury
    If you do a google image search for Twins Daily After Dark, make certain not to accidentally omit "Daily", or I can't vouch for what might be returned.
  4. ashbury
    He hasn't quite reached Fu Manchu, and remains stuck at porn star 'stache.
  5. ashbury
    Mind. Blown. http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/tim-and-eric-mind-blown.gif
  6. ashbury
    How in the heck did Polanco get anything at all on the ball?
  7. ashbury
    "I wish I had your powers of prognostication, kid."
  8. ashbury
    Is it just me, or is anyone else enjoying watching Buxton lately?
  9. ashbury
    Why did the chicken enter the wormhole?
  10. ashbury
    Death Before Dishonor
  11. ashbury
    I have been to Chisago City. Had a friend who made the commute from there to the Twin Cities every day - oy.
  12. ashbury
    My main takeaway from the list is that hitting double digit homers in your first season isn't too indicative.
  13. ashbury
    Touch 'em Ale, did you say?
  14. ashbury
    At such time as his power production becomes so immense that his output is harmed by taking a sure .400 BA by bunting when the infield plays back, I imagine the batting coach will have a little chat with him and get that all straightened out.
  15. ashbury
    My snap reaction to the home run outburst is to temper my enthusiasm: that pitchers around the league will adjust and we'll find out what Byron does in response. But I didn't see the homers for myself until this nice video montage. Three different pitches: a somewhat hanging curve in the middle, a pitch away, and a pitch low and inside. I guess pitchers can try high-and-tight and high-and-away, but it's not like he's currently feasting on just one thing. Whereas, just a little while ago, he was punishing pitchers who pitched him consistently low and away, by poking the ball down to RF for potential triples. And before that, he was consistently getting himself out on those same pitches low and away. No, this looks like a qualitative change in our young hitter - an easy flexibility - and probably reflects some good conversations with hitting coach Rowson. I'm easily impressed, but impressed I still confess to being.
  16. ashbury
    A little interestingly, Pressly is the team leader in inherited runners, i.e. the opportunities. His percentage of those runners scoring (31%) isn't too wonderful, but with that many opportunities the failures are really going to stand out in people's minds, moreso than someone like Kintzler (an even worse 37.5% on 8 such "chances") who isn't brought in as a fireman too often.
  17. ashbury
    I couldn't put my hands on Inherited Runners with a quick search. But situational numbers exist. Baseball-reference.com has splits for everyone, and you can see Pressly's here: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.fcgi?id=pressry01&year=2017&t=p I like opponents' OPS for relievers more than things like ERA. Pressly's for the season is .721, which would seem OK - league-average or thereabout. However, his baserunner splits are astounding. Bases empty, opponents manage only .490 against him, built on a .165 batting average. However if anyone is on base, opponents OPS a Ruthian 1.017 against him. You are definitely onto something there, this year. Still, splitting the stats for relievers mean dealing with small sample sizes. In years past, this pattern hasn't been in evidence for Pressly. Indeed in 2014, it was exactly the opposite - every batter became Mike Trout when the bases were empty, batters turned into Stuart Turner once someone else got on base. So I don't really know for sure what to make of it all. Baseball's a funny game. But I sure wouldn't put Pressly at the top of my list of options when the bases are occupied, until he gave me new reason to trust him better.
  18. ashbury
    I vote Wells. If degree of difficulty is included then Littell since he's at AA, but in that case the AAA or AA guy would win almost every day.
  19. ashbury
    Mod note: OK, there's starting to be some piling on versus the poster who remains skeptical about Gonsalves. I ask for some restraint here. Of course, the responses were not totally surprising given the over-the-top tone of the lengthy sequence of skeptical posts, so that needs some toning down too. Kthanks.* * Shamelessly stolen from Chief.
  20. ashbury
    Exactly. Just like Mom used to make for us.
  21. ashbury
    It was not. 13-3 in favor of the visiting Orioles. The Red Sox had more errors (5) than runs, and for a while more errors than hits (6). The O's failed to cover themselves in glory, by committing 3 errors of their own, but they just banged out hit after hit against a defenseless* Porcello. On the plus side, the Sox fans were in a party mood on a beautiful summer night in Boston, and Sweet Caroline has as much poignancy when the home team is far behind in the eighth inning as when they're ahead. * Pick either meaning you want, the pitcher himself or his supporting cast.
  22. ashbury
    I wondered if someone would play up the umpire angle of the phrase.
  23. ashbury
    Looks like sampleSize is workin' blue tonight. In other news, I will be seeing my new avatar-sake Buck Showalter in person tonight at Fenway. I think I have no particular rooting interest, and just ask for a good game.
  24. ashbury
    It is a shame that Mrs Riverbrian isn't given a spot on the TD Op-Ed page to share her perspective every now and again.
  25. ashbury
    It's not, and I am done repeating myself.
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