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  1. ashbury
    Yes, very impressive.
  2. ashbury
    He's the kind of hitter you don't give up on, IMO, until he's had absolutely every opportunity. The ability to really punish a pitch when it's where and how you want it isn't there for just everybody. I remember at Spring Training a couple of years ago, I arrived at the back field to see someone power a ball over the right field fence. "That's Murphy, right?", I asked one of the young men in a Twins uniform on the aluminum bleachers, to confirm what I thought without a roster sheet in hand. "Yeah. He can hit," the guy said in genuine admiration. The players know. That doesn't guarantee success of course; there are a lot of Max Murphys out there, and most still don't make it. Age 24 in high-A isn't good, but still they should stick with him.
  3. ashbury
    Chief? Paging Mister Chief...
  4. ashbury
    You would not have misjudged him.
  5. ashbury
    If you liked that then click this. Click again to enlarge for glorious detail, if you just can't get enough. / sorry, ChiTown - this is Art / / waiting for Chief to say it doesn't look like any Art he's ever met
  6. ashbury
    Like a Reubens painting.
  7. ashbury
    That's the pattern after you're getting pwned for a while. We saw it with Hicks his rookie year. The pitchers immediately stop throwing strikes, because you're getting yourself out. You correct that part, and you get a boatload of walks for a while. Then they start throwing strikes again, and the interesting part begins...
  8. ashbury
    Si. Gracias. Las Chiapanecas. / which Google Translate helpfully renders as The Chiapas
  9. ashbury
    My bad. The one with seven notes then two hand claps. CCEGECB - AG. Fragment from Cielto Lindo? Or, what?
  10. ashbury
    Didn't have to attend hockey games to hear that. The Mexican Hat Dance at Twins games frequently turned into an impromptu rendition of those lyrics.
  11. ashbury
    I like their bold use of color in their attire. Blue, I would say.
  12. ashbury
    The witness protection people, or whoever, later changed his last name to Sucks as a precaution.
  13. ashbury
    SABR has done study after study debunking the notion by old-time scouts and others that certain batters have the innate ability to will the ball out of the park after it leaves the bat. Yogi Berra started that unfortunate idea when he said, "How can you think and hit at the same time? You have to start the thinking part after you hit it." It just ain't true, sorry. It's the muscles.
  14. ashbury
    Why stop there? He could turn out as good as Bobby's son.
  15. ashbury
    He's not Randy Johnson but he's not just a tall junkballer either. What I jotted down during Spring Training and then included in my Adopt-A-Prospect page for Aaron: "I saw 94 on the radar gun during the one Spring game of his I watched, or 91 at times (maybe a sinker?). Off-speed at 86 but I don't know if he has anything really slow in his arsenal." I mentioned also that when I watched him, some batters were having a difficult time getting a read on his pitches, with multiple hesitant check-swings.
  16. ashbury
    Too often writers use a watered-down version of "struck out the side". The pitcher can give up a double, and later walk a guy, but as long as all three outs are shown as 'K' in the scoresheet, he struck out the side. Not so, in this case. Three up. Three down. And, even better, all three were of the swinging variety on strike three. No Anthony Slama Syndrome here. Now I wanna see the scoresheet, to know how many pitches that inning.
  17. ashbury
    I have in the meantime gotten my bifocals fixed. It turned out that Polanco was throwing the ball straight and true to the first baseman the whole time.
  18. ashbury
    As I've said probably too often by now, I based my worry on personal observation at the back fields at spring training a couple years ago. He was scattering or short-hopping routine throws as often as making accurate ones. I was not optimistic he could improve by now - my concern was that his arm strength might have maxed out that that point. I am glad to see he has indeed improved - he's making major league plays, not merely routine ones. (BTW I am sure I, as just some guy on the Internet, am not the "original source" for anything whatsoever.) And conversely, the mistakes Sano makes look correctable with experience, while his ability to come in on a slow roller and fire to first always told me he has all the tools needed to succeed. Improvement comes down to his commitment to work at it, which so far this year looks promising. He may not achieve complete reliability in time before his weight becomes the deciding factor some year, so that's the other worry for me.
  19. ashbury
    Do we know which coach(es) worked with Polanco and Sano on their defense? Teams identify pitching coaches and batting coaches, but seemingly leave defense to whoever has a spare moment during workouts. I know that's not really the case. Molitor was a middle infielder, so has it been him?
  20. ashbury
    This brings Palacios's career low-A OPS to somewhere around .667.
  21. ashbury
    Too Soon.
  22. ashbury
    And whatever you do, don't mention the War!
  23. ashbury
    Lefty on the mound, I presume? The choices are few, with this gargantuan bullpen.
  24. ashbury
    There's been a general uptick in questioning of one another's motives recently. I'd like to ask everyone to dial that aspect back, even if intended humorously.
  25. ashbury
    Can he try three seams and split the difference? (There's a kernel of a serious question in there, but I don't know enough of the fundamentals to ask it correctly.)
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