Jump to content
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

ashbury

Verified Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    40,784

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    462

 Content Type 

Profiles

News

Minnesota Twins Videos

2026 Minnesota Twins Top Prospects Ranking

2022 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

Minnesota Twins Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2023 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

The Minnesota Twins Players Project

2024 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

2025 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by ashbury

  1. ashbury
    "You probably wouldn't react well to knowing the real situation if you knew it." I think that's how that goes.
  2. ashbury
    Depressing that this was the high-water mark for what felt like should have been something more.
  3. ashbury
    They say PoTayTo, you say PoTahTo.
  4. ashbury
    By any other name...
  5. ashbury
    Issuing a walk now qualifies as a clean inning?
  6. ashbury
    If you prefer old school for what sets the good batters apart then let's discuss Triple Crown numbers. BA/HR/RBI. Nothing new under the sun. We're expressing the ideas a little differently nowadays, is all.
  7. ashbury
    Well, Ryan and Lopez were acquired via trade in the first place. Unless you believe recently departed Thad Levine was the keeper of that secret sauce.
  8. ashbury
    That would at least intrigue me into another road trip. 😀
  9. ashbury
    Trading the high salaries makes sense. The Pohlads need to right-size their pockets.
  10. ashbury
    What did you say that was nice about the 7-0 lead up to that point?
  11. ashbury
    72 and 58 could be the difference between fans with no paper bags on heads, and fewer fans, some with paper bags on heads. No one's striving for mediocrity. That's a strawman argument. Now, incompetence, perhaps that is a topic that's on the table. 😀
  12. ashbury
    Ah, you caught my bit of Swiftian satire. .... aaaand, there it is.
  13. ashbury
    I'm waiting for the meltdown before commenting on this game.
  14. ashbury
    You're touching on the reason it was ill-advised to sign a pitcher named Genesis. You remember the first words in the Bible: "In the big inning..."
  15. ashbury
    I think the problem is gambling on human competition (this includes horse racing and I'm sure others). If it's a test of skill, such as poker, or mere chance, such as roulette, the opportunity for corruption of the human spirit is much less.
  16. ashbury
  17. ashbury
    What budding All-Stars do you expect them to be replaced with?
  18. ashbury
  19. ashbury
    I looked for a meme involving three rhinoceroses Latin-dancing, but came up empty. Perhaps I mis-read.
  20. ashbury
    Fine. We can talk about Runs. This year Luis Arraez has scored 53 of 'em. He's driven in 49. In fewer plate appearances (480 to Luis's 567), Trevor Larnach's numbers are 54 and 53, respectively. Is anyone really lobbying for another Larnach in the Twins batting order? In slightly fewer plate appearance still (455), Carlos Santana racked up 49 and 52, and he just got released, despite reputedly being better with the glove than either of these two.
  21. ashbury
    Clickbait article. Not happening.
  22. ashbury
    WPA shouldn't be compared directly to WAR. WAR's baseline is a mythical AAAA player you can acquire for peanuts. WPA's baseline is, more or less, a .500 winning percentage, and thus a mythical average major league player. If you want to compare WPA, compare it to WAA, which is Wins Above Average and is derived from WAR. Of course most versions of WAA (and WAR) taken into account defensive stats while WPA is just situational batting, so a player whose WAR is significantly aided by his defense numbers will have a WPA that looks bad, on average. I don't even want to get into the discussion of whether any of these aggregate stats are good. But let's not compare apples to oranges.
  23. ashbury
    So who is doing that? I haven't noticed it.
  24. ashbury
    Larnach and Wallner fill the same role. That role is left-handed corner outfielder. You can have only so many of these on your roster. Sure, if two candidates both prove capable defensively and can produce offense against righty and lefty pitchers alike, then there is ample room for them both. Left-handed batters are always valued. But when there are deficiencies, well, the two guys with similar profiles are always going to be a bit of an odd match on your roster. Players can go about their jobs in different ways, as Larnach and Wallner do, and still face this. So it's natural that they are thought of together. If Wallner is proving to be the better hitter and (slightly?) better outfielder, and Larnach in particular remains helpless against left-handed pitchers, then Larnach's the one who has to go.
  25. ashbury
    I tried to tell everyone before the season that the Twins bullpen would be a liability, not a strength. But nobody would listen.
×
×
  • Create New...