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  1. ashbury
    To be an innings eater you first have to be able to get out of the fourth inning against major league hitters on a consistent basis. Is Haley that guy?
  2. ashbury
    Is the latter a crime, or a punishment? The lines blur.
  3. ashbury
    <BYTO in-joke> / not having been a part of that scene, I can't dial one up at the moment
  4. ashbury
    Congratulations and best wishes for many more birthdays! http://www.rgbstock.com/cache1nu5gs/users/b/ba/ba1969/300/meMDlyQ.jpg
  5. ashbury
    As a Netflix virgin, I feel confident in saying that such behavior in others is morally reprehensible and deserves social ostracization. A scarlet 'N', perhaps?
  6. ashbury
    March 20-27 for me.
  7. ashbury
    Because Pittsburgh said, "that's our offer, take it or leave it," and the Twins took it in preference to losing the player for nothing? / edit - ninja'd by Mr Brooks
  8. ashbury
    Fair enough. They'll use the spring to separate the wheat from the chaff. / and then keep the chaff. Ba-dum-tssschhh.
  9. ashbury
    You mean crowded like when a dozen pitchers shag flies during batting practice? Because, these two signings will have just about the same impact on the parent team. Necessary organizational filler; Romanski could be a fun feel-good story for spring.
  10. ashbury
    I think his 1000 PA (or whatever) rule of thumb was cautionary: if someone starts his career hot, don't get too excited until things run their course. I don't think he advocated the other direction, of giving every prospect his 1000 PA, fair and square.
  11. ashbury
    Is the eleven-man pitching staff even a thing, anymore?
  12. ashbury
    You're talking about for 2017? I don't see his bat as being ready for MLB. He'd be doing well to OPS above .600.
  13. ashbury
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_transactions#Waivers I think it's only 3 days. The business about 7 is the obscure case where a team might DFA but not waive the player right away: since DFA has to be concluded within 10 days, they can't delay starting the waiver process for longer than 7 of those days.
  14. ashbury
    b-r.com gives AY-ray AY-dree-an-zuh
  15. ashbury
    Something they were counting on in a subsequent pick didn't occur, and a trade opportunity fell through.
  16. ashbury
    Myjah's analysis, on TwinkieTown: "Why didn’t the Twins just pick Haley first, if that’s what they eventually ended up with? It’s a fair question, but one that probably makes more sense with 20/20 hindsight. The Twins could have originally planned to do something else, but the way the picks fell, that plan didn’t pan out. We really don’t know the full story." http://www.twinkietown.com/2016/12/8/13882710/twins-get-pitcher-justin-haley-lose-catcher-stuart-turner-in-rule-5-draft
  17. ashbury
    Fixing grammar in a Riverbrian post is like repositioning the nose to be between the eyes in a Picasso portrait.
  18. ashbury
    The back fields will not feel the same.
  19. ashbury
    Backing up an earlier comment, I'm not sure there is even such an official entity during an offseason.
  20. ashbury
    Like, Ron Paul says to buy gold. I think I saw an ad about that somewhere.
  21. ashbury
    Despite my request not to threadjack the intent of the original post, a couple of additional posts debating SDI have occurred. I have moved them to a brand new thread, in the Other Baseball forum: http://twinsdaily.com/topic/24669-sabr-defensive-index/ Please take any additional disputation of the Index itself there.
  22. ashbury
    Komrade Molotov was partial to gasoline. Left a hell of a hangover, of course.
  23. ashbury
    This is a misanalysis. In particular, it misstates how a blend of numbers usually works. If a vintner blends several very different wines together, ones that have little in common except that each of them has an alcohol content of about 8-16%, the fact that they share this common feature does not mean that the resulting blend has its alcoholic content "inflated into the stratosphere". Are you claiming that any of the components of SDI is like blending Everclear into a wine batch, with regard to Errors? We are long past the days where Fielding Percentage, basically an inverse measure of Error frequency, is how anyone seriously judges fielders. Range, and the deficiencies of the Error stat itself, are among the reasons to move beyond. No serious analyst places Errors higher than, probably, the 12% level of the wine example above. But that is not the same as saying Errors, as noted by Official Scorers, are without meaning. It is not remarkable if people who have independently studied the question of fielding come to an independent conclusion that Errors need to figure into a defensive rating. With that rebuttal to this tangential swipe, I'd like to suggest taking discussion of the merits of any stats (WAR is another one that disrupts threads) to a separate thread, if you feel so moved.
  24. ashbury
    Nick Punto = Fred Hoiberg
  25. ashbury
    Backup-DH. That's how you list him first. Roster spots are too precious for that. Your defense of him is how I indict him.
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