Jump to content
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

ashbury

Verified Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    40,794

  • 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
    Meet the new Jim Hoey. Same as the old Jim Hoey.
  2. ashbury
    Dunno. Still got your spleen?
  3. ashbury
    Listening to the radio broadcast overlaying the video. "Hit in the air, left center field, Grossman will never get it in a million years..." I like their brutal honesty.
  4. ashbury
    You mean:http://www.sticktwiddlers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/dwight-the-office-false-meme.png
  5. ashbury
    Suzuki's got quite the cannon. Maybe he missed his true calling as a right fielder?
  6. ashbury
    I know, but it's a lot easier to post a GIF than to think up something funny to write.
  7. ashbury
    So, keep Dozier, and install Polanco as our starting SS for 2017? Who's with me?
  8. ashbury
    This is somewhat akin to saying that between Methuselah and Honey Boo Boo, there's quite a bit of experience there.
  9. ashbury
    The job title ain't what's gonna matter. It's the vision of the new guy.
  10. ashbury
    I'm kinda partial to Mila Kunis style.
  11. ashbury
    Kevin Slowey was Framed!
  12. ashbury
    That one's gonna get walked back, I'm pretty sure. It depends of course on the timing of hiring the new guy in the big chair. If it's too late in the off-season, it may be expedient to keep Molitor for another season rather than shop the remainder bins.
  13. ashbury
    Baby steps. Baby steps.
  14. ashbury
    I agree completely. The first order of business is to determine the high-end guys the team wants to go after, and which few of those are realistically possible to acquire. Then a package to offer can be constructed. It's just that with the arrival of Polanco, it seems that Dozier is likely the best trade chip we have. So we kind of cut to the chase, since (as you note) it's the easy part.
  15. ashbury
    I'm just intrigued by the phrase "Palka Power Caps" from the subject line. Sounds a product Daniel will endorse if he makes it to the big show.
  16. ashbury
    Maybe they see him as better than a Danny Santana type. Your last sentence is the key. Assuming Polanco continues to hit in September, his 2B play at AAA will seem less odd if Dozier is traded. Not trading Dozier is the move I will consider odd, at this point.
  17. ashbury
    I have a hard time seeing him drawing much trade interest at $8M. But, one way to find out is to shop him hard in advance of arbitration, after the World Series. If you find an offer of a meaningful prospect, great, take it; the new team can do the arbitration dance. If you don't, cut ties before arb. It's a tough business, but Hector will still land on his feet somewhere, just not at the price he no doubt is hoping for.
  18. ashbury
    It's cost neutral, but I think this misrepresents what the trade accomplished. Ricky Nolasco would have cost the Twins the money in 2017 whether they released him or not. Santiago's money comes off the books if they non-tender him, and that money could be combined with other freed-up money for a nice pot to work with in the coming off-season, if they so choose.
  19. ashbury
    Maybe there's a little of that, but mostly we have different people posting differing theories to explain a perceived lack of results. Let's not turn this into bickering by telling people they are posting wrong. Address specific posts with specific rebuttals, if you wish. I guess this has turned into a Moderator's Note when it didn't start out as one.
  20. ashbury
    He's gotten a home run in his most recent six-game stint in Rochester, also a double, so in small sample size he's more or less on track for power. I don't know quite where you are inferring that. If he's slapping most of the time, and happens to connect the few times he ever really cuts loose, well, that's a remarkable talent and it should indeed get exploited better.
  21. ashbury
    Reyes the 21-year old (22nd birthday in less than 2 weeks) has sported strikeout rates above one per inning all through the minors. They've moved him up rapidly, but nothing super-aggressive given his success. The one lesson, maybe, is at AAA his ERA ain't all that good (PCL tends to run hot), yet they deemed him ready and brought him up. Weaver the 22-year old (23rd birthday next week - detect a pattern?) likewise had mostly 9+ K/9 rates except for an anomalous high-A stint. They've let him basically skip AAA, so this will be very interesting to watch play out. Tuivailala the 23-year old (October baby) has taken slightly longer to reach the majors, also being a strikeout per inning guy essentially every year. He shares with Reyes some mediocre AAA numbers and a call-up to the majors anyway. He's back at AAA now. Mayers the gray-beard 24-year old (December) has less of a K/9 pedigree and this probably explains why it took him this "long" to get a call-up. He's back in AAA too. There's probably something to be learned from their promotion policy for pitching prospects, but more to be learned about getting the performance out of them, or picking wisely. Or maybe if our guys had to pitch in Reno and Salt Lake, our front office would be looking to rescue them from AAA too.
  22. ashbury
    I remember watching at the back fields during Spring Training a couple years ago, seeing him launch a home run during a single-A game. The players have numbers but not names on their jerseys, and I didn't have a sheet. I asked one of the young players, seated next to me in those low metal stands, if that was Max. Yeah, the teammate said, and added without prompting, he can hit. Oh that understated baseball terminology.
  23. ashbury
    If that's the only way to break through the impasse, OK, I guess. But assuming it works, this method won't work in the future, during some pennant race where he finds himself in a slump and isn't picking up the breaking ball in the dirt or whatever. Far preferable would be to execute the cliched Battle His Tail Off maneuver. But hitting coaching is as much psychology as skill-teaching, so good luck to Chad Allen in finding the key here.
  24. ashbury
    This is close to a nitpick, but I'm genuinely curious. B-r.com lists him as 6'3" and 195 lbs. That's not exactly beanpole thin, but it doesn't stand out as anything more than typical. OTOH the photo they have for him looks like the weight could be an underestimate. Any additional insight? Also, as far as durability goes, he did seem to miss some time in 2015. Do we know what that was about? I will not question his left-handedness. You're welcome. Wheeler has never pitched an inning from the bullpen in the minor leagues. If the team doesn't see him as better than marginal, I don't understand why he hasn't gotten experience in the only role he's likely to see in the majors. I trust the scouting eyes that say he lacks impact potential, but his minor league progression says to me he's going to play in the majors eventually, so it might as well be for us, otherwise why are we stringing him along?
  25. ashbury
    40 runs in 6 games if I added correctly. Oy. Those of us who can't scout in person (or lack the skill anyway ) and have to go by box scores don't have enough to feel good about on the pitching side of the ledger this morning. Yay Brady Anderson at least - I don't remember anything about him - was he an undrafted free agent coming out of college? Oh, and Nick Greenwood. I can't remember if I've mentioned him before. I saw him pitch in Pawtucket a few weeks ago. He grew up not too far away in Connecticut, and I happened to sit next to a high school teacher of his, who apparently thinks enough of the young man to continue following his career and watch in person. I could not tease out of him any dirt from the pitcher's school days.
×
×
  • Create New...