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  1. ashbury
    ... will wind up in your court as well. Accept it.
  2. ashbury
    True, but this ignores the larger number of absolutely, positively should have been an outs that aren't called errors. Unless there is absolute consistency among scorers (which the scorers will of course say there is), you are judging players by a minority of plays that are categorized arbitrarily. It's a bit akin to defending Byron Buxton by showing the future stars who got off to rough starts, while ignoring the larger number of guys who got off to rough starts and stayed rough forever.
  3. ashbury
    Even better played Sir.
  4. ashbury
    For all the complaining about how Official Scorers don't call things correctly, we all sure put a lot of stock in the stats they produce.
  5. ashbury
    Well played Sir.
  6. ashbury
    Yes to that as well.
  7. ashbury
    Ervin Santana likewise.
  8. ashbury
    Concur.
  9. ashbury
    Recognizing breaking pitches in the dirt is a matter of courage and/or manhood?
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  11. ashbury
    True story. I'm gonna blame the TD software that, when I clicked to see unread messages in this thread, I was taken instead to the most recent post and I missed Jack's post and everything else that came last night. Sorry for injecting doubt. True story.
  12. ashbury
    He's always been a little old for his leagues. I imagine what holds them back from promoting him has been the walks. But this is a case to go ahead and promote him, with the message "you look like you've been avoiding batters you're afraid of, so let's see you learn against a far better caliber of batter throughout the lineup, where you can't just walk everyone" - like at AA. He turned 24 the other day. At the current rate, if he eventually stumbles one year like most prospects do, he'll be practically 30 before he sees the majors. Make or break time.
  13. ashbury
    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ / obligatory
  14. ashbury
    This has been a great Inside Baseball discussion. But, is there any chance it's been based on mistaken information? Where did we get that Albers was DFA'ed? I think it started with this two word tweet from Berardino - "Albers designated". What if he misunderstood, and/or used a shorthand he didn't think would get parsed so literally? https://twitter.com/MikeBerardino/status/764313276528418820
  15. ashbury
    In his past four games Kepler is 3 for 16 with no power and no walks, for an OPS of .375 which is worse than Buxton's. Patience might or might not work in the direction we want.
  16. ashbury
    Then you are saying keep him, because no team is going to give up that much for a second baseman. They'll just convert a failed shortstop whose bat plays. Like our team did.
  17. ashbury
    I support trying to convince a rival team of this point of view, independent of any particular trade, since the "and if nothing else, he can DH" mindset explains a lot about how we wound up with the defensively challenged 40-man rosters we've had the past few seasons.
  18. ashbury
    I looked up the game log. 3 strikeouts, 1 hit, in one inning of work in Arizona rookie league. But.... look closer: AZL Giants Bottom of the 1st Mikey Edie reaches on a fielding error by first baseman Gabriel Santana. Jose Layer singles on a ground ball to right fielder John Schuknecht. Mikey Edie to 2nd. With Nick Hill batting, passed ball by Keinner Pina, Mikey Edie to 3rd. Jose Layer to 2nd. Nick Hill strikes out swinging. Sandro Fabian strikes out swinging, catcher Keinner Pina to first baseman Gabriel Santana. Michael Bernal called out on strikes. Oy.
  19. ashbury
    I agree. The key is that the only baserunner is now arriving at 3rd. Although the throw to first is easy, and the throw back to the plate is not a big deal if that runner decides to gamble, I personally want the ball as close to the plate as possible. The mistake Eades made was paying too much attention to the runner; he's got all the time in the world to get the ball to the catcher if he needs to.
  20. ashbury
    The team needed help in all parts of the pitching staff. A starter is more valuable than a reliever, and IMO May had not pitched himself out of a starting job, and had earned a chance to continue to develop in that role. It's true that a five-inning starter is not ideal, if that's indeed how he was viewed at the time. Five innings from a starter is still more valuable than four innings from your long man, or one inning if you tell him to go max effort. And there's still the chance to grow into the job and complete six or seven eventually. There's always time to convert him to a max-effort guy later, if the starting role becomes closed.
  21. ashbury
    You may have a career in front of you in the glamorous field of Fact Checking!
  22. ashbury
    May started his major league career with a succession of absolutely rotten games, then somewhat straightened himself out, with one more absolute clunker in 2014 buried among 5 otherwise decent-to-impressive games. He began 2015 with a rotten game too, and had two more of that caliber among his 16 starts, the rest being again decent to strong. I took a look at some AL starters who were in their age-25 seasons in 2015. Danny Salazar, Jake Odorizzi, Sonny Gray, Mike Montgomery, Jesse Hahn. All were more successful in terms of their overall stats as starters than May. I scanned the "Game Score" column at bb-ref.com to get a feel for their seasons. The qualitative takeaway I got was that, like Trevor May, their seasons were sprinkled with stinker games now and then - even Saint Sonny had a few games where he couldn't stop the hitters. The difference was that they weren't yanked from the rotation. No two pitchers are alike. Pitchers aren't even necessarily the same pitcher a couple years later, due to changes wrought by the stress of being a major league pitcher, and I'm worried May is now not the pitcher we thought we had. I don't claim to know what career trajectory May would be on now, had he remained in the rotation. What I wish was... we had found out. It seems to me the braintrust hit the panic button on him.
  23. ashbury
    My vote is Turner. It's hitter of the day and not runner of the day, so Granite's 2 triples equate to Turner's 2 doubles, while Turner consumed fewer outs having a walk instead. And in a 10-1 rout, Weil's 5 singles somehow turned into only 1 run and 0 RBI. So I'll take Turner's day, TYVM.
  24. ashbury
    That was my profession during the Vietnam war.
  25. ashbury
    Speak for yourself. Personally, I hate the competition.
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