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  1. ashbury
    Revisiting this... I'd like to submit it for consideration as Post Of The Game.
  2. ashbury
    KEP-ler! I'm out of things to say.
  3. ashbury
    ISWYDT.
  4. ashbury
    Buxton Would Have Had That One. TM
  5. ashbury
    This puts in a nutshell an important principle. The signing of Nolasco (and ESan) was a reflection of the failure of the farm system to produce starters. In a better world, we develop the Nolascos (along with hopefully better outcomes)ourselves and get their young cheap years, and we dispose of them in one manner or another before they get expensive. Teams that are sellers at the deadline should be acquiring young talent, and improving flexibility for the coming season. Flexibility comes in multiple ways - salary size, contract length, 40-man congestion, positional oversupply, players exhausting their minor league options or arb years. Talentwise, this deal involves a risk regarding Meyer but otherwise is close to a wash, and salarywise likewise; but it does add some flexibility and for that reason looks like a good thing.
  6. ashbury
    <geek>Yes, upon further reflection I think it could wind up like a real-time demonstration of Zeno's Paradox.</geek>
  7. ashbury
    If Molitor were to let it approach that point, he should be fired on the spot. I'm all for letting JO work things out at the MLB level, but within reason.
  8. ashbury
    PLONK comes through!
  9. ashbury
    I forget what else I saw from him the other day, but he seems to be a ballplayer.
  10. ashbury
    Hrbek. 2016 Hrbek.
  11. ashbury
    Each night I pray there will never come a day When you up and take your game away Say you feel the same way too And I wonder what It is I feel for ...Der Kid (Could it be I'm falling in love) With you (Could it be I'm falling in love) Woo
  12. ashbury
    Looking like you may have to be satisfied with the latter.
  13. ashbury
    You didn't enjoy the top of the inning?
  14. ashbury
    Anti-jinx serum, STAT!
  15. ashbury
    Some of Berrios's pitches are so good, but he loses command here and there.
  16. ashbury
    If he wasn't your daughter, you'd be dating him, you're saying?
  17. ashbury
    Buxton Would Have Had That One. TM
  18. ashbury
    You're not going to get very much for two months of a pitcher like Abad. It's the kind of trade I would do too, but it's also kind of a minor move in the great scheme of things. Close to inconsequential. Looking more broadly, I am bothered by the strategy of signing a bunch of guys to minor league contracts, get a couple to perform well at the major league level, and trade one for a bullpen prospect with some warts. It's a lot of roster space invested for the convenience of the top teams to pick and choose. I am thoroughly sick of playing the role of the bottom feeder.
  19. ashbury
    I approve of the trade, simply on the grounds of never seeing posts like these anymore.
  20. ashbury
    This guy? http://www.bizpacreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/krauthammer_640.jpg I kind of have to agree.
  21. ashbury
    If I'm the Pirates he's pretty much untouchable. So yeah, Rob, add to Santana what it takes to get the guy (not including our own untouchables ) and I'll be impressed. BTW, and maybe this has already been mentioned, one thing I like about Mejia is that the numbers he has put up in AAA are in the higher-offense PCL. A 4 ERA in the International League wouldn't have been too much to brag about. OTOH, a quick scan of his game log shows only Reno and maybe Vegas as a park he's pitched in that really elevates offense, to the best of my recollection. He pitched against El Paso but that was at home, which is basically sea level. He got pounded twice in his first three games, but in the next four has been good enough to pin some hopes on.
  22. ashbury
    If their contracts were remotely similar, probably a lot more.
  23. ashbury
    This sums it up for me, and many of the presumed pieces for the future are already in place. They should play. If they do well, the 2016 team will win some games. Maybe not at a .500 pace, but not bad enough to accomplish tanking. If they do badly, this team has worse troubles than a slightly higher draft pick next June can fix.
  24. ashbury
    You're right. I left out "Hands Down".
  25. ashbury
    FTFY.
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