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  1. ashbury
    The snail whee whees on the turtle. Didn't we just go over this?
  2. ashbury
    On Getaway Day, Buxton has the day off, and facing a righty I imagine the decision is pretty straightforward for the manager. We can all lament that the Out man is even on the roster, but given that he is, to not play him would amount to insubordination by the manager to his GM.
  3. ashbury
    Based on the scouting report I look at, you gotta give Arcia a shot in this race too.
  4. ashbury
    So if the draft holds to form, who do you like for #3?
  5. ashbury
    Batting 2nd his OPS this season is .201. Batting 9th his OPS this season is .317. Batting 8th his OPS this season is 1.059. I'm sure there is some logical baseball reason why Lee is Babe Ruth in the 8 slot but is helpless when batting 9th. Read your spreadsheets, Derek Shelton!
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    Opposing pitchers do have some say regarding the walks, and if he's ever at the major league level I have to wonder what happens when talented pitchers come into the strike zone more with their best stuff. I don't foresee other-worldly walk rates in the show. Do the walks turn in to base hits, or weakly struck grounders and popups, or strikeouts?
  8. ashbury
    Swell job, Outman. Striking out and losing the challenge should earn you two points toward a Golden Sombrero.
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  10. ashbury
    Stopped reading here. Thanks for the headsup.
  11. ashbury
    Cody Klemens is a mere shadow of his illustrious dad. / edit - I got a thumbs-down for misspelling Kody's name? 😀
  12. ashbury
    I don't see it. An "arm", the way Matt Bowman is an arm, sure, maybe, why not. Not an "arm" you want to plan around, or even simply dream on. Bowen is age 25 and still at AA. Putting up decent but not stellar numbers this year after pretty bad numbers in his prior two years in the Twins organization. And his 3.74 ERA this year is built on a BABIP of .204, which no major leaguer can sustain. He's a non-tender candidate this off-season IMO, unless he finds lightning in a bottle pronto. There was cash that came from Seattle to the Twins, partially offsetting the Giants salary (which the Giants partially paid to the Mariners, and the Mariners then passed along). My understanding was that the Twins received a net payroll reduction, which they applied toward signing Carlos Santana. b-r.com: January 5, 2024: Traded by the San Francisco Giants with Mitch Haniger and cash to the Seattle Mariners for Robbie Ray. January 29, 2024: Traded by the Seattle Mariners with Darren Bowen (minors), Gabriel Gonzalez (minors), Justin Topa and cash to the Minnesota Twins for Jorge Polanco.
  13. ashbury
    Look again at that photo I posted. Calling that bang-bang loosens the definition I am accustomed to, by a considerable margin. No bang, but definitely a thud half a second later. 😀 I don't actually have that much of an independent opinion on appropriateness of the play - merely that Caratini took umbrage at it, and I posted what I thought to be a pretty good illustration of what the issue centered on.
  14. ashbury
    The photo seems unambiguous on that detail. 😀
  15. ashbury
    Fair (implied) point, but I'm guessing the ball in this photo didn't arrive quite as early as the one today.
  16. ashbury
    It won't be updated until tomorrow, but b-r.com has a "team splits" page that tells you that information, and going into today's game the answer is 91 plate appearances so far with the bases loaded. That leads the majors by quite a lot - second place is the Cubs with 79. To anticipate a possible followup question, they have a .307 batting average in those situations, with sufficient walks and power to lead to an OPS of .807. (WHOLE lot better than last year's performance.)
  17. ashbury
    On a different day the runner might have made a different decision than to go in standing up and hard. 😀
  18. ashbury
    He was out by four steps, dead to rights. In the screenshot you can see a trace of white in Caratini's glove that represents the ball being secured. Not sure how Houdini himself could have come up with a slide that would tally the run. Going in standing up and hard was a Richard move that had a greater chance of injuring one of the two players than of dislodging the ball. Our guy explained that to their guy afterward, in his particular dialect of Spanish I suppose (Puerto Rican versus Venezuelan), and the two bullpens came along a bit later to express their nuanced views on the fine art of base running as well, after the chaps in the dugouts had had their say.
  19. ashbury
    Thoughtful response, until you added this strawman.
  20. ashbury
    I just got done saying I would have leaned toward leaving Rojas in too. But horrible decision? Nah. Know your players, indeed - teams commonly put limits on rookies and he'd consumed 45 pitches to get through his 3 innings of work - plus the first two batters coming up in the 9th were righties I believe so maybe that was the correct time to congratulate your lefty arm and play the percentages. If a member of the bullpen can't be trusted to get 3 outs while holding a 3 run lead, they don't belong. Bad things will still happen from time to time, but that's when you go get him and put Taylor in. Horrible? I don't usually believe in absolutes like that.
  21. ashbury
    WINNAR! We were *this* close to it all coming down to Mickey Gasper, though.
  22. ashbury
    Shutdown bullpen, this is not.
  23. ashbury
    Rojas was close to the speculated 50-pitch limit, so I guess if Shelton thinks he has himself a closer, now was the time to use him. Kind of a rocky outing, but maybe it's a learning curve, and not some kind of The Andrew Morris Experience that will go on and on and on through the season. It was a clean 8th inning so I would have been inclined to let Rojas try for the 4-inning save.
  24. ashbury
    Ride Rojas for the rest of the game, assuming he continues to get outs? What kind of pitch count limit should he be on? I would suggest 50.
  25. ashbury
    I believe there was also a perceived logjam of candidates to play second base at the time. A good trade could free up the resources and apply them to a different area of need. The trade, well intentioned from first principles, was not well executed. GG was the only legitimate hope from the very outset. I would have preferred bundling Polanco with a prospect to obtain more of a difference-maker. Very nearly a waste of a good trade chip, but maybe GG will pan out.
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