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  1. ashbury
    Does she call you Maurice?
  2. ashbury
    BUXTON!!!! Not a HR, but just about as good.
  3. ashbury
    Is Mauer running OK? He looked a little gimpy coming home on the SF.
  4. ashbury
    How do his numbers compare to Arcia's since the all star break?
  5. ashbury
    That's my default assumption until proven otherwise.
  6. ashbury
    Any links for a good inning-by-inning shadow market where I can try to do a little arbitrage?
  7. ashbury
    It's a term from the radio industry, so it might be a little obscure. But it means disk jockeys playing songs out of the goodness of their hearts so as to give struggling new artists a chance.
  8. ashbury
    When you drop a player from the 40-man, you stand to flat out lose him on waivers, on the spot, to any team with room on their own 40-man. No Rule 5 restrictions on keeping him on the 25-man active roster for a season. Since he's got minor league options remaining, I would think some team with a weak farm system might find room for him as a gamble. It's a quibble, and I agree with your comparison to other players in the system, but the chance of losing a player this way is higher than simply through Rule 5. Maybe Rosario becomes the New Duensing as the preferred throw-in to sweeten an otherwise impossible trade. A guy with options remaining is a bit more valuable than one who has to stick with the big club.
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  10. ashbury
    http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/43/startrek.jpg
  11. ashbury
    No. Day to day. x60.
  12. ashbury
    A town in southern Indiana?
  13. ashbury
    Or, the sequel, 'So I Married an Axe Murderer Again'.
  14. ashbury
    Jane, his wife, removed all the cash from his wallet and went shopping, so I guess he's doing this for the money. She also refused to help him stop this crazy thing.
  15. ashbury
    Perhaps we can spearhead a move to embrace the older term 'krank'.
  16. ashbury
    Don't be obtuse.
  17. ashbury
    My two favorite Kevin Jepsen moments have to be when he joined Oswaldo Arcia's organization.
  18. ashbury
    Yeah, I've kind of lost hope on him too, as being any kind of impact player on a contending team. Players need to be judged in two main ways: 1) what's his ceiling, and 2) how often does he reach that ceiling. There are a lot of ways the latter question can be answered disappointingly, without it reflecting on the player's character. But, if you never know if you're going to see the Good Kyle or the Bad Kyle on the mound for you, well, maybe a .500 pitcher is an improvement when you are trying to avoid a 100-loss season, but not an asset when you are ready to shoot for 100 wins. I'm sure Kyle understands all this, but for whatever reason, he can't find the week-to-week consistency that is required.
  19. ashbury
    It wasn't there.
  20. ashbury
    You're rooting against our prospects stepping up? Because it would be validation for positions you don't advocate? Remind me not to sit next to you at games. I'm no fan of Nolasco but I'm still rooting for him to throw a no-no everytime he takes the mound. (Oops, did I just jinx him? )
  21. ashbury
    A couple of breaks, more? Every break went their way as it was. For example. League-wide 2015, OPS was .711 with bases empty and .753 with runners in scoring position. The Twins' numbers were .660 and .791 respectively. That differential is not a repeatable skill, it's just bunching your hits to maximum effect, resulting in runs being scored at a higher rate than your underlying abilities would sustain. Some of us were saying so at the time. The same batters, more or less, find it not so easy this year. Go figure. It was fool's gold - not that I didn't enjoy the wins. Wins are good. But I'm glad Ryan didn't gut the farm system to go for it all.
  22. ashbury
    Hated hated hated the trade at the time. Hang on to your starting pitching prospects; you can always convert some of them to relief when the time comes. Trading prospects for any but the best relievers at the deadline is a mug's game.
  23. ashbury
    I see also this game a couple days earlier. http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2016_07_09_gvlrok_elirok_1&t=g_box&sid=milb Why do we have to wait until next June to be able to trade this stiff?
  24. ashbury
    His manager made him issue two intentional walks, his first pro season. Apparently he detested the experience.
  25. ashbury
    Simple. A defense first SS who then turns out to mash will be a hell of a player, because, well, imagine how good that defense of his must be.
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