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  1. ashbury
    Interesting to learn what their purpose is. $299 must be only the start, that seems like small potatoes considering how many calls they have to make to reel one person in. I have never stayed on the line long enough to hear more than "Windows Support, may I speak to mister John..." *click*. It seems like a monumentally stupid idea to engage them, and try to convince them the error of their ways - the dialing software calls at random, but at that point they do have my phone number, so why piss them off and perhaps get on their "special attention" list that involves phone calls at 3 am, say?
  2. ashbury
    Hey Brian.. Just in case... you ever Decide... to branch out into writing Romance novels... try to Remember... the above is not part of the Formula... you have a Character's backstory be that she was cheated on... in order to build Sympathy... not to Provide foreshadowing that she will turn out to be the Villain in chapter seven. Maybe a Spy Novel though... "I was Cheated on... as my revenge I shall now Take over the World... mwah ha Hah".
  3. ashbury
    I seem to recall Bill James long ago calling the ability to draw walks an old player's skill. Maybe that's not quite the same as patience, but it's on that spectrum. I don't have any stats to back it up one direction or the other, but I'd be more inclined to wait on a player who showed power in the minors, than to wait on a player who showed patience. All else being equal, which it never is.
  4. ashbury
    1.444 OPS for the Rays and currently on an upward trajectory. I'm convinced; how about you?
  5. ashbury
    Agreed. His stats are almost textbook, in showing steady learning and maturity and progress as he's moved up into higher leagues. Those stats profile as "potential useful major leaguer", even though his floor is still not major league to my eye. So it depends on how you slot low-ceiling major league prospects into your ranking; somewhere in the teens is not silly for him at all, IMO.
  6. ashbury
    I'm just worried about how to fit all 40 of these future stars onto the 25-man roster when they all develop. June really is the best month of the year, at least for a non-contending team.
  7. ashbury
    And here I thought it was this guy we got: http://media.jrn.com/images/420111021200821001_6099389_ver1.0_640_480.jpg (We run through this routine every time ... )
  8. ashbury
    http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/893572/WooHooHomer.jpg We got him!
  9. ashbury
    Nice link. I shall have to look into that site more deeply one of these days.
  10. ashbury
    http://img.picturequotes.com/2/68/67856/what-you-did-there-i-see-it-quote-1.jpg
  11. ashbury
    They've been anointing guys The Next Logan Darnell for years now. Can anyone really predict The Next Logan Darnell?
  12. ashbury
    Concurs:
  13. ashbury
    OK, I found this, confirming Rortvedt: http://www.unifiednewsgroup.com/verona_press/sports/rortvedt-drafted-in-second-round-of-mlb-draft-signs-with/article_b92de616-5c16-5c9f-b59b-8acd059ccc76.html This adds to my conviction that the FO needs a housecleaning, starting with the intern who is in charge of the official draft web page!
  14. ashbury
    Quezada walked more than a batter per inning in the Dominican Summer League for two seasons. Let that sink in. How the heck do you walk DOMINICAN batters, at ALL*, to say nothing of two per inning? He improved in that regard in the GCL last year, to "only" 5.1 walks per nine innings. Clearly command is going to be a gating issue for him, and it's hardly a given that pushing him faster than Etown this year is going to be the solution. (Maybe there won't BE a solution; in 3 innings this year he's walked 3 guys.) * I keed, the DSL walk rate seems to hover around 4 per nine innings pitched
  15. ashbury
    Are Rortvedt and Baddoo signed yet? The official looking page below shows them still unsigned. http://minnesota.twins.mlb.com/team/draft.jsp?c_id=min
  16. ashbury
    Just to be fair... http://i.imgur.com/jLZTk9I.jpg ... too.
  17. ashbury
    If there is complaint that the Twins move their players up one level per year, I don't see how adding a short-season A league team will make those people happier. And, as already alluded to, high-quality prospects will not materialize out of thin air just because we add one more affiliate. We'd just populate the new team with St Paul Saints kinds of players. As I think about it, it's unclear to me why other teams bother with that extra level.
  18. ashbury
    Nunez doesn't spring to mind as a guy who would bring us a lot. But we traded a legitimate SP prospect to get a solid (we thought) reliever last year. I suppose Nunez is the position player equivalent to a good reliever, so if someone offered something like that I'd listen.
  19. ashbury
    I took a quick glance through the 22-23 year olds on the Etown roster, and I'm not sure what problem either of you is getting at. Most of them are this year's draftees. A couple of guys look like didn't shine last year, and are getting a second year before being flushed out of the system. Did I miss a stud prospect who is being slow-played, on this roster? Among this year's draftees, Kiriloff's a high schooler, and the next few guys haven't signed yet - Griffin Jax is the only one I see as at all debatable, and if a college junior chosen at #93 is going to pitch only a few innings this year (as stated above) it seems hard to quibble about which league level he gets his feet wet in. Etown is designed to acclimate players to the every day schedule of pro ball, and with only a short season left to go in any league level I think it's just fine.
  20. ashbury
    http://sd.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/i/i-love-this-post-so-much.png
  21. ashbury
    It would be nice for once to be receiving some other team's Wilson Ramos, JJ Hardy, or Chih-Wei Hu, in exchange for our serviceable reliever.
  22. ashbury
    Because we can't know the inside details on players' health, I am always ready to give a prospect a mulligan for a mysterious bad season. Eduardo Escobar for instance interrupted a sequence of good progress with a bad season in which the White Sox traded him to the Twins and he remained bad. Until, mysteriously, he was good again. A couple of other things about the mental side. If a player shows signs of pouting, that needs to be addressed anyway, aside from plans for promotions - maybe the manager and his coach can play Good Cop Bad Cop, but eventually it may come to just laying out to the player that he is out of line and is only hurting himself. And, second, I can't help but worry that Hispanic players get tagged with this and other worries concerning their mental makeup, where another player might get the benefit of the doubt.
  23. ashbury
    Not really. His OPS is only .597 at Rochester. Oh wait. Wrong column. That's his slugging percentage.
  24. ashbury
    Sometimes I think the organization believes it gets extra credit for each drafted player who makes it to the Show for a cup of coffee.
  25. ashbury
    If a player is prone to that, he will find something else to be in a funk about, a few weeks after being promoted. I think this should be a non-factor in deciding promotions. Sano injured himself running down the first base line. How does DHing protect against that?
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