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  1. ashbury
    Nice link. I shall have to look into that site more deeply one of these days.
  2. ashbury
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  3. ashbury
    They've been anointing guys The Next Logan Darnell for years now. Can anyone really predict The Next Logan Darnell?
  4. ashbury
    Concurs:
  5. 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!
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. ashbury
    Just to be fair... http://i.imgur.com/jLZTk9I.jpg ... too.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. ashbury
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  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. ashbury
    Not really. His OPS is only .597 at Rochester. Oh wait. Wrong column. That's his slugging percentage.
  16. 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.
  17. 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?
  18. ashbury
    Also, when he's not hitting, Buxton can still beat the other team in a few ways. Park on the other hand is merely taking plate appearances away from Mauer or a DH-du-jour.
  19. ashbury
    I am neither a good chess player nor a good baseball player, but I believe the concepts of one can guide the other. A young chess player can first be taught some simple combinations that will lead to mate, and then the player practices doing that to opponents to get a feel for exploiting a winning edge when it's there. After that, the player learns to wait until a suitable opportunity presents itself, rather than try to force a winning combination when it's not there. After that, perhaps, the player needs to be taught how to not make mistakes of his own, while playing this waiting game. Then, the player learns to add feints and other tactics to try to provoke error by the opponent. And so on, with varying layers of complexity that I personally never can hope to aspire to. Eventually the player also learns how to play a long tactical game where you build a series of tiny advantages that winds up being decisive. But... and this is the important part... at the heart of chess at even the highest level is the constant threat of unleashing a lethal combination of moves that destroys the opponent seemingly without warning. You never want to lose that spirit of aggressiveness, but conversely you can defeat yourself by trying for a winning combination too soon against a competent opponent. And I think a batter's approach at the plate can benefit from this sequential approach as well, over a period of several seasons in the minors. When all is said and done, the batter needs to know what pitch is the kind he can inflict the most damage with, and wait with varying degrees of patience until it is presented to him. The better the patience, within limits, the less often that patience will need to be exhibited.
  20. ashbury
    I felt like an idiot this spring after last off-season saying "Sano won't see an inning in RF. Book it."
  21. ashbury
    I've witnessed batters taking liberties with Grossman's arm and taking second base on a clean single, so maybe they are counting things like that. I didn't spot anything else about him.
  22. ashbury
    Every team has this. I just took a look at the two Missouri teams, held in pretty high repute these days, and both the Cards and Royals have three or four of their 40-man pitchers on the DL. (OK, if you are on the 60-day DL you aren't on the 40-man, but you get my point). Naming a couple of guys and calling it a trend just means it's a major league team.
  23. ashbury
    I expect out-house results if that is the decision.
  24. ashbury
    We can agree on this, if nothing else. "Solid... starting catcher" is a pretty high bar for any prospect. Right now I forecast him as under 700 OPS at the major league level, which means even if he is at some point installed as a starter there will be constant searching for someone better to take over. In this view, he might manage one "solid" season, above .700 OPS and good defense, where everyone relaxes and enjoys his contributions, if EVERYTHING breaks right for him and his team. I'm mainly just taking the more cautious position. I hope your bet proves the winning one. / edit - and yeah, I undersold my opinion of him when I phrased it more tersely as "doesn't add up to a great shot at a starting role". Odds against, but not a super longshot.
  25. ashbury
    I'll go along with the other points, but an assemblage of poor defensive OF is no (ahem) defense of Arcia.
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