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  1. ashbury
    How did that 15-year contract with Hurricane Hazle work out for the Braves?
  2. ashbury
    He just wants to know, what is the name of the pitcher?
  3. ashbury
    Betteridge's Law of Headlines strikes again. Any headline ending in a question mark can typically be answered with "no." Not sure it really required the full 4 months to reach this conclusion, either.
  4. ashbury
    This post aged well.
  5. ashbury
    To some degree this is a fuzzy question. Tons of players under minor league contract are R5 eligible - it's just that no one would want them. I suggest you look at FangRaphs which has a pretty good page of Twins players, and form your own opinion: https://www.fangraphs.com/roster-resource/depth-charts/twins No one on the major league roster is subject to Rule 5 of course, so scroll down to the St Paul roster and go on down through Rookie league. They show "R5" for players who already passed through the Rule 5 draft in the past, and they show a date of Dec'25 for guys who will be newly eligible. Decide for yourself whether a given player is a "prospect" or a "suspect." We had a demonstration of that just over a week ago. 😀
  6. ashbury
    The band has a pretty fantastic repertoire that lets them cover a 75-minute set with ease. And two of the original three musicians are still going strong. It's interesting that they had to replace Mark Farner with two very good performers, a lead singer and a lead guitarist, both of whom had to cut a few corners on the licks that (a young) Farner used to handle.
  7. ashbury
    Unindicted co-conspirators' row.
  8. ashbury
    Just wanted to pop in to say, a) epic bad luck for the Twins to run into five definite Cy Young candidates all in the same game today, and b) Mrs Ash and I had a good time at a Grand Funk Railroad concert last night. Or, as I wound up calling this cadre of 76-year old performers, Grandpa Railroad.
  9. ashbury
    If you want a defense-first glove, just go ahead and bring up Culpepper. Miller is one month younger than Culpepper, and hit much less well than him at the same league level (and even worse at AAA, in a park that's usually a hitter's haven no less). If you mean "ever," I'm not quite willing to go that far. This year, yes, I'm with you. Neither of these two SS prospects is 23 years old yet. But right now, Miller would be made a fool of at the plate by any pitcher who has succeeded enough to escape AA ball himself. And all the above notwithstanding: Yes. I'd sooner have Miller. Perhaps the Dodgers viewed it the same way. Outman is one of the craziest looking trades ever - two months of Brock Stewart has to be worth more than him. If Falvey is eventually fired by the Twins, and if the Dodgers snap him up for any kind of role, I'm going to have some real questions. 😀
  10. ashbury
    I grit my teeth and try to ignore the omnipresent "the Pohlad's" in the comments section, but can we please ask the site's story editors to catch the mistake when it's in a headline? 😀
  11. ashbury
    Great, great attempt, diminished only a little in my own eyes by the sense that the umpire might have gotten a little too excited in the moment and robbed the batter of a single. 😀
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  13. ashbury
    Chuck Norris has never blinked in his entire life. Never. I'm sure the Pohlads blinked at that initial offer, though. Houston knows the Blink Test as well as most salespeople. 😀
  14. ashbury
    Houston "could." But not "would," or even "should." I mean, why would/should Houston bid against themselves? They knew Correa had the no-trade clause, and they could infer they (themselves) were the only team he'd agree to go to. Minnesota really, really wanted out of that contract. Negotiation sessions were probably brief and brutal.
  15. ashbury
    In that case it looks like Falvey's gearing up for contention in 2028 and beyond. Problem is, they can't be alone in this POV.
  16. ashbury
    I had put the threat of a lockout/strike out of my mind. During the recent trading flurry, it was reminded to us. If 2027 is a faint likelihood, it puts into better perspective the trading away of important players with 2 years of control remaining - perhaps in reality it's only 1 year. If the FO judged that serious pennant contention wasn't possible for 2026, then my preference to use the 2025 trade deadline to "sell and reload for 2026-27" wasn't so good. In a lockout, are the minor leagues shut down too?
  17. ashbury
    Funny. But Louis's usage had evolved even during the 2025 season. In his 22 appearances during June and July, 16 of them began in the 7th inning or later, and 4 of those other ones bridged into the 7th. The leverage index found on baseball-reference.com showed an uptick in the importance of his appearances, as well.
  18. ashbury
    For what it's worth, the video game OOTP dislikes every single one of these trades, after I let it run a couple of seasons. The guys we traded away mostly maintained value; not one of the prospects has retained their full luster - Rojas still seems promising by 2027 but hasn't established himself yet. Interestingly, the game does like the core of players we have. Brooks Lee has blossomed by 2027, Royce Lewis likewise., ditto Emmanuel Rodriguez and Walker Jenkins.. Buxton, Wallner, and Jeffers have maintained their value. Gabriel Gonzalez is starting to look like a player. Only Luke Keaschall has fizzled surprisingly, unless you are also surprised that Kody Clemens turned back into a pumpkin. On the pitching side, Zebby has come into his own, Canterino has overcome injuries to be effective, Ryan has continued to be good but not quite as stellar, Lopez similarly (and has a worrisome injury by 2027), and Ober has become simply a physical wreck. Humorously, after I turned the GM controls over to the internal AI bot, dear departed Ty France was signed again by the Twins to a one-year contract. It's just a game. And there are randomizing factors within it; if I went through the effort again the results could differ widely. I just wanted to see what would happen. I was especially curious since our FO has a reputation for being guided by analytics, same as OOTP is.
  19. ashbury
    I suppose it can't hurt, but I don't put the odds high that a winter coach will teach soft hands and good footwork at 1B when prior coaches couldn't do similar things in an outfield context. Most of all I'm reminded of Robert Heinlein's dictum: Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
  20. ashbury
    A pair of attributes you'd never want in a first baseman. 😜
  21. ashbury
    Came here to make the same analogy with Jeremy Peña. You don't miss out on what's not on offer.
  22. ashbury
    For this fan-at-a-distance, these are some interesting angles. For the fan at the ballpark paying full prices for tickets and concessions? Not so much.
  23. ashbury
    Hush. We can't have nice things.
  24. ashbury
    I think we all understand that, and the term is being applied to a higher standard than I was held to when I played.
  25. ashbury
    The Twins paid $33M for the Astros to take the contract off their hands, and you still believe Correa had actual trade value to some other team?
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