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  1. ashbury
    The thing that bugs me about Dean is that he spent his age-26 year at AAA, yet wasn't deemed by the Twins worthy of a September look-see in mopup duty, which would only have cost them the unusable Aaron Thompson being dropped from the 40-man (I think), but now they don't want him snapped up by some other team.
  2. ashbury
    Soon as I scrolled down and saw "Hard-Throwing Relievers With Control Trouble" I said, here we are.
  3. ashbury
    Molitor did try Sano in the 3rd spot, and was rewarded with a .587 OPS. Anybody else he might have tried, taking their full season stats at face value, among those with enough PA to qualify, would have raised our ranking in the above list to... next to last. Escobar at .754. There just weren't enough good options to cause Molitor's hand to be forced. One can argue that Sano should have been moved up from 4th to 3rd more often. Not a game changer. The problem was the roster itself. This is not yet a good hitting team.
  4. ashbury
    There would be some entertainment value in watching a corner infielder working in the bullpen, too.
  5. ashbury
    Definitely a good read.
  6. ashbury
    Minor league free agent deal? Sure. Rule 5? No way, not even if he were younger.
  7. ashbury
    "Here's your player back. I think we mighta broke 'im."
  8. ashbury
    I've just sent a note to b-r.com about the lefty-right mixup. We'll see if they respond. The fact milb.com has it wrong too suggests there's an error in the database the Twins provide.
  9. ashbury
    Plouffe is very slow afoot and would be a statue in the outfield. Sano is for the present still blessed with decent speed.
  10. ashbury
    Adding in major-league-ready, that is not trivial to acquire.
  11. ashbury
    Park is 3 years younger than Mauer and several pounds lighter in weight. I seem to recall Park has played a little third base, which suggests he's not a noodle arm. And I know from watching him on the basepaths that Mauer is slow. So I'd try Park out there sooner than I'd try Mauer.
  12. ashbury
    Kubitza is old enough that it strikes me either the Angels would rather just put him at third and not have to give up a relief pitcher, or else he's not good enough for the Twins to want to trade for.
  13. ashbury
    I did not know this term. Looked it up. Old Lady. LOL.* * I'm of an age where LOL used to mean Little Old Lady
  14. ashbury
    This is where the majority of Nishioka comparisons are coming from, IMO. The Nishi signing was a classic case of scouting failure, because reportedly the Twins were caught by surprise at his mechanical flaws when he showed up at camp. That was under the Bill Smith regime, and it was (for me) as much of a firing offense as anything else that happened during his term, the lack of accountability from the scouting staff. Now, under Terry Ryan, I would expect a tighter ship to be run in this department of the front office. But some fans are going to draw comparisons, and indeed if I had a chance to talk with Ryan I would ask him to compare/contrast the team's scouting in Asia 5 years ago to now, just for some reassurance. Ugh, I DON'T want to see this turn into a Bill Smith thread. But I at least had to invoke his name to make the point about the connection to this thread topic.
  15. ashbury
    You didn't sit through the whole thing? Then you missed the Rickroll somewhere in the middle of it! I didn't bother to write down the time-mark for it, so you should sit down and watch the whole thing now.
  16. ashbury
    Thanks. His being from Louisiana, I was trying to think of any way it could be Cajun, Creole, French, ... coming up with nothing like that.
  17. ashbury
    In addition, Ryan himself throws cold water on this notion. In a video mentioned in a different thread, Ryan is quoted specifically as Mauer staying at first if the negotiations for Park are successful. Sano to RF, Park to DH, those are the moves. http://video.startribune.com/ryan-if-twins-sign-korean-slugger-sano-would-move-to-outfield/344132022/
  18. ashbury
    18 walks in 89 PA. I don't see anybody else on the GCL team with a rate that high. So he was able to lay off some of the more egregious stuff off of the plate. Maybe when he starts facing better pitchers on a regular basis, the hits and home runs will come - an offshoot of the effect Sano talked about when he came up to the majors.
  19. ashbury
    Nice summary, Nick. Now for the quibbling: Plouffe for Lind. It's not easy to do, but we'd be replacing Trevor with somebody even slower on the basepaths. Plouffe for a young Atlanta closer. Seems like a lot to give up a position player for a bullpen piece, even if he throws gas. Maybe go for both prospects mentioned, and if we have to add a C-graded prospect to even things out, so be it. But, as already mentioned, a veteran like Plouffe might not be what a full-rebuild team like the Braves wants. Plouffe to the Padres for anybody at all. I weep for Trevor's career if he is banished to San Diego. His tenure as a viable hitter will be over. Plouffe to the White Sox. The first couple of those pitching prospects have strikeout numbers that, were they touted prospects within the Twins own system, there would be a hue and cry by observers over pitch to contact or whatever. But the latter two on the list look probably close to untouchable, aren't they? Plouffe alone isn't going to fetch either of them. Of course I'd be fine with a 2-for-1 deal, to include any young'uns not named Sano/Buxton/Berrios/Kepler/Gordon. But it isn't happening unless we massively overpay.
  20. ashbury
    You didn't ask him about his unusual name. Family legacy ("Andro Cutura IV")? Or is this already covered to death, elsewhere?
  21. ashbury
    Ugh, mea culpa. I could have gone on to say, I probably have about the same view as Ryan seems to, about the advisability of trying to acquire an established ace. Most such opportunities aren't worth it. Only when I had a team already at the 90-win plateau, would I consider it; I wouldn't do it to help get to that 90-win level. The 2016 Twins don't profile to me as that team. I just was bothered by his preference to re-position the discussion to use the other common meaning of the term, namely the best starting pitcher on the team, AKA "de facto ace". Every team has one, doesn't mean anything. In his position, I probably would attempt the same tactic though. Why get bogged down re-arguing every year about something he has no intention of doing.
  22. ashbury
    You ended his quote here, but what he went on to say kind of bugged me. That waters down what most people think of as ace, to be innings eater. I loved Radke, especially his grit that final season, but on most teams he'd be their innings eater - someone you feel "pretty good about" and will keep you in the game, but isn't expected to shut anyone down on even a semi-regular basis. I imagine Ryan would love to develop an ace, but he'll never go out and acquire an established one. Acquisitions will always be innings eaters, judging by the way he pivoted on that question.
  23. ashbury
    How dangerous does it get, if you happen to have two guys on the team who say that?
  24. ashbury
    Who is this Duensing you speak of? I see no one by that name on the 40-man roster. http://www.mlb.com/team/roster_40man.jsp?c_id=min
  25. ashbury
    Love the title page. Kudos! Now on to page two... I'll let you know.
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