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  1. ashbury
    Moderator's note: Nick's passing comment about this has led to a re-opening of a discussion that has been hashed and re-hashed here many times over. Please keep your posts civil, and in particular avoid taking it upon yourself to correct the behavior of others. Discussing Torii is fair game (if done with the usual respect expected here), while for a variety of reasons discussing other people just isn't. Posts that amount to bickering will be removed.
  2. ashbury
    If Big Pelf had nine lives staying out of the Twins bullpen, you can bet Alex Meyer will get chance after chance too. If not from the Twins then from a succession of other organizations.
  3. ashbury
    Ay caramba. None of these guys have much of a chance of being pried away. Even going further down the list into the 30s and it's tough to imagine... until I come to the name Sonny Gray. Shades of another TD thread.
  4. ashbury
    Unless yours is a top-40 of journalism prospects, you might want to remove this name. http://twinsdaily.com/topic/17937-mat-batts-2015/?p=414994
  5. ashbury
    The right situation being, he turns 24 years of age? (Despite my posts elsewhere casting doubt about his readiness to step in as a starter for 2016, I remain very high on him.)
  6. ashbury
    Probably. Guys who look like eventual utility infielders or fourth outfielders, or starting pitchers who will likely have to accept bullpen duty if they want to be in the majors, litter top-20s, even strong lists. Think of it this way. How immensely strong would a farm system be, if the entire top 20 was entirely made up of "this guy projects as a starting first baseman, this guy projects as a starting second baseman, this guy projects as a front line starting pitcher, this guy..."? Practically a whole new competitive 25-man roster, including a few apparently qualified players riding the pine, if you'll just wait a few years. Top 10, I'm probably with you, regarding backup catchers.
  7. ashbury
    I thought that's [one place] where market inefficiencies come from.
  8. ashbury
    PE, maybe. D, I imagine so.
  9. ashbury
    Wow. He wrote that nicely. Guess he's found the right job to be in. His reasons echo mine when I retired, but I didn't expect that from a 24 year old. A very surprising choice but I can see why, now that he's explained.
  10. ashbury
    Tell that to Danny Ortiz.
  11. ashbury
    Sounds almost as if TR is helping ghost-write for you today.
  12. ashbury
    Agreed. The AFL is among the last places I care about official stats; I want to know what my guys did against live (and advanced) competition, and that's what that was. Particularly as it was all good news.
  13. ashbury
    Agreed on the #1 goal, and since the word "classic" is vague at best, it's not worth getting too worked up over - but for me a classic leadoff hitter does include speed, because you can aim for more than just one goal in a player for that slot.
  14. ashbury
    Yeah, potentially better hitting than Punto, and lacking the arm to make a manager comfortable plugging Michael in as a true utility infielder, makes them not very comparable after all.
  15. ashbury
    How about, to ascend as rapidly as his bat will allow, which hasn't been super-fast but hasn't been agonizingly slow either?
  16. ashbury
    They were a 90 loss team last year. They made big strides and got a winning record this year. This year's team was not yet ready to win a championship. I don't see any contradiction among these thoughts, nor a lack of appreciation for the progress we saw this year nor a lack of enjoyment of the brand of ball when it was good.
  17. ashbury
    The article is behind a paywall so I haven't read it. Is the above a direct quote from it? If so, I have to suspect the writer has misunderstood something about this research. It may be true that 24% are likely hits and 62% are likely outs, leaving 14% as essentially go-get'em balls. But not all the 62% of outs are cans of corn, and when there are runners on base there will be significant opportunities for fielders to distinguish themselves. Likewise not all the 24% hits are Texas Leaguers where the outfielder retrieves the ball and underhands it to a middle infielder - if the ball is hit a long way, there is scope for a Ben Revere to do less with it than someone with a major league arm, for example. Cans of corn, with nobody on base? Routine singles, and even certain kinds of doubles, with nobody on base? Deep fly with a man on third, so that even God himself couldn't save the run? Home runs? Sure, they happen a lot. It does represent a reduction to the value of seemingly non-SSS quantities of fielding chances. The problem with assessing defense is indeed the radically fewer true chances, compared with the thousands of pitches that a batter sees each season. But simply tallying the initial touch of a ball in play, which is what these raw percentages imply to me, leaves an awful lot of defensive skill un-assessed. I hope the researchers didn't fall into that easy trap.
  18. ashbury
    EE was severely underutilized in the first half of the season due to the lengthy audition at SS given to Danny Santana. Once EE was installed as a full-time starter, he allayed at least my concerns that he would wear down offensively. So the stats come out deceptively similar (he did increase his power by a smidgen) but I can go along with considering him to be much improved. Not that I wouldn't give the nod to Hicks.
  19. ashbury
    The Tao which can be spoken of is not the true Tao. The QB who can pass is not... hm, maybe this is why not too many Buddhist monks become football coaches.
  20. ashbury
    We live with Perk, we die with Perk.
  21. ashbury
    Believe me, I was tempted, when I provided the Nolasco-Hughes-Perkins-Pelfrey link.
  22. ashbury
    Weighing against this, 1890s groupies weren't all that hot anyway. / yes of course they were
  23. ashbury
    Not having played more than slow-pitch myself, I have never understood how batters learn very much from swinging at meatball pitches tossed by fat-bellied old men. (Or even by some of the spry old coots that haunt the cages area.) No, Buxton needs to stand there swinging the bat for 30 minutes while Tyler Duffey throws him yakker after yakker, alternated with hittable fastballs of course. Then bring in Perkins as a reliever, to work on recognizing those sliders for 10 minutes (Perk's not stretched out, dontcha know). Repeat every day. But you never hear about that happening, do you? Of course you can't waste major league arms this way. (Hm, Nolasco as BP pitcher, surely this is an original thought.) So how DO you hone your batting skills in a cage, when almost by definition you're not seeing the pitches you'll see in the games? Thanks for taking my call. I'll hang up and listen.
  24. ashbury
    Seemed like the illustration needed a link, so I have tried to remedy that.
  25. ashbury
    Head-to-head Hall of Fame credentials of team managers!
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