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  1. ashbury
    It's a common misconception. He contracted a case of ptomaine poisoning at a chain restaurant and haunted the place ever since. http://www.classactionsnews.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_detail/public/field/image/friendlyphoto1.jpg
  2. ashbury
    If we really want inter-league play, let's play NFL rules when we're in their home park, and MLB rules when they are in ours.
  3. ashbury
    Phew. Unless the bottom falls out of the season, and unless Big Pelf likewise is on the skids for several starts, you're faced with trading one of the most successful starting pitchers on a team that is in the vicinity of contention for the first time in years. A tough sell to the fan base. Even if analytically it may be the smart move. That has always been the weak spot in the plan to trade from strength in starting pitching. In practice you'll only feel able to trade your 5th or 6th best starter, and you'll get little to nothing in return, especially if there is any salary involved (such as Nolasco). Again, analytically it may be right to trade Nolasco and his salary, and it may fly with your fan base, but you're not going to restock your minor league system by doing it. All that said... I want Meyer up and in the major league bullpen. I wanted him there in 2014, as an introduction to the majors with an eye still toward starting by mid-season or by 2015. If, as discussed above, a middling prospect like Tonkin has to suffer another demotion, so be it.
  4. ashbury
    You may have put your finger on why the Saints draw so few Canadians through the turnstiles. They need to make their advertising less parochial.
  5. ashbury
    I don't know and I'd have to ask the coach making such decisions what his rationale was. But with fewer games per week and fewer weeks per season, it's possible that a pitcher who isn't a good starting candidate for the pros might get the nod over a stronger long-term prospect. Probably the coach has indeed said something and I missed the mention of it.
  6. ashbury
    A difference in how the schedule places demands on the workload?
  7. ashbury
    Exactly what I told Letterman, the second time I was on his show - most humblebrags are done inexpertly and merely tick off the listener.
  8. ashbury
    Getting #73 correct requires good insight and sources. Kudos.
  9. ashbury
    The next Craig Nettles will be the first. /spoiler: it's "Graig"
  10. ashbury
    Ah, that's a very good point. And not just the $$$ a player wants, but the slot value from drafting in a certain position. So you don't necessarily want a guy who drops, if he still expects the bigger money, unless you have a way to manage it. So the way I said it (who would they personally take at #1, or at #2...) doesn't quite do it. Wheels within wheels.
  11. ashbury
    I have seen various formats for mock drafts and so forth, but have you tackled this question: what is your guess of the ranking the Twins have for themselves, taking everything (best player available, organizational need) into account, all the way from 1 through 6? Who would they take if they picked #1, who would they take second if that guy was gone, and so on. In a draft like this year's, every team may literally have a different ordering (some players in one team's top 6 that don't appear in another's). Teams down the line have to be ready. Armed with such a ranking, we'd presumably be mimicking the Twins' thought process - if the players happen to go in the order the Twins rank them, so be it, they take #6 and are happy - if multiple players on the list are available then they know which one to take without a bunch of debate and drama in the style Brad Pitt showed us in Moneyball, or in that stupid recent movie about the NFL, Draft Day.
  12. ashbury
    How come you didn't provided embedded links to the actual threads for each player, in your list, always33? / I keed, I keed
  13. ashbury
    I can't argue against those two guys, either by performance or by age. But they're not my AAPs.
  14. ashbury
    I'll say it (because he's my Adopt-A-Prospect and I have to stick up for him): Alex Muren needs to move up to AA mid-season. He was drafted out of college and they have moved him up slowly, meaning he's a little old for his level. Since he's succeeded at every level so far, it's time to start taking the training wheels off and see whether this bike will ride.
  15. ashbury
    "Whilst"? My kind of writer.
  16. ashbury
    I have some thoughts on Tyler and probably should have already taken him. I'll do it.
  17. ashbury
    I don't see Alex Muren in this list, so I'll take him. I can't let him remain an orphan - he was my adoptee in 2012 when he was drafted.
  18. ashbury
    All four farm teams win, plus the big club. A good day.
  19. ashbury
    This would be a great question for TR or someone close to him in the front office. How often does the phone ring, with other GMs asking about your players? Is it always the same two or three (Buxton, Sano, Berrios, say)? Do you get any real feel for what a player's current market is, without initiating those phone calls yourself? I wonder if we got misled by watching Brad Pitt work all those trades.
  20. ashbury
    Bring Meyer up to the majors, even. See what coaching magic he can work on Stauffer. "Try throwing the ball as hard as you can, sir."
  21. ashbury
    Neat idea. Since he has worked as a teacher in the off-season, this especially fits his personality.
  22. ashbury
    We truly are living in the Golden Age of advanced defensive stats.
  23. ashbury
    JJ Fernandez is my Adopt-A-Prospect guy, so even though I know space here was limited I gotta stand up for him. His 2015 batting stats are likely soured by the concussion he suffered (similar circumstances to Pinto's unfortunately). Before his involuntary time off, his stat line was .292 /.346 /.417 /.763, and since coming back it's been (*mumble* *mumble* *pretty bad*). Last year at Elizabethton he threw out 5 of 13 base stealers in 22 games behind the plate. That's an OK percentage of 38%, and also represents what seems like a very low rate of runners willing to risk it against him. But certainly single-A exposes him to a more consistently good class of opposition. I don't know whether the fundamental scouting/evaluation indicates an underlying problem explaining this year's throwing numbers - he passed my "eyeball test" in March, at throwing to second, but I honestly didn't give it a lot of thought at the time. Also I am a terrible scout.
  24. ashbury
    I was just kidding, about the way Hicks's promotion was being explained.
  25. ashbury
    Apparently reports from the Rochester field staff were lost by the Pony Express en route to Minneapolis. And Terry Ryan must have judged it more cost-effective to buy Hicks a one-way airline ticket than to get a round-trip ticket for himself to see what's going on in person
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