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  1. ashbury
    The next Craig Nettles will be the first. /spoiler: it's "Graig"
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. ashbury
    How come you didn't provided embedded links to the actual threads for each player, in your list, always33? / I keed, I keed
  5. ashbury
    I can't argue against those two guys, either by performance or by age. But they're not my AAPs.
  6. 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.
  7. ashbury
    "Whilst"? My kind of writer.
  8. ashbury
    I have some thoughts on Tyler and probably should have already taken him. I'll do it.
  9. 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.
  10. ashbury
    All four farm teams win, plus the big club. A good day.
  11. 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.
  12. 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."
  13. ashbury
    Neat idea. Since he has worked as a teacher in the off-season, this especially fits his personality.
  14. ashbury
    We truly are living in the Golden Age of advanced defensive stats.
  15. 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.
  16. ashbury
    I was just kidding, about the way Hicks's promotion was being explained.
  17. 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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  19. ashbury
    Word.
  20. ashbury
    It was the best of threads, it was the worst of threads. It was a Game Thread.
  21. ashbury
    Slama.
  22. ashbury
    The.
  23. ashbury
    I will show off my scouting ability by saying that triples are a very good thing.
  24. ashbury
    The people at mlb.tv must have read Brian's intro. They have a new ad for Dr Scholl's Odor-X during breaks tonight.
  25. ashbury
    I call shenanigans, right there at the start.
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