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  1. ashbury
    "All the talent in the world" may be generous, if you think it means the next Mickey Mantle. The narrative probably comes from being the type of player who finds himself in AAA at age 21 and acquits himself reasonably. That doesn't happen by accident. He's many years older than that by now, though not in a usual "decline phase" yet - perhaps some wear and tear has eroded the talent prematurely. But he OPS'ed .800 as recently as the season before last, so a good working hypothesis is that the ability is still there, and the story on him has always been the mental aspect.
  2. ashbury
    I thought he was hired all at once.
  3. ashbury
    Hearing from Nick in 3... 2...
  4. ashbury
    If he shows normal progress and has a season about like that in the majors at age 24 (assuming decent defense) it will be fine with me. He can build on that for age 25 and on. I'm with you on Chattanooga for 2015 and I don't even really consider it a "push". Maybe TR and the rest of the braintrust do.
  5. ashbury
    If that's played with regulation baseballs and not whiffle balls, I would have a jammed/sprained finger within 90 seconds.
  6. ashbury
    So it's actually Harmon?
  7. ashbury
    Fixed it. I think. If not, I'm sure I'll hear from the Admins not to ever try a fool thing like that again.
  8. ashbury
    I let Brunansky worry about tweaking the K's a little?
  9. ashbury
    And then there was the family that named their kids Eeny, Meeny, Miney, and Irving. Why not Moe? "We didn't want any Moe."
  10. ashbury
    Why does the site software limit me to only one 'like' per post?
  11. ashbury
    Almost all kids choose to believe that.
  12. ashbury
    Our oldest boy was probably 3 or 4 when he first became aware of "Cubby Pott".
  13. ashbury
    Now do one with Lombardozzi, Valdivielso, Mientkiewicz, and Pierzynski. Stelmaszek and Terwilliger too, while you're at it. Preferably one loaded with near-misses on spelling.
  14. ashbury
    OK, so you're saying they come out with about the same ERA over a season? If I have a bad team I take the up and down guy, because he'll help me get closer to .500 and also might bring in some fans. If I have a good team, the up and down guy might cost me a pennant.
  15. ashbury
    I don't know why more managers don't use this strategy.
  16. ashbury
    Here's what you do. Bring in your lights-out closer to pitch the 1st inning. (If on the road, you can use your nearly-lights-out setup man and then your closer for the first 2 innings.) If your offense has done any scoring, then it looks like it might be your day; bring in pitcher B. But if you're shut out in your first inning (or two), use Pitcher A on the theory that maybe you'll still eventually scratch out enough runs to win if he's on, and it won't matter if he's not. Plus! you may have him available for the 10th inning if it winds up 1-1.
  17. ashbury
    I think you have adopted a clearer view of reality than the people whose view of reality is less clear than yours.
  18. ashbury
    Moderator's note: I infer a sense of satire here, but let's be careful please.
  19. ashbury
    Moderator's note: I infer a sense of satire with that last part, but let's be careful please.
  20. ashbury
    They started him in high-A and moved him up to AA his first season (signed late in 2009, apparently). Even had a taste at AAA. The next year he started at AAA. Age 23 season. Got injured, they shut him down in July; his first 10 starts had decent results (3.60 ERA), it started to go downhill after that so his total numbers weren't good. TJ surgery. Returned pretty fast, about 12 months later, pitched some rehab-style innings, plus the AFL later. Back in AAA for age 25 season. Even guys like me who pay overly much attention to age-and-level don't believe that someone gets much better (and closer to major-league ready) simply by aging a year. They weren't aggressive about pushing him to the majors post-TJ, but pre-TJ he was on a fast track (as befits a #22 overall college draft pick), and I can't see how they can be accused of dawdling given the injury.
  21. ashbury
    I may be wrong but I expect the question to sort itself out, all by itself, by Opening Day. One pitcher isn't physically ready to go, one pitcher has a putrid spring, and boom, you have your 5-man rotation pretty much set with maybe only one semi-obvious decision remaining to make. The mid-February discussion is interesting but I have trouble getting heavily invested in it.
  22. ashbury
    I've never met you but I love you, Madre Dos.
  23. ashbury
    Not a deal breaker, but when you move a player down the defensive spectrum, it means he's now competing for a job with players who are there more for their bat. Guys who can track a ball in the outfield, say, but lack the elite speed/vision/arm to play CF. Better defense in LF may play a small role in roster decisions, but not like it would have in CF. I don't think anyone is saying Rosario should change his batting approach if he's in LF; he should do whatever works best. But his batting skills may not be elite enough, compared to other options of players for that same position. And power will be one of the big difference makers. That's the sense I take such statements as "That means he’ll have to show he can hit for power." Not so much he should change, but can he do it? As for table setters for the power hitters who follow, I'll be happy to see the team solve that problem once it proves to be one.
  24. ashbury
    If, as you say, it's becoming a gray area in the entire industry, then maybe it's a topic for another book, but not an intentional misrepresentation in a book about GMs through history, as the word disingenuous suggests. And in that light... Moderator's note: Let's tone down the personal accusations, please.
  25. ashbury
    IMO it's clearly a mechanism for batters to make sure they are composed and ready for each pitch. By now it's become simply a crutch, and/or evidence to a coach who has been on his case that his head is in the game. If the rules forbade it, they would all find a different mechanism instead (popping oneself on top of the helmet, for instance), and the game would move faster with no loss of focus by the batters. Ditto for pitchers who have developed similar routines between pitches, pawing at the mound and so forth. It's gotten out of hand on both sides, baseball has the ability to add a rule when things get out of hand, no big deal.
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