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  1. ashbury
    Or just let him start a game. Events will unfold. / I'm actually hoping/rooting/expecting Pelf to do well enough to make the 5th starter decision difficult. Today's outing was not much in line with that however.
  2. ashbury
    He'll need to pitch better than he did today, sometime soon, or nobody is going to take him at all.
  3. ashbury
    I think there's a tacit assumption that the article is discussing Opening Day, and therefore who is on the 40-man roster right now. Adding Burdi now would mean dropping somebody - which wouldn't be the end of the world, but it's not going to happen like that so why factor it in. The wild card for me is that currently the 40-man has 22 pitchers and 18 position players. That suggests to me there is room for a trade of some type in late March. It could be a minor swap to get rid of perceived dead wood (*cough*Nolasco*cough*), or it could be big. A big trade could change every discussion here, so you can only go with what you know now, but it's still there in the background.
  4. ashbury
    This, and I'll go you one better. Mr Clanky batting against Iron Mike. http://i.ytimg.com/vi/0Hr1c2rcn9o/hqdefault.jpg http://www.frozenropes.com/Uploads/Gallery/NY%20-%20Albany/iron_mike.jpg
  5. ashbury
    FTFY. Sano's got 90 HR in 379 games. Quibble quibble quibble, I know.
  6. 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.
  7. ashbury
    I thought he was hired all at once.
  8. ashbury
    Hearing from Nick in 3... 2...
  9. 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.
  10. ashbury
    If that's played with regulation baseballs and not whiffle balls, I would have a jammed/sprained finger within 90 seconds.
  11. ashbury
    So it's actually Harmon?
  12. 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.
  13. ashbury
    I let Brunansky worry about tweaking the K's a little?
  14. 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."
  15. ashbury
    Why does the site software limit me to only one 'like' per post?
  16. ashbury
    Almost all kids choose to believe that.
  17. ashbury
    Our oldest boy was probably 3 or 4 when he first became aware of "Cubby Pott".
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. ashbury
    I don't know why more managers don't use this strategy.
  21. 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.
  22. ashbury
    I think you have adopted a clearer view of reality than the people whose view of reality is less clear than yours.
  23. ashbury
    Moderator's note: I infer a sense of satire here, but let's be careful please.
  24. ashbury
    Moderator's note: I infer a sense of satire with that last part, but let's be careful please.
  25. 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.
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