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  1. ashbury
    A meaningless plate appearance I watched (and wrote up) in spring training is totally consistent with what we're seeing now that he's been called up. Some pitcher got two strikes on him - one called, one sharp foul. Sano just looked so locked in at that point. He watched the next pitch go by, low, for a ball. And another out of the strike zone. And another. And ball four. But he seemed so utterly ready to punish a pitch had one been in the strike zone. Just a simple walk, in a spring game, but I was sold, both on Sano's discipline and on the fun spring training is. OK, I already knew the latter.
  2. ashbury
    For one thing, his lack of speed on the basepaths suggests to me that he lacks the quickness to play short at the major league level.
  3. ashbury
    Unless and until the makeup of this roster changes, I am against signing anyone to a multi-year contract when part of the unstated logic is "and if all else fails, he can play corner outfield or first base or DH." That is how we got Ryan Doumit, and similar (restricted) logic had us with Josh Willingham for longer than it turns out we should have. (And I was for the Hammer signing at the time, mea culpa.) We have a first baseman, and the rules state that we can only put one DH into the starting lineup per game.
  4. ashbury
    I dunno. If your team can hit 4 home runs a game, the wins should come pretty reliably.
  5. ashbury
    He could be valuable as a final piece to a contending team lacking a solid 3B or a prospect they expect to move right in. However, I don't notice any NL teams fitting that description, and I don't want to think about trading with AL rivals. Bad luck for the moment, maybe things change in the off-season.
  6. ashbury
    My one lasting memory of him in spring training was a bullet to erase a would-be base stealer. I can't speak to other aspects of his game, of course, nor his consistency. From the TD Prospect Handbook last year (which you really should have bought ):
  7. ashbury
    You outbid all 29 other GMs for the guy's services. No one else wanted him at that particular price. Now you want one of them to take him off your hands, without any additional concessions from you? You paid market rate for a player, for which you sacrificed no players in return. Now you want a fellow GM to give you players, for that same contract? You trade a player in his first year. Then you ask future free agents to commit to you without a no-trade clause, and expect them to listen?For all these reasons, I agree, trades of this sort can be expected to be rare.
  8. ashbury
    harmonykillebrew.256
  9. ashbury
    My cat clickerycup832 finds these different points of view troubling.
  10. ashbury
    From the play-by-play it looks like the players arrived, but the bats and gloves missed the flight. Apparently "Mauer fists one into center field" was literal this time. Hopefully they just got misdirected and will arrive in the dugout for tonight's game.
  11. ashbury
    Marriage based on a fair market price for the milk probably isn't going to last through the first economic downturn anyway.
  12. ashbury
    If he hasn't had any pitches buzzing under his chin, he will now.
  13. ashbury
    Of course not. You also have to throw in Duensing as a sweetener. / is what they meant to say...
  14. ashbury
    Dozier's best OPS month last year was August. Stats will fluctuate anytime you pick a 30 day sample, but I don't see evidence of a wearing down process there
  15. ashbury
    Plate discipline or pitch recognition? Because if it's the former it seems like it could be changed by him making basically a decision, but if it's the latter then coaching an improvement seems much harder.
  16. ashbury
    Well, it gets late early here in the eastern time zone. Good night everyone, time to slip into my pajamas and dream of iambs and penta meters.
  17. ashbury
    The obvious rejoinder:
  18. ashbury
    Yeah, I actually wanted May.
  19. ashbury
    That's the coming sequel to the Fantastic Four. The Interesting Five.
  20. ashbury
    I might send him. Pelf or May are my only two choices for the eighth.
  21. ashbury
    Q: Why is Shane Robinson batting ninth? A: Because the rules don't allow ten batters in a lineup.
  22. ashbury
    We have a horrendous #8 and #9 in our lineup. This has been your Circus Boy Bonus Update.
  23. ashbury
    BBEY 18, perhaps. But Mazda 323 => 8.
  24. ashbury
    Iambic Pussycat?
  25. ashbury
    Big Pelf's got this.
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