Jump to content
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

ashbury

Verified Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    42,486

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    471

 Content Type 

Profiles

News

Minnesota Twins Videos

2026 Minnesota Twins Top Prospects Ranking

2022 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

Minnesota Twins Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2023 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

The Minnesota Twins Players Project

2024 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

2025 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker

2026 Minnesota Twins Draft Tracker: Picks & Bonuses

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by ashbury

  1. 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.
  2. ashbury
    All four farm teams win, plus the big club. A good day.
  3. 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.
  4. 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."
  5. ashbury
    Neat idea. Since he has worked as a teacher in the off-season, this especially fits his personality.
  6. ashbury
    We truly are living in the Golden Age of advanced defensive stats.
  7. 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.
  8. ashbury
    I was just kidding, about the way Hicks's promotion was being explained.
  9. 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
  10. ashbury
  11. ashbury
    Word.
  12. ashbury
    It was the best of threads, it was the worst of threads. It was a Game Thread.
  13. ashbury
    Slama.
  14. ashbury
    The.
  15. ashbury
    I will show off my scouting ability by saying that triples are a very good thing.
  16. 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.
  17. ashbury
    I call shenanigans, right there at the start.
  18. ashbury
    And, funnier.
  19. ashbury
    The first rule of Cat Fight Club is: You do not talk about Cat Fight Club. The second rule of Cat Fight Club is: You do not talk about Cat Fight Club. Third rule of Cat Fight Club: Someone yells stop, goes limp, taps out, the cat fight is over. Fourth rule: only two cats to a fight. Fifth rule: one cat fight at a time. Sixth rule: no shirts, no shoes. Seventh rule: Cat Fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: If this is your first night at Cat Fight Club, you have to cat fight.
  20. ashbury
    Morris's voice is less deep than I would expect from his demeanor. I would have expected more like Chris Finch from The Office.
  21. ashbury
    Ah yes, my drive back from Indianapolis to Minneapolis entirely via US 52 one Christmas Holiday season. I was a stubborn youth and would not deviate from my master plan.
  22. ashbury
    Maybe his new employer is paying all the relocation costs, so he's buying up what he can in ND so as to get his money's worth from the movers. Used riding mowers, concrete blocks, bushels of topsoil, lead pipes. He can sell any excess in Michigan.
  23. ashbury
    You never noticed she carries a bat?
  24. ashbury
    Plouffe is slow on the bases? But I re-learn that every game or two.
  25. ashbury
    The feeling of having a reprieve was brief, of course.
×
×
  • Create New...