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  1. ashbury
    On the recent broadcast I heard the announcer pronounce his name bay-REE-oce. Made me realize I had been doing it wrong. As with Arcia's name, I kind of hate to see us encourage what seems like a mangling of his name. / sorry to be a stick in the mud
  2. ashbury
    Eeenteresting. That's because Sano's a lock to go north with the big club? It is hard for me to understand the benefit they expect for him in AA, apart from the rust-shaking-off I mentioned.
  3. ashbury
    My experience two years ago was getting there early means getting free parking even on game days. What constitutes early is probably a good question though.Ten a.m. probably is pushing your luck. I think I was usually there before 9. As ChiTown said, if "all" you want is to watch drills and minor league games on the back fields, there's no admission charge as far as I know. Those games are interesting, with loosey-goosey rules - Morneau batted every inning, third I think, in one game I watched. Sometimes a pitcher hits his pitch count and there's two outs and they just end the inning rather than warm up someone to come in. A few other sandlot-style rules have escaped my memory at the moment - I don't think I ever saw them call for a ghost-runner. Probably plenty of courtesy runners though. Good times.
  4. ashbury
    I think you can make a strong case to start Sano at AAA, a decent case to start Rosario there, and a marginal case for Polanco to be up there at the outset. If Sano needed to shake the rust off then starting at AA might be called for but so far this Spring there's no evidence of that. Rosario didn't exactly shine at bat in AA but he didn't embarrass himself either. The problem for Polanco might be his progress on defense as much as offense. I don't see any of them as clearly unworthy of AAA if that's the direction the farm director wants to go, but I won't be outraged if any of them start at AA. Two out of three at AAA will suit me fine.
  5. 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.
  6. ashbury
    He'll need to pitch better than he did today, sometime soon, or nobody is going to take him at all.
  7. 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.
  8. 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
  9. ashbury
    FTFY. Sano's got 90 HR in 379 games. Quibble quibble quibble, I know.
  10. 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.
  11. ashbury
    I thought he was hired all at once.
  12. ashbury
    Hearing from Nick in 3... 2...
  13. 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.
  14. ashbury
    If that's played with regulation baseballs and not whiffle balls, I would have a jammed/sprained finger within 90 seconds.
  15. ashbury
    So it's actually Harmon?
  16. 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.
  17. ashbury
    I let Brunansky worry about tweaking the K's a little?
  18. 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."
  19. ashbury
    Why does the site software limit me to only one 'like' per post?
  20. ashbury
    Almost all kids choose to believe that.
  21. ashbury
    Our oldest boy was probably 3 or 4 when he first became aware of "Cubby Pott".
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. ashbury
    I don't know why more managers don't use this strategy.
  25. 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.
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