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  1. ashbury
    I'm wondering if the entire purpose of the undertaking was the Texas cap - if you speak any Spanglish.
  2. ashbury
    A RandBalls Stu headline, complete with a RandBalls Stu illustration. This was seen on Reddit, which has its share of RandBalls Stu's, so to speak. Have these caps been confirmed in the wild?
  3. ashbury
    I have the impression the present Twins FO steers away from that sort of player. The Hit tool might be the one exception where that tool alone can allow a player to have a career, and the Twins had one of the best in that single dimension when they had Luis Arraez (who isn't too much to write home about with any of the other 4 traditional tools), but then they traded him away. Having "the fastest player in the Florida State League" would have seemed like a very Terry Ryan type of thing to lay claim to, though. Back in the day. "Man, if we can just teach him to hit a curveball, and to track a fly ball, man, we'd really have something. If he could pop a homer now and then, that is. Don't know what to do about that rag arm. Guess he'll play left. He can really cover some ground when he isn't doing 180s and even 360s out there."
  4. ashbury
    Chief is so old, he was here BEFORE the beginning. I'm talking Book of Genesis of course.
  5. ashbury
    I have time for this. 😀 Here are the pertinent dates for transactions having bearing on his 40-man status from his MLB.com page. August 8, 2019 Minnesota Twins selected the contract of Randy Dobnak from Rochester Red Wings. August 15, 2019 Minnesota Twins optioned RHP Randy Dobnak to Rochester Red Wings. September 16, 2020 Minnesota Twins optioned RHP Randy Dobnak to Twins Alternate Training Site May 3, 2021 Minnesota Twins optioned RHP Randy Dobnak to St. Paul Saints. September 16, 2022 Minnesota Twins sent RHP Randy Dobnak outright to St. Paul Saints July 30, 2024 Minnesota Twins selected the contract of RHP Randy Dobnak from St. Paul Saints. September 18, 2024 Minnesota Twins sent RHP Randy Dobnak outright to St. Paul Saints. September 29, 2024 Minnesota Twins selected the contract of RHP Randy Dobnak from St. Paul Saints. November 5, 2024 Minnesota Twins sent RHP Randy Dobnak outright to St. Paul Saints. To summarize, he was optioned during each of three years 2019-21, so after that, by league rules, he had to pass through waivers in order to be outrighted to the minors again. He didn't pitch in the majors in 2023. And I believe that waivers are good for the remainder of a given season. So by my count, he's cleared waivers twice. Which, of course, is kind of a lot, if other teams coveted him.
  6. ashbury
    Well, in fairness, there might be a secondary clue that would rule out Samwell.
  7. ashbury
    Indeed. Why wouldn't it?
  8. ashbury
    Possibly some general managers, too. All they needed to do was guarantee him a contract, instead of what he signed with the Twins for.
  9. ashbury
    Let's see, 16 games, but there are only 30 teams. Which two teams will have two games? Ima guess Red Sox and Yankees. Checking... huh. Cubs and Nationals.
  10. ashbury
    I wonder if Oriole fans would be as charitable. I believe one of their players had to come out of the game after being plunked.
  11. ashbury
    Exit velocity against a motley collection of opponents may or may not have greater meaning than the traditional Spring stats, though.
  12. ashbury
    The players that the Twins could&should trade are precisely the players the Rockies (or other teams) won't want or accept in trade.
  13. ashbury
    Yeah, a .647 OPS built upon a batting average of .107 is borderline hilarious. All three of his base hits have gone over the fence. Maybe it's time to launch this year's Fun With Numbers thread.
  14. ashbury
    Teams are not obligated to announce waivers publicly, and often don't. DFA is usually a little easier to know, because it's what removes a player from the 40-man, and we notice (if for no other reason) because a new player has been added. You know waivers have happened implicitly, after certain moves are made, for instance Randy Dobnak being sent to AAA yet again; the DFA period is longer than the waiver period and the latter may occur anytime during the former. Of course, this in turn requires accurate understanding of roster rules, which is the topic right now. The OOTP game has Rule-5 drafts, and I seem to recall being unable to swing a trade of such a player - I thought it was merely a quirk of the programming, but maybe it turns out that the game is spot-on 100% accurate in this detail. I'll have to check again sometime.
  15. ashbury
    Thanks! Please ask this high-ranker to get MLB's online Glossary updated/corrected/clarified so that I don't pass incorrect information thinking it's official. The Glossary is a fantastic resource and I use it often. It would be simpler if the Glossary left out the sentence about working out a trade with the original club. Pass the player through waivers, return the player to the original club, and then after that the clubs can do what they want. I often try to fact-check what I write* but I don't bother trying to find a second source for something mlb.com itself is telling me. * and more often don't 😀
  16. ashbury
    A few right-handers.
  17. ashbury
    In a similar vein, when at the ballpark I always ensure that I am seated in the area where beer and hot dogs are served, rather than down a few yards below where the people are sweating from exertion and sometimes even getting hurt.
  18. ashbury
    I think you are referring to the Jorge Lopez trade? I was lukewarm over it that day. My one post about it referred to him as a waiver-wire pickup, referenced non-trivial prospect capital to get him, and I expressed qualms about him turning back into a pumpkin, Still, I sandwiched in a comment that it was a reasonable trade; I'm not even sure what my intent was with that contradictory statement, except that for a long while I kept having faith that our FO was capable of sifting through all the data to find gems that looked like flashes in the pan to me. Have at it: Day-of comments have nothing to do with what I was saying, though, which was that Sonny Gray was a trade that has worked out (for the time being, until we know Chase Petty's destiny), and the Jorge Lopez trade absolutely did not. Certainly a FO must make decisions; but it's totally fair to review those decisions later on and it's part of how you judge a FO, by their results. As you say, it's easier to grade trades later on, so I didn't think what I said was the least bit controversial.
  19. ashbury
    If the Twins and Phils were in agreement on the framework of a trade, I don't think they would need to go through this process. Rule-5 allows the trade to take place without giving any other teams a shot at the player. And then the Twins could option the player to the minors, which would presumably be the motivation for giving the Phillies anything in trade. https://www.mlb.com/glossary/transactions/rule-5-draft
  20. ashbury

    A Surprising Spring Stat

    ashbury commented on Paul D's blog entry in Paul Danesi

    Yeah, it being nearly mid-March, I'm inclined to say wait until the other teams send their AA and AAA pitchers to the minor league fields and find out what happens next with the strikeouts. 😀
  21. ashbury
    No. Waivers happen when you want to remove someone from the 40-man and it's not a trade. DFA occurs first (usually) or simultaneously in all the cases. Even if you're releasing a guy you have to put him on waivers first in case some bottom-feeder team wants to jump the gun and claim him rather than let him pick who he wants to sign with.
  22. ashbury
    This likely sums it up. Other teams have scouting and talent-evaluation departments too. If two or more teams disagreed with the Twins' stance favoring someone costing money like Bader over Keirsey, they would make a competitive trade offer and the Twins likely would accept. Additionally, being actually "elite" among centerfielders is a very high bar to reach. It's unclear to me that Keirsey ranks higher than "average" in this realm. I think it's very likely that most organizations have someone in their high minors with skills similar enough to Keirsey that a trade for anything substantial would be pretty unlikely. And that in turn makes him a spare part, waiting for an opportunity. IMO that opportunity will come with the Twins as easily as with some other organization.
  23. ashbury
    I am reading your post as "Carl Pavano," just to be different.
  24. ashbury
    Apparently you CAN option someone when they're injured?
  25. ashbury
    He did it on purpose. I'm convinced of that. He went up to the plate and tried to do well, the jerk.
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