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Everything posted by ashbury

  1. ashbury
    Bremer, on 27 year old Ian Miller: "first taste of the big leagues." There's some sunny optimism, for ya.
  2. ashbury
    Noooooo!!!! Leave the reverse-jinx in place until game's end!
  3. ashbury
    Eddie?!?!? That was unreal!
  4. ashbury
    ROSARIO !!!!
  5. ashbury
    In summary: I LIKE HOMERS!
  6. ashbury
    Great insurance run!
  7. ashbury
    I would be perfectly satisfied if the bombas came with such frequency that there was rarely anyone on base when they happened, perforce.
  8. ashbury
    Won't last, but fun to dream about.
  9. ashbury
    ARRAEZ !!!! ... and be counted, for two runs!
  10. ashbury
    "Your Honor, the Twins hazed me and physically abused me when I was with them. I want to go to the Giants. They don't beat anybody."
  11. ashbury
    He said so, in a post-game interview, weeks ago.
  12. ashbury
    And they will be turned down. Short of malfeasance by the Giants being uncovered, such a transaction would open a huge can of worms for the league going forward. Players go to a new team under what I once heard (regarding a used car I bought) called a Texas Guarantee : if Dyson breaks in half after the transaction is complete, we get to keep both pieces.
  13. ashbury
    Forget it. He's rollin'.
  14. ashbury
    Ceiling: Perennial All-Star Floor: Jim Hoey or less Guys like that keep getting chances, because every organization figures, what if you could cut down the walks? But the guy isn't walking batters on purpose, so it's a major project. Chalmers is a guy to watch, no question.
  15. ashbury
    Yeah, I wonder if a careful study would actually bear that out, or if we just mentally discard the cases where it works out less well.
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  17. ashbury
    In mid-season trades, the teams exchange medical reports. Trades aren't contingent on a medical exam, unless there is a known problem.
  18. ashbury
    I don't want Perez either, but when I combed through our 40-man, he wound up as the 12th man I added to my playoff pitching staff anyway, for severe lack of competent alternatives. The front office tried 30 pitchers over the course of the season, so I don't think some diamond was left in the minor league sand, untried
  19. ashbury
    I know, but then my next choice (before reading this article) for the final spot is Thorpe, and he brings even less to the table. All the righties in the remainder bin are going to serve up meatballs to batters from either side of the plate, I am afraid.
  20. ashbury
    As did we.
  21. ashbury
    Can a RandBall's Stu satire piece be far behind?
  22. ashbury
    I could quibble some, on the rationale getting down to the list of final-add candidates (my own handicapping puts Perez as the last arm added). But when looking at Stashak/Littell/Graterol I concur completely that they belong and the rest do not. I don't even consider Gibson, as I think he's just too depleted. And I concur with 12 arms and therefore 13 bats, as there is not a single pitcher on this "outside looking in" list I want to face to even one batter in games that matter, whereas my final add among the bats has a way or two to beat the other team in the right circumstance (and I don't have a 14th bat who I'd consider bumping the pitching staff down to 11 for one series). The 40-man really is this depleted. It's not a question of leaving off deserving candidates. We're scraping bottom to find 25 who are even worthy.
  23. ashbury
    Team options generally come with a buyout price, so while a fresh option rather than extension sounds odd, perhaps the right balance between risk to the player and risk to the team could be worked out along those lines. A next buyout would need to be larger than the present paltry one of $300K, but maybe not 10X that. At this age there are fewer precedents to go by (not that I've researched it). A player in his spot may consider it best to ask "give me money this coming year (i.e. exercise my option), and a little guarantee for next (let's agree on a new option)", when multi-year full-guarantees are no longer being offered to him because of age and career-ending injury risk. Conversely, the team says, "we'll guarantee you $2M now, in effect bumping your 2020 salary to 2019's, if you agree to play for $10M in 2021 at our option," giving them some cost certainty. Maybe this is a sweet spot for both, or something close - or maybe I'm nuts, and they go some different route. Separately, it's entirely possible that with his current wrist tendon problem, he hangs it up after this season.
  24. ashbury
    Concur with diehard about the walks. His pitching coach in his prior organization spoke of him needing to simplify his mechanics, which is a long term project and would appear to still be a work in progress. A string of a few good games isn't going to move the needle sharply, in prospect rankings, and the Florida State League has a reputation for being a pitcher's league (compared say to the high-A California League), so I would be cautious about raising expectations too high. Still, he's what we got for Fernando Rodney, and so the Twins' scouts clearly saw something they liked - he was apparently on their radar on draft day back in 2015, too. One to watch, and probably one of the 50 most important prospects in the system - I haven't constructed a list to say whether there are 25 other pitchers better.
  25. ashbury
    I'd like more of a track record on him, facing major leaguers, but the decision has to be made on whatever record there is. I'm concerned about batters on bad teams going after pitches outside the strike zone, in case we're facing a team with patient batters with better pitch recognition. So I'm glad when he strikes out the side against the Royals, but I'm not convinced.
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