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  1. ashbury
    Makes me want to buy a ball of twine at his hardware store, and then announce on my way out the door that my gay lover wants me to tie him up. / except someone will follow me home and light my very butch house on fire
  2. ashbury
    Probably a good question, but for a different thread.
  3. ashbury
    "No bad hops there." LOL.
  4. ashbury
    This past off-season it was $17.4M. That's a lot to pay for one year of a player's services. I don't think I want to make a QO to Dozier; he saw the soft market this past off-season, same as we did, and could decide the smart way would be to take the $17M and play it year to year from there on. Such a payday would put him halfway toward what he might receive for a 3-year deal on the open market. Maybe he sees it differently and would turn down the QO, thus rolling the dice. I wouldn't take that chance, as a GM. No way would I pay Escobar $17M for a season. Hopefully his agent will reach a good extension agreement with the team, something under $10M a year I suppose. Seems like the $17M could be put to better use. I'm of two minds about Berrios. Lock up young talent, yeah. But I saw him rubbing his upper arm between innings a game or two ago - it reminds me that pitching goes bad in the blink of an eye. I don't know how to balance the risk. It depends a lot on what he would sign for.
  5. ashbury
    Ben earned Honorable Mention in TD's Minor League Hitter Of The Month for his .787 OPS in May. http://twinsdaily.com/topic/30194-article-twins-minor-league-hitter-of-the-month-may-2018/?do=findComment&comment=755774
  6. ashbury
    That one bit was tongue in cheek. I certainly am not in any groups that feel especially targeted by law enforcement.
  7. ashbury
    Wait, the rules allow that?
  8. ashbury
    Is "window" a term this front office has used with any consistency, or it this how fans view the process based on other front offices? A tiny bit of web-searching didn't turn up Falvey talking about windows. What I can recall Falvey talking about is “long-term, sustainable, championship-caliber” when he was hired. (Similar quote here.) That's not necessarily at odds with trading prospects, but it's not especially congruent-sounding, either. They traded a lottery-ticket* pitcher to get Jake Cave. Someone of higher caliber would cost more than that. Would you trade Ben Rortvedt for a backup OF, for example? More importantly, if you forget about windows and focus on long-term sustainability, would most GMs? I have a feeling that this tangent may swamp the original topic. * By that I mean a player who hasn't even made it past short-season/rookie ball yet. Obviously no prospects are sure things. But then again, neither are established players - running a franchise involves weighing the relative risks...
  9. ashbury
    As I said above, even though I disagree strongly with the coaching decision, it probably was a close call either way, and neither choice was odds-on to score a run in the end. Not awful. But, I can't help it: another aspect was it being a tie game with the home field advantage. If this had happened in the top of the 8th in a tie game, I think I'd feel differently: you can't be satisfied with a tie, you want that lead run if you can possibly grab it. As the home team, I play it just a little more conservatively. Geez, I hope I'm done dissecting this little play now.
  10. ashbury
    Babe Ruth after 407 PA: 9 HR Babe Ruth rest of career: 10216 PA, 705 HR After a slow start this guy seems to be on a better pace now than the Babe. I rest my case.
  11. ashbury
    OK, so I'm going to backtrack a little. Read Justice Kagan's concurring statement (with Breyer also in support), about one-third of the way down in this copy of the decision: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/interactive/2018/06/04/supreme-court-ruling-in-colorado-bakers-case-read-decision.html She points out that the same commission had reacted differently when someone, a William Jack who is probably a religious conservative seeking to grind an axe, asked three different bakers to make him cakes with anti-gay verbiage on them. The commission had upheld those bakers' rights to not make such cakes. I'm going to take a hopeful view, and guess that the centrists on the court are looking for a less tainted case than this one, in order to make a lasting precedent on the merits of the subject, namely the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA) itself.
  12. ashbury
    Someone does something wrong, and if the commission (or other powers-that-be) that oversees things doesn't operate just-so, the perpetrator gets his or her way, regardless of the merits of the law itself or the merits of the specific case. That's just a little too snowflake-y for me. If I get pulled over for being spotted on the radar doing 75 in a 55 zone, can I contest the ticket if the officer mentions, "I've been seeing more and more gray-haired guys thinking they own the road," as he hands me the paperwork? And I still want to know why a baker or florist can't refuse service to a mixed-race wedding on the same grounds. Or simply a wedding involving a race not to one's liking, or a Presbyterian-Catholic wedding, or between a couple of stoners, or where the bride is already pregnant, or where the odds of a long and happy marriage are deemed inferior, or anything really, just because it violates the businessperson's sincere religious views. And I'm not even putting "sincere" in quotes there - it really is a principle that needs to be settled once and for all, with bright lines, that says to keep your own religion out of other people's day to day lives.
  13. ashbury
    OK, I'll belabor it some more, by adding that perhaps neither choice was even 50-50 to wind up with a run scored. Send the runner, and he's likely out. Hold him up, and Wilson likely fails to bring the runner home with 1 out, and the next batter likewise makes the third out. So the point isn't to castigate Glynn for not tallying a run. Still, it's Glynn's job to discern the 30% chance (Wilson and then Dozier) from the 20% (a bobble), and I don't think he succeeded there. It looks to me like Glynn's hands were palms down, indicating hold up at third, and then suddenly he's windmilling like he saw the LFer drop the ball or something.
  14. ashbury
    And Grichuk was also an Angels pick, so really you could swap him and Trout for discussion purposes. So just Mitchell.
  15. ashbury
    I see that as 100% on Glynn with his momentary indecision turning into a belated windmill that had no chance of working. Even without the stumble, by that point it no longer required a perfect play by the defense, merely a competent one. The only situational indicator, in favor of sending, was who was on deck: Bobby Wilson. But the standard advice not to make the second out at home was probably the stronger indicator, namely to hold up as planned.
  16. ashbury
    Dodgers picked him up on waivers during our run-up to the Rule 5 draft. He wasn't drafted, was simply added to their 40-man.
  17. ashbury
    Agreed. I'd add that he has improved to "adequate" on popups - it's still more likely for his shortstop to reach a foul pop than him, but at least he doesn't butcher the ones in fair territory. All in all, his strengths and weaknesses at the position add up to approximately adequate overall, which will be more than plenty if his bat meets expectations. I'd rather have Sano at third and Escobar at SS plus a real DH, than Sano at DH and Escobar at third with Adrianza at SS.
  18. ashbury
    No homers in May. b-r.com's game log gives links to the individual games. On May 2 he gave up a leadoff double, followed by a sac bunt and a single.On May 20, a leadoff walk, steal, wild pitch and sac fly. Gotta get that first guy. Mystery solved.
  19. ashbury
    If Mike Trout has offspring already, I would take a draft-and-follow strategy even if he is only 3 years old. As for the thread topic, I have literally no hopes one way or the other for whom the Twins draft; they are too far down in the pecking order for me to form an independent opinion. I know that the team will express surprise that whoever they pick would have dropped that far.
  20. ashbury
    I will. I haven't been seeing the "stuff" on his pitches these past few games like I thought was there earlier in the season. I looked up this pitch from April, and while it's a site that specializes only in highlights (built-in bias there), I don't remember seeing this kind of movement this week: https://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/mp4/2018/04/19/1951483483/1524158008909/asset_1800K.mp4 I would try hard to hold him out of several games and then see if his stuff rebounds from lighter usage. I imagine he's a gamer and won't pull himself out of availability willingly.
  21. ashbury
    Clear platoon split there, Platoon.
  22. ashbury
    Other splits brought to us by b-r.com. This year the Twins are 3-12 in games that are decided by 1 run. But they are not too good either in blowout games decided by 5 or more: 5-8. If I did my math right, that means we are to the good by a 16-10 win-loss in normal games. Let's hope for one of these today. Twins by either 2, 3, or 4!!!
  23. ashbury
    This statement somehow makes me feel very, very old.
  24. ashbury
    Did you know that for his career, Babe Ruth had an amazing OPS of 1.152 against right-handed pitching but against lefties he managed only a paltry 1.128?
  25. ashbury
    Credit where credit due: the redoubtable Deduno Abides, last year. http://twinsdaily.com/topic/26872-article-twins-minor-league-report-723-slegers-continues-strong-streak/?p=657028
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