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  1. ashbury
    Sigh. And then Julien goes and homers, mere minutes later, just to mess with me.
  2. ashbury
    Gonna stick my neck out and say he's punched his ticket on the Green Line to St. Paul, with more than two weeks to spare.
  3. ashbury
    That is probably what we're remembering, and misapplying to the DFA case.
  4. ashbury
    Concur. Stewart's low IP in the majors isn't due solely to injury. It's also due to him racking up a decent number of innings, but below the major league level, during his mid-20s, a period when good pitchers usually have established themselves.
  5. ashbury
    I don't think it was Soto, who was drafted in 2023 while Gray was still here. I forget which of those who were picked in 2024 was in the spot the Twins were awarded. Was it Kyle DeBarge? Anyway, yes, the extra draft pick matters, but 1) Petty was picked a little higher than the pick we were awarded, and 2) Petty was to some degree already panning out while there is greater risk associated with starting all over with a new pick, and 3) while I applaud planning for the distant future there is also value in having someone ready in the nearer term. All in all, chances are low that DeBarge (if it's him) is a straight replacement for what we lost in Petty, which is sometimes how it's portrayed.
  6. ashbury
    I'm wondering if Payton Eeles can be the next Eddie Gaedel.
  7. ashbury
    A second place finish for Cy Young is a tad better than "nice to have". And he was nearly as good in his other season here, except that he pitched in fewer starts. I really enjoyed the 2023 post-season and it wouldn't have happened without Gray. The price was high, however. I am torn; there is still a chance we regret this trade. Jorge Lopez, on the other hand, was not nice to have. He was a tremendous waste of trade capital. I can't believe how little the FO valued the pieces we offered Baltimore, and I can't believe how their analytics over-valued a flash in the pan reliever. There is a disconnect between the process that drafts these trade chips, and then values them for actual trades.
  8. ashbury
    Win Probability Added likely wasn't very good.
  9. ashbury
    Spell his name with one 'f' and you'll have better luck. 😀
  10. ashbury
    Spring Training Stats Are Extremely Important And All Roster Decisions Should Be Based On Them. Spring Training Stats Are Extremely Important And All Roster Decisions Should Be Based On Them. Spring Training Stats Are Extremely Important And All Work And No Play Makes Ashbury A Dull Boy.
  11. ashbury
    You raised a good point, and I can't find anything definitive. OOTP tries to mirror MLB rules pretty closely but certainly isn't authoritative for such situations - it lets me DFA someone on the 60-day so I'll assume it's legal, but with low confidence. But if the rules are strict like you suggest, either 1) they will opt to rip the bandaid off, so to speak, very soon and DFA him before ILing him, or 2) they are already on the hook given that he's injured and will have to let him accrue benefits for the whole season. The latter is a relatively minor financial aspect, and service time for a guy in his situation is not really an issue for a team - but the Twins have always had the philosophy, "watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves." We'll get a refresher course in rules arcana by watching what the Twins do, if no one here speaks up definitively before that.
  12. ashbury
    Welcome to TD, sonny. 😀
  13. ashbury
    Concur.
  14. ashbury
    I was slow to board the Griffin Jax Train, so I'm not making that same mistake with Sands who had a good season. Sands is da bomb, I'm here to tell ya!
  15. ashbury
    Twins win on an inside-out jam-job. I heard it on the radio so it must be so.
  16. ashbury
    Eighth inning, Total System Failure. Wow.
  17. ashbury
    I don't see much mystery as to Canterino's spot on the 40-man. He can go on the 60-day IL to begin the season if they need a spot (or, I suppose, right now if they need the spot urgently), a status that can go as long as they want until season's end, after which he will be DFA'ed/waived and not re-added to the 40. The only tiny intrigue is when do they actually DFA him, to minimize some other team picking him up on those waivers - unless they don't care in which case they simply release him after the DFA. Roster machinations aside, it's a shame for him as well as for the FO and fans who were looking forward to him making it.
  18. ashbury
    Only 7 Twin players in the FalVine Era (spanning 7 seasons not counting the shortened 2020) have played 150 games in a year. Two were last season, It's just not a given.
  19. ashbury
    Came across to me more as RandBalls Stu style of satire. Exaggeration to make a point. Not that satire can't be pedantic, I suppose.
  20. ashbury
    It's not unusual for teams to work out a trade after a Rule-5 pick is made, and now that I think about it I'm not sure why the sound logic you presented here wouldn't apply (in slightly different form to fit circumstances) in the majority of cases. "No," the original team says, "we like him too. Give us someone we like just as well."
  21. ashbury
    Seems the entire writing staff at Sawx Tawk are budding RandBalls Stus.
  22. ashbury
    Yes, it's true, this man had no neck.
  23. ashbury
    Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, uh, your facts, man.
  24. ashbury
    Teammate of Julian.
  25. ashbury
    The lessons I took from Buxton in '23 were If a talented defender isn't up to playing defense, he might be too physically limited to be at his best on offense either; Trying to protect a fragile player from injury by minimizing defense just means the injury will show up swinging the bat or running the bases or whatever; Players want to justify their guaranteed contracts by playing through pain but sometimes shouldn't; Players sometimes try to put off surgery until after the season but sometimes shouldn't.
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