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  1. ashbury
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    A prospect has more trade value when not yet on anybody's 40-man roster, even if he will need to be added in the off-season. The Giants can do with him as they please for the rest of 2019, affecting no other player, now that they have him. I think that flexibility has to be taken into account on decisions like that.
  4. ashbury
    ... who's playing LF tonight.
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  6. ashbury
    I edt qckly lso.
  7. ashbury
    I took the liberty of editing the thread title to show CDT instead of CST. Gotta keep up with the times, you know.
  8. ashbury
    There's a center fielder batting in the #9 slot in tonight's lineup. Unfortunately, ours is on the IL.
  9. ashbury
    Thanks for putting this together. I've un-pinned my placeholder post. Murphy's Law, and all that. No harm, I hope.
  10. ashbury
    Buxton's pretty much my favorite Twin right now, so these injuries are killing me.
  11. ashbury
    LOL, I am now seeing a lot of online ads for selling my baseball cards, apparently from my having done one simple google search verifying what I was about to post the other day (about how far back sets of cards need to be, to be worth more than the cardboard salvage value). Still, better than the ads I was getting after Carole suckered me into clicking a link of hers in a game thread.
  12. ashbury
    That part of my comment, I had more in mind the other direction - removing guys from the 40 recently because they wanted them off of the 25 - thinking that it bodes well. Likewise Arraez somewhat leapfrogging Gordon for getting a major league look-see, but indeed they were both on the 40-man. Smeltzer, Poppen, Stashak, all were going to be eligible to be taken from us in December. So no, nothing like direct evidence. We see what we want to see, sometimes.
  13. ashbury
    Every team probably has 5 guys saying, "yeah, I can be that 26th man." Next year about this time, 4 of them will be agitating for the union to push for 27 paychecks.
  14. ashbury
    Thanks for thanking Carole. It's nice to be nice to the nice.
  15. ashbury
    "Until." Are we presupposing? Have you looked at his track record, such as his game log this year? He had a bad outing for SF on July 13, quite similar to what we've seen, with 3 runs given up without recording an out. Blew the save. Team lost. Then he came in to a game two days later and began a string of 7 appearances leading up to the trade, where he pitched an inning each time and gave up an aggregate of 2 hits and 1 walk, for an OPS-against of .212. (Yes, his BABIP was a little low. ) I mean, this is the nature of a relief pitcher. He gave us two truly terrible games. His record doesn't say this is who he is, though. He's a 31-year old athlete. I don't think it makes sense to throw out his entire recent body of work, and make extrapolations like "until" based on two games.
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    I avoid uttering that incantation, when I can help it. Too much temptation to include a curse word as a modifier in front. The guy turns 27 this December, so whatever else he is, he's not a prospect anymore. / edit - he is, however, a major leaguer again, according to reports today
  17. ashbury
    Checking the math... win one series-ender, then lose one series-ender... yes, yes, I believe you are correct. Has to be in that order.
  18. ashbury
    This current four-game losing streak has been hard on everyone's nerves. Hopefully the Twins figure out how to get back on track tonight.
  19. ashbury
    The eligibility question absolutely factors into the discussion, OTOH I think the FO is demonstrating that 40-man rostering issues won't always drive the decision on who gets a 25-man spot. Dobnak was awesome last night. His fastball got faster as the game went on, and he was hitting 95 in his final inning of work. (A scouting report I've seen places him much slower, so somebody in the organization may deserve kudos.) He gave up the one earned run legitimately, with a clean single and a double to start things off in the 6th, but he nearly worked out of it and the defense behind him did not do him any particular favors. Perennial ashbury-whipping-boy Jake Cave got a first inning single but promptly erased the good he had accomplished by trying to stretch it to a double. Two outs at the time, so maybe it's justifiable, but it was not close. Very crisply played game. They completed 5 innings with a 2-0 score in barely over an hour. Additional scoring ran the total to a very pleasant two and a half hours on a nice summer night with a spectacular sunset as a bonus. TD stalwart sampleSizeOfOne joined me for this night of baseball in Rhode Island.
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    I was at the game in Pawtucket last night. I found the video of Gordon's HBP interesting because the PbP guy had the same first impression I did, that it hit him in the foot. At the game, I was speculating that he hurt his knee in trying to get out of the way. The video stops before he actually comes out of the game, and he was smiling, but it looked worse later on - they thought he might be able to stay in and he was trying to walk it off, but then the knee buckled under him. And then trying to walk back to the dugout after being removed, it seemed to buckle again. Hopefully it was just a painful thing, causing that, and not structural damage. I was totally unaware of the guy who came in for Gordon, Jake Hirabayashi. Just up from GCL after being drafted in 2019, kind of a strange choice for a AAA fill-in. He didn't do very well, especially on a challenging roller to 2B that looked very odd as he tried to come up with it and throw. I really would have liked to see Gordon get a chance at that'un. It's a difficult play that major leaguers do All The Time. More later, gotta run...
  21. ashbury
    /winnar /thread
  22. ashbury
    Douglas Adams is only skin deep but Dorothy Parker goes clean to the bone.
  23. ashbury
    Normal Twins Fan: SEASON OVER. Any Vikings Fan: hold my beer ...
  24. ashbury
    8 was a nice touch. I missed a few innings of the next game too, as a result.
  25. ashbury
    Yah, my first day on the new slo-pitch team went badly too.
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