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  1. ashbury
    I'm not sure someone with Kirilloff's accumulated service time can take a year or two off, and then decide, "huh, ya know what, I think I'd like to play for some other team from now on."
  2. ashbury
    Maybe ask Ted Turner. He's still alive.
  3. ashbury
    I dunno. Jay Leno probably "loses money" each year on the collector cars he owns. America's Cup competitors lose money when they race. There's a fun factor of owning certain things, particularly when enough other people share in that fun and will bail you out when it is time to sell.
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  5. ashbury
    These guys do not have enough money to buy the Twins.
  6. ashbury
    In that case Larnach batting 4th wasn't the best idea.
  7. ashbury
    Raya, Adams, and Canterino are 3 of the 21 pitchers on the 40-man who are likely to be non-factors in the Twins opening day 2025 plans. Raya has as good a chance of any of these three to exceed expectations and make a case to be brought up late in the season. Everything has to fall into place perfectly, though, including to demonstrate he can handle a big-league workload. Even in a bullpen, it's harder than at AAA, and if he's a starter he has no margin for unreadiness if brought up. All we can do is hope. He's still so young! I hate aspects of the MLB roster rules.
  8. ashbury
    He and Correa were the leaders in OBP last season. Just sayin'. But if Sale pitches to more than 9 batters then this guarantees Wallner two opportunities to bat against a lefty before he himself exits the game early. That might be the actual reason. It's "prove it" time if he wants to play fulltime. (Larnach would be batting second in that scenario, though. Never mind.)
  9. ashbury
    We heard news today. Didn't have me whistling a jaunty tune though.
  10. ashbury
    By the way, William IV, are you aware of the TD Twins Players Project? Since you did your series of random player lookbacks, this project has taken on a life of its own. You could invest a little additional time and work up full bios of the players you highlighted. Just a thought. https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-players-project/
  11. ashbury
    Bobby Knight: Dead!
  12. ashbury
    Fun predictions. My predictions are not fun, so kudos to you.
  13. ashbury
    E Football S Football P Football N Football The initials have stood for this for decades now.
  14. ashbury
    Augie Ojeda?
  15. ashbury
    Not unless Bashbury or Cashbury makes an unannounced visit.
  16. ashbury
    Luckily. Because I was about to post something much earthier but in a similar vein. Those forearms have me thinking Punto also.
  17. ashbury
    I hope the Pohlads have hired a good consultant to make this selection, because someone who dresses like a slob and owns only one home in Lehigh Acres might slip through the cracks here and get mislabeled. Florida's full of these posers.
  18. ashbury
    With all this talk about Tommy John, there has to be some truth to it. Where there's smoke there's usually fire. Who is behind this coverup?!!!1!!eleventy!!???
  19. ashbury
    I was gonna this year but other commitments have precluded it.
  20. ashbury
    Comparing his 2023 to 2024, one thing that jumps out at me is his success when putting the ball in play on the first pitch. In 2023 that OPS was 1.452, and in 2023 it was .709. Across the league it's typical to elevate your OPS on those first-pitch swings (.905 vs an overall .711 in 2024), but for Julien it was extreme on the plus side in his first year and then it was more than gone the second year. Now, this is statistically lacking in significance for an individual player, with 43 and 33 PA to work with respectively in the case of Julien. And another poster noted his elevated BABIP in 2023. Still, small-sample data can be in support of the eye-test, which in the case of Julien is an almost pathological lack of aggressiveness at the plate. There's a similar eye-test regarding his defense at 2B, which by my recollection is he did okay when the play was within his range and needed to be quick, but if he "had time to think about it" the throw could go astray. I'm not fond of applying the term head-case very frequently, especially because only an insider can make that judgment, but for Julien I think there's a chance that a specialist in sports psychology could do as much good as any of the coaches in their specific skill domains.
  21. ashbury
    🝄, 🝄 Oh, no, said me gotta go Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, baby 🝄, 🝄 Oh, baby, me gotta go
  22. ashbury
    As with the old cliche about sausage, I do not actually LIKE knowing the details about how projections are made, as it reduces my confidence in the process rather than increasing it. 😀
  23. ashbury
    She's just a spokesperson. She doesn't actually own Lancôme.
  24. ashbury
    This year, like many under the FalVine regime, I see a very wide range of possible outcomes. By contrast, teams like the White Sox are a potential 100-loss team with zero chance of achieving 100 wins, while the Dodgers are a potential 100-win team with zero chance of suffering 100 losses. With these Twins, I think either outcome could occur - if everything falls right into place with no key injuries to veterans and with some breakthroughs by the young core we've been waiting on they could match the 2019 win total and breeze into the post-season, while lengthy IL stints for each of the Usual Suspects and continued stall-outs or regressions of the young'uns could bring us back to Total System Failure times again. Put me down for 78 wins, but I'm prepared to be way off by season's end.
  25. ashbury
    They want to view it as a revenue center, and are coming around to the view that it's a cost center. Or at least, that view is congruent with what we are seeing. Hopefully a new ownership sees it as the marketing tool that it is.
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