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  1. ashbury
    I'm not possessive. I'd have to change my login name to ashbury's, if I was.
  2. ashbury
    Concur.
  3. ashbury
    "Who wants a cup of coffee in the majors? There might be an opening soon."
  4. ashbury
    You don't miss luxury until it's gone.
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  7. ashbury
    Close, but no style points.
  8. ashbury
    That which does not kill you makes you stronger. If those cookies make you weaker, consult a mortician.
  9. ashbury
    Fair, or foul? Are you hedging?
  10. ashbury
    The link didn't work correctly for me. All I got was some salt-and-pepper beardie dude at the 7:39 mark.
  11. ashbury
    Wade is on the 40-man, so it would not take much for him to get the call to the majors at any moment. His AAA numbers don't really have him knocking at the door, much less bashing it open, but he hasn't eliminated himself from consideration with his performance either, if another injury arises or if the FO sours on Cave as first in line. So he's on the bubble, and if the opportunity does come I hope he takes ahold of it. He'll never be more than an emergency/stopgap option in center field, but he could contribute in right or left for a good career - one additional coaching tip that works could do it for him, he's that close.
  12. ashbury
    Then you might be interested in this new stat I constructed. I call it "On Base Percentage", OBP for short, and baseball-reference.com already is showing it. I hope it really catches on! Polanco, Garver and Cruz lead the Twins in OBP, confirming our suspicion that they have been good on offense this year.
  13. ashbury
    Hey diehardtwinsfan, your name was in print today! RS, do Riverbrian and USAFChief next!
  14. ashbury
    What took you so long?
  15. ashbury
    Cron just took third on a single to left! Granted, he was off with the pitch. But, the man made it!
  16. ashbury
    Did you listen to the audio of that interview? Her guest broadened the subject to conquered peoples, and she responded to that tangent.
  17. ashbury
    Second base.
  18. ashbury
    Moderator's note: Folks, let's please not make the discussion be about fellow posters.
  19. ashbury
    Messing up's OK.
  20. ashbury
    Moderator's note: FINAL WARNING! Stop thinking you screwed something up.
  21. ashbury
    I'm pleased and flattered that you agreed with me. Let me return the favor by disagreeing with you. I don't think it's useful to compare strikeouts with balls put in play. It confuses the certainty of one result, versus uncertainty on a partial result, when the comparison should be on the approach before the first ball is pitched. What's missing when you say that a strikeout is wasted, is that there was not just the one opportunity, but (according to the umpire) three, namely the three strikes. Now, if the batter just stares at three pitches down the middle, that's certainly wasted. If he flails at three pitches outside of the strike one, that's wasted. If he takes cuts at strikes thrown but in a bad way (say, fooled by a change up or doesn't know how to read a curve), that's wasted. Even the kind of swing can be a bad idea, say an extreme launch angle when a gale is blowing in. But... a good approach and a good eye can still result in a strikeout, and in that case I don't necessarily have a quarrel with the outcome - it just didn't work, on that at bat. Let me turn it around. I could say, "Double plays are a completely wasted at bat. Nothing good can come from it. Nothing. Striking out at least meant you had a chance for a home run." You see how I'm reversing the comparison, one being the final result and the other incorporating the chances that a particular plate appearance had? None of this is to defend Sano's recent trips to the plate, which have been pretty brutal. It's the eye test that he's flunking, not simply the strikeout accumulation. He looks lost.
  22. ashbury
    I guess where relievers are concerned a Debacle is worse than an Experience?
  23. ashbury
    The chasing outside the zone would loom larger for me if he weren't swinging clean through so many strikes in the zone.
  24. ashbury
    No lude remarks, please.
  25. ashbury
    Now pitching for Minnesota, Sean "Hellza" Poppen.
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