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  1. ashbury
    Kangaroo Kourt is now in session. What is the fine for a jinx of this magnitude?
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    I try my darnedest not to keep up with Sox news. But if he gone, I happy.
  5. ashbury
    Whose drunken fans do you rate as the best?
  6. ashbury
    So my paragraph wasn't a masterpiece. What else is new.
  7. ashbury
    Concur. That first baseman says a lot of things.
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    In that order? You're doing it wrong.
  9. ashbury
    You say that ev- Never mind. Don't change a thing.
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5d9BrLN5K4 To save anyone else the trouble.
  11. ashbury
    A good interview question for Max would be which language he curses in when he stubs his toe in the middle of the night on the way to the bathroom. I think he's really really more bi-lingual than fans are brought to believe, with this Der Schlager marketing and so forth. Listen to his interviews. He speaks 'Murican.
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    Comparing 1988 to 2018 on baseball-reference.com, I don't see much difference. Gary Sheffield came up at 19, Juan Soto came up at 19. Roberto Alomar along with 2 others was 20, Ronald Acuna along with 3 others was 20. For pitching, the Royals and Dodgers brought up a 20-year old each in 1988, the Braves (and no one else) had 3 20-year olds last season. And so on. If you rank hitters/pitchers by season-age, the top 30 look pretty similar to me in these two seasons. League-wide, average age (weighted by appearances) for batters went from 28.3 to 28.1 in that span. For pitchers, 28.5 to 28.4. You get that much variation just randomly year to year. If there truly was a difference in philosophy, with a greater weighting of young'uns, it ought to show up. If you mean something further back than 1988 when distinguishing "today's" game, well, 30 years is a long time, to me. Maybe a deeper analysis would turf up something, but these simple rankings and arithmetic-means don't. Batters 1988: https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/1988-standard-batting.shtml 2018: https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/2018-standard-batting.shtml Pitchers 1988: https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/1988-standard-pitching.shtml 2018: https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/2018-standard-pitching.shtml
  13. ashbury
    Sorry, not sorry I wasted your time. Seth's, on the other hand, is valuable. / edit - plus, I gave a better answer than Seth. That doesn't happen too often.
  14. ashbury
    I don't see Hawk Harrelson listed as a broadcaster for the Sox. Are the current guys any more tolerable? I always enjoyed hearing Hawk rationalize when his team was taking a beating, and I would hope there will be a lot of need for that in this series.
  15. ashbury
    Kepler's mother is American, he was doubtless fluent in English since childhood (his speech is unaccented), and he's been state-side for, what, nine years now? I would be shocked if he mutters anything in German in the dugout.
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    I don't know the answer to any of these, but I'm betting you're going to get a lot of inquiries of "which gate do you want to meet at?"
  17. ashbury
    Three of the last four first-round picks by the Twins have been outfielders (at least nominally, in the case of Rooker). If you're not going to draft pitchers until the third round or so, as a strategy to avoid the risk when developing arms, then you need to use those outfield bats as trade chips for the pitchers who have proven themselves. So, Larnarch first plus probably that draft pick second jump out at me as candidates for trading. The trick may be to find a trading partner who values corner outfielders, though...
  18. ashbury
    Sorry to waste your time.
  19. ashbury
    OK, so I utilized teh googlez to answer my own question: http://www.milb.com/roster/index.jsp?cid=77 Just 25-man rosters. Palm Beach 4, Bradenton 7, Charlotte 2, St Lucie 1, Jupiter 3. And our 8. Nice showing.
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    My "book" on Polanco has always involved questions about the arm, not the range.
  22. ashbury
    There are 12 teams in the league, so 6 per division. Is this a typical number of all-stars per team, or do they have 48-man squads for the game?
  23. ashbury
    "These are not the Sleestaks you are looking for."
  24. ashbury
    I didn't get around to saying that third base was the area that I was a bit concerned about. Thank goodness I kept quiet until after today's game, otherwise I would have sounded like a fool!
  25. ashbury
    I could move one to the Fun With Numbers thread, if you like.
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