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  1. ashbury
    I imagine some came close to par for 18 holes. 😀
  2. ashbury
    Most years, the spring headlines are, "Player X Arrives in Best Shape of Career." This year it's shaping up as, "40-Man Roster Arrives in Best Shape in Baseball History."
  3. ashbury
    Still holding out hope for Ricky Nolasco. Yeah, I think he moved out of the area a few years ago, but could come back for a sweet deal such as this.
  4. ashbury
    Always hilarious to me, that on first or second down the officials take a good guess and spot the ball where they feel it makes sense, but then later in the series it becomes necessary to measure with a micrometer and take a timeout for video replay to make sure they spotted it precisely. On fourth and inches, it could well have been the first down running play that was the difference but didn't get pinpointed. Football!
  5. ashbury
    I look at it this way. If a gun were held to his head and he had to vote for Ichiro, he would have filled out his ballot a certain way with 10 candidates. Now, go back to normal and absent the coercion, he leaves Ichiro off the ballot, and a specific Candidate #11 is added. His powers of prognostication are so good, he knows Ichiro will gain election regardless. What do these same mental powers tell him about his pet Candidate #11? Shouldn't they tell him it's a vain effort from the outset? Candidate #11 is never getting in. The HoF process was set up to let these voters choose 10 candidates, already a bit of slight overkill in order to assure no one worthy is not given plenty of opportunity. Enough with the Game Theory hijinks.
  6. ashbury
    I used to complain about the ads TD was subscribing to, until Brock took me aside and gently explained that they merely connect to the ad server, and it's the server checking my laptop's cookies that explains what I see. I stopped my kvetching. 😀 Later on I signed on with the Caretaker program.
  7. ashbury
    A shot, but it would have been a miracle play. The throw was a prayer, the receiver was off-balance. Woulda been one to remember.
  8. ashbury
    False. They drive Fords.
  9. ashbury
    Drake and Kendrick Lamar have nothing on Twins Daily.
  10. ashbury
    His arm isn't adequate for the most demanding positions, and yet the plays that stand out for me involve failings between the ears, and I dislike ever saying that. The AFL double-play ball I mentioned was a little underhand toss. There was a delayed decision on a throw to home this past season that cost a run. Those two stand out to me and I don't have positive memories on defense to balance that out for him.
  11. ashbury
    Gladden to Olson: "Drama Warrior." 😀
  12. ashbury
    They obviously did. However one play, an easy double-play grounder, was enough to convince me otherwise. The experts labored under the heavy disadvantage of having seen more of him. 😀
  13. ashbury
    Hilarity for three long counts at the line of scrimmage.
  14. ashbury
    I Was Today Years Old when I first heard of the NFL rule called unfair acts.
  15. ashbury
    It's even worse, by a few months, than you say, because when they sent him to the Arizona Fall League the off-season after they acquired him, he still was playing the majority of his innings at SS, with only 5 games in CF. This mistake is seared into my memory because it was one of the years I made the trip. Next season begins in October, for the prospects. It's frustrating for a long-time fan like me, who has very little inside-baseball knowledge, to feel like the professional talent evaluators were slower to reach the right conclusion. I would love to know what they were thinking - what they were seeing that I didn't. Better than the average human being at the necessary skills, sure; but good enough compared to other candidates?
  16. ashbury
    It's entirely possible he and his agent decide he's money ahead to accept the QO and then try for the multi-year contract a year hence; he'll get slightly better offers without the burden of the draft pick attached to him. This would be in a case where the agent estimates that the free-agency offers AAV will be somewhere in the neighborhood of the QO value, or of course lower. (The logic would not apply to someone expecting 6@$30M+ for instance.) Then you're paying top-dollar for a singles hitter for another year.
  17. ashbury
    Similar numbers with better defense (not that Castro is a Gold Glover at SS or anywhere else) means not similar players. Not sure why you're bringing up Willi, though. The question was why Arraez, with his lofty BA, doesn't score more runs. Especially given the dismissal of his low RBIs as not being part of his game and thus not even worth holding against him as a player overall. BA is important. It's what makes Luis Arraez a legitimate major leaguer. But BA is not the only measure of a player's offense.
  18. ashbury
    Season, after season, after season. Sign me up for trading for a player who's a little luckier than him.
  19. ashbury
    Look at their minor league results at similar ages. Neither comp is especially close with the bat I'm one of the bigger ERod skeptics at this site, and I was woofing for Kepler from the start, but Max was much less compelling as a prospect.
  20. ashbury
    I don't need to reach consensus on an exact amount. Another poster suggested something like 6/$200M, which is along the lines I was thinking, as the Buy It Now Price like on EBay to shut out all other buyers before the auction takes place. I just mostly wanted to make sure this angle is included in the overall thought process. I don't believe an extension would be team-friendly like 2 years for $20M apiece - not that anyone has mentioned that figure, but the conversation had seemed pretty sunny and casual on what "an extension" would mean to make a trade worthwhile. Even with new owners, a one-time splurge of another $30M per year on an extended contract would be a record setter for a pitcher for this franchise, and might be the limit of even their generosity, so it needs to be carefully considered by Falvey, in relation to other big-splash moves he might want to make instead. And I can't imagine the Pohlads signing off for $200M, until the new buyer has in turn signed off for their $2B or whatever. Trading for Cease now might have to happen without an extension in place.
  21. ashbury
    Have you by any chance looked at Dylan Cease's post-season resume? 😀
  22. ashbury
    Folks keep saying this. What do you think are the basic outlines (years, AAV) of a contract offer that Dylan Cease would actually accept, one year away from free agency, from a new team like the Twins with whom he has no established relationship except as a divisional rival?
  23. ashbury
    Almost as though they had someone else's best interests at heart than the Twins. That's why you have to offer Vazquez as a sweetener along with Paddack.
  24. ashbury
    Yes. 😀 Not going to respond line by line, but on this one: the Twins got out-bid by Cleveland, who offered him $12M and he took it. Would you have gone to $13M to try to retain Santana? The player does have some say in the matter, once they earn rights to free-agency.
  25. ashbury
    Can't-miss prospects Byron Chourio and Jose Salas going to the Pads would carry a certain poetic symmetry. 😀
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