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  1. ashbury
    I don't think anything you said is at odds with what I said. I agree, once they decided Curtiss was the guy to be replaced, choices were limited. I guess I'm taking issue, along with Chief, with the notion that Ozoria reaching AAA would be a huge success. Because Curtiss had done exactly that (reaching the majors, actually), and we have now cut ties with this huge success.
  2. ashbury
    It's true. And that's why deciding that a player, who has reached the big leagues (briefly) and is only 25, isn't going to make it, and needs to be DFA'ed to make room for someone else, and is traded for a guy much further back on the timeline toward reaching the majors, can't be viewed as a successful outcome. Can it? What we did get back is making the best of the situation, but that's all. And to my mind, Curtiss had better not amount to much with the Angels, or else this sequence of decisions is going to be very bad, no matter how Ozoria turns out, because of the nature of such lottery tickets. I can still root for this young kid to achieve his dream, without abandoning the skeptical view of how we got him.
  3. ashbury
    I got it from Chief. He got it from his great-grandchildren. / actually, for anyone still mystified, it's an anglicized corruption of the French phrase "tout de suite", meaning right away. Wikipedia says it dates back to WWI. I thought it was better known. Guess not.
  4. ashbury
    He also looks like Winston Churchill but then every baby looks like Winston Churchill.
  5. ashbury
    After having previously endorsed the notion, I'm cooling on it. Sure, every now and then it'd be a good high-level conversation (preferably over beers), and the occasional valuable observation might emerge. But everyone has a full-time job preparing for the actual opponents each week, and moreover you can't for example expect your D-coordinator to invest time speculating about a plan against your actual offense using defensive players he knows only vaguely about. Comparing game plans wouldn't be effective since on Sunday afternoon that isn't how the plans are put into operation - the elements of surprise and uncertainty don't lend themselves to cross-checking. Finally, it would be a hard task to manage the personalities of these two coaches poking their noses into the other's business - "all right, you've proved that no plan I can ever come up with is going to work. It's this crappy offensive line I have to work with. Are you trying to get me fired?"
  6. ashbury
    I'm not sure what you think is "undefined", but here is a specific link, and it mentions a specific percentage (52). https://www.twincities.com/2008/03/01/in-the-family-carl-pohlads-son-says-there-are-no-plans-to-sell/ It dates to 10 years ago, but I've never seen it recanted.
  7. ashbury
    Mmmm.... warm butter. But yeah, 149-107 is not a good outcome, nor a good reflection on the coach or players or anyone involved.
  8. ashbury
    Moderator's note: Despite a couple of moderators having already posted, I think I speak for the mod team in saying that I'm just not in the mood to keep order in a "she said, he said" thread if it's going to get contentious. Feel free to post an opinion, but let's not get into extended back-and-forths. We had one of those about a year ago: http://twinsdaily.com/topic/28264-miguel-sano-accused-of-assault-by-photographer/ . Try reading it from start to finish, and see if you can think of something that didn't already get said.
  9. ashbury
    Let the legal system play out, but this phrase is especially sickening: "beginning in 2004".
  10. ashbury
    My (hopefully) good-natured snark earlier aside, I'm not bothered by the trade. You aren't going to get much for a guy you are about to ask waivers on when adding a free agent. They couldn't have gotten much more for Curtiss prior to DFAing him either, since other teams probably value him about the same as the Twins FO does. Regarding the guy we got, he's so young and already has 2 professional years under his belt. I forget exactly how long these Dominican prospects have before becoming eligible for Rule-5. Five years, maybe six? If so, then he'll be only about 21 when the Twins have to make the first big decision about him, before they fully know what they have got. Kind of like the case with Jorge Polanco, and that one wound up being a bit painful to let the process play out. I'm glad they got a young prospect, but one this young is a bit of a mixed blessing.
  11. ashbury
    "My sixth round draft pick five years ago didn't pan out, but I did trade him for a light-hitting young shortstop. So I got that goin' for me, which is nice."
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  13. ashbury
    I was just about to post, "Carole, is that you?"
  14. ashbury
    Good. And there is a solution for that, if you're the pitcher: go ahead and mow 'em down at the top of the order the third time you do face them. It just won't be in the order you originally envisioned. But with enough success they'll put you out there in the first inning eventually.
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  16. ashbury
    Always a first time, honeybun.
  17. ashbury
    This kind of analysis might hold water, if roster sizes were much larger. If you could sign 100 players at 0.5 WAR each, perhaps you'd win a pennant, and perhaps without spending more than $60M on payroll. But the capability to condense all those wins (of the players you named) into one roster spot (Machado's), permitting you to acquire some additional wins with the roster spots that remain open, is huge when your aim is to build a championship team and you're limited to 25 players, several of which play essentially back-up minutes only. Someone like Machado doesn't have extra value over his nominal "wins added", to a team treading water. But to a team in contention, his dollar value is greater than what the WAR* value would suggest, because of the extra roster flexibility he brings you compared to all four of the guys you mentioned. * As always, I'm not wedded to a particular metric such as WAR, but to the concept that players contribute greater or lesser amounts toward winning and that this can be roughly measured or forecast.
  18. ashbury
    He's one of those players of whom opponents say, "he can beat you, even when he's not hitting." Which of course indirectly underscores how important the hit-tool is in our game most of the other times. He needs to figure out breaking-pitches-away, toot sweet.
  19. ashbury
    OR IS HE???? (just kidding) (or am I?)
  20. ashbury
    Geez, they kind of have to, don't they? Though hopefully it doesn't degenerate into "My squad is red hot, your squad ain't doodly squat."
  21. ashbury
    At catcher we have two guys coming off injuries that can have long-lasting consequences. In my thinking, either guy could come down with a recurrence, or a related malady, that suddenly leaves us short. Injuries are part of the game, and many are unforeseeable, but this situation seems higher risk than average. Who do we have stashed at AAA on a make-good contract, in case Willians suddenly is our starter and we have no backup?
  22. ashbury
    There actually is a Rule 6. But it's not a draft, it just explains what is done subsequently to drafting players via Rule 5.
  23. ashbury
    Ask Cuddyer to do that magic trick where he makes your drink disappear.
  24. ashbury
    Erors hapen. Nno wories.
  25. ashbury
    Everybody gets so chintzy with the consonants - give the man his two r's and two n's.
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