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  1. ashbury
    Moderator's note: This bickering tangent, about who knows anything with certainty, has nothing to do with Seth's response to someone complaining that Buxton will receive a pay increase relative to 2018, namely that the arbitration system under the Basic Agreement bakes pay raises into the system, and I ask that it stop.
  2. ashbury
    Nothing about a MiLB deal obligates the team to do anything. I think the concern being expressed is about the front office not having the discipline to leave the spare tire in the trunk if none of the tires on the ground are running flat. And maybe, given past experience, that's a fair concern. But a signing itself, if one does occur, shouldn't be.
  3. ashbury
    I suppose the hope would be to use such luck to balance out certain kinds of bad luck. For instance a couple of starters go on the 60-day DL during spring, and only one of the young guys is deemed ready to face major league hitting full time. With spots on the 40-man thus available, you have someone you can plug in right away; if he does well, then you have an interesting decision to make in 60 days. I believe that would be the thinking.
  4. ashbury
    Get a few new guys and then depend on Team Chemistry to solve everything.
  5. ashbury
    So do most NL pitchers. And PCL/IL pitchers if they get the chance (in the NL vs AL, I mean). Must be something in the water at those NL ballparks, it defies explanation.
  6. ashbury
    In addition to points made by others, this is just not a point of view that succeeds in any form of business. You're talking about the concept of a sunk cost. All the costs you mention are involved in having a chance to develop a good major league pitcher. When it doesn't work out, it's just a cost of doing business. I'm actually more bullish on Slegers than most here, but if the team determined he was that far down the totem pole among starters, then you cut bait with him regardless of what's been invested. That investment is gone, and what matters is the present status of the investment. You don't decide whether to sell Sears stock because of what you paid for it. You decide based on what it's worth now versus your forecast going forward. (Well, uh, too late, for that analogy.)
  7. ashbury
    Besides the mystery guest, what are the chances that Brian Duensing is also included, as a sweetener to the deal?
  8. ashbury
    Cncr.
  9. ashbury
    The waiver period lasts 3 days, right? So the Twins apparently did not put him on waivers at the same time they DFA'ed him. A team has 10 days to decide what to do with someone, once they're designated. This episode is a good example of the separation between the two processes.
  10. ashbury
    Your memory is apparently better than mine, and I don't have time to go back and re-read my review of it earlier in this thread, so I guess we'll go with that.
  11. ashbury

    Flying

    ashbury replied to Squirrel's topic in The Sports Bar

    Au contraire. A friend took me up in his single-engine craft, and let me operate from the co-pilot's seat for a while. It was similar to this slick looking model: Just during level flight. Not during take-off or landing. LOL I also boast extensive experience with MS Flight Simulator.
  12. ashbury
    I hope his hamstring is better by Spring Training. That's why he was limping all the way around the bases, right?
  13. ashbury
    At this moment, I believe the chance is low of Buxton filing an official grievance regarding the lack of September call-up. But... would the formal offer of a long-term extension give him ammunition for one? "Hey, apparently I wasn't good enough in their eyes last September, now four months later they want me on a multi-year contract? What changed during the off-season?" I'm no lawyer but my instinct would be to tread carefully if I were in the Twins front office.
  14. ashbury
    Peter Griffin's long-lost relative?
  15. ashbury

    Flying

    ashbury replied to Squirrel's topic in The Sports Bar

    Oh, I forgot to mention. Did you see in the news about an emergency landing at O'Hare, on a United flight from San Francisco, the other day? My daughter was a passenger. Fortunately the loss of hydraulics in the landing gear was worked around, and the plane landed without damage to anyone or anything - except damage to psychic well-being of course.
  16. ashbury
    I live to serve.
  17. ashbury
    How good is the Bears' kicker?
  18. ashbury
    ... and take the White Sox with you!
  19. ashbury
    How do you go into a game with literally no backup plan if your kicker ruptures a hamstring? I know rosters aren't inexhaustible, but from all appearances their punter had never had any repetitions at place-kicking and was just winging it.
  20. ashbury
    Finding some solitary diamond in the rough, down at the amateur athlete level, could be genius. But going with it as a guiding strategy? This reminds me of the draft where Terry Ryan went for a lot of college relievers who he wanted to convert to starters - there aren't too many market inefficiencies out there. Call me skeptical but always hopeful.
  21. ashbury
    Nonsense. Here is video from that iconic base-running play he made in 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJlB5K6JXm4
  22. ashbury
    I find it appealing to know that the HoF's voting rules specify that automatic standards are not to be applied. It's assumed that voters should use their judgement. If eras change, voters should take that into account. The fact that nobody hits .400 or wins 30 games anymore doesn't mean the players all turned crappy or anything.
  23. ashbury
    Polanco is always retired in the first inning? That can't be the correct answer.
  24. ashbury
    It worked! The Twins gave up and went to plan B when Slegers answered the phone.
  25. ashbury
    Well, "character" is one among several explicit criteria. From the Hall's statement of the rules for election: 5. Voting: Voting shall be based upon the player's record, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character, and contributions to the team(s) on which the player played. I applaud that character is permitted to be considered by the voters. But there isn't a separate statement about morals, such as "only those of high morals may be selected," which a phrase like "morals clause" will imply to some readers. And the voters are at liberty to weight these various criteria any way they see fit. If eventually the voters elect Bonds or Clemens, there is no clause in the voting rules saying they shouldn't have.
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