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  1. ashbury
    Highly respectable response.
  2. ashbury
    It's important for a starter to be able to relieve himself on the mound rather than ask someone in the bullpen to help.
  3. ashbury
    Enjoyable - the runner had absolutely no clue this ball could possibly be caught. Note that the cutoff man* may have thrown the ball for greater distance than Ben did. 😁 * one of two, as was the custom when Ben roamed the grass
  4. ashbury
    I know the following doesn't really remove all scope for arguments, but with the alleged precision of the camera system, a rule could be instituted that the umpire's call in-the-moment stands, unless the measured discrepancy is more than half an inch, or whatever threshold gets chosen. Eventually fully automated ball-strike calls will happen, but as long as there's an umpire calling pitches, I see no reason to hang one dry by reversing ticky-tack distinctions.
  5. ashbury
    Round numbers, even perfectly round ones, are okay too, if preceded by a straight number.
  6. ashbury
    Says hi. At least I haven't seen Martin two-bounce it to his cutoff man. Yet.
  7. ashbury
    This is why Shelton earns the big bucks, to make these extremely clear distinctions.
  8. ashbury
    Guh, and then Martin negates it by getting caught.
  9. ashbury
    Martin succeeded on his challenge. The Gameday diagram shows it to be very close. With two outs and nobody on, not my preference, but if it works, it works.
  10. ashbury
    I speculated in a different thread, but if you have two mediocre arms in the corners, it may be best to just give up on the right fielder having any effect on runners rounding second when the ball is hit out there, and put the slightly better arm in left to deter the extra base on balls hit there. Making the best of a bad lot. Or, it's just that with a righty on the mound for the Twins, they want the faster corner outfielder in right to try to combat the lefties in the opposing lineup.
  11. ashbury
    Do you know nothing about jinxes??? Keep that hand raised until conditions change for the worse.
  12. ashbury
    Nice inning by Ryan in response to his team staking him to a big lead.
  13. ashbury
    Never too soon to quit. 😁
  14. ashbury
    LARNACH!!!!
  15. ashbury
    Crooked number! Keep it up!
  16. ashbury
    Holy crow. That bases-loaded RBI for Jeffers was easy!
  17. ashbury
    Switch him to third base; that bat's too good for shortstop.
  18. ashbury
    Halve a nice day, Brooks!
  19. ashbury
    I believe ACL repair has been necessary on both. Starting to wonder if he'll be out of baseball before age 30.
  20. ashbury
    Don't tell them that. Tell them we're NOT trying reverse psychology. Then after we win - "Psych!"
  21. ashbury
    Difficult to argue against.
  22. ashbury
    Martin showed good form in right field watching that blast from Varsho go out.
  23. ashbury
    55th percentile among all major leaguers isn't a glowing recommendation for RF. Below "satisfactory" is the term "adequate" that you sometimes see in scouting contexts - not intended as a compliment - and I'm thinking that's where he sits as a right fielder specifically. On a par with Larnach perhaps. I'm spotting 4 lefty hitters plus one switch hitter in the Jays' lineup, so possibly the speedier Martin in RF will be able to track down more tough fly balls than Larnach can. If the Twins eventually bring in a couple of lefty relievers and turn the Jays' lineup around, and swap Larnach and Martin, that would be really telling - but I doubt a manager would go to such an extreme for a variety of reasons.
  24. ashbury
    Does he belong there? I don't think of him as having the arm for it. Larnach has been known to patrol RF in Wallner's absence, but he's in LF today. I suppose the arm isn't as bad as Ben Revere's back in the day. Revere brought out some strategic thoughts I hadn't considered before - if you have TWO mediocre arms in the corners, maybe put the worse one in right because neither will make any plays at 3B from there anyway, and try to preserve the threat when the ball goes to left.
  25. ashbury
    ... who currently can not hit.
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