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  1. ashbury
    There are rules about whom you can send. With Lewis and Kiriloff both at Ft Myers, I don't think they both (and some others mentioned) can go to AFL. I thought there also was a rule that a player couldn't go to AFL twice, but I don't see it here. Eligibility Rules The roster size is 30 players per team.Each Major League organization is required to provide six players subject to the following requirements: All Triple-A and Double-A players are eligible, provided the players are on at least a Double-A level roster no later than Aug. 1. One player below the Double-A level is allowed per Major League team. One foreign player is allowed, as long as the player does not reside in a country that participates in winter ball, as part of the Caribbean Confederation or the Australian winter league. No players with more than one year of credited Major League service as of August 31 are eligible, except a team may select one player picked in the most recently concluded Major League Rule 5 Draft. To be eligible, players on Minor League disabled lists must be activated at least 45 days before the conclusion of their respective seasons.
  2. ashbury
    Read? He's been banned twice.
  3. ashbury
    It's not clearcut like a broken femur. First you try therapy on an injury. Then you try rest (he was DL'ed mid-July, right?). Surgery's the last resort, and you prefer to put that to the off-season. With the team in sell-mode, that choice was finally faced, sooner than later for the benefit of the player. I give the player props for playing through, rather than making a public issue of it. That effort has to stop at some point, where management (at some level in the org) makes the call, on behalf of the player, for the good of the team. But until the manager is told by the player "I can't go", it remains a judgement call - are they better off with their first choice playing only at 85% (realize that such "percentages" result in a steeper than linear dropoff in actual production), or their backup plan at that position or role. We can quibble about when it became apparent "it can't get better on its own". I hope people will resist the urge to assume downright malfeasance. This outcome clarified, for me, why they stuck with him as long as they did, through what appeared to us fans to be just a terrible slump.
  4. ashbury
    "So far, no good." He was better in this second start than in his first for the new organization. Baby steps.
  5. ashbury
    You have a rookie pitcher working with a rookie catcher, and there was an allusion to a post-game debriefing between the two. This is great, but I hope to goodness that the pitching coach is implicitly included in this activity, mostly keeping quiet but offering a tidbit or two. You can let two veterans toss their ideas back and forth on their own.
  6. ashbury
    I guess I'm going to harp on this, because in his post-game interview (posted at TD in the day's Minor League wrapup, strangely) Stewart talked a bit about an at-bat that I believe was the Iglesias one I was thinking of. He was talking about his sinker and that he was confident in that pitch against that hitter. I agree that you should go with what you think will work, and definitely not get beat on another pitch. Still, you have to set up that out pitch. He spoke of planning to go over some things with Garver, of what they could have done better, without resorting to 20/20 hindsight, and that at bat apparently is on his list. Great. My suggestion remains, earlier in the count, mix in a fastball up and out of the zone, just to give the batter more to think about than the sinker. And if he continues to foul off that sinker, eventually try for a high borderline strike even with misgivings; the count on that plate appearance never reached 3 balls, I believe. You can't throw major leaguers the same thing again and again. He seems like he is so close to being able to control the strike zone.
  7. ashbury
    Quick, put up the Heezy Signal:
  8. ashbury
    Sounds like fun. Wish I was in the neighborhood.
  9. ashbury
    Concur. The runner going to third was deliberately trying to wreak havoc with what (as far as he might know) could be a tag 'im out throw 'im out DP, by putting on the brakes like that. Probably there wasn't time for that, and perhaps even a force at second instead (trying for a different DP) would have been risky. But his diversionary tactic worked out far better than even he probably imagined - a complete brain cramp by our glove-first third baseman! In fairness, it wasn't the glove that failed Ehire.
  10. ashbury
    My bonehead-simple remedy, mentioned in the game thread, would be to add a rising four-seamer to his arsenal. The way batters were lunging at the low pitches to spoil them, it seemed to me they had no respect for the heater upstairs. Is that something he's not capable of, even judiciously used? Maybe it can't be his out pitch, but can set the out pitch up.
  11. ashbury
    The runner going to third had basically stopped in his tracks before he had passed Adrianza. / edit - ninja'd, and by actual evidence, to boot
  12. ashbury
    I thought his control was OK. Concur.
  13. ashbury
    Being on the 40-man now does this. The only way he can be Rule-5 eligible again is if he passes through waivers, a much less demanding way for another team to take him.
  14. ashbury
    I think you're probably mis-estimating the difference between success and failure in baseball.
  15. ashbury
    Aaaaand, that's ballgame. Leftover ham for us for dinner tonight - no chicken dinnah.
  16. ashbury
    I wish I could be ugly, for just one day. Because being ugly every day kind of sucks.
  17. ashbury
    I missed it. What did he do after he arrived at second? All I saw was a quick handclap, typical after an RBI.
  18. ashbury
    "I went to read a roster move story on TD, and a Game Thread broke out."
  19. ashbury
    He's the kind of player who could change teams frequently, so yes.
  20. ashbury
    My takeaway is that other teams have prospects giving great performances too, and more numerously in some cases. I don't think our prospects are so remarkably young for their league levels, overall, as to explain it all away. Many "average age" numbers below AAA are inflated by the career minor leaguers necessary to flesh out full rosters for the benefit of genuine prospects.
  21. ashbury
    I was just about to say that that camera closeup of Polanco revealed him totally focused. And then on the very next pitch he strikes out on that low garbage.
  22. ashbury
    Oh, for Circus Boy: that brings us closer, only 3-2 now in the top of the 8th. This has been your CBU.
  23. ashbury
    To improve offense, MLB is considering a rule change that makes any out recorded on pitches outside the happy zone a do-over.
  24. ashbury
    KEPLER!!!!
  25. ashbury
    Nice inning for Tyler Blinn Duffey. He's got only two pitches, but they were working today.
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