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  1. ashbury
    6. The ball was hit to left field. I mean, sure, judge each play on its own merits; but the default should be stop at second unless you are very sure. 7. ??? 8. PROFIT! 9. Logan Morrison is very, very, very slow.
  2. ashbury
    Closest I think I ever came was at a World Baseball Classic game in Arizona - not a major league game but a major leaguer: a foul liner from Joe Mauer. It landed a row in front of me, where my son and his friend were sitting in a sparsely populated area down the third base line, and caromed off to who knows where. They ducked. But it was such a rocket that I didn't even bother to either go for it or duck out of the way - I could see it was going to miss me, and there was no way I was going to get mixed up with that. Vintage Joe.
  3. ashbury
    Nice to see my Adopt-A-Prospect son, Ben Rortvedt, continue to get some love in these rankings. I don't think he's established a floor as a major league backup quite yet, but in another season if he's promoted to AA and puts up these relatively modest numbers on offense then he'll have himself a career of sorts. And his ceiling remains "good starting catcher". As Tom alluded above, once Ben can legally buy himself a whiskey he'll start to develop his man muscles. I mean, that's how cause-and-effect works, right?
  4. ashbury
    He just made it. Hope you took the Over, on my prop-bet line of 14. http://twinsdaily.com/topic/30588-article-2018-twins-midseason-top-prospect-list-11-15/?do=findComment&comment=769518
  5. ashbury
    And just like that, Slegers laid an egger, in his next start against KC. Didn't look like he had much on his fastball, yet he threw a lot of them. 'Nuff said.
  6. ashbury
    I would have said that too, before last off-season, but now I'm not sure what to expect.
  7. ashbury
    Somewhat tangential to this thread, here is something the Boston Globe has today: Here’s how to interpret baseball trade chatter I don't see any mention of our Twins in any of the contexts discussed there, FWIW.
  8. ashbury
    The article reads as though written by someone in the Dodgers' front office looking to shape the negotiations they plan. My guess is they approach the problem the same way as the last time they went shopping for a second baseman: they pick out the prospect chaff they are willing to trade, and then negotiate with multiple teams to see what is the best player they can obtain within this "budget". Last time they shopped José De León to us, and then to Tampa. Not the other way around, of targeting who they want most and then trying to negotiate the minimum price. I kind of respect that.
  9. ashbury
    Moderator's note: this seems destined to lead to bickering, and I ask that it stop here.
  10. ashbury
    "What trick is there to talking? Any fool can do it." I'll shut up now.
  11. ashbury
    If Kirilloff could be the centerpiece, as this article started off having me thinking was the suggestion, I'd be all for it. Corner outfielders are valuable but not critical to a team's plans. And this team's rosters have been sclerotic for several years because of an overabundance of corner types - "and if that doesn't work out, he can always DH". You can only have one DH per game, and the roster gets clogged. We saw it in The Ryan Doumit Era, we still see it now. Up-the-middle prospects are a different story, and starting pitching in particular is the coin of the realm. And I'll keep repeating, IMO a stud catcher is a luxury for only the richest or most complete teams. The best catcher in the world doesn't play every game, and if he's that good then you'll want to DH him for his days off, and then you can't house a full-time DH, and pretty soon you're juggling the 25-man roster, with 3 catchers as the end-game the manager wants to reach. A stud catcher is great, but needs to be the final piece to the puzzle, such that the rest of your roster is good enough that he can be benched on his days off - and a part-timer being paid full-time wages is, as I said, a luxury.
  12. ashbury
    Well, never mind. MLBTR explains that his stint on the DL came at an inconvenient time and the rules apparently don't allow waiving, only re-add to the 40-man, or release. Or, trade? Maybe you can't trade someone on the DL. I think someone here even explained this recently. I have an excellent memory - but it's short.
  13. ashbury
    Why was releasing and re-signing Jorge preferable to waiving him once he's off the 40-man? Seems like the latter limits the chance of his departing, since the other team would have to have a 40-man spot and be willing to use it (even if only temporarily). Or, if they didn't care either way, why re-sign?
  14. ashbury
    I second that, wholeheartedly. Sunday I blogged* about watching Yankees prospect Justus Sheffield carve through Pawtucket's lineup like a hot knife through butter, getting guys out with his heater and not necessarily with his off-speed stuff. He weakened in the fifth and was out of the game after one out in the sixth. His pitching line that game looks good but unremarkable. But man, a coaching staff can do something with talent like that - work on pacing himself just a little more, work on building up endurance instead, work on special tactics for when he's tiring, and if all else fails, you may have a stud reliever at very worst. But, if a guy can't get guys out in the first inning? What can you do with him? * waxed eloquent, some will say, others will say droned on and on, still others will say tl'dnr
  15. ashbury
    “He likes to play basketball and drink beer. . . . It’s very refreshing in a town like Washington.” Gee, that bought Obama a lot of Republican support during his terms in office.
  16. ashbury
    I can still smell 'em. They were that potent.
  17. ashbury
    Mauer singles, crickets. Rosario singles, let's talk about the season record. Dozier strikes out, sarcasm. See you next game.
  18. ashbury
    Honest question, who is bidding up the prices of land then? Because smart folks with MBAs who know how to compute ROI would not accept sub-1% dividends when acquiring a deceased person's acreage for their conglomerate, for instance.
  19. ashbury
    Haven't seen that movie either, sorry.
  20. ashbury
    I suppose every player is where he is due to some flaw, or else he'd have rocketed to the majors in his first year. And I'd rather that flaw be going after the good breaking ball in the dirt, rather than swinging cleanly through fastballs.
  21. ashbury
    Sounds like the opening to a very fine blues lyric. "He was a poor man's Jason Repko, Couldn't hit, to save his life. I said he was a poor man's Jason Repko. Couldn't hit, to save his life. So I tried to send him down to Rochester, To save my manager a little bit of strife..." OK, maybe not so very fine.
  22. ashbury
    Bad example. That's a deal-breaker. They're magically delicious.
  23. ashbury
    Yeah, I modified that while you were responding.
  24. ashbury
    That would have been the correct answer had she asked, "Anyone seen 'Ant-Man OR the Wasp' yet?", wouldn't it?
  25. ashbury
    The devil's in the details, and often farming has different treatment under the law moreso than practically any other walk of life, but without planning to do any research that was my reaction too. The whole Death Tax thing was always a red herring for 95% of the public. Make that, 99+.
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