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  1. ashbury
    Off-topic, but I enjoyed the video of Mike Trout's pinpoint slide for a steal of third base, in the next article down.
  2. ashbury
    Well that was, um, different. Thanks, I guess. Also; Your find >>> my find (Also, much more NSFW - fair warning to those about to look there)
  3. ashbury
    tl;dnr
  4. ashbury
    Thought-filled take. One gets quite the ROI on a simple opinion about Polanco's arm, post-suspension.
  5. ashbury
    Just about the only possible reaction. At least, it wasn't a rickroll.
  6. ashbury
    Rortvedt continues to impress at the plate. In five games since last report, he's batted .333 in 23 PA, plus a couple of walks. He's gotten a double and two homers in that span. His time at high-A shows an aggregate .361 batting average, and all the extra goodies contribute to a .966 OPS.
  7. ashbury
    Aaron's game last Saturday evening against Scranton/Wilkes-Barre started out well enough but ended in a 4-2 loss. He gave up 3 of those runs and thus was the pitcher of record. He walked nobody and struck out 4 in his 6 and 1/3 innings of work, but gave up 8 hits, one of which went out of the park. The home runs have been a disquieting trend since late May. He retired the first 8 batters of the ballgame, and that #9 hitter was caught stealing. After that first trip through the lineup, though, the hits were plentiful, and RailRiders finally broke through with 2 runs in the sixth inning, on a Brandon Drury homer. A couple of one-out singles knocked Slegers out of the game in the seventh, and Luke Bard surrendered a sac fly for the third run. (Bard was charged with an earned run of his own in the eighth.)
  8. ashbury
    A team has to balance a lot of things. If you never want good free agents to consider your team again, feel free to tell a guy you're about to part ways with, "you're dead to us."
  9. ashbury
    Looking to kill a few minutes? Have a look at this peculiar project a ten-year old some knucklehead enterprising person took the time to construct via a series of posts in 2011-12. http://burncardburn.com Follow it through to the end, and in total there's about five pages of images and videos of captioned baseball cards, defaced baseball cards, intentionally damaged baseball cards, burnt baseball cards, and, ..., well, more captioned and defaced and damaged and burnt baseball cards. PS: hope you like mustaches. Contact the owner of that site, not me, if you want your ten minutes back. Personally, it spoke to my inner ten-year old youthful knucklehead soul. http://burncardburn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/87-topps-jay-howell.jpg
  10. ashbury
    I like Erv, he's been a gamer, and if the Twins plan to not exercise their 2019 option and cut him loose, I don't have a problem with letting him have a couple of starts to showcase himself for someone else next season.
  11. ashbury
    I see a sweet deal on Stubhub for $126 for Saturday night.
  12. ashbury
    To do competent roster management, a GM has to know and factor in the most optimistic recovery forecasts for injured players, so that he'll be able to return them to active duty when they become available without disrupting the roster. The problem is that we fans seem to be being fed only these optimistic forecasts for every player taken off the roster. And the forecast doesn't change even when new information presents itself that obviously could have a bearing. I'm not asking for the unknowable. I'm not asking for only worst-case either; obviously absolute worst-case is nearly always "career threatening". I'm asking for realistic ranges, which change as new events occur and new information surfaces.
  13. ashbury
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V_hCqO6UQs "Sorry."
  14. ashbury
    I could have been been more clear when I said 'this roster' that I was referring to the roster on this date in 2018. We still have more than half a season to go, and no way to stash him at AAA, if Dozier remains entrenched at 2B - that's a long time to ride out a dead spot on the roster if it were to play out like that (and of course I hope it doesn't). If Dozier is traded mid-season, then it's very much not the same roster anymore, and that was kind of my implication. However, it is not a certainty that Dozier will be departing soon. Some other team has to offer more for him than we get from next year's draft pick assuming we extend a qualifying offer. There is also the diminishing but nonzero chance we give him a contract extension.
  15. ashbury
    I love Ben like I love my own sons. In fact, as I may have mentioned, I adopted him. Still, I believe he is far from ready yet, and 2020 is a very optimistic ETA for him, despite our crying need at catcher. Also, while his high-A stats are good, I'm going to be predictable and mention a .393 BABIP - if that's not everyone's cup of tea, so be it, but it's a reason I temper my enthusiasm for the moment at least. (If you want a little validation, I also didn't panic last year while his stats looked bad but were built on a BABIP ludicrously below .200.)
  16. ashbury
    Moderator's note: this is an aspect, of the brouhaha concerning the game, that deserves to be explored if members wish to, as long as everyone remembers to keep it respectful to one another and to the players as well. I do not want to wake up tomorrow and find that there's a mess that has to be cleaned up by the moderator team. Good night, all.
  17. ashbury
    I want this headline: "LaMarre-Out, Cave-In".
  18. ashbury
    See. I told you it would happen.
  19. ashbury
    I've tried to avoid baseless speculation in the wake of the news of his suspension. But if his pre-suspension performance was enhanced, I'd be foremost concerned about his arm strength. It was below par for a SS when he came up. He improved it to adequate. The problem has been bounced throws when accurate, or scattershot throws when thrown hard enough. If he lost even one mph, that might be enough to be trouble again. Again, it's baseless, just something I'm watching for when I get a first look. If he doesn't have a shortstop's arm, he has no role on this roster. And he has no minor league options remaining. I hope to be proved to have worried about nothing.
  20. ashbury
    I think anyone on my side of the fence gets a guilty pleasure from the insult to the president's flack, but on the other hand, to me it's not an effective strategy toward convincing anyone in the roughly 40% of voters somewhere in the middle of the spectrum who are persuadable to any remaining degree - it's not a level playing field and if the Left carries the banner of tolerance then less overt rudeness is expected in every aspect of public discourse. But back to the first hand, one doesn't always get to pick the opportunities for expressing one's opinion directly, and I might not have been able to resist either, if given the binary choice whether to showboat or not, and only little time to weigh the pros and cons of either.
  21. ashbury
    My point was more about the human side of the game. That's why I like to go to the SABR conference. Nice to be forced to get away from the non-stop analytic mindset that I usually gravitate toward on the internet.
  22. ashbury
    Attending a nice panel discussion at SABR this morning, including 1979 Pirates champions John Candelaria and Grant Jackson. They reminded the audience that the team started out 12-18, and were in fourth place at the all star break. Their recollection was that there was still a long way to go, and they just continued to play the games one at a time. While the odds are against our 2018 Twins, it wouldn't be unprecedented to go all the way. The panel reminds me that the players have to just shut out all the noise that we fans listen to.
  23. ashbury
    Not much, apparently.
  24. ashbury
    Yes. There would be more relievers, not less, because starters would go fewer innings, to avoid facing the lineup a third time (or perhaps even a second!) You could end up with a four man pitching rotation, with only two or three innings to recover from. Larger bullpens could then be an outcome. Long games are what put a premium on being able to pitch a long time without relief.
  25. ashbury
    I'll have to check the exact math later but it looks like Jeffers BABIP actually went up yesterday. Unreal.
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