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  1. ashbury
    Our advice would be to not try to be either of these guys. But, if you can pull off the look with aplomb like they do, after apparently losing a bet, we won't say a word. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0m5QePrcVNk/UvS_FNo5aLI/AAAAAAAABN0/Ed8iQNHUaMg/s1600/20140207_b.JPG
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    And a dog has 5 legs, if you call its tail a leg. Unless you let Abraham Lincoln have his say.
  3. ashbury
    I answered a question somebody asked. There aren't many thousands in the HoF; you're addressing some different question.
  4. ashbury
    Moral of the story, don't lurk. What's your position on the important issue of Russian Blue versus Golden Retriever?
  5. ashbury
    ... the catcher calls off all the others in the infield and after a few seconds you are declared out.
  6. ashbury
    Let me think about this a bit.
  7. ashbury
    Perhaps the old and stale jokes seen so far have convinced you something is deceased here. If you mean how to follow the game itself, for free there is a running log of the play-by-play at mlb.com - look at the menu on the left at that site and pick the Twins game. If you want to watch the game, and are outside the Twins monopoly area geographically, mlb.tv will do the trick but it costs money. Inside the Twins region, you probably need cable. BTW, the game is in Seattle tonight, so it won't start very early.
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    Picky, picky, picky!
  10. ashbury
    We Taurus don't believe in horoscopes.
  11. ashbury
    Well put. Among the "known unknowns" are whether the team is in contention for a playoff spot. As for the "unknown unknowns", injuries involving 60-day DL stints could open up 40-man spots early.
  12. ashbury
    I've watched him a little closer than the average player while he's been with the Sox. He's a truly terrible defender even at 1B, and the scuttlebutt has always been that he's not a positive clubhouse presence. OTOH I have witnessed him doing great things at the plate in the clutch - objectively clutchness is a mooted topic but subjectively he's not the guy a pitcher would want to face with the game on the line. If his hitting skills have now eroded to the point he can't even do that, and his stats this year suggest that, then he has literally zero value. I pass, as with most DFAed veterans unless I think his front office is dumb.
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    The article itself doesn't mention the Hall of Fame, and Glunn's characterization was just to describe the opinions offered in it. I think we're off on a tangent here, even though I contributed when answering another poster's question with an attempt at some historical perspective.
  16. ashbury
    I had the same initial thought. But a couple of candidates came to mind afterward. Sandy Koufax was pretty ordinary until he suddenly became SANDY! KOUFAX! The WAR statistic (whether b-r.com or fangraphs) values Buxton's defense pretty highly, and through their age 23 seasons their accumulated WAR totals are pretty similar. Buxton's off to a bad age-24 start, but the season's not over. Ozzie Smith didn't come up to the majors until 23, and was always in the "if he could just hit" category. At age 27 he finally became consistent enough at the plate year after year to let his glove bring him to the Hall. He's become a longshot for the Hall, but I wouldn't say it would be unprecedented for Byron to make it, as yet.
  17. ashbury
    There is an old moderator at Twins Daily.
  18. ashbury
    "That's my dream catch, I kid you not." Channeling his Inner Jack Paar, apparently. / get off my lawn
  19. ashbury
    But a siege mentality is so much more politically useful!
  20. ashbury
    Lifted shamelessly from a Facebook friend's post:
  21. ashbury
    Well then throw out everything I said. Some people like knowing which starters achieved a difficult accomplishment.
  22. ashbury
    Do you object to the notion of identifying who had a good start and who did not? The threshold has to be set somewhere. And pitchers aren't robots, so nobody is compiling cheap QS, game after game, at exactly 6.0/3. The guys who lead the majors at the moment in QS have names like Kluber, Verlander, Cole, and Scherzer - no bad pitchers are sneaking in as QS league leaders, just under the wire. It's a useful quick-and-dirty metric, and indicates who is giving their team a chance to win, arguably better than the venerable W/L stat. Choose a tighter threshold, and you'll be throwing out a lot of starts where the guy's team won without scoring a ton themselves.
  23. ashbury
    You can. Click Unlike, then click Like again. Anyhoo, Nick's right to say that the Twins didn't sign Carter as an instructive lesson for Sano. But the parallels are there if Sano wants to be a student of the current market.
  24. ashbury
    Came here to say this. You said it better.
  25. ashbury
    You're looking at b-r.com, right? Watch out for the multi-team bad seasons. At least, his performance for MIN and ATL was consistent.
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