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2018 MLB Draft Top 50 Prospects: 41-50
ashbury replied to Andrew Thares's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
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Lamonte Wade -- Any believers he's more than a 4th OF?
ashbury replied to twins1095's topic in Twins Minor League Talk
IMO he can be a league-average corner outfielder. Those are valuable to have. He can fill in for the centerfielder but would be overmatched there as a starter. His modest power holds him back from being a truly elite bat at a corner or DH. On a contender this combination might relegate him to 4th outfielder duties, but that would be a nice luxury to have. -
Midwest elites holding sway. As expected.
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Blocked by LoMo, this game at least.
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A soft answer turneth away wrath: but exclamation points stir up anger.. -- Proverbs 15:1a
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Kep?!?!?!?
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Maker maues that play. / edit - ninja'd by milldaddy, but in fairness it takes extra time to make the typo
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Tierra del Fuego, maybe.
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I'm pretty sure "excuse me" is not in Eddie's vocabulary where it comes to swings.
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We knew the reply, you could have saved the trouble typing it.
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So in Garver's case you'd be OK with not assigning the positional bonus for WAR?
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Garver first-pitch hitting. See, Mauer? If you would do that, maybe you'd still be catching too.
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For a guy who's supposed to be all-glove to make up for the bat, Ehire continues to un-impress me.
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Mrs. Ash claims he is.
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Went to a beachball contest at Angel Stadium Saturday night with fellow TDer Glunn plus ashburydavid, and guess what happened, a baseball game broke out.
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Or ish? Yes.
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Minor point-of-information but unless Deron was moonlighting for the Angels, Busenitz wasn't his guy on draft day.
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Make it a lively 11 innings then.
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I missed that. Good for her.
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I was seeing the same thing yesterday. Android phone. I don't use it much, except on the road.
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Ben Stein. Deep intellectual. Consummate actor. OK, well, 0 out of 2 isn't bad. More seriously, I always kind of liked Cher, as a successful pop singer who became a pretty respected actress too. (And semi-seriously, I kind of wonder if Lady Gaga could surprise us by taking some kind of similar route later on.) Multi-dimensional, gotta mention Shohei Ohtani.
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I was away from teh intarwebs for several days, and catching up on this thread was daunting. I was considering whether to bother trying to reply at this late date about the conservative slant to elementary school, or kids' lives in general at that age, but your post popped up and covered a lot of what I was going to say. The daily Pledge and the Star Spangled Banner are great examples. Kids doing fund-raising for their schools, and likewise groups such as Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts fund-raising, always are carefully positioned to convey a market-based "message" to the kids - you daren't simply ask for a handout to help fund the cause, you have to offer something in return, like home-baked chocolate chip cookies. History and geography are taught from a very US-centric point of view. There is very little alternative point of view to the standard "mainstream conservative" bent, where youngsters are concerned. What best made me recognize this was having colleagues who grew up in countries outside the US. Almost invariably they are shocked to learn that a Pledge of Allegiance is demanded of six year olds in a school. Post-WWII Germany flushed that kind of thing out - though it's creeping back in. Americans are pretty insular. Getting those truly different points of view from outside our borders is curative, but the inward-turning conservative mainstream is adamantly opposed to permitting that. When even a little of it occurs, the right-wing outrage is instantaneous and loud. Their main aim is to shush things up.
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That makes two of you.
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I found it interesting a few years ago when the trend emerged that Terry Ryan seemed to especially value switch-hitting, based on guys he acquired and guys being brought up. Some kind of market inefficiency he felt could be exploited?
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Kudos to Teflon, Senior Member of Twins Daily!
