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  1. ashbury
    This had the feel of a cherry-picked threshold of at bats. But if I use plate appearances, and even drop the threshold down to 300, Jackson still retains the crown. Fair enough. However, if I drop the threshold to 200 PA, one (and only one) other player steps in to usurp the throne. It's our own, newly claimed 40-man roster member Ryan Kreidler, with his tasty .138 BA in 211 chances at the plate. We've got 'em both now! (As noted earlier, this article isn't really about the catcher's entire past history, and explores reasons to hope he's turned a corner for real.)
  2. ashbury
    Shoulder, then Tommy John for the elbow. Seems like a bad combination. But if Effross (which sounds like the name of a local construction company run by someone named Frank Ross) can follow a path like Tyler Mahle and summon up a good season after all that, it would be a real coup for whoever gambles on him. I would rely on a combination of medical team and analytics team to tease out where the similarities are to other cases that turned out well.
  3. ashbury
    I don't remember what line of work you are in, exactly, but now you're scaring me too.
  4. ashbury
    You mean, like, in double headers?
  5. ashbury
    Huh. Trevor Larnach could be optioned to St Paul. I had not considered that. He has 4 years and 14 days of service time, so that clock doesn't run out for him until very late in the season. Trevor Larnach being paid X million dollars to possibly toil at AAA in the opposite corner to wherever Gonzalez is playing, or as once-and-future DH - that's a possibility I'm gonna have to ponder awhile.
  6. ashbury
    Neither Steer nor Larnach was dropped for nothing. I was responding to someone suggesting both were on the verge of that.
  7. ashbury
    What exactly is wrong with hot-stove discussions? Did the word "likely" in the article headline suggest someone did or should bet their mortgage? 😁
  8. ashbury
    If it turns out both got tendered (I see now that Trevor did), then the original parameters are moot anyway. 😁 A trade could still happen I suppose, but I see Steer's offense to be about the same as Larnach's, and he has (as you say) developed some defensive skills at a position of need for the Twins, which would make a one-for-one swap imbalanced unless the Reds feel really strongly that their park provides necessary upside. Trades surely are easier when the players' skillsets aren't so similar, like a AAA infielder for a backup catcher.
  9. ashbury
    Both teams can just wait until the other cuts their guy, and sign him for cheaper.
  10. ashbury
    The entire team doesn't need to out hit Larnach, to make him expendable. Just the DH. And that alone doesn't add up to a post-season berth.
  11. ashbury
    Pereda turns 30 within the first month's worth of games next season. Prospect he ain't. The only drama for him now is what size retirement benefits he can accrue.
  12. ashbury
    You're underselling Laudner by a dime.
  13. ashbury
    Man, that's a lot of years of team control.
  14. ashbury
    I'm not sure I want to watch the feature film you would produce and direct.
  15. ashbury
    Much would depend on how you define the thresholds, but you are correct that no one had ever hit 22 HR in a season and had as few as 40 RBIs until Wallner did it in 2025. If you lower the HR threshold to 20 then two other guys are in this "elite" 40-RBI class: Chris Hoiles for the Orioles in 1992, and our own fan-favorite Joey Gallo for the Twins in 2023. Wallner hasn't been this bad the prior seasons so I hope this year was just a blip. The parallel to Gallo makes it more worrisome. I root for Wallner to fulfill his potential but there seems something wrong with his situational approach this past season, and I hope a new slate of coaches puts their finger on it and helps him correct it. Wallner's struggles are not an argument particularly for Arraez however.
  16. ashbury
    Perhaps. It depends on what the purchase agreement says. The Pohlads may have made certain promises in writing in order to coax these investors.
  17. ashbury
    Culpepper over both of them. Gasper out as soon as they have a better infield candidate. McCusker out now because there are multiple better outfield candidates already. With a full 40-man, moves need to be more incremental from here on, balancing numerical imbalances first and then one-for-one within roles on the roster.
  18. ashbury
    If Lee could start hitting he'd be OK at shortstop the way Polanco was OK at shortstop for a while.
  19. ashbury
    I had a boss who sometimes answered my questions with this question: "What would you do with that information if you had it?" It left me stumped the first time; I tried to have an answer prepared the times after that. Same spirit.
  20. ashbury
    Waiver-wire pickup? Sure. Maybe.
  21. ashbury
    It's the outfield that contains so many duplicates. McCusker over CJC would be my choice to question.
  22. ashbury
    When I play Out of the Park, it's sometimes a lot of fun to try an off-season like this. Sometimes it crashes and burns, sometimes it works out. Congrats on a video game experience. 😀
  23. ashbury
    "Aren't you Aaron Hicks?" "Yeah. Didn't you used to be Royce Lewis?" "Hey, that's cold, man. At least I'm still on a major league roster."
  24. ashbury
    First you'll have to teach him how to play catcher.
  25. ashbury
    I imagine New York Mets fans were saying something similar in the winter of 1961-1962.
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