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  1. ashbury
    Good article!
  2. ashbury
    Mrs Ash took up Pilates. She still can't throw a decent fastball.
  3. ashbury
    Here. It was a little more than a month ago, so maybe there was something similar further back.
  4. ashbury
    He has little trade value and there is no reason to discard him any sooner than we have to. Chances are that events will play out in a way that we're glad we still have him.
  5. ashbury
    Totally as an aside, this will be an important topic the next time the Collective Bargaining Agreement is negotiated. The lengthy period prior to free agency is predicated on the idea that stars will cash in once they are able to. It could go any of several directions going forward.
  6. ashbury
    I am sure that I speak for everyone, those who support our FO and those who are adamantly opposed, that when Derek Falvey's current contract expires I hope he resigns.
  7. ashbury
    I just realized - with Walks being a big part of Grossman's offensive game - maybe he means he wants 75 PA and plans on only 10 of them being AB.
  8. ashbury
    How do you feel about Escobar?
  9. ashbury
    Let's please avoid mind-reading.
  10. ashbury
    TD Exclusive?
  11. ashbury
    I have the same general take, except to note that the self-styled master of the Art of the Deal would by nature prefer to keep a general fog among all the participants in a negotiation, so that he can be poised to profit by any mistakes or misunderstandings. Some of the seeming duplicity might not be so much intentional as something he prefers not to correct too greatly after it happens. Instinct over many years.
  12. ashbury
    Two words regarding bullpen cars: NASCAR Sponsorship. Have Dale Earnhardt Jr or Jeff Gordon drive the car and I guarantee the game will speed up.
  13. ashbury
    So maybe there was some mild disagreement within the brain trust. They are not a monolith. Maybe both agreed that Shaggy was the one to remove, in favor of the upcoming FA signing, but they had a friendly side bet over whether the pitcher would make it through waivers or not. Maybe the loss Levine regrets is the price of two steak dinners.
  14. ashbury
    No disagreement with these facts, but we don't even know whether it's an issue. We may find out later that any of the players won't be good to go on Opening Day. That happens; Ehire was on the DL to start the season in 2017, for example. And any injury move need only be the short DL, not the 60-day variety. There's nothing wrong with sketching out a few scenarios, but we are a long way from it being desirable for the team to commit in one direction or the other. 15 is a really low number, especially when AAA is a bit barren of young talent pushing to make the squad. For all we know, Grossman and Vargas will be Opening Day starters of necessity. I don't hope for that, but they could tide us through. And you never know, one of them might Wally Pipp the nominal starter.
  15. ashbury
    That's a very team friendly PA level, IMO, with league leadership usually being a shade north of 700. He barely cracked 600 for the first time last season. And if the option doesn't vest, the team still has the choice to exercise it - say he hits great but is out for a month with an injury. If he doesn't hit well, the team legitimately throttles back on the playing time; there would be room for shenanigans but hopefully our FO doesn't operate that way. I couldn't find it spelled out whether the player can turn down the option if it vests, in mirror image to the team's latitude the other way, but that would be an issue only if he has a monster season, which we all would hope for. It's said frequently here that there's no such thing as a bad 1-year contract. Even better is a team option for a second year, and this is only just shy of that.
  16. ashbury
    I suppose the Dodgers went into similar thoughts regarding Dozier a year+ ago. Forecasting is hard.
  17. ashbury
    I call BS. They didn't come out sideways.
  18. ashbury
    ZacK Littell to close it out!
  19. ashbury
    You can work hard without getting into many games. I don't read much into the comment.
  20. ashbury
    Second pitch. Welcome to the Twins, Myles Jaye. Let me be the first to say that the ball traveled a couple of Myles.
  21. ashbury
    I admit I fell into the trap further up in the thread, but can we please keep the discussion to the thread topic concerning the June draft, and move discussion of the state of the farm system somewhere else?
  22. ashbury
    Is that second photo from where you are seated? Haven't spotted you yet on teevee.
  23. ashbury
    This puts the Twins 40-man at 15 position players and 25 pitchers. I somehow still don't see them cutting ties with a batter for now, despite the flexibility issue; they still have a month before any 25-man decisions have to be made. A lot can happen.
  24. ashbury
    I think the vesting option answers that concern, doesn't it? If he performs, the team has him for the following season. If he doesn't, he'll be benched enough to not vest. (I'm not certain that a vesting option binds both parties but I think it does.)
  25. ashbury
    Let's not have a lot more of Adrianza in LF, kthxbye.
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