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  1. ashbury
    Familiar, but it's not like they're besties. And besides that, I imagine Darvish (like most) makes new friends easily, anytime an extra $10+M is dangled. I really hope there isn't some kind of overconfidence in the Twins FO based on this kind of assumption. It's a level playing field.
  2. ashbury
    Does "talk to us last" ever work as a negotiating tactic? I need to go re-read my copy of The Art of the Deal.
  3. ashbury
    It's hard to take PCL slugging numbers at face value, particularly at El Paso, but even discounting the numbers a bit this looks like a fine depth move.
  4. ashbury
    I'm going to watch three longshot lefthanders, Jovani Moran, Bryan Sammons, and Ryley Widell. They all put up good strikeout numbers at Elizabethton in 2017, after being picked in the 7th and 8th rounds in the last several drafts, and lord knows we could use someone like these guys to break out and become legit prospects. Widell walked too many last year, but hopefully that's just a matter of harnessing his stuff.
  5. ashbury
    The panel would also have accepted "Yes". Panel being Chief.
  6. ashbury
    At the risk of stating the obvious, there are other threads in which to address this topic. Or start a new one. But please don't pursue the merits of the Sano allegations further in this thread.
  7. ashbury
    Prediction? Or favorite memory?
  8. ashbury
    Nick couched this in terms of trade value (nil, given Joe's no-trade status) and future value (limited, with one year to go on the contract at age 35). A list based only on expected 2018 contributions might look different. It's hard to assign value when a player's contract has literally no possibility of being turned into some other asset.
  9. ashbury
    Didn't know Winter had dog days too.
  10. ashbury
    There's a game thread starter in the schedule for early April, with your name on it. Just a reminder.
  11. ashbury
    Was there ever anything that came out about Jackie Robinson that would tarnish his status as a hero?
  12. ashbury
    Well, I suppose that's the question. Is he unable to find the strike zone at will without giving up some "stuff"? Or is he purposely nibbling, in the belief he'd get hammered if he came in with more strikes?
  13. ashbury
    What about for someone who voted for Nixon?
  14. ashbury
    Awesome first post. Welcome!
  15. ashbury
    Kennys Vargas Resolution: Treat every plate appearance as though trying out for the team No more wasted at-bats. No more falling behind 0-2 on weak breaking stuff out of the zone. If his last at-bat in a Twins uniform occurs this season, make sure that the video of it shows it was a professional one.
  16. ashbury
    Mod note: I'm not sure which pages you mean by "these", but if you mean Twins Daily, then I don't foresee TD mods or admins placing this topic off-limits to other posters in the way you seem to imply. Readers are always entitled to move to the next thread that may interest them more. No different than practically any topic, really. The accusation against Sano is fair game for discussion - post respectfully, don't troll others, don't bicker, don't keep repeating the same points - business as usual here IOW. The Twins Daily Comment Policy is designed in large part for exactly these kinds of discussion.
  17. ashbury
    Why? Because it's not harassing? Or because it's not sexual?
  18. ashbury
    Let me be the first here to go all the way out on the limb and say that everything comes together and the Twins get redemption against the Dodgers in the 2018 World Series. 2015 was our new 1984, and three years later it's 1987 again. The hitting and defense come through big-time and we get just enough pitching. Well, you did say hopes and dreams. But these are not implausible ones.
  19. ashbury
    Mod note: Happy New Year everyone, but please let's make a resolution to not keep going down this "Positivity/ Negativity" rabbit hole in 2018, nor cast fellow posters as "always" anything.
  20. ashbury
    I have a bad memory for specifics, so I just now went back and looked at the first scene we ever saw with Marion. You probably remembered: she smiled, then socked him in the jaw. He replied, "I never meant to hurt you." I can chuckle, while still recognizing the disgust if that were really part of the background info we carried about any of the artists involved.
  21. ashbury
    I like these. Clicking Like wasn't enough.
  22. ashbury
    Concur. Minor league contracts with an invite to Spring Training are minor. Filling a 40-man roster spot means, at minimum, some kind of decision would have to be made in order to change course later. Especially the last 40-man spot. The evident intention with this signing is to include the pitcher on the active roster on Opening Day. It's not a signature signing, but it's not a thoughtless/offhand one either.
  23. ashbury
    Yeah, don't get me wrong, there is nothing the matter with the uncertainty inherent in any of these rankings (prospects or established major leaguers). You're calling it subjectivity, but really it's no different than the descriptive and predictive analytics that any business has to include in their planning, in the face of uncertainty. Baseball front offices used to be behind in these areas but probably have essentially caught up by now. I think I'm just saying that a ranked list makes the most sense when a metric has been decided on, no matter whether the way you carry it out involves a range of forecasts rather than (unattainable) certainty. When it's a blend of too many things, though, ranking stops making sense to me. It would be more like tiers - "prospects likely to make big contributions or even be stars", "prospects who have somewhat of a chance to make big contributions or even be stars", "veterans who could be the key piece in a big trade", etc etc.
  24. ashbury
    Someone from SABR probably could devise a metric to confirm that, if you haven't been wowed by the offseason by Dec 23, you probably won't be much more wowed on Dec 31.
  25. ashbury
    I don't know. I doubt I would be able to watch Indy's interaction with Marion the same way with that subtext. Not at all, now that I think about it. Ish, Ick, Ptooie.
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