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  1. ashbury
    Ain't nobody quibbling about Elston Howard, though. That guy was a beast. 1961 might not even have been his best season, considering he won MVP two years later.
  2. ashbury
    I'd feel sorry for anyone with enough money to do anything they wish in their short remaining time on earth, and who chooses to look at a sports team as an investment.
  3. ashbury
    Very effective in 24 of 27 appearances??? Yes, there were those 3 games he gave up 3 or 4 earned runs; but there were way too many others (11 appearances) where he was scored upon, and rarely did he pitch to the minimum number of batters and/or have a "clean" inning. He let 9 of 19 inherited runners score. The Twins "led" the majors in this dubious stat at 41% and Kody was worse than the average Twin at it - he was part of the problem, not part of the solution. LH batters pummeled him for an .810 OPS. Reverse splits? Nope, righties tattooed him for .888. His entry in a game meant to hold your breath and hope to escape. Yeah, at age 28, make or break sounds about right for him. Another season like the last one, and he enters the perpetual purgatory that all left-handers are eventually invited to: MiLB contracts for as long as he wishes to keep at it. Some team will offer him a chance but not a major league salary each off-season, unless he switches to throwing with his right hand or stops breathing in which case the offers evaporate. He's already beaten the odds as a 15th rounder by even making it to the Show, so good for him, but he has to show more in order to stay. I hope he finds the key to success because we sure could use a reliable southpaw or two in the pen this year; crossing fingers that the age-35 season isn't the year Danny Coulombe decides to turn into a pumpkin.
  4. ashbury
    Don't know what this means. Joe Pohlad isn't running the sale, to be taken off this duty and let someone else run it now. It's not being delegated in any meaningful sense. No, it's surely being handled from the top, Jim and/or Bill or whoever. You can't fire them, and bring in new owners - that's what this exercise is all about anyway.
  5. ashbury
    Oh, they're just working on their timing.
  6. ashbury
    NRI guys will appear in official spring training games, along with the obvious 40-man candidates. The Twins website has separate lists of these: https://www.mlb.com/twins/roster/40-man https://www.mlb.com/twins/roster/nri Besides Rosario mentioned above, Ryan Fitzgerald scored a run today after coaxing a walk, and I wasn't even aware the Twins had him. Laweryson and Rozek each sneaked in an inning on the mound. 57 guys and enough of them aren't ready that they still need to resort to walk-ons. Or maybe some players just know how to crash the party without an invite. 😀 I'd love for a FO insider to explain this. I bet it's got something to do with money (meal money, insurance and other major league fringe benefits, etc) while in camp.
  7. ashbury
    Don't kid yourself that images of Dwight Schrute didn't flash through my mind while posting. 😀 But 3 catchers hitting 20 invites leaps to totals of 60, whereas the true total at the position was 30. Impressive, but a guy like Gus Triandos managed that total all by himself a few seasons earlier. As I tried to emphasize, the nuanced view takes away nothing from their true accomplishment as a triune behind the plate. 1961 was the first season I paid attention to as a child, and I didn't move to the Twin Cities until the late 70s, so that Yankees team is and was special to me and my brother; it's probably why I like to bathe in the details.
  8. ashbury
    Will we learn he legged out a triple to reach second base? 😀
  9. ashbury
    It's a nice stat, but because all three played other positions, the breakdown while catching was Howard 17, Blanchard 11, Berra 2. Fantastic aggregate batting production from the position, though - .898 OPS in a year where the AL for all positions was .724
  10. ashbury

    Big News

    ashbury commented on C-Gangster's blog entry in March To October

    Possibly a very good double-meaning to the name of this series.
  11. ashbury
    If you took this bit of satire personally, then before you go can you tell us whether you have any job openings locally? (Yes that is meant as satire too.)
  12. ashbury
    Q: Who is the current owner of the Minnesota Twins? A: The Minnesota who-now?
  13. ashbury
    I'm not sure someone with Kirilloff's accumulated service time can take a year or two off, and then decide, "huh, ya know what, I think I'd like to play for some other team from now on."
  14. ashbury
    Maybe ask Ted Turner. He's still alive.
  15. ashbury
    I dunno. Jay Leno probably "loses money" each year on the collector cars he owns. America's Cup competitors lose money when they race. There's a fun factor of owning certain things, particularly when enough other people share in that fun and will bail you out when it is time to sell.
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  17. ashbury
    These guys do not have enough money to buy the Twins.
  18. ashbury
    In that case Larnach batting 4th wasn't the best idea.
  19. ashbury
    Raya, Adams, and Canterino are 3 of the 21 pitchers on the 40-man who are likely to be non-factors in the Twins opening day 2025 plans. Raya has as good a chance of any of these three to exceed expectations and make a case to be brought up late in the season. Everything has to fall into place perfectly, though, including to demonstrate he can handle a big-league workload. Even in a bullpen, it's harder than at AAA, and if he's a starter he has no margin for unreadiness if brought up. All we can do is hope. He's still so young! I hate aspects of the MLB roster rules.
  20. ashbury
    He and Correa were the leaders in OBP last season. Just sayin'. But if Sale pitches to more than 9 batters then this guarantees Wallner two opportunities to bat against a lefty before he himself exits the game early. That might be the actual reason. It's "prove it" time if he wants to play fulltime. (Larnach would be batting second in that scenario, though. Never mind.)
  21. ashbury
    We heard news today. Didn't have me whistling a jaunty tune though.
  22. ashbury
    By the way, William IV, are you aware of the TD Twins Players Project? Since you did your series of random player lookbacks, this project has taken on a life of its own. You could invest a little additional time and work up full bios of the players you highlighted. Just a thought. https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-players-project/
  23. ashbury
    Bobby Knight: Dead!
  24. ashbury
    Fun predictions. My predictions are not fun, so kudos to you.
  25. ashbury
    E Football S Football P Football N Football The initials have stood for this for decades now.
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