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  1. ashbury
    Concur.
  2. ashbury
    A little interestingly, Pressly is the team leader in inherited runners, i.e. the opportunities. His percentage of those runners scoring (31%) isn't too wonderful, but with that many opportunities the failures are really going to stand out in people's minds, moreso than someone like Kintzler (an even worse 37.5% on 8 such "chances") who isn't brought in as a fireman too often.
  3. ashbury
    I couldn't put my hands on Inherited Runners with a quick search. But situational numbers exist. Baseball-reference.com has splits for everyone, and you can see Pressly's here: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.fcgi?id=pressry01&year=2017&t=p I like opponents' OPS for relievers more than things like ERA. Pressly's for the season is .721, which would seem OK - league-average or thereabout. However, his baserunner splits are astounding. Bases empty, opponents manage only .490 against him, built on a .165 batting average. However if anyone is on base, opponents OPS a Ruthian 1.017 against him. You are definitely onto something there, this year. Still, splitting the stats for relievers mean dealing with small sample sizes. In years past, this pattern hasn't been in evidence for Pressly. Indeed in 2014, it was exactly the opposite - every batter became Mike Trout when the bases were empty, batters turned into Stuart Turner once someone else got on base. So I don't really know for sure what to make of it all. Baseball's a funny game. But I sure wouldn't put Pressly at the top of my list of options when the bases are occupied, until he gave me new reason to trust him better.
  4. ashbury
    This despite a new EVP and GM. Were Jim Pohlad and Dave St Peter framing the boundaries on the Rule V 40-man decisions last December?
  5. ashbury
    You mean this blog entry? http://twinsdaily.com/blog/536/entry-9051-warne-forming-a-way-too-early-twins-offseason-blueprint/ Normally I can move posts to other threads, but somehow I can't do that into a blog. I have asked Brock for admin assistance.
  6. ashbury
    I vote Wells. If degree of difficulty is included then Littell since he's at AA, but in that case the AAA or AA guy would win almost every day.
  7. ashbury
    An additional team won't increase the number of good prospects in the system, just the amount of filler. What hole does having a low-A team fill? How many players are held back in their development because they have outgrown Elizabethton but aren't ready to tackle Cedar Rapids?
  8. ashbury
    Mod note: OK, there's starting to be some piling on versus the poster who remains skeptical about Gonsalves. I ask for some restraint here. Of course, the responses were not totally surprising given the over-the-top tone of the lengthy sequence of skeptical posts, so that needs some toning down too. Kthanks.* * Shamelessly stolen from Chief.
  9. ashbury
    Exactly. Just like Mom used to make for us.
  10. ashbury
    It was not. 13-3 in favor of the visiting Orioles. The Red Sox had more errors (5) than runs, and for a while more errors than hits (6). The O's failed to cover themselves in glory, by committing 3 errors of their own, but they just banged out hit after hit against a defenseless* Porcello. On the plus side, the Sox fans were in a party mood on a beautiful summer night in Boston, and Sweet Caroline has as much poignancy when the home team is far behind in the eighth inning as when they're ahead. * Pick either meaning you want, the pitcher himself or his supporting cast.
  11. ashbury
    Yes. They mean his manager thought enough of him to bring him in with a lead or a tie.
  12. ashbury
    I wondered if someone would play up the umpire angle of the phrase.
  13. ashbury
    Unlike those halcyon years when the team was losing 90+ games a year. It's always a balancing act.
  14. ashbury
    Looks like sampleSize is workin' blue tonight. In other news, I will be seeing my new avatar-sake Buck Showalter in person tonight at Fenway. I think I have no particular rooting interest, and just ask for a good game.
  15. ashbury
    It is a shame that Mrs Riverbrian isn't given a spot on the TD Op-Ed page to share her perspective every now and again.
  16. ashbury
    http://i.imgur.com/mHM3DMk.gif
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  18. ashbury
    "Jeez, ya forget yer cup one time, and ya never live it down."
  19. ashbury
    They at least need to give you warning so you can put in your teeth.
  20. ashbury
    Good trope (the panel would have also accepted "he barely knows us"). But I'd be cautious when Chief has his mod hat on. He knows where the stealth bomber keys are stored.
  21. ashbury
    If Garver in his 20s runs like Mauer in his 30s, what's Garver gonna be like late in his career? / yeah, that's a straight line - go for it
  22. ashbury
    Austin pitched his longest outing of the short season so far, two and a third innings to finish the game against the GCL Orioles on Wednesday August 23. He benefited from a would-be base-stealer thrown out by the catcher when he was called in to quell the mildest of two-out rallies in the top of the seventh, and he then proceeded to throw two clean innings after that, striking out one batter. His team took the lead for good, 9-6, during his stint, so he was credited with his first professional wizzle. His season ERA stands at 2.25.
  23. ashbury
    A bit unexpectedly, to this observer at least, Felix Jorge was called up to AAA Rochester and was immediately put to work. His debut on Wednesday August 23 went very well. He scattered 5 hits and 1 walk across 6 innings of shutout ball against the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Hobos. A couple of the base hits were doubles, and only the fourth and fifth innings were 1-2-3; on the plus side of the ledger, he induced 7 strikeouts, picked off a runner at first base, and even started a nifty 1-6-3 double play. He got no decision however, because the Red Wings were also skunked. That is, until the bottom of the seventh inning, when Leonard Reginnato slugged a two-out homer. Since this was the second game of a double-header, that was a walkoff win, and reliever Mike Tonkin got the W for his solitary inning of work. Felix gets the last laugh, though, as he collects Twins Daily Minor League Pitcher of the Day honors.
  24. ashbury
    His return to AAA on Tuesday August 22 versus Scranton was a letdown after scaling the heights. Four runs on eight hits and a walk, in only three and a third innings. Two strikeouts, but two home runs.
  25. ashbury
    The Carnac photo might have been a clue I was playing along.
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