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  1. ashbury
    Astounding. I too would like to know his side of the story.
  2. ashbury
    The article stated it will be Austin Martin.
  3. ashbury
    Unlike MAT, KAM takes bad routes to the ball. Oh yeah.
  4. ashbury
    I've been hoping for him to get a chance. I want to find out. But color me skeptical. I'm not sold on his CF defense as being special. And if it's not then I'm concerned the bat won't be enough. IOW, I fear he'll be a tweener. Please prove me wrong, DaShawn
  5. ashbury
    I keep asking Mrs Ash the same question and she just looks away and changes the subject.
  6. ashbury
    I don't know if I would predict "never will", but I think you and I are seeing the play the same way. I'd like to find similar video for comparison, where a stellar second baseman has to go to his right and come up throwing toward second instead - an instant faster, presumably. Here's another interesting data point - the runner seemed to believe the play would be to home. Because (with his back to the second baseman after he passed him) he didn't slide into second to avoid overrunning the bag, and in fact rounded the base slightly toward third, as if confident the throw wasn't coming his way. Maybe Brooks Lee should have deked him, a little, though too much of that might get a rookie a reputation for bush league-ness, I dunno.
  7. ashbury
    An instant later, the ball is a tiny dot you can see against the outfield grass as a backdrop (might have to magnify). Video link is here to watch in realtime: https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2024/2024-09/04/f3a3bf51-4fbad62d-644cf116-csvm-diamondgcp-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4
  8. ashbury
    I'm going to post two screenshots, in this post and the next because they're kind of large. The first shows the position of the runner as Lewis releases the ball. The second shows an instant later, for reference, to show the distance the ball traveled and the distance the runner traveled. It could be that a different fielder could have done a faster job of coming up with the grounder and converting it into a throw. That would be a different (and maybe interesting) discussion concerning Lewis's defensive chops at this time. But given Lewis's own knowledge of his mechanics, it looks to me like he made the right choice. Throwing toward second would have been futile.
  9. ashbury
    Okay, MAT then. 😀
  10. ashbury
    Keirsey had a chance to make a real statement in CF on what instead ended up being a triple for Morel. Not a black mark against him, but he could have earned a gold star. I don't know whether Austin Martin could have hauled that one in either. In my heart of hearts I'll believe that Buxton would have, of course.
  11. ashbury
    Sorry, I've got a prior appointment for then.
  12. ashbury
    None. They are a Miami affiliate. 😀
  13. ashbury
    I am rooting for Burton.
  14. ashbury
    I had a boss who once stopped me in my tracks when I was trying to get information on behalf of a customer: "what would they do with the information if they had it?" Turned out it was just curiosity and I was therefore stuck for an answer, and I never forgot the lesson. No one can give an exact return date. And what would we do with that date if we knew it, anyway?
  15. ashbury
    There's no commitment beyond this year. In an interview earlier this season, Farmer expressed surprise that they tendered him a contract and which he accepted in lieu of arbitration, making me believe he'd be open to a much lower figure in free agency.
  16. ashbury
    Wait, you come here for a fun evening, pick a fight unprovoked, and then turn thumbs-down on a playful reply? Good night.
  17. ashbury
    It could be that everything they ask of him beyond what he's giving them now would be sub-Margot. I'm not especially advocating one way or the other, actually. It's just that one big difference between 10-year old Ashbury and the one you're talking to now doesn't believe that the stats on the back of a player's bubble gum card define him.
  18. ashbury
    What if teh spredsheetz is why they score all those runs tonight?
  19. ashbury
    Last year's postseason catching choice was a mistake. I hope they don't repeat it.* * No, I don't hope they fail to reach the postseason.
  20. ashbury
    They might respond by saying he's done this through the usage they devised.
  21. ashbury
    I'm drawing zero conclusions from 31 PA, whatever the league. How's his fielding?
  22. ashbury
    Folks in Saint Looie today buy tickets to the ballgame because the Gas House Gang won it all back in the 1930s? I'd need to see some market research to believe that this is any kind of factor for spending hard-earned cash.
  23. ashbury
    Wallner leads all major leaguers who have at least 100 PA in this illuminating statistic: Batting Average on Balls in Play, at .418. This is masking his 36% strikeout rate. When the unsustainable level of balls missing gloves ends, the crash isn't going to be pretty.
  24. ashbury
    We can't stash Tonkin in St Paul because the Mets will grab him again when we try to outright him, LOL.
  25. ashbury
    Didn't watch the game. Guess I'm glad I didn't. No positive takeaways from this game whatsoever.
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