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  1. ashbury
    Ha, we seemed to be typing at the same moment. 😀
  2. ashbury
    Twins starting pitchers in 2024 went 852 1/3 innings or almost exactly major league average. This despite slightly worse ERA than average (4.33 vs 4.15 for the majors). Said another way, only St Louis starters pitched more innings despite an ERA as bad as Minnesota's. The stats in 2023 were even more pronounced, when Twins starters were actually performing well. Then, they were 4th in the majors in starters' innings. The trope that "Rocco has a quick hook" is old and tired. When he's got the horses, he manages them much like his peers.
  3. ashbury
    None really. Castellano is the one who might raise the FO's off-season grade if he performs well. Everyone else is close to a known quantity, within narrow bounds.
  4. ashbury
    Better than that, about a week ago there was a story about how no one is coming off of surgery or rehab this off-season. IOW, every player is arriving in THE BEST SHAPE EVER™.
  5. ashbury
    What, and shine a light on the vaunted Pitching Pipeline™ being a tad thin?
  6. ashbury
    Pssst, Seth, Friday the Thirteenth came on Thursday this month.
  7. ashbury
    Give Zebby a first-baseman's mitt and see if he's any good.
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  10. ashbury
    / edit - I checked after posting and you used this exact idea last year. Oh well, I thunk it up on my own and I'm leaving it. 😀
  11. ashbury
    According to sources, TD executives have been looking for ways to cull the herd here anyway. Ty France Fever can only help with this goal.
  12. ashbury
    See, that's where I have the advantage: I've been told many times that I know bupkis. Anyway I go back and forth on whose draft was better. I'm not a big believer in either Prielipp or Eeles, so I guess I give the nod to Cody, but only by a hair.
  13. ashbury
    I started out replying to someone referring to 3-base errors, so I discussed on the terms presented. It's not really how I judge defense, but was fine for conversation's sake. Still, for one of the two players on the Twins who managed to put in a full season's worth of plate appearances, Santana's counting stats on offense don't really stand out versus the league. His glove is what made him arguably a slightly above-average player in 2024, and I give him credit for it, but it takes multiple bad plays to amount to an actual run scored in most cases, while an HR is guaranteed to score 1 and might knock in 1 or 2 or 3 others. It's virtually impossible for any player who isn't up-the-middle to prevent enough runs to make up for so-so offense.
  14. ashbury
    I offer my condolences to the player. I offer my condolences also to the team
  15. ashbury
    So now they're trolling fans of all other teams, with a player who is booed everywhere.
  16. ashbury
    With most of these guys, you're looking at a below-average glove at SS. highlighted by verbiage that's variations on the theme of "can play multiple positions." Culpepper is about the only one I can feel a little excitement about.
  17. ashbury
    Which, as I looked up the photo, was apparently somebody's idea of a joke, as a takeoff on her shirt that said Stop Being Desperate, which maybe was also dumb but not as moronic as Stop Being Poor.
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  19. ashbury
    Literal minded TD poster replies literally:
  20. ashbury
    That's the moment he descends into "Why guy" territory. I really liked your "why not" category.
  21. ashbury
    Fielding percentages are far higher than batting averages. Rare is the Dick Stuart (Dr. Strangeglove) type who screws up enough to lose his first base job if he's hitting homers, and of course now there's the DH to bail such a player out. Yours is a much poorer comparison.
  22. ashbury
    I've never woofed for Headrick and I'm not going to defend him now. He's lefty and he's breathing, so he'll continue getting chances, and another poster aptly characterized him as a "why not?" 40-man choice. The Yankees, far from a joke team, apparently saw the same value since they seem to be light on lefties at the moment, so now he's the Yankees' why-not guy. He hasn't yet regressed into a "why?" guy. 😀 But that doesn't mean there was any trade value before Headrick was put on waivers. Still, 40-man spots have value and the team liked France enough to give him one in preference to whoever they were considering, in a situation where the contract usually is MiLB with a Spring invite and then the $1M commitment if he makes the 26-man roster. I suppose the 40-man spot was some kind of sweetener to induce France to agree, since being on the 40-man does confer certain perks. All I'm saying is that there is more of an investment by the Twins than the potential $1M. Which makes me question the investment on a guy like him, unless their talent evaluation is better now than when they plucked guys like Margot. He's simply a slightly more expensive why-not guy. Why?
  23. ashbury
    How many errors of any kind were first-basemen charged with last season? 222. How many home runs did first-basemen hit last season? 670. One of these is of more importance than the other (not every error leads to a run, while every home run does), and is also more frequent. Of course a slick-fielding first baseman is valuable, but if he doesn't hit home runs at a pace which keeps up with his peers, he's dragging his team down, one plate appearance at a time. Elephant-rabbit stew, and we keep wanting to talk about the rabbit.
  24. ashbury
    Contract-wise, specifically, yes. But they like him well enough they risked, and lost, so-so lefty Brent Headrick. Would I have traded Headrick for France even-up last Trade Deadline? Probably not. Has France improved in the meantime, by getting healthier? Seems to be what the Twins FO is thinking, because they made this "trade."
  25. ashbury
    Nitpick: I expect Rick would want you to know it's "The Ohio State University", with a capital T. I never went there, but the graduates have burned this into my consciousness.
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