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  1. ashbury
    Sir, could I interest you in a slightly used Ricky Nolasco?
  2. ashbury
    Indians scored in the 8th.
  3. ashbury
    Earned another start as a placeholder for Gonsalves, I guess.
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    Santana got it done.
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    Called it.
  7. ashbury
    Ben Rortvedt scored the winning run in Cedar Rapids's 12-inning 6-3 victory. True, Jermaine Palacios clobbered the home run, but Ben was perched at second base in front of Aaron Whitefield when the Palacios blast occurred and was thus first in line to break the tie. So that's my analysis of the bottom of the 12th. Ben struck out his first two times up, but singled 2 of his next 3 times, for a nice 2-5 day, raising his batting average. Oh, and: nice article on Ben by Seth today.
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    Felix is my Adopt-A-Prospect so I'm going to pick a nit. He kind of did the opposite of scattering 5 hits and a walk - instead Biloxi bunched their offense to close to maximal effect for their 3 runs, truly wasting only a double in the fifth. On a different day, those baserunners might actually have been scattered and he would have thrown a shutout for seven innings, and perhaps would have been given the opportunity to go a little longer since he was at only 88 pitches with a 3-0 lead (before the fourth run in the 8th). Hey, he's my guy, I'll stand up for him, when I see what I think to be a bit of bad luck there.
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    Felix Jorge pitched the Lookouts to a 4-3 win over the Biloxi Shuckers on Monday May 22, earning Twins Daily Pitcher of the Day honors for the second time this season. The first run against him came in the third inning, from two singles that sandwiched a walk - a caught-stealing for the third out was instrumental in cutting off the damage. From there, it was smooth sailing save for a harmless double, until the seventh, when there was a single and a HBP, a base-advancing groundout, and then another single to plate both runners. Melotakis and Curtiss came in for the 8th and 9th respectively to complete the win. All told, then, Jorge pitched 7 full innings, requiring just 88 pitches, and he gave up 5 hits and the 1 walk, striking out 3 in the process. On a different day, maybe those baserunners would have been more scattered, but Biloxi's offense was efficient that evening. Shucks.
  10. ashbury
    His age and resume suggested drafting him only if you needed to plug an immediate hole in the rotation. Hiding him in the bullpen would be appropriate if he were some different pitcher with a chance to be better in a year or three. We've now had 7 pitchers this season get the ball for the first inning, and Haley hasn't been one of them. I was puzzled by the selection (and even moreso by the tactics involved), and see no reason to invest further time with him, given that guys like Tepesch have gotten the call in preference to him. He's got AAA stuff, apparently, so let him toil in Pawtucket, or Rochester if the Red Sox and the rest of the majors say "nah, we're good".
  11. ashbury
    Asking, for a friend?
  12. ashbury
    A quibble, mainly, because I agree with your principle: this would be enough for 1 difference maker, more or less. Money spent on 2 and 3 year contracts make this $51M sum something like $10+M a year. Nolasco territory. A 3 year contract for $51M might have gotten us someONE who would move the needle (although needle-movers generally demand and get more security than 3 years). Except of course that he'd need TJ surgery in May of his first year.
  13. ashbury
    It's not especially relevant to anything, but his rate stats this year and last are remarkably similar. 2016 2017 5.95 5.74 ERA 1.508 1.511 WHIP 1.7 1.9 HR/9 5.2 5.7 SO/9 If rest does not help, this may be the Phil Hughes we have, going forward.
  14. ashbury
    I stopped reading the Bill of Rights when it began "Congrefs of the United States...". How did anyone back then take those people seriously? "Yo, Madison my man, are we not doing spellcheck anymore?"
  15. ashbury
    Giving up only 1 or two runs, if it happens, would probably count as a "reason".
  16. ashbury
    "History is written by the victors." - Winston Churchill.
  17. ashbury
    Except for the 6-inning no-hitter in his first 2017 outing. And his two most recent starts were 3 hits in 7.1 innings, and 5 hits in 8 innings.
  18. ashbury
    He does share a quality that I always found infuriating with Gibson: the propensity to follow a good start with a shaky one. If further seasoning allows him to capture what works every time he goes to the mound, I am willing to be patient. Or more to the point, I want to see a string of starts that are good, to confirm that he's got it. And he's my Adopt-A-Prospect, so this view is coming from nothing but a good place.
  19. ashbury
    This will not happen anytime soon, if my guess about the front office's focus on "consistency" is right. They'll want to see half a season at AAA.
  20. ashbury
    His BABIP is around .600 so expect those numbers to drop.
  21. ashbury
    My explanation is that the front office has a self-imposed discipline, and they stuck to it. Had Berrios not thrown a relative clunker on April 19 in suburban Atlanta, he might have been up sooner. Two straight high-quality AAA starts afterward must not have been their metric, but the next one was. Management always preaches "consistency", and two in a row doesn't cut it. That's my reverse-engineering solution to the puzzle. I always prefer to try that, than to conclude "their idots".
  22. ashbury
    I'd guess the reality is somewhere in a gray area. Hughes is probably at the stage of his career where his shoulder is always sore to some degree. If the results on the field aren't good, the inclination is to see if some extended rest can help. It's not a made-up injury, but the decision is somewhat a matter of convenience and managerial oversight.
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    “We're on a first-number basis with each other. He calls me 3 and I call him 2.” -- Bill Lee, the Spaceman
  25. ashbury
    I just looked up that quote. What he actually said was: "No man is an Iland, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine." That man makes some of us look like spelling bee champions.
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