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  1. ashbury
    The Trevor Plouffe of the pitching staff?
  2. ashbury
    Woah. A major league player as good as Parker? That's high praise. For the player.
  3. ashbury
    He botched a ball as a late-inning substitute in a game I watched in Sarasota for the big-league team, and that was at shortstop. And I think a butchered play I saw on one of the backfields was also at short, because Vielma was at second. Your observation means he qualifies as a Utility Mishandler, although I haven't seen him at third.
  4. ashbury
    *shrug* We'll see what backhanded comments Paul makes, if and when Niko is promoted.
  5. ashbury
    With the bat, perhaps, but what about the glove? Seems to me his defense continues to be far too inconsistent for someone like Molitor to put up with. He'll make a difficult play, and then on an easier one, mess it up. I'm dealing with small sample size in my observations, but it seems to me he finds a different way to mess up each time (misjudge, wide throw, overthrow, etc), so it's not just one correctable thing either. / edit - with regard to the fast start in Rochester, I looked at b-r.com and I don't see a line for him in 2017 at all. His line is on Fangraphs. Guess I need to file a bug report.
  6. ashbury
    I should put a freeze frame of your post in the centerfold of the site, whatever any of that means.
  7. ashbury
    I thought you must be exaggerating about fan-girl, but the way she leaned forward to coax him to tell what he was already going to tell... fan-girl is about right.
  8. ashbury
    After a good night's sleep, my prescription is this: get a favorable pingpong ball bounce and draft someone good, then go out and sign someone big and defensive-minded. Problem solved.
  9. ashbury
    Oh, sure, pieces can be moved about. Much better now than the corner-DH-clogged days not so long ago with Willingham and Doumit as important players. I was just reacting, maybe too specifically, to what I believed to be the question of replacing DanSan's role. Agreed, virtually anyone good can take a roster spot, and then the manager must work out the details, given that reasonable positional flexibility is present.
  10. ashbury
    Considering Palka and Granite for the same outfield role strikes me as about the same as considering ByungHo Park and Engelb Vielma for one infield opening.
  11. ashbury
    One of Bill James's early observations was that, the more outstanding the player, the fewer the comparables there are for him. This guy, perhaps DHing on his off-days from pitching, could be close to unique.
  12. ashbury
    If you like a closer who nibbles, nibbles, nibbles at the plate. / "But if he was the closer, I'd tell him to go right after the hitters." "Then, tell him that now."
  13. ashbury
    Moderator's note: Usual site rules apply here, but with a topic like this one, I just want to emphasize mutual respect and absence of trolling. Normally we recommend making posts be about the given topic and not about the individuals who post, but this topic is to great degree about posters themselves, so be careful. If the thread turns into a food fight, it will be closed.
  14. ashbury
    It's all about presentation.
  15. ashbury
    But in case you or the commenter are: the DH rule is written specifically for the pitcher only.
  16. ashbury
    Pro tip: you have to cook it first.
  17. ashbury
    Not to mention that he's on the DL. [Edit: OK, I got ninja'd. ] Strained oblique, which he claims will not keep him sidelined long. Still, if we're talking about moves to make RIGHT NOW!!!1! then he's not a candidate.
  18. ashbury
    Here is a three-pitch sequence from a game on the back fields on March 23. I didn't keep a scoresheet so I don't know the outcome of this PA. First, swinging and missing: Next a take, apparently: And then it looks like he connects, intending to take it to the opposite field: Unfortunately, my pictures of an earlier AB that game, where he pulled a long home run to left, didn't come out. I could show you one of him on deck before he hit it, though.
  19. ashbury
    My notes from March 24 in Ft Myers had his pitch speeds ranging from 74 to 89. So he doesn't threaten batters with deadly heat, but from that low arm slot the range of speeds has to be perplexing. Seth's writeup back in October had him with a slider and a changeup as his off-pitches. Here's your guy and mine, listening during morning instructionals: And an idle moment during coach-speak time to an adjacent group:
  20. ashbury
    Which prospect is Stashak actually taking?
  21. ashbury
    Be careful what you wish for. Goodrum is on about the same level as Santana as regards reliability of the glove at present, which is to say, bad. Maybe he can clean things up, but he needs to do that at Rochester.
  22. ashbury
    Aaron made his first 2017 start at AAA last night, and weaved in and out of trouble in several of the six innings he worked. He gave up a walk to the very first batter in the bottom of the first, and an eventual throwing error by shortstop Goodrum after two forceouts advanced the remaining runner to second before Slegers quelled the mini-rally with a key strikeout. The second inning was clean, with another strikeout, but in the third a one-out walk was erased only due to a double play on a lineout to Palka in right. Inning four saw another leadoff walk, followed by a steal and a sac fly to center, but Slegers managed to strand the runner at third with an infield pop and then another clutch strikeout. He found his stride in innings five and six, with no baserunners, getting a strikeout looking to end the fifth and then two swinging strikeouts in the sixth followed by a fly out to end his evening's work, after no doubt reaching his pitch-count limit at 81 with 48 of them strikes. Oh, who am I kidding? Have I mentioned any base hits? NO! I've buried the lede: he stood tall and no-hit Buffalo for all six innings, striking out seven to go with the three walks, leaving the game with a 1-0 lead that the Red Wing hitters managed to extend to 5-0 before it was all over. Not surprisingly, he took Twins Daily honors for Pitcher of the Day. Congratulations to Aaron Slegers for an outstanding game!
  23. ashbury
    "Assad is worse than Hitler [in one narrowly defined dimension]" - what a clueless exaggerating maroon. "Hitler wasn't as bad as Assad [in one narrowly defined dimension]" - ZOMG he's a Holocaust Denier! Spicer did a poor job of defining his dimension when winging it at the podium, though he later managed to clarify it as population centers on the second or third try. Of course, one could say that an internment camp is also a population center of sorts; maybe it's a dimension that isn't as illuminating as he thinks and the analogy he's trying to draw falls apart quickly upon inspection. I'm not sure I've seen mentioned that surely Spicer didn't just think this analogy up on the fly and on his own, while trying to defend actions. He's not with the president for many minutes in a day, but he runs around with the inner circle, and it's not hard to guess that the H word must have been bandied about in the past several days, if that was his go-to at a presser. That might be more concerning to me than Spicer's fumbling for words, if it reflects a shallow and inarticulate way of deciding what to do in Syria. And that's why Chief's wise advice to not get lost in the weeds might not be totally applicable.
  24. ashbury
    Not including today's game, so far this season the Twins batters have been below league average in pitches per plate appearance. Last year they were around league average.
  25. ashbury
    Came here to see this. Leaving, satisfied.
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