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  1. ashbury
    I've been wondering for a few days now - what is your avatar photo?
  2. ashbury
    Bradley.... ditto.
  3. ashbury
    OUTMAN!!!!
  4. ashbury
    Larnach running the bases, LOL. He tries his best, bless his heart.
  5. ashbury
    Glad you took my post in the spirit intended.
  6. ashbury
    That's clearly one possible meaning, leading to one clearcut outcome. I double checked my memory, and MLBTR has him remaining philosophical immediately after the trades - the train departure as we all acknowledge it to be - thus doubling down on the "Twin For Life" remarks he made during the All-Star break. Now, a month later, something has changed. He alluded to what may be on his mind when he brought up the W-L record of the past month. As always, I don't know (and I think none of us knows) what is being said in private. Ryan and Buxton have spoken candidly to the press in quick succession. If Pablo Lopez pipes up about something, anything, soon then I will feel even more confident that the stars are speaking for others in the clubhouse. What Baldelli does about it, is anyone's guess. What his boss Falvey does about it, is anyone's guess. What Clan Pohlad does about it, is anyone's guess. Maybe the Final Boss tells Derek, "do what you have to do." Two or even three trades could ensue in that scenario - the three stars I named - in line with what you say and then some. I'm just saying, stay tuned. That seemingly simple scenario is hardly the only one, and if I squint and read Buxton's comments just right, maybe not even the odds-on one. This could be some version of a palace revolt.
  7. ashbury
    Possibly the worst hawt taek I've seen in a month, and I'll leave it at that.
  8. ashbury
    Adios somebody, maybe. This plot could be about to thicken.
  9. ashbury
    He remains my favorite current Twin and this bit of straight talk is an example why.
  10. ashbury
    I feel as if we may have been slightly beaten to market, with your idea. Here's one for the analytics fans.
  11. ashbury
    Okay then, I'd sure hate to be in your bare feet.
  12. ashbury
    Put it this way: I'd sure hate to be in our shoes at the moment.
  13. ashbury
    When you pick your moments carefully and always do it with perfect hindsight, it's a useful trope. 😀
  14. ashbury
    On the fence about signing Naylor to play, but let's do a Kickstarter* to get Jomboy as the color analyst beside Provus. * Is Kickstarter still a thing? I do not keep up.
  15. ashbury
    His past 13 games has him sporting a .532 OPS. The Small Sample Size giveth, the Small Sample Size taketh away.
  16. ashbury
    Since fielding percentage is your thing, I'd like to mention that across the majors, .976 is the average for all shortstops in the year of our lord 2025. https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2025-specialpos_ss-fielding.shtml I'm not sold on Brooks Lee at SS either but you'll need to dig a little deeper to convince me with numbers that there's something wrong.
  17. ashbury
    See, that's the heart of what was bothering me about the article. It didn't define its terms and left the discussion fuzzy. It didn't quite come out and say what anyone was doubting. "We doubt he's in the top 5" -- FangRaphs - that's about the closest to a specific thing that the player could try to "prove" is wrong. Jenkins's season is good but I really doubt that a writer is now muttering, "guess I was wrong, he's #5 now." Missing in action during most of April and all of May can't have shut anyone up about the durability concerns.
  18. ashbury
    I don't even want to think about your and my respective numerous contributions here, then. 😀
  19. ashbury
    I don't know how to conduct a careful study, but I suspect that hiring the unsuccessful people from other organizations usually works out even less well. 😀 And then there's hiring from within, AKA promoting. That can lead to stagnancy, a county-club atmosphere, and other bad things. Except when it works out well, and then forget all that naysaying. I'm sure there's no single formula for success. When hiring for any interesting job, it's difficult to know what the person will do until they've been doing it awhile. If the job is interesting enough, the candidate won't actually know for certain either.
  20. ashbury
    "Who is Mr Twin?" The average baseball fan across the nation but outside the team's core market might say Kirby Puckett - maybe a few are old enough to say Harmon or young enough to say Joe Mauer. "Who is Mr Marlins?" I bet most of those fans would be stuck for answer, to name even one Marlin. (By WAR for the team, it would be Giancarlo Stanton or Hanley Ramirez - and I doubt most people would associate the Marlins with either one.)
  21. ashbury
    b-r.com and its game logs plus Wikipedia can make anyone, even me, an expert on the 50s Braves. Covington continued to play in July, August, and September 1957, but Bruton's last game of that season was on July 11. He was taken out in the bottom of the first inning of that game, after he sustained a knee injury when he collided with Mantilla the shortstop both going for a short fly ball. Andy Pafko was brought into the game, but as a right fielder as they shifted Aaron to CF. That substitute alignment remained for more than two weeks. Manager Fred Haney showed no imagination whatsover, by playing the same outfield game after game, with the original trio before the injury and then the modified one after. But why oh why did it take the Braves' front office until July 29 to realize they were sitting on a gold mine, and to bring Hazle up from Wichita? Took 'em until the 31st to even let him start a game. (I think I have my facts straight but tongue is firmly in cheek a couple times in this post. 😀 )
  22. ashbury
    Meet the new Rocco. Same as the old Rocco.
  23. ashbury
    None other. Before my time - uh, at least as a fan. 😀
  24. ashbury
    It's been done a Lucky 13 times in the majors by Twins pitchers, most recently Chris Archer in 2022. Trevor May, back in his days as a starter, did it in 2014. It's true that none of those 13 achieved what Rojas did: limit the damage to only 1 run scored. Joe Decker and Roger Erickson managed to escape with just 2. I thought it was interesting, anyway. If Stathead (b-r.com) made it as easy to look up minor league results as for the majors, I'm sure there would be plenty of such outings to be sifted through. https://stathead.com/tiny/wx0sV (And none of this of course disputes what you have personally 'seen.' 😀 )
  25. ashbury
    "Wanted" is one of those fuzzy terms that lead to disagreements without anyone necessarily noticing. A player can "want" more than one thing at a time. He could want to remain with the Twins. He could want to not leave money on the table. The Cardinals offered him $75M in guaranteed money. We don't know what, if any, extension the Twins offered, but the QO represented a small fraction of that guarantee. We do know that Gray was quoted as saying that, even after the Twins explained to him that they didn't have the "resources" to make him a competitive offer, he had his agent give it one or two tries anyway. I don't read anything in the MLBTR item the next season suggesting Gray didn't want to be here. Gray didn't want to play for Twins money. AKA right-sizing.
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