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  1. ashbury
    A near-comical play by Nats RF Goodwin, according to radio PBP, with the ball popping out on a catch but he recovered to catch it again? Maybe someone will post a photo.
  2. ashbury
    It's a day game after a day game, so Mauer is on the bench. Gotta rest the veterans. It's 4-1 Twins, going into the bottom of the 3rd. Worley pitching now for the Nats. Dozier gets a leadoff base knock. CBU.
  3. ashbury
    And vice versa.
  4. ashbury
    "Know Thyself," I guess. Perhaps the right call. He's not a gifted comedian, sub-species roaster really, and that's what the event has devolved into. Jackie Robinson, I mean Barack Obama, may have set an impossibly high standard.
  5. ashbury
    Crdering Dompulsive Oyslexic.
  6. ashbury
    Just Danny Santana. He stole second. / Chief's not here, so somebody had to step in. I'll step out now.
  7. ashbury
    At this time of the Spring the pitchers are usually ahead of the batters, and vice versa.
  8. ashbury
    In case anyone's wondering about Mauer: It's a day game after a night game. Gotta rest the veterans.
  9. ashbury
    It might even take years.
  10. ashbury
    They tried conversion therapy on me, but Möbius I was born and Möbius I shall live. In answer to CF's thread-starter, I somewhat share the negative reaction, probably due to early training. My mom used to like to respond, "what, you got a mouse in your pocket?", presumably to my inappropriate use of the word "we", though at the moment I can't recall what a kid would say to a parent that oversteps bounds regarding the plural pronoun. But it's not a battle I choose to fight in the sportsfan world. There's laundry with my home's name on it, worn by large and/or skilled people, so it's We Won or We Lost.
  11. ashbury
    Some things to work on, at least to my untrained eye, such as an unnecessary step or two - but he's 16, plenty of time.
  12. ashbury
    Well, if this were somehow imposed from somewhere, ownership would try. I don't know if they can dictate market forces, however. I'm no Free Market evangelist. But market forces do exist, and you ignore or override them with full knowledge of what and why, and how to counteract them - or else you go down in flames.
  13. ashbury
    Why do you feel his option years were wasted? IMO, when you sign a young guy - Polanco was 16 in his first GCL experience - you in effect commit to adding him (assuming he's developing satisfactorily) to your 40-man before he's finished developing, or else risk losing him via the rule-5 draft, and then you use his option years to let him continue developing in the minors. That's what they did with Polanco. They did bring him up a couple of times in 2014/2015, precisely because he was now on the 40-man and thus an expedient choice to fill out the active roster for a few days or weeks. During his final option year, 2016, he was deemed ready, and was brought up at mid-season to stay. There's a possible misperception that bringing a young guy up to the majors is what burns an option. It's the other way around - once the player has been added to the 40-man roster, he must be on the active (25-man) roster unless he has options remaining. I guess the argument could be made that the Twins should have gambled by leaving him exposed to the rule-5 draft after he hit .300 with some pop at single-A as a 19-year-old. That would have preserved his 3 options by not starting the clock for another year. Would a bottom-feeder team have been able to make room for him for an entire season, and would there have been no better targets in that draft? I believe no middle infielders were chosen in the December 2013 draft, so maybe that means he would have sneaked through, in hindsight - or maybe it means he would have stood out as the infielder to take.
  14. ashbury
    I love you, Honey Bunny. And if my answer frightens you, then you should cease asking scary questions.
  15. ashbury
    Who's the Quentin Tarantino?
  16. ashbury
    It's a night game before a day game. Gotta rest the veterans.
  17. ashbury
    I'm a little concerned about this being Pedro Florimon V2.0. There's a ton of guys where teams say "oh, if he can just hit a little bit...", and then they can't, because "a little bit" is a higher bar than most people want to admit during the feel-good times of early spring. Ehire seemed to gain more than usual from the batting inflation that the PCL offers, for whatever reason. But maybe his chances look a little better than Florimon's did at a similar time, and in that case, his upside could be a credible shortstop for a last-place team. That's not the goal, of course, which is why I'm meh on thinking too much about him now.
  18. ashbury
    I continue to have this working theory that Sano is afraid of the ball. The following video is in RF, where admittedly he was a fish out of water, but I swear I have seen similar behavior on routine bouncers at 3B (I just didn't put my hands on an example): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM7TRebtkJA He gets in the vicinity of the ball but not in front of it, and then sticks his glove out. The commentators speculate about the lights, but it looked like he tracked the ball OK but just didn't want to put himself in front of it. This fits with the profile that he can be excellent coming in on slow rollers and firing the ball to first base. There's no risk of getting hit in the beak on such plays. He's seemingly happiest when the ball can't be gotten in front of. Then, there's no lack of effort on his part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb904799gHA It seems like a preposterous theory to attach to a major league player, and maybe there is a more accurate description to be had than "afraid of the ball", but I'm sticking with it until I see some new evidence. / This has been me doing my terrible impression of Parker Hageman.
  19. ashbury
    It's not 100% clear where the alcohol angle came from, but it might be from Sano himself to the reporter, or maybe it was provided as background by a coach. For me, it's a pretty illuminating piece of information - in fact, close to a red flag. If Sano has come to a realization that liquid carbs of this type are a major factor regarding his weight, this is a potentially complex problem that will not easily go permanently away. If Sano has not embraced the view, and yet it's correct in the view of someone qualified to judge, then it's that much harder. It's often been said semi-jokingly of a prospect that "only two things stand between this guy and major league stardom: a knife, and a fork." I wonder how often the actual obstacle is a bottle opener. I hope the writer didn't include this tidbit just to get a rise out of people, because in that case it worked.
  20. ashbury
    Moderator's note: At this point, this tangent should be taken elsewhere, such as the Questions About MinnCentric forum, as it's becoming about moderation policy.
  21. ashbury
    Moscow lacks a MLB team, so he might actually just skip it. Better than mainstream poos.
  22. ashbury
    I'm afraid that, if one doesn't get a comment of mine that is plainly being played for laughs, look lower-brow for the source, not overhead.
  23. ashbury
    Nothing. "If... ever" didn't mean "should". A parallel was being drawn, is all. Regal and measured. The ST theme just didn't fit a space opera, for me, neither for a movie nor for a teevee series.
  24. ashbury
    FTFY
  25. ashbury
    Sez who?
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