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You click on a news item that is too good to be true, you get Rick Astley. You click on a link purporting to rick roll you, be prepared for a news item that is too good to be true. / or porn, if it's someone else
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I didn't. I said it right there in the post you responded to, that injuries cloud his future. My post was in response to a statement questioning whether he had even had success in the minors. Just being in AA at age 19 reflects success, and he exceeded that standard by quite a lot. And that was all I was trying to get at.
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Wonderful wife, great kids - glad to know you feel I am worthy.
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Oh, you're just mad because you got rickroll'd. / Go ahead, click the link. It won't give your computer a virus.
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The major league resume isn't much, and injuries cloud his future. But his minor league numbers? Up through age 20 he was on a trajectory to be a very fine hitter, regardless of defensive position, and then to add that he's a shortstop made him an immense prospect. A .280 batting average can be empty, but Profar's was anything but that. Also, age matters when forecasting a prospect - to put up an .820 OPS in AA at age 19 after better numbers at single-A the year before (thus skipping high-A), and to follow that up with a partial season at AAA with similar performance before being called up - these were great numbers.
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Good. Then I can go back to laughing because you clicked on a link that suggested Urias might be negotiable. In a game thread.
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The bad news is that I laughed when I read this response. The good news is that I am genuinely sorry if I caused you even a hint of trouble.
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No, but the rumors on MLBTR just took an interesting turn. Urias now, maybe?
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That'll teach me. Try and help Chief out with his geography? Sheesh.
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Good, I guess. It felt good.
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"Who's there?" "Sam & Janet." "Sam & Janet who?" Sam & Janet proceed to break into tears as their grandmother's Alzheimers has progressed to the point where she can no longer remember them.
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You think that's bad? I've been through the desert on a horse with no name. He smelled just as terrible, and I didn't even know what to call him if I complained about it.
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There was huge criticism at the time. / ninja'd by nicksaviking
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I guess if you go to Wayzata and keep going far enough west, you do come back to Toronto.
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Astros FA Frustrated with New International System
ashbury replied to Vanimal46's topic in Other Baseball
You don't. Unless you have some mad baseball skills you haven't told us about. That is where his complaint with the new system probably starts. Supply and demand, and somebody is artificially putting a damper on the demand. -
Fangraphs interview with Falvey and Levine
ashbury replied to Mike Sixel's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
I said 'properly functioning'. -
Fangraphs interview with Falvey and Levine
ashbury replied to Mike Sixel's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Another quote: He then goes on to describe a properly functioning quality-control concept as what he wants. I don't know anyone who thinks having a QC person inside a group of professionals means you've lost control of quality. If I engage the cruise control in my car, does it mean I did it because I lost control of the vehicle?* * Those of you who have ridden with me are forbidden from answering this rhetorical question. -
Fangraphs interview with Falvey and Levine
ashbury replied to Mike Sixel's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Having been a critic of (my outsider's impression of) the analytics department, I am happy to be proved wrong and to see that Jack has a vision that satisfies people with experience in other such groups. There is room to read between the lines that the present state of things may be below par, but also that such state might have been to some degree imposed from above. -
The number just sounded funny as any kind of obstacle to tucking it away somewhere for the benefit of future historians.
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True story. In 1996 I moved from the Twin Cities to a job in a small town in western Nevada at 6000 feet elevation. They get snow there. My first significant storm that winter, probably 12 inches of wet heavy Sierra Cement, I got up a bit early, and fired up the really expensive Honda snow blower that Consumer Reports said was good but no one would ever need and which all the neighbors said was the thing to get. Got the driveway cleared and headed on in to work, confident in the top of the line snow tires I had had installed on our Taurus. Got to the office about 8:30, half an hour late, feeling pretty good about life. Everybody, all dozen or so, was sitting at their desks, working quietly as usual. "Where ya been?" the boss asked casually. "Clearing the driveway," I said, still feeling a little proud of having handled the necessities of mountain life without a hitch. "Try to get to work on time," he advised. "OK," I said. True story.
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Pipe dream withdrawn.
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The issue for LA is debt service, which MLB has told them to get under control relative to overall expenses and revenue. A temporary condition, but perhaps exploitable this one off-season. Long term, yeah, LA is fine. I'm dreaming, of course. But it's an example of why I would have seriously considered non-tendering Hector Santiago, for flexibility. That $8M or thereabouts matches pretty close to Puig, for this one season out of the two he has remaining, meaning we'd only have to swallow the second year's salary. Seems a more likely way to acquire a good additional prospect than by trying to trade Santiago directly. But it's a very superficial view of team finances, I am sure.
