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  1. ashbury
    Where's Waldo (Green Edition)
  2. ashbury
    We've probably all run into people, in our respective lines of work, who were old and kind of dead wood but were hanging on as long as they could because they were in their peak earning years. Unless and until their work quality slipped so much that they got fired, we might grumble about them but could at least see things from their point of view. (And I freely confess to having been exactly that kind of dead wood in my final couple of years as well.) The usual pay structure in the US is such that you don't hit your peak earning years until close to the end. It leads to some perverse incentives but all in all seems acceptable to the employers and the work force alike. Don't hate the player, hate the game. Big time sports operate differently. Peak earning years may not happen instantly (baseball and basketball and football each have their own rhythms to this), but they still come at a very early age in the human lifespan. I can't get much more worked up about an athlete in his 20s, not even dead wood yet, trying to protect his peak earning years in whatever way makes sense to him, than I can about the dead wood dudes where I worked. As an aside: elsewhere we see posters beg Derek Falvey or Joe Pohlad to just "tell us the truth." Royce Lewis spoke his mind, and we see what kind of blowback that earns someone in the public eye.
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    We've had a grand total of two ownerships, for all intents and purposes. And the other owner has the name of the town of Waseca attached to his own tone-deaf legacy.
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    It's been fun this season to occasionally go to his b-r.com page and click the sort link for each of his counting stats. He won't reach his major-league highs set in 2017 in several things like games played or at bats. But to my pleasant surprise, he has eclipsed his own personal best in Runs Scored by a healthy margin, sitting at 83 this morning. RBIs at 72, ditto, personal best. He's not going to reach 100 in either of those two categories, due mostly to some time away from the field but also in part to a pretty sub-par offense surrounding him. He just topped his personal best in home runs, as mentioned in the article - somehow he's traded some doubles (which he's a bit low on this season) for homers, generally a worthwhile swap because he doesn't have to depend on the next hitter to drive him in. He'll likely establish a new personal high in walks before the season is over, and without topping his career high in strikeouts. All in all this is the season we were hoping for a decade ago - a year that would have left us expecting even better things to come, instead of representing what could turn out to be a career-year in a career full of disappointment if not downright tragedy.
  5. ashbury
    The battle of the 4.82 ERAs. Can't wait.
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  7. ashbury
    "a sustainable and championship-caliber team and organization that Twins fans across Twins Territory will be proud of". -- Derek Falvey, November 7, 2016 https://zonecoverage.com/2016/mn-twins-news/twins-introduce-derek-falvey-thad-levine-as-new-baseball-power-structure/
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  9. ashbury
    I'm naturally at a loss for words.
  10. ashbury
    He's probably safe in the belief he's the worst in the last 15 minutes, though.
  11. ashbury
    Technically, is the upper deck part of the outfield?
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  13. ashbury
    The Josh Willingham / Scott Diamond / Sam Deduno teams of more than a decade ago would give these guys a run for the honor, and then there's the Total System Failure platinum edition that followed in 2016.
  14. ashbury
    Yeah, don't count your chicken(dinner)s before they Hatch.
  15. ashbury
    If MLB roster rules worked differently than they do, maybe I'd agree with you.
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  17. ashbury
    Yay team.
  18. ashbury
    The reason I would not put Larnach on this list is I seriously doubt he has any trade value whatsoever. We could trade him for someone similarly lacking in trade value, whether that be a low-ranked prospect/suspect or a major leaguer with similar arbitration salary issues, and that's about it. He's not someone to base off-season planning around, at all.
  19. ashbury
    "You probably wouldn't react well to knowing the real situation if you knew it." I think that's how that goes.
  20. ashbury
    Depressing that this was the high-water mark for what felt like should have been something more.
  21. ashbury
    They say PoTayTo, you say PoTahTo.
  22. ashbury
    By any other name...
  23. ashbury
    Issuing a walk now qualifies as a clean inning?
  24. ashbury
    If you prefer old school for what sets the good batters apart then let's discuss Triple Crown numbers. BA/HR/RBI. Nothing new under the sun. We're expressing the ideas a little differently nowadays, is all.
  25. ashbury
    Well, Ryan and Lopez were acquired via trade in the first place. Unless you believe recently departed Thad Levine was the keeper of that secret sauce.
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