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  1. ashbury
    Fewer batters faced would be my recommendation.
  2. ashbury
    Oh, sure, jinx our bullpen.
  3. ashbury
    Wonder if any sabrmetricians have done a study on thread traffic after a horrendous bottom of the sixth inning?
  4. ashbury
    Not much difference. Key is to make sure it's well vented.
  5. ashbury
    One of 'em. Apparently.
  6. ashbury
    Meet the new Jim Hoey. Same as the old Jim Hoey.
  7. ashbury
    Dunno. Still got your spleen?
  8. ashbury
    Listening to the radio broadcast overlaying the video. "Hit in the air, left center field, Grossman will never get it in a million years..." I like their brutal honesty.
  9. ashbury
    You mean:http://www.sticktwiddlers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/dwight-the-office-false-meme.png
  10. ashbury
    Suzuki's got quite the cannon. Maybe he missed his true calling as a right fielder?
  11. ashbury
    I know, but it's a lot easier to post a GIF than to think up something funny to write.
  12. ashbury
    So, keep Dozier, and install Polanco as our starting SS for 2017? Who's with me?
  13. ashbury
    This is somewhat akin to saying that between Methuselah and Honey Boo Boo, there's quite a bit of experience there.
  14. ashbury
    The job title ain't what's gonna matter. It's the vision of the new guy.
  15. ashbury
    I'm kinda partial to Mila Kunis style.
  16. ashbury
    Kevin Slowey was Framed!
  17. ashbury
    That one's gonna get walked back, I'm pretty sure. It depends of course on the timing of hiring the new guy in the big chair. If it's too late in the off-season, it may be expedient to keep Molitor for another season rather than shop the remainder bins.
  18. ashbury
    I have a feeling that they can't all be that dumb, and that there are forces in play that we aren't aware of. I'd be curious to know a rule of thumb as to what fraction of salaries we see published actually wind up in the player's bank account. Taxes, agent fees, fees to set up trusts, a somewhat externally forced higher standard of living, etc etc, lead me to think that maybe they see 50% of the first million, and perhaps even a lower fraction of larger amounts. That still seems like a lot of money - and for the truly elite player it is - but if you're an average player and you plan to live off the interest for the rest of your life after your playing career, you need to net out with more than just a couple million in this age of low interest rates. The $15M mentioned in the linked article is a little laughably high as a threshold, unless you expect to live as a jet-setter, but for a comfortable life it's somewhere in the middle. Therefore players are sometimes magnets for every get-rich scheme out there that proposes to triple your money with zero risk. Even if you're careful, it can be easy to fall prey.
  19. ashbury
    There is an article on this topic here, so please direct further comments in that general direction, give or take.
  20. ashbury
    Nobody wants him on their 40-man, everybody wants to stash him in their minors. I continue to think the waiver/DFA rules need to be tweaked so that this kind of outcome means the player eventually reverts to the original team that tried to obtain waivers, perhaps with the player having the option of free agency. I mean, come on.
  21. ashbury
    Baby steps. Baby steps.
  22. ashbury
    I agree completely. The first order of business is to determine the high-end guys the team wants to go after, and which few of those are realistically possible to acquire. Then a package to offer can be constructed. It's just that with the arrival of Polanco, it seems that Dozier is likely the best trade chip we have. So we kind of cut to the chase, since (as you note) it's the easy part.
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  24. ashbury
    My response was in overall reaction to poster "markos"'s original post and his followup post in this thread - all of which was well worth reading - and not so much to any particular area of application. If markos is correct that a couple of Twins folks attended the conference, I hope they found their time well spent. I wish this conference hadn't flown under my radar, as I currently live about 10 miles from the BU campus.
  25. ashbury
    Numbers are important, but people get the wrong idea about baseball analytics, and this conference summary is a good antidote. Folks should be thinking in terms of Systems Analysis, not simply coming up with the latest all-encompassing number to rank players by. And I believe that teams that try to wing it, with only generalists on their staff, will come out behind the teams that know what specialists to hire as consultants or bring on board.
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