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  1. ashbury
    Yep. Brainfart. Which only makes the trade worse.
  2. ashbury
    Then neither am I. As a spectator.
  3. ashbury
    Those old-timey 2023 videos still make me glad every time I watch them. Thanks for putting them out there again; I'm not crying, you're crying.
  4. ashbury
    I think it was in Moneyball that old-timey scouts were said to look for what they called "the good face," and I don't know exactly what they mean by it but sometimes I wonder if Julien is the opposite.
  5. ashbury
    You can't tell us the name of the new ownership, but you can tell us what they will do with certain players we have.
  6. ashbury
    He's batting .146. That's a catcher's profile if you ask me.
  7. ashbury
    In a thread annually titled Fun With Numbers, a little rowdiness is allowed.
  8. ashbury
    Oh, Another Tag Team Event Via Roccoball’s our shortstop!
  9. ashbury
    How did that 15-year contract with Hurricane Hazle work out for the Braves?
  10. ashbury
    He just wants to know, what is the name of the pitcher?
  11. ashbury
    Betteridge's Law of Headlines strikes again. Any headline ending in a question mark can typically be answered with "no." Not sure it really required the full 4 months to reach this conclusion, either.
  12. ashbury
    This post aged well.
  13. ashbury
    To some degree this is a fuzzy question. Tons of players under minor league contract are R5 eligible - it's just that no one would want them. I suggest you look at FangRaphs which has a pretty good page of Twins players, and form your own opinion: https://www.fangraphs.com/roster-resource/depth-charts/twins No one on the major league roster is subject to Rule 5 of course, so scroll down to the St Paul roster and go on down through Rookie league. They show "R5" for players who already passed through the Rule 5 draft in the past, and they show a date of Dec'25 for guys who will be newly eligible. Decide for yourself whether a given player is a "prospect" or a "suspect." We had a demonstration of that just over a week ago. 😀
  14. ashbury
    The band has a pretty fantastic repertoire that lets them cover a 75-minute set with ease. And two of the original three musicians are still going strong. It's interesting that they had to replace Mark Farner with two very good performers, a lead singer and a lead guitarist, both of whom had to cut a few corners on the licks that (a young) Farner used to handle.
  15. ashbury
    Unindicted co-conspirators' row.
  16. ashbury
    Just wanted to pop in to say, a) epic bad luck for the Twins to run into five definite Cy Young candidates all in the same game today, and b) Mrs Ash and I had a good time at a Grand Funk Railroad concert last night. Or, as I wound up calling this cadre of 76-year old performers, Grandpa Railroad.
  17. ashbury
    If you want a defense-first glove, just go ahead and bring up Culpepper. Miller is one month younger than Culpepper, and hit much less well than him at the same league level (and even worse at AAA, in a park that's usually a hitter's haven no less). If you mean "ever," I'm not quite willing to go that far. This year, yes, I'm with you. Neither of these two SS prospects is 23 years old yet. But right now, Miller would be made a fool of at the plate by any pitcher who has succeeded enough to escape AA ball himself. And all the above notwithstanding: Yes. I'd sooner have Miller. Perhaps the Dodgers viewed it the same way. Outman is one of the craziest looking trades ever - two months of Brock Stewart has to be worth more than him. If Falvey is eventually fired by the Twins, and if the Dodgers snap him up for any kind of role, I'm going to have some real questions. 😀
  18. ashbury
    I grit my teeth and try to ignore the omnipresent "the Pohlad's" in the comments section, but can we please ask the site's story editors to catch the mistake when it's in a headline? 😀
  19. ashbury
    Great, great attempt, diminished only a little in my own eyes by the sense that the umpire might have gotten a little too excited in the moment and robbed the batter of a single. 😀
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  21. ashbury
    Chuck Norris has never blinked in his entire life. Never. I'm sure the Pohlads blinked at that initial offer, though. Houston knows the Blink Test as well as most salespeople. 😀
  22. ashbury
    Houston "could." But not "would," or even "should." I mean, why would/should Houston bid against themselves? They knew Correa had the no-trade clause, and they could infer they (themselves) were the only team he'd agree to go to. Minnesota really, really wanted out of that contract. Negotiation sessions were probably brief and brutal.
  23. ashbury
    In that case it looks like Falvey's gearing up for contention in 2028 and beyond. Problem is, they can't be alone in this POV.
  24. ashbury
    I had put the threat of a lockout/strike out of my mind. During the recent trading flurry, it was reminded to us. If 2027 is a faint likelihood, it puts into better perspective the trading away of important players with 2 years of control remaining - perhaps in reality it's only 1 year. If the FO judged that serious pennant contention wasn't possible for 2026, then my preference to use the 2025 trade deadline to "sell and reload for 2026-27" wasn't so good. In a lockout, are the minor leagues shut down too?
  25. ashbury
    Funny. But Louis's usage had evolved even during the 2025 season. In his 22 appearances during June and July, 16 of them began in the 7th inning or later, and 4 of those other ones bridged into the 7th. The leverage index found on baseball-reference.com showed an uptick in the importance of his appearances, as well.
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