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  1. ashbury
    I've been to Cooperstown many times and love it. Beautiful scenery and the town itself is picturesque. If you like baseball books, check out Willis Monie Books for their selection of used books. The big hotel, the Otesaga, is worth walking through, which is right by the lake. The start of the Susquehanna River is just east of downtown. I've never been there during tourist season, with HOF induction being highest of the high of course, so it's going to be crowded and getting around is hard. But if you get off of Main Street, the rest of the town is charming. My sister in law had thoughts of moving there fulltime at one point, it's so nice. Enjoy!
  2. ashbury
    Kepler and Jeffers have been pretty cold for a while, too.
  3. ashbury
    I'll have to check my slide rule but I don't think 7 would have been enough to assure a win for St Paul.
  4. ashbury
    Larnach and Wallner are examples of how a small-budget team needs to operate. They aren't identical players but to a great extent fill the same role on a roster. Both still have minor league options. So in principle, they are a good use of the 40-man roster, and whichever one is performing better is the one who should be on the 26-man. If by some chance both are performing great, the manager will figure out how they coexist (Wallner in right, Larnach in left). But for a team that's not rebuilding, and not willing to simply discard overpaid vets and let the youth take over by default, it's a nice combination to have. (Whether the player consigned to AAA and putting up great numbers is going to be happy, that's a different problem that management has to factor in.) I wish they had more of this kind of roster flexibility, instead of veterans like Farmer and Margot who suddenly got old. (And I realize Manny doesn't turn 30 until September, but he's playing old.)
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    I've been critical of this off-again on-again offense, but today I have no complaint. They went up against a very good pitcher (maybe not as elite as past seasons) who clearly was not having a bad day, and they still managed to put up 3 runs during his stint. And it felt to me like their approach was "find a way", with the stolen base factoring heavily into the always-important first inning run, instead of "wait for a bloop and a blast." And then against a reliever who had been on a good roll, they got that late and clutch two-run blast anyway. 5 runs is a great outcome in support of one of their rotation mainstays in Joe Ryan. And our bullpen somehow managed to make it stand up. I'm going to stay positive and constructive, and not mention that any further.
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    When's the last time a manager was fired holding a winning percentage above .550?
  7. ashbury
    Larnach!!!!
  8. ashbury
    I look forward to seeing the umpire scorecard after the game.
  9. ashbury
    Twins situational pitchers are pitching afraid.
  10. ashbury
    My only change would be to make them DIShonorable Mentions for LVP.
  11. ashbury
    You monster.
  12. ashbury
    I'm intrigued by Carson Benge, OF, Oklahoma State (15). Quite the overachiever to be in college already at such a young age. 😀
  13. ashbury
    By the numbers you might think this Twins offense is top-8 based on a nice runs per game that has been boosted in recent weeks. But then they face a good pitcher not having an off-night, and they put up two runs in six innings, and none in the four innings of relief they faced including a 10th inning gift runner at second. They run up the score when a good pitcher has a bad game, or against pitchers who don't belong in the majors in the first place. And, if they make the playoffs, guess what kind of pitchers they don't face very often? Despite the potential we've been seeing for years, this team still doesn't know how to shift strategy and "find a way" against a pitcher who is making his pitches. Yesterday they stuck with Plan A, apparently, and scored one homer for two runs as a result. I don't have a specific remedy to offer but that's the job of the batting coaches, and probably the others involved in strategy.
  14. ashbury
    I don't know.
  15. ashbury
    Tonight our batters face a very tough opponent in Logan Gilbert. I wish the Twins had traded Polanco for Gilbert last off-season when I suggested it, instead of Desclafani. No way the Mariners were trading Gilbert for any conceivable price I would agree to, and certainly not for Jorge alone.
  16. ashbury
    Glad to see we've got a game thread for tomorrow already up. 😀
  17. ashbury
    Twins batters are indeed getting hit a lot, leading the majors or close to it. But their pitchers are around the middle of the pack for hit batsmen, so it's not like they're shying away from pitching inside. I'm not in favor of retaliation in most cases.
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  19. ashbury
    So you have had, how many, days to research this important topic and come back to us empty-handed?
  20. ashbury
    Why does Vazquez's chest protector have green on it?
  21. ashbury
    This article would be tongue-in-cheek except I have it on good authority that Lou Hennessy had an emergency glossectomy performed several months ago.
  22. ashbury
    We gotta protect Willi Castro from crazy swings at changeups!
  23. ashbury
    Stop rotating your head and you'll notice I'm just covering all the bases. 😀
  24. ashbury
    Yeah, but that 20-9 game in St Paul last Sunday is a little difficult to look past.
  25. ashbury
    Apparently the talent evaluators aren't bothered by the three home runs in his final two AAA starts. This is always a case where I don't bother trying to form an independent opinion. His overall stats look good enough this year and if the guys who earn a living watching players say he's ready, I'm not going to argue against, nor second guess if he lays an egg his first try in the majors. I'm just a fan.
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