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  1. ashbury
    He's too busy reaching second on his own, apparently.
  2. ashbury
    Meantime, our poy Duuzier sure can hit dat pall a mile.
  3. ashbury
    I t'ink dat shuud be 'Yake'.
  4. ashbury
    JENNY!!!!
  5. ashbury
    "Noooo, I t'ink we got State Farm."
  6. ashbury
    Get in line.
  7. ashbury
    No hits for him yet tonight, an hour before first pitch.
  8. ashbury
    I also didn't see them drafting prospects from below AAA, though I didn't search exhaustively. That seems like the direction I would go after about my first 10 picks. Instead they were focusing on guys with at least a little bit of MLB experience.
  9. ashbury
    Coming from it slightly in the reverse direction, there's a lot of .200 ISO guys, which would make for a good study (for someone with better database skills than me) but is time-consuming to spot check by hand. Just looking at the top 10 guys in MLB this year (.280 and above), the guys like Arenado, Duvall, and Bruce had 20 homer seasons in the minors while in their late teens or early twenties. Ortiz, Rizzo and Bryant were all considered power bats as prospects. Story, Machado, they had double digit HR as teens and brought up young enough that their power was still developing. Lamb and Carpenter reached double digit HR while a little older in the minors, so might be examples of what you're describing, but hardly under the radar to the scouts rating them, I'd have to think. Expectation versus ceiling, might be the farthest you could distinguish.
  10. ashbury
    They call with spoofed phone numbers, so I don't see what a call blocking scheme can do.
  11. ashbury
    Hey, anyone have a recommendation for good conversation recording software for an Android smartphone? Yes, I will inform my victim other party in advance that the recording will happen.
  12. ashbury
    Interesting to learn what their purpose is. $299 must be only the start, that seems like small potatoes considering how many calls they have to make to reel one person in. I have never stayed on the line long enough to hear more than "Windows Support, may I speak to mister John..." *click*. It seems like a monumentally stupid idea to engage them, and try to convince them the error of their ways - the dialing software calls at random, but at that point they do have my phone number, so why piss them off and perhaps get on their "special attention" list that involves phone calls at 3 am, say?
  13. ashbury
    Hey Brian.. Just in case... you ever Decide... to branch out into writing Romance novels... try to Remember... the above is not part of the Formula... you have a Character's backstory be that she was cheated on... in order to build Sympathy... not to Provide foreshadowing that she will turn out to be the Villain in chapter seven. Maybe a Spy Novel though... "I was Cheated on... as my revenge I shall now Take over the World... mwah ha Hah".
  14. ashbury
    I'll probably save discussion of this for a different thread than trade rumors...
  15. ashbury
    I seem to recall Bill James long ago calling the ability to draw walks an old player's skill. Maybe that's not quite the same as patience, but it's on that spectrum. I don't have any stats to back it up one direction or the other, but I'd be more inclined to wait on a player who showed power in the minors, than to wait on a player who showed patience. All else being equal, which it never is.
  16. ashbury
    Do you think Gibson will ever become a reliable starter? I no longer think he can. There seems to be some physical thing that gets in the way of him having his best stuff start after start, the way as is needed if we are to make plans around him, which is what you seem to be ready to do.
  17. ashbury
    Younger than Mr. Koufax.
  18. ashbury
    1.444 OPS for the Rays and currently on an upward trajectory. I'm convinced; how about you?
  19. ashbury
    I know there's a ton of latter-day downplaying of his body of work, but I have to go with Koufax.
  20. ashbury
    One signifying nothing.
  21. ashbury
    OK, Kershaw's second inning tonight is my fault, and I will stop jinxing him. He is clearly just a mediocre to average pitcher, and I wish him luck the rest of this game before they send him to AAA.
  22. ashbury
    It's Beetlejuice. You can say the play's name, and the lead role, but it's best to stop there.
  23. ashbury
    I was trying to glean from the play-by-play some evidence that Arcia's defense was responsible for a few of the Orioles' 8 runs, but lefty Smyly seemed to be resolute in his intention to keep the ball out of Ozzie's hands and directed everything toward left field (deep). How boringly conventional of him.
  24. ashbury
    We just got done discussing jinxes in today's Game Thread, so I am afraid I may have some splainin to do, regarding today's Arcia onslaught.
  25. ashbury
    I don't know, but I can absolutely tell you what it's good for.
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