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  1. ashbury
    I'll go farther, if we're talking about "might be". He's only 28 and it's way premature to think about this in any further detail, but: With his body of work so far, he has not put himself out of the running for best pitcher of all time. And the group of pitchers about whom you could have said that 9 years into their careers is pretty darn small.
  2. ashbury
    Is getting exiled to Tampa Bay's franchise currently any player's dream?
  3. ashbury
    Agreed. His stats are almost textbook, in showing steady learning and maturity and progress as he's moved up into higher leagues. Those stats profile as "potential useful major leaguer", even though his floor is still not major league to my eye. So it depends on how you slot low-ceiling major league prospects into your ranking; somewhere in the teens is not silly for him at all, IMO.
  4. ashbury
    I'm just worried about how to fit all 40 of these future stars onto the 25-man roster when they all develop. June really is the best month of the year, at least for a non-contending team.
  5. ashbury
    And here I thought it was this guy we got: http://media.jrn.com/images/420111021200821001_6099389_ver1.0_640_480.jpg (We run through this routine every time ... )
  6. ashbury
    I don't know if this link will work: https://www.facebook.com/theguardian/videos/10154285363056323/ Give it a few seconds after it loads. 75% of 18-24 year olds, according to the lead-in of the video.
  7. ashbury
    http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/893572/WooHooHomer.jpg We got him!
  8. ashbury
    Nice link. I shall have to look into that site more deeply one of these days.
  9. ashbury
    http://img.picturequotes.com/2/68/67856/what-you-did-there-i-see-it-quote-1.jpg
  10. ashbury
    Finding bargains has its place. The question is how the money that gets saved gets reallocated.
  11. ashbury
    They've been anointing guys The Next Logan Darnell for years now. Can anyone really predict The Next Logan Darnell?
  12. ashbury
    Concurs:
  13. ashbury
    OK, I found this, confirming Rortvedt: http://www.unifiednewsgroup.com/verona_press/sports/rortvedt-drafted-in-second-round-of-mlb-draft-signs-with/article_b92de616-5c16-5c9f-b59b-8acd059ccc76.html This adds to my conviction that the FO needs a housecleaning, starting with the intern who is in charge of the official draft web page!
  14. ashbury
    Quezada walked more than a batter per inning in the Dominican Summer League for two seasons. Let that sink in. How the heck do you walk DOMINICAN batters, at ALL*, to say nothing of two per inning? He improved in that regard in the GCL last year, to "only" 5.1 walks per nine innings. Clearly command is going to be a gating issue for him, and it's hardly a given that pushing him faster than Etown this year is going to be the solution. (Maybe there won't BE a solution; in 3 innings this year he's walked 3 guys.) * I keed, the DSL walk rate seems to hover around 4 per nine innings pitched
  15. ashbury
    Are Rortvedt and Baddoo signed yet? The official looking page below shows them still unsigned. http://minnesota.twins.mlb.com/team/draft.jsp?c_id=min
  16. ashbury
    Just to be fair... http://i.imgur.com/jLZTk9I.jpg ... too.
  17. ashbury
    If there is complaint that the Twins move their players up one level per year, I don't see how adding a short-season A league team will make those people happier. And, as already alluded to, high-quality prospects will not materialize out of thin air just because we add one more affiliate. We'd just populate the new team with St Paul Saints kinds of players. As I think about it, it's unclear to me why other teams bother with that extra level.
  18. ashbury
    Nunez doesn't spring to mind as a guy who would bring us a lot. But we traded a legitimate SP prospect to get a solid (we thought) reliever last year. I suppose Nunez is the position player equivalent to a good reliever, so if someone offered something like that I'd listen.
  19. ashbury
    Darn. Apparently I was otherwise occupied, and missed that one day.
  20. ashbury
    Because, one is a valuable yet fungible commodity to baseball execs, and one is not?
  21. ashbury
    Loosah. No chicken dinnah.
  22. ashbury
    I did not realize, until your post, just what a pessimist I have become.
  23. ashbury
    Can this please be Park's last major league plate appearance for a while? Please?
  24. ashbury
    Worst. Magic. 8-Ball. Result. Evar.
  25. ashbury
    My fears are ungrounded, then. Carry on.
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