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  1. ashbury
    Oh, I somehow thought he said we had traded for Jepsen again.
  2. ashbury
    <crickets> This is taking an awfully long time, seems to me...
  3. ashbury
    If by that you mean, "starting pitcher in the Southern League All-Star Game", then yeah.
  4. ashbury
    Again? OH NO! MAKE IT STOP! MAKE IT STOP!
  5. ashbury
    I think he is out of minor league options. We might lose him on waivers if we try.
  6. ashbury
    I hated the trade when it was made, because of whom we gave up. I never imagined I would come to hate it with the burning heat of a thousand suns because of whom we got, though.
  7. ashbury
    Very good half-a-prediction. Now all we need is five more runs!
  8. ashbury
    Must have been quite the gale-force wind.
  9. ashbury
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  10. ashbury
    You teach, don't you? Don't bring that weak shizzle here. / kidding aside, good thread starter
  11. ashbury
    I took a quick glance through the 22-23 year olds on the Etown roster, and I'm not sure what problem either of you is getting at. Most of them are this year's draftees. A couple of guys look like didn't shine last year, and are getting a second year before being flushed out of the system. Did I miss a stud prospect who is being slow-played, on this roster? Among this year's draftees, Kiriloff's a high schooler, and the next few guys haven't signed yet - Griffin Jax is the only one I see as at all debatable, and if a college junior chosen at #93 is going to pitch only a few innings this year (as stated above) it seems hard to quibble about which league level he gets his feet wet in. Etown is designed to acclimate players to the every day schedule of pro ball, and with only a short season left to go in any league level I think it's just fine.
  12. ashbury
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  13. ashbury
    Well, with the very late start, this game is clearly above my pay grade to stay up for. Plus it looks like Gibson can't stand prosperity, and I don't want to subject myself to that. 'Later.
  14. ashbury
    "Darling it's better, Down where it's wetter, Take it from me."
  15. ashbury
    So then it's just three-fifths of an endorsement, right?
  16. ashbury
    All your Base2 are belong to us.
  17. ashbury
    http://cdn3.volusion.com/p9bkz.a5ax6/v/vspfiles/photos/1349-2.jpg "I say, SuzukiCo stock is up two and a half points this week?!? Get my broker on the phone; SELL! Before all the potential buyers notice he's overpriced."
  18. ashbury
    Then bring up Albers and let's hasten that process. Seriously, Jason Wheeler is the only one of these I am at all intrigued by. Seems like he's produced much better results than Dean. Does the stigma of being an 8th round draft pick instead of a studly 3rd rounder really make the difference to the front office, in their 40-man decision making? Don't bring Wheeler up, unless it's to give him a serious shot at sticking.
  19. ashbury
    It would be nice for once to be receiving some other team's Wilson Ramos, JJ Hardy, or Chih-Wei Hu, in exchange for our serviceable reliever.
  20. ashbury
    Because we can't know the inside details on players' health, I am always ready to give a prospect a mulligan for a mysterious bad season. Eduardo Escobar for instance interrupted a sequence of good progress with a bad season in which the White Sox traded him to the Twins and he remained bad. Until, mysteriously, he was good again. A couple of other things about the mental side. If a player shows signs of pouting, that needs to be addressed anyway, aside from plans for promotions - maybe the manager and his coach can play Good Cop Bad Cop, but eventually it may come to just laying out to the player that he is out of line and is only hurting himself. And, second, I can't help but worry that Hispanic players get tagged with this and other worries concerning their mental makeup, where another player might get the benefit of the doubt.
  21. ashbury
    I'm not upset due to a belief that Arcia is about to win an MVP for someone else. It's just that this action seems like bad asset management. It looks (even though I'm sure it can't be true) as though the front office has come to believe that the pipeline of prospects is inexhaustible and that a prospect with deficiencies can simply be flushed without any return on the investment.
  22. ashbury
    For that I'd invest my dollar. Not for 2500 - trying to find a way to short that.
  23. ashbury
    Not really. His OPS is only .597 at Rochester. Oh wait. Wrong column. That's his slugging percentage.
  24. ashbury
    Sometimes I think the organization believes it gets extra credit for each drafted player who makes it to the Show for a cup of coffee.
  25. ashbury
    If a player is prone to that, he will find something else to be in a funk about, a few weeks after being promoted. I think this should be a non-factor in deciding promotions. Sano injured himself running down the first base line. How does DHing protect against that?
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