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  1. ashbury
    Nearly a WP on the IBB. That's the year we're having.
  2. ashbury
    No defense against that bunt. Unless, of course, your pitcher doesn't fall away to his right after the pitch.
  3. ashbury
    Nunez is in trouble if MLB ever changes the rules so that the helmet has to make it safely to first too on a slow roller.
  4. ashbury
    Remember Hu we traded for him and you'll have your answer. 2.01 ERA in 12 starts at AA at age 22, and it doesn't look good if we flush what we got for the prospect. So TR keeps hoping, keeps hoping....
  5. ashbury
    JEPSEN!!!! I think that's what we do for a home run, right?
  6. ashbury
    Everyone's pretty much agreed on that. But that's only a neutral statement. Don't you want to take the additional step of saying he is a "give them an out" (or a base) guy on defense?
  7. ashbury
    Approves: http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/5273/48/16x9/960.jpg
  8. ashbury
    Mirages often are.
  9. ashbury
    It isn't necessary for you to embrace the view, in order for it to be what's behind the opinions you oppose. The second sentence is kind of an case study in talking past one another. Not to mention that labeling as "tin-foil hat" comes across as haughty at best, and accomplishes approximately bupkis. Instead of refusing to acknowledge the fears, refute them. Because they aren't going away on their own.
  10. ashbury
    Age 25 and still a year away doesn't add up to a great shot at a starting role. Stranger things have happened, but...
  11. ashbury
    I hate this DFA of Arcia. Santana wasn't off the 40-man, so only a 25-man roster move was needed to add him. There are 3 guys who would be easy IMO to option to Rochester, leaving room for Arcia for the time being: Buxton, Kepler, Park. I would pick Park. But the argument given against sending ANY of them down is that they won't learn to hit major league pitching at AAA. In that case, why didn't that argument get applied to Arcia the last two years, while he did still have options? A puzzling double standard. (And I hesitate to open another tangent, but we're working toward a similar scenario with Polanco in 2017.) Adding Park this past off-season was a good move - increasing the talent pool always has to be good. The problem is not making a corresponding move. TR stated that he was in talent acquisition mode, and wasn't looking to move any of the players he already had. Unless that was purely a negotiating tactic to keep the value of a trade chip like Plouffe high (didn't work!), the glut of corner/DH types stood out a mile at the time, and never was addressed. And now one of those corner/DH types is about to be lost for pennies on the dollar (if we're lucky, otherwise for zero), and it doesn't seem like it had to happen. I don't claim trading Plouffe was going to be easy, or return full value. But TR apparently was afraid of getting only 85 cents on the dollar by trading someone like him, and held on too long. These things all tie together.
  12. ashbury
    But you're a defense guy. Bad defense negates some portion of whatever offense is produced. Whether you espouse one particular formulation of the tradeoff, you surely have a mental format for doing the tradeoff, and surely Arcia's defense bothers you, doesn't it? He's way down from his ceiling on offense these past two years, but even if he comes back to that ceiling, his glove is giving back some of those runs.
  13. ashbury
    I've been mostly away from this discussion for a week or so, but it seems to me that we are still talking past one another. Diehard alluded to the underlying premise that I brought up a while back - a dystopian future where the government pays a visit to take everything you have (plus he brought in the point about criminals running rampant that I didn't think of adding since it's not my vision). Asking to give up military weapons is a non-starter when this is the point of view - military weapons are precisely what the survivalist faction demands to keep.
  14. ashbury
    SABR published its initial defensive metric ratings for the 2016 season. http://sabr.org/latest/sabr-defensive-index-rankings-released-through-june-12-2016 Joe Mauer is the only Twin who breaks into the overall top 20, as the second-best 1B.
  15. ashbury
    I may be mis-remembering, but I think the team has restrictions on how little it can pay a returning player (no more than a 20% cut), until maybe the next May or something?
  16. ashbury
    The business side of baseball is always tough. If teams were allowed to pay the marginal guys at the major league minimum, no doubt many would be kept in preference to unknowns from outside the organization. But, that's not how the CBA is written. As he said at the end of the article, he's pretty well set financially for life. So the system has worked well for him. It's just the end of the career that winds up being a little messy, with a lot of moves to new teams and leagues if you aren't ready to hang it up.
  17. ashbury
    That sample size becomes much much larger when you include all the guys he faced, and not just the two outs recorded. Seemed like an entire season's worth of plate appearances.
  18. ashbury
    I guess he let the excitement of this developing poll result go to his head, because he had a tough game last night.
  19. ashbury
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9GJXYU3KDY
  20. ashbury
    Moderator note: Not every mod note is scolding in tone. I appreciate the improved tone throughout this discussion. Thanks!
  21. ashbury
    Pick a different week for that variety of jokes, 'K?
  22. ashbury
    Lady Astor: You are drunk. Winston Churchill: **** off
  23. ashbury
    Why does every Churchill anecdote sound just as good in Groucho Marx's voice?
  24. ashbury
    Upon reflection, imagine the closing in Churchill's voice with "Weather: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 60. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph," and I think you'll agree it adds something to the original.
  25. ashbury
    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1U1_jbo2cGg/TcUYGwnn0mI/AAAAAAAABzA/iHaneIuAf4w/s640/Winston+Churchill+%25281874+-1965%2529+%252C+British+Prime+Minister.jpg "Like."
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