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  1. ashbury
    Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. Today our TD Poor Player Of The Game is Kevin Jepsen.
  2. ashbury
    Received in trade from Diamondbacks for catcher Chris Herrmann. One of our big off-season moves.
  3. ashbury
    Adobe needs to go out of business.
  4. ashbury
    And Dozier with a case of Buxtonitis to end the game. / and yes, North, I see the 2-4 beside Buxton's name today
  5. ashbury
    All right, gotta run and pick up our son at the airport. No more jinxes for this game, OK folks?
  6. ashbury
    I already warned you the breath was bad, but if you insist on finding out the taste too, go for it.
  7. ashbury
    Awfully close to the line, madam. I advise caution in similar situations in the future.
  8. ashbury
    My TV feed must be on the fritz. The batter flicks the bat at the outside pitch and dumps it into right field. But I could have sworn I saw a '2' on the batter's back. I'm calling the cable company.
  9. ashbury
    What?!?!?
  10. ashbury
    I think ChiTown had already jinxed the shutout, opining that the one run might be enough.
  11. ashbury
    Why even make the throw after the bobble when the batter is Buxton?
  12. ashbury
    Breath-smelling is one of the few activities with others not otherwise ruled out by our marriage vows.
  13. ashbury
    The letter high first pitch to Park was called a ball, so I assume it's the low borderline pitches that are getting the call?
  14. ashbury
    Funny, I was about to use that same word to describe my reaction to seeing Ervin's current haircut not hanging out behind his hat.
  15. ashbury
    Fair enough, I'm sure the response would have induced the same.
  16. ashbury
    I really want to know why in this day and age it would be an issue.
  17. ashbury
    He also has bad breath.
  18. ashbury
    I can never remember, can a normal garden variety set, and the empty set, be considered disjoint?
  19. ashbury
    They had binoculars and good taste, both.
  20. ashbury
    I took a look and since his call-up he's batting .333, and with the extra base hits his OPS is .846. It's just that when I watch him at bat, I can't help discounting the numbers a little. That, plus his BABIP is merely .455 for this short period.
  21. ashbury
    Yes, three in fact. Low, lower, and lowest.
  22. ashbury
    Oh, I knew what you meant. I was just thinking that if you had added even one more qualifier, you'd have had yourself a weather forecast. "Overnight, partly Vargas, with a 50 percent chance of probabilities."
  23. ashbury
    A chance. Probably. At some point. Maybe. So, I'll put you down as Very High on this player?
  24. ashbury
    I take age and league level, and to some small extent whether it's a pitcher's league or a hitter's league, into account. And then, except for top prospects, what I am looking for is "not inconsistent with having a productive major league career". For Grossman: 21 - high-A - OPS .869 22 - AA - .786 (two teams) 23 - AAA - .760 (partial season, called up to majors) 24 - AAA - .914 (ditto) So up to year 2014, IMO he was making what I would call continuous progress. Summarized as a single word, "solid". You could not rule out him being a good player. He didn't quite make the adjustment at the major league level, but he hardly stunk up the joint, at age 24. Then Grossman's 2015 was not too good. I am inclined to give any prospect a mulligan for any single season, on the assumption that you can lose a year to some nagging injury that doesn't actually put you on the DL. (Conversely, I am alert to ruling out an outlier good year too - "sorry son, you had your career year at age 21, bad timing".) If you don't cross out bad seasons, you can overlook an opportunity like Eduardo Escobar for example - remember how people questioned whether he could exceed Florimon's production at the plate, based on his most recent year being putrid? Grossman's 2016 numbers at AAA were good enough, in small sample, with some power. As a waiver pickup, he's about as good a gamble as you will get. Of course there is the larger issue of why we are bottom-feeding, but oh well.
  25. ashbury
    I would love to see a scouting report on him that compared what he does early in the season to later. My working hypothesis is he tries to start out with a normal major league swing at each level, finds no success so he starts a punch-and-judy approach that gets him through the season. Decent stats but a lower likelihood of MLB success I would imagine. But, like I said, that hypothesis is based on nothing and I would really like to know the fundamentals about his batting approach.
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