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Boston also got to play Baltimore 19 times last year, including two games that they scored 19 runs against Baltimore. For as bad as Cincinnati was last year, they won 20 more games than Baltimore. Baltimore gave up 44 more runs than any other team last year. And for as much as Cincinnati is a band box, Yankee stadium is just as much of a band box. They also had Toronto in the division, who gave up the 5th most runs in baseball last year. In fact, the top five teams in runs given up last year all were in the AL. The DH doesn't account for all of that. Meanwhile, the Brewers had the Cubs (4th fewest runs given up), Cardinals (13th fewest runs), and Pirates (14th fewest runs) in their division. It's a little bit of chicken and egg, but I think the Brewers played on average against better pitching than the Red Sox.
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2019 Farm System Rankings & Prospect Valuations
LouisEly replied to sveumrules's topic in Brewers Minor League Talk
I think Braden Webb at #37 is the bigger red flag. -
Boston won the World Series last year with arguably the worst (and according to B-R.com, the 2nd worst WAA at) 2B production in the majors... as well as the worst C production in the majors.
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Whit Merrifield signs 4-year extension with KC
LouisEly replied to Matt Breen's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
It also drives up Merrifield's trade value, as you have a ~4 WAR/year player locked in for <$19M over the next four years. Having that certainty eliminates some of the financial risk of a team acquiring him. -
Down what, 19 at one point in the late 3rd/early 4th, and brought it back to within 3 in the last two minutes against one of the best teams in the league on the road? The Bucks teams of old would not have done that. I was going to ask how OKC has Westbrook, George, Adams, Schroeder, and Noel, but then I saw that they are $45M over the cap this year. The NBA salary cap is as much of a joke as the MLB salary cap.
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Sources: Maker wants to be dealt by Bucks The first paragraph of the linked article says: The representative for Milwaukee Bucks center Thon Maker has told management that he would prefer the franchise to trade Maker to a team that would provide a larger role for the former lottery pick, league sources told ESPN on Saturday. Semantics, but that doesn't say that Maker asked to be traded; it says that his agent asked for him to be traded. Of course an agent isn't going to want his client sitting on the bench playing only a handful of minutes a game. If his client is playing more minutes it means more stats which means a likely higher contract in free agency, which means the agent makes more money.
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This is exactly it - if the defender has position, the offensive player has to either go around or go straight up. If the offensive player goes forward in any way, no matter how hard or soft, it should be called. Same with the defender, if the defender goes forward or to either side it should be called. There needs to be more discretion about some calls, but the rules are pretty clear about the offensive player dropping his shoulder or using his arm. Slamming into the guy like the ILL player did should not be allowed.
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I don't know either. His free throw percentage is not very good. As previously mentioned, off-ball fouling results in intentional fouls being called. And he has to have the ball in order to foul him without the risk of an intentional foul, and last night either Happ wasn't in the game (foul trouble) or barely touched the ball down the stretch. Happ hooked him - he held on to his arm, and there is an increased emphasis this year on calling hooking (holding another player's arm). I did see that, and that wasn't a bad call. But Happ's third foul called was atrocious. As was the over-and-back call in the first half, and at least two non-call or blocking calls against Davison that should have been called charges. And a bunch of nickel-and-dime calls against UW but UW getting hacked on the other end and not being called.
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When a vehicle is serviced they often turn off the lights and don't put them back on automatic. Not sure if it is because the lights go on inside of the service bay when they're on automatic or if it's part of how they test the vehicle, but I've had it happen more than once after I got my vehicle from being serviced that I found myself driving without the lights on.
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My gosh this is a horribly officiated game. Six fouls on Wisconsin four minutes into the 2nd half and none on Illinois.
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I'm sorry, but I can't get behind Edgar Martinez. IMO, he belongs in the "Hall of the Very, Very Good", and I am suspect about his power peaking in his mid-late 30's, much less spending so much time as a DH.
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Miller Park name change coming after the 2020 season
LouisEly replied to KeithStone53151's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Pretty much everything sold on shelves is mass produced. -
Sony does have some funky things going on with audio compatibility. My buddy has a Sony TV and soundbar and he has issues with it working with his satellite TV signal. There are at least two types of audio output from his satellite receiver, and Sony TVs can't decode one of them. And if he changes the audio volume from the satellite receiver his TV drops the audio signal and has to turn off the soundbar for a while to reconnect. Sony used to make great products but not anymore. Kind of a dumb question, but did you do an internet search on the issue? That's how I figured out the issue with my buddy's TV system.
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You can use water. Rent (or buy if your house is prone to flooding) a wet/dry vac. You should be able to get it mostly dry and whatever isn't you could just use a fan or two pointed at the wet spots. This is basically how we dried the basement in the house I grew up in (the floors were concrete and the outside wasn't sealed properly so every time we had a decent rain, water would leak into the basement.) The problem is that it's not just my house, it's a 4-unit building with three other owners. The water is going to drip down the stairs over other parts of the stairs where people may go in/out their side door and down to the bottom which is like a storage area where people keep some things. It's hard to describe; picture four flat condos stacked on top of each other. Just need to clean a couple of 4x8 areas and a few steps without water running down over a common area of the building.
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By their coach. If Payton runs the ball three times, instead of trying to get cute on first down and throwing and incomplete pass, that doesn't happen. They have the same short field goal, and the Rams get the ball back with less than a minute left and no timeouts.
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No, and I never said he was going to be a great, or even a, NBA player. He's a great college player. The fact that he's not a threat outside of 10 feet makes his accomplishments even greater. He can do this because of two things he does better than perhaps any college player I've ever seen: 1) Using his body to shield defenders from the ball, creating space to get his shot off 2) Using the basket to shield defenders from the ball, and reversing to the other side of the basket to get his shot off He's not a total non-threat outside of 10 feet - if they give him too much space outside of 10 feet he can easily get the ball and then back the defender down. He also, for a big man with limited athleticism, has great body control and can spin away from defenders to create space. And if they do double him, he's skilled enough to dribble out of it and pass to an open teammate, thus the assist numbers. It's these little things that amaze me that you see few college players able to do period, much less with the ability that he has to do it.
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What is the best way to clean concrete (of dirt) using a minimal amount of water because the water has nowhere to drain or evaporate (interior stairwell)?
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If I have to choose one or the other, I'd rather extend Brogdon than Middleton.
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And he was a pretty darned good player 2 years ago. Since 2009-2010 when Player Efficiency Rating started to be kept, he's 30th among all players as an average over his career, just behind C.J. McCollum. He's on pace to finish his career with over 2000 points, 1000 rebounds, 400 assists, and 200 steals. I don't know how to look it up, but I'd be willing to bet the list of players who have hit those levels over their career is a very, very short list. For reference: Frank Kaminsky (1458 points, 666 rebounds, 188 assists, 77 steals) Doug McDermott (3150 points, 1088 rebounds, 194 assists, 34 steals) Tim Duncan (2117 points, 1570 rebounds, 288 assists, 69 steals) Derrick Coleman (2143 points, 1537 rebounds, 322 assists, 187 steals) Tyler Hansbrough (2872 points, 1219 rebounds, 154 assists, 180 steals) Christian Laettner (2460 points, 1149 rebounds, 273 assists, 243 steals) Nick Collison (2097 points, 1143 rebounds, 257 assists, 155 steals). Right now Happ is at 1871 points, 1051 rebounds, 349 assists, 192 steals, and UW has 14 regular season games left. If he keeps his averages/game through the end of the season, he finishes with 2143 points, 1197 rebounds, 413 assists, and 203 steals, plus whatever post-season games they play (1 NCAA tournament or 2-3 NIT). Ethan Happ is one of the greatest college basketball players of the last 30 years. Yes, he's a terrible free throw shooter, but the only player listed above who has either more career assists or steals than Happ is Laettner (243 steals) and Happ may finish with more career points than Tim Duncan or Derrick Coleman. Think about that.
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That was only due to Bulaga being injured and missing the entire 2013 season. The plan was to move Bulaga to LT. After Bulaga came back from injury, he didn't have the mobility he used to and instead of switching two players' positions they kept Bak at LT and Bulaga at RT. Doesn't change the fact that they drafted Spriggs before Bak was named to a Pro Bowl. They didn't draft Spriggs to play RT. I do give Sherrod a big pass for the injury, but my point was that if they had kept Giacomini they didn't need to spend a 1st round pick on an OT and could have spent it on a different position. I recall Akeem Ayers being talked about a lot with that pick, as well as Brooks Reed. If they knew what they had in Giacomini, perhaps they go a different way with that pick.
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Center of gravity has a lot of influence on ability to change directions, thus why slot receivers tend to be shorter and shorter running backs have the ability to cut and change directions quickly.
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Well, PFF has graded him out as otherwise, but recently the problem has been that he's been hurt (and at the same time as Bulaga). If history has shown us anything with OL, it's that they take several years to develop. Spriggs was drafted before Bakhtiari made his first pro bowl. And they drafted him because people weren't sold on Bak after 2015, a year in which he was tied for 4th most penalties by an OL (even though he only played in 14 games). Allen Barbre was run out of town after 2009; he went on to play 8 more seasons and start 33 games. Breno Giacomini played one game for the Packers as a 5th round pick in 2008; after leaving, he played seven more years in the league (and was in a training camp this year) and started 86 games. Jamon Meredith didn't make it out of his first training camp; he played seven years in the league, appearing in 67 games and starting 30. Marshall Newhouse was run out of town after 2013; he's still in the league and has started 72 games in his career. The Packers made two bad decisions in 2011 - they let Giacomini walk, and drafted Derrick Sherrod instead. The next 11 picks included Aaron Williams, Andy Dalton, Colin Kaepernick, Jabaal Sheard, Akeem Ayers, Bruce Carter, Jarvis Jenkins, Brooks Reed, and Kyle Rudolph.
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Yankees Sign DJ LeMahieu, 2 Years - $24m
LouisEly replied to JDBrewCrew's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
If the Yankees want to spend $12M/year on a guy who has a career sub-.700 OPS away from Coors Field, especially at 1B or 3B, have at it. -
For WR free agents, I'm looking at Adam Humphries. He looks like a rising star, and a perfect slot receiver to take over for Cobb. Also returns punts. Not sure how much he'll cost. Kind of an under-the-radar guy, might not take a big contract. I've always liked Jordan Matthews. Put up really good numbers his first three seasons, but not so much the last two years. Only 28 targets this year, despite playing in 14 games and three starts. Could be a bargain find. If I'm trading for a WR, DeSean Jackson wants out of Tampa. He only has one year left on his contract at $10M. Durability is a little bit of a concern, but he led the league in yards/reception last year and three out of the last five years. He also has a lot of experience returning punts, and returned a few this past season. The young WRs can learn behind him for a year, and I would think it wouldn't take more than a 5th round pick to get him out of Tampa.
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Packers Roster Analysis - Building for the Future
LouisEly replied to CheezWizHed's topic in Other Sports
The Colts have had three really good drafts in a row. Not just Nelson and Leonard this year, but all but one 2018 draft pick played in a game this year and both 7th round picks (including Zaire Franklin, a guy I had mocked to the Packers in the 7th) played in all 16 games. Only one 2017 draft pick has played in less than 20 games, and he's also the only player from the 2017 draft to not start at least a few games (including Nate Hairston and Anthony Walker, guys I had mocked to the Packers). Only one player from their 2016 draft has played in less than 30 games, and every player from that draft has started at least one game. I'd look to the Colts scouting department to poach some talent evaluators.
