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  1. gregmag
    These incessant pop-up ads with audio that’s impossible to turn off are intolerable. It’s bad enough that I need to take a break from this site for a while. I don’t mind video ads, but ads that make it impossible to browse for fear that I’m gonna disturb whatever room I’m in are way too much.
  2. gregmag
    I don’t get the point of the comparison. Durbin and Collins are doing exactly what most of us would’ve expected. Mona and Seigler are running with opportunities they were buried too deep in the depth chart to get here – happy for them. Rengifo has had a great 87 plate appearances – good for him. As Cheez points out, the guy who actually replaced him here has been better in that time. We all know that Contreras and Yelich are struggling. So what’s the point – that we should’ve gotten rid of those guys instead of some of the guys we got rid of? That our coaching is screwed up? Seems unlikely that a couple of vets would get screwed up by coaching, and in Yelich’s case, you can’t coach age. Most of those other guys are either 21 and raw, on the upswing recently, or doing pretty much what you would expect. The exception is Frelick, but we may find out that he was playing hurt. I just don’t see anything here.
  3. gregmag
    That young man has a distinctive charisma. It’s really interesting to watch him grow up in public. He strikes me as a very smart, disciplined player who hasn’t figured out how to deal with frustration. He’s been taking some hacks that I don’t think he would’ve taken when he first came up, digging himself deeper into his slump. But he seems to feel at home in the outfield. He knows he’s already a star out there.
  4. gregmag
    Now that Max Scherzer has bumped Walter Johnson from tenth place on the career strikeout list, everyone in the top ten pitched at least as recently as the 80s, and none pitched in MLB before the 60s. The earliest career ending in the group is Gaylord Perry, 1983.
  5. gregmag
    Yeah, Lara needs a reset. You can tell from his body language that he’s frustrated. We worried about his playing time, but I think he’s had to play too much in Frelick’s absence. Something like two days on, one day off would be ideal. Take some swings, have some issues, then watch and learn.
  6. gregmag
    Long-term I’ll take Chourio. I think Sveum’s post puts the question in good perspective. Two years in age is huge. Development isn’t linear; the fact that Chourio hasn’t improved from 20-22 doesn’t say much if anything about what he can do from 23 on. In addition, Crow-Armstrong relies a lot on raw speed, which is usually the quickest tool to deteriorate.
  7. gregmag
    I’m fine with questioning the Brewers’ decision makers (cough, deadline fiasco, cough), but I don’t see any reason to assume they don’t consider stuff that fans have been talking about since the beginning of time. Hot streaks aren’t some mystical phenomenon that transcends human understanding. Hot streaks happen for reasons, and they end for reasons. The org’s job is to understand those reasons as well as possible and make decisions based on that understanding. I can’t say the Brewers are making the right decisions, but I’m pretty confident they’re following the right process.
  8. gregmag
    If only that were true. These are the same folks who would have traded Turang, Chourio, Mitchell, etc. for rentals at past deadlines. The only way we won’t have to hear them cry about “going for it“ is if we keep doing it their way, deplete our development pipeline, and drop out of contention. We’re not close to there yet, but yesterday was a great start.
  9. gregmag
    I would be very grateful if the mods would stop this troll from starting a new thread every time a media outlet validates his numbingly repeated opinion.
  10. gregmag
    Whatever any of us thinks about this trade, kudos to Brandon Sproat for making such a strong effort to justify it.
  11. gregmag
    Has anyone ever picked up a hitter at the deadline whom you can reasonably argue made the difference in getting that team to the World Series? I asked the hive mind last week about deadline trades that actually moved the needle as far as the 2026 Brewers need to move it — from losing the LCS to winning it. What people came up with were basically some starting pitchers: Cone, Verlander, Sutton IIRC. We could all be forgetting someone, of course, and I certainly can’t sit here and say it’s impossible to pick up a hitter who could get a team over that line. But if a strategy has rarely if ever worked before, I have a hard time getting upset about not pursuing it.
  12. gregmag
    What about Michael Brantley? Or to a lesser extent Mitch Haniger and Khris Davis? (If we aren’t just talking about Cardinals trades; you also get Lewis Brinson and Monte Harrison for your side of the argument!) Like most of us, I’m good with the Sabathia trade, because he was world-historically amazing and was the biggest factor in making the Brewers relevant after years of awfulness. But Michael Brantley had himself a career. He would have been huge for us. It wasn’t an accident, either. People say “oh, he was just the PTBNL,” but he was the designated prize if the trade worked out for the Brewers. We absolutely lost that trade in objective value terms — total wins added.
  13. gregmag
    I would say it’s pretty well understood that when someone here says (like I did too) “this trade is an overpay,” they mean “To the best of my knowledge, which is nothing to sneeze at, this trade is an overpay,” rather than “I am all-knowing, and I declare as holy writ that this trade is an overpay.” You seem to be saying that the first is fine (“the good argument”) and the second is overkill. I completely agree with that. I just think you’re mistaken if you believe anyone here intends the second. Emotions are high, that’s all.
  14. gregmag
    Dude, why do you do this? You make such good points when you stick to civil conversation, even though I probably disagree with you more than half the time. But then you do these things where it seems like no one gave you the talking-to we all needed in kindergarten. FWIW, I thought Joseph’s take on Ragsdale was a bit hyperbolic too. But he’s one of the maybe five most knowledgeable people about the Brewers’ system who doesn’t work for the Brewers. I’ve never once seen him dump on anyone remotely like you just dumped on him. Please stop.
  15. gregmag
    This is a crazy overpay. Just nuts. I could live with Ragsdale, but Frias? God I hate the deadline.
  16. gregmag
    Yes. They also like to buy low on guys — which doesn’t always pan out but which totally confounds people whose whole instinct is to go get guys who are putting up great numbers right now.
  17. gregmag
    Why just repeat the same thing six or seven times in one thread when you can repeat it 37 times in three threads and then start another one just in case somebody out here doesn’t already feel beaten over the head?
  18. gregmag
    You have absolutely no basis for this statement. You’ve done this in several posts — just made up facts out of thin air to support whatever the hell you feel like ranting about. It’s a trade DEADLINE. That means everyone is jockeying for position and playing chicken until the end. If you have any report, evidence, halfway credible rumor, or anything to back up your claim that Arnold loses out on deals Monday that he could have made Sunday because he “hemmed and hawed,” please share it.
  19. gregmag
    Murphy has about a decade on me, but I can absolutely vouch for this.
  20. gregmag
    Perkins struck me as an excellent person. I like him, and I’ve always rooted for him. He was more than a shuttle outfielder. In 2024 he was a credible starter in cf; in 2023 and 2025 he was an important bench guy. The Brewers gave him a career, and he gave the team his best. I’ll always think well of him.
  21. gregmag
    This led me to a trip down memory lane. In 1977, Jamie Quirk put up a 58 OPS+ while getting more of his starts at DH than at any position. In 1982, Charlie Moore was the starting rightfielder on a pennant-winning team. We complain so much about the org’s real or imagined failures to squeeze every ounce of value out of each roster spot. Well, back in the day, teams were like “we have six or seven guys we like; let’s just throw whomever’s in the room out there until we get to nine.”
  22. gregmag
    Son, I came in right when they inexplicably dumped Darrell Porter, setting up the Charlie Moore - Buck Martinez days.
  23. gregmag
    “Anyone who disagrees with me is just whining. You’re only trying to win if you make exactly the moves that I decree we should make. I am morally superior to everyone who does not see the situation the way I do.” This kind of thing is why I would pay good money to just skip the weekend and have it be 6:01 Monday night right now.
  24. gregmag
    It’s hard to engage with this discussion, because your premise seems to be that despite facts that we can all see, your subjective view, which by definition nobody else can see because we aren’t you, proves that the Brewers offense is much worse than the facts indicate. I respect that you see it the way you see it, but you can’t reasonably expect any other person to just take your subjective word for it and spend energy discussing the topic on your subjective terms.
  25. gregmag
    Let’s head to head to head to head Adams, Bitonti, Burke, and Fischer. One of these guys is likely the Brewers’ 1b of the future, and it may be a very near future with Bauers likely gone and Vaughn late in arby. Which one (or more) are you betting on and holding onto? I know you’re up for trading Fischer, especially if some team (cough, Angels) overvalues his shiny production. But which of these guys do you want for the Brewers? If Braylon Payne can control his strikeouts, he’s a potential star. How do we assess his likelihood of doing that? On one hand, his K rate this year is just as bad as last year, about 30%. On the other hand, he has held that rate constant while improving dramatically this year, especially in the power department, and he’s only 19. What does knowledge about past prospects with similar profiles tell us about whether he can fix the big hole in his game?
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