Fear The Chorizo
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Burnes is dealing
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I'll add him to the trio I listed previously...didn't realize he's gotten as much playing time as he has this month to significantly factor into overall team offense for July. He's been great
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It's mostly because Yeli and Contreras have been on fire, Adames had one of his hot streaks before the AS break. The rest of the offense collectively has continued to sputter. It also helped dropping 17 runs in 2 games at the start of July against a cratering Pirate squad
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well, it avoided hitting into a double play and turning that 3 run blast to a 2 run shot;)
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Turang looks like this ump's 8yr old son...my goodness that is a big man
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Burnes has got his grade A stuff working early...painting
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There must be a Kangaroo court clubhouse bet that the 1st guy to draw a walk today has to buy the team dinner tonight. My goodness
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seems like it's attack mode today
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If they don't catch the injury bug and get key guys back like Gary and Stokes at a reasonable time during the year, their schedule alone is going to have them competing for a playoff spot. If Love plays well winning the division is a definite possibility. Even if he plays poorly early on but shows signs of improvement with playing experience, I think they're good enough to muddle through a 6-8 win season and set themselves up for a big offseason with the cap relief that's coming. I'm looking forward to this season more than previous years - and it's not because Rodgers is gone...they've now got a young team that also still has alot of veteran talent at key positions.
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it's a sunk cost - only way it's worse is if they actually don't release him and we have to suffer through two more months of Winker actually being put in the lineup in 50% of their games and otherwise wasting a roster spot.
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probably not much at all - most of the prep baseball talent that would actually make anything with an NIL deal in college are going to be 1st round bonus babies. Outside of football and basketball, the only other college/h.s. athletes making bank with NIL deals are doing so because of being eye candy or because their dad is among the best basketball players ever.
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Agreed - I think the best scenario for the Brewers between now and the deadline is for those two clubs to tread water in the standings by beating each other up. If either of them really gets on a roll and makes up 3-4 games in the standings for the division lead before the deadline, they could turn into last minute buyers. Longterm, both could benefit from selling at the deadline, too - I'd rather see them stand pat or do some sort of confused buy/sell retooling at the deadline that doesn't make them dramatically better now or in the future.
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I didn't denigrate Hader at all either, my main point is if the Brewers need to make these type of trades to acquire as much value as possible before key players get too expensive for their budget/leave via free agency, they did really well for themselves by trading Hader in July 2022. And, since it's impossible to prove a point about something that didn't happen (in this case whether or not the Brewers would've made the playoffs by not trading Hader last year, and if that even would have set them up better longterm as an organization than where they are now), I'll just agree to disagree with your overall take that appears to be the Brewers would've been better off by not trading him last July and leave it at that.
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If on Opening Day this season we knew that the Brewers would have this lineup for a game in mid-July and we had to guess what their record would be at this stage of the season, I think we'd all be off by about 15-20 wins.
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Probably seeing Luis Urias as the team's new primary DH...which frankly I'd be ok with despite knowing there are other better internal options not currently on the 40 man.
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Hader blew up in about the same number of games with the Padres as the list you mentioned above...the difference is the Padres had the horses to slug their way into the playoffs and their starting pitching got hot, and the Brewers couldn't hit or pitch consistently enough in innings 1-8 for them to be a viable playoff team. Would you at the very least acknowledge most of the Brewers warts with starting pitching and offense down the stretch had zilch to do with Hader being on or off the roster?
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With how Contreras has been hitting and the general absence of consistent hitting beyond him and Yelich right now, I get the move to keep him in today's lineup with Caratini catching Burnes. I don't like it for longterm wear and tear with Contreras as the season wears on, but I have to live with the team I root for opting to carry a primary DH who frequently sits despite facing what should be platoon-friendly RHP so they can keep a right handed hitting catcher in the lineup when Burnes pitches. Now, as to the question why Winker is still on the roster at all, does not compute.
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seeing a 175-lb dripping wet 19 year old rope lasers off and over the wall to right field is so fun...Chourio doing that in AA is fairy tale-level stuff.
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Hader's 2022 August would've also poured gasoline onto the Brewer's slide (19.06 ERA in 8 games - he was actually held out of action for a bit to get right). He definitely got back to his dominant self last September and thus far this season...but he was in the middle of an extended blow up last year at the worst time. I'd call the trade in retrospect a win-win for both clubs and for Hader, as he's likely set to become a generationally wealthy man next offseason.
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It’s been a track meet when he’s behind the plate this season.... It's been a track meet in general across most of the league this season - bigger bases, pickoff throw rules, and a general push towards fielding rosters with more speed have all contributed to more stolen bases. The Brewers stole 96 bases last year...this year they're already at 78 despite a roster full of hitters who can't get on base - do all the catchers they face throw terribly, too?
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Ugh...Burnes was average down the stretch last year, Peralta/Ashby were injured/ineffective most of the 2nd half, Lauer sucked, and they weren't close to being good enough offensively to do anything last year in the playoffs. Having Hader around would've done nothing at all to change those things. Would it have kept Lauer and Williams from pouting? Maybe. Let's think about what not trading Hader would have the Brewers looking like right now...for starters they wouldn't be leading this division, and there'd be rumors daily about what the Brewers will get for Hader when they trade him at this year's deadline - "if they're lucky, maybe they could wind up with a quality young catcher, an advanced starting pitcher prospect, and some controllable young bullpen pieces...but that'd be too high an asking price for a 2 month rental." Burnes would probably also be on the block, and that once in a generation starting pitching would be gone at least a full season earlier than it will be now.
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Under my logic Rowdy Tellez would be a good 1B when he hits 30 HR in a season and catches the ball when it's thrown to him, including picking balls out of the dirt. I don't consider Miller to be a good 1B because he can't hit like a good one can. I could care less what a guy's range factor is at first when everyone else across the defensive infield can go get it at an elite level for their positions. In my book the Brewers need to find a way to build a more balanced roster that includes a mix of premium defenders and more offense at corner IF/OF positions - not having enough impact offense at the traditional positions teams rely on for scoring runs leads to getting dominated by pitching in the postseason. Owen Miller as their everyday 1B is the exact opposite approach I want them taking, even if it's like putting an extra MIF on the dirt defensively.
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Any capable middle infield defender would be near the top of the 1B defensive list if they played there...the Brewers are among the very few teams to sacrifice offense at that position after their primary 1B option both sucked and is injured, though. And not being proficient at scooping is a big problem for 1b defense even if advanced metrics do a poor job of quantifying it - just ask pitchers and infielders making uneven throws whether they enjoy having to get extra outs in an inning or rack up throwing errors.
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Pigpen would be proud of that kind of filth... Part of me wonders if Uribe's up auditioning for a club or two as trade bait at the deadline - but a much bigger part of me wants him to remain in Milwaukee for a long, long time.
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Keston Hiura has a .984 OPS in Nashville
Fear The Chorizo replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
oops forgot about that one...well, CC is still on the podium, lol
