Fear The Chorizo
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Good for Keston - wishing him luck somewhere else on a "prove it" deal that winds up leading to many more threads venting about how the Brewers royally screwed up an opportunity to have a longterm DH option for their organization. I've mentioned it previously, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least to see him wind up in Japan or Korea the next few years before a MLB 2nd act ala Thames.
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If you believe the reason the Brewers can't win a WS is because Attanasio is the majority owner of the organization, then we'll just have to agree to disagree and move on
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kidding yourself works both ways on many things...and you don't have to go back 40 years in time. The Brewers also had the #1 system in ~2014 timeframe, which largely led to the latest run of relatively routine trips to the playoffs after a few shrewd trades and some young arms developing.
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Naw, if your name has "MLB Team Owner" next to it, all of the revenue generated by tickets, parking, merch, advertising just gets dumped straight into your checking account, then you get to decide how much to pay your 40 man roster after you get done buying islands and yachts for your extended family once you see what's left of all that infinite profit.
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Correa and Adames are basically the same player, and one has a chronic foot problem who made over $30M this season to hit less than 20 hr and miss 30 games with injuries with 5 more seasons coming at that amount. Despite Adames' poor season, I'd take him 100 times out of 100 over Correa at this point in their careers. Tbh I'd rather have neither
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And if they didn't, posters wouldn't be able to gripe about the owner being cheap by not shelling out $400m to keep Burnes around until he's 40 yrs old.
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The twins won 87 regular season games in a division that had two teams lose over 100 and nobody else finish anywhere close to 0.500. That's actually really difficult to do, and it wasn't until their divisional opponents fell on their faces that the Twins were on a firm path to over 0.500 themselves. They won two low scoring games at home in October day baseball windy weather in minnesota that limited offense. I wouldn't exactly call any of that due to some mystical attitude. It sucks the Brewers lost, and I'm frustrated with how this organization seemingly puts all its offseason eggs in the basket of run prevention/positional versatility on defense - potentially in the mold of their manager for all I know. I hope it's time they incorporate more of a focus on offensive versatility while keeping a few positions dedicated to premium defenders. There has to be a better way to build a well-rounded roster to win postseason games more consistently than just throwing money at guys and saying, "well we tried" ...there are plenty of teams that spend like idiots and they're all home on couches right now, too.
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I guess I missed where the twins just won the world series... its greatthey beat an uneven blue jays team that found their way to the 3rd wildcard in a league that was full of godawful teams this season. Didnt the twins just get done losing like 50 straight playoff games yesterday that were scattered between more than a decade of seasons because they've been pretty awful? Buxton and Lewis were #1 overall draft picks they landed because they sucked at the MLB level bad enough to earn them. Correa is a career ending injury just waiting to happen well before his contract runs out, too.
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Yeah, it kind of feels like a whole lot of activity come winter meeting should be occurring this offseason if they go feebly into the night after that disastrous top of the 6th.
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Somebody should tell the Brewers they shouldn't try to emulate the Rays' organization all the time...particularly in october
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I've long been a proponent of a healthy mix of the two and not being so dead set at building a roster based on positional versatility as such a high priority. The Brewers have proven they can win enough regular season games with their current approach, but they've also proven that if you don't have enough offensive talent you can't win playoff games consistently enough to go on a run.
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Yep, the choke job once again falls in the lap of an offense that can't score runs consistently enough...plate a few early and then seemingly do nothing for the rest of games hoping leads hold isn't going to win you playoff games. Being among the weakest offenses in terms of power also does them no favors when they have limited guys who can leave the yard at any given point in the lineup
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Mark Canha last 2 weeks of the regular season after getting a mid-September cortisone shot to relieve pain from an ailing left wrist to avoid the IL: 0.529 OPS with a 0.180 average and 0.256 slugging Sure, let's stick with him at cleanup in a do or die game after his o-fer night there last night🤬
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Thinking people have generally gotten better at groups taking just 1 or 2 vehicles to the game instead of 6 people arriving in 6 vehicles, too. There has been an impact with Uber/Lyft - but also an impact of designated drivers (all good things) Plus on a tuesday night, I doubt the playoff game attendance is full of fans from far reaches of WI, too. And the dbacks aren't an opponent where you're going to see their fans driving up for the game compared to Midwest teams. I'd be curious to know what those back lots looked like over this past weekend with the Cubs in town.
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What's most egregious is pinch hitting for Turang in the 8th last night in a 1 run game with a guy who actually has less power and ability to get on base than Turang does.
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I think it's just as much to do with Tampa Bay also being 3-1...two best teams in their divisions recordwise playing each other is an auto flex game. The week 6 slate is full of a bunch of dog games that weren't already in primetime at the moment, too - with the exception of San Fran at Cleveland there's no other Sunday noon matchup worth flexing at this point.
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Why didn't we start Caratini? He's Corbin's personal catcher for a reason, so why didn't we start him in the biggest game of Burnes' career? Because we had to keep a slumping Canha, the one with a bum wrist that is apparently feeling the impact of a cortisone shot from a few weeks ago wearing off, in the lineup as our DH hitting cleanup. He was surrounded by players in the lineup who got on base multiple times - his spot in the order killed several scoring opportunities throughout a game where getting baserunners was the farthest thing from a problem offensively.
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Trevor Bauer suspended for two seasons
Fear The Chorizo replied to NBBrewFan's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
No the worst part would be that she was making it up and Hill got a $300K insurance payment for filing an assault claim that was fraudulent. Meanwhile Bauer, for all his unlikeable qualities, is now forever known as a rapist/sexual assault predator in the public eye and his career earnings as a baseball player and post-pitching career will wind up being 9 figures less than he would have made had he never been suspended based on a lie. The result of this by no means helps cases where there are legitimate crimes that are tough to prosecute based on he said/she said evidence moving forward...but it definitely will lead to enabling more of these type of false accusations knowing there aren't significant consequences for making them. -
It was obvious by the time the calendar got to May that Winker was washed as a MLB hitter and he was an expensive bounceback candidate/flyer gone wrong in an offseason trade - but credit to the Brewers for taking a sunk cost with his $8+M salary and making it even more painful with continued onfield futility mixed between navigating him through a season full of questionable IL stints and endless minor league rehab assignments to keep him on that 40 man roster for when they needed him the most in October.
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well, then it's not worth complaining about the playoff format when the Brewers aren't better at baseball than the two teams most deserving of representing the NL in the World Series. Be happy the Brewers once again got to the dance - it's just too bad they fell into the punch bowl and likely will be headed home to change out of their uniforms before the playoffs really even get rolling.
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Then be better in the regular season so you can rest up for the 2nd round like the Dodgers and Braves in the NL.
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I honestly didn't pay attention to their roster before the game and couldn't watch every moment. 1st time I knew Winker was even in Milwaukee was after I saw him walking up to the plate in the 8th and thought I was transported to an early May game...absolutely insane. Winker himself isn't the reason the Brewers lost tonight...but the organizational mentality to even have Winker on a playoff series roster has played a big part in why this team can't perform in the playoffs. Seems to me like Canha is probably injured, too (didn't he get a cortisone shot recently??) with a bad wrist - yet he's tonight's cleanup hitter. This damn team can't help itself but show up to October on fumes, no matter what the last few seasons.
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I can already picture the Brewers blowing a late lead tomorrow night because they managed to gas an entire bullpen during a loss after their ace couldn't get out of the 5th inning Sigh...
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This game is an advertisement for going back to just two divisions in the NL so teams like this don't make the playoffs
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Took a break from the game only to come back to watch Winker k on 3 straight to open the bottom of the 8th...turning it back off now, as some things never change for this damn team come playoff time. Why in the hell is Winker on this roster?
