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  1. DuWayne Steurer
    I did enjoy one of his video games he created though...so I let him slide. YOU were the one? Surprisingly, the game itself got decent to good reviews from most of the gaming publications (never played it myself) but fared extremely poorly in sales. I imagine it had a lot do with marketing, and just super high expectations.
  2. DuWayne Steurer
    Either Susac or Pina could potentially outproduce McCann next year for what amounts to league minimum. McCann is 33 and trending down. If McCann puts up a .725 OPS, it would be right around what I would expect. It would be also right around the expected numbers for either Susac or Pina. To pay 17 million (AND pay prospects to acquire) McCann makes absolutely zero sense. Zero.
  3. DuWayne Steurer
    I think this trade has focused on some of his successes and some of his question marks. I don't see anything wrong with that. We shouldn't just pat Stearns on the back for everything he does and shrug of every time he does something wrong. I don't think anyone is shrugging off the fact that this trade doesn't swing towards the "win" column for Stearns...... I think what some people are focusing on is that THIS trade in particular is being brought up over and over and over again as if it's some horrible black mark on Stearns' record for the past year. As others (and myself) have said...... you don't win every trade. You CAN'T win every trade. Maybe Nottingham will pan out. Great! If not, that's too bad, and it sucks that we got nothing for a guy with one tool (though valuable). At this time, though, it seems that the focus should be on the fact that more of his trades and acquisitions than not have worked out to the positive side of things.
  4. DuWayne Steurer
    Wow, we're giving up on Nottingham this quickly? After playing in a league where he was THREE years younger than average? He still had stretches where he hit very well, which should give us some hope. We'll learn more about him both offensively and defensively next season. Until then, let's not be so quick to hit the eject button. I will agree they could have gotten more for Davis by waiting. That meant no spot for Santana. Also, and this never gets mentioned, what if Davis would have been injured this year or had a bad year? I'm not giving up on Nottingham. In fact, two posts prior I said "not all prospects who have bad years are flame outs".
  5. DuWayne Steurer
    It's fair to say they could have gotten more for Davis. It's not fair to say that anyone could have known that Nottingham was going to tank this badly. I think my point is that repeated repeated repeated repeated repeated harping on the Khris Davis trade is losing sight of the bigger picture. The Villar pickup was a success. The Carter pickup worked out, whether the team keeps him or trades him. The Broxton/Rodgers trade appears to have been a success for the Brewers. Jury is still out obviously, but a handful of trades this year added a lot of young, controllable talent for a couple of relievers and a 30 year old catcher who had one year left on his deal. No GM "wins" every trade. That's just not how it works. Picking one trade and saying "this one stinked!" does a disservice to the ones that worked, to the ones that added a great deal of value to the team either as players for the next contending team or as future assets to be traded.
  6. DuWayne Steurer
    I think the Khris Davis trade was a very small part of judging Stearn's first year, and continuing to focus on that very small aspect is losing sight of the goal of what is trying to be accomplished. Not all trades work out. Not all prospects pan out. Conversely, not all prospects who have bad years are flame outs. It's abundantly clear at this point that Khris Davis is having a nice year. For the Brewers, it's possible he would have been the difference between 72 and 74 wins, at best.
  7. DuWayne Steurer
    Right on pace to be within a win or two. Braun is hands down the team MVP. A case could be argued that it could have been Lucroy had he been with the team for the entire year. Carter leads the team in home runs, but he exceeded my expectations of 30 homers. Santana didn't but mostly due to injury. He has hit with the expected power when healthy. Nelson has not been the solid 2 I expected. My Keon Broxton prediction is almost dead on! Struggled early, came on later, settled in as an every day player.
  8. DuWayne Steurer
    Jonathan Papelbon seems like an actual dick to everyone around him. Most guys who are just general "jerks"..... I don't care. If you're a 5 WAR player, can mash, and aren't out getting arrested and whatnot.......you do you, I don't really care if you're just kind of a jerk. But there are a few special guys who really make their workplace toxic. And I don't know if Curt Schilling is a jerk or a clubhouse cancer, he just seems like he's all sorts of Tinfoil Hat crazy.
  9. DuWayne Steurer
    Where is a good site for addons for Kodi? I've used playon before, and I found literally 2 addons that gave me every tv show, movie, and sports I could possibly want to watch. the issue with playon is the streaming quality is tremendously bad. SOmetimes the best you can even hope for is 360, and that's stretching it. I'm not finding the firestick super intuitive, but maybe that's just me finding typing with a remote cumbersome. I've used PS Vue for college football and the Packer game so far, but FoxSportsGo lagged and buffered terribly during the Packer game. I want something better.
  10. DuWayne Steurer
    Yeah, he's been really good. My nephew lives in Arlington and he can't stop raving about how great Luc has been. In pretty much every way. Jeffress on the other hand.... My guess is Rangers fans are probably mildly disappointed in the Jeffress aspect of the deal, but probably get over it pretty quickly, given that Luc has been absolutely raking since he's been on the Rangers. Not really part of the Luc/Jeffress deal, but Gomez has been alright as well (.788 OPS) since being picked up by the Rangers as well. Only hitting .222, but he's hitting with some power and playing every day.
  11. DuWayne Steurer
    I'm impressed as well with Arcia's steady improvement here. He's got a good walk rate (which I wasn't expecting), and has 9 XBH's in 114 at bats. He's doing all right. He's not overmatched at this point.
  12. DuWayne Steurer
    Listening to Rick Sutcliffe repeatedly call our starter "Zack Davis" is getting annoying.
  13. DuWayne Steurer
    I'm not a big league scout (or even a little league coach) but that swing looks like it needs a lot of work. I don't doubt the power, he looks jacked up. His swing looks pretty bad. If he gets signed on, he needs a coach that can get him into some consistent mechanics.
  14. DuWayne Steurer
    The problem with this part is, is he a .380 OBP guy going forward? His BABIP this year is .401. His career is .357. If his BABIP drops to .360, what's his average and OBP going to look like? It will still be decent but not the .300/380 he's putting up this year. Add in the less than ideal defense and you're just not getting a super valuable player. I'd like to see them shop him before other teams find that out and hope some team overpays for what he did this year. I keep thinking about this, and we keep waiting for the other shoe to drop, and his BA keeps hovering right around .300. Is that sustainable? I don't know. Villar makes hard contact. I don't think he's a guy that goes up to the plate "waiting for a walk", I think he's got a good batting eye, and he is selectively aggressive. He strikes out a lot, but he makes aggressive contact when he makes contact. Do I think a .400 BABIP is sustainable? I don't know, but he has a lot of doubles, has a good LD%, takes a lot of walks, and I think he may just be a 15-20 homerun guy going forward. People keep saying "that BABIP rate is not sustainable" but he keeps sustaining it. It is, until it isn't.
  15. DuWayne Steurer
    Getting rid of Villar at this point doesn't make a lot of sense unless you get an absolute haul for him in prospects or a front-line pitcher at the MLB level (which isn't likely). His small sample stats at 3B aren't good, but 20 games isn't enough to draw any meaningful conclusions from. 3B may not be his final destination anyways, and if throwing is his problem, 2B may be the cure for that. Tossing .380 OBP guys away in their age 26 seasons...........nope. Likewise with Carter, I'd prefer to hang onto the guy and let him mash and take walks for another year unless someone comes calling with a good offer. He's not likely to break the bank in Arby's, but if the right offer comes along, sure, move him for some young controllable pieces. Nelson just isn't taking that step forward to a frontline rotation man. If an offer comes along, take it.
  16. DuWayne Steurer
    At this point Hernan reminds me (kind of...... don't get all over my case) of a young Aramis Ramirez. Good average, decent power, doesn't take many walks. I'm not saying Perez will turn into the next Aramis Ramirez. I don't think he has his power ceiling. But I think Perez is a guy who will probably hit .275 and knock 20 dingers, if not 25. I'd like to see him get up around 35 or 40 walks, instead of the 20 -25 he's on pace for a full season, but it's not like he doesn't have value playing every day like he does now.
  17. DuWayne Steurer
    One of these things is not like the others.
  18. DuWayne Steurer
    The problem with comparing someone to a guy like Moyer is you're taking someone who's WELL outside the bell curve and saying "well this guy succeeded, so my guy can too". They're outside the curve for some reason. Whether it's athletic ability, or whatever, there's a reason *that guy* ended up being well outside the parameters of what every other minor and major league baseball player did during their career. There's a reason that almost every single 86 mph soft tosser doesn't amount to squat in the bigs, and that's because at that level, most hitters can destroy that kind of pitching. MAYBE Suter can provide some value, or be lightning in a bottle, or whatever. MAYBE he's the next Jamie Moyer, but the chances are like 1 in 100 (or worse). You can't just say "well he's got really good control, so he's the next Jamie Moyer". That's not really how this works. If it was, there'd be a lot more 86 mph soft-tossers in the game with good control.
  19. DuWayne Steurer
    Yah that isn't a lot. Kiss 40% of that goodbye because the tax man came along. Suddenly that number is $11.4mil. That isn't going to last you very long. If he spent $500,000 a year on average that money is already gone. and that is pretending he spent nothing while his career was going on. He would have to live a pretty normal life for that money to last for the rest of his life. One bad investment could really tank the little he had. There are people that have blown $100mil in 5 or less years. I do not think it would take much to spend $12mil in 20+ years. But this is assuming Yount never made another dime in endorsements (I know he wasn't a huge star outside of Milwaukee....but still), signings, appearances, or ANY other way outside of baseball. Like I said, I know Yount wasn't a huge star, but there's no way he wasn't making some kind of bank on some endorsements or other avenues.
  20. DuWayne Steurer
    Arguing about exactly *how bad* Garza has been seems to be the absolute definition of one of those "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic" type things. He's been sub-par. The Brewers suck. He's got one year left on a bad contract. There's no way the Brewers can trade him. Why in the world would it matter if he's been "bad" "sorta bad" or "really bad"?
  21. DuWayne Steurer
    Colin Walsh is a good recent example. There's a difference between being patient and simply standing there at the dish with the intention of not swinging.
  22. DuWayne Steurer
    See: Sheets, Ben Fielder, Prince Hart, Corey etc, etc, etc. I have to believe that we're not the only fanbase that does this, but it certainly is interesting. I absolutely LOVED Gomez as a player, and hated to see him go, but now that he's gone, I have zero interest in seeing him come back.....especially as he's been replaced by a guy who appears to be a cheaper and younger (and at this point....better) version of everything Carlos could do.
  23. DuWayne Steurer
    A Gomez rebound probably nets us a guy like.....Broxton. Given that Broxton has finally seemed to "figure it out", I'd much rather spend a year letting the guy play and see what we have with him, than giving a 30 year old Gomez play it out, for the possible option of maybe flipping him for another lottery ticket, which in and of itself seems to be a longshot at this point.
  24. DuWayne Steurer
    In 2008 when Yost had Brian Shouse (a loogy who pretty much is unhittable against left handed hitters) walk Ryan Howard (who struggles mightily against lefties) and then pitch to Pat Burrell, (a righty who kills lefties) and then basically said "I was going with my gut feeling", he pretty much admitted he has no idea what he was doing. While I think it's fine (and important!) for managers to do "outside the book" managing more than most MLB managers do, what Yost often did was the opposite of what any reasonable or rational person would do, just because he's stubborn and he seemed like he likes to be contrary. When he got fired, he absolutely deserved it, as he was making absolutely awful bullpen decisions that were putting people in poor position to succeed.
  25. DuWayne Steurer
    I can't see a scenario where Joe Maddon is +15 wins over a Craig Counsell. What that is basically saying is if given equal teams, Maddon somehow ekes his team to a +150 run differential (given equal talent!) than Craig Counsell. That just doesn't happen. There's a possibility that a guy like Maddon is 5 to 7 wins better over the course of a season, but even that is stretching it. Right now the Cubs record is 73-43. Their Pythag is 78 - 38. They're -5 from where they should be (within shouting distance. If anything, one could argue that some of the goofy crap Maddon does has cost them a few wins. (not saying that's the case, just saying it's an argument one could make) The Brewers are 52 - 64. Their Pythag is 51 - 65. They're pretty much exactly where they "should" be, according to run differential or any other formula you want to toss out there. Unless you think guys "play harder" for Maddon (something that can never be proven), the idea that Maddon is 15 (or even 10) wins better than a "bad" manager is a tough pill to swallow. I'd venture 3 to 5....... at best. Counsell makes some frustrating moves, to be sure, but players play the games. Most of these managers (as many many others have said) manage pretty much "by the book". Even Maddon, for all his goofy "I can't believe he just did that" stuff, manages by the standards 97% of the time.
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