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  1. igor67
    Even with the expanded playoffs baseball is tough to win every year, but yeah not getting more filling out the roster around Trout is impressively bad. He did put up WAR numbers in that crazy Bonds territory whose teams defined the Stars and scrubs approach to building a roster. Especially since they are willing to spend a fair amount of money getting useful vets isn't that hard.
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    If they can take the hit now I'm all for taking the cap hit now and complete a solid trade.
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    Somewhere Tony Gwynn senior is wishing teams would have tried to shift him.
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    With young pitchers keeping depth is important because there will be DL stints, so Uribe would have to look like Hader all the way through Spring in my mind to make the OD roster. But he becomes a highly likely injury call-up.
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    That makes me think of Eric Davis, awesome looking package but enough nagging injuries adding up to a just good career instead of a great one.
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    For the sake of discussion Weimer is a more athletic Corey Hart with way better plate discipline. The defense alone means he likely performs Hart by quite a bit. The overall contact is the key question mark, but the bat has done very well without being inflated by league or ballpark like we had in the past. I think historically I'd have rater Braun higher, Prince lower, Weeks probably higher (there was plenty of performance and the bat speed should have made him an all timer). I'll say Burnes but he benefits now from no longer suffering skepticism over Brewers being able to develop pitchers.
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    I ask the following rhetorical question during the Brewerfan era. What years would Weimer have not been the top prospect in the system?
  8. igor67
    The eggs price made sense to the extent that a major bird disease caused a lot of herd culling. It's also helpful to understand that chicken used to be a luxury meat, the current most common breed used to be quite rare because they routinely carried a cancer causing virus. The designer of most childhood vaccines Maurice Hilleman ended up also developing a vaccine against that bird virus, which dramatically altered the economics of chicken breeds. https://mag.uchicago.edu/science-medicine/man-who-developed-40-vaccines# Macro policy has some impacts, but we had a fragile supply system and we'll get better outcomes not focusing on the macro side but instead trying to solve lots of micro problems.
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    I'm in a bit of middle ground here, Tellez's approach may have been a natural outcome of the shifting on him where he started to layoff certain kinds of hittable pitches, because they were just too easy to hit into hard outs. But on the other hand this analysis does point to him being a big enough outlier that he may have also fallen too far into that passive approach regardless. It's collectively unlikely but there are a lot of players who could have very big bounces offensively this season.
  10. igor67
    No because you take the risk and either extend players early or you take the risk and extend top level talent. Lauer has been fine, but it doesn't take too much of a back step before you are wondering why you are paying him what ever money when you have other guys who could give similar innings.
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    I feel pretty good about the offseason, the bullpen for me is where I still have questions. Given the nature of bullpens it is still possible to be pleasantly surprised but I was expecting another mid-level vet to just give a few more options to sort out. I'm OK with not doing extensions on the starting pitchers, because it is almost certainly the case that even if we guessed relatively correctly on which one would not get hurt, we are going to end up paying top #1 starter dollars to someone who is about to pass their peak and will probably pitch mostly like a #2 starter for the duration of the contract.
  12. igor67
    Excluding the honorable mentions who were really full time players, Loretta has to be number 1, enough versatility to play all over the IF and reasonably well or better along with that .355 OBP. Even in his era his offense was good for an up the middle guy. I'd put Hall and Counsell ahead of Perez for sure as well. That .288 OBP for Perez is kind of rough.
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    Or alternatively the candidate was slow in saying yes and they were trying to keep going and the timing was just weird.
  14. igor67
    Coop and Prince are definitely 1-2 in some order, no one else ends up particularly close. Scott and Sexson make sense in the 3rd and 4th spots.
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    Whether or not it had a big impact on the prices I do think it is a healthy dose of cold water for those who speculate on prices too much that just driving the price up can trigger some shifts to help keep people more honest in their valuations.
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    I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you had a bunch on both players already since they were locals, Seth. Are possible late bloomers who grew-up in the North a new angle? It's unlikely the move is a difference maker, but I strongly believe in having a lot of plausible bullpen options on hand every year, so it's hard not to like the team using this avenue.
  17. igor67
    I suspect at least one player out of the Rowdy, Wong, Hiura group ends up traded. The alternative is trying to find that utility type player hitter to complement that group but it feels a little more likely to me that they end up doing something to shuffle that situation via trade. If the pitching comes back around and some of the OFers emerge it is a workable group, but not beyond next year.
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    Very helpful, the old Soudan mine location in northern MN (it is naturally ventilated) might be something of a unicorn location for something like that then. Most of it is not used as part of the State Park, It is very deep and used to house a large particle physics experiment. I'm not sure how water issues were dealt with, but I never saw any signs it was a problem the couple of times I was down there (multiple levels and half a mile down). Not sure if it is close enough to Duluth to be suitable for that type of back-up.
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    Perhaps a silly question, but since a geothermal system only requires about 8 ft of depth to get a more consistent temperature is there a reason below ground storage would be cost prohibitive?
  20. igor67
    For 20 years now Jeff Cirillo has been the answer to the question: Who would be really great to slot into 3rd base. Good defense, modest power, high OBP and that high average has always looked good. In Brewerfan world he was appreciated at the time of the trade (and most of us thought the trade wasn't all that great from the beginning), but generally I do think he was underappreciated with that lower HR total in the steroid era.
  21. igor67
    I concur Strange New Worlds is really fun. Anson Mount is a very fun captain.
  22. igor67
    I'll certainly take that slash line, but more than happy to just get a more modest .300+ Batting average, .400+ OBP and threaten .500 on the SLG. AKA something like Rickey Henderson with fewer steals (but a way better percentage).
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    On the other hand it is worth considering that if we are talking specifically about capturing methane that would otherwise be released, converting that into CO2 is a net win in terms of climate impact. Having a diversity of approaches is good because inevitably 1 solution will not work best in all situations.
  24. igor67
    I think in this case though the fleet vehicles took longer because of their larger size needing larger batteries and creating a mismatch until the energy density of the batteries improved. Fleet vehicles have started at least, it will just take some time because they are a big capital investment for those companies and I'm sure it is much easier to do that as part of their normal replacement cycle. I do believe that Chevy is offering 1 charging station with their new EVs if that helps anyone out. Between lower tradesmen rates and a better set-up it would be way cheaper for me to install 1 at my cabin ( easy access to a breaker box already in the garage) vs. my city garage that has no electricity currently. I could see the sort of cost difference on the generator, but my cabin rarely needs the back-up (It's on a major transmission line and is always a high priority to get back up) so having to maintain a gas generator isn't terribly appealing. My bigger issue is seeing how the technical specs work since I have a number of higher voltage circuits.
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    It would be game over homer, but based on how much power consumption it takes to move a vehicle I don't believe even 100% efficient panels can generate enough to keep a car going continuously. I have seen some designs that do add panels to increase range.
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