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  1. JohnBriggs12
    Catcher is the biggest need they have and it's not close. Caratini is an excellent backup but he's not a guy you want starting more than 70 or so games. With the emergence of William Contreras, maybe the Braves would part with Travis d'Arnoud? Sure he's going to get $8 million next year and he'll be 34, but that could be money well spent. Lord knows the Brewers have outfielders in abundance to offer the Braves.
  2. JohnBriggs12
    Aren't you confusing Buxton with Brinson? Brinson was in the range of the 15th best prospect. Buxton was consensus number one. Buxton's had a lot of injuries but he was an All Star this year. Brinson's clearly been a disappointment in the majors but at 28 and with a AAA OPS hovering around .900 this year, he yet might emerge as a useful major league player.
  3. JohnBriggs12
    Frelick is better than Davis. I don't think Brewers can afford to keep guys like Frelick and Chourio languishing in the minors longer than necessary to delay start of their clocks. Look at the return the Nats got for Soto. If they have to deal him in 4 years, the younger he is the better. Frelick could provide a boost to the offense in a playoff race. At worst he gets a head start in adjusting to the majors heading into next season.
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    I think Turang is the shortstop, Adames moves to 3B, and Urias is the 2B barring a deal or FA signing. I don't want my prized rookie having to adjust to a new position while he's also adjusting to major league pitching.
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    I think Turang is the shortstop, Adames moves to 3B, and Urias is the 2B barring a deal or FA signing. I don't want my prized rookie having to adjust to a new position while he's also adjusting to major league pitching.
  6. JohnBriggs12
    Cornielle is a guy I continue to be intrigued by. His arrow is up
  7. JohnBriggs12
    Darn. He profiled a lot like Soler last year at this time and we all know what he did for Atlanta.
  8. JohnBriggs12
    "Usually reliable Hunter Renfroe"? He's terrible going back on balls, often covering for this weakness by simply letting balls go over his head and turning to play them off the wall. One of the reasons the Red Sox were willing to part with him were the 12 errors he had for them last season. Granted a lot of those were throwing errors, but he doesn't cover a lot of ground either. As for Adames, he's turned in to an all or nothing guy with the bat and has accuracy issues throwing. I'm beginning to think Turang may indeed end up sticking at SS. It wasn't just the loss of Hader, the new guys have been underwhelming so far. But remember, this was a team that lost 8 in a row in early June and looked bad doing it with Hader. Once that happened it was only a matter of time when a similar stretch would return. They were bad going into the break as well. I was never all that confident that they would hold off the Cardinals or play well enough to make the playoffs. I'm less optimistic now.
  9. JohnBriggs12
    There's more than Hiura and McCutcheon on this team who's best position is DH. Renfroe's got a strong but often not accurate arm but he's a butcher in the outfield and when he's not hitting home runs, he's of little value. He simply can't track a fly ball that is hit over his head.
  10. JohnBriggs12
    Padres were one of the favorites for Soto. Could Ruiz be a guy who helps get Soto? His minor league numbers this year are phenomenal.
  11. JohnBriggs12
    Laureano has a higher OPS and BA at home this year. He peaked as a hitter in 2018. He's hitting .146 in his last 11 games. Why mess with a lineup that's clicking on all cylinders right now including Taylor? If Peterson is going to be out more than a couple more weeks, the need is for a LH bat.
  12. JohnBriggs12
    Laureano has a higher OPS and BA at home this year. He peaked as a hitter in 2018. He's hitting .146 in his last 11 games. Why mess with a lineup that's clicking on all cylinders right now including Taylor? If Peterson is going to be out more than a couple more weeks, the need is for a LH bat.
  13. JohnBriggs12
    Right. Neither is a guy you trust as a full time every day player but outfield is really 3 defensive positions and Hiura barely can play 2 infield spots
  14. JohnBriggs12
    Agreed. I think Urias in particular has been awful along with Wong and I'd give him no better than a D.
  15. JohnBriggs12
    I don't see the Brewers dealing Severino. The guy they are looking to move is Narvaez who is a FA after this season. Brewers would have to give up more than Narvaez to get Peterson. Trevor Williams is more realistic.
  16. JohnBriggs12
    Turang isn't being groomed to be a utility player. Barring Adames being locked up with a multi year contract, I think he moves to 3B, and Urias goes to 2B.
  17. JohnBriggs12
    I think Ben Gamel makes a lot of sense as an OF depth piece. He's a better OF defender than Peterson. A really under the radar move would be to pick up Jeimer Candelario from Detroit. He's had a terrible first half but he's one year removed from a season where he had a 119 OPS+ and led the AL with 42 doubles. He's controllable through 2023 too. Playing half his games in Am Fam might ignite his bat.
  18. JohnBriggs12
    He came into the 19-2 game late fully 24 hours after the ball hit him and looked fine yaking it up at first after singling off the position player. I get that symptoms can develop later but this is concerning. They do need his bat down in the order.
  19. JohnBriggs12
    You are overlooking the one ability that Tellez has over every other bat in the lineup. It's AVAILABILITY. He's been available every day. Same can't be said for anyone else save Yelich but his back flaring up is just a matter of time and Peterson who's great as a super utility guy but not so much playing everyday. Rowdy's negative is that he's streaky but he's the only guy opposing teams really fear even if it's only when he's hot. This team has struggled offensively because guys continue to get hurt doing normal baseball things. I've never seen players so susceptible to ankle sprains and calf strains. Ankle sprains are a given in basketball, but baseball? Seems they are avoidable. Maybe our starting SS doesn't need to prove he has a good vertical jump and just stay on the ground when he's congratulating a teammate.
  20. JohnBriggs12
    You are overlooking the one ability that Tellez has over every other bat in the lineup. It's AVAILABILITY. He's been available every day. Same can't be said for anyone else save Yelich but his back flaring up is just a matter of time and Peterson who's great as a super utility guy but not so much playing everyday. Rowdy's negative is that he's streaky but he's the only guy opposing teams really fear even if it's only when he's hot. This team has struggled offensively because guys continue to get hurt doing normal baseball things. I've never seen players so susceptible to ankle sprains and calf strains. Ankle sprains are a given in basketball, but baseball? Seems they are avoidable. Maybe our starting SS doesn't need to prove he has a good vertical jump and just stay on the ground when he's congratulating a teammate.
  21. JohnBriggs12
    The type of bats who will be available at the deadline are pretty much the same level of players that the Brewers already have. Guys like Pham or a David Peralta are decent players but not upgrades. The problem with the Brewer lineup isn't that it doesn't have capable hitters up and down the lineup. The problem is they don't have any premium hitters and it's hard to be serious contenders without one or two premium bats.
  22. JohnBriggs12
    82 was great with lots of great memories, but for me for whatever reason it was the weekend sweep of the Yankees in late July 1979 that stands out as the most memorable series in County Stadium. Series featured full houses every game, and plenty of fireworks with brawls in the Friday and Sunday games, and a pounding of the Yankees in between when Sixto Lezcano was at the zenith of his short lived career. Reggie Jackson was the main villain in the first brawl going after Mike Caldwell, and Lou Piniella along with former Brewer Mike Ferraro (then the Yankee 3rd base coach) the villains on Sunday after Piniella spiked Jim Gantner sliding into 3rd. Sadly Thurman Munson would perish just a few days later. Can't forget the 3 homer game by Cecil Cooper in the opener including a walk off.
  23. JohnBriggs12
    I don't think Cain ever planned to play once he got to his 10 years of service. He certainly didn't seem ready when the season started to go a full year. Now if he starts collecting his pension at 45, he gets $68,000 a year. If he waits until he's 62, he'll get $220K a year. That's a heck of a pension. Brewers were the classy ones. They let him stick around an extra 3-4 weeks after it became obvious he was simply playing out the string. even giving him a number of starts when they desperately needed more offense with Renfroe and Adames out and did him a favor by DFA'ing him so he'd receive the rest of his salary for 2022.
  24. JohnBriggs12
    In 2014, Brewers were riding high, 19 games over .500 on June 29th and then proceeded to lose 11 of their next 12, many of the losses being non-competitive. Like this team they had tried to fill holes with aging veterans like Overbay and guys who struggle to make contact, Matt Reynolds. They also had 36 year old Aramis Ramirez coming to the end and core players like Weeks missing time, and a young hot upcoming star not come near to approaching his All Star numbers of his prior year (Segura). Roenicke had no answers and 2015 started horribly, costing him his job. Yes they have had an incredible rash of injuries, but that doesn't explain everything, This team is playing bad baseball. Plain and simple. Sure I think they'll get out of this tailspin (as the 2014 team did for a while) at some point and start looking more like the team they were in April and most of May, but how they reacted the first time they faced adversity doesn't bode well for how they'll handle the next time and there will be a next time. Bottom line is everyone seems to have gotten a little too comfortable. Let's hope it's not too late to shake things up and regain focus.
  25. JohnBriggs12
    My memories of Charlie Moore was that despite his lack of power, he was always a very tough out with the game on the line. He sprayed the ball all over and was very difficult to defense and he often put good wood on in even against the best closers of the day. I always felt confident with him up there late in games and he often came through.
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