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  1. JohnBriggs12
    Hope that means Nate Griep gets promoted to AAA
  2. JohnBriggs12
    He's in the final year of his deal with a team still rebuilding. He's still a potent hitter. Brewers and Sox have matched up a lot in recent seasons.
  3. JohnBriggs12
    Have to consider with the cost of pitching and his emergence. Maybe not right now but soon?
  4. JohnBriggs12
    Nate Griep belongs in the top 25. Seriously. I know relievers are not valued as high, but he's dominating AA and his lifetime save rate is ridiculously good.
  5. JohnBriggs12
    Saladino's a better option right now than Dubon. Besides Perez's value is greatly enhanced by his ability to be the 5th outfielder. Dubon has never played there.
  6. JohnBriggs12
    You can use splits all you want to criticize my comparing him to Logan, but the fact is they didn't sign Claudio just to face lefties or that's all he would be doing. The fact is that Logan didn't do the job he was brought in to do and neither is Claudio. Claudio was brought in not just to get lefties out. He was brought in to get ground balls against RH and LH hitters and even though he's had all kinds of traffic on the bases when he's pitched, he's induced just 2 double plays. He's got a FIP over 6 and a negative WAR. Spin the numbers all you want, but he's not helping this team.
  7. JohnBriggs12
    Shaw has turned into Brad Miller in front of our eyes. Wait, even Miller wasn't this bad. If he didn't have an option the R word would be in play. Option him and take a look in a couple months. It's basically a lost year for him.
  8. JohnBriggs12
    Not that rare. Stearns muffed this one in back to back seasons. How quickly we forget Boone Logan. Can't believe the excuses being made for him. Last year Stearns cut his losses and let Logan go midseason. Hopefully Stearns won't wait until June 24th again.
  9. JohnBriggs12
    I don't get the excitement about Dubon. Until he proves he can outperform Tyler Saladino, he's at best a marginal prospect with marginal trade value as a piece of a broader package. As for utility value, unlike Perez, who's more than adequate in all 3 OF spots, Dubon has never played the OF and both Perez and Saladino have better career fielding percentages in the middle infield spots than does Dubon.
  10. JohnBriggs12
    Nice to see Garrett Cooper having some success after battling injuries the last 2 years with Marlins. After his first career HR Wednesday, he blasted a Grand Slam in 9th to beat the Tigers yesterday. I think he's going to be seeing a lot of time in the Marlins lineup from here on.
  11. JohnBriggs12
    Braun still has at minimum 2 1/2 more years to accumulate counting stats and he's on pace for 30 HR this year. 400 for his career is not totally out of reach. His 5 best years, 07, 08, 09, 11 and 12 are comparable to many HOFers. He's got 2 others, 10 and 16 that approach those. If he can add 3 more seasons on par with 2016 (admittedly a long shot), he's in the discussion if not for his PED suspension and his failure to come clean after failing the test. He's 2 points shy of being a career .300 hitter and 6 points shy of a career .900 OPS. Should he stay relatively healthy and manages to bump those career numbers up to those levels, a case can be made if not for the PED issues regardless of his counting stats.
  12. JohnBriggs12
    I don't think he'll be pitched to enough to get to 50. He's intentionally walked and pitched around at least once or twice a game. But he'll get close, likely 45-47. Much more likely is that he walks at least 100 times.
  13. JohnBriggs12
    Aguilar hasn't been atrocious - He's batting .319 over the last three weeks Yeah, he's been better, but just 3 HR (all in one series and none since??)
  14. JohnBriggs12
    If they could somehow land a serviceable LH reliever for Thames, I'd do a deal today. Claudio's been plain awful and Counsell continues to trust him in high leverage situations more than trusting a starter go another inning.
  15. JohnBriggs12
    Nate Griep's last 10 games: 12 IP 3 H 1 ER 2 BB 14 K What does Griep have to do to get a promotion? He's allowed just 11 HR in 174 appearances as a pro. That's my only gripe or is it griep?
  16. JohnBriggs12
    With Anderson taking the start Saturday, and maybe one more, then the logical move would be Anderson to the pen and Nelson taking his rotation spot in Pittsburgh series May 31-June 2. Burnes and Peralta clearly need work in AAA.
  17. JohnBriggs12
    I don’t think quality starts is a goal for this team. I think heir goal is for the starter to go a little more than twice through an order while Viking up 2 or less runs (typically 5 innings) and then construct a bullpen to handle the larger load. The bullpen can do this by having multiple guys who can handle 2-inning stunts and 80 innings on the year. Round that out by rotating 6 or more guys through the bottom two bullpen spots. Now wether this will be successful year in and year out is yet to be seen, but I don’t think increasing the inning load on the starters to save the bull pen is this teams goal (and I don’t blame them considering stats of starters >3 times through the order). But they are sacrificing an extra bench bat to carry an extra arm. That's fine with very few off days, but they have a number of off days coming up. I'd rather have a starter go a couple more outs and have an extra potent bat on the bench and allow Counsell to do more double switching.
  18. JohnBriggs12
    While Nottingham hasn't been terrible, Freitas has a .451 OBP and isn't striking out much. Heck he might be an upgrade over Pina if given the chance. But that's for down the road a bit. For now I can live with Nottingham though with just a 4 man bench, the backup catcher needs to be a threat with the bat too.
  19. JohnBriggs12
    Perez saved one if not more runs with his defense on Friday. He made one spectacular play, and another very good one.
  20. JohnBriggs12
    I don't trust Albers or Claudio. They definitely could use an upgrade over those two. Maybe it will come internally. They've won 7 in a row and looked good doing so, so there don't appear to be any major flaws right now. But that could change.
  21. JohnBriggs12
    Carrying 13 pitchers is likely a necessity when there aren't any off days coming up. But after next week, they go 4 straight weeks with at least one off day and 5 weeks out of 6. In fact between now and the All Star break, there's only two weeks with no off days. I see no reason they can't add a position player and reduce the staff from 13 to 12. I'd do it now instead of a week from now only because the Cubs are lining up their lefties to stymie the Brewers attack. Now the Phillies rotation is all right handed, but there's nothing wrong with giving Shaw and Hiura two starts each against them. As for Shaw there's nothing wrong with him sitting and watching for a few days. It helped Aguilar.
  22. JohnBriggs12
    Kind of like Peralta. Fiers has carved out a nice career as a 4th-5th starter and has a ring. He's been pretty durable too and a good guy who's easy to root for.
  23. JohnBriggs12
    After next week, the Brewers have 7 off days in the following 4 weeks. If there was ever a time when they could go with just 12 pitchers, and bring up Hiura, that would be it. Take a chance an bring him up a week earlier to face the lefties in Chicago too. Relegate Shaw to PH/DH role.
  24. JohnBriggs12
    I'd keep an eye on Jeff Samardzija. He's being kept to a modest pitch count but so far he's been okay. He'd be a salary dump for SF and not cost much in return.
  25. JohnBriggs12
    Bandy was DFA'd last year around May 25 after hitting just .188/.268/.266 in 64 AB's. Pina's hitting just .125/.243/.156 in half that many AB's. Backup catcher isn't a huge priority but I would think Manny has to pick it up over the next month and he's looked awful recently. His K rate is way up. Now watch him go 4 for 4 today....
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