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  1. Ennder
    I would hope they add two more because part of that list of names is likely going to be needed in the bullpen which is kind of thin too.
  2. Ennder
    Good risk, hopefully it works out. I think it is odd that people still think the path to winning it all is to overpay for starting pitching. That can work if everything else on your team has fallen into place but way more times than not the big ticket starting pitching fails teams, especially when you are dipping into the 2nd tier of them.
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    Deals like this are why the Yankees have only won one World Series since 2000. It opens them up to win it in the next few years but then it is going to be an anchor on the franchise holding them down in the future. Also for all the complaints about baseball and the salary cap that always come up, baseball has the most diverse playoffs of the big 3 sports in the modern era and that is even with a longer schedule which tends to favor better teams. The luxury cap works.
  4. Ennder
    Not a big Guasman guy but pretty much anyone on a 1 year deal is worth the risk.
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    The Brewers can sign a deal like this if they want to. They can afford it, they have the money for it. It just makes absolutely no sense for them to do it. This is one player earning what two really good players make combined. Given our payroll we are always going to be better off taking the two really good players over the one elite. In most cases we are better off taking 3 good players and hoping one goes all Yelich on the league. There are always going to be holes to fill and it will always make more sense for this team to go for depth.
  6. Ennder
    yes and they wish they could have 14.
  7. Ennder
    Spot 26 is almost certainly a pitcher for every team in baseball. Broxton is a great spot 30 or so guy. Minor league depth.
  8. Ennder
    Raines is better than every other player you mentioned here though Evans is at least close, easy HOF. The biggest joke in all of this though is Jack Morris. He isn't a HOF player but additionally there just wasn't enough time between him falling off of the ballot and players who liked him voting him in because of nothing but bias. He got voted in out of spite and ignorance and nothing else. This certainly is not the test and has shouldn't be why someone should be in the HOF.
  9. Ennder
    Many NFL players give discounts to win rings, especially the older ones. I don't think that is really up for debate if you have watched contract values over the years. Younger players want the big payday and won't do it but the 30 year old+ players who are still good definitely do. Hightower definitely gave them a discount, Brady definitely did, White definitely has, Edelman definitely has. Patriots get to sign their best players at about 80-90% of value because they know it is in their best interest. A team like the Browns has to pay 120%+. It is a huge advantage in the NFL.
  10. Ennder
    I don't think this is even in the top 10 reasons baseball has lost popularity. All of the major sports have long periods of the same teams dominating, regardless of how they handle free agency and caps. I think the Patriots have more of an edge in the NFL than the Dodgers do in MLB because players are willing to play for less to go to the patriots whereis the Dodgers have to outbid people paying reasonable prices in order to get a free agent.
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    Probably just a pet peeve here but there have been all kinds of just awful starting players on playoff teams. You can have a weak position and still make the playoffs. We had Yuni B start 11 playoff games for us and he was a below replacement level player and much worse than Castro.
  12. Ennder
    The Reds had a number of guys overproduce last season and finished under .500. They are not really much of a threat compared to the rest of the division.
  13. Ennder
    I consider Shaw a better version of Lamb who has shown a much better ability to hit lefties outside of last season. I don't think Lamb is a solution at 3B but he can be part of a solution if we go with a platoon.
  14. Ennder
    Most of the teams in the league can afford Cole, Rendon etc. What actually happens is the richest teams overpay in value to get them. This creates a system of diminishing returns where big time free agents end up losing money for the team. Very few 4+ year deals end up being good deals. Smaller teams can do this for one guy but if they do it for a bunch of them it ends up being devastating a few years down the road. Also the soft cap means even the big teams can't just control everything. There was a reason that the Yankees haven't been getting many of the big FA's recently, they needed to drop under the cap. There is a reason the Red Sox sort of rebuilt last year even though they were coming off of a world series. There is a reason the Nats are cutting payroll this season. It is a much more fluid system than a hard cap like in some other sports. The hard cap in the other sports doesn't work either. Players just sign for less to go to bigger name teams for the endorsements. Hard salary caps just don't work very well. That is why the NFL uses the unbalanced schedule to try to force parity. Even with that the same teams tend to go to the playoffs most years.
  15. Ennder
    Looking at more in depth stats he seems above average on framing high pitches and well below average on low pitches. He converted 46.8% of pitches on the corners compared to a league average of 48.4%. Over all of his playtime last year the one metric suggests he cost his team 5 runs over an average catcher on the year. I don't think this is the defensive disaster some are making it out to be. He'll cost us a few runs most likely but he'll make up for it with the bat. It is a downgrade from Grandal but I think C will be a slight net positive for the team as a whole.
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    Pitch framing is probably the most important thing a competent catcher does defensively in the big leagues. What I don't trust is properly measuring pitch framing. It is a very complex thing that involves the pitcher, the catcher and the umpire. This isn't one of those things that the stats has a great grasp on just yet.
  17. Ennder
    Dylan Bundy needs to be in the NL in a pitchers park. He just gives up way too much hard contact because his location is poor. A pitchers park with a good defense in the AL will have to do I guess.
  18. Ennder
    I don't know what to expect from Villar but to be fair saying he can only play for bad teams is a bit unjustified. His one bad year for the Brewers was injury riddled and then he wasn't given a full time job the next year. He is a hard guy to read but it seems like people are throwing a lot of narrative at him that really isn't based on any sort of concrete facts.
  19. Ennder
    Shaw is just as likely to hit 30+ HR this year as he is to have a bad season. I completely agree with non tendering him given how things went last season but it is much more likely it was a bizzarro random bad year than his true talent given what he had done his previous few seasons. He showed nothing but skill growth in 2017 and 2018 and 2019 was completely out of expectations. Anyone who saw that coming was delusional going into the season.
  20. Ennder
    I find games against the Cubs to be so unpleasant I wouldn't want to go if I had the tickets for my family. I'm not just talking about how the Cubs fans act here either, the Brewer's fans are at their worst during those games as well. I cannot blame anyone for selling those tickets, they are the worst games of the season to watch the game live as a fan.
  21. Ennder
    I don't think those can really be separated, though. I mean, yeah, if Yasmani was willing to sign for $40 million over 4 years, I'm sure the Brewers would have been all over that. I personally think that it was the total value of the deal, combined with it's length, that they couldn't do. There's no reason to believe that they wouldn't have been willing to go two or even three more years at the same AAV. Yeah I gotta agree with this. If he had taken an offer of 2 years for $40M I think Stearns jumps all over it even though the AAV is higher. If it had been for 6 years and $75M I think he jumps all over it too. It is the combination of 4 yrs, $73M that is too steep. The AAV is too high for that many years, especially in the NL where he can't fall back on the DH if his defense/health slips.
  22. Ennder
    This line of thinking is how bad teams stay bad for such a long time. Just because you can afford a player doesn't mean the contract is what the team needs. That is not the contract the Brewers need right now. The team does have finite resources they can spend and this is most likely not a productive way for them to spend it in the long run.
  23. Ennder
    I totally understand this deal for the White Sox who are just coming into their young talent and have a lot of free money for the next few years. He will likely DH towards the end but he isn't a super amazing bat for a DH if any of his skills fade. I think the last couple years of his deal will probably not look very good so kind of glad the Brewers didn't try to match it.
  24. Ennder
    This is good to see. I'm so tired of people saying the system doesn't work because the marginal guys turn down the offer and then end up taking a paycut. These guys should be taking this type of offer and I'm glad some players are actually starting to do it. It is like a much less strict version of the franchise player in the NFL.
  25. Ennder
    I don't really think anyone outside of Brewer's fans thinks this though. They were playing to roughly what they were projected to do and most "experts" had them not making the playoffs. It was a really awful rotation all year long.
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