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He keeps on trying to pull everything since game one of the season. He has been one of the worst hitters on the Brewers so far this year. I would put Frelick below Ortiz and just above Regnifo, Lockridge and Perkins.

Frelick needs to be in AAA remembering who he is as a hitter. You are not Babe Ruth Frelick!

Can include Frelick on that list. He has been absolutely awful.

Can Frelick stop pretending to be Russel Branyan soon?

No interest doesn't mean no offer made, there are varying levels of interest no interest meaning you give a poor offer and see if the team bites. If they don't then no loss. If there were serious interest in Megill in the offseason a trade would have been made.

But no teams did. The Brewers made available in the offseason.

They did try to trade him just no one was interested.

Late to the game but the jersey looks like a bad little league jersey. Just missing the cheesy local sponsor on the jersey.

I was thinking about a major restructuring of the league. First, eliminate the American League and National League entirely and replace them with a single league divided into four divisions. In the first year, 32 teams would compete, with 8 teams making the playoffs. In year two, the system evolves: the 8 playoff teams from the previous season are placed into a new “Championship Division.” The playoffs then expand to 10 teams. Within this format, the top two seeds receive a double bye. In the early rounds, higher seeds would only need to win one game to advance, while lower seeds would need to win two—essentially creating short, advantage-based series where the higher seed has a significant edge. Teams that fail to make the playoffs while in the Championship Division are relegated back to a lower division the following season. Divisions would be realigned every year based on performance. There would also be a designated “Losers Division” made up of the bottom 8 teams. If a team remains in this division for more than three consecutive seasons, it would be relegated to AAA, and a AAA team would be promoted to replace it. The promoted team cannot be an affiliate of the relegated franchise. As for player movement: players on a relegated team who are not under long-term contracts and who have at least five years of experience would become free agents. Players without long-term contracts and with fewer than five years of experience could be assigned to the promoted AAA team, if that team chooses to accept them. If not, those players would enter a mini-draft, where other teams could select them (provided they have available roster space). Any undrafted players would then become free agents. Just a crazy idea which would never happen so Manfred if you are listening please do this.

That was built in 1980. I think they would want something newer and not sharing a facility with an AHL team. If the facility were newer I think they would overlook the sharing of the facility. But with it being almost 50 years old that just doesn’t make any sense. If Milwaukee had a bigger media market it would be a no brainer to put a team in Milwaukee with the Fiserv Forum being relatively new.

The PWHL is probably the closest Milwaukee will get for a professional hockey team. The media market though seems to be the biggest stopper for Milwaukee. One thing Milwaukee has an advantage over Chicago is that the Fiserv Forum only has the Bucks and Marquette. While Chicago has the Blackhawks and Bulls. Chicago would have to build a new arena for a PWHL team and I don’t think that will happen. Still a pipe dream for Milwaukee to receive a professional hockey team.

I’m not sure an international draft would fix anything.

Probably because it will be in the sun on a 110 degree day.

Time to start talking about sending Frelick down to AAA?

Lately it has been hurrr durrrr AI bad downvote anyone who says otherwise mentality on Reddit.

Or the more logical explanation is that these kids fit into the system and in previous years they did not.

Which is the more hall of very good the NBA or NFL hall of fames?

You would get so much hate if you put this on Reddit. Pybaseball is really all that you need. Could also use this api https://github.com/toddrob99/MLB-StatsAPI/issues.

I got to watch the final 3 innings on my lunch break.

Other than the HR he has been absolutely awful.

Still not a bad challenge. You can fail at a challenge and it still be a good challenge. The only way that would have been a bad challenge is if it split the middle of the plate in the strike zone. It was a borderline pitch and therefore it was a good challenge regardless of the outcome.

What nuance would there be? If it is late in the game 2-outs and a 3-2 count what nuance would there be that would impact the decision? If the pitch is a close pitch you challenge. How the batter is feeling or if they ate something bad the inning prior has no bearing on the decision.

No anything that is close and a 3-2 count and it is late in the game should be an auto challenge. There is very little downside in doing so.

It wasn’t a bad challenge. On a 3-2 pitch you only have to be right about 15% of the time. Other counts you are looking at having to be successful 70-90% of the time. So 3-2 late in the game with 2-outs is a perfectly good challenge.

Pratt physically is closer to Tulowitzki than he is to Hardy or Turang. If Pratt fills out physically he would be at a similar size as Tulo and Gunnar Henderson. Cal Ripken Jr. is another name who Pratt would be physically like. Pratt doesn't have the power of any of them right now but that doesn't mean he won't fill out and add power to his game.