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The arbitrary lines people draw are just ridiculous. Throw a ball at a guy's head 99mph, hey that's baseball. Storm the mound and swing, boys being boys. DX suck it sign, whoa, post-game callout from your own manager, THAT'S overboard. I laughed. It was funny. It's supposed to be fun and it was funny. -
Williams with an ERA at 6.35 and 1.65 WHIP, half a win below replacement level. 3 years, $51 million. Gives up 4 ER on 14 pitches in a scoreless 9th situation on Sunday night. But yeah, dude's totally fine.
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It's been done. He is built more like Eddie George than Brandon Jacobs or Henry. I don't think he's a 30-carry guy anyway, but part of the overall plan. He had one more rush than reception last year and had 51 carries his last season at TCU. GB requires their backs to catch, too. I would have expected to see more of him this season as a gadget guy anyway with the departures they had.
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It makes me wonder if Savion was part of the plan at RB.
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Jacobs looked washed during a lot of last season to be honest. He rallied a bit at end of year, so I held out hope he was just playing hurt, and behind a bad line. At the end of the year I wasn't sure what to think, but I thought it was very odd/negligent that they did nothing at the RB position after letting Wilson go, who was a very good back with his touches. This is all to say that I felt it was a position that needed attention before any of this. If any of this story is true, he should be released.
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He might be great at his job but it's not possible to do what the Brewers have been doing without brilliance throughout the org chart. Everybody from the guys scouting the Princeton WhistlePigs to the Sounds, to the pitching lab and everyone in between, is doing unprecedented work to pull off this level of consistent success. It's much bigger than one guy.
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Well yeah, obviously not. It was a hypothetical that he's one of those guys that I don't think is capable of MKE success outside of MKE.
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That doesn't mean a whole lot when your outings are 1 inning. He was 0 ER in 51 of 67 appearances last year. That put him at 4.79 for the year and he's 4.60 now. In fact, that's pretty much exactly what he's been the last couple years. Fine when he's fine, and then has a week where he's useless. I don't think that's 'fine' given what his role is.
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I still kinda believe that in a world where Williams is DFA'd and is in Milwaukee next week, he's back close to where he was with the Brewers. I don't think he should ever be a closer though.
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It was probably 8 days ago I looked at the standings and thought to myself, "Well I know we'll be in the division race at the end, but we'll probably be looking up at Chicago until late August."
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I support a blockbuster that sends Michael Wilbon to the Arctic Circle without wifi.
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Someone would have paid Watson a shocking amount of money had they not given him that $11mm. It bought them some time at the table. I'm fully expecting him to sign a longer extension this year.
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I am OK with picking up LVN's option. They had to do it by today, so it makes a bit of sense. If he has the season he was going to have last year before getting hurt, which looked to be that of a pretty average+ edge, he's priced out and likely gets a few years elsewhere. I still think it's pretty likely he walks after year 5, but you could do worse than him as a rotational piece/fringe starter on their DL for $13.8 million. I don't think this is an example of sunk cost at all. It's a value decision for a team that doesn't have a lot of splash money laying around. They have been pretty open cutting ties to mediocre bust picks, so I am not really seeing that as a valid critique either. Ted definitely let random guys hang around forever, Gute has been pretty good about sending his mistakes to the street.
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Aye, the purpose for teams to buy such insurance would be a lot more likely with deals like the one Pratt just signed. Young player, long contract, where the cost would be fairly low because, wait for it...he is not likely to be catastrophically injured. Yes, it could happen, but that's the type of contract said companies could be profitable with. Getting 20 of those deals and if 2 guys get hurt, it's not a big loss. Likewise, the Brewers can recoup something for fairly low cost if he is hurt in year 2 of his 8-year deal. That's the kind of scenario where you get insurance, a low cost to protect against a disaster not likely to occur. Not for 1-yr deal on a guy very likely to get hurt so you can spend more money.
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Without context you'd think the Brewers are down 8-0 and Woodruff gave up a grand slam. Never change, IGTs
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For Brandon Woodruff, no I don't, or the premium would be so high that the Brewers wouldn't take it on.
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What company would have insured Brandon Woodruff's contract? They'd lose their shirt on the premium.
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Everything about this game lines up; later year than I thought, but wouldn't shock me. My Dad was with me, and it would have had to be a Sunday (which this game was), and I presume also a bobblehead day. I thought the guy was throwing even considerably slower than Young did, but even the score is about what I would have guessed. Like 90% certain this is the game.
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I went to a Brewers game in what I want to say was the early 2000s, possibly late 90s but I don't think so. I know they lost, and I think it was against the Angels, but not positive. I remember the opposing SP taking a no hitter very late into the game, maybe as late as the 8th or so. And I remember him throwing SLOW all day. I could swear he had a few dip into the 50s. It's driven me nuts over the years not remembering who it was.
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I get what you're saying but just to point out that the mandatory 4-year contract is a big difference between the 7th and UDFAs. If the guy makes the team and especially if he becomes a starter, that's a huge difference.
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Bucks hiring Taylor Jenkins as new head coach
OldSchoolSnapper replied to HarryDoyle's topic in Other Sports
Giannis could come out and shut this down if he wanted to. He could get in front of any microphone and say "I am not leaving. This is where I want to be. I don't want to be traded and that's the end of it." But he doesn't do that. He invites the speculation and then drops ambiguous lines about it "I'm here...as long as we compete for championships." For the record, I think the latter is more than fair. But *****. Stop. Talking. About. It. I think his dream is continuing to win in Milwaukee. I don't think it can be done. Too much cap hell, years of roster management kicked down the road, etc. You either just ride him until FA because you're Milwaukee or trade him now. My Bucks tragedy will never be that the 2021 was their last title. It's that they didn't win at least one BEFORE then, because things started to slide right after that. They were definitely good enough to do it in 2019 and 2020, probably 2022. -
Anders went 34/40 and 6/8 from 50+ in the NFL and is kicking for the Birmingham Stallions. Extra points did him in. Made them at the same clip of 85%, atrocious.
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It's easy to look average next to Trent Williams and I fear that is exactly what happened. The 49ers fans were content letting him go. Sometimes, a signing at which the masses laugh, does end up just being a really bad signing. That said, lots of lines have a mediocre guard if the rest of it is solidified. We paid him way too much, and I think he is almost a guarantee to be cut next spring. Burton will replace him (played more snaps at guard than center in college) or Rhyan will go back to G.
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They paid him a $1m roster bonus in March so I figured he was 100% their kicker. I can't really imagine they drafted a K in the 6th to cut him. Maybe they trade McManus when someone else has a kicking disaster in at the end of the preseason, provided Smack is Smacking it.
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Hated that trade at the time. I didn't care about Collins or Durbin, but Mears was extremely dependable.
