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  1. DHonks
    If there is a DH in the NL, Vogelbach could be a relatively cheap option to play first, allowing Hiura to DH, with Urias moving to 2B. The money saved by going with Vogelbach at first might help them find a decent third baseman. However, if there is no DH, a right side of the infield with Hiura at 2B and Vogelbach at 1B would be pretty awful defensively. first off, do any teams use a full-time DH anymore? I don't follow the AL much, but it seems that went away years ago. Secondly, that's still sadly a better right side of the infield than we had in the late 2000s. Good thing Prince and Rickie could hit so well. Once they moved on, I realized how frequently for years I was justifying them saying "they're actually surprisingly athletic." Still can't believe a routine throw never hit Prince in the face.
  2. DHonks
    Given that we’ve put up with Fielder at 1b and Weeks, scooter, and Hiura at 2b, I think we can tolerate Vogelbach’s defense if need be
  3. DHonks
    not sure how ugly that is. Have you been to Fresno? It's not much of a location. It should be Cali League or bust
  4. DHonks
    I’d push for a reunion with our draft pick— 3 years $50 million for Brantley to be our new 1b or OF, whatever he wants. Of course I wanted to go after him last time as well
  5. DHonks
    I like the extra innings runner on 2nd thing, but I'd set that with the goal of avoiding excessively long games. I would not start with a runner on base in the 10-12 innings. One side question I wondered, did any coach ever walk the leadoff hitter in extras to immediately set up a double play?
  6. DHonks
    That’s a huge understatement. I wonder if MLB has seen a worse regular right side of the infield than Weeks and Fielder. Both were well below average. Not only were they bad, but the numbers probably fail to fully quantify it since their defense led to the other players having inflated error totals.
  7. DHonks
    The preferred term in these parts is "Uecker Line."
  8. DHonks
    So far in AZ we’re not finding COVID spread in schools, it’s the parties the kids are attending. My school has no known cases, but two neighboring high schools have 50-100 kids in quarantine for possible exposure. We have almost no subs available, and one of those high schools has had 5 teachers resign in the last two weeks. COVID isn’t helping AZ’s 2100 teacher-less classrooms.
  9. DHonks
    So what changes are happening this off-season?
  10. DHonks
    I'd offer arbitration to everyone except Claudio and Peterson. There's two issues though. For us, we probably have no budget to risk arbitration. At the same time, the players can't play hardball knowing that a crazy amount of players are going to be non-tendered, and they risk signing for much less.
  11. DHonks
    Agreed. I think it would be a giant mistake to let either go, but especially Feliciano. Feliciano will get protected, but I doubt Henry will. A bit far from the majors and he doesn’t have a very high ceiling to be wasting a roster spot on. wasn't he in their ton 20 last year, and known as a big league ready defensive catcher, with offensive potential? That's someone to keep
  12. DHonks
    Let's not forget that the Brewers have the lowest (or among the lowest) media revenues in the league. They rely more on ticket sales than almost all other teams.
  13. DHonks
    I agree that we missed his high water mark, but I think we are now looking at his peak realistic value. Teams were not willing to pay his actual value since he had so much control, reasonably priced and dominance. No one paid the ransom, but now we're at the point where what we would get back is still a ridiculous haul and a team is likelier to pay it. Exciting to think about what we could get back for sure since we are closer to actual fruition now. Hader has now shown an effective second pitch and cut his hr rate dramatically. I think his value is higher now
  14. DHonks
    I was wondering if Suter was freaked out being on the stage today. If you remember, he had some trouble in the Wild Card game last year, too. He got the first two outs, gave up a single, Moustakas made an error and then he got the next hitter out. So 1 inning, 1 hit. Not really trouble. Except that wasn’t the plan. When Suter struggled, it meant everything got moved up an inning. Pomy should have pitched later and Hader shouldn’t have been in until the 9th
  15. DHonks
    Just curious, where is Grand Chute? The brewers team was in Appleton I thought.
  16. DHonks
    Didn’t eddy say “Brett philips”?
  17. DHonks
    It's strange. He has a ton of arm talent but the lack of development is alarming. Call him the pitching Arcia. Fastball is straight and velocity is pretty average by todays bullpen arms. Says you....and nobody else
  18. DHonks
    He was throwing 96 in 2019.
  19. DHonks
    I’m still curious, what happened to the vaunted winter league slider???
  20. DHonks
    Given that the Yankees game is in the fourth inning, do we know if the Brewers will be available on a different channel?
  21. DHonks
    Interesting lineup tonight. I like that we’re stacking the bottom with guys that historically have good OBP for the top. Trying to maximize the at bats for our best hitters while hoping that at least some of the guys at the bottom have opportunities to reach base
  22. DHonks
    If we win tomorrow, it's the first time we'll be over .500 in 2020 (at 0-0, I'm not including the regular season)
  23. DHonks
    Part of the reason I asked was because some of those late 90s teams had a lot of doubles. Cirillo, Loretta, Nilsson, Jaha, Valentin, Vina, Burnitz, etc. They hit plenty of homers, but they also hit a lot of doubles. Sometimes the toughest rallies are the ones where a team has 3 doubles in an inning. Like you can understand it if they jack a homer. The Brewers have struggled to string together multi-hit innings for a couple years now. I haven't watched enough other teams, so it might be an MLB-wide issue as teams pursue exit velocity and launch angle exclusively. I know it was painful playing the AL Central teams this year and having then nickel and dime us to death with infield singles and bleeders.
  24. DHonks
    This is what I'd do. Start Lauer and have the bullpen on high alert, particularly Suter. I love the outside the box thinking and we are going to have to be creative for 27 innings to be able to beat the Dodgers AND this would be quite the cinderella/rabbit pull, etc if it were to work... however Lauer managed to be a -.6 WAR in only 4 appearances this year. Something isn't right or the Covid style of baseball just didn't work for him or something... he really, really struggled. The likelihood of it working isn't very good and so starting Lauer in Game 1 of the playoffs against the best team in baseball with 95% of your pitchers available to you is a borderline fireable offense in my very humble opinion. I will eat a months worth of crow if Lauer starts Gm1 and pitches well and I would be happy to do it. This would be a bit like giving Woodruff a PH opportunity against Kershaw over Gamel in Gm2 because of past success... I’m hoping we can be creative and throw only 18 successful innings
  25. DHonks
    To be honest, game one is all about trying to have a chance. We need game 2. I’d be tempted to start Rasmussen, but encourage him mix in his pitches more like he would as a starter. Get through 2-3 innings, the. Go Suter to cover innings 3 or 4 through 5. If all goes well, they can combine for 5-6 innings. If Lindblom is game 3, then I’m even tempted by Houser for a few innings. I’d try to keep Williams and Hader fresh for games 2-3, unless we have a chance to win game 1 after 6ip
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