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No offense but is this a joke? Hiura is not at all a first baseman. He’s like 5’10 and thin. Sure, we had Prince there at about 5’11..but he played there his entire career and frankly couldn’t possibly play any other position at his size. I think you misunderstood. Hiura is a 2b. I was stating that the Brewers are shifting towards positional versatility and it never hurts to work guys out at other spots. My suggestion was Moose workout at 2b a bit this spring if signed. I never advocated moving Hiura.

Lawrie was reportedly pulled from games in AA for not running hard. Braun often makes routine plays look very close due to his hustle. Hopefully Brett has learned and been humbled. We could use him to show his energy/hustle, with a new sense of leadership and patience.

Moose is a solid defender. Because of that, I would work him at 2b in camp as well. Players like certainty, but baseball is a sport that is starting to really value versatility. Given Hiura's arm issues in the past, I think they view his secondary position as 1b/DH. So having Moose and Shaw capable of filling in multiple spots as regular starters would be good.

I just think flip flops are stupid anyways. No ankle support, uncomfortable, and they lead to stinky, ugly feet. Even more amazing is anyone paying more than $10 for a pair.

This is a pretty ridiculous statement. Everything we've heard is how Braun is a terrific, supportive teammate.

Yes and no. One thing I've learned from hearing/reading comments from Stearns is that many of his deals are planned over many weeks/months.

What does this mean? I’m guessing a veiled drug reference, but as far as we know, he’s never tested positive under MLB’s program. I could see a deal like Clancy proposes being great for both sides.

I don’t think this is true at all. Depaul and St. John’s are the best they’ve been in years. Xavier is down quite a bit, but still a threat. Villanova has regrouped after losing all of the stars. Seton Hall, Butler, creighton, and Providence are always capable of winning on any given night. There is no bad team this year… No Penn State, Illinois, or Rutgers for comparison. The league is down a bit, due to attrition. However the reason the league doesn’t look impressive is there are no bottom feeders everyone is beating. So we should have four or five ranked teams next year as the teams gain maturity. Marquette is likely only losing Chartouny and Heldt. KenPom has Big East ranked 5th in the nation. yes, so they aren't really bad. They're not the 2nd or 3rd best league like in recent seasons, but the 5th. What really is hurting the Big East is the parity from 3-10. If Butler or Providence were a little better than the pack, we'd be talking about them having 3 very good teams and 7 solid ones.

I think people are often making the mistake in assuming that a player’s swing is the same their entire career. There are often extremely minor changes that occur. My golf swing has several versions each year. In my case it has nothing to do with injuries or launch angle, but rather a lot to do with normal tweaks that occur either intentionally or subconsciously

Great win tonight. Butler has an awesome arena and a very loud, engaged crowd. Marquette has a nice little break before getting back to it next week. Nova is on the horizon twice

I don’t think this is true at all. Depaul and St. John’s are the best they’ve been in years. Xavier is down quite a bit, but still a threat. Villanova has regrouped after losing all of the stars. Seton Hall, Butler, creighton, and Providence are always capable of winning on any given night. There is no bad team this year… No Penn State, Illinois, or Rutgers for comparison. The league is down a bit, due to attrition. However the reason the league doesn’t look impressive is there are no bottom feeders everyone is beating. So we should have four or five ranked teams next year as the teams gain maturity. Marquette is likely only losing Chartouny and Heldt. Illinois just beat Maryland on the road. Depaul beat Penn State at home by 2. Seton Hall beat Rutgers by 6 at home. So, if Penn State and Rutgers are bad(which I don't think they are great), where does that put Depaul and SH? I think you have to play well night in and night out in both conferences in order to win. I am not sure there are many gimmie wins. That’s actually not really what I meant, but that’s my fault. I meant to portray it as the Big East has 2 really good teams and a bunch of solid teams, no bad team. The conference I chose as a reference was the Big Ten, but not with the goal of getting into a conference-pissing match. Let me refine my thoughts with a couple of bullet points instead of long-winded sentences: -the Big Ten is the better conference this year -the Big East has 2 outstanding teams and a bunch of solid teams -most conferences have very weak teams -even very weak teams can occasionally win a game, as they know conference opponents well and often have true home-court advantages

To be honest, maybe the Brewers want a 5-man rotation (4-5 innings), with several multiple inning relievers serving as a middle-innings rotation (3 man middle innings rotation of 2-3 innings). We could have Guerra, Burnes, and Woodruff serving in this new role where their stuff may play up in the 2-3 inning role

I don’t think this is true at all. Depaul and St. John’s are the best they’ve been in years. Xavier is down quite a bit, but still a threat. Villanova has regrouped after losing all of the stars. Seton Hall, Butler, creighton, and Providence are always capable of winning on any given night. There is no bad team this year… No Penn State, Illinois, or Rutgers for comparison. The league is down a bit, due to attrition. However the reason the league doesn’t look impressive is there are no bottom feeders everyone is beating. So we should have four or five ranked teams next year as the teams gain maturity. Marquette is likely only losing Chartouny and Heldt.

You make it sound like his low average was due to strikeouts. It was due to a very low BABIP.

all of the details for annual breakdowns are found on Cots. What is Cots? I was using Sportrac, is that less reliable? I've always known it as the most reliable source for salary info. It's now part of Baseball Prospectus. https://legacy.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/nl-west/arizona-diamondbacks/

The dude absolutely crushed the baseball a lot last time, but defense were often placed perfectly. Some games he'd hit three rockets that the 3b or SS would barely snag. Because of the velocity, he'd be an easy out even with good hustle. I commend him on trying to get a little more lift. It's not crazy to think he could have hit 10 more homers at least with how hard he was hitting them

all of the details for annual breakdowns are found on Cots.

Clancy, I think you're likely mistaken. The Brewers wouldn't logically be on the hook for the first 3 years of the deferred money. Those years are Dbacks responsibility unless they asked us to cover it.

Tough to win in Cinci, but I'd take Marquette -2 or -2.5. I like Wisconsin to win their game, but I'd take Northwestern to cover. and USF -2 seems a solid pick although USD is playing tough. lots of nice matchups tomorrow

What was amazing last year was how often on tv it seemed the Brewers would win challenges only to have them upheld. AND other teams often had seemingly hopeless challenges that would go against the Brewers. I don’t know how many seemingly obvious calls on replay went against the Brewers, but it was a rough double whammy

Speaking of car bluetooth, it also annoys me how many people I see in newer cars that I know must have bluetooth as a standard option, but still choose to use the phone in the traditional way when having a phone conversation while driving. Yep, I think I usually rant about that 2-3 times a year in these threads. I especially don't get holding their phones in their hands infront of them on speaker phone.

I've been doing well with Marquette. Their FT shooting has been very helpful. I've lost too many games with other teams missing FT in the last 2 mins. N Kentucky has been pretty good, N. Colorado, Murray St, Big Sky Conference, WCC, etc. The Brewers were great last Sept. I'll bet they were dogs at least 2/3rds of the season, and most of Sept they were dogs yet were winning. Mich St has been great as well. I did well on some Badgers losses (like Minnesota), but couldn't bring myself to take the Michigan line (Mich -2 wasn't enough)

Just curious, but why aren’t teams-in close games—fouling Happ in the last 4 minutes every time he touches the ball? Not a Bucky fan by any measure, so I haven’t watched. But it seems the strategy is so easy.

I can get behind AmFam Park. But Miller Park...I tell everyone about Miller's legacy in Milwaukee. I drove to high school through Miller Valley, I could smell Miller Brewing from school, I could see the bright red sign, and many days during high school I could hear the pilings for Miller Park being driven into the ground. I remember going to bed crying after the stadium vote was shot down, and I am forever grateful for Miller stepping up and being a strategic partner with my Brewers.