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  1. Oxy
    19-8! KeithStone is the big winner. 15 games over .500, 6 game lead heading into July at the exact halfway point. Things are looking good.
  2. Oxy
    So if Cousins is such a huge Cubs fan, maybe he can go home with them and Rizzo/Bryant can stay in Milwaukee with the Brewers?
  3. Oxy
    This post is not to be overlooked. Well done.
  4. Oxy
    I was one of those who couldn't understand the talk around here and elsewhere of trading Hader. It wasn't really based in reason. Just being a WI sports fan and seeing our superstar sort of blow it on the biggest stage of the year. I just assumed he'd crater into another flame-throwing 5 ERA reliever that had his confidence wrecked. I wanted to trade him badly, and it was definitely based on reason. However, that was mostly before he decided to throw his slider for strikes, let alone a changeup too. And it was before Burnes and Peralta decided to pitch like the blue chip prospects that they never were (prospects rankings can be soooo spurious). I also wanted a significant return which obviously was never offered.
  5. Oxy
    This is just weird. That group won the B1G Championship in 2020 and they had no business winning that title. Do they think they won that in spite of Gard being the coach? I can't believe there is a fan/player/coach of any other B1G team who would agree with that position. None of them seem like the me-first screw-the-team type of guys, and I can't really think of instances where they play like that either. Just weird all-around. The Tucker power play move of recording the whole thing is just as weird. He's barely been a coach at all and he gets off on doing something like that and thinks it will work? I guess I'm glad he is gone too. Pay your dues for a few years/decade as an assistant and then interview for head coaching jobs just like everybody else. All around bizarre and embarrassing. Hopefully it all goes away very soon. ALSO: As bad as this episode seems, UW could be in Minnesota or Nebraska or Penn State's position. Heck, INDIANA just fired their coach because he just didn't win. Gard wins. High School players want to win. If they don't, then they are welcome to go to a different school who doesn't win as much as Gard does.
  6. Oxy
    Will be nice when he gets back. Urias at 3B, Wong at 2B, Adames at SS looks pretty solid. Defense is good. Urias has been steadily improving at the plate (.270 this month, .254 in the last 30 days), and if he can keep it up, looks like he can hold down the position. Even Vogelbach has been hitting a lot better of late (.281 in June, .250 the last 30 days). And both Urias and Vogelbach take a lot of walks. So even if they can just hit ..250-270 or so - they are serviceable. isn't .250 the same as old expectations of .280? And .270 more like the old .300? I've been trying to explain to family/friends how people--in this current era--can't hold players to the standards of even 4 years ago. I don't think it is that extreme, but your point is relevant.
  7. Oxy
    There were posters saying it looked like a bad decision to deal Knebel after 3 1/3 innings. If the castoffs were scattered around the league in Baltimore and Miami and Detroit, nobody would care. However, it's a little bit crazy that 3 guys who we had ended up on one of the deepest, most complete teams in MLB history who really didn't even need bullpen help and yet these guys are getting a shot AND having success there. If you don't find that at least interesting and at most concerning then shrug your shoulders ignore the posts and move on, but I don't think it's odd at all to update how these players are doing within the appropriate thread.
  8. Oxy
    Good for him. There are some dates in life that are more important than your job or a baseball game. This does show tremendous amount of understanding by CC about the role that he plays within the social sphere and the type of public example that he can set about where priorities should lie. That said, if my dad was the manager of the Brewers and skipped out on his job to attend a scam of a weird robed ceremony and annoying speeches I'd kind of be disappointed. I'd skip my own graduation ceremony 100/100 times if it meant I got to go to a Brewer game instead. That should in no way show what value I place upon education or academics-particularly at that level where it is oh so important. I just hate most ceremonies.
  9. Oxy
    Ryan Braun agrees! I'm waiting for somebody who ACTUALLY DOESN'T use any substances to come out and say that they use everything they possibly can to get an advantage just to mess with the MLB enforcers.
  10. Oxy
    JBJ giveth, and JBJ taketh away... And Jace picks him up with the SB. No loss no harm.
  11. Oxy
    I don't mind the one inning and one inning only strategy at this point in the season, but it would be nice if it could be the 8th or especially the 10th if the situation warrants it. And as we get to September I'd hope that it becomes slightly more flexible as well.
  12. Oxy
    I don't really buy the "pitching dominance" narrative as I don't think runs per game are that different from the past. I DO buy the slow, boring game style of there not being enough balls in play. Just trying to speed up ABs and speed up the action. Incentivize swinging the bat and putting the ball in play. A batter DOESN'T want to take a clear strike and be down 0-2, and a pitcher DOESN'T want to throw a ball and start off 2-0...so the pitcher is incentivized to throw the ball over the plate and the hitter is incentivized to swing at it! That's baseball. Or used to be. However, adding a called ball to a borderline pitch in addition to a strike is a pretty significant tilt toward hitters, even if it is just a one time thing per AB.
  13. Oxy
    How about this? The first "taken" pitch is worth TWICE it's value. The first pitch taken that is fully within the strike zone both vertically and horizontally would be 2 strikes. First pitch taken "balls" would be worth 2 balls. If the first pitch taken is a borderline pitch, i.e. a pitch that straddles the strike zone in any way with part of the pitch outside the strike zone then both 1 ball and 1 strike shall be awarded. After the first "taken" pitch of the AB, then the AB resumes normally the way it does now.
  14. Oxy
    Sidebar... It's a pet peeve of mine with baseball and prediction models that use run differential as a projection tool. How can a model accurately predict anything when a team could go 6-1 in a week, winning 6 games by 2 (+12) runs each game and getting blown out by 10 runs (-10) in the one loss, have only a +2 run differential and say they're playing essentially at a .500 clip? Run differential alone is the worst predictive model IMO. I think because these kinds of things even out over time. Teams will go through streaks of losing close games, or blow someone out by 10 runs. And thus it just sort of evens out in the end. The more games you play, the more 'accurate' run differential tends to be. It's not perfect, but it's generally pretty accurate in the long run. If the same players were used in wins and losses, then this makes sense. So I'll buy the runs scored half of run differential since the offense is basically the same every game win or lose. it's crazy to assume that "runs against" are basically the same players pitching in wins and losses, however. Crappy bullpen guys who rotate through the back half of the bullpen throughout the year as well as POSITION players are used in blowouts, and those blowouts losses anyway are extremely unlikely to be started by any of our 3 aces.
  15. Oxy
    He enjoys it so much that he hasn't even retired yet! Hopefully the guy stays in shape. He definitely likes the bright lights of the playoff type atmosphere and I agree with others that it's just too early and not fun enough/too much of a grind and too long of a season to sign up now. Once late July and August rolls around I think he comes back for the playoff push. I hope...unless we pick up some other help first cuz we desperately need it and at positions where it should be pretty easy to get.
  16. Oxy
    Woody= Ace of Spades Burnes = Ace of Diamonds Peralta = Ace of Hearts
  17. Oxy
    Also need a lot of runs because he isn’t going to have a lot of bullpen help behind him. Maybe someone can “accidentally” cut a power line tomorrow so they can play 2 7 inning games on Saturday and avoid the bullpen altogether. Sometimes we forget that the other team has a bullpen as well, and these days it's almost always worse than ours.
  18. Oxy
    huh. stoopid CC.
  19. Oxy
    Bradley is a better defender and he's left handed vs. the righty starter. It's not like Taylor has shown so much that he is a must-start.
  20. Oxy
    I wonder if he'll stop dying his hair after he retires?
  21. Oxy
    Totally agree. Hiura was terrible on that one.
  22. Oxy
    An old argument around here...but score one for the contact play with 1 out...even with the infield in.
  23. Oxy
    Any word if this is starting on time? Radar looks like it might be better to postpone an hour or two.
  24. Oxy
    Eduardo Escobar and/or Asdrubel Cabrera. Two quality cheap veteran switch hitting corner sticks on expiring contracts for a team going nowhere. Seems like a perfect match.
  25. Oxy
    You'd have to be top 3 for the fan vote to matter. Betts, Harper, Acuna, and a bag of balls from the Dodgers club...I mean Cody Bellinger would make it over Yeli.
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