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Hernan Up - Travis Down - Burch DFA
Oxy replied to True Blue Brew Crew's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Perez and Arcia are pretty much a wash. Split time I suppose. -
Hernan Up - Travis Down - Burch DFA
Oxy replied to True Blue Brew Crew's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I'll say Burch Smith is a DFA'd. Or Taylor Williams. -
Speculating is a horrible thing to do on an internet message board, but I'm going to do it anyway....They got in a fight, Lucroy punched a door or wall or refrigerator or something... broke his hand...and got one last word in to his wife...
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Every time the Brewers become good for a year a new batch of baseball fans is born...often times, the first real experience being a baseball fan and following a team is the stretch run of that good year when the town is excited and the ballpark is exciting and it's the playoffs! and We've won 13 in a row and wow are we good...our pitchers strike everybody out and we have the MVP and NEXT YEAR IS GOING TO BE EVEN BETTER!!! Then the next year comes. And by July the team has played a whopping 81 games and the season is only HALF over. In that half of a season every single player on the team has alreadybeen in a slump at some point and sucked at baseball and the team has gone on multiple winning streaks and multiple losing streaks and OMG are the last two games we only got 4 hits so the offense is horrible and STearns should be ashamed and then the next week comes and Chase Anderson is not only not the worst pitcher in the league anymore now he's and ACE to be relled upon and then we make some dumb trades and then its AUGUST...so hot....and we are actually in the Wild Card spot and there is still 50 games left and oh god Baseball is boring.
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Considering our lack of internal minor league IF depth AND the extra roster spot next year there is a real possibility we try to keep Thames, Moose and Shaw. Shaw still has an option year as well. Whoever we let go, we will still have to sign somebody to take their place. I'll say we offer Moose a contract but he tests Free Agency and finds out for the 3rd straight year that he won't get a long term deal. Re-signs with the Brewers in January at 2 yrs/16M with a 3rd year team option for 7M (2M buyout).
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I've never completely understood deferrels or signing bonuses. I thought that I understood signing bonuses, then I recently read about somebody's(don't remember who) contract details where a signing bonus was spread out to be paid in equal installments throughout the life of the contract. Isn't that called "salary"? Putting a different label on it just seems ridiculous. Then again, I'm neither a lawyer nor an accountant, and there is probably a reason for that.
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Next August the White Sox and Yankees are playing a regular season game at the Field of Dreams site in Dyersville, IA. Apparently fans will walk through the cornfield to get to their seats in a temporary 8,000 seat stadium that will also pay homage to old Comiskey Park. I'm not sure what to think about this. My initial reaction was that it is ridiculous and cheesy. Then I thought about actually going to the game and thought it would be pretty cool. https://www.mlb.com/news/yankees-white-sox-game-at-field-of-dream-site
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I remember Lucroy's comments, and at the time they seemed more like a frustrated ultra-competitive person who hated being on a losing/re-building team more than anything actually negative related to Milwaukee the town, the franchise, or the fanbase.. As far as rejecting the Cleveland trade, that was his negotiated right to do so and it worked out great for the Brewers anyway. I think he's a good guy, but his personality would have played better as a regular position player rather than as a catcher. Not sure if that makes total sense, but it does to me, anyway (and probably Randy Wolf, too).
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I'll take the gigantic leap forward that Grisham made any day. I know what you mean, though. He's so unhip that when you say Dylan, he thinks you're talkin 'bout Dylan Thomas...whoever he was....
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If there had been a 1980s Brewerfan.net: “Uke is looking for the next acting job. He misses a LOT of Brewers games to do other things like Mr. Belvedere, the Tonight Show and ABC Monday Night Baseball. He's just there to do the Brewers, waiting on a more stable bigger stage to come up, rather than have his fall back being the Brewers games, because they let him leave whenever he wants to do other things. ...” You see how ridiculous that reads? For Lord sake, people, stopping losing the flipping plot. Brian Anderson is considered a national-level talent and he still chooses to stay in Milwaukee and do the Brewers. That’s a good thing. Well, the big difference is that Uke is a hometown guy who even played ball in MKE too. He wasn't going anywhere because he was already home.
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C'mon...the Supak love is a little over the top here...he has made 2...2AAA starts...in his first one he gave up 4 bombs...4!! He's a rookie, and everyone wants to throw him into the fire in the middle of a pennant race?? Even if it's for only one start...I'm NOT okay with that. Then again, had the Brewers gone out and did what they should have at the deadline and gotten a starter, this situation wouldn't be so dire. But, can we be careful with the Supak love here please?? I need to see ALOT more before I'm ready to anoint him. Besides, what would he go, 4 innings at most I'd bet?? No point in calling him up for that. So, Supak must not be ready.
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This would really go a long way toward him getting what he wants. Based on the public information known, most reasonable people would say that it was a correct verdict in the criminal case, but that he used poor judgment and got himself into a situation that he shouldn't have been in. Acknowledging that to the school and the athletic dept would be step 1 in his reinstatement.
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Supak must not be ready. There isn't a more perfect time for him to get a one-off spot start to get his feet wet. He is needed, it's on the road, he's on the roster (already used his option), he's pitched well all year... I don't get it.
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Sounds like CC had a good response ready for sitting Yelich: "Maybe he went 4-4 with 2 dingers cuz he knew he had the day off the next day?"
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Brault almost gave Grandal 3rd base there. slowly made his way toward the plate rather than back up his catcher who ran 15 up the line to dive for the throw home
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Bill Hall said exactly what I was going to say. He's got another option left next year, so he'll likely still be around then to play the same role as this year. It's kind of nice to have a veteran/30 year old guy to play that role so you don't have to jerk around any younger guys. It's not a glamorous role, but it's better than 99.999% of jobs most normal 30 yr olds have.
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If the plan is to only use Anderson twice through the order, I hope CC uses Yelich to double switch early (5th inning prolly). It's not like we have a righty on the bench to face Brault anyway (although hopefully he'll be knocked out by then). I guess it wouldn't be horrible to save him for a crucial late inning AB either.
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He profiles correctly (decent enough switch hitting IFer) as something we need, but I think it was clear he was a bad fit for this team. His stats aren't really much different than they were last year as a Brewer but nobody missed him when he was gone.
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Big hits from Thames and Arcia. Get the bat on the ball and good things can happen.
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Wilkerson, Jackson, and Jeffress would seem to be DFA candidates, as well as Smith. Jackson has options...Jeffress doesn't, and I'm not sure on Smith and Wilkerson. If this is the last option year for either of them I'd imagine they'll be the one that gets DFA'd.
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Technically, that's true. But it would be pretty easy for the GMs to set up a Group email and unofficially waive guys and see if anybody wants to pick them up. Obviously, guys could lie and not actually pick up a player they said they would, but that would be awfully bad business if everybody knew you lied.
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Pick up Anderson and Thames' option. Let Guerra go. Let Jeffress go (or re-sign for cheap). Sign Claudio or Pomeranz or some other lefty RP. re-sign Shaw. Re-sign Moose. We've got nobody to fill his spot and he'll be affordable yet productive....and he seems like a great fit. Let Grandal go and roll with Pina/Nottingham/Freitas/??? Braun platoons with Thames and fills in in LF, with Grisham taking time from Cain in CF as well. Gamel and Grisham will play the either/or option game all year depending on productivity and health. Sign a SP like Zach Wheeler (or better) and a whole bunch of AAAA players with options at all positions. We have no depth next year. It stinks that we are basically in a holding pattern, but there isn't much you can do with Braun and Cain's contracts still on the books. It'll be a lot like this year, but hopefully w/o the injuries to the pitching staff and the ridiculously bad years from Shaw and Aguilar....and Cain... Evaluate at the trade deadline and see where the year/organization is at.
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Hernan Perez has walked 3 times tonight. The last time that occurred was May 10, 2016. I was mildly surprised it had ever happened.
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Black will make the team out of SP, purely because Stearns traded for him. He'll have to fail at the MLB level before being DFA'd. Unfortunately, the 13th man in the pen is rarely an actual MLB quality pitcher anyway...
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Black has a strange profile. It sounds like he could become a major contributor in the pen. Dubon had almost no upside, and is easily replaced with Perez or Spangenberg or any number of guys. The only thing he had going for him was a couple of options. We'll see what happens.
