Oxy
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I didn't even know Houser was still on the 25-man. -
That was really odd. It wasn't even hit hard.
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He really hasn't been good at all. Playing with fire any time you put him in a high leverage situation. Your kidding, right? Well, pretty much every high leverage situation is fireplay. That's why it's high leverage.
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Shaw needs to turn it around real quick. I used to be worried about affording him during his arby years+, but we are slowly crawling into the the category of wondering if he is worth tendering at all.
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I guess he's called out, so go with that-- but if all I saw was the review I'd call him safe.
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It would be really nice to win this game. I don't know how CC is going to get through the 8th and 9th though. I'd rather not see Claudio until maybe Cano gets up. Seems like Guerra or Jeffress should go next inning.
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I've always liked Gonzalez. Hopefully he gives us what Miley gave us last year.
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WHERE'RE THE HATERS? So quiet tonight.
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I waived Travis Shaw from one of my fantasy teams today...
Oxy replied to TURBO's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Platoon players generally aren't worthy of rostering on a fantasy ballclub but can still have tremendous value in reality. If Peraw/Sherez can put up .275/.330/.500 I'll be happy. -
It's hard to watch the aging, decrepit shell of Ryan Braun disgrace himself with a pace of 33 homers as a part time player.
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Translation: "Yes" At least he was honest. We all know it so kudos to him for acknowledging it. LOL. Did you watch the link? I assumed Pina may have lost something in translation, but for those who don't want to watch the link, CC did the typical exasperated evasion of the question, shaking his head and saying "I can't answer that, Chris Hook is doing a great job, we need to pitch better"
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If he can't even PH today it might as well be IL time. His 10 day stint would be half over already.
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There is a lot of panicking going on today/this week. The overall numbers for the pitching staff have obviously been bad, which leads to a lot of grand statements thinking that the sky is falling. The reality of the matter is that "the pitching staff" doesn't pitch tomorrow. Brandon Woodruff pitches tomorrow. It would be much worse if we were paying a staff full of veterans $100 million and they were performing like this, and all we could do was watch them and hope for improvement from those dozen guys. Instead, we've been cycling through a lot of young talented arms--all of whom have pitched poorly in a tiny sample size. In aggregate, it doesn't seem like a tiny sample size, but the aggregate pitching staff doesn't pitch tomorrow. Brandon Woodruff pitches tomorrow. And then Guerra and then Hader, who've both been outstanding (in a tiny sample size...) Chase Anderson was supposed to pitch yesterday. If he had put up 6 strong innings and they got a nice 5-2 win or something like that, the entire tenor of the "2019 Brewers' pitching staff" would be completely different. Let's wait till flag day to panic.
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I've refrained from bringing this up because of all the positive vibes from last year, but we really are in a very good position to sell this year. Chacin, Anderson, Grandal, Moose, and Thames are all obvious candidates. The MOST obvious candidate is Hader. Everybody else will give us middling prospects. Package Hader with a couple other guys and we could really get a haul. Royce Lewis, Alex Kiriloff and Brusdar Graterol sounds good to me. Selling high on bullpen arms is a sound long term strategy.
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Grandal with the weak stab again...
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Right. And most of them are young guys who teams are hoping improve and take the next step into becoming front half of the rotation starters who can go deeper into games. When they don't take that step in their first 2 years or so, they wash out (AAAA) or become long relievers/mop-up guys, and then a new batch of young guys step in that teams hope will become front half of the rotation starters...the cycle keeps repeating. However, if you stop forcing them to go 6+ innings and are happy with 2 guys who can go 3-4 innings, maybe they won't wash out. That type of pitcher doesn't traditionally have a label, so it is a pretty new idea.
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I'm not as extreme as TBBC, but it could be used as an actual strategy though--taking advantage of a market inefficiency by specifically acquiring pitchers who are good to very good 2 times through an order but horrible during the 3rd time through the order. Currently, most of those types of guys end up as AAAA type starters or long relievers/mop-up guys in the bullpen--but if you purposely acquired or groomed 4-6 of them for that type of role then they could very effectively and very cheaply cover the innings normally pitched by 2 (or maybe 2.5) spots in a 5 man rotation. Playing the match-ups might mean flip-flopping certain guys who begin the game, effectively eliminating the traditional start (rest 4 days), start (rest 4 days) routine for those type of guys.
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That's who they are, other than maybe the young guys. Chacin, Davies, Anderson and Gonzalez are finesse pitchers who need to pick the corners and get calls and/or induce soft contact. They just don't have the stuff to challenge hitters--and that's fine.
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I'd say making the traditional 4th and 5th spots in the rotation a merry-go-round is fine provided nobody seems to be stepping up their game. It looks like Davies and Chacin have their spots nailed down. Great. After that, we are still in search mode for those other starting spots, and I think it makes perfect sense to use a combination of Anderson, Woodruff, Peralta, Gonzalez, and Burnes (and perhaps Nelson later in the year if need be) for those spots. Ideally, at least one guy steps up and solidifies their spot the way that Davies has done this year. Heck, maybe 3 guys will step up and we'll have a traditional 5 man staff. If that happens, let it happen, but don't force guys to struggle through the 4th and 5th inning when you have another capable multi-inning guy in the bullpen.
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I'm with True Blue Brew Crew on this one. It's not rigid, and it's not the entire rotation, and it's not meant to supplant or eliminate pitchers who can throw 110 pitches and get through 7+ innings. Aces will still be aces--and even guys who are not aces but are cruising through the 5th, 6th and 7th innings will be allowed to do so. Using more traditional terminology, all it is doing is adding a couple more long relievers to the bullpen and having a slightly quicker hook for starting pitchers. There is a psychology that goes along with these traditional roles and terminologies that is not helpful to anybody. Definitively calling somebody a "long reliever" rather than a "starter" generally has negative connotations associated with it. There are a lot of guys in this category--who are good enough to pitch 3-5 innings very effectively but not quite good enough to consistently pitch 6-7 innings consistently. If you get 3 consistent starters who CAN consistently get to the 7th inning, great--do that. However, if you can then get 5 other guys who are more in the 3-5 inning category, then you use them that way, and you still have 5 spots left on the pitching staff for traditional 1+ inning late game relievers (or high leverage middle game relievers). It's not rigid though in that if one of your better starters has to get pulled in the 4th, so be it, and if one of your 3-5 inning guys is cruising into the 7th, let him cruise.
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Villar seemed to be bad at everything immeasurable, and outside of a very good 2016 his measurables were never good enough to make him irreplaceable.
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Who is Smith? If Who is Smith, then Smith is a first baseman. What?
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I love winning opening games of series without using Hader.
