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  1. Thurston Fluff
    Isn't that Joey Wiemer?
  2. Thurston Fluff
    I think the Brewers magic power is finding ways to make the assets a player has valuable as much or more thanthe ability to find undervalued assets.
  3. Thurston Fluff
    The Brewers tend to sign two types of free agents. Guys recovering from an injury or once promising prospects who haven't put it all together for what ever reason. Why wouldn't they just keep the one they have who fits what they look for anyway?
  4. Thurston Fluff
    I have a feeling there will be a similar meltdown as his dad had on the way out.
  5. Thurston Fluff
    I think they'd switch the bullpen duty at some point before sending him down if innings is the concern. They've done that in the past with Woody and Burnes so it seems like something they'd try again. I get the idea of sending him down if he was not quite ready but it appears they think he is given they're making room for him in a crowded starting rotation and a 40 man spot.
  6. Thurston Fluff
    I think there's a difference between using the stats that support your belief and using all available ones to determine what to believe.
  7. Thurston Fluff
    I think that shows the limitations of FIP and fWAR more than ti does the lack of Preister's performance. FIP especially gets overused as a predictor of true talent. It's a tool to use in tandem with other tools to assess talent but often is used as a definition of it.
  8. Thurston Fluff
    Does anyone know what his projected innings limit is? I only ask because I'd rather see him stay up now that he's coming up. If he's able to go five innings over the season I'm good with it. If not he'd either be in the pen or back down. That I'm less enthused about.
  9. Thurston Fluff
    I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks our chances of making the playoffs are by winning the division. That seemed to be the standard belief earlier in the season and I never understood why. The argument seemed to be we are in the weakest division so only one team could make it. Yet the weakness was because none of the other teams were capable of winning 90+ games. Now that it appears there are, there is no reason two teams from the central can't make it.
  10. Thurston Fluff
    It's still early. I firmly believe they have a two game winning streak in them before the season ends.
  11. Thurston Fluff
    I think there are a few who can be close to league average overall. KeBryan Hayes and Maikel Garcia are good defenders with less than average offense. Eugenio Suárez is old but has been decent the last couple seasons and isn't bad now. Ernie Clement does a little of everything without doing much of anything great which is textbook average. None of them are eye popping but neither is half a season of Civale or Quintana. All of that is moot if Durbin can hold his own but my main point is not all the trades have to be for strictly the future. A stop gap for a spare part may help now and help bridge the gap until
  12. Thurston Fluff
    Instead of trading spare parts for the future maybe we can trade some for better fits now. A league average third baseman for a league average starting pitchers seems doable. If he has another season of control it would be perfect. We'll still have a need for next season as some of our infielders will be on the cusp by maybe not quite ready yet.
  13. Thurston Fluff
    I think the bullpen is managed like it has reinforcements on the way. Murph is overworking some because he knows they won't be needed later in the season. At least I hope that's why he's using them a few of them so much now.
  14. Thurston Fluff
    Is it better to waste a year of service time in a season where the odds of making a post season run is diminishing and his innings will be limited? I don't want to waste any of his service time learning on the job in an innings limited role.
  15. Thurston Fluff
    I would much rather see his elbow explode in Nashville in mid-august than it do so in Milwaukee. Wasting a full year of service time rehabbing is never ideal but even worse in a year were we're struggling to be .500.
  16. Thurston Fluff
    He's probably on an inning limit for the season. If the plan is to have him in the majors to finish the season maybe they just wanted to limit keep his early season innings. It would make sense to limit his innings now if they're sellers at the trade deadline.
  17. Thurston Fluff
    While none of us know enough about the problems with the Braun testing it was enough of an issue for an arbitrator to rule in his favor. I'm glad he appealed it so they were forced to clear up those issues but also glad he didn't get away with it in the end.
  18. Thurston Fluff
    I know that's what Detroit did but I know it was done. For us I can see how replacing Civale with Miz could be an upgrade. We haven't had Woody or Perez so it's hard to think we'd regress with still not having them. Henderson and Quintana is a push. The biggest loss without an obvious replacement would be Hoskins. Even then we have Black and Martinez along with Bauers. Add Hall, Ashby and Joho we could see improvements in the overall pitching even without three veteran starters. The other part is expecting some players to start hitting like they should and possibly getting a possible piece or two that might help in said trades. We wouldn't need an average starter to improve third base production for example.
  19. Thurston Fluff
    I guess since this is the optimism thread it's ok to be myopic so here it is. It's possible we could trade several or all of our veterans on the final year of their contract and still be compete for a playoff spot.
  20. Thurston Fluff
    I think there are a couple things keeping him down right now. While he's started to show more control lately it has been a recent thing. Lets see if he can continue to do so. He's also not on the 40 man roster and there are other legitimate options who are. It took a while for Gasser to get he call even though he was more than ready when the time came so this isn't unprecedented.
  21. Thurston Fluff
    We had two highly memorable seasons that ended with a playoff appearance in his 13 years as GM. Granted the first several years he was rebuilding the entire organization top to bottom but that still left about ten years with two playoff appearances. I'm not trying to disparage Melvin. I thought he was a good GM and left us if far better position than he inherited. The problem was the all in strategy. It left us with fewer playoff appearances, depleted our farm making the next shot further away and got us the same number of championships.
  22. Thurston Fluff
    I'm not so sure that's true. I don't think he's the best option as our starting third baseman of the future but he's sufficient as a stopgap and should be more than useful as a utility infielder long term. He's more like Blake Perkins than he is Monasterio IMHO. You may think a one year starter and utility infielder is too light a return for Williams but that assumes there was someone offering more. I'm not so sure that's the case. He was a one year rental coming off an injury that cost him half the season.
  23. Thurston Fluff
    If ever there was a season to be sellers this is the one I'd choose. We have a lot of players on expiring contracts that other teams may be interested in. Adding a few young players to the group of up and coming players already in the system would keep the competitive window open for quite some time. We could have three or four starting pitchers, maybe five if Cortez comes back soon enough, to trade along with Hoskins. While most of them won't bring back up and coming stars they should get us capable players and a few lottery tickets to boot. If Woodruff comes back strong he and Peralta could bring back legit major league talent.
  24. Thurston Fluff
    I have no idea how you can say a major league ready player with six years of control is the throw in when only other player coming to us had a year of control and a balky elbow. Trading a guy because he was down to his last year of control for mainly another guy down to his last year of control makes no sense. If you thought Cortez was the main piece coming back it explains why you thought it was such a bad deal.
  25. Thurston Fluff
    I think he's been criticized for not protecting Smith quite a bit. I don't think the return on Williams was all that light given he was a rental. The only light thing about it was they only got one young player but getting a major league ready player at a position of need is not exactly light. Usually the players coming back are a year or more away. One could argue he should have been traded a year earlier but there wasn't a known replacement for him at that point. It wasn't like we all knew Megill was going to be as good as he is. He wasn't even the first in line to replace Williams when he was hurt. Arnold was also trying to win last season so trading an ace starter and reliever would have made that harder to do. As far as assembling a competitive team this season goes it hasn't worked out so far. I think most of us realize the injuries have player a major role in that. It's hard to put together enough depth to overcome the number of injuries we've had on a shoestring budget. If we miss the playoffs this year it will be disappointing but it won't be a sign that we're doomed to a long rebuild. The next generation is close. In other words, he's still on pace to field playoff caliber teams on a regular basis. When he no longer does that, it will be time to start the criticism.
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