Jump to content
Sale v. Miz in an epic clash today! Come join our game thread! ×
Brewer Fanatic

Thurston Fluff

Verified Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    5,766

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    1

 Content Type 

Profiles

Forums

Blogs

Events

News

2026 Milwaukee Brewers Top Prospects Ranking

Milwaukee Brewers Videos

2022 Milwaukee Brewers Draft Picks

Milwaukee Brewers Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2023 Milwaukee Brewers Draft Picks

2024 Milwaukee Brewers Draft Picks

The Milwaukee Brewers Players Project

2025 Milwaukee Brewers Draft Pick Tracker

2026 Milwaukee Brewers Draft Tracker: Picks & Bonuses

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by Thurston Fluff

  1. Thurston Fluff
    He hasn't been optioned yet this season so I don't think it's going to be a problem.
  2. Thurston Fluff
    Pretty sure he'd have to serve his suspension first. Given how taxed the bullpen is right now I don't think that would be advisable.
  3. Thurston Fluff
    Makes sense to bring Wiemer up given we face three lefties in a row. My guess is when we're past this run of lefties he goes back down.
  4. Thurston Fluff
    Great stuff, no command sounds more like Abner Uribe right now that Hader. He's also not on the 40 man roster right now. We have four players on the 60 day DL that will need spots if/when they come back. So is Miso so much better than the other relief options to offset losing the fifth worst player on the 40 man and hamper his development as a starter? I'd say no at this point.
  5. Thurston Fluff
    Anyone know of a good xylem scraper used to expose the plumbum inside? My old one no longer works and don't want to buy another cheap one that breaks after a few uses.
  6. Thurston Fluff
    I thought of that article when I saw the post. Mostly because I agreed with you. I guess the hasty judgement crew is at least two deep.
  7. Thurston Fluff
    I think the ones that turned it around last season are as capable of doing so again as any prospect they may have. I wasn't sold on them last season and am not this season but it's too early to write them off. The only team I think might be close to be written off is the Cardinals. They seem to be continuing their decline from last season and the stopgap moves they made in the off season were a band aid on a gunshot wound. I think that's an organization in denial right now.
  8. Thurston Fluff
    Didn't the Reds have a horrible start last season before turning it around?
  9. Thurston Fluff
    It's not about the money it's about the job and why he no longer has one. As far as it being a cut throat business yes it is but the guy who was cutting the throat said he was doing so to help people like the one who's throat he just cut. There's nothing wrong with being selfish and taking the job that best fits you. There is something wrong with saying you're doing it for others.
  10. Thurston Fluff
    I thought you said you were going to let me have the last word on this. He was fifth not seventh. That it was probably a Cubs bet writer that voted for him is pure speculation on your part. Even assuming it was. which I'm not, do beat writers often give bottom ten managers of their team manager of the year votes? Seems to me most managers would have at least one vote if that was the case. The Cubs last season were not expected to be very good. By pretty much all accounts they beat expectations. Generally speaking managers get some amount of credit when teams play above expectations so it shouldn't come as a surprise that someone thought he was doing a good job. Him being a bottom ten manager is also just your opinion. An opinion I doubt is shared by many people in baseball. Obviously they thought Counsell was better but equally obviously they didn't think any of the managers available to them at the end of the season were. They only got rid of Ross when they found out they could land Counsell. I'm not sure if you really feel that way or if it just fit your argument but I doubt you'll find many that think he was fired because he was a bottom ten manager as much as the Cubs thought they could land what they think is a top five manager.
  11. Thurston Fluff
    Yes because most bottom ten mangers are in the top five in voting for manager of the year.
  12. Thurston Fluff
    Apples and oranges. You don't normally see teams with managers out looking for the best free agent manager when they have one. Players are supposed to compete against each other. They also don't fire one player to sign another. They either trade them or they both stay. On the few occasion were the player is cut it was pretty obvious he was no longer capable of playing and had zero trade value. Even then, if he's cut loose there are literally hundreds of jobs available if he's at all worthy of a major league job. The manager free agent season isn't months long like players have. When it comes to managers there is a small window where teams fire their manager then hire a new one. By taking the job when he did Counsell prevented Ross from applying for all the other openings that got filled before he was even available. There's no way to defend Counsell's action on this other than to say he didn't give a rats behind about what would happen to Ross. Which if fine except he tried portray his actions as helping his fellow managers.
  13. Thurston Fluff
    I don't blame them for trying but his time to shine has come and he isn't doing much with it. If he allowed Black enough time in the minors to get an extra year of service time (Did he? I don't know.) it might be worth the experiment but one that needs to end sooner than later.
  14. Thurston Fluff
    The Brewers may be one of the best drafting teams in baseball. The way they manipulate the pool money to get hard to sign players that other teams don't even try to draft signed every year is well ahead of the league. Coming into the season five of the top ten MLB.com prospects were drafted by the Brewers, four were international signings and one was via trade. Go down any of the lists from any team and you'd be hard pressed to find as good a farm with as many players drafted topping the list.
  15. Thurston Fluff
    Or it could be small sample size. Given his 4.17 ERA in 69 innings (which include the 14 innings of of 1.93 ERA) and his 5.07 minor league ERA over 124.1 innings it might be possible it wasn't greed, stupidity nor incompetence. Time will tell.
  16. Thurston Fluff
    I'm kind of interested to see if/how Counsell adjusts to having a crap bullpen.
  17. Thurston Fluff
    This is not the bat you're looking for.
  18. Thurston Fluff
    I always wondered how to account for odd and even numbers being infinite yet odd and even numbers together should be double what each are alone.
  19. Thurston Fluff
    I think the 6.91 era, 1.88 WHIP, 12 walks in 14.1 innings and .288 BAA are the reasons why he was sent down. Dude just isn't one of the eight best option at this point.
  20. Thurston Fluff
    La Russa taught them how to play the game the right way.
  21. Thurston Fluff
    Is anyone else surprised the NL West only has one team above .500 while the AL Central only has one team below .500?
  22. Thurston Fluff
    I'm talking more like a week before something changes.
  23. Thurston Fluff
    For the short term it's fine but this roster construction isn't sustainable. There have to be some moves to come sooner than later. Very interested to see what he can do though.
  24. Thurston Fluff
    I think Uribe needs to be part of the yoyo train of relievers with options at the very least. Dude has not established himself enough to be given a permanent spot on the roster.
  25. Thurston Fluff
    Assuming you're talking about the one against the Mets Hoskin's slide was legal.
×
×
  • Create New...