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  1. Thurston Fluff
    Remember back in the day when there were six catchers on the 40 man roster? Those were the days.
  2. Thurston Fluff
    It reminds me a little of Lucroy's road to the majors.
  3. Thurston Fluff
    I wonder if this was the plan all along. It would explain why they didn't just use Lauer today and save the 40 man roster spot.
  4. Thurston Fluff
    Today marks the day my vaccination hits full strength. I didn't think it'd be a big deal of I would even realize it but I do feel a sense of relief.
  5. Thurston Fluff
    not necessarily. they could know sooner. the club has up to seven days to outright, trade or release the dfa'd player. sometimes, they move faster. They could trade or release him sooner but don't they have to wait until the waiver period is over to outright him? They aren't going to release him and haven't traded him yet so it appears they hope to get him through waivers and keep him. Personally I hope they can keep him in the minors until next year. That way he remains an option for the backup catcher next season. Hopefully he can get some offense to go with his defense by then.
  6. Thurston Fluff
    In other words the team won't know until the seven days are up. Thanks for the clarification on how it works though. I thought teams had the whole seven days. That was wrong.
  7. Thurston Fluff
    Which means it could take up to nine days to know if we lost him to a waiver claim. The team can take seven days to place him on waivers then two more to see if he clears it. Or am I missing something?
  8. Thurston Fluff
    Within seven days of the transaction, he can either be traded, reassigned (if he clears) or placed on irrevocable outright waivers. This transaction was announced on April 22, so I believe he is still in DFA limbo. You very well could be right, but if nobody claimed him by now and the team wanted him back in the majors, Nottingham is the one losing MLB service time and 40 man roster benefits; which given the strength of the Union leads me to think there’s likely a work around. It isn't the first team who puts a claim in gets him. Any team who wants have seven days to put a claim in then the one gets him. So we won't know if we get to keep him until after the seven days. Either way it would be silly to bring him back up only to send him down in a week or two. If we did he'd have to go through waivers again. While he's forced to accept the first assignment I think he might also be able to refuse the next assignment and become a free agent. There's nothing he can do but play in the minors now. It makes little to no sense to give him a chance to leave the organization sooner than we have to.
  9. Thurston Fluff
    Generally speaking, yes, you probably come out behind if you play the hot hand. Mostly because you would be basing that decision off of past short term results and not what you actually expect in the future. In the case of Garcia/Taylor that might not completely apply because Garcia isn't exactly a guy with a consistent track record of hitting well and we don't really know what Taylor can or cannot do. I should have made it clear I was referring to this specific instance. I agree in general it's not a great idea. Garcia is what he is. Average. Add in he's probably on his last season here and we need to know what we have in Taylor I don't think it's a bad idea to get him more ab's right now. I'm not suggesting a bench role for Garcia as much as I'm suggesting he's the fourth man in the rotation for a while.
  10. Thurston Fluff
    What does it hurt to play the hot hand for a while?
  11. Thurston Fluff
    When we get to June lets talk about it. It's way too early now. All hitters go through cold streaks. The team is doing fine and he's our best option for at least another month or so.
  12. Thurston Fluff
    He's a streaky hitter. You got to take the bad with the good with those guys. He's been playing pretty good defense from what I hear and we have little else to take over so why not let him work through this? If he totally collapses like he did in the past then make a move. But we won't know that for at least a month or so. By then we might have a better idea of who to replace him with too.
  13. Thurston Fluff
    Why would a team trade someone like Yelich with three years left on a very team friendly contract? It would be like Trading Woodruff or Burnes this offseason. I supported the idea of trading Yelich with one year left but not three.
  14. Thurston Fluff
    They have three healthy outfielders today. Why read more into it than that?
  15. Thurston Fluff
    With Garcia having back stiffness it makes sense to have Ray up for a couple days.
  16. Thurston Fluff
    It does give cover for businesses and people who want to do the right thing. Nobody complains too much if you just say your following CDC guidelines. Well nobody is an overstatement. There are buttheads but there is little anyone can do about them. It's also something one can go to for accurate up to date advice. They also have a lot of good advice on how to safely reopen and signs you can copy for your business. Basically it's a good tool to have at your disposal. But you're right it's not legally binding.
  17. Thurston Fluff
    Makes me wonder if part of the call to nontender was they felt there were some red flags about his mechanics, body type or whatever that made them believe he had a higher injury risk than they were comfortable with. Pure speculation on my part. Either way it sucks for him.
  18. Thurston Fluff
    I was reading somewhere that people who had covid generally had more problems after getting vaccinated. Makes me wonder if some who have bad side effects might have had asymptomatic covid and not known it. Either way, like someone previously said, if the symptoms some are having is any indication of what actual covid feels like bite the bullet and get the shot.
  19. Thurston Fluff
    That's a good point. A starting pitcher might draw in more people than a batter. I'm not going to pay that much to see a guy get four ab's no matter how great he is. I will pay to see a great pitcher pitch six or seven innings.
  20. Thurston Fluff
    This is some sort of backwards logic. Nobody is really driving 3+ hours to Milwaukee and shelling out $150 bucks primarily to drink beer and grill in a parking lot. Unfortunately that information probably isn't tracked but I'd be willing to bet the majority of folks tailgating at a Brewers game are from the Milwaukee metro area. Ditto with the roof, maybe in 2002 it was a novelty. But with the ease of buying tickets on line today, if you check the weather before you buy you can almost certainly avoid a rain out..... unless of course you're travelling because you want to see a specific team or player. It is a cool experience going to see a professional baseball game, which probably drives most out of towners to see a Brewers game each summer. But it is also true star players= more winning=greater revenue. I was at the game yesterday and saw multiple jerseys and t-shirts of Braun, Yelich, Hader, Hiura and even a Gomez. Star sells stuff that the Keith Ginters and Allen Levraults of the world cannot. You don't get top 10 attendance figures in the smallest market without being a statewide team. I'm from the outside. Speaking for myself, Id rather go to a game that we had a good chance of winning than seeing one guy play with little chance of winning.
  21. Thurston Fluff
    I'm talking about what we have now and when to move on. Hader, Burnes, Woodruff and Yelich are players we can either trade near the end of their years of team control, sign to an extension or simply let them leave via free agency. I think having a good team is going to attract more fans than watching one or two individual players. Having both is obviously best. The trick is to maintain a competitive team first. Then try to keep some of the fan favorites if it makes sense from both a fiscal and competitive sense. I'm just not sure both are possible.
  22. Thurston Fluff
    I'm one of those who thinks we should avoid long term contracts and favor trading star players to restock the farm on a regular basis like the Rays do. That said I do recognize there is a difference between the Brewers and the Rays. The fans. We have a lot of them the Rays don't. It's easier to trade players when they don't draw fans to the stadium no matter how great they are. I just happen to think having a good team year in and year out creates more fan interest than a few great players on average at best teams. If the Brewers can continue to field competitive teams with contracts like Yelich it would be the best of both worlds.
  23. Thurston Fluff
    It's going to be very confusing having Thomas Dillard and Tim Lopes playing in our system.
  24. Thurston Fluff
    Someone should remind him the Cubs hit the exact same number of Brewers this season as got hit by Brewers this season.
  25. Thurston Fluff
    I guess Warning Track Power beat me to it.
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