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  1. 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.
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    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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Thurston Fluff
    Amen. While most people tend to grade a trade I try to figure out the reasoning behind it. If I can see the logic behind it I'm not as fussed about winning the trade. If all I could see is a panic move behind this I'd be worried. Getting a potential starter for years to come while also plugging an immediate hole doesn't look like panic to me. Trading all those assets on a midlevel veteran rental who had to remain on the active roster the whole season would have been more of a panic move to me. Time will tell if it pans out but the same can be said of all trades.
  8. Thurston Fluff
    While it isn't pretty now, it's a bit early to say this is who he's going to be going forward. I'm also not so sure it's due to the spotlight in NY. Elite closers struggle, get demoted and work their way back up on a fairly regular basis. I don't think Hader got demoted but he struggled for stretches when he could have been. He turn it around and looks Harder like. Taylor Rogers was horrible here and has and ERA+ over 100 ever since. Including 161 last season and is at 223 so far this season. Sometimes they become dominant again sometimes they don't get back to elite but are still effective. Even if he never returns to the best of the best it doesn't mean he won't be an effective high level reliever ever again.
  9. Thurston Fluff
    They start by dumping the Gatorade on people and work their way up the the book keeping.
  10. Thurston Fluff
    It appears you're conflating comparisons of him to his past and others. If his average metrics match 2022 but his rankings vs other players goes down it's not a comparison of his productivity now vs his past. It's a measure of his productivity compared to others. If he's hitting the ball as hard as he was in 2022, getting the same launch angles and so on then it's reasonable to expect similar results as 2022 even if he's not in the same percentile vs others.
  11. Thurston Fluff
    It's more like a lottery ticket you found and didn't have to pay for.
  12. Thurston Fluff
    If Durbin can hit but can't play a decent third base I wouldn't be surprised or upset if Turang ended up at short later this season.
  13. Thurston Fluff
    Not to take this too far off topic but I often wondered if the home road splits are less a sign of not being able to hit outside of Denver and more not being able to adjust to the different way the ball moves away from Coors field. If some batters played mostly away from Coors instead of 1/2 their games there maybe their hitting would improve outside of Coors.
  14. Thurston Fluff
    It's nice he'll get his feet wet but not have enough to waste a year of service time. Hope I didn't jinx it and he blows out his elbow while in the majors.
  15. Thurston Fluff
    Looks like Civale had a setback. https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/brewers-aaron-civale-suffers-setback/
  16. Thurston Fluff
    Bad April fools joke. I put it in the wrong thread by mistake. I posted on our work facebook page to join us to watch it and someone called asking where we were meeting. I told them we're going to be at the bar next door and will go out to the parking lot to watch it. I assumed they were also joking. Nobody called the next day asking where we were so I think I assumed correctly.
  17. Thurston Fluff
    That's what I was thinking. It also allows us to trade one or more of the guys we'll be losing if things go the right way. In the chips fall right, some of our veteran starters on the last year of a contract get traded at the trade deadline. If they don't, then we have what we'd have had before this trade. I'm glad we don't have to go with Mizz now. While he's a decent prospect his walk rate is still a concern. It's best to let him work it out before his major league clock starts ticking. I want his best years in the majors. It seems like waste to use one of those years because we need him even despite him not being fully ready.
  18. Thurston Fluff
    A few months is far different than a few days. If every player who hadn't earned the right was booted for a slow start half the league would be gone before they earned said right.
  19. Thurston Fluff
    I agree. Lets get back to what this tread is supposed to be about.
  20. Thurston Fluff
    If anyone's brave enough deal with the whether tonight a rare lunar eclipse is taking place. Mercury's orbit puts it between the Earth and moon. This only even happens 3000 thousand years or so.
  21. Thurston Fluff
    I have a different idea that's equally out of the box. Subsidized contracts. The basic idea would be teams pay a certain portion of the contracts and an MLB pool funds the rest based on the local TV revenue. For example if the Brewers offered a free agent a contract at $40 million per season and their local revenue is 60% less than the Dodgers only 30% of the money would be paid by the Brewers. The rest would come from an MLB fund every team pays into according to their local tv contracts. Obviously the specific would need to be worked out so a team like the Brewers don't use up the entire pool signing someone but the basic idea would allow more teams to compete for high end free agents, the money would go to the players and the playing field would be evened out without a salary cap or floor.
  22. Thurston Fluff
    Hamate injuries seem to be the type that lingers even when they player is capable of playing. Given he was the odd man out, he wasn't on the major league roster and won't be using valuable service time to rehab the timing is about as good as possible for this type of injury. Let him heal, let him take time to get fully back to normal and get him ready to take a more significant role next season.
  23. Thurston Fluff
    Is it the type of collusion that's illegal though? Colluding against players is illegal but I don't think colluding against an organization is. I could see a scenario where the Dodgers have to essentially give some players away because teams know they'll have to cut them anyway.
  24. Thurston Fluff
    Pretty sure the umpire doesn't see it at that angle. Is there a reason it's a different color? That could make it weird to see.
  25. Thurston Fluff
    I have a feeling the bird flu hitting birds that can't fly is some sort of cosmic joke.
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