Thurston Fluff
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In the end only one team doesn't end with disappointment. Getting the "can't win in the post season" monkey off our backs will help get me get past the sting of the Dodgers series. It doesn't hurt knowing we had the youngest team to make the playoffs and have one of the top farm systems in all of baseball to draw from. Other team's players are getting older. Ours are just getting closer to their prime.
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There is no scenario where you have a cap without a floor and revenue sharing. Which makes big teams hoarding money unlikely. It also would not allow for teams to just keep a player just because. it does the opposite of that. Something I don't ever here mentioned is what equalizing salaries does to the product. As it stands teams like the Dodgers don't have to be particularly good at player development or finding hidden talent others overlook. They just buy the best money can buy and be done with it. The Brewers have to improve every aspect of their system to compete. That means they find and develop talent other teams can't. Even the playing field forces all teams to improve their player development. doing that improves the entire league's talent.
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IIRC there's a mutual option with Woody for $20 million with a $10 million buyout. I could see a scenario where Woody decides to take his end. He's coming off shoulder surgery and ended the season injured. He might get a better deal somewhere else but he probably get a much better deal by staying healthy and productive for a full year. There would be no better place to do a prove you're healthy as still productive season that than here. If he does the Brewers would be stupid not to take him back. It would only be a $10 million risk.
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At some point a rested Anderson is better than Uribe pitching three games in a row and going more than one inning in some of them. I felt the last two appearances from Abner crossed that line.
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The Cubs won three elimination games this post season. Two against the best team in baseball. I don't see any reason we can't win four given we're a better team than they are. Especially considering we don't have win any against the best team in baseball.
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We're still on route 11. We just stopped for gas.
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11's gonna happen. Don't know the route we're going to take but all roads lead to 11.
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That's one of the things I heard repeated multiple times and never understood why. How they all could just ignore the Brewers performed against all those more talented teams in entire season is beyond me.
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Murphy was right about EVERYTHING
Thurston Fluff replied to edfunderburk's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I might be giving him too much credit for this but I think essentially going with a bullpen day was in part because he wanted to keep Priester for Wrigley. The best option against a homer hitting team in an environment that can be homer friendly is a ground ball pitcher. -
Putting up the numbers Raleigh is at the position he plays should count for something. The workload of a catcher takes so much great a toll on the body than someone who plays any other position. That plus the extra mental preparation it takes to know all the hitters and pitchers makes it much harder to put up the numbers on offense he has.
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Assuming it's not roster management "injury" I hope it's a dead arm thing vs some type of discomfort in the shoulder or elbow. Given how long he was off I could see the former. If so a break until the playoffs wouldn't be the worst thing.
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Yea, not many fans wearing a we're number two t-shirt out there.
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The NL central not only have the best team in the NL, it's worst team has a better record than the worst team in the NL East and West. While the West has more teams above .500, it's best record would only be good for third in the central. By pretty much any measure the central is the best division top to bottom in the national league. Considering where it was predicted to be to start the season it's been a pretty amazing run top to bottom.
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Trade deadline day thread
Thurston Fluff replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Not to nitpick too much but we did get a high leverage reliever. He just happened to get injured. Thankfully it happened after he helped us get through a tough stretch. -
Peralta’s Realistic CY Young Opportunity
Thurston Fluff replied to rickh150's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Isn't what the individual does to help win a playoff spot part of the individual's accomplishments? If all you have to do is focus on your numbers and winning the game, eating innings, ending a losing streak or whatever is necessary to help your team win are not, you approach the game differently. So does your manager with regard of how he uses you. It should not be all that matters but neither should pure analytics. Zach Greinke once said he pitched to the analytics because that was what he thought would get the best results. He later said that was a mistake because it changed the way he pitched to produce results other than what was needed to win the game. All that said, Skenes is an incredible pitcher having a great season and I think he deserving of front runner status as of today. -
Would we have been better off trading actual prospects for Ryan Helsley? Sometimes it pays off sometimes it doesn't. The reasons may vary but the results are what matter. The fact is the Brewers did trade for a legitimate high leverage reliever for essentially no prospects in a sellers market and got a months worth of relief help during a stretch it was needed. That is not nothing.
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How was Shelby Miller anything other than adding bullpen depth at the deadline? He's a better baserunner, defender and has shown the ability to pinch hit and produce as well with sporadic playing time as he does with regular ab's (limited as that may be.) Also the alternatives are to option Vaughn or DFA Bauers allowing another contender to pick him up. Bauers may not be one of our best bench player options but he could be a competitors.
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The the world of Major league baseball it can.
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I believe you can call up someone earlier after the minor league season ends.
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I think you meant career instead of year.
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I don't know if it's volatility or lack of objective metrics. Not sure if objective is the right word but it's easier to know what the value of getting on base is to offense than having a strong throwing arm is to defense. Is consistenly being able to make routine pays more valuable than being able to make great plays or vice versa? Things like that need to be figured out. Maybe lack of refined value of metrics is a better way of putting it. Like you said, we still haven't pegged the overall value of defense let alone the value of each defensive metric. Which is why I don't put a lot of weight into WAR. Offensive WAR, yes. Overall WAR, not so much.
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I applaud the effort analytics put into defense these days but I think advancement wise, they're at the blood letting to cure a fever stage. While it's necessary to go through the stage it is far from being as useful as offensive metrics are. As far as Ortiz v Mona goes, Mona is perfectly fine at short but Ortiz is exceptional. With his combination of offense and defense Mona could man short or second as a starter on a lot of teams. He just happens to play on one that he can't.
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You saying so doesn't make cutting a sentence in half to imply someone said something they didn't say any more valid.
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It's one thing to be optimistic but that borders on myopic. The way the schedule is set up there are bound to be two or three losses in along the way.
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Here is the part you quoted to justify your argument. Now here is the entire sentence Those are far from the same. It's never good form to cut a quote in the middle of a sentence. Much worse to do so to make it appear to say something it never said.
