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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Thurston Fluff
    They start by dumping the Gatorade on people and work their way up the the book keeping.
  16. 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.
  17. Thurston Fluff
    It's more like a lottery ticket you found and didn't have to pay for.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. Thurston Fluff
    Looks like Civale had a setback. https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/brewers-aaron-civale-suffers-setback/
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. Thurston Fluff
    I agree. Lets get back to what this tread is supposed to be about.
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