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Everything posted by 3and2Fastball
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This Brewers team is fun to watch. Maddening at times with dumb mistakes but talented, athletic and enthusiastic. When your favorite team is going through a rebuild, at least having them be entertaining is a big plus to me.
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How bout them Brewers!!!! We ain't scared of no World Champs!
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Yes indeed there is a lot to like about Jesus
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Aguillar looks good! I believe in Jesus
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Ugly at bat by Santana. Meanwhile Ryan Cordell went 2 for 4 with a HR. Just sayin'.....
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Relative to Bryant's first at bat, I watched an interesting hitting video recently stating that he swings up too much, too often and that will lead to too many fly balls and pop ups. They were saying he'd be even better if he swung slightly up matching the plane of the pitch. Anyways, thought it was interesting and it was on display in the last at-bat of his
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Nope, probably not, maybe... Would have been close
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Here we go Brewers! Let's do this!
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There are going to be personality clashes and differences in any organization. JJ Hardy didn't feel he was treated with respect by Melvin. I'm sure there were others. Melvin also hired a manager in Ken Macha who nobody would describe as a player's manager, either, and that is putting it nicely.
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I love seeing Shaw's numbers vs LHP's. The Red Sox gave up on him being an every day player and it would be awesome to see him prove them wrong
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Jungmann was picked ahead of Sonny Gray, Jose Fernandez, Michael Fulmer, Joe Panik, and Trevor Story. I know, I know, the draft is not an exact science Good to see Villar playing well today
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What do you base such a claim on? Scooter Gennett would be a total joke at 3B on his noodle arm alone. Add in his range and we might as well sign Bartolo Colon to roam CF. An .881 Fielding Percentage at 3B for Mr Villar
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I'm pretty sure this post contains every baseball cliché known to man. I forgot "he's a gamer, he's a grinder, he's a hard worker." Never claimed to be Hemingway!
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I will say that we don't know for sure if Broxton and Santana have minor injuries. Bench players need reps too. Maybe not in Game #3 but starting out the season with 7 straight games and no days off, it makes sense.
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Franklin? I have. He is solid. He is a pro, he'll do all the little things correctly that drive some of us crazy when MLB players don't. He doesn't have a cannon for an arm at SS but he can play the position. I like him better as a 2B/LF but he can play short. He is the kind of player that it easy for me to root for, in some ways similar to Scooter. He doesn't have elite athleticism but he is legit. He is bigger/stronger than Scooter.
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Franklin out-hit Scooter last year? I guess if you buy in to the 192 At Bats small sample. I would say Scooter is just as good at 3B as Villar so for double switches he is capable. So far I'd say Scooter is better than Villar defensively at 2B. We'll see, Villar has potential. I'm good with the Franklin pickup though. He is the kind of player you take a flyer on. Like Travis Shaw, or Will Middlebrooks, or Broxton, or Villar, or Sogard. Sometimes those guys work out, sometimes they don't
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That and Greinke being the 103 ERA+ 3.83 ERA pitcher he was as opposed to the Cy Young pitcher we thought we were getting. Considering that Yuni B added negative value to the trade (I'm not talking about WAR I'm talking about a player who hurt the team more than he helped) the Brewers would have been better off keeping Escobar, Cain, Odorizzi etc and not made that trade. Of course people will say that the Brewers wouldn't have made the playoffs without Greinke. That is just bizarre. I wonder if they understand what a 103 ERA+ means?! Of course hindsight is 20/20. Greinke gave up 12 Earned Runs in 16 postseason innings. We gave up the future for garbage production and had a historically bad defensive SS thrown in! Escobar & Cain were/are plus defenders. You need players like that up the middle.
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Say what? Part of the reason that team didn't get past the NLCS was because they were godawful on defense, especially Yuni B! The best team in history was 1982 anyways A significant amount of World Series winners in recent years (Giants, Cardinals, Cubs, Red Sox) had excellent pitching and at least above average defense.
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I just wish Yadiel Rivera could hit a little more, now that guy is someone who can really play some defense! It will be interesting watching the Brewers roster evolve over the next several years. I'm convinced Dubon can hit .300 and be a great defensive SS in MLB eventually. Isan Diaz can really hit but can he play 2B or is he more of a 3B moving forwards? Franklin is a former highly rated prospect who is still relatively young. He was the Mariners star of the future until they signed Cano. Perhaps he can turn it around now. The lefty bat is valuable obviously.
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This isn't as much about Franklin as it is about the evolving Brewers method of operations: Versatile athletic players have value but only if they are great defensively. Orlando Arcia would be a plus glove at 7 positions. Broxton would be an elite defensive LF/RF. Not to pile on the Villar bashing, but just because he can play a ton of positions doesn't make him as valuable of an asset when he is only a plus glove at LF I personally would like to see plus plus defensive players up the middle. I think the Brewers are starting to build towards that. I certainly hope so. Pitching & Defense wins championships. Cramming defensive liabilities into key defensive spots just because they are a plus bat and athletic? Not so much
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Worth taking a shot on. Exactly the type of player you pick up to see if he can take the next step. He is certainly more defensively versatile than Scooter but so far has never been as good with the bat. He is younger than Eric Sogard and perhaps a better hitter but shouldn't be expected to bring a lot more to the table than Sogard would have this year. Sogard is better on defense. This is giving a player a chance
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Shaw is a lefty bat with plenty of potential. He is exactly the type of player to acquire in a rebuilding year. Of all the things to complain about, people are ripping on Shaw? Wow Erceg is a few years away at least. Is there some other 3B prospect I am unaware of?
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Suter looked good tonight. Hopefully he will earn a permanent spot in the bullpen moving forwards
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I think Arcia has looked fantastic defensively. I do have to laugh at myself for predicting this team will win 84 games. No chance
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2017 Starting Pitching Rotation
3and2Fastball replied to CheezWizHed's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Kind of doubt Milone will effectively get into the 5th or 6th inning unscathed so Suter will need to piggyback. No doubt Garza will be the starter once off of the DL