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  1. Playing Catch
    I miss the days when I could get excited about recruits and dream on what they could become. I know we're all feeling the same thing, but you just don't know what the 2024/25 roster will look like until November, let alone what subsequent rosters will look like.
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    I think that I know baseball pretty well. Then I come to this thread and feel so stupid. My memory stinks. You all are amazing. I'll cheat sometimes when I know the player but can't think of his name. Or often with the team-team parts, I'll look up old rosters to remind myself who played on those teams.
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    Is Hoskins hobbled at all? I think it's curious that he's not at first with Contreras DHing. I'm all for Contreras sitting out a couple of games, but I'd prefer it wasn't against the best left-hander in baseball.
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    I keep coming to this same sort of thinking with a lot of the positions, or possible trades. The lineup could look MUCH different in a month... Chourio could get hot, and get Mitchell back, maybe Black comes up. All of these things could really change the offensive outlook. And with the pitching, I mean... They keep churning out quality innings. With the days off during a playoff series, a team can really rely on their bullpen. Do we really want them to give up these good prospects for "average" big league production?
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    Same here. Thanks everyone!
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    I'd bet Sanchez catches today, though.
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    I wanted to start a "Blake Perkins Appreciation Thread," but (A), I wasn't sure that was a big enough topic on its own to merit a thread, and (B), I was worried it would jinx him. I was going to find some thread to highlight his contributions, but realized there are so many pleasant surprises on this team so far. I saw someone in the IGT thought he was closing in on "favorite player," territory. Are there any other favorite storylines so far? Perkins, BTW, has already racked up 1.5 fWAR on the season. He just makes so many winning baseball plays, as do many of the other guys. Up and down the lineup, Ortiz, Yelich, Contreras, the Turangutan. They've all been great. And I haven't even mentioned the pitching.
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    Really, the division is shaping up as most of the pre-season projections projected, other than the Brewers, being on a 96-win pace before any trades, and with a patchwork rotation. What is the Brewers secret??
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    How awesome is it that it's June and we're debating the competency of the Brewers offense, and comparing it to the "other" top offenses in MLB?
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    We've all been there... well, all of us except for torts.
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    This is a great point. Coming into the season, that's exactly what I was thinking. Play all the kids and see what you've got. At the same time, that mentality is perhaps taking playoff-caliber teams for granted. There's no guarantee that the rest of the division won't improve significantly in coming seasons, and all the Brewers are left with is the apple's core.
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    I think that so much of my concern about not just Robert, but Crochet and Fedde, too, is the Sox-stink that comes with the idea of getting them. I think if they played for just about any other team, I'd think they were better players. Especially with the injury-risk. It's why I always hated the idea of getting Eloy Jimenez. If I hold my nose and consider Robert again, I can't help but think that the Brewers ABSOLUTELY should try to get him. Although, his salary is not nothing for the Brewers' front office to deal with.
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    This is where I'm at. Next year's rotation has just as many question marks.
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    Did Fedde reinvent himself in Korea? If so, perhaps I've been discounting his ability. He's not "cheap," making $7.5M this year and next. Perhaps that impacts what the Sox could get for him? Crochet makes me really nervous. I feel better about the Marlins guys.
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    I totally understand the recency bias, here, but is Fedde such an upgrade over Myers (considering team control), that we'd just give him up for Fedde? Seems like robbing Peter to pay Paul considering Myers is a rotation contributor.
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    Even though the broadcasts keep talking about the meaningless record, I'm skeptical that the record has any bearing on the decision to play him. I wonder if he's catching so much because of his "soft" skills behind the plate. I suspect that he is such a student of the scouting reports that the team relies on him to get the most out of every pitcher. If that hypothesis is real, I sure hope Sanchez can pick up some of those habits, because I agree that it isn't a good idea for him to be catching so often. With that said, he started the season on an MVP pace. Did we really expect that to continue all season? Maybe what we perceive as him being fatigued is merely his regressing to the mean.
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    We've been talking all season about how deep the organization is at RP, but somehow, (even with his good stats), Meeker was never on my radar.
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    He's certainly earned another start.
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    I wonder if his front office wasn't worried about defense per se, but rather tried to answer the question, "what is this roster's path to victory?" And made decisions that support that perceived path. Perhaps he felt the Mets were already poor defensively (I dont even know that they are, but I think they are bad defensively), so they may as well try to score as many runs as possible, as a moderate upgrade at 1B wasn't going to do much to improve the defense.
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    OOOOHHH, Di Turi Time!
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    I respectfully disagree. I think Luzardo is really solid. Not spectacular, perhaps, but he's been healthy (the last few years), and his rates have been really consistent the last 2 seasons.
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    One thing that could prove beneficial is that over the last few trade cycles, it seems like teams are treating their prospects with a little more "respect," for lack of a better word. It's been harder for teams to get trading partners to give up their tippy-top prospects. So just like the O's didn't part with their tippy-top guys, perhaps the Brewers can still get a pretty good starting option w/o having to give up Misiorowski, Quero, Black or Wilken. Maybe Boeve and Lara with say, Logan Henderson and Bitoni would be enough to entice the Marlins to give up Luzardo. edit to add: aha! It looks like Bleacher Report and I think similarly --- which is disappointing.
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    This is my guess. I think the Brewers simply are in this situation more often than most teams. Any "counting" stat will get swayed by other factors. Now, for all I know, they have the highest percentage in the league of getting thrown out in that situation, but as others have said, even THAT doesn't necessarily mean that the decision was wrong. The decision simply didn't work out. This happens all the time in baseball. That's kind of how I look at this series. If Perkins catches either of those deep drives, if Alec Bohm would've made ONE error, as is his statistical probability based on his terrible defense. If the umps call interference on Stubbs' foot... EVERYTHING went the way of the Phillies this series, including the health of the starting staffs. This is a credit to them, more than indicative of the Brewers. The Phillies look excellent.
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    Fair point. My posting in the IGT, vaguely calling out posters for their irrational takes in the moment is a bit childish, and ridiculous. I apologize for anyone that may have been insulted.
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    In recent years, it seems like there are a handful of instances where these things end up not being TJ-worthy, so I don't know that this is 100% TJ (granted, I cant cite any examples). I'd put it at about 78% chance TJ is required. I mean, as someone else mentioned, Gasser himself, this season, had elbow issues that didn't require a Tommy John surgery.
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