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  1. Playing Catch
    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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    Contreras, Yelich, and Adames go 0-12, Meanwhile, Perkins, and Bauers go 3-5 with a BB. Wilson gives up 3 to the Phillies through 5.2 IP. But somehow, this loss was all on Wilson, Bauers', and the FO refusal to start Chourio against Cy Wheeler.
  17. Playing Catch
    One of you needs to consider a different name.
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    In the other thread I said only Misiorowski and Quero, but no one else. I still like that offer. There's so much development risk with Misiorowski, that the 2.5 seasons of Luzardo would make up for it. Quero, too, has a lot of risk that I'd be okay with selling. If it's Black instead of Quero, that would be awesome, as I'm worried he's a LF-only. I don't want to give up Wilken. I think he has a higher floor than Mis, Quero, and Black.
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    In a way, Chourio has less pressure in MLB batting ninth, and getting to watch a couple days a week than he would playing in AAA. I mean, if he starts struggling down there, that would not be good. Every player is different. I'm sure Willy and Willy have a good sense as to how Chourio is handling things, and I'm guessing Murphy has a good pulse on that stuff, too. As long as the team is winning, having Chourio as the 4th OFer is kind of a nice way to enter the big leagues w/o tons of pressure to perform.
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    That's a reasonable position. Do you feel like the closer position is really important? Do you feel like Hader's current deal is a good way for a franchise to spend their available budget? Did you just really like Hader, the fan-favorite?
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    Dude's just starting his MLB career, and posters want to cut him off at the knees. There's too many examples to bother citing that started their careers slowly, and out of the bullpen. Just let the kid breathe.
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    On the broader topic of MLB splitting their streaming rights all over the place --- I agree with Ghostbear. Now obviously, smarter people than me made the decision, but it's really hard for me to believe that doing this is better for their product. Is the idea that because some dude in Mississippi has AppleTV+ he's going to choose to tune in and watch a random baseball game every Friday, and MLB is trying to expand it's audience? That's hard for me to believe. Instead, this feels like a short-term money grab by MLB. Apple gives them a bunch of money in the hopes of gaining more subscribers. Sports franchises have been abusing their golden gooses (fans) for a long time because they have us addicted. I guess it's our own fault for going back for more. Instead of Golden Eggs, we're making them Golden fois gras.
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    I think there are two parts of the debate... One, if it is a good idea to disrupt a playoff run by trading an important piece for future assets, and two, whether or not posters value the closer position. I think many people that disliked the trade, or felt like it was a bad idea at the time, believe that closers are instrumental to successful teams, and others that believe that closers and saves are similar to RBI, and is really just a matter of circumstance. I don't think the closer position is that important. I think that the reason that great teams often have really good closers is simply because they have really good bullpens, and often the best guy in the bullpen pitches at the end of games and racks up a lot of saves. With that said, the trade made me pretty nervous at the time. Precisely because of what rick150 points out above. And not just the affect of irritating the other players, but by irritating the fanbase. What is easy to forget as time moves on, though, is that Hader's bad spell prior to the trade was REALLY bad. I'm sure management was worried about his torpedoing any trade value he had. At the time, I didn't like the trade, but was hopeful that Rodgers would be good enough, and that the prospects ended up working out. In hindsight, I think the trade still hinges on the success of Gasser. The Brewers didn't know they'd be able to turn Ruiz into Contreras+ at the time.
  24. Playing Catch
    I wonder who the next social media whipping boy will serve to satisfy the public's need for blood whenever umps make a bad call? FTR, Angel Hernandez seemed like a "bad" umpire to me, too.
  25. Playing Catch
    You guys should make an umpiring thread.
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