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  1. Playing Catch
    This was a good signing, in my opinion. He's been pretty consistently league-average. Pretty healthy. Can count on him for 80-120 IPs. No long-term risk. No prospect capital used. I think I would still prefer a more studly option that could come back from a trade, but if those trades aren't out there, I'd rather do this than go multiple years on the better FAs.
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    Or even, what if the goal was to provide an entertaining product on the field featuring a couple of big stars on your team? Obviously, that isn't possible. In both the NFL and NBA, regardless of the size of the media market, a team can pay their homegrown stars competitively. In baseball, this isn't practical for teams to do. You can't have one or two players eating up 75% of the payroll without that having a very negative impact on your team's competitiveness, which is part of the overall entertainment package.
  3. Playing Catch
    Yes, but boy... 2-seeds are essentially 1-seeds in terms of the path to the final four.
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    If the Jays are willing to trade Manoah, I think that would mean that they don't think he's going to ever be good again. That would be my concern.
  5. Playing Catch
    I've long wondered about fully piggy-backed rotations. Six to eight 3-4 inning guys. But that they only get 3 or 4 days of rest.
  6. Playing Catch
    Oh, trust me, I would want more, but in terms of 2024 MLB assets in return, that would be my threshold, and then add a couple kids. Now if they could get a better 2024 starter than that for Devin, I'd love it. I'm just imagining the least return that I think would make the 2024 team better... An average starter with some control plus a couple of promising kids I think would be fair.
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    Blalock, Tobias Myers, Junk, McKendry, Rodriguez, and Patrick can all come up and provide innings, potentially for weeks at a time (presuming there is roster space). You shuttle the starters. But realistically, you are correct. They need some old guy to come in and pitch 120 innings. I'm very much convinced they need to move Williams for a decent post-hype SP with 4 years of control that can soak up some innings and pitch to a 4.50 ERA.
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    I thought Jones was magnificent, and I think we'll see other teams defending him with smaller, quicker guards. Of course, most teams don't have a giant just standing under the rim. It is perhaps a bad idea to sit your best player, but I wanted Gard to at least TRY playing Crowl and Winter at the same time. If either of those two had had the open shooting opportunities that Wahl and Gilmore had, it could have at least forced Painter to make a decision with the 1-in-the-box man-to-man. Having 5 shooters on the floor at once would have been interesting. The Badgers played really well. I thought the refs were also really good (perhaps a minority opinion). I thought Purdue was fantastic, Particularly on defense and rebounding. As we all noted, the Badgers were just a few bounces away from winning this -- and being the better team. Wahl was spectacular. I think the Badgers can beat them at Mackey.
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    IIRC, Law was one of the early buyers on Quero. I think he likes being the "first".
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    I agree with the 6 man rotation ideas. If they decide to have a few rookie starters on the roster at the same time, it's easy, too, to have them piggy-back/switch from SP to RP in order to both control for innings as well as control for poor performance.
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    As it is, the Brewers are needing a lot of things to go right if the rotation is going to be league average, and it's absolutely possible that things end up going really poorly. Even if everyone stays healthy, there's no sure things after Freddy. I mean, I guess I'd be surprised if a healthy Miley was really poor, but dude is 37. Rea was solid last season, but there's a good chance that will end up being his best MLB season, being he's 33. If the Brewers don't improve the rotation through either trade or free agency, even if it's just to add another unproven prospect or aging vet, it will be hard for them to convince me that they are trying to win the division this season. I'm very very hopeful about Gasser and Rodriguez, but it's often true that good MLB pitchers struggle as rookies. It's important to give them innings this year to continue to develop, but that's different than expecting them to take the ball every fifth day.
  12. Playing Catch
    I love that both Hall and Ortiz are high-floor MLB-ready guys. It about as close to a guarantee as you can get for getting long-term MLB production in exchange for Burnes. Add to the fact that both players -- especially Hall -- still have significant ceilings to reach for, and it's easy to feel really good about the trade. Or at least, feel good about the return they got.
  13. Playing Catch
    Tangent: Is there enough longitudinal data from which analysts like KenPom and BartTorvik have modified the home court advantages of teams individually? Or does it remain a generic, +6points for the home team (or whatever)? Think about the Badgers-Nebraska tilt, where Nebraska is way better at home.
  14. Playing Catch
    Sure, but twelve months from now I would expect that one of (two of?) the guys I listed will be featured in threads just like this one, and will be generally regarded as a top 10 prospects in the organization, with a chance of being top 100 prospects in MLB. All of them have enough statistical/scouting profiles to make such jumps. Neither Woodruff or Burnes were consensus top 100 prospects beyond perhaps the last 6 months or so of their minor league development, and they had similar profiles as these guys. I happen to think that there has been enough smoke surrounding the organization in the last few years to believe that they are good at developing pitching, not just lucking into pitching.
  15. Playing Catch
    I agree there's a vacuum left with Burnes and Woody, but there's still lots of hope that one or two of these guys take a big step forward this season, or when they return from injury... Bradley Blalock, Coleman Crow, Edwin Jimenez, Logan Henderson, Josh Knoth, Ryan Birchard, Bishop Letson. Now, obviously some of those guys are more than a year away, but if they end up being good, they probably aren't too much further away than late '26. My point is that the system is deeper than just Misiorowski, Gasser, and Rodriguez.
  16. Playing Catch
    Yeah, the fact the jersey had the wrong number was what made it notable.
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    My buddy said he saw a guy at the gym today wearing a Yount #17 jersey... 'zis one of you guys?? Like you've all said... 1 - Gumby isn't worthy (no disrespect!) 2 - Is #17 retired?? Why not? [We all agree he was average, at best, for a long time] 3 - Okay, but you really liked him as a Brewer icon... but, [go to step 1]
  18. Playing Catch
    I want him on the roster immediately. He's being paid. Even if he's got some re-learning/polishing to do, there's no problem having him at the end of the pen as a multi-inning lefty.
  19. Playing Catch
    Totally agree. It worked with Johan Santana, Burnes, Woodruff and Ashby... that's enough evidence for me. Now, for a multi-pitch hurler like Carlos Rodriguez, who relies on mixing things up, then I would prefer he just keep starting.
  20. Playing Catch
    It's actually what gives me hope that the Badgers defense is better than everyone thinks.
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    I think what they were doing at that point was trying to shrink the game; still get good shots, but take 20-25 seconds. I actually think this is coached deliberately, and has been for years. I believe the staff has a ratio of point-spread vs. minutes remaining (probably controlling for a turnover or two), where the team is taught to use clock. Perhaps that's obvious, but it absolutely can explain how blowouts become "close[r]".
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    Their defensive efficiency numbers are screwy this season. They have games like the last couple of games when they look very good (like top 25 defense in the country-good). But then you look at the PSU game and your eyes bleed. It's hard to not just throw out the Arizona game as an outlier. Then you have games like Indiana and Jax State, where they just took their foots off the gas in blowouts. If their "true" defensive value is top 25, then they are definitely F4 contenders, and if they can avoid a gauntlet like the 2015 team faced, they could win a title. The leaders need to start talking about it, too. Stating their ambitions out loud.
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    The 40-man roster is full. I can't imagine that THIS is the roster they go into spring training with. So who are the guys besides Chris Roller (who?) that they will cut/trade?
  24. Playing Catch
    Yes. By 4th of July, the Brewers could have 8 guys on the list.
  25. Playing Catch
    Well, to give you some idea, in comparing Ashby's first 2 seasons to Woodruff's, Ashby pitched about 50 more innings, with more starts, compiling 1.3 fWAR. He had better K%, and better xFIP. Woody's BB% was a little better, compiling 1.0 fWAR. So Ashby's future was looking pretty bright.
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