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Just getting home from work, check boxscore and yep they rested Yelich! Unbelievable.

We've won the 8th most games in MLB since Attanasio hired Stearns. I think they share the "blame" for that in some proportion (along with Counsell & the players themselves & the rest of the field staff & front office). The Stearns hiring was brilliant on Attanasio’s part. He hired a boy genius that re-built this team with help from Melvin’s all time record hader houser Phillips Santana Trade, among other moves, in near record time. Avoiding a tank that would cost the team lots of revenue. My guess is Stearns has made Attanasio over 150 million in the last 3 years if playoff revenue is included. 2.5-3 million fans year after year, 20-60 million in profits every year. All we are is a fan, that continues to overperform their market size to the extreme. It’s laughable how much this fan base supports this team, and, that’s it’s NOT reciprocated with a payroll deserving of said fan. 127 million is embarrassing. Yes embarrassing because all that revenue and profits only go to one man.... Wait you mean ownership is a group? Not just Mark A.? If its the low end 20mil in profits, I mean really? Mark A. Should just sign off on checks to MLB players for more in a year than his ownership group even makes? Seems legit.

Mlb: 162 games. 81 homes games. NFL 16 games. 8 home games. Big Markets are far outpacing revenue earned by small markets with all thoae games and tv revenue. NFL games are Nationally televised. How does baseball make that work in a given day? 9am, 1230, 4, 730, 11? 3games going at each time? 7days a week? I suppose the "Bye" days you can remove 2 games from 9am. What are the Yankees supposed to do? Share 750million a season across to the small markets? Think about what you are asking. Calling this unfair. I'll take it for fact I even have a baseball team in my State to root for. Want this fair? Contract to 20teams. Reduce season to 120games. More "Bye" days to nationally televise 3 game times with 3games going. 2 teamms off every day. That way its National TV money shared among all the teams vs local tv contracts.

Throws a 1st strike curve to Morsn. Doesnt throw it again. Sliders way outside corner. 1 curveball probably gets Newman. Poor pitch sequencing.

The weight of carrying this bullpen definitely can cause back stiffness.

So another missed run for Milw and I have at least 2 accountable for Cincy only checking two of the innings they scored. It'd be 9-8 bases loaded for Aguilar at minimum

I overall like this take. However, Hiura doesn’t walk much at all, so do we really want him leading off? Seems like he would be better served with the potential of driving runners in, not being driven in. Hes 1bb away in AAA to have a 10% bb rate in the next 7PAs. Its all a progression thing. He could have a BA higher than Cain's OB as it stands now. Bat Cain 3 Moose 4 Grandal 5 Gamel 6th. Something to shake this up. Heck the way Thames is taking walks, bat him 8th and Arcia 7. Full R/L mix in lineup. Team was 10-7 with him when 12games were on the road. I'm just at a point how bad they'll let this ship sink before making the logical changes? It took game 163 to win the division last year. How can you not know 1W vs 1L difference can have huge impact? We lost 4 games on that road trip by 2runs or less. 6-9 since demoted. adding: Shaw is 7-36 2XBH 1HR a .194/.318/.314 .632 OPS since being back. The BBs are carrying him atm. Hiura is 16-60 7XBH 5HR a .267/.323/.550 .873 OPS since down. 13RBI in that time to 3RBI for Shaw. Now, I know 65PAs beats 42PAs, but Crew have had days off and they've sat Shaw because he needs to be sat.

He was up for 3 weeks? Its been near 3weeks hes been sent down. Just wasting away the production he could bring at 2b with Moose at 3b. Shaw needs optioned last month. We're skating around 1st place with a 0run differential. Hiura has that ability where he can leadoff with Cain struggling. A Cascade effect moving a terrible bat out of the lineup and worse bats down in the lineup. You can platoon Gamel with Braun. It's amazing how difficult the management is handling this roster.

Agree. Really, Who claims him? Marlins? Baltimore has Davis. Who else? KC maybe? A NL team would have 1st dibs. Whats Arz doing at 1b? The Mets? Col? Isnt the Giants 1b a lefty? I'd imagine one of those picks him up if he were waived just to get a 1mo chance to see him figure something out and trade him at the deadline to a team maybe in need post injury. Well scrath the Mets, put Was and maybe San Diego as other Platoon usage potential. Lets look at the Giants with Will Smith. Package Aguilar with something enticing.

Me thinks it's time to call up Nelson to start and piggy back Chacin afterwards. Chacin needs to take a break starting. Only 3 starts of 12 reached the 6th inning and he's averaging less than 5IP a start now. Woodruff/Davies have their spots nailed down. Gio/Nelson/Anderson to be interchangeable with Chacin/Peralta. I really think this team needs to adopt 2 of these 5 as piggyback with all 5 getting starts when showing they have a hott hand going. For his poor start, the team only used 2 from the bullpen today.

I think the answer would be you don't. Considering the age he'd hit FA, injury risks, regression from this current run, you just don't. You play the Tampa philosophy to trade him before his last season of control. But that is how it stands now. What is the Rotation like MLB& in minors heading to 2021 or 2022 season? Maybe then you give Woodruff an extension(counting on the fact he remains good) My guess on the trivia is Gallardo. Look how he turned out. It is almost a certainty Woodruff will have TJ while under team control.

No. It was pointed out he'd have to sit just about remainder of season to gain any status on the service clock. I think some of the off days at this moment made sending him down make sense. Give him a start or 2 on schedule, and gain knowledge who he will replace. Anderson/Gio/Chacin. Id personally give him Gio's spot and use Gio in the Bullpen.

We have another Perez in Dubon waiting in AAA. Not as versatile, but with Gamel/Thames, Moose/Shaw Dubon's ability at SS or 2b makes Perez a target to be traded sooner than later. That doesn't help the problem at all. Go ahead and swap Perez for Dubon...okay, now who are you dropping to make room for Shaw? Nope, can't be Dubon because once again someone has to back up SS. What I am saying is that roster spot is concrete. Perez, Dubon, Yuni...doesn't matter. No one in that roster spot can be subtracted to keep Shaw/Hiura/Thames on the same roster. Either Hiura goes or Thames goes. There quite literally is no other possible option when Shaw comes back with the current roster. I see what you mean. I was thinking in general but not with active 25man. Really need to find a trade partner for Thames, or Shaw is sitting in the minors for awhile.

As I have mentioned before you can't get rid of Perez. He is the back up for the infield and most notably at SS. Get rid of him and Arcia is literally the only person to man SS. You would have to replace him with a SS and Hiura isn't that nor is Shaw. We have another Perez in Dubon waiting in AAA. Not as versatile, but with Gamel/Thames, Moose/Shaw Dubon's ability at SS or 2b makes Perez a target to be traded sooner than later.

My thoughts are that when Shaw rejoins the team, Hiura is optioned for a small period of time to get behind that Super 2 status. Maybe the team understands he's a slow starter at every level and the taste he's getting now is expected to be below expectations. Making that rewind the clock seem appropriate. See him smash AAA hopefully at a better production than prior to his call up and ne recalled to terrorize ML pitching from that point on.

77PAs Bases loaded. It sounds great in comparison to the league, but, Bases loaded 0 or 1 out and not scoring twice in a game is 5PAs right there. So think about that then to the teams that have a positive wrc/OPS whatever stat you're looking at in that situation. A hit will often score two not leaving the bases loaded for another PA.

I was pretty sure when Nelson was given the go, they said 3 or 4 starts and all good meant return to Milw rotation. Hes 3down right? 1 to go? He'll be starting in no time for us. Next week basically.

And there are plenty of examples in recent history on the other end of the spectrum that dominate MLB pitching early in their career. Bellinger, Soto, Acuna, further back obviously Braun. Even our last "great" 2B prospect, Brett Lawrie, had a dominant rookie year after the trade. Just because it doesn't happen every time doesn't mean Hiura can't do it. Of course. Maybe he'll be great. But the success rate of "Top" guys is mixed. That's all I'm saying. Byron Buxton, Delmon Young, Gregg Jefferies, Lewis Brinson, Matt LaPorta, Brett Wallace, Kyle Schwarber, Dustin Ackley. . .There was lots of greatness predicted for that group and they delivered a collective shrug. Baseball prospecting is an uncertain game. I want to see Hiura, but more as a curiosity than to think that he'll be an instant improvement. The initial buzz on Schwarber was playing Catcher. Buxton was younger and has GG ability defense, Ackley was a 2nd pick and has a .802 career MILB OPS, Young was a #1 pick for the OF. Hiura isn't a GG caliber defender expectation(like Arcia) plays 2b like Ackley but to the tune of a .912 OPS career in the minors and a 1.106OPS his first go in AAA. He's a rare 70grade hit tool that has done nothing to dispel that notion. Having him at 2b is going to be above average vs all of MLB. Moving Moose to 3rd takes the worst 3b in baseball currently and improves that dramatically. Based on what he's done historically(starts off slow at higher level then destroys), I am glad that the beginning is here. Because, down the road happens sooner than later where he destroys the level he's at. Let's Go!

Hiura went from near 40% k down to 27 iirc. He was at 23k-0bb to start off the season. Now 15bbs/40ks. Has walked more in May than kd 11/10. Lastly 9/18 runners in scoring position and 2outs. Please give me that kind of batter under pressure!

Thanks fellas.

Just got in from walking my pup. Shows 2 outs, Cain singled and Arcia was on 2nd at the time. How did he not score? Was it really that big a bullet?

You don't send just send a guy like Shaw down vs the Cubs because he's struggled vs them. If you'd send him down, it'd be because he's struggling in general. Not because of 23 games vs ONE team. That's absurd. Again, back to back 4 ~4 WAR seasons. I wasn't against bringing up Hiura for the Cubs series and then sending him back down, but Shaw shouldn't be the one to go down. Not yet anyway. He's earned the right to get himself straight here. If he's still struggling in another month, that's a different story. Send him down with the understanding that it'll be for 5-6 games, 10 at the most and then he'll be back up. If it's July and he's still hitting this poorly, then you have your solution. But I suspect he'll turn things around as Aguilar has very slowly started to. Also, just annoying taking a shot at the Brewers analytical staff. They've MORE than proven themselves. Their defensive ranking along justifies what they do. We're not among the best in the league defensively(or the best as we were recent) because we've got 8 Simmons type defensive players playing for us. We've got a guy who would have been nearly unplayable at 2nd base 10 years ago doing just fine there now because of how they position their players. We're shuttling guys for the bullpen. Shaw has options, he should be optioned. Yeah he's 23games bad vs the Cubs in last 1season+ but in case you failed to notice he's at .554OPS in This season!. That's a 38game sample not just vs. the Cubs. If he has options, then he doesn't deserve the long leash due to the last two seasons. He's hurting this team. Folks are calling to trade Thames so you can platoon Aguilar and Shaw! Thames is the good bat in this idea and you want to play duds to this point on the season. Not you personally H&T. You signed Moose to a 1year deal. You have complete flexibilty here to move a contributing bat to a place being a negative to the team and bring up a potential much needed positive bat at 2b. I'd be asking the same thing with Aguilar but he doesn't have any options. Shaw does. You optioned Arcia at SS last season on June 30th when he was below .500OPS, below .200 BA, below .300 OB. who plays a premium SS defensively and had Saladino a career .600s OPS play SS. Moustakas is a career .741OPS with 3 of his last 4 seasons above .800OPS. And an .852 going thus far this season. For whatever reason Shaw's poor performance that on going you can play someone with upside while Shaw figures out what is wrong. As to Perez' contribution the last 2 games and dismissing what Hiura may have brought, he is only playing at 2b because Shaw isn't starting at 3b and Moose is. If you had any confidence in Shaw, Moose would have been playing at 2b. Perez on the bench negating that contribution argument over what Hiura may provide.

Perez did get the HR today, otherwise garbage at the plate. Yesterday's game I remember he was up with a runner or 2 on after a walk I believe and he swung 1st pitch 2nd or 3rd out when Quintana was dealing at a low pitch count. 0-3 RISP that game. 2 ABs today the HR and GIDP. Hiura is batting over .500 when RISP and led the fall league I recall in RBI leading to his MVP. Shaw immediately provided a bb and 3ks in 4 PAs today. Now 1-14 vs the Cubs this season. It's a mistake playing him vs the Cubs who absolutely own him. 6 for 45 last season. That's a 118 BA the last 23games vs the Cubs. Send him down to AAA when facing the Cubs, play Hiura. No Brainer. But what do I know? They're the ones with the analytics and run out deadbeat Shaw vs the Cubs when it shows they shouldn't.

1 hit in 8innings off of the Cubs Bullpen.

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