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  1. sveumrules
    Something else here that didn't really seem thread worthy, but Eric Longenhagen did some investigating on minor league listed heights, with a blurb on Tyler Black - who was subject to much height related speculation and discourse over the summer. The whole thing is an interesting read, but here is the Black specific section... "Tyler Black is listed at 6-foot-2 on his Wright State player page (the source of my initial Board input prior to him being drafted) and was 6-foot-1 in the Brewers media guide entering the season. Before I learned about MLB’s pilot program, his 2023 shrinkage to 5-foot-10 felt suspect to me, because Black was one of the players who seemed most apt and eager to use the ball/strike challenge system in the 2022 Arizona Fall League. Walks are a substantial part of his skill set. It was tough to find a satisfactory moment to screengrab Black upright and close to another player on the field, so I’ve included two above. He also stands next to Pedro Pagés and Andy Thomas, both listed at 6-foot-1, several times in my video from last year. I’m finding it quite tough to actually gauge how tall this guy is."
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    Numbers might have shifted around slightly since then, but Perkins popped up in a FanGraphs article back on August 16th as one of only four OFs - along with Tatis, Kiermaier and Julio Rodriguez - who were top 20 in all of Arm Strength (92.2 MPH | 14th), Sprint Speed (30 feet/sec | 2nd), Jumps (+2.7 feet vs avg | 4th) and OAA (+5 | 12th), at the time of publication.
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    ALE - 442 W NLE - 415 W NLC - 397 W NLW - 397 W ALW - 382 W ALC - 351 W NL Central and NL West have the exact same number of wins so far. The AL Central has been such crap, the AL East has been a gauntlet, the other four divisions have been pretty close to the middle. Diamondbacks got all those extra games against the Rockies (worst team in the NL by 11 games) and are still half a dozen wins behind the Brewers.
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    Cubs lost all three to the Braves? Could have sworn I heard somewhere those games weren’t even going to be all that hard for Chicago since Atlanta was already going to be coasting on a wave of malaise by then.
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    Could be his final appearance period. MLBTR reported Colin has language in his contract which allows him to reach free agency after the season.
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    They gave it to Lovullo in 2017, which fair enough, the D-Backs won more games. Be kinda funny though if he won it again. That would give him 2 MOTYs with a career managerial record of 495-534 from 2017 through today. Meanwhile, CC is currently at 571-459 over that same 2017 through today stretch.
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    On April 7th, Anderson had a 1,593 OPS through his first 27 PA. FanGraphs had that as a 0.7 WAR week. From then until going on the IL, he posted a .620 OPS over 307 PA. That’s a replacement level three months. Upon return he put up a .440 OPS over 21 PA from 0803 to 0822 before his PT completely evaporated. Maybe there was something more going on behind the scenes or whatever, but I think it just boils down to performance and health with a dash of being supplanted by Monasterio in the interim. The Brewers barely use their 13th (or 14th in Sept) position player, so my guess is they were fine with Anderson occupying that last man spot and getting minimal run while other guys (who might be needed later on) got more consistent AAA reps in the interim.
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    MLBTR reporting Colin Rea had language in his contract which will allow him to reach free agency this winter, so that will be one more open spot for the offseason.
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    Kind of an interesting, random tidbit in Dan Szymborski’s FanGraphs chat today. Someone asked which minor leaguers saw the biggest improvement in their ZiPS projection this year. Tyler Black was one of the five hitters, ok, pretty obvious after the year he put up, but then among the five pitchers was none other than James Meeker.
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    I would guess Burnes, Woody and Freddy each start and throw a few innings on their regular turns Thursday, Friday, Saturday with five days rest each. That would line them up on four days rest each for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday of the Wild Card round.
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    They were losing by three runs, so Williams, Payamps and Uribe were likely out of the equation. Milner (the only other lefty) had already pitched, as had Wilson. With Megill on paternity leave and Teheran throwing three innings on Sunday, that left Chafin, Bukauskas or Rea as the options to come in and face the lefty Nootbar in that situation. Chafin allowed a walk and a single, but also recorded two outs and allowed zero runs in his appearance. Craig keeps going to him because he is on the roster and someone has to pitch low leverage innings to save the good relievers for higher leverage situations.
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    On the one hand, our outfielders are 10th in WAR and the Brewers are currently 5th in MLB for wins as a team, so I'd say he hasn't really been missed all that much. On the other hand, Mitchell has played in 44 career games with the Brewers going 30-14 in those games. Obviously a small sample, but Mitchell has definitely had some special sauce so far in his career with his +0.97 WPA ranking 6th among Brewers from 2022-23 even though his 130 PA only rank 26th.
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    Olson has a little bit of an edge on that next group (especially in BRef WAR) so I think he's a lock for the Top 4 with Betts, Acuna, Freeman. After that it should be between Carroll and Contreras for 5th/6th, but we'll see how closely the voters have been paying attention.
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    Yeah, looks like he last pitched 9/13. Probably done for the year.
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    BRef has Acuna +6 on base running, then -1 for double plays, which seems to line up with the FanGraphs number. Believe FG accounts for double plays under batting runs.
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    Why didn't they win in spite of cheapskate Selig for the last 15 years he owned the team then? 1989-2004: 1155-1369 (.458 W%, 2nd worst among non-expansion teams) 2008-2023: 1292-1192 (.520 W%, 7th of 30 MLB teams) Pretty remarkable to win in spite of ownership across multiple front offices, managers, coaches and players over the course of 15 years. How much do you think Craig is going to make Mark A increase payroll by annually in order to stay on board as skipper? And why did Mark A choose to run a franchise record payroll this year (and last year) if all he cares about is turning a profit?
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    They've won the 6th most games in MLB since 2018, and the 5th most games in MLB this year. They are doing alright for a team whose owner apparently doesn't care about anything besides turning a profit.
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    Or Escobar, who was traded for Greinke. Or Arcia, who has the 4th most SS innings in franchise history. But again, the past is irrelevant to the future since the whole program was revamped over the last few years and we’ve already started seeing the results at the MLB level.
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    Just won their 8th straight. Record is finally catching up to their run differential. FanGraphs had a nice deep dive on their chances.
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    No doubt there are factors to consider beyond raw win percentage. The league has expanded, scheduling formats are different, the talent pool has grown exponentially on an international scale, I don’t know what payrolls were like 1978-83 but I’m guessing they were much more tightly grouped and the Brewers weren’t at a hundred plus million deficit behind many of their competitors.
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    Hopefully we can finish this year out in the platinum tier.
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    Ethan Small stays in for the 9th and picks up the save going K, single, pop out, ground out to secure the 8-5 Nashville victory.
  23. sveumrules
    After tonight Brewers are 483-380 since 2018, a .560 W%. 1978-83 they were 518-400, a .564 W%. 1984-86 they were 215-268, a .445 W%. That’s a pretty serious hangover. 1987-92 they bounced back, 508-464, but that .523 W% is a healthy clip behind the current run or 1978-83.
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    Jahmai doubles (98.9 MPH exit velo x 26 degLA = 385 feet) to bring Cam around from first.
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    Alex Claudio gives up one in the eighth going K, single, double, ground out, single. Ethan Small then came on and stranded runners on the corners inducing a first pitch ground out. 7-5 Sounds bottom of eighth and Devanney leads off with a walk to turn the lineup over to Jahmai (and Jackson) at the top.
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