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Depends, does he blame his agent or Mark A for that under market extension he signed? -
That is correct, yes. The Brewers players, assembled by Stearns/Arnold, paid by Attanassio, and managed by Counsell have lost eight playoff games to three World Series winners and one World Series loser since video game Yelich fouled a ball off his kneecap.
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Some things that could make people think Rickie is a less than ideal managerial candidate... The kind of player he was. The worst fielding second baseman of the advanced metrics era. Struck out a lot (133 career K%+) 111th out of 120 batters with at least 5,000 PA from 2003-17. Normally people think of managers as guys who didn't have the athletic gifts, but did all the little things right. Rickie is kind of the opposite of that archetype. Their perception of his personality. Prince Fielder was always considered the "leader" of those Brewers teams. Rickie was more soft spoken and I believe has a bit of a stutter which some could perceive as not lending itself well to being a leader of men.
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You keep referencing this 1-7 playoff record, Counsell has a 7-12 playoff record.
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Would have some Obi-Wan vs Anakin vibes going on for sure.
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Who’s resting laurels on anything? I was just pointing out that it would be impossible to reach the NLCS with the 1-7 playoff record another poster attributed to him. Counsell didn’t get fired, he managed through the end of his deal then signed a new record setting contract. To me, that indicates that the Cubs believe his 573-460 regular season record over 1,033 games since 2017 is more indicative of his managerial ability than his 1-8 playoff record since 2019.
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The last four full seasons their OD payroll ranks have been 20th, 19th, 19th and 17th per Cots. From 2007 through 2015 Cots has them 15th, 15th, 17th, 17th, 17th, 13th, 19th, 16th and 20th on opening day. The only time they went cheap in the last 15+ years was 2016-18 when they ranked 30th, 30th and then 26th in their NLCS year.
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The new manager the Brewers hire will either be better, worse, or about the same as Counsell. I’ll reserve judgement until they’ve played some games next year. Right now there is no way to know if this will be a positive, negative or marginal transaction. Anyone acting like they already know the future is just projecting their own biases and pre-conceived notions.
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Stearns wanted to go to his favorite team growing up. Counsell was offered industry leading compensation, which the Cubs blew away by over two million per year. If someone has their mind made up on wanting to work elsewhere, or are determined to go solely to the highest bidder, there isn't a whole lot Mark A can do about it.
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Rosiak reported $5.5M per year, though I don't believe he reported the number of years. CC got $8M per year for five years from the Cubs.
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Not sure what any new manager is going to be able to do about the double plays. Our two best hitters - Yelich (57.3%) and Contreras (55.0%) - ranked 2nd and 3rd among all qualified hitters in ground ball percentage last year. Those two accounted for 38 of the Brewers 144 double plays in 2023, about 26.4%. At the same time, 51 of the Brewers 144 double plays came from players no longer with the club, or unlikely to be in 2024 - Tellez (11), Anderson (10), Santana (8, in only two months), Caratini (8), Donaldson (4), Canha (3), Voit (3), Brosseau (2) and Tapia/Urias (1 each).
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We clearly need a manager who has proven he can win a World Series in a small market... N E D Y O S T
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How did the Brewers make it to the NLCS in 2018 winning only one game?
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I'd rather get paid to sit at home and do nothing than manage the Cubs.
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Ross still gets paid. If he is perceived as a good manager he will get hired somewhere else, and maybe even get a raise if Craig's new deal has its intended effect.
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The reason is out there, he wanted to enhance the valuation of the managerial position. The Brewers offered him a contract that would have made him the highest paid manager in the game, the Cubs blew by that.
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Again, the Brewer have won the 7th most games in MLB since 2008, the 6th most since 2018, they've been consistently competitive for 15 years now, even with the massive financial disadvantage they face being the smallest market in a league without leaguewide revenue sharing and salary caps/floors like the NFL/NBA.
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I see a payroll that consistently ranks around 20th versus a market size of 30th. I see a team that has won the 7th most games in MLB since 2008 and the 6th most since 2018. They've been competing at a high level for 15 years despite the payroll constraints imposed on them by MLB's draconian financial system.
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Macha was a wet fart, but Roenicke managed the team to the NLCS in his first season. Who cares that CC was a hometown guy if he clearly didn't want to be here?
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If Matt Arnold does his job well enough that he is offered top of industry compensation from an organization with larger revenue streams, then the next couple years are looking pretty bright for Brewers baseball.
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Just like no one realistically had the DBacks in the WS before the season, no one had Counsell to the Cubs. Baseball has an infinite capacity to surprise, which is why its pretty much the best.
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ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!?!?
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“an absolute necessity” Holy hyperbole, Heyman. Like what happens if he doesn’t pick NY? Do they get relegated to the International League or something?
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Rea got 4.9 runs of support per game started, second on the team. Houser: 21 GS | 5.0 R/GS Rea: 22 GS | 4.9 R/GS Woodruff: 11 GS | 4.9 R/GS Peralta: 30 GS | 4.8 R/GS Burnes: 32 GS | 4.7 R/G Miley: 23 GS | 4.3 R/G Teheran: 11 GS | 2.8 R/G Despite the Brewers offense being below average overall (4.49 R/G vs 4.62 R/G league average), only Miley and Teheran especially received below average run support over the course of the season. Take out the 31 runs the Brewers scored in Teheran's 11 starts and they come out at 697 runs in the other 151 games, or 4.62 runs per game, exactly average.
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Canha to Detroit.... RHP Blake Holub to Brewers
sveumrules replied to Jastro's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Brewers set a franchise record for opening day payroll in 2022. By the time the various in-season and deadline deals were accounted for, Spotrac had their year end payroll a couple million higher in 2023 than it was to end 2022. As long as the money is re-allocated elsewhere over the next five months, no pennies were pinched in this transaction.
