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  1. sveumrules
    Lauer with a scoreless frame 2 K | 1 BB. Juan Baez has homered to tie it up at 2-2 in the 4th.
  2. sveumrules
    Best thing for everyone except @Brock Beauchamp, Hiura is probably driving like 41.7% of all site traffic single handedly.
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    No, they signed him for $2.2M as a depth option for an as yet uncompleted season. He likely would have been called up when Winker got injured if he himself wasn't already injured at the time. He could be traded at the deadline, he could be called up after the deadline since August waiver trades don't exist anymore. Still plenty of time to get some ROI.
  4. sveumrules
    Does "someone please edit clancy's articles for illogical non-sequiturs and tenuous-at-best connections" count as constructive criticism? Jimmy Nelson getting a fluke injury on the bases has nothing to do with Jackson Chourio, Hiura's development path was on a completely different track than Jackson's as a twenty year old college draftee vs a teenage international signee.
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    If MLB teams thought Keston's 2022 MLB stats were indicative of his true talent level he wouldn't be in AAA to begin with. It appears that they put more stock in the repeatability of his 41.7% K rate than they do his 115 wRC+ propped up by an unsustainable .355 BABIP and 29.8% HR/FB rate.
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    Right, every player has ups and down throughout the season, but not every player gets hurt and then loses 270 points off their slugging when they return.
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    One of the primary problems with Hiura is all his sample sizes are small, because he can't field enough or make enough contact to stay in the lineup on a consistent basis. Quoting his full season AAA stats when he has clearly been two different players pre and post injury (lost 270 points of SLG) is just being willfully obtuse.
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    Hiura has been HBP in 3.2% of his MLB plate appearances, compared to 1.5% of his AAA plate appearance this year before injury, and 7.9% of his AAA plate appearances since returning from injury. It would be unreasonable to expect him to maintain that 7.9% HBP rate if called up to the majors considering he has never really approached it previously.
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    Quote the numbers to no end, but 175 PA vs RHP and 96 PA as DH are miniscule samples with minimal predictive value. Over 321 PA vs RHP from 2020-21 Keston had an 82 wRC+ vs RHP. Getting back to the present, Keston simply hasn't been the same hitter at AAA pre and post injury this year... thru 5/12: 134 PA of 331/396/678 (154 wRC+) since 6/16: 127 PA of 282/409/408 (114 wRC+) He has lost a good deal of pop since the injury and his OBP is partly propped up by 10 HBP in those 127 PA.
  10. sveumrules
    McMahon is a perfectly cromulent player, but he is literally the embodiment of the kind of player OP was railing against in his OR.
  11. sveumrules
    Whither Cooper Hummel?
  12. sveumrules
    You mean the guy with a 91 wRC+ and +48 DRS for his career? He provides all his value via run prevention and is a below average hitter for 3B, even with his career best 101 wRC+ so far this year.
  13. sveumrules
    I bet they’d love to recoup some value on that deal. Gave up CJ Abrams (2.1 WAR this year), MacKenzie Gore (1.8 WAR) and James Wood (Top 5 prospect in MLB), plus Robert Hassell (Top 40ish at time of trade, struggling this year) and Jarlin Susana (19 yo pitcher with 3.90 ERA / 4.26 FIP in Carolina League). And so far the Padres got a trip to the NLCS out of it, and barring a miraculous run over the last two months a lost season. I would guess no one blows them away at the deadline and they instead extend Soto over the offseason plus sign Ohtani too (why not?) for a combined billion dollars.
  14. sveumrules
    If the Angles have gotten more out of their first round picks over the last ten years than the Brewers have, and we know for sure they have spent hundreds upon hundreds of millions more dollars on payroll than Milwaukee has over that same decade, how come the Angles have only gone 717-740 (16th) since 2014 while the Brewers have gone 761-699 (9th)?
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    Plus Houser when Woodruff/Miley are ready to return to the rotation.
  16. sveumrules
    The Brewers have gotten -1.7 WAR from 1B this year, worst in MLB. If they had gotten Santana's 1.0 WAR instead, their division lead would likely be a couple two tree game bigger. That's pretty impactful.
  17. sveumrules
    Best Wisconsin sports guitarist since (Steve) Vai Sikahema.
  18. sveumrules
    When Keston Hiura was 19 he had an 18.1 K% for UC-Irvine in the Big West conference. Chourio has a 19.6 K% as a 19 year old for Biloxi in the AA Southern League against players 4.7 years his senior.
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    Since 2019, Giolito is 9th in MLB in innings pitched (710), with a 90 ERA- and 87 FIP-. His 14.6 fWAR ranks 13th among 144 qualified starters over that stretch with his 13.9 rWAR coming in 20th. A good reminder that instead of becoming thee very best pitcher in baseball, sometimes top prospects “only” end up a Top 20 pitcher in MLB for a five season stretch, receiving Cy Young votes in three of those years.
  20. sveumrules
    I highly doubt the Cardinals would trade Arenado/Goldy to a division rival and vice versa, so your premise is faulty to begin with. If they did and the Brewers won the WS it might be an overpay or it might not. What if the Cardinals subsequently won two World Series with Chourio/Misio? Or for a tangible example that actually happened, what if the Brewers traded for Greinke to move the needle only to never make the World Series while the Royals won one and lost one with Cain, Escobar, and the guys they got for Odorizzi?
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    If the expectation is "overpay so much you make someone trade a player they had no intention of dealing in the first place"...then yeah, I don't think the Brewers will be doing that.
  22. sveumrules
    Which All Star bat would you target and which prospects would you be willing to surrender to facilitate the deal?
  23. sveumrules
    It's ridiculous to approach things responsibly? What kind of big time thinking move would you prefer to see them make?
  24. sveumrules
    Right, but they thought he was worth the gamble in spring. Now that the money is spent their best options to extract maximum value are via trade at the rapidly approaching deadline, or if no MLB team is hot to acquire him they can keep him through the end of the year as post-deadline depth since August waiver wire pickups don't exist anymore.
  25. sveumrules
    After the way this draft played out - and with Woodruff hurt, Adames underperforming and Burnes out of our price range - I'm more and more tempted to let them all play out the string in 2024, offer them each the QO, and then let Tod Johnson and company have fun in 2025 with all the extra picks and bonus pool cash.
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