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  1. sveumrules
    ACL Brewers up 6-5 heading into top of nine. Gerson Calzadilla on to try to close it down after Anfernny Reyes threw 3.1 IP with 1 H | 7 K.
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    There’s no need for hypotheticals. Kiké Hernandez, Amed Rosario, Carlos Santana, Nicky Lopez, CJ Cron, Randall Grichuk, Mark Canha, Jeimer Candelario AJ Pollock and Mark Matthias, that is the reality we are dealing with to this point.
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    How many better position players have been traded so far? There is no Soto on the market this year.
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    FanGraphs currently has the Braves at 25% World Series Odds compared to 3% for the Brewers. No combination of deadline moves could gain the Brewers 5% in WS odds, much less 22%.
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    The Brewers have won the 6th most games in MLB since 2018, imagine what they could do if they only tried.
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    Because the Rays are the best run small market in baseball, instead of only 2nd or 3rd best like the Brewers. If the Cubs were actually playing chess to our checkers (they aren’t) and have a $65M edge on payroll (they do) they wouldn’t be looking up at us in the standings again (they are).
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    Wins and payroll are “analytics” now? I thought that was about as old school as it gets. The Brewers have gotten league worst production at 1B/DH so far this year and have made two moves in an attempt to upgrade production at those spots. Sorry they didn’t trade for your preferred dice roll.
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    If the Cubs are playing chess why are they looking up at us in the standings (again) despite a $65M edge in OD payroll?
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    CC in 2008 = Adames in 2021 Yelich in 2018 >> Greinke in 2012 Which Melvin moves are you pining for? The Suppan, Lohse, Garza signings?
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    Gallardo was really only a “needle mover” in three seasons, 2007 (3.41 FIP), 2010 (3.02 FIP) and 2011 (3.59 FIP). Civale is a perfectly cromulent SP, but not a guy you want fronting your rotation or even starting game 2 of a playoff series unless you have no better options.
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    Civale has a 55 ERA- | 83 FIP- | 107 xFIP- | 82.7 LOB% over 77 IP this year versus a 97 ERA- | 98 FIP- | 96 xFIP- | 72.3 LOB% over 353 IP prior to this year. His peripherals have gone from 95 K%+ | 70 BB%+ | 107 HR9+ entering the season, to 82 K%+ | 85 BB%+ | 48 HR9+ this year so pretty much the entirety of his shiny ERA is coming from an outlier HR rate and LOB% compared to his career norms. I’d guess his ERA during his TBR tenure will end up closer to his career 4.05 FIP than it will his current 2.34 ERA.
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    Manzardo was an elite bat up through AA, but has really underwhelmed at AAA this year with a 93 wRC+ so far. He's down 50 points of ISO and 65 points of BABIP from AA last year. He was off to an okay start (115 wRC+ over 198 PA in May/June), then fell off to a 58 wRC+ over 116 PA in June/July before hitting the IL a few weeks ago with a sore shoulder. Injury was likely affecting him, but the scouting reports are for for hit over power, so he's going to need to really hit for average and walk at a nice clip to get up to that 120 or so wRC+ needed to be a plus 1B in MLB. Rays also have Yandy and Raley in house for some time yet, with last year's first round pick 1B Xavier Isaac putting up a 141 wRC+ as a 19 year old in A ball so they dealt from a position of strength.
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    Chourio is a consensus Top 5 prospect as a teenager on fire in AA. Frelick is a nice prospect no doubt (peak pre-season rank of #30) but he is at least one FV grade if not two behind Chourio, mostly on account of middling power projection and already being four years older. They aren’t an either/or comparison.
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    Kim signed as an MLB free agent (not amateur) so my understanding is he will become a free agent again once that option is declined. Even if he did have 3.5 years of control remaining, he doesn’t have a long enough track record of top shelf offense for me to consider him in a blockbuster Chourio/Misio package. If the Brewers were to deal those two (I don’t believe they would), I’d hope it’s for someone like Luis Robert or Jose Ramirez.
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    I saw Dead Astaire dancing with a vacuum cleaner on TV a quarter century ago. Hologram Tupac at Coachella…over a decade ago now. I’ve seen Arnold Schwarzenegger’s face morphed into a number of popular shows and movies. How hard would it really be at this point to just laser project a custom hexagonal blob floating over the plate for each player strike zone?
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    Here is what Stearns and company inherited when they took over. Quick recap is… Hits: Arcia (#1), Hader (#5), Grisham (#7), Williams (#10), Davies (#14), Houser (#15), Taylor (#19) Woodruff was still just a recent 11th round pick who had posted 109 IP with a 5.8 K9 for Brevard County in his first full pro season. Anything worthwhile in the cupboard upon arrival, Stearns and company recognized. The other high ranked hitters they inherited (Phillips, Diaz, Harrison) or later acquired (Brinson) never amounted to much, but they were able to turn them into Moose and Yelich. Developing players while installing whole new systems and overhauling personnel takes time. It takes a long time even once that stuff is all in place. Stearns & company literally flipped the script on almost a half century of organizational pitching ineptitude in like two years. It was an anomaly, unfathomable for decades until it actually finally happened. Things on the hitting side might seem slow developing by comparison, but they’ve really been unfolding on more of a standard timeline with the first wave just starting to crest.
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    The Brewers are one of only three NL teams to make a deal as of yet. They’ve already been more proactive than most of their competition and probably have at least one more move up their sleeve before the deadline.
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    Yeah, Eloy would be the best option from a performance standpoint, but will also likely cost the most to acquire. I’d probably have Canha third behind Pham or Teoscar of the remaining DH options, and would be fine with any of them really given how bad our DHs have been this year.
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    Yeah, they’re just two different profiles. Rooker is more boom or bust, both in terms of track record and plate discipline profile. I wouldn’t be surprised if he put up a 70 wRC+, a 130 wRC+ or anything in between over the next two months. Canha is who he is at this point, a guy with a good idea what he’s doing at the plate, but not quite enough pop for a corner. Maybe he gets hot and puts up a 115 wRC+ for two months, but I also wouldn’t expect him to drop much below 90 either. Its basically Hiura vs Cutch from last year. I guess for me it seems like Canha would cost less to acquire just because he’s a rental, more expensive and has limited ceiling. Rooker has way more questions about his future performance, but also more potential upside at a lower cost, which is why I think the A’s would want at least one interesting prospect for him.
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    Haven’t watched any PAs besides on gameday here or there or highlights, but my best guess reading between the lines is, mostly a better understanding of how pitchers are attacking him, not chasing out of the zone, and doing damage when he does get pitches to hit. Before tonight his season was almost two equal halves in terms of PAs… April/May (195 PA) 254/308/418 (89 wRC+) 6.7 BB% | 24.6 K% June/July (196 PA) 311/372/531 (136 wRC+) 8.2 BB% | 13.8 K%
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    Lucroy, Brantley and Cain all turned out pretty decent. Mitchell, Wiemer, Frelick have all just cracked MLB in the last year. Turang too, though he’s more of a fielder than a hitter. Chourio, Black and Quero are lined up to have a shot at MLB in the next year. There was a lull there no doubt between the end of the Melvin era and the beginning of Stearns tenure, but we’re in the middle of the best wave of positional prospects the org has produced in like fifteen years.
  22. sveumrules
    Brewers scored 7, 5 and 6 runs this series. With their normal run prevention they would have swept the Braves. I still believe run prevention is important.
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    Edwin with another 1-2-3 inning and two more punch outs. Currently at 74 pitches per the box. Checking his game logs he has gone six IP twice, but it does not look like he has come back out for a 7th inning yet this year.
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    Wisco tacks one more on via a Joe Gray Jr. single and Hendry Mendez double. Jimenez back on the mound top of six.
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    Rattlers up 3-0 with a Jose Acosta bomb scoring Darrien Miller and Ben Metzinger, who had each singled prior. Edwin Jimenez with five hitless scoreless frames and 3 BB | 7 K.
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