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Cool Hand Lucroy
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I know everyone probably switched to the Packers, but Josh Bell just hit a PH, 3-run homer to put the Nats up 5-3. Whoever said they hoped pitching Palencia yesterday came back to bite the Cubs today? They're three outs away from getting their wish.
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We're getting closer to sewing up the NL playoff picture. Right now, seeds 1-6 (in some order) look reasonably safe. The AL, though, has some really fun races going on, especially for that final WC spot.
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With yesterday's one-game swing, Fangraphs playoff odds now have the Brewers at over 98 percent to win the division. I'm not one to take those numbers as Gospel. We have no idea which simulation we're living in, and if you run 10,000, 200 are going to come up Cubs. Still, the math is quite hard for them. They're going to have to go like 16-4 and hope we play sub-.500 down the stretch. That's not impossible. It's also going to take both a crazy hot run from them (on par with our post-ASB through mid-August run) and us playing well below our standard to this point.
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I'm glad Bauers is making a numbers argument for his roster spot. I will keep doubting him so maybe he'll keep hitting. I will also add that every Bauers success makes Siegler less useful.
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Tucker is banged-up too, in his own Yelich situation. Doesn't seem bad enough for an IL stint, but also doesn't seem like he'll play this Nats series.
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Yeah, this is all good and useful. At the end of the day, any disagreement with the org's approach is really about like 9 days of the MLB calendar, which is basically nothing. I'll save any serious frustration for the slim chance Hoskins isn't up here when his rehab maximum is reached.
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I'm very leery of taking pain management advice from the NFL. The level of drug distribution in that league is well-documented and not very good for anyone long-term.
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I sort of get it, but then Siegler is redundant. That's all I'm saying. Nothing against either of those guys. It's just that Hoskins seems to have more value to me, and I think anything else ends up too cute by half.
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I think this is about the best the org can do. I'd push back on three things: 1) I get that Bauers has some versatility that makes him useful, especially in the postseason. But we're not in the postseason. As we try to secure a bye, I'd argue that Hoskins' offensive profile is better over 80PAs than anything Bauers (or Siegler) brings. 2) What does Siegler do that Bauers doesn't? And vice versa? I'm not sure, taken together, they provide enough unique coverage to justify carrying BOTH. And, certainly, I don't think they provide enough over having Hoskins/Bauers or Hoskins/Siegler. I think the org should pick Bauers or pick Siegler and give Hoskins the chance to hit. 3) Are we really going to opt for Vaughn and Bauers over Hoskins in the playoffs? I could see having all three rostered (teams carry three catchers with regularity), but Hoskins is in the org for these kinds of ABs. If the argument is playoff readiness, I think it applies just as much to Hoskins, who needs to see MLB pitching after a long time away. I am sure Rhys will be up in a few days. But I think the org has made a mistake by dragging it out this long. Maybe there are some contract incentives I am missing. I don't know. Is it a nuclear crisis? Not at all. It just seems like an outlier bad decision in a sea of mostly good ones.
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Really good point. Vaughn did make the great play to take two runs off the board, but still. If there's a reason Bauers is DHing, it's an idiosyncratic one.
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Bauers had a good run there for a couple ABs.
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I can see this. But I think he's a swing guy. Middle innings. Don't trust the command yet.
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Plus Vaughn's two years younger and has the first-round draft pedigree.
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Give him a plaque!!!
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You're welcome. Although it probably bought Bauers the rest of the season, so...crap. (blue)
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Completely, and it isn't really about Bauers. He is who he is, which is basically a replacement level player (at best). He is 29 and has had like 1700 ABs. When you have an above-average sitting at AAA, why are you waiting on Bauers to suddenly become Freddy Freeman? I just do not buy, in any way, the idea that it's too much to ask to carry two RH-hitting, exclusively 1B/DHs. Teams carry 3 catchers in September, man. Plus, Bauers is not really playing the OF, either. He is 1B and DH. At the very least, this club needs to do a better of arguing its case (which is impossible, because there is no serious case). Everyone can see it but Murph/the org. Again, I'm not thinking this is any kind of solution. Like I said, I don't even think it matters that much. But I would love for someone to make the case for Bauers belonging on this roster in a way that makes sense.
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I mean, I don't think it matters THAT much, but at this point it seems like a clearly awful decision to have Bauers on this roster over Hoskins. This org makes so many great decisions I'm almost comforted to see them botch one so badly.
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That's the goal.
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Yeah...but Bauers is a LEFTY!!! (Blue) Maybe if I tag on the guy in another post, he'll finally swing the bat.
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The NFL is the most popular thing in America. It's crazy how Teflon that league is. They can get caught up in scandal after scandal, hand out painkillers like they're candy, deny CTE, and generally just do whatever they want, and they'll run the world. Come to think of it, Jake Bauers is the NFL of the Milwaukee Brewers.
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The only argument for Bauers is he's a lefty, and that's no good enough, especially with an extra position player spot available. If you like Siegler, fine. If you like Bauers, fine (I guess). Having both with a proven MLB bat, with slug, rotting in Triple A is...baffling. I totally trust and respect Arnold, but if this is in any way his call, it's the wrong one. Does it matter that much? I don't know. Probably depends how many more times I have to watch bad lefties take ABs from a better righty.
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Obviously, we're a banged-up bunch. I think Murphy has absolutely overused Ashby, He has also leaned hard on Uribe and Koenig and Mears, even in games in which we trail. I'm not a big fan of that, but I get it in some ways. You throw out Easton Mcgee in a one-run game in the 8th, and people are going to get grumpy. It's a tough spot for a manager, up comfortably in the division/bye race, but nowhere near clinching it. Still, it's not like the Phillies dominated us. Suarez was great today, and we blew the sixth inning. Otherwise, we basically played them dead even over three games and clinched the tiebreaker. I'm not really sure how that's a disaster. It seems like mostly a fine outcome, albeit something less than we were hoping for. At this point, I'm ready for October baseball. I don't really care if we get caught if we play decent and get healthy. We were mostly fine this series. Let's be a little better in these next 15, and the rest is kind of random fluctuations of the ball.
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I'll say this about Bauers: He LOOKS like he can hit. It's a nice stance.
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Siegler has a tendency to play the ball off to the side? I know that was hit hard, but something about his body positioning doesn't feel right.
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