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  1. KeithStone53151
    If Yelich isn't hitting for power, he probably will get attacked with pitches in the zone much more consistently and 375 obp won't be realistic. He definitely needs to continue to focus on both all-around hitting and hitting for power unless his body is telling him he can't do it. Also, there's absolutely no guarantee if he adjusts his focus to contact that he'll all of a sudden be a 375 obp/40 doubles guy anyway. In 2020 his whiff rate was a career high 33.6%. Up from 22.8 in 2018 and 28.6 in 2019. In 2021 it dropped down to 24.9%, but his hard hit rate dropped a lot and his barrel rate fell off a cliff. This tells me in 2021 he focused more on making good contact as you've suggested and less on HR...and he posted 248/362/373 with only 19 doubles in 475 PA. He also only stole 9 bases despite being on base so much. If Yelich is more healthy, stronger, irons out his mechanics...focusing on being the hitter he was makes so much more sense than punting the idea of HR and focusing on doubles, speed, and obp as a 30 year old.
  2. KeithStone53151
    If Yelich isn't hitting for power, he probably will get attacked with pitches in the zone much more consistently and 375 obp won't be realistic. He definitely needs to continue to focus on both all-around hitting and hitting for power unless his body is telling him he can't do it. Also, there's absolutely no guarantee if he adjusts his focus to contact that he'll all of a sudden be a 375 obp/40 doubles guy anyway. In 2020 his whiff rate was a career high 33.6%. Up from 22.8 in 2018 and 28.6 in 2019. In 2021 it dropped down to 24.9%, but his hard hit rate dropped a lot and his barrel rate fell off a cliff. This tells me in 2021 he focused more on making good contact as you've suggested and less on HR...and he posted 248/362/373 with only 19 doubles in 475 PA. He also only stole 9 bases despite being on base so much. If Yelich is more healthy, stronger, irons out his mechanics...focusing on being the hitter he was makes so much more sense than punting the idea of HR and focusing on doubles, speed, and obp as a 30 year old.
  3. KeithStone53151
    While I understand your point that his production last year would have fit better in the leadoff spot, it's tough for me to justify taking a back to back mvp caliber seasons in 18/19 with 80 combined hr and over 1000 ops both seasons and having him reinvent himself at age 30 as a slap hitter. He should be striving to get back to his 18/19 form, not focusing on obp and singles.
  4. KeithStone53151
    While I understand your point that his production last year would have fit better in the leadoff spot, it's tough for me to justify taking a back to back mvp caliber seasons in 18/19 with 80 combined hr and over 1000 ops both seasons and having him reinvent himself at age 30 as a slap hitter. He should be striving to get back to his 18/19 form, not focusing on obp and singles.
  5. KeithStone53151
    While I understand your point that his production last year would have fit better in the leadoff spot, it's tough for me to justify taking a back to back mvp caliber seasons in 18/19 with 80 combined hr and over 1000 ops both seasons and having him reinvent himself at age 30 as a slap hitter. He should be striving to get back to his 18/19 form, not focusing on obp and singles.
  6. KeithStone53151
    While I understand your point that his production last year would have fit better in the leadoff spot, it's tough for me to justify taking a back to back mvp caliber seasons in 18/19 with 80 combined hr and over 1000 ops both seasons and having him reinvent himself at age 30 as a slap hitter. He should be striving to get back to his 18/19 form, not focusing on obp and singles.
  7. KeithStone53151
    What part of hiura at 1b was so bad? 2021 Hiura OAA 0, uzr -0.1, drs 1. 2021 Tellez OAA -4, uzr -2.0, drs -1. The eye test validated this for me. Regarding spring stats, your primary support for why hiuras good spring numbers won't lead to success in Milwaukee are yelich, nick Franklin, christian bethancourt, Ivan de Jesus, and Alex presley. C'mon man...aside from yelich who had a wildly unprecedented collapse, these guys are nowhere near the hitting talent of hiura. None were highly regarded prospects for their bat and none hit anywhere else previously. Between all 4 guys, I see 2 total seasons at the mlb level over 700 ops...none over 800 before their hot spring with the brewers. It's a bit ridiculous to look at the history of these 4 guys as having any bearing whatsoever on what hiura might do this season
  8. KeithStone53151
    What part of hiura at 1b was so bad? 2021 Hiura OAA 0, uzr -0.1, drs 1. 2021 Tellez OAA -4, uzr -2.0, drs -1. The eye test validated this for me. Regarding spring stats, your primary support for why hiuras good spring numbers won't lead to success in Milwaukee are yelich, nick Franklin, christian bethancourt, Ivan de Jesus, and Alex presley. C'mon man...aside from yelich who had a wildly unprecedented collapse, these guys are nowhere near the hitting talent of hiura. None were highly regarded prospects for their bat and none hit anywhere else previously. Between all 4 guys, I see 2 total seasons at the mlb level over 700 ops...none over 800 before their hot spring with the brewers. It's a bit ridiculous to look at the history of these 4 guys as having any bearing whatsoever on what hiura might do this season
  9. KeithStone53151
    What part of hiura at 1b was so bad? 2021 Hiura OAA 0, uzr -0.1, drs 1. 2021 Tellez OAA -4, uzr -2.0, drs -1. The eye test validated this for me. Regarding spring stats, your primary support for why hiuras good spring numbers won't lead to success in Milwaukee are yelich, nick Franklin, christian bethancourt, Ivan de Jesus, and Alex presley. C'mon man...aside from yelich who had a wildly unprecedented collapse, these guys are nowhere near the hitting talent of hiura. None were highly regarded prospects for their bat and none hit anywhere else previously. Between all 4 guys, I see 2 total seasons at the mlb level over 700 ops...none over 800 before their hot spring with the brewers. It's a bit ridiculous to look at the history of these 4 guys as having any bearing whatsoever on what hiura might do this season
  10. KeithStone53151
    What part of hiura at 1b was so bad? 2021 Hiura OAA 0, uzr -0.1, drs 1. 2021 Tellez OAA -4, uzr -2.0, drs -1. The eye test validated this for me. Regarding spring stats, your primary support for why hiuras good spring numbers won't lead to success in Milwaukee are yelich, nick Franklin, christian bethancourt, Ivan de Jesus, and Alex presley. C'mon man...aside from yelich who had a wildly unprecedented collapse, these guys are nowhere near the hitting talent of hiura. None were highly regarded prospects for their bat and none hit anywhere else previously. Between all 4 guys, I see 2 total seasons at the mlb level over 700 ops...none over 800 before their hot spring with the brewers. It's a bit ridiculous to look at the history of these 4 guys as having any bearing whatsoever on what hiura might do this season
  11. KeithStone53151
    Coming from someone currently trying and struggling to hire someone for our team, I don't even mind that I'm struggling for the fact that regular folks seem to have the power right now. I'm not as big on ghosting interviews or accepting jobs and not showing up. I find it rude and childish, you're wasting time of another person/persons trying to hire you...it's not some defiant act of screwing Corporate America. That said, right now people our company is trying to hire are asking for 30+% pay increases from their previous position along with benefit boosts. We've multiple times been outbid by another company vying for a persons services. We missed out on one candidate because that person preferred full remote versus the partial remote that our company offers. Job seekers have the power and I love it.
  12. KeithStone53151
    Ya gotta start somewhere, that's 1 in a row effective appearances from Norris
  13. KeithStone53151
    Imagine this guy throwing 3-5 scoreless innings against us in a potential NLCS matchup...
  14. KeithStone53151
    He won't be DFA'd, simply because the September roster expansions will allow for him to stick with the club and be their option when there's multiple lefty hitters due up in the 6th or 7th inning of a tight ballgame. Unless Norris turns it around significantly or if a series matchup warrants, I doubt he sees a postseason roster at this point, though. Roster expansion is only to 28 players. That's 2 adds. So even when that happens he might not be in our top 14-15 arms if he has a few more bad outings. Worth noting, the cardinals are notably right handed...there's a strong chance he doesn't pitch at all this series. This might be an opportunity for him to throw a side bullpen session and try to work on something.
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    My very speculative guess is Norris is maybe 2-3 bad outings in August away from a DFA. And at this point I'm guessing he's not getting important innings for a while. Assuming no DFA, his next 5-6 outings will probably be in games no closer than 4 runs in either direction.
  16. KeithStone53151
    Fair point, I won't say I forgot about Ashby but didn't really consider him when thinking about a replacement for Norris. That said, I honestly don't think any of the above will get into a playoff game regardless...at least a game we are winning. Nobody we are discussing is a top 5-6 option out of the pen or a starter. I'm generally not thrilled with Perdomo/Milner as a better option than Norris yet, and Ashby probably is but for now I think keeping him stretched out is better until we have our top 6 starting options back from the COVID thing. Even considering that, I'm expecting Houser and Lauer to start pitching less innings and shifting into bullpen roles(2-3 innings at a time) that they will more likely see in the postseason.
  17. KeithStone53151
    The alternative to Norris would be Perdomo/Milner. Do you think they are better options? Certainly Norris hasn't had a good first few outings by any stretch, but shouldn't call for a DFA unless you are convinced one of those guys is better. I think we give Norris a few more chances before we cut ties. And he'll actually probably be easier to hide in the back of the bullpen once September rolls around if he doesn't figure it out before then. Regardless, this is a bit of a miss for Stearns at this point clearly unless something drastically changes.
  18. KeithStone53151
    I really wanted the brewers to target a lefty reliever at the deadline. We have hader who is the closer, and suter who really doesn't have specifically great lefty splits. So having a guy to face good lefties in the 6-7th innings seemed pretty important to get. Statistically it looks like he can do that, but i have some hope that he's found something over the last month or 2 and can be a real difference maker in the pen down the stretch
  19. KeithStone53151
    Suter isn't specifically good against lefties anyways...while Norris is exactly that.
  20. KeithStone53151
    Reese Olson going back. That seems steep for Norris
  21. KeithStone53151
    932 OPS vs RHB 555 vs LHB on the season. He's also been better lately. Since the allstar break he has 5.1 IP with 0 hits, 1 bb, 6 ks.
  22. KeithStone53151
    Yeah that's not really caused by Sony. That's all the dirtbags with the bots buying them all up and reselling on ebay.
  23. KeithStone53151
    I don't buy the artificial scarcity thing. Less people having PS5 means less people buying ps5 games, ps5 controllers, etc. That's not a smart business strategy. It's also not just playstation but xbox too, so unless you think they are colluding together(not impossible but unlikely)...the simplest explanation(demand is significantly greater than supply in large part due to covid) is probably the correct one here. Regarding PS4, yeah prices are still very high on those likely as you've noted due to ps5 shortage. I was looking on craigslist and seeing similar 250+ prices. I highly suspect in a handful of months the ps5 will be more readily available and more used ps4s will become available.
  24. KeithStone53151
    Exhibit A for why this site needs a "like" feature...
  25. KeithStone53151
    I would strongly argue it is more common for elite bats to rake almost immediately upon call up than for them to struggle. Acuna, bellinger, soto, bryant, judge, benintendi, lindor, etc.
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