KeithStone53151
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For sure start Woodruff, though I'd probably start both. I'm debating on Robert for today, and the only reason is Woodruff. I figure if I start him, he'll probably go 0-4 with 3 strikeouts. If I don't, he's hitting 2 bombs. So for the Brewers sake, I probably should start him
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Guaranteed nobody woudl have called this lineup. Cain Hiura Yelich Braun - DH Gyorko Garcia Smoak - 1B Pina Arcia
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Oh wonderful, this guy. The guy that throws mostly fastballs at 92ish, get's destroyed by literally everyone else, but we for some reason can't hit him at all. Hopefully having a bunch of new faces helps. I will certainly be interested to see what we do for a lineup against our first LH of the year. I would guess something like... Cain - CF Yelich - LF Hiura - DH Braun - 1B Garcia - RF Gyorko - 3B Pina - C Holt - 2B Arcia - SS
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So if Braun is at 1B vs lefties who is DH? I mean Hijra will get some time there I’m sure but if you do that then Holt or Sovard plays 2nd......do they have good splits vs lefties? I noticed there's a bit of a gap here as well. Smoak will probably 1b/DH some of it, otherwise you probably end up with Holt/Sogard in the game with some sort of shuffle. Not ideal obviously, will be interesting to see how it plays out.
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I would have been just fine forgetting that ever happened...
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It's hard to know for sure, I think the DH is a greater factor than Gamel. It's super easy to just throw Braun in at DH, if that weren't an option...he'd still play and it would probably be RF/1B. As is, I think Braun will mostly DH and play 1b against lefties...occasionally he'll play the outfield if he's feeling good(which is rare). Which yes would mean Gamel sees plenty of time in the outfield.
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Brewers 35-25 Reds 35-25 Cards 31-29 Cubs 31-29 Pirates 23-37 Seriously don't sleep on the Reds. That lineup is stacked. Offense wins the regular season.
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I wonder who would be the emergency #3 catcher. Brock Holt? Sogard? Gamel?
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It's roughly what I expected. In my head, I didn't get overly nitpicky as far as bullpen arms because the 15th and 16th pitchers might not pitch at all. When we cut to 28, I'm guessing guaranteed 1 pitcher and probably 2 pitcher will be the cuts. When it cuts to 26 we'll have to lose a position player. I personally was hoping they'd keep Keon for speed/D...he's such a good dude, would have loved to see him in the Brewers uniform again for a couple weeks.
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This trade in my opinion was looking reeeeeeeally bad for the Dodgers due to COVID, but the extension helps. I mean, yes they could have just signed him...but they might not have had the chance if he was traded elsewhere.
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LOL you are sticking to your guns on the "Houser isn't a starter" idea. I can respect that. In fairness, Houser would probably pitch better in relief than as a starter. But that can be said about probably at least 95% of starting pitchers. Since Anderson is due back in relatively short order, I suspect there will be a very very short hook for someone. If any of the 3 young guys has 2 bad starts in a row, that's about all it will take as Anderson or Lauer or both will likely be ready to roll by then. Hopefully, all 3 throw a couple gems in a row and make CC's decision very difficult.
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Houser was pretty good in the minors, but dealt with a few years of injuries. Right after we acquired him and Hader, Hader was an absolute K monster...but I read far more positive quotes about Houser than Hader...which is telling. I think the results didn't quite line up with the stuff yet. All of Burnes/Peralta/Houser are young enough with a small enough sample at the MLB level that you don't really know what you're going to get. They all also could have improved over the offseason and the 4 month furlough. I'm happy to see all 3 getting a shot in the rotation right away. I personally think this works out great. It will be hard to give Anderson a job back if all 3 go out and throw 5-6 innings of 0-1 run ball their first couple starts. But if one guy struggles his first 2 starts...hopefully Anderson or Lauer will be ready, otherwise Suter.
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I personally think the Brewers rotation is top half of the league depending on the starters chosen, but I'm also probably more familiar with our players than your average FG writer and am probably a bit biased. I'm very surprised an FG writer would rank Brewers there, you look at Brett Anderson and Josh Lindblom in 2 spots...how can you see this rotation on paper and be like "yup, they are top half". Edit - oh that's right, in projection world 90% of pitchers pitch to between a 3.75 and 4.75 ERA.
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One tidbit i'll add, it's probably less important to preserve SP depth with 30 man rosters and a 60 game schedule. Also there is no minor leagues to send Burnes or Lauer or any other guy with options. And it's not as long and grueling of a season where you pretty much need to count on 9 guys starting games minimum. I know it eventually gets trimmed, but if we trade away Anderson for example and a starter gets hurt 2 weeks later...we can still trade our prospects for a starter at that point. I think the main point is, it would have to be the right deal. No sense in trading him just for salary relief. Luis Medina is certainly worth it, heck we probably don't need quite as substantial of a return for it to be worth Anderson.
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Have the marlins announced themselves as sellers yet?
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Summer Camp (aka Spring Training 2.0)
KeithStone53151 replied to A Swing and A Drive's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Well now we know who's really the better player... -
Summer Camp (aka Spring Training 2.0)
KeithStone53151 replied to A Swing and A Drive's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I don't know that I agree with the second part of this, his slider was very effective against RHB. A changeup will be better if it's a good offering though. When a guy faces Hader, he spends so much time trying to figure out if a fastball is high out of the zone or barely at the top of the zone...because his pitches play best when he flirts with the very top of the zone. Now all of a sudden you have to wonder if what looks like a hittable "fastball" is actually a changeup that will drop out of the zone. If he can throw 10-12% changeups, it would be massive. And it would probably on paper look like a savage pitch...because nobody is going to go to the plate against Hader looking changeup. They'll all sit fastball because you darn well better against Hader, and they'll swing helplessly at his good changeups. -
Pitching is a different animal due to the evolution of an arm over the course of a normal season so something like that wouldn't surprise me. Outfielders diving for balls, yes I expect to see that, because 99% of the players are competitors before businessmen and they got where they are by being better than the best. Pitchers maybe but everyone else...what's the difference between getting hurt during a 162 game season vs a 60 game season? We will see. The difference being they are getting paid 1/3 salary with other added risks. Hopefully that's not the case, we will see.
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I wouldn't be surprised at all if a pretty significant contingent of players were very careful for this shortened season. I'm specifically looking at contract year guys and pitchers. I'm not going to say they'll mail it in, but they'll do their best to mitigate the risk of significant injury in such a short season. Maybe some pitchers only pitch with 90% effort and focus on their mechanics to not overstress anything. You think Betts is going to try for diving catches?
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If that is your opinion of Manfred, nothing in any article will paint the players in a bad light for you. I’m not sure how anyone could have any other sort of an opinion on Manfred. He’s either a really terrible Commish that doesn’t care much about the actual sport or he’s a puppet for greedy owners that care more about making money. Pick one, he sucks either way. Considering Manfred is hired by the owners, it's fair to assume he's a mouthpiece for the owners. Right now, he's basically representing the position of the owners that hired him. You're basically shooting the messenger.
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I think this tweet/quote sums it all up pretty well. They weren't working together to build a floor from which the players could negotiate from...this is seriously a bad look for the players. Which is a shame because I think a significant majority of fans were on their side for a change up until today.
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So new details emerging and the players apparently countered the owners offer. This is the first time I've gotten annoyed by the players. They get so many players including Trout/Harper/Cole behind this "say when and where"...Rob/Clark put together a pretty damn good package that gives them what they want...and they counter it. That's super annoying and is a bad look. I would argue the owners gave the players more than they were asking with the salary forgiveness and extra playoff money. I can understand wanting to play a few more games, but considering the offer...I think they needed to ask for more games, but then throw the owners a bone on the playoff money or somewhere to have it not look like they are asking for more money after they've been given more than they were asking for.
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My 90% number would get salaries to 1.3 billion. Add in the expanded rosters and that gets players about half the revenue, which again seems fair.
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Bulletpoints I've seen on the new proposal are in the link but I'll also note them. 76 game season, 75% prorated salaries, playoff pool for players, no draft pick comp. I saw a separate tweet that said players would make 19% more this way than they would on full prorated 50 game schedule. This feels like overall an improvement for players. I think the 76 game season makes sense, if I'm the players I'm trying to bump the prorated share to 90% or so and stick with the current schedule(they deserve 100%, but at this point they need to cut the best deal they can). I think a deal could happen relatively quickly if players work off this framework of games/offers from the owners and simply try to bump their slice of the pie. If they go back to trying for 100+ games, they'll end up with a 50 game season.
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They don't really need to. The prorated pay per game agreement has already been rectified, so it's a matter of finding that happy medium for total number of games. I'm guessing they end up with an 80-90 game season at roughly 80-85% the agreed upon prorated pay. The owners take a hit financially but end up looking like they saved the season. The players take a hit, but end up looking like they took one for the team to bring baseball back to the masses. That would be reasonable, but I don't expect the players to budge on prorated pay(and I don't blame them one bit). I'm expecting a 55-65 game season with prorated salaries that will start in mid-July. I believe I read that the expanded postseason wasn't included in the original March agreement, so the owners will have to bend to a degree to get an expanded postseason and the revenue that comes with it.