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I used it for the first time last year and had minimal issues. Initially I had issues connecting to games, but I just had to reinstall the program once and I was all set for the season. My first thought was the whole blackout thing, but in Arizona you'll be fine except when the Brewers play the Dbacks. Others have noted this, but you're on a delay. So if you're on the phone or texting with someone watching the game and don't like spoilers...make sure said person is aware you're on a delay so they don't spoil the Braun walkoff or Lorenzo Cain game saving wall catch.
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For starters, the pitcher is the pitcher and he can more or less choose his arsenal. Obviously it's a collaborative decision as said pitcher wants to be successful, but he has the final say. I don't think any pitcher in baseball throws both a splitter and circle change. That seems weird. In reality I think you usually pick one and then throw a good curve...that would be an excellent arsenal of pitches.
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MLB to increase minor league pay in 2021
KeithStone53151 replied to LouisEly's topic in Brewers Minor League Talk
They also have to pay clubhouse dues. How much are those? I can't imagine too crazy. It's good to see them get a pretty significant bump. More would be better of course, but $1,600 a month with housing covered and a food stipend is definitely a livable wage during the season. Also covered are medical(probably all insurance) and gym membership. This is a very significant majority of their basic spending needs that are covered before the $1,600 even comes into play. They certainly aren't getting rich off this, but it's a very livable wage(during the season) considering everything. -
Burnes has the repertoire to be a top of the rotation arm. I think last year was a mix of getting unlucky, but also getting shaky on the mental side of things when every mistake was hit 400 feet. He still had elite strikeout numbers and threw some pretty nasty pitches. Didn’t he strike out the first 8 or 9 batters of a game last season even though he only had 4 starts? He has the stuff. I too believe that our success this season on the pitching front will come down to Hader (obviously), Burnes, and Peralta. One thing Burnes specifically pointed to in an interview is his FB/slider sorta blended together too much. His FB has natural cutting action on it. And then he throws his slider so darn hard, it easy to see where the pitches blended together too much. Also I believe location was a big problem. Usually you can get away with poor location when your stuff is that nasty, but with the pitches blending clearly that didn't work out. Also a reminder his first 4 starts before being removed from the rotation were against Cards twice, Dodgers, Cubs. All 3 teams were hitting ridiculous the first month of the season. In relief, he had some good some bad results before getting sent down. It sounded from his interview that they made a measurable change to his arsenal, though I didn't see exactly what. I would think a fairly easy change might be working in a 2 seam or sinker to go with the FB/slider. Better would be a vastly improved changeup, but regardless I would be shocked if he didn't do something measurable to keep his 2 best pitches from blending together so much.
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I don't mean to overly nitpick, but the changeup isn't a truly new pitch for him as the slider is. He threw the changeup around 2% of the time. So I would say technically it's moreso that the pitch isn't good versus the pitch is new like his slider. I completely agree with your general point that it would be awesome if his changeup was a point of emphasis and he could develop a QUALITY changeup.
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I've been on this for a bit too. I saw those reports during winter ball that he was throwing 4 distinct pitches, changeup and slider included. I would consider if weird if one of Burnes/Peralta didn't force their way into the opening day rotation. It's certainly possible both do. I would think Anderson and Houser are probably most likely to get bumped back to a bullpen role if one of those two young guys forces his way into the rotation. A classic trademark of the Stearns era has been creating competition at positions. The only guys I would say that aren't competing for PT are Yelich, Hader, Woodruff. Literally everyone else is competing to some degree for playing time. Guys like Hiura, Cain, Smoak, Garcia, and Braun are probably very likely to get a ton of playing time and all but Hiura are locked into major league contracts(all significant except Smoak), but each one of those guys has a very obvious replacement and will lose PT very quickly if they don't produce. Bullpen is wide open except one slot. Left side of the infield is wide open. Only 1 rotation spot is truly locked in.
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The playoff thing is probably an effort to change the conversation. I'm not entirely sure it actually happens.
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I actually think Manfred is doing the best he can, aside from the whole not suspending players thing. Of course he has to make a comment toward the Astros, otherwise they'd get plunked 40-50 times in spring training and who knows what kind of on field conduct that would spark. I personally love baseball brawls when they are actually brawls and not jogging out and posturing, but it's not good for the game. Kids don't need to be seeing that stuff, and it would inevitably happen if Astros players are getting hit. The apology from the Astros was horrible. They clearly don't care at all. Correa is by far the worst piece of this. Dude is getting upset with other players making negative comments about their cheating. Shut your mouth, put your head down, and take it until it fades away. That dude probably has the biggest target on his back of all Astros at this point because of his big mouth.
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Hader/Yelich Day of Reckoning
KeithStone53151 replied to Soupbone's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
Jansen doesn't even have to go down for this to happen. Dude is getting old and his stuff is diminishing rapidly. All you need is half a dozen blown saves and a 6 ERA for the Dodgers to get desperate. With the Dodgers, it's certainly possible they decide to go truly allin at the deadline even if Jansen is pitching well. The Mookie move was a pretty desperate move in my opinion. That's a really bad trade for them from a value standpoint unless Price bounces back in a big way...OR...they win the world series in 2020. It wouldn't make sense to do all that and risk your bullpen blowing a key game in the playoffs. -
Projected Arbitration Numbers for 2020
KeithStone53151 replied to Matt Breen's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I tend to agree that $3.4M wouldn't make sense, too high. But at the same time $2.5M seems a bit too low. If Suter lost, he'd probably get like $1.4-$1.6 in 2021 if he threw 120 innings of 3.75-4.5 ERA ball. If he won and hit those stats, he'd get $2-2.2 probably. So most likely scenarios are $2.2-2.4 if he lost and $3.2-3.5 if he won in arbitration. I suppose there is always the possibility he's pure trash this year and would get cut...so the 2 year guarantee is probably appealing for him. I guess if you factor all the scenarios, it's probably overall about right or maybe a bit on the team friendly side. -
Nolan Arenado
KeithStone53151 replied to Warning Track Power's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
That type of deal doesn't seem to make a lot of sense for the Rockies, but that front office is pretty bad. Hopefully that doesn't happen unless the Cubs are sending some really good prospects back to Colorado. -
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/which-mlb-teams-had-the-worst-offseasons-red-sox-astros-cardinals-make-list-of-disappointing-winters/ Here's an incredibly damning indictment on the Brewers offseason. This guy held no punches, completely skewered our offseason. I'll leave his comments on the Brewers to your interpretation, but in what universe did the Cubs not have one of the worst offseasons of them all? They did literally nothing. While the rest of the NL Central got better(except the Pirates), they just figured they'd swap out a good manager(aside from bullpen management) with a rookie manager and still be able to compete? Nobody on their team aside from Hoerner and some bullpen arms have much upside over there, most of their guys are more likely to regress than improve from their 2019 seasons...especially their rotation. The teams that sold, did so as part of a strategy and the moves generally worked...the Cubs acted like a team that had no strategy and didn't really know what to do.
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The Brewers have been getting better when it comes to developing pitching over the last handful of years. Previously it was pretty bad, but we have a number of home grown or mostly home grown arms in the majors right now. Woodruff, Burnes, Suter, Devin Williams, Taylor Williams, Trey Supak. Then there's Hader, Houser, and Peralta who were mostly home grown...started elsewhere but were mostly developed by us. I'm not going to argue we're as good as the Braves(even though the Braves had a ton of high 1st round picks to develop, better chance of success), but I think it's safe to say we're getting significantly better at developing pitching.
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I prefer Thursday to the last few which have been Monday. At least you can easily make a 4 day weekend out of it. But I tend to agree, Friday would be better.
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You have to be designated as a pitcher for a certain number of games right? its all about the designation. when you are designated as a pitcher you won't be able to go play the field and vice versa. After the player has the right number of games at both positions they can be designated a 2-way player. Ahh, no rule against playing a pitcher in the field. So that player would have to count as a pitcher until he hits 20 innings and 20 starts with min 3 PA.
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One thing I noticed, let's say there's a minor league player that's a legit 2 way player all the way through the minors. Said player doesn't fit the criteria as a 2 way player. Since position players aren't allowed to pitch, how does one ever become a 2 way player according to the new rules?
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I'm a big MLB The Show guy, and saw this today. My first thought was, I wonder if minor league players will be compensated for this? They certainly should be. In the past, if you played franchise mode, the minor leaguers would have fictious names/ratings if not on the 40 man. If they did get paid, it would be a nice little indirect way for them to earn a little extra $.
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Rehab assignment is tricky because minor league games don't start until a week or two after MLB games. Most likely he'd hang in extended spring if he only need an extra week or two. It's one thing to be ready to play, but it's another thing for a guy who has yet to have major league success...to be ready to succeed at the MLB level.
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I tend to agree on Pederson, but I also think he'd be a lot better in CF than Garcia. Miller Park is a smaller CF than Dodgers Stadium and he's played some CF for them. But again I agree, once we got Garcia this simply didn't make sense...unless of course he can play SS or 3B and nobody knows it.
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And it's a shoulder too, which is seriously awful news for an older guy. The good news for the Braves, they have so much pitching in their upper minors that they won't miss a beat if he misses time.
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The biggest folly I've seen thusfar is how much people are minimizing potential contributions from Burnes/Peralta. Most people see them as upside depth, whereas I expect at least one to force his way into the opening day rotation. Those guys both ranked ahead of Woodruff heading into 2019, primarily for stuff reasons. For whatever reason, Burnes was way too hittable. Peralta was bad in the rotation and much better in relief, likely due to his 1.5-2 pitch arsenal. I can't really explain Burnes, but I would be shocked if the Brewers and him didn't heavily invest in figuring out the problem and identifying a solution heading into 2020. Maybe he added or adjusted a pitch, maybe he was simply tipping pitches...whatever it is, I would find it weird if he was bad again. The stuff is just too good. Peralta went from his 1.5-2 pitch arsenal and from what I read...was throwing 4 distinct pitches in winter league(I'm sure everyone saw the results). Imagine if even one of them is as good or better than 2019 Woodruff. And then imagine we have 2 guys like that the whole season.
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I haven't seen any, but it's fun to discuss. We've talked about potential trades that make way less sense than this. Look no further than the Kris Bryant thread.
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Thanks for posting this. The confirmation at the end of the transaction was misleading and indicated you could view them immediately. Also, I never received any confirmation email, which is odd. Anybody else receive a confirmation email? I was on my phone when I made the purchase so I literally have no record of the transaction other than my CC bill at this point. If you have an MLB account, you probably should have received a receipt. I received one for my extras for our group. Maybe check your junk folder? Otherwise I would probably reach out to some version of customer support.
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Nope, glad it's not just me. Tickets won't be loaded to the ballpark app until March 1 according to my rep. I can't even see my 20 pack tickets yet.
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It isn't hilarious if you understand anything about statistics. That scenario involves every single player have the best possible year and being nearly 100% healthy. If you bet on under 90 wins your potential winnings would probably have to be paid out in half pennies. Add to that scenario, the perfect combination of no less than 20 major injuries among the other NL central teams...and maybe then they have a chance.