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I mean, wouldn't keeping guys like Bauers/Sanchez/Vaughn around a bit of being prepared for it? As much as a team with their budget can anyway. Just saying they kept one-two guys extra in this general roster space where I'd assume a team with their philosophy would much prefer position flexible people.
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If you say so, its spikes up to me. The foot that he spikes him with is held above the base in the air the whole time. The cut on the pants is basically at the knee. In addition he does slide past the bag, you know, because he started his slide way late in order to spike the guy and because his foot was in the air to spike the guy rather than hit the bag with the foot
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The three guys on MLB network had some comically bad takes on the incident. All saying how that was a good slide as if its still 1985. In today's baseball that is clearly wrong. They even went as far as to blame Hamilton for not getting out of the way since he should've known Contreras is crazy. I guess for the most part though, they did acknowledge a guy standing on top of the plate diving over the plate with his hands should know they're going to get hit a lot. I mean, the guy where's elbow pads and hand pads for a reason
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Chourio to IL with left hand fracture, Perkins recalled
tmwiese55 replied to markedman5's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I wouldn't say the playing WBC that is the problem, as pointed out by so many, but rather how it was missed and he kept playing on it after it happened? -
In addition, keep in mind another 7ish years of inflation on those type of deals. I guess that should apply in general to this whole deal with it being so long, the numbers we are all accustomed to now will all be up 15-25% in another 7-10 years.
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Right, and the team gets the perk of 'controlling' them for an extra 2-3 years. Especially if the last year or two are team options and save a bunch of money vs the market in those last few years if the guy does pop. It kind of seems like a win-win making sense for both sides.
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I've thought about it and chalked it up to working out finer details, and possibly about the timing of when to execute it in terms of roster manipulation type stuff based on when it's 'official'. So I assumed its nbd, but who knows maybe someone more in tune with the logistical finer details will chime in
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Hadn't thought about it but yes now that you say it they lack a classic RH hard thrower after the two closers. If one of them goes on the DL for a while that could be a problem. Kind of surprising for MKE to be short on this type of player. Who'd be the likely AAA guy to come up with that role? The SPs names don't really qualify, Yoho is a softer thrower. Maybe they get Bukauskus fixed? Either way, won't be surprised if someone like this (who has options) is targeted in a trade soon
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I caught the end of it, but I thought on TV they said he was a reverse splits guy? I could've easily misheard it
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I know its early, small sample, etc so its not like I'm freaking out or anything. And I know Murphy has made a public bet on Hamilton being this breakout guy, but so far I'd rather be giving Rengifo these ABs and hoping he bounces back. that said, Hamilton has looekd good on D and I just checked and the splits have Rengifo better as a RHH, so I'm sure they're going to let this go for a while yet. But Hamilton is giving some Dunn/Sigler type vibes to me where we're hoping them to be more than they are capable of
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I would wager all my money they have tried and had discussions in the past They've worked out several of these early signings over the last few years. Chances are they've also had several they couldn't come to an agreement on. I think the window of making a deal was before last season, that window is likely now shut, especially after what Hoerner got.
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It was just a joke article, nbd. But if we're having a serious discussion on it, I think the point would be that he is no where near the 76th best ump yet he's keeping his job due to the union structure. Chances are almost all minor leaguers would do better than him and Angel at this point. And note, I'm generally someone who's on the 'refs get way too much grief' side of things having done my share of reffing when I was younger. Seeing what HS and even youth refs deal with is ridiculous these days
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My basic thing watching from afar for Mitchell to improve on is being more aggressive and actually swinging. Seems there's way too much trying to milk walks which puts him in bad spots, leading to Ks and even the Ks are very often going down looking. Just seems to be way too much watching strikes go by and going down looking, idk if any advanced data supports it. Swing the bat.
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That Emerson contract seems to hurt us in negotiations with Made. I think we all assumed Made would get more than Chourio in a hypothetical same scenario, but the Emerson deal just pressed it up a lot
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Generally agree and all, cold weather just seems to make hitting harder. However, the last two games of that series the wind was blowing out significantly. I think I saw earlier today that tonight's game is as well. I had fantasy players for both teams, so I checked the wind every day. I saw one of Happ's HR over the weekend and it probably becomes borderline if not for the wind. That said, Happ looks to be in a much better spot with his swing than he has been the last two years. I think he's a FA after this year so probably wants one more good payday. That would hurt if he plays a level better than he's been lately. Busch looks like he isn't going anywhere either, man I wish we'd have gotten him from LA instead of them
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With the so-so hitting I haven't really known what to think on him, or even what the org thought on him. This means they're pretty darn confident he'll at least be starter quality. Also, seeing him up close in ST it seems he's tacked on some mass and of course his frame has room to tack on more. So there is potential there for a hitting leap. At this point you generally have to trust Brewers assessments, so this makes me fairly confident. Of course, there's no guarantees and they're not right about everything so we'll see. Think this might also show some of the reasoning behind moving Durbin. If they have this much confidence in him he's likely on the radar to come up later this year if needed, and for sure next year. Thus making Durbin expendable and better to sell high on him rather than lower value if has a down year and/or becomes a utility guy later this year or in spring next year.
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If I recall the two possessions after the 8 pt lead there was a Blackwell drive that could easily have been a foul and a Boyd one that could. Instead, both were let go resulting in HP 3s on the other end (I think one was the 40 footer). Nothing egregious or anything to overly complain about, borderline calls that go either way. Anything in that sequence goes the other way (refs call fouls, or HP misses those 3s) and you likely comfortably drain out the clock. Probably got bad luck with how refs have the subconscious bias to give breaks to the team that's losing. I'm not blaming here, its part of the game, just getting at the butterfly effect of 50/50 calls. That's just the flukiness of a one game tournament.
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Just wanted to say I appreciated your insight all season. Good, knowledgeable stuff.
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For comparison, last year this game was in Denver also at 11 am. I went and it was $150 for endzone tickets halfway up the first deck. Bought tickets an hour or so before game so it was about as cheap as it went. One thing to note is BYU was in the same session. 2nd round, was almost $500 for corner seats maybe 15th row. What a difference being in a convenient location makes
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Jett was almost for sure going to start in AAA no matter what due to control. Of course there's all the other roster options 'above' him in terms of experience, but just based on gaining another year of control if he stays down for a few weeks. In those few weeks, others will get their chances. If they falter or injuries occur then he becomes an option to replace.
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I literally deleted a line because it seemed too long saying he would be the only one that would overlap but that's its essentially a lock that he isn't signing back, so it doesn't really matter. In addition, if you worked it out as an 'extension' right now you could structure it around Yelich's remaining year
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Don't get me wrong, if a trade could happen to clear this I'd probably do it rather than risk another big injury that turns his contract back into the pumpkin it looked like about two years ago. That's likely not happening this close to the season, but say he has another generally solid season. Other teams with bigger budgets could see a 2/50 type remaining contract as a fair bet. I don't think I'm attaching anything of value to 'dump' him though coming off the good year he just had. That said, we're already down to only 3 years left on this so its not thaaat bad as long as he stays healthy and being a solid contributor. In addition, since its only 3 years left the money shouldn't affect anything with the young guys in terms of yearly budgets. By the time any of them start making real money he'll be gone. But yes, they could overall look at it as $75 mil saved to spend elsewhere, or say on a more age aligned FA next year. With their relationship with him though, I don't think they're in any rush to get out of this contract now that he's rebounded to being a solid hitter again. He's probably even a guy they could go to and shift money into deferrals to help them out and he'd do it.
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Yea I think Turang's second half last year makes it not make any sense. Before last season when he was D first and a questionable bat maybe there was a price point where buying out 1-2 years past arbitration could make sense since it would be so little money to MKE (maybe they did try and he said No though). But now, the cost is likely to be so high that paying that money for those ages is likely too great of a risk. Let's just hope his second half and what he's done in WBC is real and we have a great player the next 3 years as the youths develop and come up, then trade him for a haul. I suppose too, if enough of the young guys pan out Turang could be one traded with two years let because his Arb salary might be so high by then.
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Press break has been a consistent problem in the Bo/Gard. Its a bit surprising more teams haven't done it vs them other than in desperation. With these two guards, especially Boyd, its definitely not a personnel issue this year. In general, I hate how teams (UW included) sit back and just let the traps play out rather than if you have a great ballhandler with great quickness (like boyd) to just get it and go. Attack it and beat them to the spots you'll get layups or fouls.
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I went to a few games last week and noticed his swing path was almost a downward swing. For anyone that has seen many minors games for him or many more spring ABs, would you say that's his normal or maybe just them putting an emphasis on contact in spring? I've only seen him play one minor league game and didn't notice it, but that type of swing is going to almost be exclusively grounders/liners and really no HRs. Obviously he still got great results because any time he made contact it was very hard contact, but just curious on more informed people's comments on it.
