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  1. tmwiese55
    It was so quick in spring and people are saying it is in AAA too that one would think you could just do it on every pitch automatically and never have to think about it again.
  2. tmwiese55
    Yea while I agree Cubs are a clear favorite at this point no way I'd be giving up on it either. 5 games at this point in the year is nothing, but they have such a good offense and a much easier schedule going forward due to their brutal April. But at some point they're going to have pitching issues and PCA is going to regress. By no means am I saying its a lock that MKE make it close, but as their pitchers are all coming back now if Yelich/Contreras do much better than the start of the year and Chourio gets back to last year they'll have a real chance. Likely will add a basic competency bat on the left side too. One thing to note, if you delete the first four games when for whatever reason they were just not ready for the year, they're at a .576 win% which is a 93-94 win pace, and thats in spite of a completely injured starting pitching staff, Contreras/Yeli well below norms and Chourio just being ok.
  3. tmwiese55
    Sure. I wasn't saying it was doghouse even. More that it might be that he's the type that needs multiple days off since he's used to longer outings, thus if used today he wouldn't be available Friday for the role he's intended. But just saw the post that he was beginning to warm up, so it was likely out of what that poster said. Especially since Mears was warmed up anyway and hadn't pitched in a few days
  4. tmwiese55
    Was surprised to see Mears too but I think we all know that they know it too. It was clearly by intent not stupidity. I'd guess, Mears off since the 1st so by Friday that's 5 days off, which they didn't love. And I'd guess Ashby is in a situation where they want multiple innings and subsequently days off due to health management. So they might have it that if he pitched today he wouldn't be available on Friday (especially for 2-4 innings) if needed. Thus you're left with the guy who hasn't pitched in the longest in Mears. In a sense its a good thing that you essentially don't have a 'bad pitcher' in the pen at this point to eat innings in this situation. Ashby is the closest thing to it for sure but his multi inning status and injury history limit him. So moreso than bashing the coach for bullpen use here, its likely more appropriate to discuss whether Ashby should be on the team. Though I didn't do any digging to see his option status and if he can be send down. If he can't be, well then it is what it is
  5. tmwiese55
    Feel free to explain that more as I'm not sure I grasp it and might not fully know it. Seems to me they do own the right to highlights of all sports, since they well do show at least some of all major sports. That's one of the things I never grasped as to why they've gone the route of paying guys tens of millions to argue about sports rather than just air the summaries/highlights of sports (for free, since they already pay for it however they do). Pay a random host 2-300K or Stephen A 25 mil, you're still getting the same ratings of people who just default toss espn on in the background. Real sports fans just want to see the sports, not people argue about sports anyway Best route these days is to neve turn espn on other than for live games. The 3-4 times I have in the last few years do to being in a hotel it has proven still be as awful as I recalled
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    Yea my nitpicks on the lineup would've been why Mona at the top. And why Cameron at the 5 rather than lower, probably swap him with Haase. I accept that come days you have to play bench guys so the fact they're playing I don't even worry about, but those would've been my tweaks. Just shows why getting agitated over lineup daily is likely a waste of energy.
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    I'm talking about prospect cost, not financial. Saying someone would be willing to fork over more/better prospects as I don't expect MKE to act desperate and force it
  8. tmwiese55
    I guess this explains something that stood out to me a few days ago while clicking around basic team stats. Brewers were low in OPS like say 23rdish, yet like 8thish in runs scored.
  9. tmwiese55
    Yea surprising AZ has faltered this much but what it does is probably open up Suarez to the market. With his good year so far I'd be shocked if he's not priced out of our range as I doubt we'd be willing to 'overpay' to get a rental with how stacked the NL is above us even if they do make the playoffs. Unless DJ starts hitting in NY, Suarez seems to have Yankees top target written all over him. I'm sure there's a few other playoff teams that will be calling too. ETA: other things to note with AZ and relvant to a Freddy trade market is that both Gallen and Kelly seem to free agents after this year as far as I can tell. If the team keeps faltering both them will probably be put up for sale too.
  10. tmwiese55
    Man this game must be a complete blowout considering how absolutely awful the starting pitcher is for us.
  11. tmwiese55
    Burnes leaves with elbow injury, this is almost always a precursor to TJ surgery. So for our two recent SP stars going for their big paydays, Woodruff wrecks his shoulder like 5 games away from the payday. Burnes (assuming TJ) luckily made it roughly 7 games after his payday before the injury that would've cost him a bunch of money.
  12. tmwiese55
    Kind of feels like they might have the Burnes/Woody route in mind here. Keep developing as SP, and get innings built up for next year. But later in this year as he approaches innings limit, come up and do 1-2 inning outings to help the team and get his feet wet before next year.
  13. tmwiese55
    don't love the chances with the short BP but never know with the new extras format. My question here would've been why not Megill to finish that 8th instead of Payamps. Had day off yesterday, would hope he could get 4 outs.
  14. tmwiese55
    Yup, I believe he also admitted to leaving the sample in his car, possibly trunk, while he went to work or did whatever the next day while it was a warm day outside. Its reported that several other players also tested positive that day, all so freakishly high that they were thrown out but Braun's was barely under the level to be thrown out so he got put through the ringer. Add in that due to testing procedures that the players would have to be absolute morons to be using that day, players then got tested X amount of times regular season so after they hit the last test were free to do anything. And come postseason they had to get tested once(knowing its coming), possibly twice again, and then would be free to do whatever, so if you hadn't hit your last test yet (I think it was 1) you'd have to be a moron to take anything. I'd have my money that at that exact moment Braun's test was a fluke caused by mishandling of sample, just like was assumed with all the other fails that day. It just so happens he was guilty regardless otherwise an innocent person might have had their whole career tainted due to that mishandling. Also, things like trunk of car while you're not with it, in a basement while sleeping in another part of the house would constitute chain of custody issues.
  15. tmwiese55
    Maybe the best thing for his psyche is to take a two week break from the pressure up here. Go down and try to get back to what made him good the first half of last year. Who knows, but putting up a 0fer every day letting your team down in front of 30K people and hundreds of thousands at home could be worse than the embarrassment of being sent down. they have to do something at the two positions soon. For Ortiz, I'd guess he's safe in mke more because chances are they'll be lucky to find one replacement, let alone two. Not out of any psyche thing that having 2-3 good month means you can never be sent down again
  16. tmwiese55
    I doubt Brewers are going to punt on the season at this point. But sure if things are the same 6 weeks from now they'll likely make some moves. But to this discussion, even if they do Megill still has two cheap years left before FA and I'd guess MKE thinks they can get back to contention next year. The guy I would be looking to move would be Mears, rather than trust him to be closer. Guy has been shaky for years, if you can get a 2-3 month hot streak out of him and cash him out for way more than you gave up for him I'd say go for it. And sure, Megill would get more back but I'd still much prefer to keep him for the next two years as I trust him way more.
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    Yea it really never made sense to me. For a poor team always pinching pennies, to choose to pay like 17.5 mil for at most 3/4 of a season of a guy fresh off shoulder surgery was poor use of money. Sure it feels harsh to let him go and just say sorry after the injury, but that's the nature of the business. He likely turned down multiple long term contract possibilities s they offered over the years that would've made him set for life but chose to gamble for the mega-payday.
  18. tmwiese55
    Another big thing overlooked in the years of arguing about this is that his ban was something he agreed to in order to avoid any further investigation. Which could have led to them finding even more damning info (betting on games as a player and or throwing of games) and/or criminal prosecutions. I'm a gambler, and I still would've left him banned. He agreed to that, then proceeded to lie for 20+ years. Then some prompting got him to admit to it as manager. Chances are he continued to lie about not doing it as a player. Not sure how anyone could take anything he said with any value.
  19. tmwiese55
    Brutal luck game for Priester. Easily could've been 0 runs given up. Did all he could today, good bounce back from last game
  20. tmwiese55
    Yea losing a good starter for the year hurts. The general idea among Cubs fans is they all know they need P help in all areas, but they have the money and a generally deep farm to try and improve it as the year goes by.
  21. tmwiese55
    Somehow they've managed .500 after the brutal 4 game start. They've done that with their whole starting pitching staff hurt besides one guy, with the leftside giving nothing, Yeli/contreras generally down, and Chourio just being ok rather than the force he was at the end last year, and the bullpen being much shakier than its been the last few years. Its kind of shocking they're not in a worse position considering all that. They have to be active trying to improve the left side, but as those other things start to course correct they should be in an ok spot going forward. Hopefully the Cubs have a cold snap and they can take advantage, because 2nd place might not be enough with how good the NL is.
  22. tmwiese55
    Yea, I actually think they should fold the team
  23. tmwiese55
    Obviously today was bad. But he was generally fine before this, a relief pitcher having a blowup game doesn't automatically mean they suck. It happens to everyone. That said, being so reliant on a changeup is something I don't love, it was also a reason Williams always felt so shaky to me as the changeup so often floats out of the zone. Williams obviously overcame it and Hoffman was dominant too so it can be done, but generally why I'll take the hard thrower with hard sliders if I had my choice. So many times watching Williams I just felt like the other team could put their bat on the shoulder and just get walked over and over, but he found away to make them swing. Of course it helped he also threw upper 90s
  24. tmwiese55
    I was under the impression Yoho was unhittable and Brewers management should have all been fired for leaving him down for 3 weeks Jokes aside, my biggest concern so far this year is the BP has not been a strength. Sure it might be affected by all the SP injuries, but their biggest strength the last several years has been putting together a killer BP over and over. If they lose that big advantage over other teams it makes things much more difficult. Also, have to realize its still the guys first few innings in the bigs. Can't expect pure domination right away and small samples are fluky.
  25. tmwiese55
    Generally speaking, the national narrative so far is that the Bal front office has botched it hard the last few years to kind of blow the amazing position they were in with such a loaded batch of hitting prospects all coming at the same time. They've made some really odd deals the last two deadlines combined with odd FA signings
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