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Maybe but with the 3 ABs per pitcher rule I don't think completely so. You don't want to put Ls back to back so that when the Lefty reliever comes on he'll have to face a righty too. For this specific example, the easy tweak I'd have made is usually flopping him and Adames based on track record. That said, Adames is outperforming Hoskins so far so really can't complain or nitpick too much. Like I said, this isn't a big thing to me and gets talked about too much, but it just seems weird when you only have 2 proven hitters on the team to start the year that the guy getting paid like 20 mil only bats 6th most days

I'm not a lineup nitpicker, but one for me all year is why Hoskins has been consistently low in the 6ish area. Most times I look at it and realize its due to L/R manipulation so it is what it is. Which I assume that is the case today to in order to stagger the lefties. But as one of the only proven hitters on the team it still seems kind of odd to not work around him a bit, rather than the other way around

You would've had to dip one less spot down was the point and in theory the guy acquired in FA would be more reliable than guys like Junis, Gasser, Ashby, Ross, Hall, and even Rhea. All these people were big question marks going into the year no matter how much the "projections" said they were just as good as guys who have done it for years. Of course, the acquired guy could've gotten hurt to like anyone can, but you'd have had a guy who's been a competent starter in the league for the last few years instead of questions abound. That said, Rhea is coming through just fine. Ross looks good to me and has a chance to be really solid, but how many innings can you really expect in his situation? If these two can maintain their 'solidness' along with Freddy the team has a good chance to keep this going as long as the O doesn't fall apart like the last few years.

Nice to have legit fun offense for a change. Hopefully it keeps up and isn't just a few weeks fluke.

Holliday clearly overrated

I'm still of the view that best guess is the interpreter put him in a very bad spot. I just can't see someone who has been so focused on his image/legend/reputation being this dumb to be doing something like this that he knows would ruin everything for him. Sure degen gamblers do dumb stuff so its possible but I just can't imagine he'd be this dumb to risk it all for a 10K bets when he's gonna make over a billion dollars the next 10 years But main thing I'm adding to some of the comments here in terms of mocking him or saying how dumb he is to trust his interpreter etc and how he should have financial guys etc. Really, the person he should have been able to trust the most is this guy, a guy he's known for years and years before he was rich. The leaches trying to prey on his wealth now should be the ones hes skeptical on, not someone he thought was his best friend. Also, everyone here realizes countless athletes/celebs have been robbed blind by their supposed financial/management people right? Its not crazy at all that he'd trust his supposed best friend over strangers. Still, I'm guessing there's a lot to still come out and we should just wait back and see.

I'll never get why Boston wanted to give Story that contract while telling Betts/Bogaerts they can't afford them.

OK thanks. OK, then I noticed nothing weird the last few years so I don't have anything negative to say. This weekend was the first time I ever noticed differences. Since Covid, the brewers have rarely sold out for whatever reasons so to me the prices for good seats have been perfectly fine. As of now due to the generally low demand the fans probably haven't been hurt too much by it and if it is possible for them to dip below the preseason 'face' some have probably come out ahead at times. If they get really good again with a fun offense like say in 2011 when the place was rocking then maybe it'll be a bit different but right now they couldn't even sell out playoff games last year. Also, the idea here is that the Brewers get the money rather than scalper or resaler, generally it makes sense to me. I'd rather the team get it than ticketmaster. Think of big concert stuff now too, unless you're using a way to prevent resale/scalping the artist might as well sell for $400 rather than a fair $80 only to have someone else take that $320 difference, same thing here.

Wait, when did this start? I thought it was the first year based on how this talk went and just that I didn't remember this from last year. But I don't know for sure. If its year one we really don't know how it will go. But also, it wouldn't surprise me if they do set it that tickets never go below the 'face' or whatever preseason normal price is per section. I'd generally disagree with that if it is the case, but it wouldn't surprise me if they did it that way.

Of course their algorithm could be off (especially if the team crashes and doesn't do well). But what you're describing doesn't seem crazy to me. Labor Day is 4 months away, they're not just gonna give away tickets right now because its not sold out yet. They have years and years worth of data for themselves and other teams that tells them demand will be greater closer to the date and that they can get the higher prices later on. Or that jsut in general being half full now doesn't mean anything. They know that most people buy a few days to a week or two before a game so they're not going to just slash prices way beforehand for that or Fri/Sat games. The spike you noticed I'd guess was tied to an increase in online traffic as the season has started and team has looked good. Also, if you've bought on resale over the years for anything, the 'seller' usually asks for the world this far in advance and if they don't sell it comes down closer. Essentially what you're describing is the team doing same thing. This discussion would come in if you get to like a day before a game and they don't slash to sell out. However, the algorithm probably would be against that too because if the customer learns that prices drop the day before a game everyone will just wait until last minute, thus costing them money long term. But really, as someone else said just go to stub/seatgeek and compare what the team charges vs what the market is giving. For the Sat Mariners game I bought direct from the Brewers at about 3pm as it was clearly cheaper than what was on the resale sites. I bought field level just past the dugout. I actually had forgotten this was in place until this thread though, so thanks for the reminder. When deciding what games to go to last weekend I noticed different prices for the same tickets each day and it didn't make sense to me as I didn't remember it like that in the past. I'd totally forgotten about this coming in. And as frustrating as things you're noticing can be, we should do our best to remind ourselves home brewer games have typically been among the most affordable in MLB. The complaint would be more about the entire industry of sports/concerts post covid, but the market seems to be supporting these new high prices as of now.

Houser with a solid game for Mets today, made into the 6th inning, 1 run. Its only one game and we all know what he is, basically an average SP who can soak up 5-6 innings, nothing special. But considering that's exactly what they could use right now make you think it wouldn't have been the worst money to spend to keep for depth.

Probably won't win another game all year

As good as the BP is likely to be overall this is where the so-so starting pitching can catch up to them if you're having to cover 4+ innings almost every game and are so frequently in close low scoring games.

I'd need several years trimmed off that deal to make sense for the Brewers. Which then doesn't make sense for him unless he just happens to be the type who wants to play it safe to lock in money, which I'd doubt he is. I'd guess the Brewers aren't really even considering this without a really team friendly deal, so good chances they won't even 'insult' him with the offer. Catchers fall apart quickly so a team like MKE likely aren't looking to be locked into someone's mid 30s. If Quero looks good again this year and going forward you'd be better off going for a very early super cheap deal with him when Contreras gets traded, a Freddy Peralta type deal team friendly.

Yup its her only issue/quirk. If you notice she has none or next none of the "umm, y'know, uhh," little things that almost all of us subconsciously do all day long without the pressure of a camera on. That is really impressive. Her only thing is the 'he said' and with how she's cleaned out all the other ones I'm guessing she could if she wanted but it almost seems like it allows her to take a breath when running out of air. To what you said, she just has to diversify it to "he continued, he mentioned, also, he said, in addition" etc. But I'm with you, she's really good and if that's her only tick she's better than almost everyone else.

If this was the other way around most here would be pretty mad and calling bush and dirty. Which it was. Though I'd chalk it up to Hoskins just being a lumbering guy, not actually trying to be a jerk. Which is likely why he didn't respond and put his head down and took yelling, which he knew he deserved. McNeil should play it a bit cooler as long time vet and just turn to the umpire with a complaint rather than getting in his face to fight. Though I do give him credit for keeping it real

I'd say the O/U should be set at 81 and I'd take under. Going with 78 wins, tempted to do less planning on some deadline selling.

I do feel like they skew it towards the warm/domes but they can't just do it 100%. I've never checked and my 'gut' on this has been a bit thrown the last few years as MKE has had more on the road lately. But you can't just make some teams do 7-10 games on the road to start every year and you do have to toss them all an actual opening day some times. So, if they haven't been skewing or quit skewing it they should got back to it. But either way, don't think they can be as extreme as described here.

Right, first thought I had when I saw the mitchell injury was see that's why all the talk on OF surplus was overdone. First none have proven they're good yet and as shown here and last year (and like every year before) injuries happen so having an extra guy is a good thing. Especially now with the DH. With how much help Weimer needs and should be in AAA they could've even kept Taylor and it would've been fine unless they had incredibly lucky health and development which would be a good problem to have.

I was surprised at that number too and thought I'd have for sure done, as long as I read correctly that its a basic 1 year deal. Even factor in that he'd probably need a little more to come here, I'd have done one year 5.5 to help our depth.

To the comments above and the deferred salary so needing shady ways to get money. He gets like 65 mil per year in advertising money, thats why he didn't care about deferring the money. He has no need to do anything shady. Doesn't mean he didn't, but there is no financial reason for him to do so. If I had to guess, his interpreter/friend boned him here and put him in a bad spot. But we'll see

Get some right. I'd still like to see MKE add one of the mid level guys listed and I'd hope are at least talking to Montgomery since this might be a sign he also has to do a 1 and 1 deal. I'm cautiously optimistic on DL Hall though to surprise and be legit good right away to fill a bunch of the gap left by Burnes/Wood

Well yea, thus the buy low and hope you get lucky. LA is one of the smartest teams and they were banking on him to be legit before the torn ACL. Of course they could've been wrong and the injury changes things. Thus, the buy low hoping you can grab what was a top prospect like 18 months ago for next to nothing and hope it works out here. And keep in mind, with how bad our O has been for years just being 750 ops is an improvement here. If he's looked out of it so far batting too though well that's different, but still no harm in taking him back if you're making the trade anyway.

Interesting and creative idea and write up. I'd assume that's too much to pull off but you never know, either way good talk for a message board during offseason. I'd probably just lean toward keeping it simple signing Davis without the LAD trade if they're not confident in the 3B options in house, it shouldn't be thaaat much money. But really just wanted to add in, has Lux looked fine with the hitting? if you work on this trade with LAD you might as well try and get a buy low on him and hope you get lucky? Even if he's off SS for good due to throwing he could be in the 1B/DH rotation for now and then hopefully gets competent enough to cover some 2B down the line if needed. Could be a solution to 1B the next few years after Hoskins if you have some luck. Looks like 2 years left after this on arbitration which shouldn't be too expensive due to the slow start to his career and the injury. If he's looked bad on hitting too though this is probably irrelevant.

Completely minor nitpick but Phi probably could be moved in the ATL/LAD tier. If I had to pick which one to put them in. Oddly, could probably argue they're in a separate tier on account of ATL/LAD being so good. So something like LAD/ATL big gap, Phi, big gap, everyone else, gap, trash teams. To keep it simple I'd probably just put them up with the top tier. While I'd agree 23 is probably low and his write up probably too harsh I certainly get it. Our O has been bad for years, and we're banking on rookies and a guy who hasn't played in a year to improve it. Pitching lost two aces and replaced with youth/scrap heaps. On paper we have one reliable starting P and he normally is a 5 inning guy. One proven guy but he's old af. Then a bunch of guys who last year we'd have all mocked/rolled our eyes at as 'bullpen/punt days'. I get this site is gonna skew homer and we're all digging up ways to thinking folks like Collin Rea can ever be more than just mediocre filler guys. But from an outsiders view, they look at our rotation and see nothing to bank on (while having had a trash O for years). So I get it. But following as close as people like us do along with the the homerism I said above there is a real justification behind trusting the management in regards to pitching, so like many of you I do expect them to do better than what it looks like on paper to an outsider. They've been doing this for years and keep producing results, so I give the benefit of the doubt and do think they'll be competitive and basically have as good a chance at the division as the other 3. Especially have to give them credit in regards to bullpen, which for hot take national writers that's hard to quantify since they're not as close to it as us. I guess in summary, I'm probably more pessimistic than the avg joe here, but more optimistic due to their P development track record than a writer like that. If Hall and Ashby prove to be our next Burnes/Woodruff all of a sudden we're onto something potentially big. But from a national writer, I get when he quickly looks at it goes well this uh doesn't look too hot.