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  1. tmwiese55
    12-15. Certainly good vibes going on with the team as a welcome surprise from the staleness of last year. Hoping that will keep helping them overperform a bit. But missing Woody, shaky BP, and soso offense I think will start to catch up to them a bit in the next couple months. Hope a hot streak comes from someone on O to give a boost, idk like that Taylor hot streak last year.
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    Think we talked about him a year or two back on this topic, around when he had that revival good season I think in 2021. You're right, him taking a zillion walks is what keeps the counting stuff down but modern baseball people now know walks are a good thing so that should be factored in. I thought that one more good big season might've been enough to get him over and it game life to thinking he could have another 1-2 more good years to tack on some counting stats. But, since then 2022/23 have been trash for him so now he's unlikely to have another good stat year. So it probably leaves him right on the edge, but my guess is the MVP will get him in eventually. That 1-2 more season to get him to around 400 and 2500 hits would have been big for him though
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    Right. It's not like their pitching looked awesome on paper last year going into the year either. But, like the Cardinals almost always do, they found a way.. Not that I wouldn't enjoy a year where the tires fall of the car or whatever that saying is, but I'll believe it when I see it.
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    I don't know, that's probably 4-5 highest after Realmuto, Perez, Grandal, Contreras. And while I'm not trying to say the guy is bad, he hit .216 two seasons ago and you're having to pay him that into this 30s, when Cs usually fall off. But really it's besides the point. It's not cheap when compared to the a 25 year old at league min on your roster already who is top shelf too. Unless, you don't think he's top-shelf. Which is my whole point, they must not. If this was Pitt or Colorado I wouldn't give it a second thought, I'd laugh at how dumb they are. Being Atl, it makes me go hmm, what might we be missing.
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    Yea and those still aren't anything ridiculous like elite hitter Cs. Yes he's more of sure thing, that's the value. Again, 10+ mil per into his 30s over someone on the cheapest years. And there is risk of future value issues in that you're now commited to him into his age 32-34 years, not great for catchers. Having a good hitting 24 year old catcher is kind of the dream, especially when you're already paying a kind of aging vet as the other C. And then they also had to add in value to the trade. To me, aggressively trying to upgrade him is a flag of what caused Atl to do it. They should have been one of the last teams looking to trade for a proven C. Already had a proven vet off a good year, signed for two more years and a 25 year old good hitter on league min contract. Hoping to be wrong.
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    I understand he's supposed to be great at D and all those things for a C. However, in two full years he hit 216/306 with 17 and 250/332 with 18 HRs. That is perfectly fine for a C, but it's nothing fantastic like prime Posey, Perez, etc. And those were his age 26 and 27 years after two years getting his feet wet. Contreras already has had a better offensive year in his first year at age 24 (one year of feet wet before.). Unless I think something is up with Contreras and his hitting was fluky, bad at D, attitude/effort problem, etc there's no way I'm giving up his cheap years to pay the other guy over 10 mil per year for his years into the 30s as a C unless I have unlimited money like LA/NYY. Atlanta is as smart as they come so that's why I wonder what they didn't like about Contreras. Hopefully they're wrong as we haven't heard any red flags yet (other than who he's brothers with haha).
  7. tmwiese55
    Contreras hasn't been on fire or anything but generally he's been fine and looks fine. I still don't get what Atl thought of him to choose to add more to him in a trade in order to acquire a different catcher and the right to pay him 75 mil over the next 6 years instead of just keeping Contreras on his young cheap years. They're one of the smartest organizations there is so I'm worried there's a shoe to drop, but even the best sometimes make a mistake.
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    That and he changed his swing to be more uppercut to chase the launch angle and HRs. Who knows if that was his move or if he was coached to it. But if a new team/coach can get that corrected and back to how he started he'd still have a chance, but after 2-3 years of this the chances are quite low.
  9. tmwiese55
    If you're having to pay basically the full FA type price similar to Swanson then I don't see the rush. For two years early and with our market you'd need to get a discount to be incentivized to do it, considering his weaknesses. From his perspective, under two years ago he was floundering in TB looking at never getting a big payday. So he might be the type to be happy to just put 100 mil in the bank when he can. For the Burnes trade talk, if you're in 1st you might as well keep him for the value he provides to try and get that elusive title. I think that greatly outweighs what it might cost you in losing prospect value back 3 months later. I thought the same for Hader, I don't think we'd have gotten drastically less back if they waited two months to trade him. If they're out of contention or even middling, sure take the best deal at the deadline. But if you're in 1st and things look good, you have to go for the title. Baltimore sure seems just loaded in prospects and a great match for a trade though.
  10. tmwiese55
    It's also easier to drop in that huge space of left and to hit in the air. Generally speaking, even pull hitters are more likely to hit oppo in the air. Yelich is a good example, faces the big shift for grounders but generally would get played straight up in OF. One of the things I noticed is even when a lefty really tried to hit oppo on the ground it would far too often go right to the one guy playing on the left side of the infield. hitter has to walk away thinking *** when that happens. That said, am I crazy but I don't see the 3rd OF in that picture? The trick on this might be to play the CF in LF or Left center. See if the guy is good enough to hit one dead center in between them. That way you'd have two guys who could run it, plus it's just more difficult than having a whole half of a field to drop it.
  11. tmwiese55
    Considering it was made clear early on the spending/market the brewers were going to be operating in you kinda just have to accept this one. He was one that made sense from the beginning and ticks a lot of the boxes. Hope he bounces back and does well. And when pouring over his numbers don't forget the stadium he's been playing in If I had to guess I'd think this leads to Huira being traded. Considering they knew or were planning on signing a BA or similar person it's kinda surprising they even signed Huira unless they were confident there is a trade market for him to at least grab a reliever or something.
  12. tmwiese55
    This seems so lopsided in our favor it has me thinking through what we might be missing as outsiders. I guess the first thing I can think of is why didn't these other teams want Contreras? Basically why is Atlanta so desperate to trade for a C when they have one like this, plus I think D'arnaud is still there for a year or two. If Oak is trading their good C who's close to FA wouldn't they want a young controlled guy like this back? Is it just the weak D, do they think his hitting last year was a fluke, personality/attitude? Can someone in tune with prospects give info on how he was viewed coming up? Such as was he always considered a top prospect or did this year last year kind of surprise everyone? I don't know, this seems too good to be true.
  13. tmwiese55
    This guy makes sense to me as they do need some RH coverage on all the lefties. As I thought about it I remembered Brosseau though. I guess I see more upside in Drury and sure I'd take both if we have the roster spots for them both. But Brewers might very well think Brosseau can do what Drury can vs lefties for the like 2 mil or whatever they're paying him. So they might think they've already covered this.
  14. tmwiese55
    While I've been on the play him more side for a while now I do see the conundrum. Cutch has also been one of their best hitters since his bad first 6ish weeks and both guys are bad at D. And the two best spots to play Keston vs RHP are 2B/1B both manned by lefty hitters, one who's been solid enough all year and the other had been hot until the last week or so. At this point though, you probably just have to eat Cutch playing CF since the other options have been so bad at the plate. Yea D isn't ideal but chances are you can lift him with a lead late.
  15. tmwiese55
    IDK, HRs in back to back game and hitting the ball hard on outs. Probably means he won't do that in his next few games, seems like a good spot to send him down. Chess not checkers.
  16. tmwiese55
    Noticed someone mentioned will there be charging stations in rental apartments, etc. Due to managing a property I became aware of a law/code that all new apartment/condo type buildings have to be built with charging stations, at least in WI(ETA: hindsight could be Madison). Top of my head, I think it's something like it has to be 30% of the allowed cars/stalls, or something of that nature. Old buildings are grandfathered and don't have to add them. But if all new ones have them and you don't it will really hurt your ability to rent, or sell, down the line. So many will eventually pay up the money to get up to the new code/rule.
  17. tmwiese55
    Ok there it is, there's more info and accusations now, not just the one which he had all those texts backing himself up.. Now it makes sense.
  18. tmwiese55
    Not gonna claim I've dug deep into this, only surface level basics. But this seems pretty extreme to me, considering he's basically already been suspended a year. Best I could tell this suspension goes from here, the least almost year isn't counted in that. Could've misread though. I'd guess this is going to be a long legal battle, lawyers on each side are buying new boats as we speak.
  19. tmwiese55
    Very. Signed up for Peacock today just for this show and will probably cancel after one month. I've knocked off a few already today and it's exactly what you'd hope for, classic MacGruber. Essentially it's just another movie with a similar story but split into episodes. But the same constant humor is there.
  20. tmwiese55
    Still going, they're going to do at least one more season but who knows the timeframe now of when they can film.
  21. tmwiese55
    Been telling everyone I can for years to watch this show. Shield is my #1 show ever. They've never been good about getting it out and available though. Think it has finally gotten on Hulu in the last year or so though, if I remember correctly. Shameless has been a great show, heck of run they had. It kind of floundered a bit the last few years and I did a lot of eye rolling on some story lines the last few years, but it was still good. I'd call the finale 'fine'. I'd have preferred more firmly tied up but overall it did the job and wasn't awful/stupid or anything to ruin the show's legacy. Basing it on Frank's dying makes a lot of sense. I was surprised they couldn't get Fiona back for the ending or address her at all, basically seemed weird to do this whole year basically acting like she didn't exist. I saw they've had a lot of issues with filming during covid though so have to cut some slack that they did the best they could given the situation.
  22. tmwiese55
    Game of Thrones was probably the last appointment level TV show where you had to watch live and it was the main point of discussion the next day. I think I said it on here or at least to friends how I think GoT might be the last one like that. The last season of Breaking Bad had it too I guess you could say Tiger King though, hah
  23. tmwiese55
    That show has always been off the rails, haha. To me I kind of liked the newest season best as it was a much clearer straight forward story. to me anyway, I thought they simplified a bit which I thought was needed. It essentially just became a super long Black Mirror episode now, if you've ever watched that show. I for sure missed the cinematography of the first seasons of WW though. For Ted Lasso, I don't have that platform so haven't watched yet but it seems really good. Just commenting that if you go back to that Sudeikis era SNL cast it might truly be an all time great casts. Almost everyone has gone onto big things.
  24. tmwiese55
    Don't forget tossing a friend like $20 to use his FSW password, assuming you know someone living in the state with normal cable.
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    Yea I think I said when it was happening that GoT would be the last appointment level TV show you basically have to watch that night as it's so big. Hope to be wrong
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