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  1. MrTPlush
    Except for the Brewers, who never seem to have anyone decent to use as a DH. Would have been perfect for Braun’s final years, but now we might as well have the pitcher bat. Christian Yelich will need it soon enough. Hiura should be there if he ever figures out how to hit balls again.
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    Are you advocating 7-inning games to make pitching even better and make offense worse? You are almost reducing innings needed to cover by 25%. Last years 7-inning games showed how much good pitching can steam roll teams in those DH's. People can't tune in for all 9 innings, why make scheduled DH's that will last 14 innings? Guessing that would have a negative impact on tickets sales for those days too.
  3. MrTPlush
    Getting nothing from a college player drafted #5 a half decade ago is brutal, however the 2016 draft hasn't been a real stand out one for first round picks. Funny, but so far the best First Rounder in that was Ray's teammate at Lousiville, Will Smith #32 overall (who I'm sure the Brewers scouts saw quite often). Even doing a re-draft of the First round, if they were going college bat, there's really only Kyle Lewis who went #11 to Seattle and he's a .792 OPS hitter so far in his young career. So far, the first round of the 2017 draft isn't shaping up much better. Hiura has way more experience than anyone else drafted but the other college bats taken in the first round have done virtually nothing so far. I did look back on that 2016 draft and saw the first round was pretty dang brutal. However, I don't see relevance in comparing either player specifically to other college bats. I doubt Stearns was specifically targeting college bats, especially in the Top 10. He almost surely was targeting BPA. If he was targeting college bats and was set on one he can definitely take direct blame for any failures those picks have. I don't think that was the case though.
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    I usually wouldn't put direct blame on a GM when it comes to a draft pick, and I don't put all the blame on Stearns, but that Corey Ray pick was criticized pretty heavily by many. I would say most fans hated that pick and even experts thought it was a questionable pick. I think a GM is a bit more involved evaluating a draft pick when they are a Top 5 pick that was a college bat. If I recall Ray was considered a bit more raw for a college bat, but still, looks like we really messed that one up. I also think they dropped the ball a bit thinking Hiura could play passable 2B, but I suppose the offensive ceiling was high enough to take the risk. Still, I don't think they were trying to select a 1B at #9 in the draft. Kind of brutal we selected Top 10 twice, took college bats, and both don't look very good at this point. Even if Hiura turn it around he is a 1B now...really a huge hit to his value.
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    Justin Turner was mentioned a bit. He could always go the trade route. Our farm system isn't strong, but he could certainly get improvements via trade without giving up a ton. We picked up Narvaez for peanuts despite being a good hitting catcher and a decent track record. It would not be expensive to acquire a 1B or even an OFer instead of sinking $20mil+ into Garcia/JBJ. FA is flat out not the only way he can build and find decent offensive bats. We can't afford to go acquire three Christian Yelich's, but that isn't what we need. Of course the DH would be nice so we could invest into something at 1B for offense. Right now an investment is blocking or interfering with Hiura on the MLB roster. As it stands we are currently shooting ourselves in the foot every year Hiura flops. Same thing we did at SS for years so Arcia would have somewhere to prove himself.
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    If you like to see a perfect game pitched with all 27 Hitters striking out, That might be a good idea to make it possible. I read his post and was pretty confused since I thought the premise of this thread was lack of offense and just unbearable offense in general to watch. Like you, I thought this was a good way to make offense even worse and even more horrendous to watch. If we were trying to officially kill the game and have zero viewership, those ideas would be fantastic. I am not sure the answer to making baseball better...but I am pretty confident those ideas are not said answer.
  7. MrTPlush
    A team would have to back up a massive dump truck of a haul for me to move Peralta. Like, essentially one of the biggest hauls in recent trade transaction memory. However, I am guessing most teams would be just as skeptical as any of us are when it comes to Peralta actually keeping this up. Think I would rather hold onto him and see what he becomes. It would hard to even value 5 years of Peralta at his cheap price.
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    Not sure he has ignored offense. Feels like most of his FA dollars have gone there over the years.
  9. MrTPlush
    I’m not sure why the Cain contract always seems to be praised. His first year was incredible, but does that really make up for him sucking since? Don’t tell me about his defense. Nothing makes up for a sub .700 OPS. If you want great defense and zero offense you can go find some AAAA guy to do it for under $1mil. The only reason I don’t hate that contract is because of the first year. However, that’s only because our teams history is so depressing an NLCS appearance is worthy of a DVD set to remember it. Realistically, that contract is not working out when his OPS has been sub .700 for the rest of it.
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    I had to laugh when Fauci said people were confused thinking “everyone could take their mask off”. No Fauci, the mask hating crowd finally got their green light to take it off and not be judged...they aren’t confused. While I support telling vaccinated people it isn’t a necessity anymore, it is an unfortunate reality that those not vaccinated (and likely anti mask) will take it off too. It’s to the point where those not vaccinated probably don’t care to mask themselves either. I found it interesting the place I still find heavy mask usage is WalMart (in a northern half of WI city). Out of all places I’d think that would cause less mask wearing. Today it felt like 8/10 people had a mask. It certainly seems like, in at least my area, the older crowd is deciding to keep their mask on despite being vaccinated. The 30-45ish crowd has certainly taken it off a lot. The 30 and under crowd seems to have taken it off regardless of vaccination or not.
  11. MrTPlush
    Dee? For what reason?
  12. MrTPlush
    It has been said before but incremental improvement does not mean the guy is a savior. Shaw has been playing 1B against lefties, there is no reason to do that, Shaw can't hit lefties. Putting Shaw in a better position to succeed by limiting his at bats versus lefties. What? He has four starts all year against LHP. So I don't really get the notion Shaw is endlessly facing lefties. Regardless, what does that have to do with Shaw over Vogelbach? They are both lefties. If Zach Green plays first base there is no need for Travis Shaw to play first base against lefties. This is exactly what you said you wanted is it not? Shaw keeps playing first base versus LHP because Vogelbach is even worse against LHP. Same as above, Zach Green at first base does reduce the need of Travis Shaw playing against lefties.
  13. MrTPlush
    Yeah, I think the Narvaez/Garcia visits were mentioned before...though I don't think the article was posted. So thanks for that. Basically we have direct examples of how Haines helped a few hitters in the offseason and they became our two best hitters. On the flip side we have a lot of struggling hitters and there is no proof that Haines changed anything about them. Yet everyone is suppose to believe Haines is the problem and that is "the most logical/likely reason" for the poor offense. A lot of players have taken it upon themselves to follow the launch angle craze only for the ball to, it appears, be deadened this year. Yelich bragged about this being a huge reason for his huge breakout seasons, but such a dramatic change probably doesn't work for all hitters. Especially when the ball goes from lively to dead. Wouldn't shock me if a lot of the players struggling the last few seasons, not just on the Brewers, are getting caught up in trying to be apart of the launch angle craze. Narvaez seems to have been guilty of this. I get the temptation to see if launch angle can take your game into the next stratosphere, but maybe some guys should just stay true to their success they already have.
  14. MrTPlush
    They can always go the Pirates route like they did in 2018 acquiring Chris Archer. They were competing in 2018, but it seemed like a bit of a longshot for them to actually get a postseason spot. I'm not talking trading for such a high profile trade candidate...merely trading for more controllable talent that can help beyond a run this year.
  15. MrTPlush
    Not really much to sell. They might be willing to sell high on Avisail Garcia...but that would be about it. I doubt they would trade Narvaez. They aren't really in a typical selling position and they certainly don't have guys set to hit FA after the year playing well. I can't seeing them being so far out that they find trading Avisail Garcia/Brett Anderson for peanuts worth it. Better off just hoping the team gets hot. It could get to a point rental players that aren't controllable after 2021 aren't really on the Brewers radar.
  16. MrTPlush
    I don't really get wanting to bring up Zach Green to take Shaw's spot. Travis Shaw has had some clutch ABs and Vogelbach has sucked just as much offensively. Vogelbach is also a slower guy to have on the bases and is terrible defensively. On the flip side Travis Shaw is a really good defender. Zach Green has a fielding percentage of .914% (Shaw is at .964% for his career) at 3B. Now fielding percentage and errors isn't everything, but .914% is really bad. I am guessing the rest of his defensive game isn't good. If we are going to replace a crummy hitter, why don't we replace the one that also sucks at everything else? Leave the good defender alone and not make our defense worse.
  17. MrTPlush
    Is it really necessary to call every catch at the wall a would be homer? Let’s just be honest Bill, that was not going to be a homer.
  18. MrTPlush
    Who on this team is really underperforming? JBJ And? Vogelbach just isn’t very good Urias is unproven and has sucked his entire career Shaw isn’t really underperforming Sure looks like a bunch of guys performing near what one should expect. It’s just a bunch of terrible players. I really don’t see any shocking underperformers outside of JBJ.
  19. MrTPlush
    I would venture to guess. So nothing definitive, then. Perhaps, but it seems the most logical explanation here. Either you can believe that our front office, who prior to last year had proven exceptionally good at their jobs, suddenly started bringing in only talent that was on the precipice of cliffing in their careers on a wide-spread level across multiple players and positions, or the coaches working with those guys aren't helping them. Or worse, perhaps hurting them. One of those explanations seems logical, the other far less so. Most of this talent: Holt, Sogard, JBJ, Smoak, Morrison etc. are on the wrong side of 30. So it wouldn't exactly be shocking if they didn't play well. Especially considering nearly all of these guys the last few years were not that strong of hitters prior. Brock Holt has played for another two teams now and still sucks. Eric Sogard still sucks with the Cubs. Shouldn't these guys be rebounding with Haines not destroying them? People want to talk about their numbers pre-Brewers and then as Brewers. What about post-Brewers? Neither of those guys are flourishing these days and still way under their pre-Brewers numbers. You aren't going to get consistent reliable numbers all the time when you are picking up fringe offensive players. Guys like Vogelbach/Garcia/JBJ/Sogard/Holt all had ugly years well before they became Brewers. Some of those guys had better track records of being terrible with a bat compared to actually hitting well.
  20. MrTPlush
    Is there anything saying who actually hires the coaches between Stearns/Craig? Usually managers have a lot of say in that, if not absolute say. Stearns/Counsell have always come off as side-kicks in a lot of ways...quite a bit of communication between them. I would venture to guess those coaching hires are largely 50/50. Blaming coaches gets kind of boring. We blame the pitching coach for players and now they are pitching well. Now we blame the hitting coach because the hitting sucks. Then we blame Counsell for keeping a crummy coach. The next step is to blame the GM/President for keeping a crummy manager. Or do we have to blame the assistant GM first? It is pretty hard to blame a coach and have solid proof why, I mean how do you really prove a players struggles are the coach and not the player? I get it, you can flip it around for the same argument. However, who is usually the problem, the coach or player? Probably the player. We have the same hitting coach as last year. Last year Narvaez/Garcia sucked, this year they are playing well. So does Haines get credit for making them suck and then making them good? Did fairies sprinkle magical dust in the offseason? I get it, it is somewhat suspect when we bring in players and they decide to be absolutely horrible. I just have a hard time thinking Haines is histories worst coach and can instantly destroy a player like that.
  21. MrTPlush
    Saying Holt and Sogard have been serviceable since leaving is being really generous. So Stearns just sucks at evaluating coaching talent. Whatever it is can someone please go wake up Stearns before our brightest core in franchise history spirals down the toilet becoming a total waste of time.
  22. MrTPlush
    Would rather have Nunez over Vogelbach honestly. Seems like a good bet to be a better player. Could have just had him for a third of the cost in the off season.
  23. MrTPlush
    First thing as with any TV, update firmware to make sure you have most current version. Since Bally is so new, that may be why it's not showing up. You shouldn't need to buy another device. If you still don't see it, you have to search for the app- I had to do that on one of my TVs. But I have 2 smart TVs, another with a Firestick, and a fourth with Roku- I can get the Bally app on all of them. You gave me the motivation to do it again. I reset it back to factory settings, set it up again, and then checked for an update in the menu. It finally had Bally Sports on it. So strange.
  24. MrTPlush
    Braden Looper starts were amazing! You knew the Brewers were about to win a high scoring shoot-out. This team is just depressing. I feel like I have to prepare flowers and condolences to the starting pitcher for us because one run is killer.
  25. MrTPlush
    After we are done shuffling through AAAA fodder, firing the hitting coach for not making crummy players have .800 OPS', and still have the same results maybe we can ask David Stearns to do a better job evaluating/adding offensive talent.
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