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  1. MrTPlush
    It is about $13mil coming off the books. His salary next year is $17mil and then in 2021 we owe him a $4mil buyout.
  2. MrTPlush
    That totally defeats the purpose of signing Grandal. Yah, why pay Grandal $20mil a year to play half his time at 1B and be average. Poor use of money/personnel.
  3. MrTPlush
    I think they go internal with 1B now. I just can't fathom cutting Thames at $6.5mil to go external and save essentially nothing. Even .850 OPS first baseman don't grow on trees. He was 12th in baseball for OPS. Obviously the Brewers view the in house options as providing similar enough production it is worth saving $6.5mil. MAYBE this means Shaw stays, but Thames is only slightly more expensive. Would they really risk Shaw actually being a terrible baseball player again (Shaw is a $1.5mil cost savings)? I expect Shaw to get the axe. I think Moustakas is getting pretty obvious as a return candidate and possibly this is indictive of Grandal coming back too.
  4. MrTPlush
    We just spent $1mil to cut him. We didn't do that to possibly save $500,000. Pretty much a sign Thames is gone.
  5. MrTPlush
    http://giphygifs.s3.amazonaws.com/media/RHS4uBLwvRNUA/giphy.gif
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    Way better than it used to be...I remember a time any scrub we nabbed that even sniffed prospect status was pushing Top 10.
  7. MrTPlush
    Why? So two years into that mega deal we are wishing we didn't have it just like Braun's contract?
  8. MrTPlush
    How long before Jordan Lyles is signed?
  9. MrTPlush
    So basically a guy that crushed A ball as a 22 year old (pretty old for that league as a college sign). Not too impressive of a track record in all honesty. Not a great prospect...but at least you can dream a little bit that he may figure it out.
  10. MrTPlush
    There was no chance they weren't going to pick up that option and simply dump him for nothing. If no one wanted him they would have picked it up and either put him in the rotation or had him as insurance. Not a particularly surprising move as the Brewers have never seemed to be big Anderson fans in the last few years and I somewhat expected a move like this to go with someone they liked more on the cheap. To me this is simply a sign they are going to invest his salary in a different middling guy...probably Lyles if I had to guess. A very underrated guy. Almost propelled us to the postseason in 2017, helped in 2018, and without him last year we may not even make the postseason. When the pitching imploded Anderson was in the wings to provide the stability it dearly needed.
  11. MrTPlush
    Again, in the minor lg. using the automated zone this past year, there was not that many problems. Umpires said the strike notification was instant and there was virtually no difference in the timing of their ball-strike calls. Height of the zone wasn't a significant problem. People act as if there already wasn't a huge discrepancy in the height of the strike zone. Watch the game and see how much the zone varies by umpire. Using the automated zone makes correcting height and width fairly simple. The ultimate goal is consistancy, something that was unobtainable using umpires. I think everyone is well aware. It is the fact their "fix" still doesn't solve the problem. I vote they just take pitch tracking off the TV so everyone can stop being an expert on balls/strikes that are typically off by no more than an inch or two the majority of the time. I guess I just don't see this making the game better and reducing the constant complaining. That seems to be sports in a nutshell these days, just complain about everything related to officiating. They gave us replay...still a crowd of people complaining even after they review it. If that can't make the masses happy, an automated strike zone probably won't either. If it does happen pitchers with insane breaking stuff are going to be thrilled though.
  12. MrTPlush
    I didn't say it was to just cobble together a roster. When you are a rebuilding team you can afford to take chances on guys and hope they miraculously find out how to use their long lost potential they apparently had. You aren't trying to win 90+ games so if the player bombs it means nothing to the team in the short term. The Brewers are not in that kind of position and taking a slight upgrade with a known ceiling versus hoping for an Arcia breakout is typically the wiser move.
  13. MrTPlush
    We probably targeted players like Arcia in the past cause we were yearly losers trying to find a needle in a haystack. Contending teams don’t like the Arcia’s of the world. His one decent year really gets talked up like it was something special. 2.5 WAR and a .731 OPS...not all that great.
  14. MrTPlush
    This is such an NFL idea. Everyone complains so let’s fix it...but actually just make a gigantic train wreck. It simply is not worth it to stop people from crying over calls. Most people who complain aren’t even aware of what a strike is anyway. Very little people seem to understand any part of the ball must cross the plate, just a sliver is needed. Then again neither do most announcers. My problem has always been exactly what has happened in these tests. It is such a dramatic change to how balls/strikes are called right now. The strike zone would be just huge compared to now. It would be a disaster of epic proportions and the anger would be unreal. From fans, coaches, players, etc...anyone. MLB should not follow in the footsteps of the NFL. The game will never be perfect and people will always complain. Don’t start tweaking it to death every time something is complained about.
  15. MrTPlush
    Crazy to look back at the QB movement of the old days. Easily forgotten Brees started out in San Diego and the wacky Rivers/Manning swap. Chargers traded off 2 QBs that went on to win Super Bowls elsewhere. Things like this simply don’t happen anymore.
  16. MrTPlush
    He got real offended by Carlos Gomez. Gomez watched a ball for a second, ended up going off the wall, Gomez got a triple, and Cole was ticked off. I don’t recall a Braun incident, but wouldn’t shock me. I can’t recall if Cole retaliated after that. My memory is telling me that he maybe threw at someone, maybe it was Braun after Gomez ticked him off...I just don't remember, but something happened that made me think of Cole as a bit punkish all this time... The Gomez thing caused a bench clearing brawl. Maldonado sucker punched someone. It was pretty intense. I remember Cole walking over to third to curse out Gomez...chaos ensued.
  17. MrTPlush
    Why are pinch hitters crappy? Generally it's a guy who is quite good if the L/R matchup works out, and R/R matchups are usually okay too. Yah, sure, at face value it sounds good...but most players struggle badly at PHing. It just is not an easy task. Braun was horrid doing it last year and Gamel (a major PHer last year) barely cracked a .600 OPS. It depends on the year/player, but it isn’t exactly ideal. Typically you are asking bench bats to have a random AB once a game.
  18. MrTPlush
    He got real offended by Carlos Gomez. Gomez watched a ball for a second, ended up going off the wall, Gomez got a triple, and Cole was ticked off. I don’t recall a Braun incident, but wouldn’t shock me. I can’t recall if Cole retaliated after that.
  19. MrTPlush
    Most mathematical models I see on this simply look on how to make your best hitter as productive as possible. That isn’t the goal, they goal is making the most productive lineup. Giving the pitcher more ABs (or crappy pinch hitters), Arcia more ABs, and dropping a productive OBP machine to 9th is NOT the answer. Why is he batting 9th? Just bat him lead off and drop Yelich to 3rd! He losses a grand ole 17 PAs then...while the pitcher/PH gets 20 less and Arcia gets nearly 20 less. Don’t forget the productive OBP you dropped to 9th now gets about 130 more. I don’t know the exact answer (probably not a right one), but that theory is certainly not it.
  20. MrTPlush
    Packers are going to earn it to be 13-3 if that’s what they end up at. They still have dates with the 49ers, Panthers, Lions road game, Vikings road game, and the Bears/Chargers won’t exactly be pushovers on paper. Pretty impressive if they only lose two more games. Even if they end up being the two good teams 49ers/Vikings.
  21. MrTPlush
    That’s the thing though...you aren’t recovering quickly if Trubisky busts. First off you are going to give him countless chances to work out and secondly if he flops you are not finding someone overnight. If you draft someone else it’s likely a few years before they become something. Now you are 5+ years down the road far away from trading all the picks away, best case. If Trubisky flops the horse is dead...you can beat it some more saying the picks were wasted, but it doesn’t matter a whole lot. Everything is a risk...I just don’t think it’s that big of a deal if Trubisky sucks. The ship is sunk already at that point.
  22. MrTPlush
    Ohtani is the only legit two-way player. Lorenzen is not...he had a grand 53 PAs last year. That is not a two-way player. Not even remotely close. He is a pitcher that can pinch hit sometimes and not be totally worthless. The fact he started zero games is a good sign he is not worthy of said designation. That rule is pretty much a non issue too because Ohtani is the only person in baseball who can actually do both. I doubt many, if any, pop up anytime soon.
  23. MrTPlush
    Clears Throat: THIS DOES NOT EFFECT OHTANI. The restriction is on position players pitching...nothing on pitchers hitting. All the Angels will do is designate him a pitcher and then he can do whatever he wants on any given day. He can DH with no restrictions. The only thing it effects is the Angels won’t get their “bonus” pitcher spot once Ohtani is a two-way player and no longer have to lost him as a pitcher towards their max. Ohtani should pitch from day one, so really a non relevant issue. If he has some major setback maybe it would be relevant, but he has been throwing off a mound since last June. I am sure he is ready. As far as restrictions on when a positional player can pitch, who cares. How many times has a positional player pitched and the game was 5 or closer? Or extras? That is when they always pitch anyway, seems like a weird rule that isn’t needed.
  24. MrTPlush
    Brice Turang is definitely a MLB ballplayer...but expecting anything in the next 2 or even 3 years may be quite wishful thinking. Arcia is not a placeholder and doesn't need to be. It isn't like the possible options we could go to are demanding 5 years deals. They are all one year or two year guys that also could be hypothetical bridges to Turang. But of course he is so far off the Brewers are expecting nothing out of him until further notice. If they go Arcia it is because they find the options on the open market not a big enough difference to what Arcia provides. At this point I don't think the Brewers are banking on any kind of notable improvement out of Arcia.
  25. MrTPlush
    A few things: 1) To be fair we didn’t know when we would contend. I’m sure the Brewers front office thought 2019, maybe 2018. Not saying they were shooting for those years, but they are just like us and are probably figuring into when they think the team is likely to take off. If we were contending or knew we were really close I think their viewpoint would have been different. 2) David Stearns gave old Lorenzo Cain a huge deal that, to be completely honest, screamed incoming disaster at some point. Whether that be year one or year four etc. I don’t think it is crazy to think Stearns would be willing to hand out another questionable deal to an older player at his respective position.
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