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Funny the Brewers probably would have never drafted Yamamoto had it not been for them scouting Medeiros so hard in Hawaii for that 2014 draft. Turns our Yamamoto was the real gem and Medeiros was a total bust.
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Almost comical he bats in front of two All Star with OPSs north of .900 almost every single time he starts. How.
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Our lefty pitcher is halfway to a cycle against a lefty...wow.
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I would have to ask my buddy Counsell, but neither Davies or Woodruff have an innings limit.
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Yah that is the real kicker. Saying Aguilar has been "fine/solid" and then said data field shows a .700-.750 OPS is not really a strong argument in his favor. To have any positive value at 1B with his defensive limitations he needs an .800 OPS AVERAGE....not pushing .800 OPS when he is on a blazing hot streak and .600 OPS in his slumps.
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Yep. He's dominant against RHB (.191/.259/.331 so far at the MLB level), but struggles against lefties (.191/.259/.331), and against lefties that's just the pitch he needs. With how good his fastball (or fastballs, as he can switch it up a bit) is, a changeup alone will get him far and would make sense that he focuses on it over the curveball due to the struggles against lefties. [sarcasm]Looks like pretty good splits to me.[/sarcasm]
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If he is anywhere near a Josh Hader in the pen that will likely seal his long term fate. Like it or not, but at that point it would be hard to justify messing that up and taking that out of the bullpen to attempt the rotation again where who knows how long the growing pains would last...or if it would even work. Unfortunately he was too terrible in the rotation to keep there and as a highly competitive team in the near future we can't just let these starters struggle for 2+ years to figure it out. To be honest another relief ace on the opposite side of the mound as Hader might even work out better for the Brewers the way they like to use their pen. He is only 23, but the current state of the team doesn't bode well for a guy to struggle in the rotation when he can be a force in the bullpen....which it is too early to know if Peralta can do either of those long term.
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Yo Aguilar I am glad you got a hit and all, but swinging at a 3-0 pitch ball is not the most brilliant AB.
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We could blame the offense or blame the other side of the ball that at this pace would need the offense to score 7 runs to put them on their backs tonight.
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No, clearly he is manipulating his date range to fit his narrative. Only way you decide to use a month plus two days.Then I suppose you use Yelich to add shock value and hopefully the shock value makes you not think of how he seeked out the perfect date range to make Aguilar actually look decent this year. Of course if Aguilar was actually fine and doing good I think he would be starting more than 2 times a week. Over the last four weeks, actually, he hasn’t even averaged that. Of course if Thames struggled in May and Aguilar was so good I would have expected him to start more....thus he did not.
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Food for thought: He has only 3 Ks in his last 24 PAs. Which is notably better than his 23.5% clip on the year. It is actually kind of shocking he improved both his K-Rate and BB-Rate compared to last year, but has been absolutely terrible despite that. Not sure he is heating up, but he has done better recently. The HR might buy him some more playing time to get one last chance. I would guess he is doomed if he can't show more promise in the next few weeks. They really haven't shown much confidence in him for over a month. Aguilar is in a bench/PH role, so one big hit is going to severely skew his recent stat line. He looks a bit better, but I'm very skeptical of him being the answer in the postseason against LHP. Oh sure, of course. A few hits and a homer in a week is going to give him Yelich OPS stats. Just noted it was interesting he hasn't struck out much recently...like very little. I am not really a believer in Aguilar...and the Brewers aren't either obviously.
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This is something I've thought about for a while now. How much credit/blame goes to the new club for that change? Miami might just not have the same level of scouting, coaching or analytics the Brewers have so the players involved might not perform the same as if they had been with the original club. Would Brinson have struggled the same here as he has there for example? That to me is the one thing we can't know when assessing the success of a trade. Obviously Miami has had success in developing top talent players but how much success has the Jeter era really had? Specifically with Yelich it is important to note he really started tinkering with his swing/stance when he came over here because he was in a new park (and division foe parks) that offered a lot more power potential for him. Increasing his launch angle and power would probably not have had much in the way of insane results in Marlin's Park. I am not sure how much the Brewers truly had to do with that. The odds they were trying to toy with Yelich's batting is really unlikely considering he was already an AS level player etc. Regarding Brinson...yah I think he would have sucked here too.
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I agree that this is a factor. Being a good teammate and well liked in the clubhouse matters in ways we as fans can't understand. We saw it last year when Arcia was optioned. Players were somewhat openly unhappy even though he was not producing at the plate. I don't, he isn't even getting an opportunity let alone more. He has started 6 games in the last 28 days. He is just a guy on the roster and I am not sure why the Brewers haven't gotten rid of him, but it seems clear they don't really care for him anymore. They also don't seem to care if he gets going or not anymore either.
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Scooter Gennett for 2019?
MrTPlush replied to 502 to Right's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
If everyone remains healthy, maybe it isn’t a perfect fit. That being said, he is one of the few true top half of the order type hitters that are likely to be available this deadline. If they consider him a 2B only, then no it doesn’t make sense. If they believe in his ability to also be mixed into the outfield corners and 3B then I think he helps make their roster more flexible and adds what would likely be one of their top five hitters. Man that would be some rough "flexibility". His arm is pretty darn horrendous (weak) automatically making him have negative defensive value anywhere outside of 2B. His small sample at 3B in 2017 sported a sub .900 fielding percentage. I remember him being rough looking in the OF too, but I don't know overall how he really was. Probably not something any team really would want to try. -
Food for thought: He has only 3 Ks in his last 24 PAs. Which is notably better than his 23.5% clip on the year. It is actually kind of shocking he improved both his K-Rate and BB-Rate compared to last year, but has been absolutely terrible despite that. Not sure he is heating up, but he has done better recently. The HR might buy him some more playing time to get one last chance. I would guess he is doomed if he can't show more promise in the next few weeks. They really haven't shown much confidence in him for over a month.
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Christian Yelich - Miami Marlins - 643 Games - 59 HRs Christian Yelich - Milwaukee Brewers - 211 Games - 62 HRs
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Yah that is a pretty awkward situation to be put in. You are suddenly rushing to get everything real quick...let alone take a deep breath, focus, and get some practice swing in. Talk about throwing Perez under the bus.
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Sending him to the IL would be pretty easy with how he declines really fast at ~50 pitches. Arm fatigue or whatever they typically call it is pretty relevant in his situation. That or the bullpen...another possible option. Him agreeing to an option...yah, that won’t be happening.
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Maybe it was a different player mentioned before, but just because you bat both ways doesn’t mean you are actually good against all pitching. Neil Walker is absolutely TERRIBLE against LHP. Like so terrible I don’t know why he switch hits. He doesn’t even have an OPS over .500 the last three years against LHP.
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Petricka traded to Rangers - PTBNL or Cash to Brewers
MrTPlush replied to JDBrewCrew's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
AAA stats are just hard to care about because: A) Soooo many parks are crazy offense friendly. or B) Guys are so old and experienced doing well there isn’t hard. -
That really isn't accurate though because one player getting 40 WAR doesn't equal four players collectively getting that. Yearly we could have three guys at league minimum put up 1-1.5 WAR if we wanted to go with what Yelich does. Add that into the equation and Yelich (plus three guys) is probably worth more like 70 WAR. This doesn't take into consideration those four guys after extensions/arbitration are likely to cost more than Yelich if they are all relevant enough to garner 40 WAR together, maybe even exponentially more for the same production Yelich gave us. Realistically to outperform Yelich, and the three guys we pair up with him, those four players will need nearly double the figure you listed. Think about if all those players became even solid starters and went through the entire arbitration system. Each would cost $8mil+ by the end. That $32mil in one year is already half of what we will pay Yelich over his entire 5 year contract. It is way to complicated and impossible to really predict what it will take for them to be of similar value in a statistical/financial sense, but it would take way more than 40 WAR of production. End of the day though I think we got what we wanted (well way more) and what those players become (assuming none become stars) is woefully irrelevant to us. Good chance Yelich doesn't transform into a bonifide star in Miami so what he does he is pretty irrelevant to them. They just need those players to provide value to them now.
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Probably a good sign the Brewers don't use fake injuries all the time like some assume. Though they don't exactly have an obvious RHB to be the other side of a Thames platoon. They don't even have a 1B in AAA. The roster shows no one as a 1B....Tyler Saladino was starting there last night and has 11 starts there. I think Jake Hager (who never started there before this year) is the "main" 1B with 25 starts there. It is almost like a whoever volunteers that day.
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Well Molina and Fowler both are pretty much done with their deals. The other two it is a tad too soon to really know how they will end up. Forget the money though, I don't think it will matter. They have an aging roster that has a lot of guys close to FA in the coming years. Personally they would be wise to start selling off assets unless they have a big turnaround before the end of July. The pitching that was suppose to be their strength is not that impressive (especially the starters) and the offense has left quite a bit to be desired. That lackluster offense is aging the wrong direction to boot. Carpenter old, having down year Goldy, so far not inspiring Ozuna, FA after the year Molina, ancient and not an offensive force anymore I don't know, they don't have a terrible team and their future isn't insanely bleak...but man I feel like some type of rebuild would probably be wise for them. It would look dumb after extending Goldy, but they are the third best team in their division trying to chase a wild card spot.
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I don't want to say Toronto didn't earn it, but they ended up playing a beat up GSW team that lacked Kevin Durant and then in Game 6 even Klay Thompson went down. The later was having one heck of a Game 6 performance before his injury. I guess personally it is better watching teams at full health play each other in the postseason. Because really this would have been another GSW championship had injuries not destroyed them. Great run by Toronto to win it all though and certainly not easy.
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Maris and Mantle. 115 home runs in 1961.
MrTPlush replied to The stache's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
You have to equate it to what was happening at the time. Entire teams weren't hitting as many home runs as Babe Ruth. Okay, but would he really be that good today? I don't think anyone really does know the answer to that. Maybe Ruth put in 100% effort to be that good while more athletic and better guys didn't care as much and thus didn't do as well. You gotta remember back then these guys weren't getting paid a ton and soooo much talent was not playing baseball. Now the effort and talent pool is insane. It really is the best of the best. Maybe he would still be good if born in today's time period and got what current athletes do. I like to think he would still be a good ballplayer under those conditions...but who really knows. Regardless what he did compared to his peers is just insane.