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  1. MrTPlush
    Well, Winker did OPS south of .700 last year...so I am not how much of a shocker his production has been so far.
  2. MrTPlush
    Agreed....and before I get jumped on, no, I don't think there was much of a better avenue last offseason to go. At least from the standpoint of trying to compete this year. This is probably the best way we could have attempted to compete, I guess we shall see if the rookies can right the ship in the coming months. The most obvious thing we could have done differently is kept Wong and not had Winker (thus no Turang on the roster). However, anyone checking stats knows Wong has been absolute trash this year. We could have kept Renfroe, who is hitting well again this year. Renfroe/Taylor is probably more pleasant than Taylor/Wiemer at face value on 5/4. Offense is just a big ole disaster.
  3. MrTPlush
    So was you taking three posts to actually try and have a conversation. You could have just led off with this post versus whatever you were trying to accomplish before. They have jumped out to a 18-12 start largely because of the crazy offense we were getting the first couple weeks. Now we are back to looking like a .500 at best team. The only reason we have not cratered into the abyss is because pitching/defense. Turang by himself isn't a problem and Wiemer isn't a problem by himself. However, them both in the line-up is a huge issue. We are trotting out like five guys on a nightly basis that are #9 hole hitters. We probably are just hosed at this point and have to ride it out. I am not one to start clamoring for the fodder in AAA. This was always going to be an issue with depending on a bunch of rookies. Add in praying on Winker/Anderson to resurrect their careers...yah, the offense is looking pretty brutal. Hopefully at least one of Wiemer/Turang starts being a decent bat consistently. We can't win with a flurry of guys OPSing in the .600s. No amount of defense/pitching is going to carry that over 162 games.
  4. MrTPlush
    Value of depth, depends on who the next guy up is. Your comment makes me think of elite pitchers that miss extended time constantly. 3.25 ERA is fantastic, but if the guy pitching the other 1/3 of the season throws up a 5.25 ERA...well, collectively that isn't all that elite.
  5. MrTPlush
    I see, your cold makes it hard to just make a decent post conveying your point.
  6. MrTPlush
    My comment would be in reference to the entire team's performance of trying to get to the end goal, winning a world series...or more realistically, at least fielding a team that can make a legitimate playoff run. They are 18-11 right now, but that is largely thanks to guys starting the year like Barry Bonds. The current results, which are sadly more like what was expected, isn't going to cut it. Hopefully the offense warms up with the summer or we can tread water long enough to be able to make trades.
  7. MrTPlush
    Offense would have to score runs to make that even a worry for me.
  8. MrTPlush
    Probably not, but I wouldn't know since you didn't mention it.
  9. MrTPlush
    That 2.7 WAR is a bit inflated by his bonkers 671 PAs. His 110 OPS+ was solid though, either way. If he can revert back to his near mid .700s OPS and a nice .350+ OBP he is a decent bat to have in the lineup. However, that seems to be his ceiling at this point and he is 30+ now. I can't imagine he is this bad, but could he start floating closer and closer to sub .700? Possible.
  10. MrTPlush
    I think our position players are just that bad. He also gets credit for 0.2 dWAR for Bref. He hasn't finished a season with a positive Bref WAR since 2015. He hasn't finished a season with anything better than -0.6 since then. So that is probably going to trend the opposite direction as the season goes on. I doubt Yelich has some newfound defensive gift at 30+.
  11. MrTPlush
    I am guessing people would rather see some kind of change versus watching the FO somehow epically waste another year of Burnes/Woodruff and Co. I don't really care what they do, because as you alluded to, the other options like Toro isn't a great option either. But thus, this is what the front office decided to do. Keep all the major pieces and expect a bunch of rookies to try and carry the offense out of the dumpster. All the rookies have been garbage at the plate. Mitchell could have some good games here and there, but struck out a trillion times...so him keeping up average production was an uphill battle before injury. Weimer has had moments here and there...but still has greatly struggled with the bat. Brice Turang has been consistently terrible though...basically no flashes of anything. No one was expecting Ryan Braun....but I think the front office was maybe hoping for someone to be a relevant bat. Instead, they all have been pretty useless. Sure doesn't help Brian Anderson and Jesse Winker have also spiraled into the abyss offensively.
  12. MrTPlush
    That is odd. The camera shouldn't even be going off on a yellow light. Those cameras usually are only tracking action at the line anyway...I am not sure how you would be in the intersection when the light goes yellow and the camera decide to deem you in violation. Also, in any state I am aware of with traffic cams, there is still someone reviewing footage. I can't imagine any state has the camera snapping violation and then packaging them up in an envelope without review. If this is actually happening that is just Phoenix being terribly ran.
  13. MrTPlush
    And over a full year, he won't. He is what he is defensively at this point.
  14. MrTPlush
    Well yah…any guy rocking a sub .700 OPS should probably be happy every opportunity they get to still be on the roster, especially in a starting capacity. Reality is we banked on him so there really isn’t a great option to turn to. Iris’s being injured doesn’t exactly help matters.
  15. MrTPlush
    Elite defense, okay…he can bat anywhere in the order to provide that. I don’t care where he is in his MLB career. He has been pretty freakin’ bad on offense, especially lately. Not sure he is a shining example of someone to try and get a spark from. I wasn’t trying to predict his future.
  16. MrTPlush
    That speaks more volume about how bad our offense is past a few guys. His OPS is nowhere near .700, his OBP is barely getting over .300, and his average is like .225. Add in a guy who isn’t very good defensively anymore…he hasn’t even been a starting quality player this year despite getting paid to be elite.
  17. MrTPlush
    Yelich is a depressing joke…but Turang should be blessed to even be on the MLB roster. Not sure what he is going to inject other than more disappointment.
  18. MrTPlush
    Dude will frame anything.
  19. MrTPlush
    The gray area of the pitching clock rules is getting a lil old.
  20. MrTPlush
    I’m not a massive fan of Brooks. A tweener guy between outside/inside DL sounds like a dude ready to get owned by NFL OLs. Probably why he was a 6th round pick. For a 6th rounder though, he is pretty intriguing. Maybe he can carve out a niche role
  21. MrTPlush
    Plenty of people were worried about his knee (not me personally), so why couldn't have Yelich felt that same way? Braun signed a 'team friendly' extension and then months later got caught doing PEDs. Was part of the reason Braun kept signing team friendly deals because he was cheating and knew if he ever got caught his future earnings would be at incredible risk of plummeting? I guess we will never know...maybe coincidental. I imagine a player doing PEDs might be a little more anxious to get the contract signed in case something were to happen. These players are signing these kinds of deals for reasons other than being okay/happy where they are. If he wanted to be a Brewer and sign a team friendly contract, he could have done that when he hit FA. Obviously a player is also concerned about any risks that might be present or could happen that might destroy their career...thus never signing anywhere close to the team friendly deal.
  22. MrTPlush
    Or because he felt he was going to statistically fall off from his knee injury or for any other apparent reason. It appears it never was a team friendly deal...more like highway robbery on Yelich's part. Pointless though, because he is about as untradable as it gets. I don't think we are going to pay upwards of $100mil to get him out of town.
  23. MrTPlush
    My insurance and others I have seen reduce the rate for automatic braking. I want to say mine also reduces it for blind spot monitoring/warning.
  24. MrTPlush
    Because the caption of the dozen or so stats of the graphic said it was meaningless. There wasn't any actual purpose to the graphic. I only mentioned the one because I thought it was relevant to the ESPN article and how premature such a title being given to us is.
  25. MrTPlush
    Yah, they are in a great spot regardless. Top half of the second round is still filled with 1st round talents that just didn’t fit teams needs/board. Then position that simply don’t get drafted high like TE.
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