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  1. Jopal78
    Nearly as big as the shock of the Brewers winning the World Series is seeing Willson Contreras in a Brewers jersey
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    That Matt Arnold, wily like a fox: trading for Dustin may knowing that having that guy pretty much guarantees you win the World Series as evidenced by May’s now fourth World Series ring this decade.
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    Arguably the Rays staff may be in better shape on the whole. Yes, Rasmussen on short rest, but Matz, Cleavinger and Sulser did not pitch last night. Kelly and Bryan Baker should be good to go as well. With Peralta probably able to give them an innings
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    Can’t it be both? All those years where the Brewers were knocked out by teams that were hot in the playoffs (Cardinals in ‘11, Nationals on ‘19, Braves in ‘21, Arizona in ‘23), like those teams the Brewers have played even better than in the regular season. I dogged Sal Frelick and he had a bad season but he’s been nails in the post season. Somebody had a front page article this season dogging Contreras for having a down year and he’s been a monster in the post season, Yelich too, and the list goes on and on. They’re a good squad to begin with and will get the monkey off their back because they’ve got hit at the right time and fonally caught a few lucky breaks along the way in the playoffs offs.
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    Perhaps you know Counsell and he’s spoken about it with you (seriously I’m not being a wise guy). But otherwise, there is very little loyalty in professional sports. When folks play (or manage/coach) games for money, they almost always go where the money is. (Counsell even left Milwaukee as a free agent after 2004 for a 2-year guarantee with Arizona). To do the same job for more pay in Chicago than Milwaukee while still being able to sleep in your own bed a couple nights a week during the season, is probably as far as it goes for Craig.
  7. Jopal78
    Stearns almost assuredly has zero regret leaving the Brewers to go to the Mets. He planned his exit from Milwaukee years in advance. In fact, Stern resigning as president of baseball operations with one year left on his contract was actually doing the Brewers a favor instead of leaving them in the lurch. Counsell clearly wanted the money more than anything else and most likely has zero regrets leaving the Brewers either.
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    It’s an interesting thought, but I can’t buy in to the fact they gave McManus a $5M guarantee then cut him, burn a draft pick in Smack while really Orzech has been the problem the whole time.
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    Haha. Maybe, but Smack has been terrific from 50 plus yards, so missing the easy ones probably isn’t due to the snap.
  10. Jopal78
    What LaFleur secretly has a uni on under his active leisure clothes and doesn’t get his man blocked on the FGs? Give me a break, LaFleur has his faults but it’s the GM that hires the kickers: Carlson, Narveson, McManus, Smack. They’ve used the same number of kickers since 2023 than they had in the prior 36 years. Whats worse is the GM drafted Smack in the 6th round meaning he was worried someone else might get him, then he was the only kicker drafted!
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    Patrick’s role is to pitch in situations where they do not need to use their leverage arms, luckily they haven’t had those situations so far in the post season. Murphy didn’t suddenly lose trust in a pitcher who was 5th on the team in innings this season.
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    The ability to throw in back to back games?
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    None. He had two TJs before going to Tampa Bay and had an internal brace procedure on his elbow. That’s a ligament repair not reconstruction like TJ where a ligament is harvested and transplanted to the elbow. But yeah, he missed about a calendar year from ‘23 to ‘24 recovering from that elbow injury.
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    QBs are the face of the game, so to protect them the NFL wrote a super broad rule which the refs could call on every play where the QB is contacted after the ball has left his hand.
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    That is the point. The actual rule says “direct contact”. I suppose it’s possible Van Ness doesn’t know the definition of the word “contact”, but more likely than not he does, and merely judged he wouldn’t get flagged. That type of judgement is why the rule is there in the first place.
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    They called it correctly. Van Ness took more than one step after the ball left Prescott’s hand then gave him a shove. Rule 12, Sec. 2, Article 11 provides that a pass rusher is responsible for knowing when the ball leaves the passer’s hand. Roughing the passer will be called if the pass rusher makes direct contact with the passer after his first step (prior to his second step hitting the ground) once the ball has left the passer’s hand, and the pass rusher must be making an attempt to avoid contact. That Van Ness shoved him instead of leveling him doesn’t make it less of a personal foul under the rules. They should do away with the “Rules Experts” on the broadcasts. Most of them probably haven’t picked up the rule book in years. Just more blathering to fill every second of space in the broadcast to keep you from losing interest. The NFL remains the dominant attraction on TV in the United States. Viewership is up modestly since last year, while traditional TV continues to decline. Their product’s reputation and popularity has been impervious to decades of revelations about traumatic brain injuries, drugs, domestic violence, and criminal misconduct.
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    It probably doesn’t really matter it will be either good enough where he can work his arsenal or it won’t and he’ll stay on the injured list. If Woodruff is able to throw the four seamer hard enough to maintain its vertical break along that along with his changeup and experience in “pitching;” he absolutely could get 3-6 outs in the middle of a game probably more reliably than Senzatela, Harrison or even Patrick (who like Harrison hasn’t pitched since 9/26). If his four seamer doesn’t have enough gusto for the physics to fool batters he won’t make the roster. I’m sure the Brewers and Woodruff know where that point is, which is why he mentioned his next step is throwing to live hitters. I’d be more concerned with his ability to go back to back games, and if adding Woodruff would jeopardize the pen in the Series if there was a lopsided game by not having say Harrison to simply absorb innings to save the other arms in a blow out
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    I guess the Brewers lost the Willy Adames trade after all, Rasmussen has been the best pitcher in the postseason this year. 21 IP, 13 H, 3BB 23 K and 3 ER. i’m kidding about “winning” trades but man Rasmussen has been something else for Tampa
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    You’d figure at some point the injuries would catch up to Snell and Glasnow. Neither one has cracked 100 innings since 2024 due to injuries. It would be great if the slippage from all those injuries became evident in the next few days
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    Only Frelick and Lara had a lower OBP. If Hamilton could get on base at a .330 clip, with all the other things he does, he’d play for a decade in the majors
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    It’s always money. The “our guy” stuff means something to fans, but teams generally are not that nostalgic (They declined Contreras’s club option for ‘26 to save $2.5M). It will come down to whether $9M for 90 maybe 100 innings is a good deal for the Brewers or not. Given how they build their roster it probably will not be. You’re right about Gagne though. Signed to be a closer and almost immediately lost it. Forgot about that one, but it was Melvin not the Stearns/Arnold era.
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    They’ll most likely trade him after ‘27 if they can find someone willing to give them something for those team options. $9M option for ‘28, and $13 million dollar option for ‘29. While Ashby is a key bullpen contributor, outside of Hader (in the year he was traded) the Brewers have not carried a reliever with a salary of $9M a year especially for a non-closer. There are exceptions to every rule, but with their methods of roster building, it would be surprising if either of those options were exercised by the Brewers. It’s kind of like Vaughn in a way. He’s excellent in his role, but the team does not have any history of investing that kind of money in a role player.
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    It’s the major leagues though, he’s got to make those.
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    Pratt hasn’t been good defensively in the playoffs, and hasn’t swung it with the bat either
  25. Jopal78
    Too bad from a depth perspective. Hargrove was not much but they’ll literally be shopping on the street for a body for the DL by tomorrow afternoon.
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