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  1. Jopal78
    Right, probably why they won’t trade Detmers or Soriano either. Either way it likely does not make Sal all that enticing in a trade.
  2. Jopal78
    I get it, you don’t like the cut of Sanchez’s jib, but even as a joke the whole Haase thing is really silly. His career is close to over.
  3. Jopal78
    Yep. He’s got 1600 MLB PAs. He is without a doubt well experienced in the major leagues. At 26 years old and 5’9” 191 lbs. he is not going to grow 3 inches and is almost certainly not going to pack on 20 lbs of muscle, so where does his game improve from other than he has better luck some years than others? In fact as he grows older and sustains injuries his speed and athleticism probably decrease.
  4. Jopal78
    Frelick is not a building block. For a rebuilding club, he’s a major league ready stop gap until you find someone better. It’s not that he doesn’t have value, it’s that he’s a corner OFer with a pop gun bat, so a front office must really love hustle, base running, working the counts, etc. over knocking the ball around all over the yard to be tantalized by Frelick.
  5. Jopal78
    They missed the boat on trading Frelick, he’s going to be arbitration eligible and is an OFer with a weak bat. I’m not sure what he would bring back in a trade but not a front line veteran starting pitcher .
  6. Jopal78
    I think you’ve said that before. They’re not similar other Sproat walks more batters, gives up more hits, and homeruns and strikes out fewer batters. They’re only similar to you because Freddy didn’t work deep into games.
  7. Jopal78
    Freddy gave up less runs.
  8. Jopal78
    When Brandon is on the mound, it seems he starts every batter with a couple of balls, maybe they should start calling him Scrote.
  9. Jopal78
    Maybe it’s a little bit of both. Sure the fans probably see fewer warts with Peralta‘s game, because he was a good pitcher for the Brewers across a number of years. But it’s also true the Brewers have a real need for starting pitching depth, and are not going to trade the prospect capital it likely would take to acquire one of the very few bona fide front of the rotation starting pitchers available. Peralta fits into that tier of pitchers they’re likely shopping from.
  10. Jopal78
    The guy reportedly doing this surgery is a board certified orthopedic surgeon, who specializes in shoulder care, is on staff at one of the top 10 university medical centers in the US, and is the team doctor for an affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers. Sheesh, it is not exactly going to Dr. Nick because he’s down the street, is it? Which isn’t to say I am right only that there are numerous reasons why somebody might switch surgeons and none of them are nefarious
  11. Jopal78
    Dr. Bowman is with Vanderbilt and the team doctor for the Nashville Sounds. Probably nothing more significant than Woodruff lives closer to Nashville than Arlington Texas, and has a newborn baby at home.
  12. Jopal78
    At the end of the day money talks, but if you pay close attention to what Matt Arnold and Pat Murphy say about Woodruff it is apparent they place a very high value on the intangibles he brings, especially to a pitching staff with a mitt full of pre-arbitration eligible starters: how he attacked his injury recovery, how he put in the preparation work, how he adapted his game to be effective with greatly diminished velocity, how he competes during the games. Its probably inaccurate to approach Woodruff as a “what else could we buy if we had that money” situation, because if they can find numbers that work for both sides, they’ll bring him back on another contract, to be around the young pitchers in 2027 while he rehabs and gets back into game action. Further, even with the dearth of quality starting pitching in MLB, there probably isn’t going to be significant free agent interest in Woodruff coming off a second capsular tear and having missed the majority of the 23-26 seasons with injuries, which also makes it all the more likely he’ll be back one some sort of minimal guarantee.
  13. Jopal78
    Boston illustrates how fickle and short sighted sports fans a can be, and also how awful sports journalism has become in 2026. Boston fired their Manager after 27 games, and the journalists in the echo chamber all wanted Breslow’s head on a spike for not having a clue what he’s doing. Now, as we move towards the trade deadline the Red Sox control their own destiny in a play off position despite their ace Crochet having not pitched since April, Roman Anthony being out since the beginning of May and having two other impact starting pitchers on the IL. Moreover, the Harrison/Durbin et al swap looks like a fair trade for both teams, and essentially absorbing Gray and Contreras’ contracts from St. Louis looks like a master stroke, and not to mention moving the $250 million dollars guaranteed to Devers over to be San Francisco’s problem.
  14. Jopal78
    Any way you want to say it, the point is the same. Gasser is at 78 innings now and threw a combined total of 78 innings in 2024 and 2025. So realistically what does he have left in the tank?
  15. Jopal78
    It’s the innings…. Gasser and Crow are likely to be shut down by September and the Brewers need someone to take the ball. Heck, they limited Misiorowski to 65 pitches tonight even though he was cruising and had a huge lead. In fact, Crow is probably close to done already at 66 total innings, he has already thrown the most he has in four years. Gasser too has already thrown more innings this year than he has in the prior three seasons.
  16. Jopal78
    That’s the rub is it not? They have to find starting pitching somewhere because the arms they have now are not going to make it to the finish line without being pushed beyond the limit. Yet the odds of them trading the blue chip prospects needed to land Skubal or someone of that ilk (the “better option as you suggest) is likely next to nil. Recent history suggests the Brewers are likely shopping in the back of the rotation/bargain aisle. Freddy Peralta would be right there, Brady Singer, Tyler Mahle too. All pitchers who are going to take the ball, give them five plus innings and generally keep the team in the game.
  17. Jopal78
    Yep, I’ll stand by my statement they don’t have an SP averaging MORE than 5 IP/start. Peralta by comparison has 104 1/3 innings pitched in 5 starts, so if we want to split hairs and argue technically these folks have more than 5IP/start, he’s still averaging more than every starter on the Brewers not named Misiorowski.
  18. Jopal78
    I’m not arguing he’s awesome but you’re slicing the numbers in a misleading way to make your point. Peralta coming into tonight has made 20 starts and pitched 104.1 innings. That’s technically a hair over 5ip/start. Outside of Miz the Brewers don’t have a pitcher averaging more than 5IP/start either.
  19. Jopal78
    As an initial matter, I don’t know if 15+ starts from Peralta is worth 4 years of team control of a generic back of rotation/swing man. I do know those trade evaluator sites are basically BS generators. However, the two pitchers are entirely different profiles. Even with slightly diminished stuff Peralta at 30 years old throws harder than Gasser (27) with better movement on the fastball. Peralta has the better change up and throws a curve ball. Gasser sits at 92 and moves the ball from side to side with his sinker, cutter and sweeper. Not a bad pitcher just less margin for error than someone who can throw at the top of the zone and dare batters to hit it. Pitchers have down years sometimes, (Darvish in ‘21, Nola in ‘21 Berrios in ‘22 etc) but absent an arm injury for Freddy, he’ll be the better pitcher over the next few years .
  20. Jopal78
    Why not target Brady Singer over Lodolo? Singer is a pure rental, and Brewers aren’t likely to part with the talent it would take to acquire Lodolo who isn’t eligible for free agency until 2028.
  21. Jopal78
    Peralta has 104.1 innings across 20 starts so he does average 5 IP/start even with the recent struggles you highlight. Point remains the Brewers are going to need innings from somewhere, or their season will die on the vine before October
  22. Jopal78
    Unless the Brewers intend to tax their young arms, they have e a critical need for innings. Drohan is at 73 IP this year, he hasn’t topped 55 innings in a season since 2023. Henderson pitched a career best 103 innings last year and is at 57 already this year. Harrison pitched 112 innings last year, has 83 IP this year and has forearm tightness already. Misiorowski pitched 141 innings (including post season), and is at 111 IP now and had arm fatigue. Peralta would be just want the doctor ordered a guy to take the ball every 5th day and give you 5-6 innings, but probably impossible for Stearns to trade him back and not admit he made a mistake.
  23. Jopal78
    They’re so desperate for pitching they have literally picked up nearly every pitcher DFA’d in the last month or so, trying to catch lightning in a bottle: Bryce Wilson Jake Woodford Drew Pomeranz Aaron Civale Jayden Murray Tyler Ferguson
  24. Jopal78
    Fixed it for you 9IP, 1H 3ER 3BB 2HBP 7K
  25. Jopal78
    Yoho sucks. Sorry, …. and it’s not just his tendency to give up gopher balls, it’s the trickle down effect. Now Megill will be down tomorrow for sure because Yoho couldn’t close out a game they were winning by 5.
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