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  1. Jopal78
    The Cubs pitching staff is 10th in the NL in runs allowed, the Cardinals are 11th and the Reds are 13th. These things tend to even out over a 162 game season, and typically no matter how good an offense is a team with bottom of the league pitching won’t be much better than around .500
  2. Jopal78
    Boxberger has a little K-Rod in him, doesn’t start to pitch until he’s walked them loaded.
  3. Jopal78
    Feyereisen, Rasmussen, Richards, Bickford.
  4. Jopal78
    If they salvage game 3 of the series, I suppose getting walked off in extras when DeGrom pitched is understandable.
  5. Jopal78
    The good news is the Mets are probably going with a bullpen game for the 2nd one
  6. Jopal78
    Yeah, too bad the Brewers had all the luck in the game with two homers against DeGrom and a HBP to take the lead, and their bullpen couldn't get it done.
  7. Jopal78
    Not who I would've gone to either, but they're playing a man short, used their two best relievers and are probably saving Boxberger for game 2.
  8. Jopal78
    For a guy with 35 career homeruns, Peraza has almost twice as many homers against the Brewers (7) than he does against any other team (4)
  9. Jopal78
    Unfortunate, going for a likely series win to potentially trying to avoid a sweep. Mets will have Lindor running with Alonso at the plate in the 8th.
  10. Jopal78
    Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. At least DeGrom is out.
  11. Jopal78
    Agreed, this is the key moment of the game why not Hader here to get the out and Williams in the 7th against the bottom of the order.
  12. Jopal78
    I think its probably like Sogard in 2017 and 2019. Ride the lightning until its over then move on.
  13. Jopal78
    It's fine, but at some point you'd think they'd reach market saturation with jerseys. Nearly every team now has a home, road, and alternate with some even having home alternate and road alternates. Then there are player's weekend, plus unique all star jerseys now, and the city jerseys. Sheesh.
  14. Jopal78
    Rodgers statement that he has been working on his "mental health", his comment to Brady it was a projection that "he was unhappy with his boss," grinning and replying "I don't know" when BA asked him if he would be playing QB during the tournament. He's had ample opportunity to definitively say he is not showing up and why, and he dodged it each time. He'll show up for camp and say everything was blown out of proportion.
  15. Jopal78
    He's a ground ball pitcher but when hitters get it in the air it's usually struck pretty hard. In fact, his homeruns allowed per 9 would lead the Brewers. Given he has a year of team control remaining and he's on the cost conscious Indians, I doubt the potential price in terms of talent going back to Cleveland would make it unlikely.
  16. Jopal78
    No surprise there, with Urias and Peterson playing well Robertson hadn't gotten many at bats during their win streak.
  17. Jopal78
    That’s not quite how I remember 2014, when we scored 4.32 runs per game through July 31st, then scored 3.38 runs the final two months of the year. We had a gaping need to upgrade first base, were 20+ games ahead of the Rockies and didn’t trade for Justin Morneau. So I’m glad to see we’re not sitting on our hands with mediocrity at first base this time around. In Stearns and Counsell we trust! That said, maybe our bullpen also fell apart in 2014. It was an abysmal stretch. But our overall pitching didn’t change: 4.06 runs yielded per game through July and for full season. What I meant is the Brewers were 51-33, and 6.5 games up at the outset of July in 2014 only to collapse during that month and never recover (see also 2007, 2009)
  18. Jopal78
    I wouldn't say non-existent. If Oakland called and offered a premium prospect if the Rockies ate half of the remaining $, they'd have to consider it, no? The Rockies were running a $140-150 million payroll the last 4-5 years when it seemed like they had something with Freeland, Gray, Marquez, etc. making peanuts along with Story, Arenado, Blackmon, etc. Obviously some of that was a mirage and they made some mistakes, so I'm assuming paying $4m for a premium prospect may be worth it as they run an $80m payroll the next few years and rebuild. I suppose you are correct, but then you can rule out the Brewers anyways because I'm not so sure they would trade one of their premium minor leaguers (Small, Garrett, Ashby, Turang) for a straight rental of Trevor Story
  19. Jopal78
    The front office has had enough success to get the benefit of the doubt. Tellez is young with lots of team control and has hit for power in the major leagues. It kind of leaves Hiura without a clear role on the team (which is probably warranted by his play) but is a little strange given his pedigree. It does appear the cost was pretty high as Richards was a good cost-controlled swingman type pitcher, and based on his minor league stats Francis should be able to pitch effectively in the major leagues when he's deemed ready.
  20. Jopal78
    No, he had a .610 OPS, outside of Milwaukee that is usually a ticket out of the lineup.
  21. Jopal78
    It seems like a classic Brewer narrative (like in 2014 ) where they build up their hitting lineup, only to collapse because their short in the bullpen and the starters hit their innings limits.
  22. Jopal78
    Maybe there is another deal brewing which includes Hiura. Man, the Brewers had tremendous pitching depth and they sure are burning through it quickly despite remaining relatively healthy.
  23. Jopal78
    Whatever happened to Israel Puello who was one of the pitchers that came back to the Brewers in the David Phelps deal? Of the other two I see Brandon Ramey is injured and Juan Geraldo is pitching for the Mudcats, I didn't find any information what happened to Puello.
  24. Jopal78
    Yelich wasn't the last piece of a fire sale though. Yelich (or his agent) stated he didn't want to be a part of a 100 loss team and asked to be traded. This coming after the Marlins (astutely) moved Stanton's contract. They also had just moved Marcell Ozuna for whom they received an excellent return of three starting pitching prospects from the Cardinals: Sandy Alcantara, Zac Gallen and Daniel Castano. One reason the Marlins are still waiting on a return for Yelich is that their leverage was extinguished when Yelich via his agent, declared he didn't want to be there any more. It was actually Realmuto who was the final piece of a fire sale where they also received a nice return of Sixto Sanchez and Jorge Alfaro.
  25. Jopal78
    For cash, that's about as close to worthless as it gets. Right, and the Brewers already DFA'd Sabotka and Weigel is probably duking it out with Tim Lopes, Pablo Reyes and Yardley to keep their 40 man roster spots once the Brewers bring in some deadline acquisitions. Almost better off taking cash.
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