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  1. Jopal78
    The real question is: who will pitch first Daniel Robertson or Jace Peterson?
  2. Jopal78
    The good news is; I’m sure Milner will be gone after tonight.
  3. Jopal78
    Well if he was truly trying to pitch hurt then he was doing the team no favors. I can’t imagine they would’ve let him throw if he was knowingly ailing from something. They’re all competitors at this level. I thought something looked off as Anderson ran to first in the top of the 2nd. Maybe he pulled a muscle on the DP he hit into and it tightened up on him on the mound.
  4. Jopal78
    No surprise, he’s trying to pitch hurt as he looked weird lumbering to first base when he hit.
  5. Jopal78
    I think there was some talent there to avoid being a historically bad team, but they're 2-16 in one run games and have four starting pitchers on the IL and two every day hitters.
  6. Jopal78
    Well said. I for one don't want to go back to the Ken Macha era Brewers where they were amongst the top teams in the league in scoring runs but trotted out Braden Looper, Dave Bush, Jeff Suppan etc. to get knocked around a couple of times a week.
  7. Jopal78
    Wade Miley? He's keeping the ball in the ballpark despite pitching in Cincinnati, FIP of 3.31 and a K:BB ratio of 3:1. The Brewers could always use additional arms. He is being paid 8 million dollars this year and has 1 million dollar buyout of a club option of 2022 ($10 million), however the relatively cheap club option might mean the Reds aren't going to give him away to a division rival.
  8. Jopal78
    This is where it always becomes bizzaro world in these trade proposals. The player gets denigrated in order to justify proposing to acquire them for garbage. In this case, does Donaldson suck (showing a lot of signs of fading and lots of guaranteed money remaining)? If so, why would the Brewers want him? On the other hand if he’s easily a 2-2.5 WAR player why would the Twins trade him, especially for a surplus outfielder. Twins make the move if they don't believe in their team for 2021. They have the 5th worst team in baseball right now. At what point do they throw in the towel and look towards the future? Salary flexibility is nice to have. They save $44M or so by making the deal. That's why they do it. A 2-2.5 WAR 3B definitely does not suck. No one said he did. Considering our corner IF production, he's a positive - even if he's not an all-star level player like he was a few years back. Right, now take a look at the Twins roster and future payroll commitments. They have a couple players in the 10+ million AAV, but otherwise Donaldson is the only big co tract they have. Thus, they don’t need to move him for payroll flexibility, unless as you mention they are going to break up their team, in which case they’d most likely sell him off to the highest bidder which won’t be Milwaukee and/or include JBJ
  9. Jopal78
    The last 3 relief pitchers DFA’d from major league rosters were Matt Wisler. Strickland and Weber. Wisler was traded to TB but Stearns claimed the other two. Obviously they’ve been left thin in the bullpen with Adames trade and the ineffectiveness of Lindblom, Yardley and Perdomo. These are depth moves for the middle relief low leverage arms
  10. Jopal78
    Funny 10 years ago this comment would be made about drafting and developing pitchers. The Brewers then draft a ton of pitching and advance them to the majors and they’re getting roasted for failing to develop hitters.
  11. Jopal78
    Don't look now, but after a horrid month of April (.184/.273/.327), with some regular playing time Vogelbach has got his numbers lightly above his career averages (.224/.337/.414)
  12. Jopal78
    I saw it floated on The Athletic, but what about Mike Moustakas? The Reds already cut significant payroll from 2020 by trading away Rasiel Iglesias and non-tendering Archie Bradley, and despite a hot streak are looking up at multiple teams in the Division. Moreover, they also will have some big salary increases with Winker, Luis Castillo and Tyler Mahle. Perhaps Cincinnati would be willing to move on from Moustakas (.233/.335/.456 as a Red), the Reds may even be willing to eat a little salary to move the majority of the approximately 45 million remaining ( half of 2021, 2022, and 2023) on his contract. As a straight salary dump, the Brewers could probably get away with sending some low level minor leaguers in exchange.
  13. Jopal78
    Interesting he has 163 career innings across 7 big league seasons and still had an option.
  14. Jopal78
    This is where it always becomes bizzaro world in these trade proposals. The player gets denigrated in order to justify proposing to acquire them for garbage. In this case, does Donaldson suck (showing a lot of signs of fading and lots of guaranteed money remaining)? If so, why would the Brewers want him? On the other hand if he’s easily a 2-2.5 WAR player why would the Twins trade him, especially for a surplus outfielder.
  15. Jopal78
    Whatcha going to do? There is no way around the fact talent costs money. Further professional sports contracts are built on an inherently flawed model of paying for anticipated athletic performance years into the future based on prior performance. You and I have a stat sheet and argue, real baseball people have endless video and in person scouting reports and it’s still basically guess work. Yet I suspect if the Brewers churned their roster every three years and didn’t pay anyone market rate salaries, you’d probably grouse that the GM is an idiot for failing to build a winner.
  16. Jopal78
    Generally, Portland is the consensus next best spot in the west. Gives a regional rival to the Mariners and would allow for easier realignment whenever it comes. One other city that I think might make some sense is Salt Lake City. There is significant passion in the NBA for the Jazz, and while the economics surely aren't the same in MLB/NBA, I think a similar level of passion could be had for a MLB team. Regardless, those three cities are really the only options that truly make sense in order to provide greater regional reach at this point. MLB is a barren waste land in the triangle that extends from Denver to Phoenix to Seattle. Oakland isn’t as tony as San Francisco or San Jose, but the Bay Area is a great market with probably in excess of ten million people. Short of Texas or the South there isn’t access to a market that size anywhere else in the US that doesn’t already have a team. The A’s would be best served in the Bay Area and let Manfred fight to get them into Palo Alto or something
  17. Jopal78
    Did they really technically cut bait on Lindblom? He couldn't refuse a designation to the minors could he? And we knew no one would pick up his contract. So it in essence was us sending him to the minors. Right, but they're paying a guy almost 3 million a year to pitch in the minor leagues as a non-roster player
  18. Jopal78
    But you're wrong, on both counts. If this was 2005 I'd agree with you. But with the constants escalation of player salaries, if a team is going to view a 11 million dollar AAV as limiting to their payroll in 2021, they probably have no intention of competing in the first place. Secondly, even if all the options in Bradley's contract it would run through 2023. Bradley and the Brewers have already agreed that 6.5 of his 9.5 player option for 2022 will be deferred until January of 2024, and the 8.5 million dollar buy out of the mutual option for 2023 is deferred until January of 2024 and beyond. In reality the Brewers set themselves up to be able to walk away from JBJ without it being a crippling blow as they spread out the payments of his 3 year contract in small chunks over 5 years time even after his contract ends. Assuming arguendo, they dropped him today, they'd be out whatever is left on his 6.5 million guarantee this year, and the 3 million they didn't already defer on his 2022 player option. They cut bait on Neftali Feliz, Lindblom so there is some history there of eating a bad contract. However, with JBJ I don't think they're going to believe they have 5 healthy outfielders who are better players.
  19. Jopal78
    I never really thought about it too much, but boy there have been a number of batters over the last fiver years or so who came to the Brewers got semi-regular playing time in Milwaukee with then never played extensively, if at all in the major leagues afterward: Justin Smoak Jedd Gyroko Corey Spangenberg Tyler Saladino Hernan Perez Nick Franklin Keon Broxton Kirk Nieuwenhuis Ramon Flores Alex Presley
  20. Jopal78
    JBJ is also more than 10 times as expensive as both Shaw and Hiura combined. Can we really move into 2021 and get past calling players with 10-12 million dollar AAVs expensive? In 2021, a team looking to fill starting roles on their roster by signing free agents for less than 10 million dollars a year is really going to be sifting through the bargain bin. No doubt, Bradley has sucked at the plate this year, but the potential for him to struggle with the bat must've been known because it is likely why he's on a short term contract with Milwaukee to begin with. That being said, almost all of his contract is deferred, with 13 million deferred until after January 1, 2024. Therefore, if the Brewers did have 5 outfielders they believed superior to Bradley they certainly could dump him because they have already agreed to pay over half the total money on his contract after said contract has already ended.
  21. Jopal78
    The Twins don’t need to “dump salary”. Donaldson’s is the only heavy multi-year deal they have. Plus they don’t have anyone else to play 3B and they’re expect to compete in 2022 if they can’t get back in it this year. Those three points suggest Donaldson isn’t going anywhere and certainly not for a pile of garbage like JBJ and Antione (major shoulder injury) Kelly
  22. Jopal78
    Eric Yardley has a 3.40 ERA in 53 career MLB innings, and that includes the unsightly 16 he's had this year. I'm not sure he's a great example of a "longer track record proving they can't pitch effectively in the majors". Up to this year, his track record had proved just the opposite. And they did eventually DFA Lindblom as well, so it isn't like they are continuing to hang on to the junk. Bickford was an extreme bottom-of-the-40-man relief arm. Nothing he showed in his brief appearances gave any sort of indication that he was a future stud pen piece. Maybe he'll hang around for a few years and bounce around, but as soon as the Dodgers get into a roster crunch, his hold on a 40-man spot in Los Angeles is likely to get tenuous as well. Yardley is already in his 30s, he gives up a hit an inning and a walk every other inning on average with a strikeout to walk ratio of 1:1. His ERA is nifty but he literally is a pitcher who puts runners on base almost every time out and doesn’t have strike out stuff. Because of that he’s a fringe major leaguer and it’s only a matter of time until his ERA reflects that.
  23. Jopal78
    It's probably still more posturing. The Athletics AAA team is in Las Vegas, and they just moved into a brand new stadium in 2019, owned by a major real estate development firm in the Las Vegas area, so there's bound to be fireworks if the A's try to move there as well.
  24. Jopal78
    I think the consternation is the Brewers brass decided Bickford wasn't good enough to play for them after a grand total of 2 career innings so they gave him his walking papers, only to have the best team in the league decide he was good enough to play for them and picked him up. Meanwhile, they've been on the hunt for more pitching every since, cycling pitchers through their organization. Bickford the player maybe insignificant, but in a year where the GM and Manager talk about needing arms to shoulder the load after the 60 game season they sure are tinkering around with their pitching with seemingly diminishing returns, yet hanging on to players like Yardley and Lindblom who have longer track records proving they can't pitch effectively in the majors
  25. Jopal78
    With the top end of the bullpen unavailable, this might be a “take one for the club” concession game. Need to save the better long relievers to cover for Anderson tomorrow. I’m guessing we’ll be seeing Weigel before Richards. Weigel was optioned to make room for Strickland
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