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  1. Jopal78
    I don’t know; their hitters are all seemingly good and former first round picks but the Reds pitching is really bad this year, especially with Gray on the DL two tones already. Keep in mind the Reds are 10-3 against Pittsburgh and Colorado, and 22-28 against everyone else. They’re already done for the year against doormats Arizona, Colorado, and don’t see Pittsburgh again until mid-September
  2. Jopal78
    I love how he works the count. Having him, vogelbach and yelich in the first 3 spots leads to a lot of high pitch counts for opposing pitchers. Vogelbach's last 30 games, he is .241/.388/.456 (.844 OPS) can live with that.
  3. Jopal78
    It was 7 years ago, a lifetime ago. Who really cares
  4. Jopal78
    JP with 9 walks and 9 strikeouts since the trade. Richards with 1 walk and 12 strikeouts since the trade. I assumed Richards would be a slight downgrade from JP. If it’s at least a wash, then it’s basically Rasmussen for Adames. For some reason Rasmussen is in the minors for the Rays and not even being stretched out as a starter. It makes it puzzling why the Rays would make the deal if they didn’t have a need for a reliever. They must think Rasmussen has incredible upside. In any case, thank you, Rays! The Brewers acquired the best player in the trade no doubt. But I think it’s safe to say the Rays look at more than the stat sheet when making a deal. The Rays got to major league ready high velocity relief pitchers with 5 years of team control for two players they didn’t need. They’ve positioned themselves for the long haul, maybe it’s fair for both sides
  5. Jopal78
    Yup, since June 1st they’ve allowed 69 runs, in just ten games. The fact they had a 3-2 victory and 8-2 victory in that ten game span makes it that much worse for their staff
  6. Jopal78
    Better than Yardley and Lindblom, better tack record than Milner. Plus, Strickland, hard to believe, has two World Series rings
  7. Jopal78
    Missed opportunity as the Brewers pitchers are sure to hit some innings limits this year and have a need for more arms. Although it looks like Tampa gave up a nice minor league pitcher in return, so maybe the cost was too rich for the GM’s blood
  8. Jopal78
    I'd be more than happy if the Pirates wanted to leave Colin Moran in Milwaukee on Sunday. Lefty hitter, can play 3rd or 1st somewhat competently. Hitting well this year. Good clubhouse guy. Can't imagine the cost would be too severe. He'd be a good target. I really disagree with the notion that because a certain player plays for Detroit, Pittsburgh, Baltimore etc. their current team will trade them away without exacting a significant return. Moran is controlled through the end of the 2023 season, plays third base (as well as 1B and some 2B) and has a career slash line of .272/.330/.430. Moreover, he is in the midst of a 'break out' season with a slash line of .292/.358/.458. Moran would be a useful player on just about every contending team's roster. The Pirates likely could get a Top 100 prospect for Moran if they wanted to trade him right now.
  9. Jopal78
    Fielding bible agrees with you http://www.fieldingbible.com/TeamDefensiveRunsSaved Feels like the Reds have made gobs of acquisitions over the past couple of years to not be terribly good at much, and really horrible in some areas. And the GM who made all those moves was a family friend of the owner and walked away from baseball all together after last year. We can all be thankful the Brewers have a competent baseball side and a mostly non-meddling owner
  10. Jopal78
    Agreed on both counts. There are some very bad announcers around the league, but I don't think Grindle or Levering are among them. My only issue with the two of them is that I have a hard time distinguishing which is which when they're on the same broadcast. I don't know, making frequent pop-culture/movie references was already tired 5 years ago, and the constant discussion of the catered food they eaten is probably designed to be entertaining but its more annoying than anything else.
  11. Jopal78
    The problem with those folks are that Mancini and Aguilar are both good and controllable through 2022 so the Orioles and Marlins would demand a quality return. Santana is also under contract next year for 10 million, plus the Royals have decent pitching and are still on the periphery of the race and may sell
  12. Jopal78
    He's not really hitting well enough to justify playing him at DH on a regular basis. Hopefully he improves. Since their four game sweep in Philadelphia at the beginning of May, Vogelbach has a triple slash line of .233/.361/.417. It would be nice if he had a little more slugging percentage, but a player with a .361 OBP even with middling power is a nice thing to have.
  13. Jopal78
    In hindsight, the Brewers probably should have hung on to McKinney instead of Vogelbach. Oh well ... win some, lose some. McKinney's last month with the Brewers he went 9 for 59. His triple slash was .153/.227/.254 over the same period of time Vogelbach went 14 for 79. His triple slash line was .206/.316/.309. Neither player is anything more than a stop gap, but Vogelbach was more productive for the Brewers than McKinney which is why he's still on the team. In fact, since the McKinney trade Vogelbach has also played much better with a triple slash of .231/.394/.346
  14. Jopal78
    Levering and Grindle are soooo bad. I know they have to fill air time but everything that comes out of their mouths in between pitches seems like the product of someone with an IQ of 40
  15. Jopal78
    You can't have it both ways. 1. If Donaldson "isn't that productive" where the Twins want to dump his contract, then why would the Brewers want a player who "isn't that productive" in the first place? 2. If Donaldson is productive or useful, why then would the Twins want to trade him away, unless there was a significant return coming back? The Twins aren't going into a rebuild, and even with Donaldson their total payroll is 16th out of 30.
  16. Jopal78
    It all depends on the damage to the tissue surrounding the shoulder when it came out of joint. The team doctors probably manually manipulated it back into the joint in the clubhouse. It’s now a question of getting inflammation out and strengthening the muscles around the shoulder so it doesn’t become a chronic thing, that’s where the lengthy recovery time comes from. Then again Tatis suffered a dislocated shoulder and partial labrum tear in early April and he was back playing in May
  17. Jopal78
    I’m being facetious, but as mentioned in the Donaldson thread, Minnesota has no reason to trade him but for the fact they haven’t played well as a team this year. Donaldson is still productive, plays a premium position and is the only big multi year contract the Twins have. Like every player in MLB, I’m sure he’s available at the right price, but Minnesota probably isn’t motivated to move him because of the above, so that price would then be sky high as a result.
  18. Jopal78
    Well, the pitchers DID give up seven runs tonight..... Well, they can’t all be killers. Anderson is a finesse lefty starter; I assume he’s going to pitch well half the time and get hit the other half.
  19. Jopal78
    This is classic Brewers right? An all time great starting rotation and they’ll completely waste it because players like Peterson and Robertson are going to each get 400 at bats. With Cain down indefinitely JBJ is going to get 500+ at bats. What a joke for a collection of hitters.
  20. Jopal78
    I’m sure they’d trade him for Peralta or Burnes.
  21. Jopal78
    I don't know why his strikeout rate in AAA back in 2019 is just ignored. He was between 18.1% and 20.9% throughout the minors and it jumped to 26.3% in AAA. That's pretty significant and concerning and it jumped to 30.7% in the majors his rookie year and has only gotten worse. Hiura had a .558 slugging percentage in the minors and .570 in 2019. Any team will live with a healthy dose of swing and miss if that's the kind of power the player brings. His problem was the K rate went up and the slugging percentage plummeted.
  22. Jopal78
    The Giants just DFA's Matt Wisler, nice solid numbers for swingman type of pitcher. The last 3 years he's averaging 11.6 K/9, 3.33 K:BB ratio, less than a hit per inning. He does give up too many homers but a better pitcher than what the Brewers currently have in Yardley, Richards or Milner.
  23. Jopal78
    I don't know if the expectations were too high. Hiura had a .950 OPS in the minor leagues, and was initially called up because he had nothing else to prove in the minor leagues. However, since then, teams have found out how to exploit his timing where they can throw him strikes and he can't get the bat on it, or doesn't hit it hard, and Hiura has been unable/unwilling to make a counter-adjustment. It truly is an unknown if he will be able to make an adjustment or not. MLB is littered with players who had 350 amazing at bats and were never heard from again as well as players who eventually figured it out. The Brewers are in a tough spot with Hiura. They're not going to hold the door open for him any longer, especially when they're trying to compete in their division. Then again, I'm sure they don't want to pull the plug on a player who has hit 33 homeruns in 180 big league games.
  24. Jopal78
    That's exactly the point he could be if he is capable of completely remaking who he is as a hitter in AAA. But it is anyone's guess whether Hiura will be capable of abandoning the hitting style/approach which got him drafted in the Top 10 overall in the first place, to find an approach that will allow him to succeed at the major league level. The team made him a starter twice and he failed, he's a question mark going forward. Given where the Brewers are in the success cycle, there is no reason to include him in their future plans right now. Yet his pedigree may still make him attractive to rebuilding clubs around the league to where the Brewers could get a useful major league player (Michael Fulmer, Ian Kennedy et al) in return come the end of July.
  25. Jopal78
    He’s not the long term answer at 2nd, he’s no longer the long term answer at 1st. He has too much experience to be considered a prospect. I’d trade him for whatever pitching the can get. And explain it as a change of scenery
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