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  1. Jopal78
    24 year old starter who tops out in the mid-90s and is “close” to the majors.... Supak will get claimed. Surprised they kept Freitas, Feyereisen,, Peterson etc who have little to no upside over Supak who at least has Youth on his side
  2. Jopal78
    Who was that MVP player on the Royals when they won it all a few years ago? Anomaly’s happen. Royals have had 4 winning seasons in the last 30 years and are one of the main examples of teams unwilling to pay for talent and trading it away.
  3. Jopal78
    If you don’t sign an MVP to an extension when he’s willing to stick around, you don’t want to see winning baseball. You want to see mediocre players win 75 games and light up the chat rooms about the prospects who are coming in 2-3 years. Plain and simple.
  4. Jopal78
    It really seems like he's trying to launch one 450 feet every time he swings. I think be has it in his head that he's a major power hitter. I mean, he's going to get his homers, but his big selling point when drafted was his ability to put the bat on the ball. He’s a slightly better Corey Patterson. An all world talent, but teams know where to pitch him where he can’t hit it and can’t lay off it, and to date he has been unable to adjust.
  5. Jopal78
    I’ll say it, Hiura needs a lot of polish to his game to be more than mediocre
  6. Jopal78
    Reportedly 2nd fastest sprint speed on team
  7. Jopal78
    Hiura is going to come close to striking out 100 times in a 60 game season. Awful plate discipline
  8. Jopal78
    Taylor’s first MLB homerun came off a non-pitcher. I can’t find any records online, but it has to be some rare feat that a first career homerun comes off a non-pitcher?
  9. Jopal78
    What's with the dumb base-running by the Brewers. Runner on third less than one out in the first inning last night, and Yelich is out by a mile trying to steal 2nd. Now Urias costs them a run getting thrown out at 3rd.
  10. Jopal78
    I know the Yelich extension was widely hailed as fantastic, but I do think the chances are very high that it is widely criticized in 5 years. If a team isn’t going to extend an MVP in his prime when they have an opportunity, why have a team? To shuffle a bunch of players around and never have enough talent to be more than mediocre while waiting for the minor league to produce saviors? They tried that once and when the ballyhooed prospects were finally up.... they still lost more games than they won. This team is built around Yelich, Cain, Hiura and Braun. Cain opted out, Braun has been hurt, and the league has adjusted to Hiura and so far he hasn’t been able to counter-adjust. Couple that with young starting pitching breaking in and a season long slump from Yelich and you have a recipe for some real boring baseball.
  11. Jopal78
    If there is a stretch run in this team they need to start putting the gas pedal down. Screw the matchups and just play your 9 best hitters every night. 1: Urias 3B 2: Yelich LF 3: Hiura 2B 4: Gyorko 1B 5: Braun RF 6: Vogelbach DH 7: Narvaez/Nottingham C 8: Arcia SS 9: Garcia CF Still have versatility on the bench and the ability to play matchups later with: Sogard, Peterson, Mathias, Gamel, Taylor, etc.
  12. Jopal78
    If there is a stretch run in this team they need to start putting the gas pedal down. Screw the matchups and just play your 9 best hitters every night. 1: Urias 3B 2: Yelich LF 3: Hiura 2B 4: Gyorko 1B 5: Braun RF 6: Vogelbach DH 7: Narvaez/Nottingham C 8: Arcia SS 9: Garcia CF Still have versatility on the bench and the ability to play matchups later with: Sogard, Peterson, Mathias, Gamel, Taylor, etc.
  13. Jopal78
    With more playing time in Washington, Brock Holt seems to have gotten it going for the Nationals. He got 30 ABs with Milwaukee across 16 games and hit .100/.222/.100 With the Nats he's gotten 26 ABs in 8 games and is hitting .385/.429/.500 Small sample, but maybe what some of these guys need is a little more playing time and less sporadic playing time with match up based lineups.
  14. Jopal78
    With more playing time in Washington, Brock Holt seems to have gotten it going for the Nationals. He got 30 ABs with Milwaukee across 16 games and hit .100/.222/.100 With the Nats he's gotten 26 ABs in 8 games and is hitting .385/.429/.500 Small sample, but maybe what some of these guys need is a little more playing time and less sporadic playing time with match up based lineups.
  15. Jopal78
    Vogelbach Rulez!!
  16. Jopal78
    I wouldn't say Russell Branyan was ahead of his time. He played in the major leagues for 14 seasons, players don't stick around that long absent being able to produce. That he played for 10 different teams and never got a multi-year contract is more a byproduct of a team's reluctance to build around a Low OBP player with below average defense. Which I still think holds true today. This is also why Vogelbach is now with his fourth organization in 5 years.
  17. Jopal78
    He hit in the minor leagues and was regarded well enough to be traded by the Cubs for Mike Montgomery who was a key contributor for the Cubs for several years. He also has hit some in the major leagues. Get him in some better parks than those huge west coast ballparks, and maybe there’s something their. Not a core guy but a capable contributor
  18. Jopal78
    All of these guys (Smoak, Gyorko, Sogard) are short term pieces. In a 60 game season they probably know they’re in trouble if they get off to a slow start. At least Stearns is trying things to get the offense going
  19. Jopal78
    Jake Faria dude. He's still at the Alternate Training site. As for Vogelbach, he didn't hit well at Safeco: .186/.309/.379. He has been decent on the road: .204/.339/.412 Maybe there's some juice in there to be unlocked, maybe not. Best find out in the wacky 2020 season before adding First Base to the shopping list for 2021.
  20. Jopal78
    It is quite remarkable that he emerged as a lock down reliever in the majors with less than 4 innings above AAA, and less than 140 total innings after having TJ surgery in 2016. Even if his career as a player doesn't last a decade, the ability to hone his skill in throwing the change up when not even pitching in games all that much indicates he understands the mechanics of throwing a baseball and would probably make him a great pitching instructor.
  21. Jopal78
    A lot of players with Ray's skillset develop later in their careers. I think it was Doug Melvin who I heard first say that and he started targeting those types (Podsednick, Brady Clark, Carlos Gomez). There is still time for Ray to figure it out and be a successful MLB player. Well, I don’t think teams draft a college bat #5 overall with the belief his skill set will develop later in his career. Teams draft college bats so they can plug them into the line sooner up than later. Moreover, Ray was a #5 draft pick. Only one of the players you cited was even drafted (Pods) and that was in the 3rd round.
  22. Jopal78
    Corey Ray is a bust, plain and simple. Keep in mind the Brewers drafted Trent Grisham out of high school the year before selecting Ray out of college and Grisham made the major leagues in 2019. At this point they should probably play Ray instead of Gamel, Peterson, etc to find out if there’s any glimmer of a player to justify further development if Corey Ray
  23. Jopal78
    Well, anything Wolf says is a false equivalence when applied to baseball. He was a football GM, where if you have a Hall of Fame Quarterback and not much else you can still win 9 or more games (See Favre, Brett 2000-2004). You want to knock the big market GMs for not winning more titles, how many repeat champions has there been in MLB in the last 20 years? I'll hang up and listen...
  24. Jopal78
    Correction: winning in baseball is hard, not just Milwaukee. If you honestly think Epstein has done a poor job, you just haven't been paying attention to baseball beyond the Brewers. Epstein is responsible for drafting/procuring a plethora of amateur players who became starters or will likely be starters in the major leagues for over decade: Mookie Betts (5th roudn) Jed Lowrie, Jacoby Ellsbury, Jackie Bradley Jr., Dustin Pedroia, Jonathon Papelbon, Josh Reddick, Anthony Rizzo (then traded for him in Chicago!), Xander Bogaerts, Kris Bryant, Kyle Schwarber amongst others. Epstein also picked up a Hall of Famer when the Twins non-tendered David Ortiz. You can denigrate these guys all you want for the ability to sign big name free agents, but that's not half the story of Cashman, Epstein etc.'s success. And if (likely) six consecutive winning seasons, four consecutive playoff appearances, a world series title is under some logic a fart in the wind. Brewer fans could be only so lucky to be gas emitted from that anus on a windy day. But back to the point, I haven't lost confidence in Stearns. He's a good not great GM who walked into a situation where the bar was set incredibly low and got his team to the NLCS. He hasn't been on the job long enough to really judge his amateur player procurement yet. On the pro-side, like I said, he traded for a guy who went out and won an MVP and is arguably one of the top 5 players in the league which in my book will still give him lots of cover for misses like Sogard, Lindblom, etc.
  25. Jopal78
    I’d argue you have it backwards- other than maybe Beane, and with a nod to Friedman’s time in Tampa, those are the competent GMs. Stearns is outstanding because he worked with a fraction of the funds those guys did. All you have to do with a monster payroll and deep pockets to eat huge contracts that don’t work out is be competent. Of course, large market GMs have more of a margin of error than small market teams, but to suggest that alone limits them to being competent is baseless. Cashman for example has procured tons of players over the years who played or likely will play for over a decade, while never picking at the top of the draft: Judge, Gary Sanchez, Brett Gardner, Dellin Betances, Luis Severino, David Robertson, Robinson Cano, etc. Same deal with Theo Epstein in Boston and later in a Chicago. The real sign of a GMs gravitas is player procurement and taking it even a step further the folks the GM has in place in those departments with the team. The Bar was set so low with Sal Bando and Dean Taylor that Doug Melvin hitting on a few top 10 picks and waiver claims Looked like genius. With Stearns all credit is due to a guy who is able to trade for a player who promptly goes out and wins an mvp. He’s put some winners on the field, which as a fan is great, but he hasn’t kept up the talent procurement leaving the organization light on talent. Again, I’m not criticizing the job he’s don’t but he hasn’t yet demonstrated he is amongst the elite tier in the game
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