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  1. Jopal78
    What about Daniel Hudson? Has the lower profile similar to the moves Stearns makes. Hudson is on a one year 1.5 million dollar deal with the Blue Jays. 9K per 9. 2:1 K:BB ratio. His homer per 9 ratio of 1.1 is better than any Brewer reliever outside Jeffress. Hudson is definitely available and in terms of prospect capital would not require a significant return
  2. Jopal78
    We will need Shaw to play third next year. Not too mention who would leave the 25 man roster to make room for Kipnis? Kipnis doesn’t play short stop or third base so you can’t replace Saladino with him. He has never played corner outfield in the majors so you can’t replace Gamel with Kipnis. The Brewers can’t option Thames or Aguilar, and I’m sure Kipnis would not consent to being sent to the minor leagues either. Finally, the Brewers aren’t the Dodgers where fiscally they can trade for a bad contract as part of a larger deal then release the player with the bad contract In your scenario the Brewers would be better off including cash before agreeing to take Kipnis.
  3. Jopal78
    It’s all relative. 2017 they missed the post season by one game. One extra win here and there has the potential to be important in September. I don’t think there’s much doubt that a little better quality of depth on the 40 man would have resulted in a few more wins this year already.
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    I’m sure it’s merely an opt out so he has time to latch on with another organization before the minor-league season is over. There is potentially a lot of money at stake for such a pitcher should he be able to get back to the major leagues and pitch effectively so if the Brewers aren’t calling him up now, he may as well take his chances elsewhere. Although it would be tampering for a player to be seeking different employment while under contract with a club.
  5. Jopal78
    If he ‘stinks’ what does that say about Burnes, Wilkerson, Burch Smith, Jay Jackson, Alex Wilson, Petricka? One of the bigger regrets I have is not posting, "in, before he is compared to our current pitching." But that is the point. The Brewers dropped him (presumably over money), and it weakened the overall talent of the pitching staff. Lyles isn’t a world beater but he’s effective at soaking up innings and keeping his team in the game. The last couple spots that n the Brewers staff haven’t been able to do that
  6. Jopal78
    If he ‘stinks’ what does that say about Burnes, Wilkerson, Burch Smith, Jay Jackson, Alex Wilson, Petricka?
  7. Jopal78
    With all the rumors about the Brewers acquiring starting pitching (good to hear btw), perhaps the unintended consequence is that we've seen the last of Jimmy Nelson as a Brewer. Additions to the rotation slides the existing members of the rotation back a spot, plus any additions to the 'pen itself means that Nelson is probably done as a Brewer as he most assuredly will be non-tendered in the off season.
  8. Jopal78
    I have no idea if he's hurt or not, but the tail end of June he was lights out and in July he's given up an unusual number of deep fly balls. It could be rust, it could be injury, it could be fluke.
  9. Jopal78
    Hader with an ERA of 9.00 (possibly more) one blown save (possibly more) in July, and pulls out of the All Star game due to injury. Looks like he might be trying to pitch threw some nagging injury.
  10. Jopal78
    Why would Yelich ever sign an extension with the Brewers? If they offered him an extension I’m sure he would decline it and see what he could get as a free agent; if the offers didn’t meet his expectations he probably knows he could always go back and take Milwaukee’s Money
  11. Jopal78
    No trade clauses are basically just tools nowadays to put more money in a player's pocket. If geographical location played much of a role in deciding where ball players played San Francisco and Seattle would be overflowing with great players. Rather, professional ball players go wherever the money is, often times that isn't Milwaukee. It's a creative idea to trade Moustakas but trying to make the playoffs and trading him away is just weakening one part of your team to strengthen another. It doesn't make the roster more talented. Well it's not just geographic location. The Yankees are very desired because they generally have so much other talent, and all the historic reasons. How well a franchise is run matters as well. Sure some guys will go sign with the Marlins or Orioles if they are the top bidder and only care about $, but a significant chunk of players(especially top players) want to play for a team with a plan and that has a chance to compete/win. I disagree only with the premise that a significant chunk of players want to play for a winner. If what you do for your livelihood is play baseball for money, winning is removed from the equation. There are some players (Yelich, I recall asked for a trade from Miami) that care about winning but that is the minority. Baseball season is six months long and for three of those the player is on the road anyhow. Whether or not lifestyle in one city is better than another city for those three months is probably a variable in the decision making process but is likely given very little weight in deciding.
  12. Jopal78
    No trade clauses are basically just tools nowadays to put more money in a player's pocket. If geographical location played much of a role in deciding where ball players played San Francisco and Seattle would be overflowing with great players. Rather, professional ball players go wherever the money is, often times that isn't Milwaukee. It's a creative idea to trade Moustakas but trying to make the playoffs and trading him away is just weakening one part of your team to strengthen another. It doesn't make the roster more talented.
  13. Jopal78
    You have to look at the entire picture. Ray has pitched 111 innings this year across twenty starts. He has pitched deeper into games than anyone on the Brewers current staff but for Woodruff. He has 145 strike outs in those 111 innings. That bests everyone on the Brewers staff (Woodruff 126Ks in 108 innings). He has allowed 47 earned runs in 111 innings. Woodruff by comparison has allowed 44 in 108 innings, so again Ray has been very similar to Woodruff in 2019. The walks and homeruns are the only blemish on Ray. Yet his homeruns allowed per/9 of 1.3 is still better than Chacin, Chase Anderson, Burnes, Peralta and is equal to Houser. Based on results Robbie Ray immediately would slot in as the Brewers 2nd best starter, and if Gio Gonzalez comes back and pitches even to his career numbers the Brewers rotation would look significantly better than it does right now.
  14. Jopal78
    Just getting there is what is important, who would have thought that the Rockies would eliminate the Cubs in the wild card game last year? The Brewers don't stack up against the Dodgers on paper, but who knows if the Dodgers will steam roll into the NLCS or get surprised by someone else in 5 game NLDS.
  15. Jopal78
    The Diamondbacks are a weird team. They made the LDS in 2017 after winning 93 games (Pythagorean of 96 wins), went 82-80 last year (Pythagorean of 86) and decided to trade of their best player Goldschmidt and had two key free agents leave: Corbin and Pollock. They're sitting 47-47 this year (with a Pythagorean of 52-42 ) and they contemplating selling off further. If I was Milwaukee I'd pounce on a Robbie Ray deal at whatever the prospect cost. They'd acquire a quality controllable starting pitcher and in the process weaken one of the NL playoff contending teams in the process. A 2 for 1!
  16. Jopal78
    One way to look at it is many of the pitching coaches in the minor leagues (who must share some of the blame for the organizations inability to develop its own pitching) are holdovers from the Doug Melvin years. Chris Hook jumped from being a pitching coach in the independent leagues in 2008 to AA with the Brewers in 2009 and has worked his way up to pitching coach for the major league club. AAA pitching coach Fred Dabney has been a pitching coach for Milwaukee at every level of their minor leagues since joining the organization in 2004. AA pitching coach Dave Chavarria has been with the Brewers organization as a pitching coach since 2012. Low A pitching coach Steve Cline has been with the Brewers organization as a pitching coach since 2001. Helena Pitching coach Rolando Valles has been coaching pitchers for the Brewers organization since 2014. They've developed but a handful of pitchers in the last 25 years, and the GM who presumably has authority to fire any and all of the, has not only kept his predecessors coaches but has actually promoted most of them. So the lack of homegrown pitching can be distilled to: poor drafting/talent evaluation and/or poor coaching/instruction both of which fall on the GM.
  17. Jopal78
    Pittsburgh qualified for the playoffs: 2013, 2014, 2015 Cincinnati qualified for the playoffs: 2010, 2012, 2013 Kansas City qualified for the playoffs: 2014, 2015 Minnesota qualified for the playoffs: 2010, 2017 Tampa Bay qualified for the playoffs: 2010, 2011, 2013 One could certainly argue that the Brewers are the worst organization among the group of franchises you cited (and frankly based on results you could argue that they are among the absolute worst franchises in major league baseball). While the Brewers and Twins have the same amount of playoff appearances this decade, the Twins have been to the playoffs seven times since 2000. Like Milwaukee, Kansas City has been to the playoffs just twice in the last decade but both times they won the pennant and came away with one world series title.
  18. Jopal78
    I just don’t see a sell off since the organization has really marketed themselves as finishing one game short of the World Series. Expectations were raised to such heights that selling off and essentially playing out the string with two months to go is probably unpalatable to the front office. I can see some deadline moves like in years past: acquiring Scott Linebrink, acquiring Jonathon Braxton. Dominant relievers on the backside of their careers, or hitters like Gerardo Parra and Felipe Lopez solid of unspectacular hitters with speed.
  19. Jopal78
    After burning out whatever prospect capital they had close to the major leagues to acquire Yelich and others, I don’t think there’s much option but to completely empty the minor leagues of talent to go all in this year until this core of players breaks up. Rental players like Moustakas and Grandal typically aren’t going to bring the minor league talent that could be filling a hole on the Milwaukee roster in 2020 or even 2021, and there’s nobody in their system that projects to be an impact player who will be ready in a year or less. As a result the big league team is stuck spinning its wheels with too much talent to justify a full year down, and not enough talent on hand to have anything more than an outside shot at the 2nd wild card. Last year was so much fun as a fan, it would be a shame if it was yet another outlier for a franchise primarily associated with futility and mediocrity.
  20. Jopal78
    ...and the Brewers after getting Fries out of the game are not lighting up what is a below average bullpen
  21. Jopal78
    ...and the Brewers after getting Fries out of the game are not lighting up what is a below average bullpen
  22. Jopal78
    I just don’t get it. On the nights they get adequate pitching they can’t generate consistent offense. Then they score 7 runs the next night and the pitching staff gives up 10
  23. Jopal78
    Saladino’s chance has just about got to be up. Just 3 hits in 35 at bats and 15 strike outs. That’s why the Sox does him in the first place; he can’t hit
  24. Jopal78
    I'll give you the benefit of the doubt if you've seen him play with your own eyes. All I have to go by is the stat sheet; and at every level of the minor leagues his numbers are bested by players who couldn't hit at the big league level. Importantly too, he might hit .300 and get on base in the minor leagues but there isn't Cole Hamels, Jon Lester, Luis Castillo, Sonny Gray, Jack Flaherty, Adam Wainwright, James Taillon type competition in the minor leagues. To suggest he did it in the minor leagues against lesser competition in no way proves he is going to do it against the very best pitchers he's ever seen. It's very possible the bat could somehow blossom at the major league level. However, there are some pretty legitimate question marks about that, as well as where he fits in on the Milwaukee team going forward. Unless the Brewers give up on Orlando Arcia his only role in the near future would be that of a utility bench player. If Will Smith is the difference between fighting for the 2nd wild card or playing out the string in September, I don't think Dubon's potential keeps him around past 7/31.
  25. Jopal78
    If they could get Will Smith now, for Dubon I'd have pulled the trigger yesterday. The offensive stat sheets looks good for Dubon until you zoom out. His OPS at AAA this year was .829. Spangenberg, Saladino and Freitas are all bonafide fringe major leaguers due to poor offensive skills, yet all have an OPS in San Antonio that is superior to Dubon's. Granted his at bats were curtailed due to knee injury but Dubon's OPS of .922 in Colorado Springs was topped by Ji-Man Choi in a similar number of at bats. Orlando Arcia was at .911 in a similar number of at bats. Choi is with his sixth organization since coming to America. In 2017, Dubon's OPS at AA (.689) was bested by Michael Reed (.698), Clint Coulter ((now of the Sioux Falls Canaries of the American Association)) (.721) both guys that were freely available talent 7 months ago. I just don't see Dubon being anything more than a defensive oriented middle infielder with a weak bat. Those type of players aren't hard to find (as Saladino and Sogard prove), so if the Brewers could land a true asset for him, I'd do so before Milwaukee calls him up again and he proves he has trouble hitting MLB Pitching.
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