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  1. Jopal78
    Jerry Narron, Darnell Coles, Andy Haines, Ozzie Timmons all have been called on to be fired by posters on this board. Yet the team still struggles to hit. If there was a coach that had a solution to slumping they could name their price.
  2. Jopal78
    LOL, you need to read more carefully. I mentioned JBJ not to compare his production to Hoskins. Rather to support the premise that underachieving players with large guarantees are not players teams really give up talent for. On the contrary it is the team trading away the underachieving player who often needs to include talent in order for the acquiring team to absorb the contract. Which is what the Brewers did (David Hamilton & Alex Binelas) to move JBJ and the 18 million left on his contract in December of ‘21 Hoskins has a bWAR of 0.3 so far this year. That type of production can be had for much less than what Hoskins is guaranteed. Thus, nobody is giving the Brewers anything of value for Hoskins unless he seriously ups his play. This would be especially so for a luxury tax payer like Boston.
  3. Jopal78
    Rhys Hoskins is barely above replacement level and is guaranteed 22 million dollars. On what planet would any team give “a couple of interesting guys for him”? A more likely scenario would be Boston demanding additional Milwaukee prospects just for taking on Hoskins’ contract. Rhys would have to play a lot better to have any trade value at his price and even then the Brewers probably would need to kick in cash or minor league talent to move him (See JBJ).
  4. Jopal78
    He can’t the Pirates hold all the financial cards until he’s out of minor league options. If Skenes demands a trade now, the Pirates could option him to the minors and his service clock stops.
  5. Jopal78
    Unless he turns it around who would give him a muti-year deal? A coupe of failures on the big stage of the playoffs, then a bad regular season as an encore and he’ll be looking at 1 year prove it type deals. Also worth considering is if the Yankees reach a point and simply DFA Williams. Would be shocking on the one hand, but with an era over 9, and Williams only good for about 60 innings per season, and the Yankees trying to win their Division and be the top seed, there does reach a point where they run out of rope.
  6. Jopal78
    When you have six of your nine hitters (Kelly, Tucker, Suzuki, PCA Swanson and Busch) on pace for 30 or more homeruns, you’ll win a lot of games.
  7. Jopal78
    Think of how much fun it will be when they trade Hoskins, Quintana, Woodruff, Civale, Cortes, and Painter Todd. Get to see the youngins’ come up and show what they can do.
  8. Jopal78
    At least you’re being honest stating that you don’t like Murphy and working backwards from there. But even if his in game decision-making was that bad (I don’t even know if there’s a way to score that objectively) what’s the aggregate result? Murphy could push every wrong button and they could win 10 to 0, conversely he could push every right button and they lose 0 to 3 anyways.
  9. Jopal78
    I would assume it’s no more complicated than trying to get a few players 2 days off in a row. Contreras 3 for 23 in May, Turang coming off an illness. Frelick knee injury etc.
  10. Jopal78
    The difference being in baseball neither 2nd base plays nor home plate plays were truly safety issues in MLB. In the last 120+ years there have been hundreds, if not, thousands of catchers and a fraction of one percent have been seriously injured in a home plate collision. When it happened in ‘11 to one of the big name stars in the game, MLB faced criticism and changed the rule. Same thing with Tejada and Utley. Big post season stage and Utley plays dirty injuring a player and they decide to change the rules instead of acknowledging the intentional play and punishing the offending player/team.
  11. Jopal78
    Buster Posey and Reuben Tejada + baseball’s knee jerk reaction to criticism = new lame rules
  12. Jopal78
    Haase costing them a game
  13. Jopal78
    God I hope they move on from either or both of Lane Grindle and Josh Maurer…unlistenable. What’s Jim Powell doing?
  14. Jopal78
    I think Ben Cherrington likely gets fired before the season is over. Cherrington has been there 5 years and he has 33 year old journeyman Adam Frazier at 2B, 37 year old journeyman Tommy Pham in LF, and Cruz to CF to make way for journeyman Isiah Kiner-Falefa at SS. Cherrington has his hands tied by Nutting, but 5 years in their best options are a bunch of aging vets who weren’t that good in their prime? Although it is interesting McCutchen keeps plugging along as a slightly above league average DH. He looked absolutely washed up with the Brewers and while it was the worst season of his career, it was just an outlier.
  15. Jopal78
    Hopefully the leaky bullpen has a good night and they can make it stand up for Patrick
  16. Jopal78
    Ortiz hasn’t gotten it going with the bat, so it’s hard to argue against your premise but Willy Adames and his .656 OPS and negative dWAR certainly would not be a savior. Not to mention expectations that come with being paid 25+ million dollars a year.
  17. Jopal78
    It has everything to due with it. The guy was in their organization for seven years, and as a college player not a high school kid. Do you honestly think there were coaches or front office folks in the Brewers organization who didn’t see him perform during those 7 years and 650 games he played? When he switched to pitching did the Brewers simply hand him a ball and tell him to head out to the bullpen? Despite what the movie Major League would have you believe, before making space for Eeceg on any pitching staff there would have been immeasurable amounts of time coaching him up. That Erceg somehow flew under the radar, or the Brewers mis-evaluated him is a preposterous notion given the sheer amount of time he was in the organization and the amount of instruction he necessarily would have received while there. You want to bang on the organization for dropping a player they invested a huge amount of time and effort into as some sort of misevaluation just because he went somewhere else and performed? Talk about low hanging fruit.
  18. Jopal78
    I‘m not underselling a thing. College player who spent 7 years between draft and debut never sniffing the 40 man toster and changed from hitting to pitching: definition of an organizational soldier. If you want to argue different thats okay.
  19. Jopal78
    I think you’re overvaluing the prospects, but that goes on around here so it’s not that surprising. Take a look at A+ clubs on Baseball Reference and see how many of a team’s draftees from a squad 4-5 years ago even went on to play in the major leagues. &nbsp The value in these trades is the player who has played in the major leagues, the minor league players overwhelmingly never contribute in the majors and that’s why it’s 2 or 3 of them for one major leaguer: quality over quantity, and hey sometimes a team ca get lucky.
  20. Jopal78
    I do not want to hijack the thread, but Erceg was drafted as a position player. Totally flamed out at 3B, then tried pitching had a ERA over 5 as a minor league pitcher. Erceg was Rule 5 eligible multiple times, was never selected then, went over to Oakland 3 months before he would’ve been a minor league free agent. It’s easy to criticize with hindsight, but there wasn’t some miss of an evaluation. Erceg was a non-prospect with poor stats but threw hard. . A non-contending team was willing to give him a shot based on that. Simple as that.
  21. Jopal78
    Hard to say Topa was a miss. He was hurt with the Brewers, had a nice season for Seattle then has been hurt with the Twins and is already 34 years old. Erceg was heading towards minor league free agency when they sent him to a club willing to add him to their 40 man roster, Pretty harsh to criticize them for doing a solid for a organizational soldier’s career who had no future with Milwaukee
  22. Jopal78
    Chad Patrick Tobias Meyers Trevor Megill Aaron Civale Bryan Hudson Nick Mears DL Hall more of a miss at this point due to injuries not talent. Nestor Cortes… same
  23. Jopal78
    Lets be clear about something: Daniel Norris did not make an impact with the Brewers, but Olson was a 13th round pick in A+ ball with an ERA over 4.50 across a total of 160 total pro-innings when he was traded. If that’s the type of player, you’re reluctant to trade at the deadline for major league veteran talent. It probably means one is not cut out to be a GM. Secondly, with respect to Priester, this front office group has been pretty good at identifying starting pitching talent like Chad Patrick and Tobias Meyers. May as well give them the benefit of the doubt for at least a couple of months.
  24. Jopal78
    First with Misiorowski, he’s not topped 100 innings in a season as a professional. He’s sitting at 35 innings right now, and no need for a SP in Milwaukee. Maybe he debuts as a reliever but unless they want to tax his arm if/when they need him he probably won’t have enough innings under his limit to make much impact as a starter. As for Patrick the Brewers have 4 SP heading to free agency this off-season. The last thing they should be doing is trading away a rookie SP like Patrick who has already shown some ability to go through a lineup 2+ tines.
  25. Jopal78
    Megill sucks. Like K-Rod all over again.
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