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  1. Jopal78
    The old adage 50 spring training at bats don’t mean anything.
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    Hell no, he’s going for a Maddux
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    Plus, after April they will be done for the season with LAD, SD and AZ all tough teams.
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    I’m sure they could get Kris Bryant for just the PTBNL
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    Tryst! Hell yeah, maybe?!
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    How does Anderson get credited with the win? Shouldn’t it have been Peguero? The
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    3/29/25 Petco
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    In their 33 years as a team they’ve only had 7 managers (the Brewers have had 9 in the same time span). It’s not really Black’s fault they can never find anyone who can pitch there, and make weird moves like trading Arenado and letting Story walk only to sign Kris Bryant and move him to LF
  9. Jopal78
    He‘s had even more back injuries than Yelich. Plus trouble with his feet, plantar fasciitis, etc. Like Yelich the cumulative effect of the injuries has diminished his abilities.
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    Hook and the data analysts all deserve whatever they want to be paid. Taking a guy with a rag arm like Alexander who’s swifty won’t break 90, and coaching him up to be able to get outs in the majors and get batters to whiff on his slop.
  12. Jopal78
    Again, do you expect any sort of insight? The answer to that question is: In hindsight, with all the injuries, duh!
  13. Jopal78
    What do you expect him to say? I would almost bet you any response would be along the lines of “These type of decisions, who to protect, are a sign of a healthy player development program. While is Smith is a player we liked, at the time there were other players who we projected were going to help us more in 2025”.
  14. Jopal78
    Sounds like Tyler Thornburg in 2014. Initially diagnosed as flexor strain but ultimately was partially torn UCL. Got PRP injection and avoided surgery. The bad news? The rest, recovery and rehab took 5 months…. https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/brewers-tyler-thornburg-thankful-to-avoid-serious-injury/amp/
  15. Jopal78
    Pujols was drafted at 19 year old in the 13th round in 1999, played essentially one season in A ball, then in 2001 put up a 6.6 WAR in the majors. Nobody saw that coming. That is the analogy, sometimes weird things happen with player performance that nobody sees coming.
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    Exactly, there some “posters” on a message board were livid, anyone think those posters have better information and knowledge than folks who get paid to scout players for a pro-baseball team?! That’s the point. Maybe Smith slipped through the cracks on everyone, but if you’re a scout with the Mississippi Braves and you have a glowing scouting report, and don’t recommend attempting to acquire the player when you learn the player is going to be left unprotected in the Rule 5 draft, it means you’re a terrible scout. Do you see that scenario playing out with Smith across all the teams certainly in the Southern League and more? I don’t.
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    …and to the extent it’s a mistake, it’s with 20/20 hindsight. Teams do have scouts watching velocity, command, secondary offerings in the Southern League and there is advanced tracking technology there too. Every team is going to have their list of the top 300-500 prospects with scouting reports, maybe even more minor league players than that. With the scarcity of starting pitching it is obvious if any other team in the major leagues had an inkling that after 157 minor league innings and just 6 AAA innings, Shane Smith was ready to step into a big league rotation and get batters out, they would have tried to acquire him from Milwaukee. The other reality lost in the hindsight is, even if the Brewers had added Smith to the Brewers 40 man roster. If Hall, Ashby. Myers etc. had stayed healthy in Camp, Smith almost assuredly would’ve been one of the first reassignments to the minor league side. Who knows, maybe Shane Smith will be the pitching version of Albert Pujols coming from nowhere to the HOF seemingly overnight, but so far it’s 2 games and 11+ innings. Regardless I am not going to bust the front office’s chops where if they missed it seemingly every other club missed it too. Like Pujols, once in a blue moon, something wonky happens
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    ….and he’s made two starts in the majors. All I’m saying is slow the roll. For example, after being acquired by the White Sox MLB Pipeline had him as their 26th best prospect. Plus, you and I both know MLB clubs are aware which players are going to be eligible in the Rule 5 draft and who is going to be protected. Yet, not one other team tried to trade for Smith this offseason. Seriously, had the Brewers received even a single trade offer for Smith they would’ve absolutely protected him. Thus, if Shane Smith establishes himself as a top of the rotation ace, or wins the Cy Young award, Rookie of the Year, etc. it’ll be the best story of the season. But it would also mean the Brewers were wrong, every other team’s scouting department was wrong (or they would’ve tried to trade for him previously) and all the pundits who write about baseball were wrong. Frankly, that’s something I’d kinda like to see.
  19. Jopal78
    Brewers seemingly MLB leader in failing to score runners from 3rd with less than two outs
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    I mean seriously? You think Smith is going to win the Cy Young or something? Good for Smith, but we’ll see as he works through the league there’s still some element of surprise working for him.
  21. Jopal78
    Happens all the time. Without searching rosters, two HOFers, Four All Stars, then one who pitched in the majors for 17 years: Pedro Martinez Randy Johnson Trevor Bauer Tyler Glasnow Ian Kennedy
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    Man that AAA team sure has a lot of journeymen outfielders .
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    The only pitchers drafted higher than Priester that year were Nick Lodolo, Alex Manoah and Jackson Rutledge. Zach Thompson and George Kirby taken in the next two picks after Priester. The Brewers selected Ethan Small with their first round pick that year. Some bonafide starting pitchers in that first round and only one true bust so far out of the above (Small). Priester was a first round pick for a reason. I like the idea of getting a young ground ball pitcher and see with a little fine tuning what they got.
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    Take a look at the Competitive Balance Picks the Brewers have had the last ten years: Nathan Kirby, Mario Feliciano, Tristen Lutz, Micah Bello are all out of organized ball with little to zero mlb playing time. 2B/SS Robert Moore was traded for Oliver Dunn and Tyler Black is spinning his wheels in AAA. The track record isn’t great for Competitive Balance picks working out for Milwaukee. Hard to say it’s not fair getting an MLB ready pre-arbitration eligible former first round pick starting pitcher for a draft pick, a 19 year old kid in high A and a PTBNL which is likely tied to Priester’s contributions/performance
  25. Jopal78
    You could be right, I’m probably in the minority but I find having a cute girl do a couple of color segments during the game then ask a player what it was like to hit the ball that won the game kind of stupid. What I can say is there are hundreds of women graduating from the big time journalism schools; Northwestern, Syracuse, Arizona State, UCLA each year. From a business sense, unless a network believes an experienced dugout reporter is going to bring in more eyeballs or subscribers, given the supply and demand issues, there’s not a lot of business sense in trying to “lure” one away from another network/club.
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