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  1. Jopal78
    First it’s the minor leagues, and most of his experience is in the lower levels, it’s not even close to the level of pitching he’d see in Milwaukee. More importantly smaller humans don’t have the same extension and mass as taller players do, and the pitch plane mismatch is more significant. Thus, the margin for error is that much smaller and he’ll need near perfect mechanics. Can a small player hit for power in the major leagues, sure. Is it likely, no. They were always going to trade Peralta, I just would've preferred someone who’s ready to play now at a position of need.
  2. Jopal78
    Maybe that’s the cautionary tale. DL Hall with injuries and diminished velocity is shaping up to be a bust, and almost everyone wants to dump Ortiz after he was the worst hitter in the NL. 2 years later those players haven’t definitively made the Brewers better.
  3. Jopal78
    They traded a player whose absence makes the 2026 team worse, for 2 players who may or may not help them this year.
  4. Jopal78
    He’s got 700 career at bats above A-ball with a sub .800 OPS. Those are facts, you can look it up. I don’t really care what the metrics say for 34 games last summer in AAA, and I would hope the Brewers front office doesn’t draw any conclusions based on it either because it is the definition of a small sample. EDIT: I guess they did…
  5. Jopal78
    It’s playing the percentages. Peralta is the best chip the Brewers have to improve their talent level. Jett Williams hit well in the low level of minor leagues. It’s not known how well he will hit in the upper levels. There are very few MLB players that short who hit for power consistently in the last 40 years. I’d prefer the Brewers to hang on to Peralta unless someone is willing to fork over a blue chipper who is ready for the major leagues.
  6. Jopal78
    Ok, and in 700+ PAs since leaving A ball it’s under .800, so you’ve got some sample size issues there. Like I said, being under 5’9” makes the physics of hitting for power that much harder. Which why in the last 40 years the short guys that have are a class of 2.
  7. Jopal78
    And more starts in AAA than Burnes, Woodruff and Peralta. And all the while toiling away in AAA as the Mets gave 27 starts to pitchers with a collective era over 5.00; so it’s not like Sproat was in AAA for lack of need in New York. As for Williams, the list of 5’9” and shorter MLB hitters with power in the modern era is: Puckett and Altuve, so take Willaims’ mashing in A-ball with a grain of salt. In fact you can already see it playing out that his OPS after leaving A-ball is under .800. A short, speedy contact hitter with defensive versatility….. sounds like Caleb Durbin to me. Plus, as the Mets pay over 40 million dollars (salary + luxury tax) to acquire Luis Robert Jr., Peralta is worth his weight in gold to the big boys paying the CBT because his salary is only 8 million.
  8. Jopal78
    Sproat spent considerable time at AAA (relative to how long most prospects pitch there) and didn’t dominate. If the return for Peralta is a middling major league ready prospect (Sproat) and a diminutive prospect/Caleb Durbin clone, I would just hang on to Peralta and take the comp pick when he rejects a QO next winter.
  9. Jopal78
    Thats the NFL. There isn’t a “prove it” year for coaches, unless they fail. Because if they win they’ll have sour grapes and the freedom go anywhere. Had the Packers wanted to retool and fired LaFleur and Gutekunst to stat fresh, I would not have cared, but firing just LaFleur because they thought their talent level, especially after Parsons was hurt, warranted more victories would’ve been dumb.
  10. Jopal78
    Again, you’re complaining about talent: ie. Another team’s players out performing/out executing the Packers’ players. It’s not as if LaFleur is less sophisticated than the other coaches in terms of concept and play calling. What’s LaFleur and Bisaccia supposed to do when, for example I know jt was the regular season but, they have Doubs (perhaps the most reliable pair of hands on the roster) positioned perfectly on their onside kick team and he blows the recovery? Same thing with McManus. Positioned on the hash correctly, snap comes to holder correctly, and he misses the kick? Trying to go for the knockout punch by trying to throw deep against the blitz? LaFleur knows if he hits it he’s a genius and if it doesn’t work he’s a goat, and he had the Fire in his belly to do it.
  11. Jopal78
    No it’s not scared of change. They dropped a HoF QB for a guy they got in the back half of the first round. Clearly the organization isn’t afraid of change. Rather the difference is the Packers have B- talent, they went 9-6-1 with LaFleur. There isn’t a screaming reason to change based on that (unless the thought is they have A/A- talent and LaFleur is holding them back). If there is someone readily available who you believe can get more out of the talent they have, then you make a change. Otherwise it’s change for change’s sake.
  12. Jopal78
    Given how vital it is for teams, let alone ones that are outmanned financially, why would the Brewers trade controllable starting pitching for anything less than a “sure thing” which isn’t Mayo or Kjerstad.
  13. Jopal78
    If at your job if everyone else with your title and similar experience was getting paid more, I’m betting you’d think you deserve a raise as well, especially if some workers of the same title with even less experience were making more. I’d further wager that if your employer wasn’t positive they could find someone better when they have an immediate essential need at your role, they’d give you a raise instead of letting you walk. Pretty simple stuff.
  14. Jopal78
    It will be interesting. All of their skill players and key offensive lineman are under contract for next season. Quite a few of those players may even be better next year: Odunze, Burden, Loveland, Monangai, etc. BUT their defense wasn’t intimidating to anyone. Every safety on their roster is coming out of contract. They’re already 22nd in cap room for next year. Like the Packers before Parsons, their pass rushers don’t get home without a blitz and their draft position isn’t one where teams typically find elite pass rushers. Bears might be in a lot of shootout games next year.
  15. Jopal78
    You may be misremembering: Rodgers was 35 and had 2 MVPs and a Super Bowl ring when LaFleur was hired. McCarthy had 37 year old Favre for his first couple seasons. When Holmgren was hired Favre was not yet on the roster. To your point, It’s a QB driven league. When the coach designed the system, and is successful, it stays intact instead of the QB having to learn new systems, terminology etc. the moment a successful OC moves on. A defensive minded coach has to delegate the most important asset on the team to someone else.
  16. Jopal78
    How does it hurt their position? LaFleur is under contract with the Packers in 2026. Teams without a head coach right now can’t really wait a season to fill their vacancy. If the implication is about contract length; LaFleur probably wouldn’t demand X number of years from the Packers (one of the most stable franchises) and suddenly agree to less than X number of years to coach in Vegas, Arizona. Tennessee, etc (volatile impatient franchises).
  17. Jopal78
    He’s a name because he sued the NFL for sham interviews he got with teams who had a coach in mind but first needed to satisfy the Rooney rule. The reality is he worked under Bellichek in NE and called plays for the Patriots for just one year. Then he got the Miami job (when hiring Patriots staff members was all the rage) despite a thin resume, was textbook mediocre in results with no playoffs in 3 seasons there and got canned.
  18. Jopal78
    It is probably the Dolphins or bust for Hafley, don’t you think? He has a connection to the new GM, and arguably the cupboards aren’t bare as they are in the other teams he’s scheduled to interview with. He’s also scheduled to interview with the Raiders, Titans, Falcons and Cardinals, none of whom are the picture of stability and patience. The Cardinals lead the list with only 3 head coaches in the last 7 years. Falcons 4 coaches since 2018. Raiders 5 coaches since 2018. Titans 3 coaches in the last 3 years. None of the teams he has interviews with have a solid QB so it will be tough sledding no matter what, especially as a defensive coach who will have to rely on an OC to run an offense without a top tier QB. Is it better to be a head coach of a dysfunctional franchise and get the axe after a couple seasons or is it better to bide your time as a DC for a winning team waiting for the right opportunity
  19. Jopal78
    Don’t they have still have a waiting list for season tickets that is a lifetime long? There are literally tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people waiting to have season tickets and pour money into the Titletown District and would gladly do so regardless of who is the coach. Further I’d the CEO made decisions based on fan sentiment and not what he believed was best for the organization, he’d get fired tomorrow too.
  20. Jopal78
    It’s all driven by AAV; agents are actually disincentivized for pushing for deferrals if they get paid when the player does. The concept of deferring ensures the player misses out on compounding and does nothing to beat inflation. 50 million today in any normal market will outperforms 68 million received a decade later. In fact. You could argue a deferral makes the player a long term lender of the team at below market rates.
  21. Jopal78
    The players Union should demand interest on any deferral in the new CBA, to ensure wages earned in 2025 have 2025 purchasing power when they’re paid out years in the future and deferrals would die overnight
  22. Jopal78
    When all the teams do deferrals now who would want to fix it? The players are the ones being foolish to defer a dollar in 2025 to 2035 where it will have less purchasing power. Thats music to the owners’ ears. The latest CBA and the growth of salaries in its wake, already rules out teams like the Brewers from being meaningful participants in free agency. Their path to competition only gets tighter when there are two MORE teams picking up talent in the amateur draft and competing for international signees. Every small market club should be against further expansion at this point, but money always talks.
  23. Jopal78
    I’m actually disappointed they traded Arenado. I thought it would be good karma for Arenado (who had no problem taking Colorado’s money only to complain almost immediately after about winning, then blocks a trade to Houston when the Cards tried to move him when he was still a decent player) to finish up his career in irrelevance.
  24. Jopal78
    His offense is going but still a solid defender at third, which is why they had to pay to move Arenado, but boy the cupboards are bare in St, Louis now.
  25. Jopal78
    Received the D’Backs 8th round selection for last summer’s draft. A pitcher who projects as a reliever. So much for the anti-tanking measures in baseball. Cardinals are going to fight to avoid losing 100 games
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