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  1. Jopal78
    Doesn’t the original graphic need a bunch of context to mean anything? If it only refers to 2024, who cares? Hudson had a huge year for Milwaukee after coming over in a trade. Tyler Jay has the best 3 innings of his short career after being acquired from the Mets. Obviously, Civale pitched much better for the Brewers and there was even marginal improvement from Montas. Of course that’s a lot of improvement and really only offset by DL Hall who pitched much worse with Milwaukee than Baltimore. But what about Keuchel? He was not a “trade” per se, but was acquired from outside the organization. He made 4 starts, performed worse than he had been last year in the majors and got himself released. Mitch White was another purchase and continued to get clobbered in Milwaukee like he had in SF, and LAD. Certainly in 2023, Chafin, Javy Guerra didn’t pitch very well after coming to Milwaukee in trades and in 2022: Matt Bush, Jc Mejia, and Rogers all pitched poorly for the Brewers as did Urena and Jake McGee who were in season acquisitions of a non-trade type. Seems to me this is just slicing data in a specific way to support an argument, more than identifying an actual trend.
  2. Jopal78
    Unless he suffers an arm injury in ‘25 the Brewers have until July 31st to trade Williams. Seems the likely course is to sit back and see if they get blown away with an offer, if not open the 2025 season and see what happens. If they fall out of contention they can trade him, and if they need a back end relief ace in ‘25 they can keep him and get a comp pick which is probably equivalent to caliber of talent they’d be offered in return anyways. There is no reason to be hasty to trade away a premium player just because they’re approaching six years of service time .
  3. Jopal78
    Williams doesn’t have 6 years of service time. So if the Brewers figured he’d make less via arbitration, they could potentially decline the team option and tender him a contract for 2025 and go to arbitration. (The optics on that are probably so bad it’s a non-starter). Either way I agree with you they’ll bring him back. I’m not so sure he gets traded either, despite having the worst game of his career and the worst time for the 2024 team, he’s a really good pitcher and they won’t just give him away if nobody is willing to trade them players that make the team better.
  4. Jopal78
    Then you need to read more carefully because I never said that I never said that. The difference in overall talent level between the Brewers and the Mets is not that different if at all. However, two of the very best players at their position in the NL are on their roster. Those two players are paid a ton of money based on prior performance and it’s the two same players who ended the Brewers season. It’s an interesting thought if the team is better off having a high floor in terms of overall talent with a lower ceiling, kind of describes the 2024 brewers or is it better to have weak spots on your roster but also a couple of players amongst the very best at their position.
  5. Jopal78
    My point exactly. The Brewers got beat by the Mets super-star players. Lindor worked a walk when the team needed it most, and Alonso hit the ball over the fence to de facto win the game. Meanwhile, the Brewers superstar player was out for the year with a back injury in July, while Contreras had 2 singles in 12 trips to the plate out of the #3 hole, and went hitless in the final game. And that’s being kind still calling Yelich a superstar, where he missed most of this year with injuries and was a disappointment the four years prior to that.
  6. Jopal78
    That’s so hard to quantify. For example, the Brewers have better outfielders and catchers than the Mets, but the Mets infield is better than Milwaukee’s. The real difference between the two is the Brewers don’t have two hitters like Lindor and Alonso, mainly because they are never going to commit the 55+ million dollars it would cost for 2 veteran hitters of that quality when they run total payrolls of $120 million dollars or less.
  7. Jopal78
    The Brewers were eliminated in a best of 3 series. A dumb idea by MLB and primarily so mediocre teams hovering around .500 can keep their fan base engaged. Meanwhile the deciding factors in best of 3 series isn’t talent, but luck and circumstance. The only valid criticisms against the ‘24 Brewers is they let the foot off the gas in September (.500 record) costing them a first round bye. Secondly, they played poorly against the bottom feeders in their league: Nationals, Marlins, Rockies and Pirates which also cost them a first round bye. Big picture: this collection of players is probably the best talent they’ve had top to bottom in the last 30+ years. It wasn’t too long ago that the organization was mostly devoid of talent and the roster was made up of journeyman players like John Van derWal, AAAA players like Wayne Franklin and washed up vets like Jeff Suppan.
  8. Jopal78
    1. Peralta 2. Myers 3. Rea 4. Civale 5. Woodruff Absent a trade to acquire a starting pitcher; I’d say those 5 have the inside track with Ashby, Carlos Rodriguez and Hall getting a chance to compete for a rotation spot in Spring Training. Besides, Brewers will decline mutual option on Montas and Miley. Joe Ross is a free agent, and Bryce Wilson is a possible non-tender candidate. That’s every who started (besides as opener) in ‘24 that’s still in the organization and’or not already out for parts of ‘25 with injury.
  9. Jopal78
    Not a talent issue, top to bottom the Brewers have better players overall than the Mets. This is execution, the players made mistakes and didn’t seize the opportunities the Mets gave them.
  10. Jopal78
    The Brewers ceded the competitive advantage (letting the Mets rest their pen); the psychological advantage, and their season hangs in the hands of Myers and Montas
  11. Jopal78
    See ya in’25
  12. Jopal78
    The Brewers are built to have little margin for error. They’ve played sloppy, their pitchers missed spots and they didn’t capitalize on opportunities. Usually means a loss.
  13. Jopal78
    I like Frelick: he runs, fields, throws well, works the count. I just feel he’s a high floor low ceiling player.
  14. Jopal78
    It’s okay if someone says “I don’t like Bauers” but to feign ignorance and post “why is he playing” while ignoring the obvious is kind of silly.
  15. Jopal78
    But for switch hitters the Mets are R-L-R-L too. Maybe a strategy thing so there’s no spot to easily bring in a pitcher with splits
  16. Jopal78
    Look at the lineup for both teams. Other than switch hitters in the Mets both teams are R-L-R-L it’s just the way most teams do it especially in the post season.
  17. Jopal78
    R-L-R-L. If you don’t like Bauers there, what’s your alternative keeping the alternating side batter intact?
  18. Jopal78
    Ok. What does “upside” have to do with a Best of 3 play off series. It’s not rocket science, and there’s no naked pictures of the manager’s wife involved. Bauers is in there so they can go R-L-R-L what Lefty would you rather have in there… Collins?
  19. Jopal78
    Don’t be silly. Peralta is a terrific pitcher; he’s just forced into a #1 spot in the rotation when he’s more of a 2/3.
  20. Jopal78
    Ok, but Mitchell is in the clean up spot and struck out, where’s the vitriol there and head shaking?
  21. Jopal78
    Nope, Peralta working behind every hitter will cost them the series
  22. Jopal78
    A POBO with a high school education, no background in personnel, scouting, etc. whose only role with the organization post playing career was minority owner. Maybe they’re giving him the check book with an edict to go spend and get them out of being a 3rd/4th place team.
  23. Jopal78
    Well, Jeffress did have repeated substance abuse issues, and was dropped by the Nationals seeming for conduct issues (ie, personnel reasons). He claimed he had a bad reputation and it was his agent spreading lies about him, he fired his agent. His agent seemingly didn’t have many clients, with his career as an agent ending around the time Jeffress was no longer on a 40 man roster and was being sued earlier this year for defamation and fraud by Perfect Game. Sounds to me like two guys who overplayed their hands each believing they were bigger deals than they truly were
  24. Jopal78
    Arguably the Cubs had better talent (Shota, Busch, etc.) in ‘24 than under Ross in ‘23. So to that end you could argue Counsell “got less out of more”. Certainly not the way Hoyer wanted it to go when he and Counsell sunk their knives into a World Series hero’s back.
  25. Jopal78
    I don’t know. Mears looks like another reliever deadline acquisition bust (Ray Black, Jon Curtiss, Daniel Norris, Matt Bush, Taylor Rogers, Chafin). The common thread is they either get rocked every third time out or miss a big chunk of time with an injury. So far Mears has a little of both.
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