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  1. Jopal78
    Wilken isn’t on the 40 man roster. He’d really have to absolutely lay waste to minor league pitching (not a .235 batting average) to jump from AA to AAA, be added to the 40 man roster and get promoted to the majors in 4+ months.
  2. Jopal78
    Sabathia’s WAR as a Brewers was 4.9. Michael Brantley, one of the players who went over to Cleveland in that deal had a career WAR of 34.1. (14.1 WAR in his first six seasons). Lorenzo Cain had a 24.6 WAR with the Royals after going over in the Greinke (3.4 WAR as a Brewers) trade. In other words, to obtain the 8.3 WAR Sabathia and Greinke provided to Milwaukee cost the Brewers at least 38 WAR. Attanasio “taking a shot” in both ‘08 and ‘11 were great things for the fans as the playoffs probably wouldn’t have happened without those deals, but it also came at a tremendous price. It is also likely explains why the Brewers try to develop their own core and are primarily shoppers for role players, because the cost to the organization is much much less.
  3. Jopal78
    Correction, the Brewers tiny market is the number 1 problem with player acquisition.
  4. Jopal78
    You realize that major league teams have a medical staff who review a player’s chart, films, exam notes, etc. before they agree to acquire a player? This would be especially so in a player who has a significant cash guarantee and missed time with a forearm injury last year. So your criticism here is based on your own opinion they traded for a player who was “damaged goods” Presumably because he missed time in ‘24 with a forearm injury. That opinion ignores Cortes ended last season healthy with 1 2/3 innings in game 3 of the WS. It also ignores the Brewers would’ve reviewed his medicals and been satisfied before agreeing to acquire him, and third he was healthy in spring training this year.
  5. Jopal78
    It’s May 11th. They are 2 games under .500 and have yet to play one game with their preferred 26 man roster. Why would there be a discussion of his last few moves? They’re Brewers have started the season with 5 players hitting under .240, the Cubs have started the season with 6 players on pace for 30+ homeruns. That is the difference in the NL Central
  6. Jopal78
    There’s Chourio, then Mitchell and Frelick both of whom are pre-arbitration eligible former first round picks. Given the pedigree, bonuses, etc. the Brewers simply aren’t going to pull the plug on any of them anytime soon and certainly are not going to trade capital to acquire an outfielder to have one of those 3 ride the bench. And yes Mitchell is made of glass, but he also has a 3.7 career war in 141 games. That production (plus what they have invested in him) means he’ll have every chance to try to get and stay healthy. Most realistic is if the Brewers are floating around contention in July, I could see them adding a veteran bat as a 4th OFer.
  7. Jopal78
    He’s the reigning GM of the year, it’s May 11th, and their starting catcher, center fielder, four starting pitchers have been hurt. His 21 year old phenom hasn’t played well, and his highly paid former MVP has been atrocious. Given those truths, maybe Arnold catches some criticism in 2026 but probably 2027 before he feels any real heat.
  8. Jopal78
    It is early and they’ve navigated a ton of injuries to remain around .500 so they’re doing something right. But, this is the boringest squad to watch in some time. 5 hitters with a sub .240 batting average, and 5 regulars with 5 or fewer extra base bits in the season.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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).
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. Jopal78
    Buster Posey and Reuben Tejada + baseball’s knee jerk reaction to criticism = new lame rules
  20. Jopal78
    Haase costing them a game
  21. Jopal78
    God I hope they move on from either or both of Lane Grindle and Josh Maurer…unlistenable. What’s Jim Powell doing?
  22. 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.
  23. Jopal78
    Hopefully the leaky bullpen has a good night and they can make it stand up for Patrick
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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