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  1. Jopal78
    If they call a large strike zone or small strike zone consistently for both sides who cares? The current system is just dumb and hardly any of the pitches challenged are outcome determinative. It’s more knee jerk garbage from MLB to ruin the game.
  2. Jopal78
    Sure looks like the Brewers staff finally ran out of gas on August 31st. Since then it seems their starting pitcher either gets pounded or is out of the game before 5 innings just taxing and taxing the bullpen.
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    I disagree. It’s dumb and they should get rid of it. Or have all balls and strikes called automatically
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  5. Jopal78
    This is the same as when you were upset they traded Joey Wiemer. As of right now they gave up some low minor league players who are at best a 50/50 shot to even see significant time in the majors. They didn’t get anything great for Joey Wiemer, but his subsequent play wasn’t nothing either.
  6. Jopal78
    Every manager has their guys. Who could forget Counsell’s thing for Sogard and Jace Peterson. I don’t think it’s unique to managers. It just seems when those players then fail it is more visible.
  7. Jopal78
    Again, it’s the hyperbole. Koenig and Kuhnel eat innings? They both missed huge chunks of time with arm injuries and were ineffective when they returned to health. Sproat didn’t see the 5th inning in the majority of his starts. It’s dumb and cliche but Counsell wasn’t wrong when he called them out getters. May, Senzetela and Romero aren’t sexy but their unquestionably more reliable out getters than anyone you just cited.
  8. Jopal78
    Like I said, you can’t have the prospect love and also expect to bring in a bunch of difference makers at the deadline. They’re mutually exclusive. Now if you think they should’ve stood pat and maybe burned out all their arm in the process, thats a fair point, but you’re a more sophisticated fan than that so I chalk it up to hyperbole
  9. Jopal78
    Haha, I looked at his stats earlier today. Nearly 6 BB/9. Has yet to throw a clean inning in the majors… pass
  10. Jopal78
    I know you’re being facetious, but there’s not a GM out there who would pitch Coleman Crowe before Dustin May. That’s reality. Probably the same deal with Sproat too if it’s immediate results and not “upside””.
  11. Jopal78
    What? Plug-n-Play Ragsdale?
  12. Jopal78
    They knew in June they’d need SP to get to the finish line, and weren’t willing to give up the amateur talent to get it. Can’t have both the prospect love and bring aboard dudes at the deadline who are likely to get the cart over the finish line. I’m confident Arnold got the best players he could with what he was willing to trade.
  13. Jopal78
    Nothing is guaranteed but Sal has been hitting about .220 since coming off the IL, so there’s a strong probability Lara would have done something with 5 pas. I get that manager’s have “their guys” who they play more than they should but it’s at the point that Frelick should be buried on the bench as a pinch runner.
  14. Jopal78
    That’s on the manager for continuing to give PAs to Frelick. No legitimate contender gives 350 PAs to a corner OFer with a .620 OPS. That Frelick isn’t in AAA to begin with is Arnold’s fault.
  15. Jopal78
    I don’t know why Frelick is even on the team.
  16. Jopal78
    Now it’s apparent why Boston kept him in the minors all year after they acquired him and were quick to move on from him less than a calendar year later.
  17. Jopal78
    Besides to sell merchandise why wear hats at all anymore as part of the uniform? Most the games have been at night for 40+ years
  18. Jopal78
    The larger question remains unanswered: why did those numbers improve? Was it player development, better personnel decisions, coaching, strategy, health, schedule strength, normal statistical variation or some combination? Breaking run differential into its component statistics describes where the improvement appeared, I’d just like to know the cause of that improvement which is what is not established by the metrics.
  19. Jopal78
    These are interesting numbers, and clearly they show that the Brewers have improved. I’m just not sure they establish why. Several categories overlap. Runs scored and runs allowed produce run differential, while winning percentage is largely the result of that differential. Base runs uses many of the same underlying offensive events to estimate how many runs a team should score. Therefore “19 of 20 categories” sounds like 20 separate findings when it is mostly several ways of describing the same improvement. The starting point and August 4 cut off are also selective, and there is no comparison with other contenders or adjustment for strength, injuries and roster changes. Yeah the numbers don’t lie but when used this way they become like a Rorschach test: the same numbers can be arranged and interpreted to support the explanation someone already finds persuasive .
  20. Jopal78
    Ernie Banks. Played 1953-1971, two MVP awards, 11 All-Star games and never even played in a playoff game. Also, Fergie Jenkins and Ron Santo (Cubs trend here). Imagine in today’s sports crazed world having 4(!) Hall of Famers (Banks, Williams, Santo, Jenkins) together on the same team for multiple seasons and never make the playoffs. The sports talk outrage machine would’ve melted down innumerable times.
  21. Jopal78
    Ross is also back on ESPN where the money is probably better than being a manager and the work less time consuming.
  22. Jopal78
    The crown jewel of the Mark Walter financial empire is Guggenheim Partners the asset management and investment banking firm he runs with over $350 billion dollars under management. The Dodgers are certainly a glamour asset, but Guggenheim Partners is the straw that stirs the drink. Time will tell about the rest of your conclusions.
  23. Jopal78
    It’s nothing like the Wilpons losing their shirt as part of the Bernie Madoff scandal. To date, based on published reporting, this is a scenario where Business A (owned by Mark Walter), wants to borrow money. Instead of going to Chase or any other lender where they will be charged, for example, 10% interest with 5 years to repay the amount. Business A instead goes to Insurance Company A aLeo owned by Mark Walter. Insurance Company A makes the same loan but at, for example, 3% interest and 20 years to pay. The investigation has nothing to do with Business A getting loans, or Business A getting loans from insurance companies. All of that is fine. What is being investigated is that Insurance Company A concealed that Business A who took out a loan at cut rate terms was owned by the same people as Insurance Company A. Obviously, loaning insurance company money at favorable terms to a related business is unfair to policy holders of the insurance company. The question being investigated is whether that concealment violates the law. And that is probably an over simplification, but hopefully provides a little more rationality than “the Dodgers cheat”.
  24. Jopal78
    That would be a mutual insurance company, or a reciprocal risk retention group. They have their own regulations. My point concerning Mark Walter is that he is being investigated concerning potential violations of insurance and securities regulations regarding the lending/investing practices of his insurance companies. Nothing more, nothing less. To date, there has been no legal inquiry into any of his companies that may have received those loans. We fans think it is unfair how the Dodgers are stacked, so it’s easy to say where there is smoke concerning Walter there must also be fire in Chavez Ravine. But the methods the Dodgers utilized to become so stacked, while not within the intent of the CBA, is expressly allowed under its terms, which were agreed to by all the owners.
  25. Jopal78
    Yawn… Every insurance company takes their policyholder’s premiums and loans it out and invests it. The SEC and governmental investigations into Mark Walter have been ongoing since February 2026. Those investigations are over whether taking his policyholders premiums, and doling them out as loans to his other businesses with below market interest rates and repayment terms, without disclosing that he owns both the lender and lendee runs afoul of insurance regulations. While one of those loans was to another Dodgers related entity, in the course of the nearly 8 month investigation by multiple government agencies there has been zero evidence of a scheme that cheated MLB or gave the Dodgers an illegal competitive advantage. That the Dodgers exploit the collective bargaining agreement (that all the owners agreed to) in order to get a competitive advantage is more an indictment of Walters fellow owners, than evidence of “cheating”.
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