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  1. Jopal78
    Aaron Nola is maybe ahead of Wainwright as the #1 Brewer killer: 6-1 life time with a 2.30 ERA in 11 starts, 66 career innings with 76 strike outs, and just 4 homeruns allowed. The Brewers have a career .286 OBP against Nola.
  2. Jopal78
    Hell yes! Get a few ABs under his belt and let her rip for September!
  3. Jopal78
    Donaldson is a former MVP who’s still a good defender at 3B. Whether the bat has gone cold due to injuries or diminishing skills at 37 is anyone’s guess but, given Montaserio/Anderson or Donaldson, I’m taking him every single time.
  4. Jopal78
    What winning team has had chemistry issues? To the contrary, winning consistently in a pennant chase tends to cure chemistry issues.
  5. Jopal78
    The bar is set so low at 3B it would be virtually impossible for Donaldson to not be an improvement. There really isn’t a downside, especially if they simply release Anderson and replace him with Donaldson.
  6. Jopal78
    Lucas Giolito bWAR 2.1 Corbin Burnes bWAR 2.8 Mike Clevinger bWAR 2.9 I’d say those are impact starting pitchers who most assuredly will be joining a contending team this afternoon. Elvis Peguero bWAR 0.8 Reynaldo Lopez bWAR 1.2 Matt Moore bWAR 1.7 Likewise a couple of quality bullpen arms will be on the move today. I agree with you on the hitters: Bader and Renfroe are mediocre ball players to begin with and are having bad years.
  7. Jopal78
    Well, no. I don’t think those teams have any intention of pulling the player back, they can’t trade them. Teams at the bottom of the group of contenders like the twins or reds could conceivably get an entire new look to their pitching staff by claiming Clevenger and Giolito.
  8. Jopal78
    I hope somebody claims Renfroe so he can be on his sixth team in five years and next spring will be his 7th team. He’s got a shot to get into double digits on teams played for.
  9. Jopal78
    All these players are impending free agents, and being on waivers have no chance to control where they go, so agents will likely be indifferent.
  10. Jopal78
    If the Reds make the playoffs David Bell would have a more compelling case as manager of the year: the Reds were to be a rebuilding club in ‘23 not predicted to do anything; to wit they were 8 games under .500 near the end of May, then he gets his squad to play .566 baseball ever since. David Ross will get manager of the year votes as well as the Cubs situation is similar to the Reds, rebuilding team on the verge of selling only to put it together and have a firm grip on a wild card spot. Counsell should have a pile of manager of the year awards for constantly getting more out of less, but the media who votes on these things apparently aren’t Craig fans (one voter gave Joe Maddon their first place vote in ‘18, four voters have their first place vote to Dave Roberts in ‘19).
  11. Jopal78
    Yeah, the threads can run long on these type of trades. When the Padres get a draft pick following Hader’s rejection of a QO this offseason, they could conceivably draft the next Mickey Mantle and then the pendulum would swing the other way again. On the whole, Hader has delivered exactly what the Padres were expecting when they got him, the issue is the team didn’t win as much as the pundits thought they should. Did Hader’s exodus hurt the Brewers in ‘22? Probably but folks can argue until they’re blue in the face as to how much it hurt. At the end of the day the Padres paid a fair price for a superstar reliever, that the Padres were a disappointment this year has no real bearing on whether it was a good or bad trade for San Diego.
  12. Jopal78
    Pretty big gamble, breaking in a rookie kicker with a rookie holder at the same time. Must have believed Whelan wouldn’t make it to PS. Also, in the last 15 years or so, the list is pretty long for punters who didn’t have much of a career if any after leaving Green Bay: Justin Vogel, Jake Schum, Tim Masthay, Jeremy Kapinos, Derek Frost. Time will tell if O’Donnell gets added to the list or if he manages to find another gig like JK Scott, Bojorquez and Jon Ryan.
  13. Jopal78
    The point is the Dodgers still handed Burnes a loss despite him pitching brilliantly against them, when they know they already beat the other team’s best, it kind of removes intimidation from the equation— which is what the subject line is about.
  14. Jopal78
    Depends when you look at it. Looks a lot tougher than a week and a half ago when Arizona was below .500 and the Reds were slightly above .500.
  15. Jopal78
    That run differential includes a 1-0 loss pitched by Burnes against LA.
  16. Jopal78
    Think: Colin Rea, with either Toro, or Owen Miller. With Santana, Tellez, Canha, Wiemer, Taylor and Frelick they’ve got plenty of bodies for 1B, RF, DH and CF so I don’t see Winker or Hiura returning to Milwaukee. Want: it’d be exciting to see a phenom break in during September but there’s 40 man roster issues with that so it makes it kind of unlikely outside Gasser in the pen.
  17. Jopal78
    He walks with a QO; somebody will give him 5/125. With Crow-Armstrong knocking on the door, the Cubs can better use that kind of money to get more pitching.
  18. Jopal78
    True Burnes and Woodruff didn’t pitch against Atlanta and Burnes made one start against LA this year, but still the Brewers were dominated by those two teams as evidenced by their 2-10 against them, but more importantly how they were out scored in those 12 games 73-43. No doubt the Brewers have been playing good baseball this past week+ but that doesn’t also mean they closed the gap with the two top dogs in their league.
  19. Jopal78
    I assume there is some bum information there. If Strasburg himself declines to play when the team is ready willing and able to pay him if he shows up would seem to in all logical scenarios relieve the Nationals of the obligation of paying him.
  20. Jopal78
    I don’t know how much the owners personal wealth matters in the equation because there are not many owners (if any outside Cohen and Seidler) who are known to pour their personal wealth into baseball operations of their teams. Certainly their roster makeup suggests a small market attitude (one or two names and a bunch of bargain players) even if it’s not wholly accurate to call them small market.
  21. Jopal78
    Aren’t the Nationals really a small market club masquerading as one of the big boys because of all the deferred money they handed out to Scherzer, Strasburg, Corbin. Outside Strasburg and Corbin, they have Trevor Williams making 6.5 million and nobody else making more than 3 million. Strasburg retiring probably helps their balance sheet tremendously.
  22. Jopal78
    He could transition to a late inning reliever. DH then enter the game to close it out, or even go multi innings at the end, that’d be almost as valuable as a SP.
  23. Jopal78
    Why no Bob Uecker today? Lane Grindle with Josh Maurer is not good.
  24. Jopal78
    What has changed with Hiura, since the Brewers cut him in Spring Training despite having a guaranteed contract? He always hit in AAA. Just maybe, the Brewers had seen enough cumulatively this spring and decided to move on from Hiura, with no real intention of ever giving him another shot. They couldn’t prevent him from reporting to AAA (which he was 100% going to do after going unclaimed in order to get that 2 million dollars), there was no upside to flat out releasing him, so they’re using him as roster filler in AAA. That he’s still there as we motor towards September means nobody else has come calling either. Viewed through that prism all the moves make sense and it’s irrelevant what Winker has done, or the struggles at the DH spot because Hiura wasn’t a going to be an option anyways. They’re smart baseball people running the team and have consistently gotten more out of less. Unless you don’t believe that, there is no illogical decision making. Maybe Hiura racks 40 homers next year for the Royals or Angels, then in hindsight we can say they made a huge mistake.
  25. Jopal78
    I’m sure they “want” to be in contention; when the pundits predict you’ll finish first and you crash as one of the worst teams in baseball is usually the type of situation where managers and executives lose their jobs. That being said, it’s mid-August, not June. The math doesnt work for the Cardinals anymore even under the rosiest of view, and they’re obviously aware of it. I do think they’d like Wainwright to get 200 wins, so they have a milestone to reflect on in an otherwise terrible season. A guy with an ERA over 8 and a WHIP of nearly 2 and a k:bb ration of 1.5:1 shouldn’t otherwise be pitching every 5th day in the majors, any younger minor leaguer could probably best that lack of production.
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