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  1. Jopal78
    Oh yeah? That’s simply something you made up. Thousands of people buy and smoke Cuban cigars abroad with no fear of being arrested upon return to America, same deal with Amsterdam and prostitutes in the red light district How could a prosecutor charge somebody with a crime in America with no access or way to compel access to proof of the crime. Total baloney. Back on topic Franco is uber rich, even if allegations end up true these things have a way of working out where the victim refuses to cooperate/testify $$$.
  2. Jopal78
    17-6 against Pittsburg and Cincinnati: 48-49 against everyone else. It’s the major leagues, a win is a win, but the Brewers are running out of games against the Pirates and Reds.
  3. Jopal78
    Up to the majors with Los Angeles… https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/08/dodgers-to-select-gus-varland.html
  4. Jopal78
    The Padres are 3 games better than the Pirates and Nationals, two teams who weren’t even trying to compete this year. The Padres are a train wreck and everybody running the team could get fired after the season, which is also your answer on usage.
  5. Jopal78
    Presumably, they’ll be trying to sew up a division title so I’d guess Rea for depth (maybe Megill or Lauer) in the pen, and someone to pinch hit, pinch run, be a defensive replacement— so Miller, Jones, Perkins (if healthy). Wouldn’t rule out a 3rd catcher either (but that creates a 40 man roster issue)
  6. Jopal78
    What’s even the relevance of your metrics when you include the SP rWAR but not those for the hitters, then just select whichever metrics support your point (which is usually how it goes in discussions with metrics anyways)?
  7. Jopal78
    I guess it’s all luck and moonbeams, then huh? A 1.000 OPS season from a career .842 hitter, etc. Ok then.
  8. Jopal78
    Oh, you’re right they slugged their way to the title in 2018 with they middle of the pack offense (7th in RS) and snatched they wild card on the back of their offense (9th in RS). Misinformation… gimme a break.
  9. Jopal78
    You might be right about the prospects, but you’re also kidding yourself if you think a once in a lifetime duo of aces leave and the Brewers fortunes do not simultaneously take a tumble. The Brewers win now because of their starting pitching. 15 years ago I saw what happens when you try to win with a set of good hitters and no starting pitching: you tread water at .500 or trade off the next generation for starting pitching.
  10. Jopal78
    Every player in the major leagues is available at the right price. It’s just the price that keeps deals from happening
  11. Jopal78
    As Wayne Larivee would say, “there’s your dagger”.
  12. Jopal78
    It was a gamble. Didn’t really cost them much, so it’s low stakes. But that .502 OPS in 45 PAs suggests their roll of the dice came up snake eyes and did not improve the team. Time will tell if the heat of a pennant race can spur Santana to outplay his recent statistical production.
  13. Jopal78
    It’ll never be a disaster, there are long odds the player they traded away even makes the major leagues, let alone become a contributor. Rather, the question is does Carlos Santana make the Brewers a better team. So far, through two weeks the answer is no. Will that change over the final 40+ games? Santana hasn’t been good in years so I would guess this would also be no.
  14. Jopal78
    What was anyone truly expecting? It’s not 2016, Santana hasn’t been good in years. They traded for a washed up veteran with and expiring contract who was on a little hot streak.
  15. Jopal78
    He got $150,000 bonus and has made $720,000 that’s $870,000 (not counting any licensing income or residuals from being a member of the MLBPA ) at age 24. I realize numbers are devalued in the media today, but I’ll bet $100 to anyone who wants to show a W2 that’s more money than anyone here made by the time they were 24.
  16. Jopal78
    Then again, it is that same swing that got him to the major leagues. Seriously, what do you honestly expect him to do, change the swing made him rich and that he dominated pitchers with almost his whole life?
  17. Jopal78
    Hitting won’t matter tonight. Their ace of staff is going to hit the showers in 5 innings tonight. When a pitching and defense team doesn’t pitch, they lose.
  18. Jopal78
    Should’ve sold and started to rebuild. Even if they manage to hang on in the Central is there anyone here who thinks they could actually win a series in the playoffs? … they can’t even issue a beat down on the laughingstock (CWS) of the majors.
  19. Jopal78
    … or they gave him more than 1000 PAs on playoff contending teams to show them something and he failed, so they moved on. The only thing I really dispute in this whole thread is the implication that Hiura’s performance in ‘23 matters in getting another shot with the Brewers. The team moved on, and let every other team in the league have a chance to claim him. Hiura could hit .400 in AAA I don’t think it makes getting another shot in Milwaukee more likely at this point.
  20. Jopal78
    Preller has got some magic fairy dust just like Ken Williams in Chicago. The Padres haven’t won much at all the entire time he was there, been through a handful of managers yet he survives year after year.
  21. Jopal78
    Im not an expert on the CBA but short of adding him to the 40 man roster tendering him a contract as an arbitration eligible player, Hiura would be a free agent at seasons end.
  22. Jopal78
    Sure a team could need a warm body and get Hiura for “past considerations”. Otherwise, his trade value at this point is non-existent: he makes 3x the minimum salary, he can’t be optioned and after the 50 games left this season any team who has him, either has to tender him for ‘24 or let him go. Most likely as has been the case all year, if the Brewers could facilitate his return to the majors with another team by releasing him they would have done so.
  23. Jopal78
    That would be a great question for one of the “journalists” who cover the team to ask. Put this thing to bed once and for all.
  24. Jopal78
    It should be painfully obvious at this point: there is something about his game that is unacceptable to the Brewers, and Hiura has been unable to correct or change it and it trumps whatever the metrics say. The Brewers didn’t DFA, Hiura hoping he stuck around so they could call him back up again later after putting up some good AAA numbers. The Brewers moved on would have been fine with him leaving, but he needs to report to AAA to get that 2 million dollars. Simple stuff.
  25. Jopal78
    Other than the first few years with Ozzie that’s how it is on the south side with Jerry Manuel, Ventura, LaRussa: less wins with more talent
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