Jopal78
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Depends on how you look at it. If the goal was to improve the team as much as possible without giving up prized minor leaguers they achieved their goal. Under that perspective you’d give them an A. Did they use the deadline to fix what ails team? Not really, most likely they will still be offensively challenged, but maybe the problem simply wasn’t fixable with what players were available C+\B-
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What’s your problem? I didn’t even dump on the trade. Chafin’s been alright, he’s not some elite reliever, and depending what site you consult he’s been about replacement level this year or a little better. He’ll pitch 20 games for the Brewers and will be with another club next year (unless you think the Brewers are going to pay 7.5 million dollars in ‘24 for a middle reliever). Strzelecki might be nothing, he might revert to being a 7th - 8th inning guy, who knows? But the D’Backs have five years to find out.
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Wait for the minor league season to end so he can be a minor league free agent
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Yeah, I was just thinking of that. They gave up the best player and the two guys they got were in the minors, now one is gone
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You’re literally comparing a 0.1 bWAR this year to a 0 bWAR pitcher. Not that I’m being a “contrarian” good for the Brewers, rather highlighting the glib dismissive comments overlooks the D’Backs are getting 5 years of a hard throwing reliever for 20 games or so of a guy who has been basically replacement level so far this year… that’s the value.
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It’s 5 years of one guy for 20- 25 games from another
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Yes, those Mariners who are 4th in their division and buried in the wild card race. 🙄
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Guess we can differ on the term “retooling”. First place clubs that trade away the best lefty reliever in the game is very a small group. Nice try with the straw man reference to obfuscate that what I said a year ago was true.
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Except that wasn’t a retooling was it, and that’s not a complaint. In fact, that statement proved to be 100% accurate because more than a few people attribute last year’s collapse to the Hader trade and the struggles of the new relievers.
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Yes, unfortunately they didn’t get these guys in May they got them with 55 games left. It’s too bad they bungled their roster coming into the season and ended up giving 800 PA’s to a collective of Winker, Turang, Perkins, Voit, Ruf, Singleton, Tapia when the best of them but up a .587 OPS.
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I like the sentence about “how much of a boost it gives them”, that’s my point. Their offense is terrible (13th out of 15th in the NL in runs scored) A couple of mediocre vets, like Santana and Canha - even hitting on all cylinders for the next 55 games - probably doesn’t get the Brewers out of the bottom 3 in terms of runs scored.
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Yeah maybe, but Canha and Santana certainly do not make the Brewers stronger against Atlanta or Los Angeles and even in the best light make the Brewers only marginally more likely to win their division. Really, I think the front office knows that this year’s roster is flawed, yet reached the conclusion that while it’s worth making an investment to improve the roster, they’re only willing to invest enough to make incremental improvements. I just don’t see much point in adding short term players who most likely don’t change the course of the season this year. If the roster is flawed fix it, or retool for ‘24.
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Yes I know by them, I meant Woodruff and Burnes. I could’ve worded that differently
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Guess that goes to show you what Canha’s value was. Mets had to pay 3-4 million to get a middling pitching prospect in return, and presumably that was their best offer.
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I’m not convinced the Brewers won’t simply run it back next year with Woodruff, Burnes and Peralta, make them QOs and take the pick. Sell more tickets that way.
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Brewers (Burnes) vs Nationals (Irvin): 7/31/23, 6:05pm
Jopal78 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Archived Game Threads
That was the swing that got him to the majors. -
Brewers (Burnes) vs Nationals (Irvin): 7/31/23, 6:05pm
Jopal78 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Archived Game Threads
Yes, but you got to beat the easy teams -
With heightened expectations come increased disappointment. If this was 2005 folks would be thrilled they were even “buyers”-because what that means- regardless of whom the players were
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Horrid take, but you didn’t say it’s not true.
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Burnes, Woodruff, and Peralta there’s your difference. The Brewers had 3 strong starting pitchers hit the majors at the same time. The Cubs don’t. The Brewers are not terribly run but I sure wouldn’t consider them amongst the best run clubs small or large market. Case in point they develop three all star starting pitchers at the same time and they’ve won 2 playoff series with them and that was nearly 5 years ago. Hell they missed the playoffs all together last year with some of the NL’s best starting pitching. Talk about less with more. They have not developed a starting pitcher since Burnes, they haven’t developed an above average home grown hitter in a decade, they’ve ended up releasing virtually every free agent they’ve signed to a multi-year deal in the last decade before their contract was up. Now with dwindling control of those ace pitchers they’re hesitant to be bold about bolstering their lineup to aid their chances, and at the same time are flushing the amount of future return of those aces the longer they hang on to them.
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Lame. How come the Rays have more wins than the Brewers with a smaller payroll?
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“Massive” no. An upgrade from bad to mediocre, sure. The again what playoff team bolsters the middle of the their lineup with a collection of sun .730 OPS hitters. It’s a team without a direction, they won’t make the moves to narrow the talent gap between them and the stronger teams in their league, and they won’t sell their valuable assets to try to field a stronger team in the future. Just content at being “good enough” to maybe win a bad division.
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Santana and now Canha, The ‘23 Brewer sure have an affinity for .720 OPS hitters on other teams.
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Civale traded to the Rays for Manzardo
Jopal78 replied to KeithStone53151's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I guess we have different definitions of needle mover.
