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  1. Jopal78
    Former farmhand Janson Junk DFA’d by Houston, and former minor league pitcher Antoine Kelly after being claimed by Colorado off waivers from Texas, outrighted him off their 40 man roster. It’s really a testament to how far the Club has stepped forward where there are a lot of players floating around from the Brewers organization whereas from 1994-2004, Milwaukee is where professional careers mostly went to die
  2. Jopal78
    Also interesting the other player in the Tellez deal, Trevor Richards was DFA’d by the Twins after just being acquired from Toronto at the trade deadline.
  3. Jopal78
    If Civale can pitch like he did today with some regularity down the stretch, he might force the Brewers to tender him a contract for ‘25
  4. Jopal78
    Aaron Ashby Back from the dead. Nice work by him, I should not have dogged him so much.
  5. Jopal78
    Take an Uber to the Frank Lloyd Wright Hone and Studio in Oak Park where the famed architect lived and worked. It’s an interesting property and nothing like Taliesin in Wisconsin. The outdoor concerts (classical/jazz etc) at Pritzker Pavilion in Millenium Park are always good (and mostly free). Lots of neighborhoods put on massive street festivals in the summer where the road is blocked off, and there are music stages, beer tents, food stands and other vendors. Theyre always great for hanging outside, having a beer or two and epil watching. It’s n Wrigleyville itself there isn’t much to do except eating and drinking.
  6. Jopal78
    Poor Trent Grisham. A season’s worth of good will washed away and forgotten on one play.
  7. Jopal78
    Nellie Fox (HoF) was a coach on those Senator teams too.
  8. Jopal78
    Getting DFA’d by the 2nd worst team in the AL (and being Hiura’s 2nd DFA), then reporting to their AAA club, to me suggests Hiura might be running out of the opportunities where he’s more than an organizational soldier
  9. Jopal78
    Fischer family purchased the A’s for 180 million dollars. The Orioles were just sold for 1.7 billion dollars. If you own an MLB team why on Earth would you ever sell it when the prices keep going up and up and up and team success is largely irrelevant in franchise value. That’s why Fischer doesn’t care an iota what the product is on the field. This is straight financial situation. Better facilities = improved franchise value. Which is why he does what he does, so he can find some municipality full of tax payers dumb enough to use their dollars to further increase the equity he has in his baseball club.
  10. Jopal78
    Pitchers in AAA might be “on the cusp of major leagues” because of the structure of the minor-league system. But it’s not like AAA is full of tomorrow’s big league pitching stars. It’s mostly pitchers who weren’t good enough to stick in the major leagues or haven’t knocked anybody socks off yet in their professional career
  11. Jopal78
    It really shouldn’t be a surprise. For 20+ years the Cardinals had HOF players and other terrific ball players in their line up every year. Now, their noteworthy players are all old and the the youngsters they had hoped for Tyler O’Neill, Dylan Carlson, Hicks, Hudson weren’t good enough; and their next crop of young bucks haven’t been good either: Gorman, Walker and Liberatore. Not having unlimited payroll it is the gamble they took giving out the huge guarantees to land Goldschmidt and Arenado in the first place, and their GM seemingly made it worse handing out guarantees to Matz, Mikolas, Contreras, in an effort to keep the ship afloat
  12. Jopal78
    They got robbed!
  13. Jopal78
    Yeah, people crucified Boras for not getting more for Bellinger (and others), but as usual Boras has the last laugh. It is Hoyer who has the egg on his face being into the luxury tax and owing Bellinger (.275/.333/.426) 58 million dollars for the next 2 seasons
  14. Jopal78
    They actually passed him through waivers hoping someone would claim the remainder of his 9 million dollar salary. Today after having gone unclaimed they flat out released him
  15. Jopal78
    It could also be softening up the fans for when they place a bunch of players on waivers to try to get under the threshold: Wisdom, Bote, maybe even Bellinger
  16. Jopal78
    Kind of interesting that the “can’t miss” type prospects in the first round all mostly missed and the draftees who became real players were all much less heralded.
  17. Jopal78
    Riley Pint the #4 overall draft pick in 2016 was just outrighted to the minors by Colorado. Corey Ray at #5 is already out of baseball. Nick Senzel at #2 is hanging on by a thread. Mickey Moniak #1 is close to a zero war player, Ian Anderson #3 is in the minor leagues with Atlanta. Brutal draft class. The best player in the first round has been Will Smith who was the 32nd pick
  18. Jopal78
    The Dodgers have 3 players with OBP over .380 and a Slugging over .490. The Brewers have one such player and it’s looking like he will end up having missed the majority of the games this year with injuries. That’s the difference in their offenses.
  19. Jopal78
    Elias Diaz was just placed on outright waivers by Colorado. Probably a good bench mark for Haase. If Diaz goes unclaimed, the Brewers wouldn’t risk much DFA’ing Haase to get more roster flexibility in September
  20. Jopal78
    Nice. Wise guy. More specifically he was finally healthy and pitching well and the Pirates dropped him.
  21. Jopal78
    Why did the Pirates drop Honeywell?
  22. Jopal78
    You’re right! Season era under 5!
  23. Jopal78
    If Montas can get through 5 innings and give up just the 3 runs, he delivered what the Brewers would have wanted
  24. Jopal78
    No idea. He went in feet first though
  25. Jopal78
    How does he not know where the ball is? He initially slid into 2nd base on a fly ball. Player not paying attention cost them a potential big inning
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