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  1. Jopal78
    Yep and with a 4.05 FIP he’ll pitch in the big leagues for a decade.
  2. Jopal78
    Funny the comments about Civale and being a non-difference maker. His bWAR this year is better than Burnes, Scherzer and Giolito. In fact Civale isn’t too far off from Brandon Woodruff walks allowed per 9 and homers. He just hasn’t struck out as many and gives up one more hit per 9.
  3. Jopal78
    What does being a poor defender or DH only have to do with anything? Positional players make their money based on what they do at the plate. Besides that, Paul Molitor stayed healthy, had his best production and punched his ticket to the Hall of Fame as a DH only-maybe Jimenez too would have a jump in production not having to deal with nagging injuries from playing the field. Bottom line, I doubt the Brewers and White Sox hook up for a trade on Jimenez, because the Sox will justifiably want some premium talent back for a myriad of reasons: ‘23 is a seller’s market, Jimenez is a good hitter, just 26 and cost controlled for years. I doubt they’d accept some quantity over quality deal just to move him. Likewise, the Brewers almost never move their best prospects in deadline deals.
  4. Jopal78
    You’re right, the name was familiar, Tellez trade, but I didn’t remember he made the majors.
  5. Jopal78
    It’s kind of getting off topic, but have they flipped the switch on pitching? All the credit in the world is deserved for Burnes, Woodruff and Peralta, but a pipeline of pitchers hasn’t really developed since 2016 more of a single spurt. Pitchers Stearns drafted ‘16-‘20 that made the majors: Burnes, Alec Bettinger, Ashby, Rasmussen, Clayton Andrews and Ethan Small. Bettinger is already out of baseball. Andrews and Small haven’t demonstrated the necessary command to stick in the majors. Ashby had one good year, one not so good year and suffered a major shoulder injury so who knows what they have there.
  6. Jopal78
    If Jimenez is a borderline salary dump why would the Brewers want him? Moreover, look at the multi year deals being signed by outfielders recently: Avi Garcia got 4 years 53 million before the ‘22 season. Michael Conforto got 2 yrs 36 million, Benintendi got 5 years 75 million. Mitch Haniger got 3 yrs 44 million. Unless teams are dumpster diving for one year bandaids they can’t sign a starting outfielder in today’s game for less than 15 million per. Thus, Jimenez’s club options are not as worthless as one believes. Now if you’re saying the Brewers have tepid interest because they don’t want to add anymore market rate player contracts, that’s a concept I would get behind.
  7. Jopal78
    Yup, a bunch of guys (Lucroy, Brantley and Cain) from over a decade ago; two of whom are already retired. Nobody can say what they have in this year’s crop (Turang, Mitchell, Wiemer, Frelick), they could be great, or just as equally they could be the next Brad Nelson, Taylor Green. All we can say right now is the next Ryan Braun they are not. We do know that in 14 months, once you in a generation starters Burnes and Woodruff will be gone. So the question is what they do while they still have them? Right now it seems to me, not much besides having the starting pitchers will them into the post season.
  8. Jopal78
    I get being reluctant to deal top prospects but the Brewers are not the Dodgers or Rays when it comes to drafting, who was the last hitter they drafted that turned out to be somebody? At some point they have to decide they’re “all in” while they have thr great starting pitchers, or they should start the sell off and build for 2025
  9. Jopal78
    I think Santana is probably it for name players at the deadline; they’ll probably add another Daniel Norris, John Curtiss, Matt Bush type of deliver but I’m not expecting much, given a seller’s market and the “buying responsibly” mantra.
  10. Jopal78
    Or when you’re a pitching and defense team and you don’t pitch well (25 runs, 10 homers in 3 games) you don’t win.
  11. Jopal78
    Check the BABiP, Arica’s is higher than Ohtani’s, and forty points above Arcia’s career norm.
  12. Jopal78
    Matt Bush wasn’t trash, he was an addict.
  13. Jopal78
    You make it sound a lot like the Brewers have moved on from Keston Hiura…..hmmmm
  14. Jopal78
    Don’t overlook the fact the Brewers released Brosseau (another DFA’d player outrighted to AAA) go play in Japan. If ANY team thought Hiura was worthy of a roster spot, I’m sure, just like with Brosseau, the Brewers would have released him to pursue that opportunity. That he’s still in AAA without so much as a sniff from other clubs says a lot.
  15. Jopal78
    Trading, your clean up hitter for prospects and trying to win as many games as possible in 2024 are seemingly opposite things. Further. I would dispute the notion that Burger is a cheaper version of Jimenez, maybe in that they’re not good defenders but Burger is actually older than Eloy and hasn’t been as good in his career up to now as Jimenez. Maybe in the next 72 hours the Sox pull the plug on the Jimenez, Moancada, Anderson, Vaughn, Burger, Kopech, Cease, Hendriks etc group, then of course all bets are off.
  16. Jopal78
    I get it, but the White Sox tanked for years to put this group together, won their Division in 2021 since then poor managerial choices and injuries have derailed them. The more realistic scenario is they try to retool around the core they have and give it another go in ‘24 especially when they play in the weakest Division in the American League.
  17. Jopal78
    This was in the Trade Forum earlier; it won’t happen for a number of reasons: 1.) Unless they’re doing a complete tear down, why would the White Sox move Jimenez—26 year old clean up hitter under team control for three more years? 2.) True, every player is available for the right price. But those Brewer farmhands referenced wouldn’t constitute an offer that’s “too good to be true” 3.) Everything the Brewers GM has said, and they way they’ve worked the deadline the last 5-6 years indicates the Brewers simply don’t trade the type of prospects necessary to land young controllable talent.
  18. Jopal78
    When you say recently, who do you mean? I wouldn’t call Braun, Fielder etc recent. Most of their current players are major leaguers from other clubs. I guess Ashby had 30 good innings in ‘21 wasn’t great in ‘22 then hurt his shoulder hard to say what they have there. By their own admission in DFA’ing him they failed at developing Hiura. Tyrone Taylor is okay although he spent 6+ years in the minors. Granted, who knows on Turang, Wiemer Frelick and Uribe they could all be great or they could just as easily be nothing, too early to tell.
  19. Jopal78
    Maybe, but outside the first round the baseball draft is mostly luck. Yet, I imagine all the teams have similar lists of players they identified as first round talents. For example if ANY team, including Milwaukee, believed Corbin Burnes had top of the rotation/Cy Young potential coming out of college they would not take a chance waiting for the 4th round to pick him.
  20. Jopal78
    Burnes, Woodruff and Peralta. None of whom were first round picks. In sincerity, you’re a sharp fan so I am sure you know the trickle down effect on the roster of having three homegrown top of the rotation starters. Put those three pitchers on the Angels and they’d surely jump near the top of their league in wins, even without spending a fortune on free agents so I don’t understand your point/question. As for first round picks it’s true, the two best Brewer first round picks in the last decade were guys they traded away (Grisham and Haniger). Haniger technically was 11 years ago. If you want to discount him it would then be either Grisham and Hiura or Mitchell.
  21. Jopal78
    Take a deep dive into their roster. They have four former first round picks on their roster with better than a 1.0 bWAR. Zach Neto is already a 1.8 in about 60 games. Fact is the Angels have gotten more out of their first round picks in the last ten years than Milwaukee has. Second they traded Syndergaard to Philadelphia for Mickey Moniak and got him turned around and playing like a former #1 overall should. So the “mortgaging all their prospect capital and failing at developing whatever prospects they do have” is without credibility. Yeah, they haven’t developed enough pitching. They’re not the first team to suck at that: Milwaukee developed but 2 or 3 above average starting pitchers in the 25 years between 1992 and 2017. Then again the Cubs won a World Series with only one SP they developed. In free agency sometimes you win, sometimes you lose but nearly always regret your purchases as time passes (Josh Lindblom, Lorenzo Cain, Matt Albers, Matt Garza, Kyle Lohse, etc). I’m sure I’ll get more disdain and not change your mind so I’ll let you have the final word.
  22. Jopal78
    You could be right, Turang is having his best month but has been the weakest link offensively on the infield and is the youngest, but it’d be just as easy to ship Toro out or DFA Jones.
  23. Jopal78
    Santana to 1B, Owen Miller probably takes over at 2B and Turang goes to AAA to make room for Santana. There is an open 40 man spot, we shall see who goes when they activate Justin Wilson, could be Jahmai Jones, Winker, or maybe even Mejia
  24. Jopal78
    I liked your post until the last sentence. The original poster said “Worst in All of Sports” which clearly they’re not, and now you’re moving the goal posts to “one of the worst in the sport” and taking a shot at me. It doesn’t matter if it’s Ohtani and Trout, Ruth and Gehrig, Molitor and Yount, you can’t win with two players. What do big money teams do when they don’t have enough talent, they throw money at it.
  25. Jopal78
    As KS pointed out more eloquently earlier, does trying hard and failing make you a poorly run team? What about Oakland, Miami, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, for the most part they don’t even try? Do the Angels run a huge payroll, yes. Are they aggressive trading prospects to win now? Yes. Do they ever tank, or sell off all their pieces, No. Do they regularly sign marquee free agents? Yes Was it dumb to sign Pujols for 10/250? Yes, then again they landed the Mack Daddy of the 2011 free agent class. Rendon’s contract looks awful in hindsight but he was coming off a 6.7 WAR season at 29, and was Mack Daddy of hitter in the 2019 free agent class. Failing to win more with Trout and Ohtani is unfortunate but baseball is a hard sport to win at (The Angels have as many WS titles as the Dodgers this century). Criticize them for the Skaggs thing, but I wouldn’t lump the Angels in with the dregs of the league simply for trying to win and failing.
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