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    … and he’s on an expiring contract, imagine that. Can’t blame the guy, he knows it’s his last year, and he doesn’t have the horses to run with the big boys.
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    Clown shoes. sell already.
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    Nope, my statement remains 100% correct. His BB:9 in AAA is in fact higher than those other two. Maybe he’s turned the corner with his command. The Brewers could use some good news from the farm system. But keep in mind there is a reason pitchers are being signed off the street and going right to the major leagues while guys like Gasser and Small cool their heels in AAA.
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    Gasser is walking more batters per 9 in AAA than did Colin Rea and Jason Alexander. That’s why he has yet to be a viable option for the major league team.
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    Reds are 14 of 15 in runs allowed and we’re close to 80 games in. No team has won anything in baseball with pitching that poor, not even a recent hit streak has helped them in that department.
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    This is the truth. The Brewers hitters outside Yelich and Contreras have been awful this year. Nobody has even gone on a lengthy hot streak in a very long time. Therefore, perceptions get altered, and a guy with a good month gets viewed as something more. I don’t think anyone here would have Owen Miller in their list of the ten or fifteen best middle infielders in the Division, and most likely he wouldn’t be starting regularly for any other team in the Division either (Miller has started 50 of 74 games for the Brewers). So it’s sad for us fans that the Brewer hitters are so bad, and thus we end up acknowledging the achievement of Brewer hitters being mediocre.
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    And here is where we can agree to disagree. Hernan Perez has a career OPS of .680 and is out of the major leagues. The Brewers paid cash for a guy who has been worse so far in his career.
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    But that’s the point, I didn’t make you part of the argument. Your opinion was dumb, and I was literally curious if you were joking or trying to keep the posts fresh because you own the place and clicks and traffic mean dollars.
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    It’s not passive aggressive. If want to call picking up a journeyman utility infielder with a career OPS if .650 for cash considerations “a hell of a deal”. Fine. Then I’m equally free to assume you don’t know what you’re talking about when it comes to Brewers baseball, Dude. For example, picking up Jesus Aguilar from Cleveland for nothing, then having him make an All Star team is a “hell of a deal” to me. There is a difference between sarcasm and passive-aggressive. Too often folks with thin skin cry passive-aggressive when their opinion is met with sarcasm. I don’t think I can be any more direct in disagreeing with your opinion here.
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    It’s not the front office. They developed an excellent starting pitching staff, and a pretty good bullpen for being all cheap contracts. The problem is there simply isn’t enough beans to pay a bunch of expensive hitters to go with their pitching and they had some bad luck. That Hiura and a Corey Ray turned out to be busts as Top 10 picks hurts them. Jackie Bradley Jr. being a bust hurts them (cash, deferred cash, prospects, and two years later they have a middle reliever and a AAAA starter to show for it). Mitchell and Frelick suffering significant injuries hurts them. With not much cash to spend, and no blue chippers knocking at the door of the majors, the front office did the best they could getting middling band aids who might have some upside (Tellez, Urias, Anderson, Winker, etc.) and hope to get lucky. Their roll of the dice just didn’t pan out. Now there’s really no way get better at this point absent extended hot streaks for those aforementioned players, or breaking up the team and trying a new mix of players
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    The reality is…nothing. The only real possibility is to DFA Winker, there has to be hitter available that could at least put up a .700 OPS from the DH spot (For crying out loud Jesus Aguilar was DFA’d by Oakland with a .665 OPS which is better than Winker). Although that move probably doesn’t “shake up the offense” and moving Adames and/or Tellez isn’t practical
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    Jesse winker may not be high price in the realm of major league players, but he is the fourth or fifth highest paid Milwaukee Brewer. Dump on Wil Myers if you want who, has had just one good year in your purview yet has amassed a 12.7 career bwar in 3800 PAs while supporting Jesse Winker (who has had only one bad year) who has less than half of Myers’ bwar at 4.6 career in 1800 PAs if you like, but it is and apples to apples comparison.
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    Reds designated Wil Myers for assignment eating what remains on his 8.75 million dollar contract. Myers hit .189/.237/.283. Jesse Winker and his nearly identical stat line feel the heat. .200/.312./.250 and making 8.25 million. The Reds, another small market team, in direct competition with the Milwaukee Brewers decided they can no longer afford to carry a high priced player who under performed all year and was injured, a certain wake up call for Winker
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    Turner has a 13.5 million dollar player option for 2024; which means he’s not coming to Milwaukee
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    Who gets released first: Winker or Kolten Wong? Would be amusing if two guys traded for each other both got released
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    No, that is an incorrect understanding of how local broadcast rights work. If someone is visually watching the Yankees outside of Fox or ESPN they’re paying money to YES Network because they own the visual broadcast rights. The manner in which they deliver that content is irrelevant, because people have already demonstrated a willingness to pay for it one way or the other (cable, streaming, YES Network app etc). Put another way there is no way to watch a Yankees game on a screen in the NY Metropolitan area that doesn’t involve placing money in the pocket of YES Network, unless the game is on ESPN or FOX etc.
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    If you’re the Yankees, Dodgers or Cubs why would you ever be the in favor of sharing more of your local media revenue ? It’s literally their competitive advantage, which makes up part of their brand. Even the mid-market teams would refuse. no team has ever gone out of business and all the big boys need are clubs to play against. They don’t want them to be good.
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    Solid Favorite? Maybe in the context that somebody has to win, but there’s an undeniable overall talent gap between truly good teams like the D’Backs and the Brewers So, I guess the old adage applies “you’re either getting better or getting worse,” and the Brewers are definitely getting worse. But ultimately you’re right their division is so poor, they’ll probably be too close to first to sell when they should, and they’ll ultimately get pennies on the dollar when they break their team up in December of ‘23
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    Maybe if the Brewers held on to all these guys until they walked it would be a mistake but that won’t happen. The talking heads mention Lucas Giolito being maybe the best arm available at the deadline. If the Brewers fade over the next 5 weeks or so and sell, there won’t be a GM out there who prefers Giolito to Burnes, and probably not many that prefer Giolito over Woodruff (injury concerns). Frankly if ownership and Matt Arnold decided to sell this July they have an incredible list of veterans fro which they could move certain pieces and restock the depth of their minor leagues: Woodruff Burnes, Miley Teheran Houser Lauer Adames Tellez Anderson Caratini Milner Bush
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    It’s funny though, because it demonstrates the tight rope Burnes has to walk every time he takes the ball. Last night Flaherty gave up 5 runs in the first two innings but then rebounded and pitched into the 7th, the bats bailed him out and he got the W. Burnes gave up six in the first innings then rebounded but it was already game over .
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    With journeymen and band aids.
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    The Redlooks like Doug Melvin’s Brewers all hit and no pitch. And as Melvin showed its not easy to get pitching figured out if you cannot develop them on your own.
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    Admit their mistake and DFA Winker already.
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    you know he’s going to coast through seven innings giving up about two hits
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