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  1. Jopal78
    In 2025 Saurez had 437 PAs with Arizona and put up .248/.320/.576. Then he was traded to Seattle at the deadline in 2025. Since that trade he has an OPS under .700 in 630 PAs. His time in Arizona was more of an extended hot streak by a journeyman than him upping his game; and it is why he’s on waivers, and will likely go unclaimed.
  2. Jopal78
    Crow is at 90 total innings already and hasn’t topped 50 innings in a season due to injuries since 2022. I suspect when the minor league season is over, his season will be over.
  3. Jopal78
    Where is the “Cheap Ass” meme? That he took over an irrelevant franchise has been mostly hands-off and incredibly loyal to the folks running the baseball team yet presided over the reemergence into relevancy and the longest era of continued success is pretty much all one needs to know
  4. Jopal78
    Turang is the likely favorite for the gold glove at 2B. PCA wins platinum glove. (Fan voting is a factor in the award).
  5. Jopal78
    Is it though? May will provide clear evidence of his value in the win loss column, but if he just takes the ball every 5th day he’s providing intrinsic value by allowing extra rest to Drohan, Miz, Henderson, Harrison and Gasser none of whom have thrown more than even 150 innings as professionals. Same deal to a lesser extent with Romero, the deeper the pen the fewer innings you need from the SP. Frias and ‘Plug-n-Play’ Ragsdale is a steep price to pay, but it’s hard to quantify the value of not overtaxing their young SP
  6. Jopal78
    It’s actually not, it means exactly what I said, I’m not going call somebody idiot if I make a point and support that point with evidence and they don’t want to believe it. That’s their prerogative ie, you do you. To insinuate otherwise insults both Bobby Brown and myself. More seriously, there are way more back handed put downs on here which are more deserving of your time cleaning up than monitoring what I write.
  7. Jopal78
    Crazy to think the Brewers traded away Dubon all the way back in 2019 for Ray Black and Drew Pomeranz.
  8. Jopal78
    You do you, bro. The original poster said “Sal Stewart is nice and would be alright as a teams 5th or 6th best hitter”. Then used a bunch of metrics to denigrate the player. But for a group that otherwise prides itself on “prospect knowledge” it’s interesting that it’s unacknowledged that Sal Stewart was a Top 100 prospect for multiple seasons, and MLB Pipeline’s #1 first base prospect coming in to the 2026 season. Then with 32 home runs and an .812 OPS in his first 148 games as a 21-22 year old, plus an All-Star recognition under his belt there’s a bunch of metrics posted arguing he’s not an impressive player merely “nice” or “alright”…..Rorschach test plain and simple.
  9. Jopal78
    He had an .821 OPS last season and .838 for his career. Probably not a hot streak as regression to the mean.
  10. Jopal78
    With Lara and Chourio signed long term and Mitchell having a breakout year, I think Sal’s future is not in Milwaukee. As much as it disappoints me I expect Sal will be back in a platoon against LHP while leading the league in hustle on infield ground outs.
  11. Jopal78
    Baseball analytics are now a Rorschach test, anyone can pick metrics to prove whatever point they want to make. Abbott is the Reds #3 starter behind Burnes and Greene (when healthy) with a 1.28 WHIP in over 500 career innings, and is probably a Top 10 lefty starter in the NL, despite the metrics. We do know Stewart has more home runs and a higher slugging percentage on the road than at home so I’m not so sure GABP is inflating his slugging, but regardless the fact is he would be hitting 3 or 4 in the Brewers line up every night.
  12. Jopal78
    I don’t know. I think you’d be singing a different tune if the Brewers had a 22 year old with 32 homers and an .810 in his first 546 PAs like Sal Stewart. Abbott has had a tough year, but was a 5.4 bWAR last year so I’m not sure the denigration is apt either. They have a nice core, but their moves for veterans have busted. I’m sure almost anyone would prefer the Reds group for future potential than for example PCA and a bunch of veterans in their 30s like in Chicago.
  13. Jopal78
    Go pay the $1 to read the front page story in today’s LA Times and then we’ll have an informed discussion. Right now you’re just accusatory and brandishing your obvious ignorance on the topic as a cudgel.
  14. Jopal78
    A financier may very well commit fraud to further line their own pockets, but no billionaire is going to put their liberty at stake to increase the major league payroll of their baseball team. That notion is utter nonsense. The only link in this story to the Dodgers right now is the wealthy guy being investigated for violating Federal insurance regulations owns among a litany of other businesses the Dodgers. That’s why it’s not a baseball story. It’s been clear for multiple seasons that the Dodgers manipulate the luxury tax threshold, and again that’s way different than committing a crime or cheating, and additional evidence of other manipulations shouldn’t catch anyone by surprise.
  15. Jopal78
    Gotta love Murphy. Going an getting him mid-count after Hook was just out there telling Gasser to start throwing strikes
  16. Jopal78
    He was struggling at the plate for sure, but the offensive bar is set so low to be passable at SS with good defense he was never the biggest problem. Frelick and his .630 OPS in RF was a bigger black hole.
  17. Jopal78
    There is no cap in baseball. There is also an huge difference between the Dodgers baseball operations committing fraud (not mentioned by anyone as far as I know) and legal, but perhaps unscrupulous, manipulation of MLB’s revenue sharing rules. Do you think a billionaire owner Mark Walter, Andrew Friedman or really anyone in their Baseball Operations Dept. are going to risk going to prison by perpetuating a fraud just so the Dodgers can sign Kyle Tucker or Tyler Glasnow…. Sheesh
  18. Jopal78
    No it is nothing like the Clippers having handshake deals with players. The Federal investigation is about loans made by Walter from his own Insurance Company A to his own Company B with friendly terms that wouldn’t exist in the marketplace. Where it may run afoul is that if Company B fails to pay the loans back or Company A sustains huge losses it could put the policy holders at risk, and Walter allegedly didn’t disclose the loans. The Insurance Company A is supposed to disclose those loans and didn’t, the investigation is about the action/inaction of Company A. He sold the Lakers because the loans came to light and he needed to infuse the insurance companies with cash. So far there is nothing connecting the Dodgers (and certainly not baseball operations) to the Walter financial empire’s Federal scrutiny.
  19. Jopal78
    Is it really a relevant baseball story? It has virtually nothing to do with the Dodgers, other than Mark Walter is their majority share holder. Rather, the situation involves a note-worthy billionaire with vast diversified holdings and companies under government investigation for potentially violating Federal insurance regulatory laws by lending large sums of money to other businesses he owns from insurance companies he also owns at terms that are below market rate. Those loans theoretically could put the policy holders of those insurance companies at financial risk.
  20. Jopal78
    Remember back in 2017 when the Dodgers traded Scott Kazmir $17M), Adrian Gonzalez ($22M), Brandon McCarthy ($11.5M) Charlie Culbertson and cash to the Braves for just Matt Kemp? The Dodgers can save tens of millions by doing the same thing again; simply give away players they don’t need anymore, while taking a bad contract in return or paying down the guarantees.
  21. Jopal78
    What does best record have to do with gambling lines. Gilbert is better than May. If you’re somehow disappointed they’re behind to a legitimate ace pitcher, I suppose that’s another example of heightened expectations for you.
  22. Jopal78
    Yeah 54% huge favorites.
  23. Jopal78
    Bigger picture, they were going to be hard pressed to beat Gilbert anyways. So does it matter if they lose by 3, 4, 6?
  24. Jopal78
    St. Louis NoT Detroit
  25. Jopal78
    Isn’t chemistry and “the clubhouse” just excuses made by losing teams? Each player is a professional and certainly realizes they have a job to do each game. I’m certain each Brewers player wants to win, and leadership is aligned in that goal. Besides there are plenty of teams where players didn’t like each other or weren’t particularly close yet achieved great things: 70’s Oakland, 77-78 Yankees, Kobe-Shaq Lakers.
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