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  1. Jopal78
    Brewers just need to knock them out and so far they haven’t. The Cardinals and one of the few teams that if they are hanging around the race in July, they have the prospect capital to try for whatever rentals they want.
  2. Jopal78
    The Brewers high water mark was April 19th when they were nine games over. The last month and a half they’ve played losing baseball. Is this group as currently constructed going to suddenly start playing better than .500 baseball? I doubt it. Maybe if Woodruff, Adames and Miley return healthy and productive. Further, if you’re the GM, come July do you burn prospects to add talent to this group in July? Like last year, maybe some players on the periphery but it’s probably not worth the cost to add difference makers, so who the Brewers have now is most likely who is going to need to shoulder the load. Otherwise if they improve their level of play to go .500 from here on out they’d end up with 83 wins. Pittsburgh is in the exact same boat as the Brewers and obviously the Cubs, Reds and Cardinals would have to elevate their game even further. Thus I do think it’s possible a team with a losing record could win the NL Central this year.
  3. Jopal78
    Who’s going to trade for a 4th outfielder with a significant elbow injury to his throwing arm?
  4. Jopal78
    With Taylor, he tore a ligament in his elbow at least partially last season. No doubt considering his roster status and future monies as pro baseball player. He elected, over surgery, to get a platelet rich plasma injection and try to rehab his elbow. Apparently he wasn’t able to do it, and reinjured/aggravated it. Most players get TJ when the injection/rehab doesn’t work. Tyler Thornburg, for example, was one where he tore an elbow ligament and was able to come back with just an injection and rehab. Every person is different, I don’t think it’s on the Brewers medical staff.
  5. Jopal78
    But that’s the point, he tore a ligament in his elbow, tried to rehab it with a PRP injection, then reinjured it. It doesn’t look like he’ll be able to throw the ball for over a year from now. Why keep a 4th outfielder, one who is in arbitration, that you can’t use in the field? Not to mention the presence of Yelich, Wiemer, Frelick and Garrett
  6. Jopal78
    Too bad for Tyrone Taylor, but probably the end of the road for him in Milwaukee. If he needs Tommy John surgery he’ll be done this year, and heading into arbitration. If he has TJ surgery, even if projects to be ready to hit by early ‘24, he likely won’t be able to throw (like Bryce Harper) which negates nearly all his value and makes it difficult to justify rendering him a contract. If it is the end of his time with the Brewers; still a great story of perseverance and beating the odds.
  7. Jopal78
    When you get a PRP injection for a torn ligament and that doesn’t solve the problem, it usually means Tommy John surgery.
  8. Jopal78
    Well, he was sitting at home when the Brewers signed him after being DFA’d twice already this year. If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck….
  9. Jopal78
    Really, trading Burnes would be similar to when the Royals traded Zack Greinke. Both in their 20s, no injury history, with a recent Cy Young award, and while not as dominate as their Cy Young year, quite productive. Burnes with a half season less of team control obviously, but those type of players don’t come available often and a worth’s king’s ransom.
  10. Jopal78
    The Padres are a unique situation. According to the reporting, they have an ownership interest in their RSN. Each team will be in a different situation with different rules as they look to monetize their streaming rights. The system will likely get even more convoluted, the Brewers, for example, already sold their streaming rights to Bally
  11. Jopal78
    It’s called MLB Extra Innings. I live in Chicago and can watch any team’s game via Extra Innings except the Cubs, White Sox, and whomever their opponent is on a given day. However those games are always on regular TV. When I had MLB.TV and streamed Brewer games they were all available there unless they played the Cubs or White Sox. If you don’t have cable and live in Milwaukee, get MLB.TV and a VPN that places your internet connection in France and you’ll see all 162 games of every team. The real gripe here as I perceive it is that it should be cheap, quick and easy; a combination that rarely exists.
  12. Jopal78
    As alluded to earlier in this post, and confirmed by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the Brewers already had made a deal with Diamond/Bally’s for their direct to consumer streaming rights (as have KC, DET, TB and MIA). As a consequence, I would anticipate Diamond/Bally’s to continue to pay the Brewers pursuant to contract so not to run the risk of losing those streaming rights, which apparently is what the entire bankruptcy is about in the first place .
  13. Jopal78
    If you follow this story the Diamond wants the direct to consumer streaming rights, but MLB has balked in making a deal with Diamond for them. Therefore, Diamond claims many of their cable broadcasts have become unprofitable, and they cannot afford to pay what they agreed to unless they also have those streaming rights. Apparently, if they don’t get them they will simply drop broadcast contracts where they’re losing money like San Diego’s. (The Brewers aren’t really affected at this point because their direct to consumer streaming rights are one of the 5 already held by Diamond. ) For the other teams where Diamond can’t get the streaming rights and do not want to give the contract back, it looks like those teams will have to use the Court to rescind the broadcast rights and have them revert back to the team/mlb.
  14. Jopal78
    Pitching staff is 5th in Runs Allowed.
  15. Jopal78
    The Brewers have given over 1200 PAs this season to players with a sub .700 OPS, and continue to play three of those hitters on a near daily basis. The Pirates have only 700 PAs by players with a sub .700 OPS. The Reds approx 800 PAs to hitters with sub .700 OPS The Cardinals approx 640 PAs to hitters with a sub .700 OPS The Cubs approx 600+ PAs to hitters with a sub .700 OPS. Milwaukee’s roster construction is such that the pitching staff works without a safety net. If their offensive production was even close to comparable to the rest of their division they’d be 10 games in front.
  16. Jopal78
    What’s the current over under on the Brewers?
  17. Jopal78
    They’re in first so to the terrible division they play in. They’d be no better than second in 4 of the other 5 Divisons and would be 3rd in the NL West, AL west and 4th in the AL East. Of course they’re not going to trade Burnes, but when they drop 6 out of 8 series in a month, somebody is going to wrest first place from them, then come July they will trade him.
  18. Jopal78
    I don’t know, after tonight the Brewers are on a pace for 84 wins, and they have a challenging month in June.
  19. Jopal78
    The only reason there would be any blowback is because their owner and front office’s idiotic comments about rebuilding. Without Burnes and Woodruff they’re a 75 win team. Neither is likely signing an extension, so fans should know or realize once the team slips in the standings they’ll deal them both along with whomever else has trade value and expiring team control in the next 18 months.
  20. Jopal78
    About another 7-8 weeks is my guess.
  21. Jopal78
    That’s ball game. ‘23 Brewers…Yuck
  22. Jopal78
    If I said the Brewers misused Hiura in any way then someone else was logged in as me, or you are misreading something. A .322 OBP puts Ruf ahead of only Adames, Taylor, and Winker who are all indisputably having bad seasons at the plate, plus the two rookies Turang and Wiemer who are seemingly overmatched against MLB pitching right now.
  23. Jopal78
    I haven’t transitioned to anything. It’s too bad they pulled the plug on Voit after 74 PAs especially when he rarely played in back to back games. I think given semi-regular PAs, Voit would have been fine. Of course, I understand it’s the last go around with this group of players and they’re kind of treading water at best, so the Brewers are desperate for a spark, thus Voit is out and Ruf is in. I am dubious that Ruf is going to make any meaningful contribution. I don’t really care what the metrics say Ruf’s value is (especially when those same metrics suggest Keston Hiura is a great player). That Ruf is soon 37, was already DFA’d twice before Memorial Day, went unclaimed both times, and is coming off a season where he hit a Homer every 20 PAs against LHP but failed to get on base against them at better than .325 tells me all I need to know.
  24. Jopal78
    I’m not going to argue metrics, there’s a stat to support any position you want to take. Ask yourself this, if Ruf is a good player, why has he been flat out released twice since opening day? Especially by a team with deep post season aspirations? Look, I hope he provides the Brewers a spark, but essentially a platoon guy and who (like too many brewers) hits for power and not much else and is 37, I’m not anticipating much in the long haul.
  25. Jopal78
    See above post. Maybe Ruf was a lefty masher at some point, but he’s coming off injuries, is going to be 37 soon and hasn’t been good in a few seasons. Let’s see where he at in 50 more PAs, I’m it expecting much better than Voit.
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