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  1. Jopal78
    I think maybe the original poster meant “up the middle players with positional versatility” which would include CFers, and thus the list in the first round would be: Brown, Frelick, Black, Mitchell, Turang, Hiura, Lutz, Ray and 2nd rounders Moore, Zamora, Gray and Bello. Then O’Rae, Binelas (traded) Warren and KJ Harrison(traded)in the 3rd. True, some are known as being bat first players but if you go back and look at organizational comments from the time most are also touted equally if not more for positional versatility. As many of these players have been busts/disappointments it’s fair to wonder if focusing on positional versatility over straight hit tools was a sound strategy.
  2. Jopal78
    Who cares?!?! Did Stearns do the Brewers wrong? No. That he might take a job with another MLB club at some point: seems logical since that’s the industry he’s in. He took the Brewers as far as he could and stepped down to let someone else with different ideas have a go; nothing wrong with that and in fact is probably preferable to someone like Doug Melvin who hung around a bit too long.
  3. Jopal78
    Urias has a career OPS of .720, and is already arbitration eligible. He’s versatile in the field but you can get 80% of his offensive production from street free agents, so I don’t see him having much value in trade.
  4. Jopal78
    Turner has a 13.4 million dollar player option for ‘24. If he is traded, he won’t be coming to Milwaukee. Turner has an .806 OPS, “someone like him” means trading for a pretty good hitter which will cost considerable assets Though I do agree on Winker. I would have DFA’d him when his rehab assignment was up.
  5. Jopal78
    More than the Brewers would pay. If Toronto swaps him off, the interest (and thus price) would be high
  6. Jopal78
    SELL, SELL, SELL, I get the “extra bites at the apple/ playoffs are a crapshoot” mantra, but who are they kidding? This Milwaukee squad gets bounced immediately by any of the real teams in the NL. That being the most likely case, I’d rather see a sell off and rebuild of a team that can win in the playoffs as opposed to a team that thinks they can get there in a watered down division then roll the bones and pray.
  7. Jopal78
    We’re closing in on July and Winker has 4! XBH on the season, can we please just DFA this clown already.
  8. Jopal78
    Right on, sure didn’t look like a guy who won the Cy Young. Looked like a washed old timer trying to hang on.
  9. Jopal78
    All kidding aside, to show how bad the Brewers hitter are, Braun’s worst season OPS wise would still have him as 2nd best on this squad.
  10. Jopal78
    Wouldn’t hurt to call him, see if he misses the game yet…
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  12. Jopal78
    … 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.
  13. Jopal78
    Clown shoes. sell already.
  14. Jopal78
    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.
  15. Jopal78
    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.
  16. Jopal78
    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.
  17. Jopal78
    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.
  18. Jopal78
    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.
  19. Jopal78
    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.
  20. Jopal78
    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.
  21. Jopal78
    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
  22. Jopal78
    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
  23. Jopal78
    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.
  24. Jopal78
    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
  25. Jopal78
    Turner has a 13.5 million dollar player option for 2024; which means he’s not coming to Milwaukee
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