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  1. Jopal78
    Better I believe Brewers will be +3, Cardinals will be +8
  2. Jopal78
    Cardinals back into positive run differential for the year.
  3. Jopal78
    Yeah, and Contreras had no problem calling the game tonight.
  4. Jopal78
    Cutch has a .936 OPS against lefties this year, and a .781 against righties. That’s against major league pitching. If the Brewers are bringing in a retread; he’s get my vote.
  5. Jopal78
    I suppose they’re all either idiots or there’s an organizational wide conspiracy to ruin a player’s pro-career, right?
  6. Jopal78
    Does anyone know whatever happened to Ray Black? He appears on the Nashville Sounds website but it indicates he’s on the restricted list. I don’t recall him having pitched in any capacity for the Brewers organization in the last 3-4years. I don’t recall him being suspended? Did he refuse to report, get in personal trouble, etc.? Weird they haven’t just released him.
  7. Jopal78
    Exactly, pitchers who project to be able to be better than average at getting outs in the majors, don’t usually pitch much at AAA anymore. It’s usually the Colin Rea and Jason Alexander type pitchers in AAA. I’m sure even Yelich would destroy there.
  8. Jopal78
    Had winker not been coming off a terrible season two major surgeries he wouldn’t have been available for spare parts like Wong. They took a calculated gamble and so far it’s coming up snake eyes. If they had anyone better, we could probably already start losing time.
  9. Jopal78
    But MLB teams see these guys every day and know each players skill set/flaws in a great deal more detail than just a stat sheet. So it’s really sort of dilutes the significance if those 700 PAs came in one consecutive chunk or if they occurred in smaller chunks. He’s still interacting with coaches, creating videotape daily. It’s the same thing with getting hot and bothered they didn’t play him at DH last year despite the surface of the stat sheet saying they should. I don’t think any of the career baseball folks working for the Brewers are ignorant or have a beef with Hiura, there is a reason his career track has taken the course it has. Further, given their history with guys who they decided to move on from like Suter, Topa etc; if there was any real interest across the league in Hiura they Brewers would most likely try to facilitate a way to get him back to the majors with another club.
  10. Jopal78
    Perhaps, but it is telling that a former Top 10 draft pick, who has slugged 50 homers in 284 major league games, and has years of team control remaining was not worth a 2 million dollar flyer even from the thriftiest of clubs. Maybe the scouting departments across MLB simply reached the conclusion that he won’t make enough contact against major league pitching to be a viable option. All we know for sure, is the Brewers have him 700+ PAs to try to recapture the magic of 2019 and he couldn’t do it.
  11. Jopal78
    Does anyone truly believe Hiura “found it”? Let’s face it, the guy is the ultimate tease: always been awesome against AAA pitching, yet except for that magical stretch in 2019 he’s kind of sucked against MLB overall. They gave him 700 PAs on playoff contending teams to figure it out and he couldn’t get it done. They already made the decision to chalk up a Top 10 pick as a flop when they DFA’d him. No major league team was interested in his potential to take a 2 million dollar flyer on him. So Hiura is collecting his big league salary in AAA The Brewers would likely trade him tonight, if someone called offering just cash considerations.
  12. Jopal78
    If they keep playing bad baseball, maybe they can get Vargas from the Dodgers this July when they trade Burnes.
  13. Jopal78
    Like last year, it was supposed to be a team that won with its pitching and defense. Woodruff suffering a shoulder injury and having no quality depth available hurts them because they never had the talent to out slug teams. Just like in 2020, this years collection of vets they brought in trying to catch lightning in a bottle (Winker, Voit, Miller etc.) all look like busts at this point.
  14. Jopal78
    Bunch of hitters with sub .700 OPS, and pitchers with ERAs over 4; not a recipe for winning many games.
  15. Jopal78
    Probably should start giving Voit some at bats and if nobody grabs the position, maybe they need to shuffle the deck slightly on the 26 man roster
  16. Jopal78
    It doesn’t matter that his OBP is; he’s the regular DH with a sub .650 OPS. The leash should be getting shorter
  17. Jopal78
    They didn’t need Kolten Wong, but the early returns on this trade are not good.
  18. Jopal78
    What you say might be true. Then again Wainwright has made ONE start, let’s check back in July before drawing a conclusion based on the ultimate small sample .
  19. Jopal78
    You’ve seen Game of Thrones, this is like Oberyn Martel celebrating before the Mountain was truly vanquished.
  20. Jopal78
    That’s the beauty of stats; Wade Miley has been the most consistent starter in ‘23 and his xFIP is worse than anyone who has started for the Cardinals. (Cue the poster to say xFIP is a BS stat). Mikloas and Wainwright have been consistent long enough it’s unlikely they both “lost it” overnight. With the overall mediocrity of the NL Central, a hot streak or two and the Cardinals will be right back in it.
  21. Jopal78
    Despite the Cardinals struggles, the Brewers (or the Pirates!) haven’t hit the gas pedal and buried them. The Brewers went out West against two inferior clubs and dropped five out of six missing an opportunity to really damage St. Louis’s chances. The point is, it’s still early. With a leaky bullpen and weak back end of the rotation I don’t expect the Brewers to run away with the Division like in ‘21. Nor do I expect the Pirates and Cubs to have the requisite staying power. Therefore, the more time the rest of the Division gives the Cardinals, the more likely it is they right the ship and play to their expectations.
  22. Jopal78
    Mikolas and Wainwright both were 2.8 fWAR pitchers in ‘22. It really comes down to whether you believe a bad 36 game stretch is indicative of an entire season or merely a small sample. I know where you stand, I guess we’ll see how things turn out.
  23. Jopal78
    Probably, but Montgomery, Mikolas and Wainwright aren’t bad. Then there really isn’t much difference between Matz/Flaherty and Lauer/Rea for example. With either duo, the offense is likely going to need to carry the team to win. 40 or so games into a season is too early to write off a team with that talent no matter how good it feels.
  24. Jopal78
    ‘19 Nationals were 12 games under .500 and n May 23rd. Last year’s Phillies were 8 games under .500 at the end of May. It’s still early, the Cardinals have some really good players who have played poorly so far this year, they play in Comedy Central where they’ll never be buried in the Division race. They have the prospect capital to remake their team on the fly, and they’ve done it before. If they’re 14 games under .500 heading into July we can start writing the epitaph; until then it’s foolish.
  25. Jopal78
    Well, their Pythagorean has them better than their actual record AND they haven’t had a losing season in 15 years AND have 2 Division titles and four Playoff appearances since 2019. I’ll wait until September to mock them.
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