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  1. Jopal78
    Cubs. Fourth in Runs Scored, First in fewest runs allowed.
  2. Jopal78
    A pitching and defense team that doesn’t pitch well nor play good defense doesn’t translate to winning much
  3. Jopal78
    A pitching and defense team that doesn’t pitch well nor play good defense doesn’t translate to winning much
  4. Jopal78
    The bullpen fortunes seemingly are evening out unfortunately
  5. Jopal78
    The bullpen fortunes seemingly are evening out unfortunately
  6. Jopal78
    Like last year, the design is to win games by pitching and defense, so I dispute the notion they’re somehow “wasting” their starting pitching. The whole concept is to ride that pitching (and defense) to wins. That’s because the Brewers don’t have any great hitters on their 26 man roster or in AAA. The Brewers right now are winning more than they’re losing with Wiemer and Turang contributing as defenders. When Urias gets back he probably takes over at 2nd but there’s no reason to make a change now and big league at bats are valuable for development with young players.
  7. Jopal78
    It’s been less than 30 games. Secondly, not every young Brewers is Ryan Braun, in fact not many experts even predicted Turang would be much more than average with the bat. Rookies often struggle their first few seasons before coming around (Dansby Swanson for example had 1200 below average PAs before putting it together). The laughable part is to suggest Turnag be swapped on the major league roster for Abraham Toro! Toro is 3 years older and in nearly 1000 PAs in the majors hasn’t shown he’s any better than Turang is right now. It’s merely an argument to make a change for change’s sake.
  8. Jopal78
    Players generally don’t want to stay where they are not wanted. If it’s clear from Yelich’s play that Milwaukee is merely biding its time until it can feasibly release him, why wouldn’t he welcome a trade to a club where he might actually play or contribute. Likewise. If Yelich cannot get it going, that 130 million is a sunk cost, why not ship him to another club for some equally bad contract/s hoping to catch lightning in a bottle, it’s not like it could get much worse.
  9. Jopal78
    Every player is tradable. Whatever is success for Yelich now (.730 OPS heavy on OBP light on slugging), if he hits that he’s an okay player but overpaid. If Yelich can’t get to .700 they trade him for someone else’s garbage (there’s plenty of equally bad contracts around) and hope to come out better off.
  10. Jopal78
    What a mess the White Sox are, they traded off all their stars, tanked for several years to rebuild a juggernaut and this is what they end up with? Absent a huge turn around, Rick Hahn is probably getting fired.
  11. Jopal78
    He’s always been hot garbage. Every pitcher gets lucky once in awhile like he did against San Diego. 5 walks and 7 earnies in his last 8 innings,
  12. Jopal78
    Yep, a whopping 6,000 fans a night on average with a top ticket price of $25. I would imagine a fair number of those are probably comp tickets from the local hospitality industry as well. Since Las Vegas is a smaller media market than Oakland, to be a more viable business venture they’re really going to need to draw a crowd or remain a mostly hopeless bottom feeding small market club. I guess they navigate all that in Phoenix, it just seems like eliminating one problem (an out of date stadium) to create a whole host of new problems.
  13. Jopal78
    I thought Guerra would get another chance since they did trade for him. Given his struggles it looks like he’ll get out-righted to AAA; and can try to further hone his skills there.
  14. Jopal78
    I think your first sentence answered the question; it’s been five starts. Shane Bieber hasn’t pitched impressively yet either in 5; while Alex Manoah has gotten clobbered in most his 5 starts so far. Burnes didn’t have his stuff yesterday yet didn’t pitch horribly (5ip 2er 5k) and kept the team in the game. After the dust clears on his 28 remaining starts I think Burnes’s numbers will be fine.
  15. Jopal78
    The median high in July is also 104. Most likely, folks are going to stay in the air conditioned cool casinos and gamble than go out to a game (unless the stadium is part of a casino). Further, it’d be some domed stadium to cool it inside 30 degrees more than outside with the desert sun pounding down on it all day. Probably a dumb idea to move there but that’s seemingly all baseball owners ever have .
  16. Jopal78
    Guerra has an electric arm but has only thrown 115 innings total n 5 years as a professional; plus they traded a decent prospect for him, I don’t think they’ll cut bait after a poor outing. Matt Bush on the other hand, hasn’t been good since the Brewers traded for him, his seat is probably starting to get warm but at 1.85 million dollars, he’ll likely get more chances if he’s healthy.
  17. Jopal78
    So far the pundits haven’t been wrong about Mitchell. Has potential to be a good player but is seemingly hurt all the time. Between COVID and injuries he’s played in 160 games since leaving UCLA 3 years ago. Great opportunity for Wiemer though, will get to learn on the job as there aren’t many other CF options right now.
  18. Jopal78
    Lots of pro athletes are jerks, but Bumgarner never was convicted of felonies., and went to prison so I don’t if anyone can credibly say Bush is the better human. The point is: Bumgarner (despite reputation) is not far removed from being amongst the best pitchers in the game. He never there hard, and I haven’t looked at the metrics so I don’t know the basis of his extreme struggles this year (mechanics v. diminished stuff). To me, seems like he could be a #5/long reliever at a rock bottom price for a pitching hungry team lien Milwaukee. At no risk, why not?
  19. Jopal78
    Well, they already have Matt Bush one of the few ex-cons in pro sports. So it’s not inconceivable based on reputation/history, plus they currently have Colin Rea a 32 year old journeyman with a career era of nearly 5 in their rotation and no other healthy SP depth to speak of.
  20. Jopal78
    Bumgarner DFA’d Been real bad this year, but maybe an upgrade over Rea? Not sure what the metrics say.
  21. Jopal78
    Well, less than a month ago he was on waivers and every single team in the majors passed on giving him a roster spot. I’m not sure of the current CBA rules but I believe if he rejected reporting to AAA after going unclaimed and being out-righted he would have forfeited his salary. Thus I think it’s a marriage of convenience, Hiura bides his time in AAA while collecting a paycheck and the Brewers have another depth piece at AAA should a rash of injuries hit.
  22. Jopal78
    He got 1000 PAs with the Brewers they’ve given him plenty of opportunities. I think at this juncture they’ve moved on and barring a rash of injuries he won’t see the home dugout in Milwaukee again. Though if he continues to do his usual destruction of AAA pitching maybe the Brewers could swap him to Kansas City or Oakland for more bullpen depth like those they’ve been soaking up recently.
  23. Jopal78
    They’ve added two pitchers in the last week or so. Nobody is trading a starting pitcher in April
  24. Jopal78
    I’m not going to quibble too much, but the point of those extensions are to pay more up front than they normally would in order to get those extra years on the back end. This if the Twins indeed walk from Kepler and Polanco they will have paid more money than they would have going year to year for nothing; not too mention while none of those contracts are budget busting on their own it is 26 million dollars to just Kepler, Polanco and Dobnak for their salaries this year and buy outs, thats approx. 1/7 the Twins payroll this year. i’m sure at some point in the last several years the Brewers did their due diligence with their key players and determined that none were interested in giving them extra years or taking a discount, so like Jose Berrios in Minnesota there wasn’t much more to discuss.
  25. Jopal78
    Sure, but look at Jose Berrios, he was smart to turn down the Twins extension overtures as he did better for himself. Plus the Twins are a good example of how extensions don’t always work out either… while not pitchers, the Twins missed with Max Kepler and Dobnak. Polanco’s extension doesn’t look real good right now, and they owe a soon to be 30 year old Buxton 90 million dollars from now to the end of his extension when he hasn’t had 400 PAs in a season since he was 23.
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