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  1. Jopal78
    Ever realize #4 is retired on all Wisconsin pro-sports franchises? Bucks-4 Moncrief Brewers—4 Molitor Packers—4 Favre
  2. Jopal78
    For all those big stadium music tours that take place during Winter? The big acts don’t typically tour the Midwest between November and March. Without events to pack the place there’s not much value in winterizing it for Monster Truck Jam and Wrestle Mania.
  3. Jopal78
    His career sure was a puzzler. I recall he had two pretty good years for the Brewers but with Rickie Weeks and Bill Hall on the roster they traded him to Oakland for Nelson Cruz, and Ginter’s career instantly fizzled out.
  4. Jopal78
    His best start of the season and 200th career win against Milwaukee last night was only fitting. Wainwright has been the biggest Brewer killer, west of Aaron Nola. More innings pitched against Milwaukee than any other team, more wins against. A quarter of his career complete games (7 of 28) were against the Brewers, and 3 of his 11 shutouts occurred against Milwaukee. Glad he’ll be retiring because even in the midst of a crappy season he still has their number.
  5. Jopal78
    They would have to get rid of Anderson first. If you think about it the Brewers basically play a man short every night with Anderson on the roster getting virtually zero playing time.
  6. Jopal78
    On the one hand it’s tough luck getting DFA’d from a team in the chase as you head into free agency. Then on the hand he gets to start his winter break early and still will get a million bucks from the Reds to do so.
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  8. Jopal78
    Now wait a minute… Joe Oliver came to the Brewers after missing the ‘94 season with an injury and coming off the strike and delayed start of the 95 season. He certainly wasn’t washed up because he had a career year with the Brewers then played six more seasons, where he produced exactly at his career marks. He just wasn’t ever a dynamic player to begin with. In the 80s Ted Simmons and BJ Surhoff caught the vast majority of Brewers’ games. A hall of famer and a former #1 overall pick. Surhoff/Nilsson/Oliver/Matheny covers the bulk of the games in the 90s.
  9. Jopal78
    True, but Baltimore, Arizona, Cincinnati Minnesota and Seattle all wracked up multiple seasons of 90 losses over the last decade or so, and are now laden with young premium players from drafting near top of the first round. It has nothing to do with market size.
  10. Jopal78
    A major injury at 40, he could ride off in the sunset with no blowback, “I wanted to come back but my body won’t allow me to at the level I feel I need to play to the standards I’ve set in my career”. Although probably would feel like a chump to an extent, leaving GB, going to the Jets, taking a pay cut of his guaranteed salary then playing for 4 minutes before suffering a career ending injury.
  11. Jopal78
    An Achilles tear is a more gruesome injury than an ACL. Requires non-weight bearing status for weeks after surgery. Rodgers might feel he has something to prove by making a comeback, but a 40 year old man rehabbing that injury to play in the NFL again seems like a tall order.
  12. Jopal78
    That’s the Cubs for you, Crow-Armstrong doesn’t play a position of need for the Cubs. They’re 4 best hitters in terms of OPS+ are Happ LF, Bellinger CF, Suzuki RF and Morel DH. They could move Bellinger to 1B and PCA to CF, but then that takes away at bats from Tauchman and Wisdom two additional productive players.
  13. Jopal78
    Yep, six regular season games tell us all we need to know. With Monasterio’s 1.000 OPS in those six games they better be batting him cleanup! But it’s okay if it makes you feel better from being unable to see the big picture please continue to call me a contrarian.
  14. Jopal78
    Here’s some facts for you: The Brewers beat Aaron Nola on September 7th 2021, they didn’t beat him again until two calendar years later. During that stretch he made 4 starts against Milwaukee went 28 1/3 innings, allowed 15 hits, 3 walks, and had 31 strike outs, and allowed 6ER. Since 2021 Wheeler has made 4 starts against Milwaukee. He went 26 innings, allowed 17H 0BB 24K and allowed 7ER. Those numbers include his defeat by Milwaukee last week. Simply stated Nola is a Brewer killer, there isn’t a team I would want to face less in a 3 game elimination series than the Phillies with Nola in Game 1. While the Brewers have had more success against Wheeler relatively speaking even with his most recent loss he still has a Sub-1.00 WHIP against Milwaukee since April 2021. It’s not pessimism or nonsense, those two guys a very good pitchers and in particular have pitched very well against the Brewers the last few seasons. The Brewers would be better off against almost any other team in a best 2 out of 3 series.
  15. Jopal78
    Since 2020 only 3 of the 12 Wild Card series have NOT been sweeps. It’s not really debatable the Phillies have more overall talent on their roster than the Brewers. Nonetheless, you seem pretty convinced despite all the contrary evidence, so keep on believin’ then I suppose.
  16. Jopal78
    Don’t know what to tell you, those 2 guys have been terrific against the Brewers. Wheeler with a sub 2.70 era 1.16 whip and averaging over 6 innings per start against the Brewers lifetime. Nola averages 6 innings a start against Milwaukee, has a career whip against the Brewers of 1.20 and is 6-2 against them. Both average over 10k per 9 against the Brewers. Gotta hit the ball against those two to even get to the bullpen, or put pressure on their defense; they’re lifetime numbers suggest the Brewers don’t do it very well against them.
  17. Jopal78
    Dont bother to look at the career stats of those two pitchers especially against Milwaukee. Instead only consider what happened in the regular season a week ago and draw conclusion based on that… Makes total sense 🙄
  18. Jopal78
    Yes, Wheeler and Nola are every bit as good a Burnes and Woodruff, and the Phillies have a better hitter at almost every position.
  19. Jopal78
    Those late 90s early 00s Brewer teams were something else. Marquis Grissom was terrible for the Brewers (.687 OPS); they swap him for Devon White and Grissom immediately becomes a .746 OPS CFer for the rest of his career (584 games). White has close to a career year for the Brewers then retired.
  20. Jopal78
    Agreed, Counsell doesn’t have a hitter on his roster who other team’s fear, and he’s been saddled with mostly struggling rookies and mediocre or worse hitters, yet he’s had his squad in first place most of the year. Don’t lose the forest amongst the trees, Counsell has done an A+ job this year.
  21. Jopal78
    Nobody knows what the other FOs in baseball think of Hiura, but I think it’s safe to assume the answer is ‘not much’. Hiura doesn’t play MLB caliber defense, he doesn’t hit lefties, he struggles to make consistent contact against MLB pitching and he’s out of options. I’m sure the Brewers decision to move on from a guy who they controlled for multiple seasons yet, and used Top 10 draft pick on, was not one they took lightly. After all Hiura got 1000 PAs on teams that were all in a playoff chase, something I know wouldn’t have happened in New York, Houston, LAD etc. It would be interesting to learn why they didn’t just release him when he cleared waivers after the DFA which would have nipped all this in the Bud, but we’ll probably never know.
  22. Jopal78
    That response evades the question: do you honestly believe there’s been interest from another club and the Brewers have continued to hang on to him as some sort of cruelty or ignorance? Even the skin flint Oakland A’s you referenced signed then ate the contracts of Jesus Aguilar (3 million) and Shintaro Fujinami (3.2 million), so the argument that Hiura’s contract (2.2 million) is too rich for the blood of other teams has credibility issues. I think the simplest explanation is reality no team wants/wanted Hiura and the Brewers (a class organization) are letting him stay in game shape in AAA should an opportunity for him arise.
  23. Jopal78
    They let Brosseau go to Japan after he was DFA’d and outrighted to AAA. Do you honestly think there’s been interest from ANY other team in organized baseball and Hiura’s still in AAA for Milwaukee because of some form of cruelty by the Club? I don’t buy it for a second. (Hell, I’d buy that Japan wanted Hiura and Keston didn’t want to go so the Brewers refused to release him, before some form of cruelty or ignorance on behalf of the Brewers)
  24. Jopal78
    There’s a factual error—the Brewers did not miss the post-season in 2019. They were a wild card team under the old format and were eliminated in their post season game against Washington. Secondly, despite any polarity amongst fans I don’t think anyone would say Hiura struggled in 2019, that was the year he was awesome. Finally, how can an article about the “rise and fall” of a player omit that he was designated for assignment, removed from the 40 man roster and outrighted to AAA? #clickbait. I should’ve known better, shame on me.
  25. Jopal78
    Both TV and road Radio groups are just awful at what they do…. trying yo be funny and dropping cultural references
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