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I guess, I’d like to see them finish first in a winnable NL Central this year, but lack of offensive production from CF is a problem and Acuna and Judge aren’t available. Sometimes a team has to seize and opportunity

I guess, I’d like to see them finish first in a winnable NL Central this year, but lack of offensive production from CF is a problem and Acuna and Judge aren’t available. Sometimes a team has to seize and opportunity

Laureano is a plus defender, plays CF, isn’t a total chump with the bat, and he’s under team control for two more years. It’s better than shopping for a bargain basement band aid again this off season and a clear upgrade over Tyrone Taylor and Jonathan Davis. What’s not to like? Man, sometimes I think posters here would spit on the Brewers acquiring anyone short of Ohtani or Trout, and even if they got those two guys they’d still grumble that it cost Turang, Frelick and Hiura.

Laureano is a plus defender, plays CF, isn’t a total chump with the bat, and he’s under team control for two more years. It’s better than shopping for a bargain basement band aid again this off season and a clear upgrade over Tyrone Taylor and Jonathan Davis. What’s not to like? Man, sometimes I think posters here would spit on the Brewers acquiring anyone short of Ohtani or Trout, and even if they got those two guys they’d still grumble that it cost Turang, Frelick and Hiura.

Give us 5 batters in MLB this year with 300+ ABs and a 43% k-rate. There are not any, that’s why he’s in AAA. It’s no different than hitting .185, it’s a ticket to the minor leagues.

Just come out and say it! You like Hiura and wished he played everyday. It's fine, that's part of being a fan liking certain players better than others, and imagining what could be/have been. However, don't post non-sense suggesting there isn't a difference between Adames and Hiura. First of all, Hiura without question is a butcher in the field, to the point they've moved him to LF to minimize the times they have to count on his defense. Adames has nearly twice as many at bats as Hiura, nobody knows if Hiura could keep up his numbers playing everyday. Probably not since he doesn't hit lefties, and he hasn't really hit with any consistency since his rookie year and the last couple weeks of June 2022. As for giving Hiura "some rope": I've been following the Brewers since the late 1980s and this is the longest stretch of competitive baseball they've had since that time. The Brewers have given him nearly 1000 plate appearances to establish himself as a regular and he has failed to do so. Moreover, those 1000 plate appearances have been for teams that went to the playoffs including a couple of division winners. Pro-sports are a cut throat business, and the Brewers are trying to win as many games as they can right now. Maybe it seems unfair that Hiura was drafted by the Brewers instead of say the Marlins where they could plug him in everyday no matter what because there was no expectation on the team to win many games. But after nearly 1000 plate appearances its ridiculous to suggest Milwaukee hasn't given him a fair shot. For what it's worth I hoped he'd be the next middle of the order slugger like Ryan Braun, but sure doesn't look like that's going to happen.

Just like the metrics state batting average is irrelevant, teams really don't roster players long-term who cannot hit above .200, same deal with strikeouts. It doesn't matter if its "old baseball," "present-day baseball," if you strike out greater than 35% of the time, a player is going to have tough sledding remaining on a major league roster.

Fair point with Adames, his low OBP suggests he shouldn’t be in the 2 hole though his OPS is 4th on the team. I suspect he bats 2nd for the Left-Right-Left… batting order match up as he is usually followed by Tellez (a lefty). As for Hiura, no team rosters a player long term who strikes out at a 40% clip. There is zero doubt if Keston had 300+ at bats this year that he’d be leading the majors in Ks. For a team that scores most of their runs off homers, I’m sure it’s frustrating to demote one of their better homerun hitters, but despite team coaching, private hitting tutelage, etc. the guy strikes out at a rate that doesn’t cut it in MLB.

This isn't the first time you've denigrated Josh Bell, but you can't have it both ways. Sure Benintendi is a better defender than Josh Bell, but its not even a comparison as to which is the better hitter. This year alone Bell's OPS in 90 points higher than Benintendi's. You can also argue Bell is the more patient hitter with a .387 OBP and a batting average of .302, while Benintendi's OBP is also .387 but with a .320 batting average. Bell's career OBP is .353 to Benintendi's .352. As for being "streaky," players are going to have good months and bad months, For example, Benintendi's OPS was .664 in June. Josh Bell wasn't alone in having a down year during the covid ball season, but pretty much has been the model of consistency year in year out his entire career. I have no idea if Josh Bell will wind up with the Brewers or not, but as I've posted before every contender in the league can find at bats for an .877 OPS hitter.

This isn't the first time you've denigrated Josh Bell, but you can't have it both ways. Sure Benintendi is a better defender than Josh Bell, but its not even a comparison as to which is the better hitter. This year alone Bell's OPS in 90 points higher than Benintendi's. You can also argue Bell is the more patient hitter with a .387 OBP and a batting average of .302, while Benintendi's OBP is also .387 but with a .320 batting average. Bell's career OBP is .353 to Benintendi's .352. As for being "streaky," players are going to have good months and bad months, For example, Benintendi's OPS was .664 in June. Josh Bell wasn't alone in having a down year during the covid ball season, but pretty much has been the model of consistency year in year out his entire career. I have no idea if Josh Bell will wind up with the Brewers or not, but as I've posted before every contender in the league can find at bats for an .877 OPS hitter.

Got to be in it, to win it homie.

Got to be in it, to win it homie.

Damn, those are a lot of holes! Yet they’ve been in first place almost since day one…. As for Bell, every lineup in the league can use a guy with an .850+ OPS. Let’s not have any of this “not a good fit” nonsense.

Damn, those are a lot of holes! Yet they’ve been in first place almost since day one…. As for Bell, every lineup in the league can use a guy with an .850+ OPS. Let’s not have any of this “not a good fit” nonsense.

Right, Jorge Lopez is definitely breaking out this year, but it's been 4 seasons since the Brewers traded him, he's now 29 and went to Baltimore from KC in 2020 on a waiver claim. With two years of team control left after '22, I don't think Baltimore is actively shopping him.

Right, Jorge Lopez is definitely breaking out this year, but it's been 4 seasons since the Brewers traded him, he's now 29 and went to Baltimore from KC in 2020 on a waiver claim. With two years of team control left after '22, I don't think Baltimore is actively shopping him.

Who was the best player the Brewers have traded at the deadline under this front office group? Ryan Cordell (Swarzak) Tayler Schott (Jeremy Jeffress) Jorge Lopez (Moustakas) Brett Phillips (Moustakas) Jean Carmona (Schoop) Luis Ortiz (Schoop) Kodi Medeiros (Soria) Wilber Perez (Soria) Cody Ponce (Jordan Lyles) Jesus Aguilar (Jake Faria) Maurcio Dubon (Ray Black & Pomeranz) Alberto Ciprian (Escobar) Cooper Hummel (Escobar) Reese Olson (Norris) Payton Henry (Jon Curtiss). Take your pick between Phillips, Lopez, Aguilar as the best of the bunch. All three of them had major league experience, and none of them made much impact with the teams that acquired them from Milwaukee. Further Aguilar is different too as he was already a 29 and a former All-Star when he was traded. I wouldn't anticipate anyone amongst the Brewers "best" prospects being traded this week. Maybe the former "pedigree" guys like Tristen Lutz, Micha Bello and Corey Ray, and later round draft picks who have been successful in the lower levels: Justin Jarvis, Tristan Peters, etc. That seems to be their history anyways.

Who was the best player the Brewers have traded at the deadline under this front office group? Ryan Cordell (Swarzak) Tayler Schott (Jeremy Jeffress) Jorge Lopez (Moustakas) Brett Phillips (Moustakas) Jean Carmona (Schoop) Luis Ortiz (Schoop) Kodi Medeiros (Soria) Wilber Perez (Soria) Cody Ponce (Jordan Lyles) Jesus Aguilar (Jake Faria) Maurcio Dubon (Ray Black & Pomeranz) Alberto Ciprian (Escobar) Cooper Hummel (Escobar) Reese Olson (Norris) Payton Henry (Jon Curtiss). Take your pick between Phillips, Lopez, Aguilar as the best of the bunch. All three of them had major league experience, and none of them made much impact with the teams that acquired them from Milwaukee. Further Aguilar is different too as he was already a 29 and a former All-Star when he was traded. I wouldn't anticipate anyone amongst the Brewers "best" prospects being traded this week. Maybe the former "pedigree" guys like Tristen Lutz, Micha Bello and Corey Ray, and later round draft picks who have been successful in the lower levels: Justin Jarvis, Tristan Peters, etc. That seems to be their history anyways.

The same manager who used matchups and analytics to steer his team to the playoffs in '18 and '19 is somehow blind to those same matchups/analytics with Keston Hiura? That doesn't seem logical. Second, Hiura's splits against RHP look amazing this year because 5 of his 13 hits against RHP went over the fence. In other words, 38% of his hits have gone for homeruns. He would be a first ballot Hall of Famer if he could somehow keep that rate up, because not even Babe Ruth had that percentage of his hits go for homeruns (24.8%). Hiura's splits against RHP in 2020 and 2021 can be described as below average (.203/.284/.429 in '20) and awful (.184/.279/.345 in '21). In reality, Hiura's numbers are driven by an excellent 2019 season, and he's been a below average to awful hitter ever since. It is not because the manager or GM overlook obvious statistical tendencies; rather it is because opponents learned how to attack him at the plate, and he has been unable to find a counter adjustment.

His suspension is also a byproduct of the societal climate right now. Even if there are two valid perspectives about what went on with the women, he's bad for not only the MLB brand, but also the Dodgers brand; and there's no way for corporate PR people to spin a sex abuse scandal to make themselves not look bad. On the other hand, dropping the hammer on Bauer solves all their problems. Bauer is removed from the equation, they show they take these type of allegations very seriously, and the character of their athletes is as important as their ability to pitch or hit. Moreover, having dropped the hammer on him, the zeitgeist can attach a myriad of labels to anyone who chooses to defend him in essence chilling discourse.

But isn't that also the business model? You need content to drive traffic on an ongoing basis to generate the ad revenue? To be sure, you bought the site, and can do with it what you want (ie. ads, subscription based, etc.) with no complaints from me. However, instead of a benevolent slant, "keeping the website alive," as to why ads are necessary, be direct: it's a business where the site was purchased with the intent to generate revenue from advertisers for site traffic.

Standard of proof in civil suits: “more probably true than not”. In other words 51-49. If he’s merely a kinkster, with his money, he could buy what he wanted in every major city in the world. That he’s picking up women of social media, having them come to his house without having met them first, tells me he’s a fool, and the destruction of his career and reputation is likely inevitable.

Manfred has unilateral authority to suspend him; the Dodgers are a powerful club with influential owners and want him gone. I doubt the MLBPA is going to deem it it worth further sullying their reputation zealously advocating for him. Even if his suspension is cut on appeal (which I doubt if he has to make his case to Joe Torre or whomever is underneath Manfred) he’s most likely gone through the end of the 2023 season. He’s either an abuser of women, or so profoundly stupid he didn’t realize inviting women he never met face to face ( who contacted him on social media) over to his home in the middle of the night was an idiotic idea. Good riddance.

The knee jerk reaction to DFA someone after a couple of bad innings is how a pitcher like Phil Bickford is now the 7th inning guy for the Dodgers. With Milwaukee: 2G, 2IP, 6ER, FIP of 13.69. With Los Angeles: 37G, 34.2IP, 8ER, 42K, 5BB, FIP of 2.72, WHIP of 1.07.

I don't think that is a fair assessment. Harrison and Diaz were both 2nd round picks out of high school in the 2014 draft. If they contribute at all at the major leagues, I don't know how you can mark them as failures. To date there are only two other players from the 2nd round of the 2014 draft with positive career WARs (Alex Verdugo and Spencer Turnbull). Not to mention the first round is littered with busts: Tyler Kolek (#2 overall) Nick Gordon (#5 overall), Max Pentecost (#11) overall, and Milwaukee's own Kodi Medeiros (#12 overall). I do think it's fair to say with the dust having settled on the Yelich trade, the Marlins got an underwhelming return for Yelich. Yet it is not at all surprising given Yelich was already established as one of the game's better young players when he demanded a trade.