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Brewers (Miley) vs Padres (Darvish): 4/16/23, 3:10pm
Jopal78 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Archived Game Threads
When his playing career is over, the Brewers should sign Wade Miley up as a minor league pitching coach, while the Padres aren’t hot at the moment, it’s still something to see Miley go through an All Star laden lineup and befuddle them with timing, location while throwing in the 80s. -
I bet it’s 3 months or more.
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Back to the original point: see Trayce Thompson. Textbook definition of a journeyman/AAAA player, you name it. He has a 3.8 WAR in 800 PAs and he’s been with 8 different clubs in some capacity in his career. Plus, he’s been generally available twice in the last calendar year.
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That he was the #93 prospect in baseball in ‘15, 3 years after being drafted and 4 full seasons before he debuted in the majors is arguing semantics. Just as arguing a difference between labeling someone mediocre/dime a dozen/replacement level/AAAA player.
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But it’s neither lazy nor factually incorrect. Pro baseball players who can run and play defense are a dime a dozen. Players who pop a home run here and there but fail to get on base more than 30% of the time are also a dime a dozen. Again, I’ll cite my example of Trayce Thompson his stat line and experience is very similar to Taylor’s and Thompson has been with 8 different clubs in some capacity during his career. Taylor is a feel good story, a 2nd round pick out of high school who never was a prospect, yet showed perseverance and beat the odds and made it to the major leagues. That being said, let’s not kid ourselves. He’s valuable as a bench player because he’s versatile and cheap. As he gains experience he will no longer be as cheap and unless he adds to his game ( ie. If he could get his OBP up to .330 he’d probably be a 10 year bet no problem) he will inevitably become less valuable. That’s the way it is for mediocre players.
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Who should/would the Brewers pick up at the deadline?
Jopal78 replied to YodaDaSoda's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
Of course it’s a realistic target, it’s adding a top of the rotation starter and a clean up hitter in one move. Every contender will have Ohtani as a target. It would be a very Angels move to keep Ohtani then have him leave as a free agent with just the QO compensation; but if they do trade him they likely would take the best package of prospects. I don’t think any other contender would be offering up Top 10 overall prospects, thus the Brewers job would simply be to have the best of the offers on the table -
If your metric suggests that Tyrone Taylor is similar in isolated slugging to Manny Machado, Anthony Rizzo, Alex Bregman, then you probably shouldn’t use it anymore. I do get what you’re trying to argue, but when you’re lumping one player in with some others who have three times as many PAs, it’s not persuasive.
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I guess he should be starting every day then! 😜 Taylor has 729 PAs over the time span you cited. Rizzo has 1900, Machado has 2100, Altuve and Bergman have 2000+ so your metric comparison doesn’t mean anything. Players without an elite tool and career .300 OBPs are journeyman, as mentioned earlier, the difference between Taylor and Trayce Thompson is negligible and Thompson has already been with 8 different organizations in some capacity during his career.
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Who should/would the Brewers pick up at the deadline?
Jopal78 replied to YodaDaSoda's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
I cannot think of any reason why Ohtani wouldn’t be their #1 target, until the Angels trade him elsewhere. -
Tyrone Taylor’s best asset is he’s mediocre at every facet of the game. He’s Trayce Thompson (who’s been with 9 different organizations already): he’s just a guy who isn’t good enough to be an everyday regular but not bad enough to wash out the major leagues. If the Brewers are worrying about the roster status of Taylor, it probably means the season has gone really far off the rails.
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Fan experience during the Giannis Jersey give away
Jopal78 replied to not enough jerseys's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I never understand how little value people put on their free time, waiting in line hours for something that’s a corporate sponsor freebie? If it’s something a mega fan simply needs to have, wait two weeks, they’ll all be $50 or less on eBay and two hours of my free time is worth more to me than $40-$50 bucks -
I not surprised he cleared waivers. It’s the 40% k rate and complete lack of defensive skills. That’s a bad combo to be seeking a bench spot with. Teams that can afford, talent wise, to attempt to catch lightning in a bottle, probably didn’t want to do so at his salary. Teams that can afford payroll wise to add him, probably had better options for their last roster spot.
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The best starting pitchers in the world are in the major leagues. Hiura was initially able to hit them until pitchers adjusted how they attacked him, and heretofore he has been unable to make a successful counter-adjustment. That is exclusively why his MLB career is hanging by a thread. The dustbin of MLB history is littered with stories like that. If anything is unique about his scenario, it’s the Brewers patience in letting him continually try to put it together at the major league level.
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With Voit it seems as though they simply decided in favor of more positional versatility on their roster over another slugger; or the Brewers want to wait and see which players on other clubs might get cut as rosters are finalized. These are the only scenarios that seem logical, in the context of their other moves last week. Further, the Brewers already had agreed with Voit upon a salary for ‘23 if he made the team. If Voit gets a better offer elsewhere I doubt the Brewers would be interested in matching or making a counter offer.
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If Hiura was claimed off waivers the claiming team assumes his contract. I believe if he goes unclaimed he could be outrighted off the 40 man roster to AAA, where he would collect his 2.2 million dollars.
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Voit has opted out and become a free agent.
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The salaries for players in arbitration are not fully guaranteed until they make the team. They’ll owe Hiura some termination pay but not 2.2 million. Maybe somebody claims him.
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With Rhys Hoskins suffering a knee injury, Voit is likely making the team today or leaving the organization.
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Again not news. Winning baseball = more interest = more eyeballs on the games. If the Angels, Tigers etc. would have played good baseball in 2022 they’re numbers would blow the Brewers away. Conversely, if you look at the Brewers in say 2003, 2004 there’s no way they had close to the viewership they had in 2022 (a year amidst quite possibly the greatest run of success in team history)
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Yep, 100% click bait. “They’re getting hosed on TV rights” aims to exploit the "curiosity gap", providing just enough information to make readers click on the post only to learn it’s a worthless chart indicating broadcast rights cost more in larger media markets. Like I said it’s no secret the Brewers are at a competitive disadvantage without complete sharing of local broadcast revenue, it’s been that way since the early 90s.
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Correct, more click bait. It’s no different than putting up a billboard: there’s more potential eyeballs that can see the billboard in Los Angeles than Milwaukee so it costs more. Is the incomplete sharing of local broadcast revenue detrimental to teams like the Brewers? Of course, but that isn’t news either, it’s been that way for 30 years.
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I don’t think the Brewers are going to take a chance letting Varland leave their organization. Bryce Wilson or Payamps won’t make the team, with a slight leg up for Wilson because he can also start
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The league year has started and the Packers are under the cap and carrying Rodgers salary. Strange money things have happened before in the NFL. The Texans carried Watson’s salary for an entire year never considered releasing him yet never played him once. You’re right it could get ugly, but Rodgers does t have a no trade clause. The Packers could ship him to Washington tomorrow for a conditional pick/s in ‘24 if Rodgers reports and plays. Then the ball would be in Rodgers’ court to put up and walk away from 58 million dollars or shut up and report.
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I didn't hear him say he only wants to play for the Jets. Rodgers is not a dumb guy, and is aware these deals can and frequently do go sideways. That is why he said he intends to play in '23 and intends to play for the Jets. I doubted he was ever going to walk away from 58+ million dollars in '23 for just showing up. Thus, the Packers could trade him to any QB needy team (Commanders, Falcons, Titans, etc.) with virtually no risk. Acquiring team gives the Packers conditional picks if they can convince Rodgers to show up. If they can't they're not out anything, nor are the Packers as Rodgers would be retired.
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When the 49ers moved on to Steve Young from Joe Montana he had 4 Super Bowl rings and 2 MVP trophies. Nobody really remembers that it caused a rift with Montana and ultimately resulted in him demanding a trade. It'll be no different with Rodgers. With the passing of time nobody will care about the "he said/she said" or that Rodgers spent a year or two in New York before calling it quits.
