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  1. Ron Robinsons Beard
    However, it does work for some teams (Dodgers) so obviously, if you have stupid money to spend, and you spend it in the right places, it can work... I suppose you are correct. The Dodgers did win a championship in a wierd 60-game pandemic season in front of no fans 98% of the time. The Dodgers are also run very well from the top down, and have a very solid player development program. So yes, while they do spend stupid money, that isn't the only way they build.
  2. Ron Robinsons Beard
    And when Mark A. spends $150 million and the team still doesn't win a World Series, you'll be the first fan in line complaining because he didn't spend $175 million. The recent Mets and Phillies are prime examples of teams attempting to spend "stupid money" and continuing to come up empty. And they are huge markets that can easily stomach those huge payrolls.
  3. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Looks like this one can be put to bed, at least for this year: https://nypost.com/2021/10/18/brewers-deny-mets-permission-to-interview-david-stearns-for-front-office-opening/
  4. Ron Robinsons Beard
    That will unfortunately be the next guy's fault. Firing the hitting coach is quite possibly the lowest hanging fruit of baseball fan complaints. What is the argument for keeping Haines. The offense has been pretty bad with him as the hitting coach and several guys including the franchise player in Yelich have badly regressed. I too blame the hitters who just aren't good but Haines has to take the fall when there is nothing saying he is good at his job. Where was I arguing to keep Haines? Replace him ... keep him ... it doesn't really matter either way. Just remember, some of the same posters calling to dump Haines wanted Chris Hook railroaded out of town back in 2019 too.
  5. Ron Robinsons Beard
    That will unfortunately be the next guy's fault. Firing the hitting coach is quite possibly the lowest hanging fruit of baseball fan complaints.
  6. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Interesting that Cardinals fans are pleased by this, but other teams' fans can't figure out why. Do they think too highly of themselves, or did they actually have a better roster than most believe? Either way, I'm sure they'll hire someone we all consider to be insufferable. Yadi as a player/manager would do that for me.
  7. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I haven't seen any indications that anyone is in any way pleased with this new development from Yelich. It sucks. You may be right. Perhaps I am misinterpreting the absolutism and pessimism of some of these thoughts as giddiness, and that may be incorrect. Sometimes it's tough to get a person's true feelings on a message board, though.
  8. Ron Robinsons Beard
    The optimist in me wants to believe that Yelich will get things fixed in the offseason and once again be a productive part of the Brewers lineup. The pessimist in me, though, sees what he's done the last two years, and that it is a big enough sample to let the thought creep in that he may simply be an approximately replacement level outfielder at this point in his career. I don't want to believe the pessimistic part, though, because this franchise simply cannot afford for that to happen. The team is stuck with Yelich long-term, so probably the best thing we can hope for as fans of this team is that he figures things out, regains his confidence, and starts hitting again. What is somewhat troubling, though, is the amount of fans, it seems, that almost seem giddy or at least "told you so"-ish concerning Yelich's demise. It's almost like there are people that aren't content unless they are miserable. Like they want something more to complain about and to hold over the front office's head. Even the most well-run teams make errors in personnel. It happens. And Yelich may eventually be an enormous one if he doesn't figure things out. But that story hasn't been written to completion yet, and at this point, we all should probably be pulling for a happy ending. Because the alternative is terrible.
  9. Ron Robinsons Beard
    So what is it? Did Attanasio sign Yelich on his own or was he the driving force behind the Yelich signing? I would be shocked if it was the former, owner or not. You really think he signed someone without consulting his GM? The latter makes sense and it's not like Stearns wasn't considering it. I would go one step further and say that no player moves of this magnitude are made without the full blessing of both the owner and the GM/Team President. To think otherwise is, frankly, a little on the crazy end of the spectrum.
  10. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Why? He's the exact same player that no one was willing to pay big for last offseason when he had three years of control. Now someone is going to pony up the prospects with one less year of control? What changed? With one less year of control, quite likely the Brewers' asking price.
  11. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I can't think of one off hand. But there were plenty of instances where they brought in Hader in a tied home game in the top of the 9th, which would be a similar non-save situation. The difference yesterday, of course, was that Hader would have likely come back out for the bottom of the 9th had the Brewers put a run or two across in the top of the 9th. There wasn't a double switch when Hader entered in the 8th and his spot was due up 1st in the 9th inning - unless you expected Hader to lead off a 9th inning rally at the plate he wasn't coming back to pitch the 9th. Good point. I didn't realize that. That certainly changes things a bit. I guess we'll never know what the plan was for the 9th. The fact remains, though, that Hader vs. Freeman is a matchup that the Brewers win probably 96 times out of 100. It was the type of outside-the-box move that many here have been begging for while the Brewers went with more ridgid bullpen roles in the regular season. It just didn't work out.
  12. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I can't think of one off hand. But there were plenty of instances where they brought in Hader in a tied home game in the top of the 9th, which would be a similar non-save situation. The difference yesterday, of course, was that Hader would have likely come back out for the bottom of the 9th had the Brewers put a run or two across in the top of the 9th.
  13. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Spot on! It definitely takes two to tango. Perhaps in hindsight it would have been prudent to offer Turner a deal that he couldn't feasibly turn down to get him in the fold? That's where Stearns' habit of assigning values to players, and rigidly sticking to that value can perhaps come back to bite the team. What kind of difference would having Justin Turner on this team made this year? He's the exact type of hitter than this team was sorely lacking ... a high-contact, high OBP, high energy veteran that wouldn't let the other players on this team get complacent.
  14. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Hader wouldn't have been pitching to Freeman in the 8th inning if Williams had a functional throwing hand. I disagree. Hader is the exact match-up you'd want facing a power-hitting left-handed first baseman in a tied game in the bottom of the 8th.
  15. Ron Robinsons Beard
    The point is there is not infinite gobs of money to throw around. You only get so many bites at the free agency apple unless you are a team like the Dodgers or Yankees. So when you sign players to big free agent deals, you are taking a huge risk that they will continue to perform at the same level that earned them that deal to begin with. Yelich is a prime example of this. They signed him to a huge extension, and his performance has tanked ever since. That's the risk. They've signed guys like Garcia, Wong and JBJ to what wouldn't be classified as huge deals, but large enough deals that they make an impact on the team's financial flexibility, and those contracts have varied from being downright bad so far (JBJ) to partially working out (Garcia bad in 2020, better in 2021, but non-existent in the playoffs), to mostly working out (Wong was very good in the regular season, but somewhat disappeared in the playoffs). Sure, we could sign Kris Bryant to a huge multi-year offer, but you really don't know if you are getting the MVP level Bryant of a few years ago and what he did pre-trade, or the injured, terrible version we saw in 2020. If you get the bad version, it's a sunk cost that is nearly impossible to fix. That doesn't mean that it is prudent to live in fear and sit on your hands in free agency. But just that there is plenty of inherent risk in free agency that simply is more complex than just throwing gobs of money at to fix.
  16. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Exactly. Hader was the exact right call to pitch the 8th last night. Hader against Freeman is a matchup that should substantially be in the Brewers' favor. Sometimes things happen that simply defy matchups and logic, though.
  17. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Bryant I would understand, and get on board with. But Schwarber to me is the exact type of steaky, slump-finding bat that we should be trying to get away from.
  18. Ron Robinsons Beard
    What? They can be the same thing if you throw gobs of money at the right guys. How'd that work out for the Mets? How 'bout the Phillies? Or the Reds?
  19. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Good post! I agree fully. I totally understood the way they handled the pitching staff this year. But all bets are off next season regarding innings limits, skipping starts and whatnot. It's time for these guys to step up now and show that they can be true aces. Bringing back Burnes, Woodruff, Peralta, Houser and Lauer, with Ashby and Small waiting in the wings, will make this the team to beat in the NL Central once again next season.
  20. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Jon Heyman reported last night that Stearns has 1 year left on his deal, which is news (atleast to me). Yes you can deny permission if the brewers are asked, but then you risk him not extending his deal Attanasio needs to have a heart-to-heart with Stearns and find out what his future plans truly are. If he has aspirations of moving to a bigger market, it is only a matter of time before he does. And if that's the case, it is probably best for the team's future to look at what sort of compensation the Mets are making available to acquire a team president currently under contract. But if Stearns is truly happy with the Brewers, and sees his role as long-term, then this will be a non-story quite quickly.
  21. Ron Robinsons Beard
    You aren't kidding! That team is loaded with young corner bats. I imagine names like Andrew Vaughn, Jake Burger and Gavin Sheets would hold massive appeal to the Brewers.
  22. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Keep on throwing that spaghetti against the wall. It hasn't stuck the first 1,000 times you did it. It ain't gonna stick now. The Brewers are a small market team, They aren't going to suddenly spend $200 million on player payroll. It just isn't going to happen. You need to understand that at some point. Never once have I believed or thought they would/could spend $200 million..but they COULD spend $150-$175 million. That would make a HUGE difference. Remember, they have gone as high as $125 mill before. And you've been repeatedly asked to "show your work" to back that claim. Never once have you.
  23. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Attanasio didn't become a billionaire by making poor investments. And he didn't with the Brewers, either. The value of the team has risen significantly since he took over. But anyone educated in business would tell you that even with successful business ventures, you need to be careful with how much money is spent year to year. Because it typically doesn't take many poor decisions for a strong investment to turn into a compromised one.
  24. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I'm sort of over it. He's been historically good but when your lefty weapon gives up a rocket to a LHB and loses an elimination game for the 2nd time in 3 years...it becomes what you're thinking about when he's in there. I don't know. Obviously would be fine watching him next year, but you sort of know he's gone in FA anyway so maybe there's a point you try to cash out. That's kind of what I'm thinking. I don't think you cash out for pennies on the dollar, but if there is a team out there willing to give up a cornerstone-type bat for Hader, you have to consider it. And for those who don't believe that there are any teams who would do that, the Adames for Feyereisen/Rasmussen trade is Exhibit A. That is the exact type of deal the Brewers should be looking at with Hader this offseason. Hader by himself should have significantly more value than that reliever combo.
  25. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Sure. A bunch of rational baseball fans are wrong. You are right. Carry on. That was also a completely mature way to react on being called out on a hot take, too. You keep dodging the fact that you KNOW I'm right at how satisfied you are etc. It's pathetic small time thinking. You aren't rational...you drink the kool aid period. You buy into whatever Stearns/Mark A tell you. They can spend more in FA, 100% guaranteed they can, but because they tell you they can't it's "oh ok". What a world. Also a completely rational response. You really showed me
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