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  1. Ron Robinsons Beard
    He had back discomfort in the playoffs, but it didn't sideline him. Season ended, and the discomfort went away and he felt fine. He ramped up last month in Arizona, and the discomfort came back. Why would he get a second opinion in December if his back felt fine? Every player has aches and pains at the end of a long season. I guarantee that's what he thought, and what the team thought. I'm not sure what you are griping about here, but your blame and anger is kind of oddly misplaced. It's a crappy situation. But you make it seem like the team should have done something to avoid it. What could they have done? The treatment for stress fractures in the back is rest and physical therapy. The fact that Williams isn't healed after the offseason is concerning. But that isn't the team's fault.
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    Where have you seen that the Brewers were surprised by this? I must have missed that. He pitched through discomfort late last season as the Brewers made a playoff push and ultimately won the National League Central division before being eliminated in the wild-card round. With rest in the offseason, the pain subsided but it began to flare back up as Williams ramped up this spring. - JSOnline
  3. Ron Robinsons Beard
    How do you get that this is on Brewers' management? It was likely lingering back pain that he was hoping would go away. He probably felt fine over the offseason when he was just doing a throwing program. It cropped up when he started ramping things up once he got to Spring Training. People live with stress fractures all the time. They are not debilitating injuries ... unless your job is to throw a baseball 98 mph. I get that this sucks, and we are all looking for someone to blame. Sometimes crap just happens though.
  4. Ron Robinsons Beard
    We all know you are correct. But if you can't at least try to find a silver lining now, two weeks before the real games even begin, this season is gonna be rough.
  5. Ron Robinsons Beard
    And even the specialist wasn't 100% sure what he was looking at, so he required Williams to come out to California to have additional imaging done. For all the advancement we've seen in medicine over the last few decades, the human body remains a very complex structure, and diagnosing can still sometimes mean a lot of trial and error.
  6. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I don't blame the Packers for their valuation of Jones, and I don't blame Jones for choosing to move on. It's a cutthroat business. The RB position is a young man's job, and RBs pushing 30 traditionally decline quickly. The PR end of it sucks. But the sting typically subsides pretty quick.
  7. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Which means that Justin Jefferson will be demanding a trade at this time next year. The Vikings will get a 1st for him, which they will then use to draft another WR. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
  8. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Jones is gonna get swallowed behind that terrible O-line. If there is one thing that the Packers do much, much better than the Vikings and Bears, it's draft and develop quality O-linemen. But those shiny Vikings WRs they seem to draft high every year sure are pretty ... ;)
  9. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Bennett was actually older and not nearly the athlete Cook was. He was thought to be more durable, though. Jacobs is 3 1/2 years younger than Jones (which is an eternity in RB years), and has been more durable. He's also every bit the athlete Jones is, with perhaps a little more power, sacrificing a bit of wiggle.
  10. Ron Robinsons Beard
    It certainly would not be the first time that ole' Drew did that, hanging his client out to dry in the process. He always seems to be the common denominator whenever relationships between a player and a team's upper management sour.
  11. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Lotta ballgame left. Illegal free agency is only 87 minutes old.
  12. Ron Robinsons Beard
    On paper, yes. But if you ready between the lines, there's something more here. He's said he's willing to play for the minimum. Yet nary a snippet of interest. Talented players who can help teams are rarely if ever given the industry cold shoulder to this degree. There's something more to this that hasn't come out. Just has to be.
  13. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I'd be more on board with bringing in a potentially cancerous personality like Bauer if he were still the Cy Young-level pitcher he used to be. I'm just not sure if he's that guy anymore, though. Which makes the risk/reward a lot more cognizant.
  14. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I doubt guys like Lorenzen and Clevenger, much less Snell or Montgomery, are just sitting on their couches waiting for the phone to ring. I imagine they are currently in the middle of a very similar spring training process as players who are under contract, with the expectation that they will soon sign a deal and be in a camp somewhere. There are plenty of training facilities, some even owned by agents, that do a pretty great job mimicking a typical spring training experience.
  15. Ron Robinsons Beard
    That is a very fair and logically thought-out response. Thank you. And I agree that the in-game threads are basically unbearable ;) I understand the frustration. It appears to be logically counterproductive for the team to trade Burnes, knowing that Woodruff is also going to be on the shelf all season, without making any significant dependable additions to rotation ... while making offensive upgrades like Hoskins and potentially Sanchez. I mean, where were signings like that when the rotation was the best in team history for several years? That part is pretty frustrating. I dunno ... maybe it's the eternal optimist in me, but I guess I'm banking on the idea that the team has more faith in its rotation options than a lot of us do right now. Because the alternative is likely a 70-win team, and I don't want to think that into existence, at least not on March 6.
  16. Ron Robinsons Beard
    OK ... you came on a site named "Brewerfanatic" and literally said the rotation was "awful". At the beginning of March. Then when posters tried to use projections to counter your argument, you poo-pooed them. Now you're surprised that there are posters pushing back harder? What were you hoping for? Everyone to just agree and say "Yep, this rotation is a dumpster fire! Fire Arnold!!!" I realize that it is kind of a cop out response, but there is just so many unknowns right now with the current makeup of the starting rotation that it is very difficult to pinpoint where they are going to land. But if I were a betting man, knowing how historically this team tends to turn pitchers into better versions of themselves more often than not, I would say that the floor is probably lower-middle half of the pack, while the ceiling is probably just outside Top 10 should the young arms develop like they are hoping.
  17. Ron Robinsons Beard
    2023 rotation was supposed to be Burnes, Woodruff, Peralta, Lauer, and Hauser. Woodruff missed a huge chunk of the season. Lauer was hurt, and underperformed so bad when he could pitch that he hasn't even found a job yet. Hauser was ok, but battled injury. Wade Miley was good when available, but his health is always a question mark. Fortunately Rea and Teheran filled in pretty effectively when called upon. Burnes is going to be a big loss, obviously. They are losing the 67 innings that Woody did pitch last year. Hauser had 111 league-average innings that need to be replaced. There are obviously questions marks. But they won 92 games with a hodgepodge rotation behind Burnes last year. If anything, this team has proven that they can find effective starting pitching from other than the ace-type guys. Calling the 2024 group "awful" is a pretty big case of exaggerated hyperbole, IMO.
  18. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I think they are probably done adding. That said, breaking news within the next week that they are signing Matt Chapman to a pillow-type deal wouldn't surprise me in the least. The fit makes a lot of sense. It is early, but 3B playing time has kind of been a hodgepodge so far among Monasterio, Black, Frelick, Wilken and Ortiz. While there is quite a bit of hope in that group, all have multiple question marks. Signing Chapman would be the type of unpredictable move that this team has become known for over the years.
  19. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Hiura himself got three years worth of shots. And Weimer can actually play defense. He's got a LONG way to go before being labelled a AAAA player. Even if he never solves the swing-and-miss issues, his power and high-end defensive ability will earn him shots throughout his career.
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    Solid guy to have around as a 7th-8th option. I imagine he has a pretty early opt-out, and if I'm the Brewers, I'd probably rather see what Hall can do at the back end of the rotation. It will be interesting to compare what Teheran does for the Orioles compared to the numbers that guys like Junis or Joe Ross put up.
  22. Ron Robinsons Beard
    The fun thing about the Frelick, Mitchell and Weimer is that they all offer ++ defense, while each also having a very different but intriguing offensive profile. The swing-and-miss tendencies with Weimer and Mitchell are concerning, but the raw talent is also pretty evident. Power cures a lot of blemishes in a player's profile, and while Frelick profiles as a more consistent bat, he doesn't bring near the power potential of the other two. He's going to have to be quite the hitter to stick in a corner spot long term in today's MLB.
  23. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Mitchell and Weimer are just as talented in the OF, if not moreso. Chourio is gonna play. They seem intent on Yelich staying in LF. The more Sal can do, the easier it's going to be to write his name into the lineup every day.
  24. Ron Robinsons Beard
    This team has always valued versatility. It isn't hurting anything to keep giving Clarke reps in Spring Training and in minor league games. If he doesn't show improvement, they can always move him to 1B on a full-time basis later on. Also, if he does show that he can catch on a satisfactory basis, it makes his trade value that much higher.
  25. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Look back a page in the back-and-forth between RobertCawley and bigred
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