Ron Robinsons Beard
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Every guy they drafted last year, except for perhaps Zamora, has a plus bat. Mitchell, Warren and Cantrelle are all solid bats that also have top-flight athleticism. Weimer is a classic corner OF power guy. Even Zamora has displayed a good bat despite his rep as a defensive whiz. He was a guy who likely fell due to missing most of last season with an injury. I think you are spot on saying that they focus on athletes, at least in the top part of the draft. The only time they really deviated from that was with Hiura. Jury is still out on that one. I disagree completely about Warren and Cantrelle being plus bats and even Mitchell who appears to be a very good prospect was drafted more for his athleticism than his pure hitting ability. LOL Warren hit .370 with an OPS of 1.079 in nearly 250 ABs in 2019. Sounds like a punch and judy hitter to me! -
Watch, they're gonna score like 7 runs today. Typically what happens when they roll out the Sunday lineup.
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Nobody said the offense was fantastic. When everyone is healthy it's probably average or maybe even slightly above average. It's not woefully short or embarrassing. If they don't get everyone healthy, it's reasonable to assume that they'll make more moves, like the one they did to get Adames. This offense is below average with everyone healthy. This team didn't hit last season and has looked pretty terrible most of this season besides a few games lately against Arizona and Pittsburgh who in particular couldn't throw a strike. We did what we needed against some terrible teams which is important if you are going to be a playoff team but it won't be nearly good enough to beat the good pitching staffs. So the Brewers offense struggles against good pitchers who typically pitch well against everyone? Well ... yeah. Offense might help you get to the playoffs, but pitching is what advances a team once its there. And the Brewers are set up nicely in that scenario.
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Every guy they drafted last year, except for perhaps Zamora, has a plus bat. Mitchell, Warren and Cantrelle are all solid bats that also have top-flight athleticism. Weimer is a classic corner OF power guy. Even Zamora has displayed a good bat despite his rep as a defensive whiz. He was a guy who likely fell due to missing most of last season with an injury. I think you are spot on saying that they focus on athletes, at least in the top part of the draft. The only time they really deviated from that was with Hiura. Jury is still out on that one.
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Murphy is kind of a tool, but dumping the team president to appease an employee is a terribly slippery slope.
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phil bickford claimed by dodgers
Ron Robinsons Beard replied to djoctagone's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Eric Yardley has a 3.40 ERA in 53 career MLB innings, and that includes the unsightly 16 he's had this year. I'm not sure he's a great example of a "longer track record proving they can't pitch effectively in the majors". Up to this year, his track record had proved just the opposite. And they did eventually DFA Lindblom as well, so it isn't like they are continuing to hang on to the junk. Bickford was an extreme bottom-of-the-40-man relief arm. Nothing he showed in his brief appearances gave any sort of indication that he was a future stud pen piece. Maybe he'll hang around for a few years and bounce around, but as soon as the Dodgers get into a roster crunch, his hold on a 40-man spot in Los Angeles is likely to get tenuous as well. Yardley is already in his 30s, he gives up a hit an inning and a walk every other inning on average with a strikeout to walk ratio of 1:1. His ERA is nifty but he literally is a pitcher who puts runners on base almost every time out and doesn’t have strike out stuff. Because of that he’s a fringe major leaguer and it’s only a matter of time until his ERA reflects that. I don't disagree. He's a fringe MLB junkball arm, just like pretty much every other sidearmer before him. Just pointing out that, for as little as he seemingly brings to the table, he's managed to post pretty decent results for the most part. -
I would imagine that the vast majority of MLB teams are in a similar, if not worse boat when it comes to their 4th and 5th starter spots. Much more so if you change that to 5th and 6th starters. Good point. Houser hasn't been as good as the top 3 guys, but to have his results as a 4th starter is pretty awesome. At this point, at least the way I'm looking at it, anytime we get a decent start out of Lauer or Anderson, it's gravy.
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I'm getting close. I think I'm willing to wait until training camp starts in July to see if they can get their differences ironed out. If the drama continues into camp, though, take the best package of stud players and high picks you can get, and move on. I'd love to see this team compete for another Super Bowl in the next few seasons, but fact is, Aaron Rodgers is likely not going to be the QB in 5 years anyway, so if they have to speed up the timeline, so be it.
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I would imagine that the vast majority of MLB teams are in a similar, if not worse boat when it comes to their 4th and 5th starter spots.
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phil bickford claimed by dodgers
Ron Robinsons Beard replied to djoctagone's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Eric Yardley has a 3.40 ERA in 53 career MLB innings, and that includes the unsightly 16 he's had this year. I'm not sure he's a great example of a "longer track record proving they can't pitch effectively in the majors". Up to this year, his track record had proved just the opposite. And they did eventually DFA Lindblom as well, so it isn't like they are continuing to hang on to the junk. Bickford was an extreme bottom-of-the-40-man relief arm. Nothing he showed in his brief appearances gave any sort of indication that he was a future stud pen piece. Maybe he'll hang around for a few years and bounce around, but as soon as the Dodgers get into a roster crunch, his hold on a 40-man spot in Los Angeles is likely to get tenuous as well. -
The Brewers are 6-4 when Anderson starts. This almost made me spit out my coffee this morning.
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phil bickford claimed by dodgers
Ron Robinsons Beard replied to djoctagone's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
There were posters saying it looked like a bad decision to deal Knebel after 3 1/3 innings. If the castoffs were scattered around the league in Baltimore and Miami and Detroit, nobody would care. However, it's a little bit crazy that 3 guys who we had ended up on one of the deepest, most complete teams in MLB history who really didn't even need bullpen help and yet these guys are getting a shot AND having success there. If you don't find that at least interesting and at most concerning then shrug your shoulders ignore the posts and move on, but I don't think it's odd at all to update how these players are doing within the appropriate thread. I think it's more the optics of the thread itself. To me, it seems like it's being used as an excuse to pile on David Stearns/Matt Arnold for a poor personnel decision. The truth is, those guys have made plenty of questionable personnel moves over the last few years. Choosing to DFA a guy like Phil Bickford is WAY down the list of worst ones, so I'm having trouble understanding the consternation here. -
Not good enough. This team sucks. At least that's what we were told.
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Fielding bible agrees with you http://www.fieldingbible.com/TeamDefensiveRunsSaved Feels like the Reds have made gobs of acquisitions over the past couple of years to not be terribly good at much, and really horrible in some areas. The funny thing is that plenty of baseball fans lauded the Reds for their "all in" approach. In reality, they have some nice pieces, but the whole continues to be substantially lesser than the sum of the parts. It has been a dumpster fire approach to player acquisition.
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Packer 2021 Team Discussion (Rodgers Out Vs. Chiefs)
Ron Robinsons Beard replied to CheezWizHed's topic in Other Sports
Not really the worst thing in the world. He can still participate in camp and preseason games. It essentially turns into a 54th roster spot that allows them to either evaluate someone else the first two weeks, or gives them insurance at the TE position should there be an injury. It's somewhat likely that Sternberger wouldn't crack the top 3 TEs (Tonyan, Lewis, Deguara/Daffney) coming out of camp, but who knows where the health is going to be at that position by Week 3? Wow, that is really looking for that silver lining. For the non-positive view... it is really a bad indicator on a guy that has been struggling to see the field. Guys only get so many chances. It appears that this incident happened before last season. Part of me wonders if perhaps that played into Sternberger not being as big a part of the offense as expected last year. Perhaps a silver lining, but it also means they don't have to make a decision on a bubble guy at cutdown time. Depth is good. -
Wow ... suffice it to say, we're gonna have to agree to disagree. But regarding the idea that Sternberger and Deguara are in the same mold, I'm not real sure how you came to that conclusion. At all. Jace Sternberger is a prototypical 6'5", 255 lb receiving TE. Josiah Deguara is a 6'1 1/2", 240 lb H-Back/FB. They are very, very different. Yes, Sternberger was deployed to do some of the same types of things that Deguara was drafted to do last year, but that is not his ideal skillset.
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I'd be more than happy if the Pirates wanted to leave Colin Moran in Milwaukee on Sunday. Lefty hitter, can play 3rd or 1st somewhat competently. Hitting well this year. Good clubhouse guy. Can't imagine the cost would be too severe. He'd be a good target.
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Packer 2021 Team Discussion (Rodgers Out Vs. Chiefs)
Ron Robinsons Beard replied to CheezWizHed's topic in Other Sports
Not really the worst thing in the world. He can still participate in camp and preseason games. It essentially turns into a 54th roster spot that allows them to either evaluate someone else the first two weeks, or gives them insurance at the TE position should there be an injury. It's somewhat likely that Sternberger wouldn't crack the top 3 TEs (Tonyan, Lewis, Deguara/Daffney) coming out of camp, but who knows where the health is going to be at that position by Week 3? -
I'm sure he'll eventually go cold, but Adames is a lot of fun. So far, so good with that deal.
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Except that Castillo's results so far this season indicate that wheels could (and likely will) come flying off at any time. He's been pretty terrible this season.
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He's not really hitting well enough to justify playing him at DH on a regular basis. Hopefully he improves.
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Rain likely has something to do with it. Wouldn't be surprised it it was delayed soon.
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"Continuously"? I'm confused now. Yet again you are saying, almost factually it seems, that Deguara was a "5th round pick". Truth is, he was was likely never, ever going to get past the Patriots at #101. I guess that is the point I'm having difficulty getting past here. He isn't a "5th round pick" simply because the Packers likely never would have the opportunity to draft him in the 5th round, regardless of what pre-draft projections said. Do you have other examples of the Packers "continuously taking 5th round picks in the third round"? Guys like Sternberger, Burks and Adams were all 3rd round picks, but I don't remember any "reach" talk with any of them. Adams ended up being a bust, while Burks and Sternberger are on their way there. In the end, after about the first 10-15 picks of the 1st round, the NFL draft is kind of a crap shoot. If you can find a guy in the 2nd round on that makes sense and can play a prominent role on your team for several seasons, it's hard not to make the pick.
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I personally thought that Jaire Alexander was a reach when they took him, simply because I'm not a big fan of (and the Packers have a terrible history when drafting) undersized CBs. So I get it. If you don't like the player's value in regard to where he was taken in the draft, that's a personal opinion. I guess my argument stems from calling him a reach because some draft projections had him going in the 5th, when reality indicates he more than likely wouldn't have even made it to the 4th. Will Deguara end up being the Packers version of Kyle Juszczyk? Who knows? Odds are that he won't, as Juszczyk is a star, quite possibly the best H-Back in the NFL, and a player that any team would love to have. But I am 100% convinced that the Packers drafted Deguara with the intent of deploying him in the same fashion that the 49ers deploy Juszczyk. His story is yet to be written. The Packers have taken plenty of players in the 3rd round at premium, more high-value positions, who ended up not doing much of anything. If Deguara can carve out a sizable role in a good offense over the next 4-5 seasons, picking him at the end of the 3rd round is a win, regardless of if he becomes a star.
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Not at all. The role that Deguara was drafted to play, and what Lewis does, is 100% different. Hell, what Kittle does is 100% different too. Deguara is very similar to Kyle Juszczyk in both size and skills/projection. Juszczyk is listed as a FB, but he is definitely a move TE/H-Back in that 49er offense, and plays a huge role in it. Not all TEs are created equal. And Juszczyk was a 4th rounder for the Ravens back in 2013. And he just re-signed with the Niners for 5 years and $27 million at age 30. I'd say he was a good value where he was picked.
