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Game 2: Lions @ Packers - Sunday, September 20th, Noon
Ron Robinsons Beard replied to homer's topic in Other Sports
These are the hot takes I come to Brewerfan.net for! Guess my attempt at being ironically obvious didn't hit home ... -
Will probably see Mathias back up tomorrow, and probably Billy McKinney as well, depending on how bad Gamel is (I assume Braun is going on the IL). They have Corey Ray and Keon Broxton in Appleton as well. All that, in a playoff hunt? Woof. Just pointing out that there are options. Never said they were good
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Will probably see Mathias back up tomorrow, and probably Billy McKinney as well, depending on how bad Gamel is (I assume Braun is going on the IL). They have Corey Ray and Keon Broxton in Appleton as well.
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Maybe it's a leap of faith, and maybe it's an organizational shortcoming. Neither of us know. But we do know that Aguilar is employed and productive and Faria isn't. And given a chance to do it all over again, based on what they have produced, none of us would want the Faria side of the trade. If only trades could be made with the benefit of hindsight ...
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Lotta ballgame left, unfortunately.
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Useless seems a bit harsh. It was a bad AB and he’s having a rough stretch. It sucks, but I get the feeling at times were making a lot of (inaccurate) sweeping conclusions over two months of baseball. LOL, truer words have yet to be spoken.
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It really seems that, especially this year, there are 5 excellent teams, 5 terrible teams, and roughly 20 mediocre teams. It's a bummer being on the mediocre pile. I just hate the thought of this many teams making the playoffs every year. MLB was the one sport where the regular season meant something and they are just cheapening it to the point of it being ridiculous I don't think it's so bad. In essence, a few more teams get to play a few more games before going on vacation. The top teams will still, for the most part, be the teams that win the Series.
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It really seems that, especially this year, there are 5 excellent teams, 5 terrible teams, and roughly 20 mediocre teams. It's a bummer being on the mediocre pile. I don’t think being in the mediocre pile is necessarily so bad, but being near the bottom of the mediocre pile is. There's very little difference between the teams on the mediocre pile. The Reds, Cardinals and Brewers might as well be the same team. The ones who get hot in the next week will make the playoffs, only I fear to be cannon fodder for the Dodgers.
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It really seems that, especially this year, there are 5 excellent teams, 5 terrible teams, and roughly 20 mediocre teams. It's a bummer being on the mediocre pile.
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That worked against Flaherty ... why not?
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He was 94-95, maybe touching 96 as a reliever. I thought that's pretty much where he sat as a starter too, behaps a touch below that. 92 is more than a touch, though.
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At least the righty lineup is going tonight. They've been better than the lefty lineup.
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I've wondered all year why this team hasn't been able to put away trash teams. I'm starting to see the perspective that perhaps this team is one of those that good teams put away.
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With ya. He's lost whatever effectiveness he had.
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Right ... basically a nothing for nothing deal. I was hopeful on Faria, and he did show some promise last year in his few opportunities, but was never consistent enough to break through. Not sure I agree with that. Aguilar is an everyday player on a playoff team, and a wRC+ higher than anyone on the Brewers. The Brewers couldn't unlock it, but it was within Aguilar all along. They traded him for a player who produced no value. If we celebrate when a trade works in the Brewers favor, don't we have to acknowledge when it doesn't? That would make sense if Aguilar were still playing for the team the Brewers traded him to – the Rays – but they gave up on him as well after a less than inspiring audition. Yeah, he has put it together and found relevance again with the Marlins, but I don't think the Brewers should be penalized for that. That's like saying that if Faria sticks somewhere within the next few years and becomes a solid reliever, then the Brewers erred by releasing him. Sometimes guys just find it for different teams and in different situations. Often no rhyme or reason to it. This was a deal that ultimately didn't end up working out for either side. So yeah, pretty much nothing for nothing.
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Game 2: Lions @ Packers - Sunday, September 20th, Noon
Ron Robinsons Beard replied to homer's topic in Other Sports
I predict that Quintez Cephus will have a good game against the Packers, simply because it will lather up both the "Packers shoulda drafted a WR" crowd and the "Packers need to draft all former Badgers" homer crowd. -
Arcia should have been non-tendered after 2019. The leash for him has been inexplicably long. I guess it bothers me that the Brewers do not yet have enough confidence in Urias to just let him replace one of the worst regular starters in baseball, while Grisham is pretty well entrenched as a starter. I'm not giving up on Urias, but I doubt he's going to live up to his prospect hype. Up until a couple weeks ago Arcia was sporting a .270+ average and an OPS hovering around .700. Certainly not great by any means, but for a defense-first SS, it is acceptable. He has pretty much fallen off a cliff the last couple weeks, though.
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Right ... basically a nothing for nothing deal. I was hopeful on Faria, and he did show some promise last year in his few opportunities, but was never consistent enough to break through.
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If it's another bad one, probably pretty good. They know they can do bullpen games and start Suter if need be.
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410 plate appearances in the MLB. Clearly the guy can’t hit. I don’t know about panic because it wasn’t like he was some hitting machine to begin with. He's 23. This seems like a horribly short-sighted comment. Unless you're being sarcastic ... then carry on.
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Game 2: Lions @ Packers - Sunday, September 20th, Noon
Ron Robinsons Beard replied to homer's topic in Other Sports
This is the type of game that, over the past few years, the Packers should win on paper, but for some reason they come out looking flat. I'm hoping that the surprisingly spry offensive performance they had last week carries over, but it wouldn't surprise me if there were some regression there. I think we all should know better than to look past the Lions. Too many crazy things have happened against that team over the years. -
I'd be interested in what the very young, developing player's minor league numbers were against right-handed pitching before I even start to panic.
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You do realize that there are more job components to being a hitting coach than what a fan sees as on-field performance, right? Like I said earlier, whether they fire him or not doesn't really concern me either way. But you have this weird gripe against the guy and seem to blame him almost fully for the Brewers inconsistent offense this season. As has been pointed out many times by many posters, the issues are quite a bit deeper and systematic than simply canning the hitting coach. This seems to be an organization-wide hitting approach problem, and it starts with the players that the organization employs. If the employees do not take direction from their superiors, and do not perform their duties as directed, it is time for the organization to replace them with players who do.
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He was fired as the scrubs assistant hitting coach. If this guy doesn't get fired there is absolutely no accountability whatsoever in this organization. I don't know who should replace Haines but I am fairly certain the results won't be any worse. This is not the first time you have said this this season, and it isn't the first time you've been corrected on it. Haines was not fired by the Cubs. I'm not real sure what kind of narrative you are attempting to pass off, but please at least try to be factual.
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So, can we put to bed the idea that the Brewers' pitchers don't like throwing to Nottingham?
