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  1. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Not me. Turning a lottery ticket into Freddy is a pretty major aberration, and definitely not the norm in these types of deals. Most of the time these deals for projectable teens amount to nothing. I'd much rather have Houser's solid MLB arm on the roster for the next 3 years during this contention window, than a hope and prayer we, even in a best-case won't see until at least its rebuild time. Contending teams don't deal off pieces that they consider part of their immediate plans for shots in the dark, unless extenuating circumstances come into play.
  2. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Agreed. I think Lauer probably brings back a substantially better package given that he's younger than Houser, has had more recent and consistent success, and is a lefty. I guess I just like the idea of Houser working out of the pen better than getting a handful of 18-year-olds for him if that's all that's out there.
  3. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Agreed. I think Lauer probably brings back a substantially better package given that he's younger than Houser, has had more recent and consistent success, and is a lefty. I guess I just like the idea of Houser working out of the pen better than getting a handful of 18-year-olds for him if that's all that's out there.
  4. Ron Robinsons Beard
    If all they are going to get, though, is lottery tickets, wouldn't it be more prudent just to hang onto him? Even if he isn't in the rotation, he's proven that he can be a solid if not close to dominant reliever. If the team is truly in a contention window, that alone makes Houser is a very useful piece.
  5. Ron Robinsons Beard
    If all they are going to get, though, is lottery tickets, wouldn't it be more prudent just to hang onto him? Even if he isn't in the rotation, he's proven that he can be a solid if not close to dominant reliever. If the team is truly in a contention window, that alone makes Houser is a very useful piece.
  6. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Bud got cute and decided to empty the bench ... only for those bench players to prove why they are bench players. Credit is deserved where it's due, though. That was a hell of a comeback. Bucks were lucky to escape with a win. I know this team is kind of built for the playoffs, but missing multiple starters nearly every night is getting kind of old. I don't know if they've had one game where they've played at full strength all season.
  7. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Small and Ashby have been on a similar trajectory for a few years now, and I was sort of expecting both to be up and make an MLB impact in the same general time frame. But it isn't surprising that Ashby is making the leap while Small isn't. Ashby has the raw stuff to get away with periodically spotty command, but Small simply doesn't. Small has the ability to be a solid MLB pitcher, but he's never going to have the raw stuff that Ashby has, so unless he can harness his command and basically become a finesse lefty, I fear he'll never make an impact.
  8. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I suppose he could be complaining because the Brewers haven't signed any of their young guys to extensions, but I kinda doubt it. I guess I could be wrong, but he appears to be upset because the team hasn't signed any free agents of note. I guess I was just pointing out that there are more ways to skin a cat.
  9. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Because buying free agents is the only way to build a competitive baseball team? Sure, I guess.
  10. Ron Robinsons Beard
    The guy is an enigma, plain and simple. He's a RHH who can't touch lefties, strikes out at an astronomical, excess Rob Deer-like rate and plays defense about as well as I do with my 42-year-old body and bad knee. Maybe we need to accept that, while he maybe was a little mismanaged last year, perhaps he's also simply not very good.
  11. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Right ... valuations that don't make sense. Yes, Tatis is 7 years younger than Yelich, but he's locked into a deal that is more than double the contract that Yelich signed, and pays him through his age 35 season in 2034. Yelich's deal pays him through age 36 in 2029. It seems that Yelich's down last few years have negatively affected his value at a MUCH greater ratio than Tatis missing all of 2022 according to that website. I don't deny that Tatis should have more value moving forward based on his age alone, but saying that Yelich has $-112.2 million in value, while saying Tatis has $112.5 million is pure foolish poppycock.
  12. Ron Robinsons Beard
    The Grisham/Davies for Urias/Lauer deal appeared to be highway robbery in the Brewers' favor before they retroactively went in and adjusted values about 30 minutes after the trade went down. You are correct ... teams make dumb trades from time to time. But, I am going to trust an MLB team's valuation of a player over an open source website run by fans every time. BTV is a fun site to mess with if you are bored. But there are people out there who treat it as gospel, and it is far from that, in my opinion.
  13. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Right ... it takes two to tango, and every other team in the majors has seen Keston put up three seasons of pretty terrible ABs now. But all it takes is one team who believes they can fix him I suppose.
  14. Ron Robinsons Beard
    The fact that Hiura hasn't been dumped yet may be an indication that they consider him part of their future plans. I can't imagine his leash is very long, though. He has no more option years left, and simply cannot continue to K at a 40+% clip if he ever wants to be a major league contributor.
  15. Ron Robinsons Beard
    The fact that Hiura hasn't been dumped yet may be an indication that they consider him part of their future plans. I can't imagine his leash is very long, though. He has no more option years left, and simply cannot continue to K at a 40+% clip if he ever wants to be a major league contributor.
  16. Ron Robinsons Beard
    All you have to do is go back a couple weeks to the Brewers trade for Contreras. It is obvious that they were undervaluing Estuary Ruiz pretty significantly. Also, going back a little further, they missed so much on the Grisham/Davies for Urias/Lauer deal that they actually retroactively went in and adjusted their player values (raising Grisham significantly and lowering Urias significantly) to make it appear as though the deal was more even, instead of being lopsided in the Brewers favor. It is a fun thing, but it is 100% put together by fans, and is FAR from scientific or accurate.
  17. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I don't think that site is accurate when it comes to actual player values at all. It's a fun, fan-created thing that should very much not be taken anywhere close to seriously. They've been so, so wrong on their values so many times.
  18. Ron Robinsons Beard
    If Volpe is a better version of Adames, why not just hand him the SS job outright?
  19. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Agreed. But his 21% K rate was at least demonstrably better. And he wasn't a complete embarrassment when tossed in the OF.
  20. Ron Robinsons Beard
    This is pretty much why I want him gone. There are flashes that make me think that he might turn into something, then he proceeds to K 10 times in the next 4 games. Enigma.
  21. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Like I said earlier, the guy is the square peg in the round hole of this roster. He simply doesn't fit. You can't platoon him with Rowdy because both suck against lefties. You can't play him at 2B because he's a terrible defender. You can pencil him in at DH against righties. But be prepared for at least 2 Ks per game at least. I suppose if you subscribe to the idea that Ks don't matter, that's fine. But when the rest of the lineup has all-or-nothing guys as well, throwing another on the pile isn't going to help.
  22. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Me too. Seems like a good guy. It just ain't working here. Watching his approach at the plate makes me ill. I was once a HUGE Hiura fan. I thought he was going to be a perennial .300+, 30 HR guy. But the whiff rate was concerning even as a rookie, and it has just continued getting worse, to the point where it simply isn't sustainable to have him in a lineup everyday.
  23. Ron Robinsons Beard
    He was pulled because he was basically a K waiting to happen. That doesn't help in the late innings.
  24. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I agree he probably should have played more than he did at times. But as pointed out earlier, when they did finally decide to use him as a regular, he was trash. The guy is an enigma. Those types are difficult to work with. That's Why I'd be very surprised to see him back. Counsell gave every indication that he just wanted the guy gone. Square peg, round hole with this roster. And the "mashing righties" thing is kind of a misnomer.
  25. Ron Robinsons Beard
    It is almost assuredly the K rate. Striking out at that rate simply doesn't equate to a player who can be a positive member of a lineup full time over a whole season.
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