Ron Robinsons Beard
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As far as I'm concerned, he's taken away any question of whether he's got a rotation spot next year. Still a relatively small sample, but he's easily the team's best starter right now. -
Agreed. But Pina isn't infallible as a defensive catcher, either.
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Apparently I jinxed us. Jeebus!
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Shoddy defense putting a gem from Houser in danger.
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Maybe all those [sarcasm]bandwagoners[/sarcasm] that said they are done with the season in last night’s IGT are sticking to their word? Team is playing well tonight, which has kept a lot of the complaints at bay. That hasn't happened much lately.
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They are quite the model aren’t they? 60-80 million payroll, ~.500 most years, 90 wins last year. To win the games they do with a 70 payroll is really astounding isn’t it? When you draft well and regularly draft high, it makes it possible to stack your team with young pre-arby talent. The Rays do some innovative things, but they also largely grow from within, and deal off pieces when they get pricey. That tends to catch up to teams that don't continue to restock young minors talent.
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Marcell Ozuna has a Gold Glove on his resume. I mean, I know Yelich has one too, and has a pop gun arm, but Ozuna is simply a bad outfielder. Simply astounding.
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I think most catchers look like they are running in molasses. Then Johnny Estrada must've been running in tar. I don't know if I'd even classify what Johnny Estrada did as "running". He kind of cantered.
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No, that's not what I said. Not even close. Of course the GM is trusted to spend money wisely. He wouldn't be the GM if he wasn't. What he doesn't have is some arbitrary spending cap that he needs to get as close to as possible, as you seem to imply. There are parameters for sure, but I highly doubt they are hard. If they determine a player provides a value to them, they'll work to bring him on board.
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I think most catchers look like they are running in molasses.
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Is Counsell the Right Manager for the Brewers?
Ron Robinsons Beard replied to RollieTime's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Yes, without a doubt. This is yet another case of "the grass is always greener" philosophy that tends to pop up for fans of a team that performs below expectations. -
You get what you pay for. If the architect is the right man for the job, and if there’s not a re-build undertaken, and the team in 2020 is trying to be the best team possible, why wouldn’t the team spend as much as their budget allows? Because this isn't the Price is Right, and you don't get a prize for coming as close to a number as you can. The fit and need has to be right first and foremost. They last thing I want them to do is go out and spend money just to spend it. That's losing front office baseball strategy every time.
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He didn't announce that it was coming back last year until after cut-downs I believe. Pretty much radio silence until then. I too hope it comes back. Good stuff ... although he does tend to get a little preachy at times.
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Unless Attanasio/Stearns decide to re-build/re-tool, no way payroll goes down. This team will have ~ 19 million extra revenue, so this year’s 127 with everything else being equal could be 146. I don’t think there going to re-tool, so there it is. Nowhere is it required that any sort of extra revenue needs to be earmarked for team payroll. I think assuming that $19 million (speculative) will be added to their payroll number for this year is an enormous assumptive leap.
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Is Counsell the Right Manager for the Brewers?
Ron Robinsons Beard replied to RollieTime's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Yes, of course Counsell was and continues to be the right choice. Considering everything that has gone wrong this year, the fact that Counsell still has this team above .500 and in the playoff race is almost astounding. yeah, he's made mistakes, but it's moreso that it seems like a lot of time when he's taken a lower-probability chance, it has blown up in his face. Last year he seemed to have a lucky horseshoe at times when making moves, so this year is simply the law of averages kind of working itself out. Counsell will be fine in the long run, and I fulling expect him to have the 2020 team in playoff contention. -
You are probably pretty close. That said looking at what they have on paper who are they better than in the division? Pittsburgh? Maybe? Based on what we know and that Braun Cain are in the sunset phase and Shaw is in the Bermuda triangle they are in big trouble. A lot depends on if you can expect positive progression from Hiura and Grisham.
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Suter could probably come up and help the team in a big way right now. Unfortunately there isn't much fat left to trim from the 40-man to make that happen. If you are going to drop a pitcher, I imagine Wilkerson is #1 on the chopping block, probably followed by Taylor Williams and perhaps Jay Jackson again. I doubt they even consider dropping any of the 40-man catchers, and Saladino is probably the only 40-man infielder on the bubble. In the OF, Stokes and Taylor are perhaps bubble guys. Taylor has finally found something offensively over the last couple weeks, though, and is playing very well. Stokes hasn't been good, but he's young.
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This is 100% true. And sometimes even good things can come out of failure. At the beginning of the year, Adrian Houser was no higher than perhaps 8th or 9th on the rotation depth chart. It took a bunch of injuries and underperformance to even give him a chance, and then even more of those to give him another shot. Now, with the way he's pitching, it appears that he stands a decent shot of being a future rotation cornerstone. Also, Peralta and Burnes crashed and burned this year, but it's obvious that the talent is still there. In fact, I'd go so far to predict that one of those guys ends up surprising in a big, positive way next year. There's just too much talent in those two arms for them to both turn out to be flashes in the pan.
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This team is not great this year, but they are close to being a team that is a contender. Rotation-wise, you are looking at Woodruff as your undisputed #1 going into next year, with several solid mid-rotation types like Davies, Houser and Anderson following. Houser has shown that he has the stuff to perhaps ascend to the next level. That said, it wouldn't surprise me to see the Brewers jump in the fray for a potential TOR starter this offseason. I think they also sign a couple lower-end guys like Lyles or a mid-tier guy like Gio. They won't make the same mistake they made this year depending on the young guys. The wild cards starting pitching-wise are obviously Peralta, Burnes and Jimmy Nelson. I'd like to see the team offensively get away from being so LHH dominant. That likely comes from letting Moose walk and replacing him with a RHH third baseman. Would the Brewers be a darkhorse for Anthony Rendon? Man would that bat be perfect in this lineup! I think they let Grandal walk, and make the catcher position a battle between Pina, Freitas and Nottingham, with perhaps another low-cost veteran thrown in. In Grisham and Hiura you have two young, cost-controlled bats to add to Yelich at the top of the lineup. You hope Cain rebounds to become a solid defense-providing league average bat and team leader. There is plenty to be excited about going into next season.
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Maybe Darius Shephard can be that type of guy? I know UDFA from a small school ... but he's getting tons of reps with the #1s, and seems like a very smooth, shifty athlete. They also seem to be shoehorning Kumerow into that role, even though he's much bigger than a typical slot/possession type. But he does run good routes and knows where to be. Agree on Moore, though. He seems to be the least talented of those 3 they drafted last year, but had the reputation for being the most polished coming out. We haven't seen that.
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Hindsight is also 20/20. Ray was seen as a good solid pick by pretty much every draft expert at the time. You are right, it is a crapshoot. The fact that the Brewers have two former 1st round rookies up and performing well right now probably defies the odds.
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I'm beginning to think that it isn't out of the realm of possibility that no one was buying what the Brewers would have been selling. Moose and Grandal haven't exactly been tearing the cover off the ball in the second half. Who else were they going to deal? I think that's a possibility too. I still just don't understand the point behind anything we did. I think they figured Aguilar was going to be gone after this season anyway, so they were happy to get a youngish controllable arm for him. The Lyles move was simply to get a warm body capable of starting games, and the return was minimal. The Pomeranz/Black deal was puzzling. I liked it at first, but I'm starting to think that perhaps the Giants fleeced Stearns a bit in that one, even though I don't believe Dubon's value was especially high. Black does have one heck of a live arm, even though that FB appears to be as straight as an arrow.
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I'm gonna be pissed when the Brewers drop this game 9-7.
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I'm beginning to think that it isn't out of the realm of possibility that no one was buying what the Brewers would have been selling. Moose and Grandal haven't exactly been tearing the cover off the ball in the second half. Who else were they going to deal?
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Something tells me Albers and Pomeranz weren't any better options than Guerra tonight.
