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  1. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Probably not a terrible flyer. Seems like he was a Brewer a long time ago, but Claudio will only be 31 at the end of this month. He was serviceable in his two seasons as a Brewer. But with the 3-batter minimum rule, you can't really play matchups as much anymore.
  2. 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.
  3. Ron Robinsons Beard
    D'oh ... dang 18-week seasons!
  4. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Money talks, and the Packers are a huge TV draw. Especially Aaron Rodgers at home in December in a "win and your in" game. The whole country's eyes are going to be on NBC on Sunday night. Who would have thought that this particular Packers team would still be relevant in playoff talks by this point? What a crazy season! Basically everything has gone right for the Packers over the last five weeks. They've gone from a team that looked dead in the water and primed for a top 10 draft pick, to a team that could actually make some noise come playoff time.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Ron Robinsons Beard
    No one is arguing that there isn't downside (i.e. risk) here.
  11. Ron Robinsons Beard
    It was talked about as upside, not a prediction or projection. It's more or less, Winker's ceiling. He may very well never reach those heights again, but if he is truly over the injury troubles, as he claims to be, he has a track record of MLB success to draw from.
  12. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Umm ... I'm not sure you understand what I meant by "sold low". What I meant is that Winker, based on his past MLB success, and Toro, based on his prospect pedigree, both have a high upside and solid ceiling, and that their down seasons caused the Mariners to sell them off for Wong, who has a pretty high salary for his production, whhich should probably be solid but not spectacular.
  13. Ron Robinsons Beard
    If they had dealt Wong to Boston for some low-level prospects, it would have looked like a straight salary dump, which would have reflected poorly on a team trying to maintain a competitive window. They may have gotten a decent lottery ticket type back, but to the average fan, it wouldn't have looked good. But by taking back Winker's salary, they get a guy who could very well turn it around and be a solid middle of the order power bat, plus a young guy in Toro who was once a very highly thought of prospect, but flamed out after the Mariners acquired him. They are two guys with pretty big upside, but who the Mariners sold extremely low on.
  14. Ron Robinsons Beard
    If Volpe is a better version of Adames, why not just hand him the SS job outright?
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. Ron Robinsons Beard
    He was pulled because he was basically a K waiting to happen. That doesn't help in the late innings.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Hiura had a few hot stretches that propped up his OPS. Otherwise he was a dumpster fire.
  23. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I think that the Brewers likely found Hiura's 42% K rate inexcusable as well.
  24. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Whether you think it was reasonable or not, they paid McCutcheon to be the DH last year. Hard to blame them for continuing to seek a return on that investment. Honestly, as a fan, Hiura ABs are pretty infuriating to watch. It wouldn't surprise me if the team's management and front office had a similar opinion, which would explain the sporadic playing time.
  25. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Sorry, a right-handed hitter that cannot play defense and looks like a pitcher hitting against lefties is not going to find a role in most MLB teams lineups. This wasn't a Counsell problem or a front office problem. It was a case of a player who has simply not grown and evolved as a player.
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