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  1. Ron Robinsons Beard
    They went all in in an effort to eliminate their arch rival, the Dodgers. They accomplished that goal. Then baseball happened.
  2. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Dillon is a great fit for the type of offense Lafleur wants to run. Aaron Rodgers isn't.
  3. Ron Robinsons Beard
    And now likely out for the year with a torn ACL. The NFL is a tough business.
  4. Ron Robinsons Beard
    IR him and move on? That seems really rash to me. i think he's looked fine, The guy has barely played in 1 1/2 years. There was bound to be some rust. In any case, he looks far from done IMO.
  5. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Certainly having an owner in Pete Seidler who is willing to throw all his chips into the pot plays a role as well. No one would deny that Attanasio takes a substantially more conservative and measured approach to roster building.
  6. Ron Robinsons Beard
    This portion of your post is 100% correct. However, you need to bear in mind that if you constantly throw out negative opinions that are of the "hot take" variety, you are opening yourself up to disagreements, and it is also likely that those come back to you in a somewhat "hot take" fashion. The personal attacks are certainly over the line, but I think this also may be a case of people on both sides of an argument perhaps needing to grow a bit thicker skin. I readily admit I am guilty of this at times.
  7. Ron Robinsons Beard
    You make some very solid points here. I would be careful when making a very definitive statement like "he will never be as important to a team as Hader" though. I guess what it comes down to is how you value relief pitchers when compared to starters. Is it by how many games they directly effect, or moreso by how many innings they throw in a given season. Because if you are judging by innings, if Gasser becomes a solid rotational piece, he will throw substantially more innings than Hader would had the Brewers hung onto him for next season. Fact is, Gasser is a 22 year old starter who just got his first taste of AAA ball at the end of this season. No one has any idea what his future holds. But judging by the way high-end starting pitching is paid in MLB compared to high-end relievers, I don't know if you are necessarily correct in your assumption that a top end reliever provides more value to a team simply because he is appearing in more games.
  8. Ron Robinsons Beard
    The game threads became joy vacuums as the season wore on. But let's be honest ... a big part of that was because this team itself just wasn't very enjoyable to watch. Offensive ineptitude and terrible plate approaches from a good portion of the lineup played a big role in my personal decision to somewhat check out as we got into mid August. That said ... compared to past years, the game threads were seemingly more populated by those posters who are repeatedly negative, which meant there simply wasn't as much solid game discussion happening. I think that the proof is probably bore out in the fact that, despite a pretty drastic increase in users and members this summer, the game threads seemed to decrease in popularity. I would feel safe in saying that the majority of fans who would frequent this site simply don't want to see the same constant negativity while they are doing something they are supposed to enjoy in taking in a ballgame. Unfortunately I don't have have a solution. Everyone "fans" different, and there is really no right or wrong way to do it. But I do fear that if the IGTs continue down the same road next year, they will eventually end up being the same 4-5 guys bashing the team and arguing with air.
  9. Ron Robinsons Beard
    And Ruiz and Gasser are both crap and will never do anything for the Brewers. You may need some new material. There was no denying that Hader was very bad for the Padres in the regular season. They stuck with him, and it has paid off. Just because the variables have shifted doesn't mean that this particular thread title wasn't correct.
  10. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Have to be honest, I'm actually kind of miffed that Tyler Black is playing CF nearly exclusively in the AFL. He is by all accounts an upper level prospect who will start at AA next year, if not AAA. There is obviously a glut of CF prospects ahead of him in the pecking order - Mitchell, Frelick, Ruiz and even probably Weimer, plus Chourio coming quickly up the pipe. I was hoping that he could either stick at 2B or even try his hand at 3B, but he must not have the arm strength to hack it there.
  11. Ron Robinsons Beard
    The only logical explanation I can come up with for making the move when they did was that the front office must have truly thought that Hader wouldn't be able to right the ship, and they felt they needed to take the best package they could for him before he continued to destroy his trade value. Obviously considering how Hader is destroying opponent hitters in the postseason right now, they were very wrong on that count. Additionally I believe that the Brewers internally have a much higher value on the prospects they received - Ruiz and Gasser - than national prospect pundits and a big portion of posters here. I say that because, in my mind, it's the only logical conclusion. I hope beyond hope that they weren't wrong on this count as well.
  12. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Then I guess I'm wondering what you are confused about.
  13. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I don't know if it's even realistic to compare the economic realities of the Brewers to a team like the Padres. Those two teams are in different stratospheres in regards to their ability to spend. Unfortunately that's the reality of baseball
  14. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Considering the way you crafted your question was a not-so-veiled attempt to create conflict, that isn't surprising.
  15. Ron Robinsons Beard
    This team has surprised me before, but I am about 98% sure Suter will be back next year.
  16. Ron Robinsons Beard
    This team has surprised me before, but I am about 98% sure Suter will be back next year.
  17. Ron Robinsons Beard
    You very well may be correct. Right now, though, it's a "we'll just have to see."
  18. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I'm beginning to think they aren't real huge fans of Tom at the current moment. He seems pretty sound fundamentally, but did get pushed around quite a bit at times in the preseason. They could very well have him on the "add bulk and strength" regimine.
  19. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Travis Shaw. Which was 6 years ago. And Shaw was a solid get as a 26-year-old. Unfortunately his prime was very short lived.
  20. Ron Robinsons Beard
    This is pretty much spot on where I'm at. Timing was bad. Terrible even. That deal was the iceberg that brought the ship down. But don't discount that the ship itself was being held together by chicken wire and duct tape. I have high hopes for Gasser and Ruiz. But with high hopes come high expectations. They better hit, or I fear this is going to go down in the annuls as a big reason for this era of Brewers competitiveness coming to an end.
  21. Ron Robinsons Beard
    You don't see that they are going to be all-time great HOF-level talents? I'm not sure that is much of a stretch. But they are both 22 year old kids in the infancy of their professional careers. There is a middle ground there that would still lead to a pretty good outcome. Hader is a HOF-level talent. There is no disputing that at this point. It's all about what the value would be on one more year of a HOF level talent at the back of the pen, because there is no way Hader was going to be a Brewer beyond 2023. Sucks, but that's just the reality of MLB.
  22. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Heck, I would have loved to see a toolsy corner infield prospect like Jackson Merrill and a prospective franchise catcher like Campusano come back in the deal. Ruiz's skillset does seem somewhat redundant with Mitchell already at the MLB level, Frelick on the doorstep, and Chourio not far off. If you are going to deal off a piece like Hader, you should be looking for future franchise cornerstones, The Brewers BETTER see those two as those types of players, and they better have a plan for both of them contributing at the MLB level as early as next season, because if they don't, that would be an extremely disappointing outcome.
  23. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Correct. Not sure why there would be any assumption needed. And I'm also not sure what you are talking about as "fluff". But that doesn't mean I'm not extremely excited about the two young prospects they got back. I almost sort of get the feeling reading some of these posts that there are a few here that not only expect Gasser and Ruiz to not make an impact, they are hoping for that outcome. That's the perspective I'm struggling to understand.
  24. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I wouldn't have dealt him during the season to begin with. The timing was stupid, and it ended up blowing up in the team's face in a pretty spectacular fashion. But whether I think it's a good thing is a completely moot point. What's done is done. The trade was made. Like Stearns said in his presser last week, you don't get do-overs. So what we're left with now is a team that is licking its wounds after missing the playoffs despite holding a division lead for a good portion of the season. We are left with a prospective 2023 bullpen that will not have a guy who has proven to be a truly transcendent talent. But what we do have is two young players in Gasser and Ruiz who have a lot of talent and bring some pretty nice helium as prospects to a system that is already on the incline. And I personally am really pulling for those two guys to do well, because them doing so means that the Brewers will have more success as an organization. And isn't that what we all want in the end? To me, that would be a much better outcome than those two failing, only to get the "satisfaction" of being able to say "See, Stearns is stupid. Told you so!!!"
  25. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Judging by the line they keep throwing out there, Yosh must not be comfortable playing RT. Because in theory, a line of Yosh, Runyan, Myers, Jenkins and Bahk is probably getting your best 5 on the field. Perhaps they aren't going this route because they feel that they need Yosh ready to step in at LT, and don't want to flip guys all over the place, but Bahk was pretty much out there every play yesterday after practicing all week as well, so I assume that the training wheels are off now.
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