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Everything coming up Arnold right now. Hang on to Joey O at the deadline while everyone (including yours truly) thought we needed to swap him with someone—anyone? Joey is the clutchest guy on the team. All the NL contenders do more than we did at the deadline? That’s fine, we’ll beat your newly revamped bullpens. Unbelievable! -
It’s getting to be where you can’t really call this a “run” anymore. At some point, you just have to accept this is a great team. I for one have been resisting that conclusion, but even my cynical side is getting worn down. Being a great team doesn’t get you an automatic pennant anymore, but it should hopefully get us a ticket to the divisional round, which is still something.
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Runner on for the top of the order isn’t ideal.
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Doubs’ hands and the midlevel defense not ready for the regular season yet.
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That’ll do, Perk!
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Lot of the plate with two strikes there, Megill.
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Cardinals are pouring it on against the Cubs bullpen, it’s now 5-0 in the bottom of the sixth.
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It’s already to the point where I’m surprised when Vaughn doesn’t get a late rbi.
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I for one would be in favor of the Cubs finding themselves in the Wild Card round and getting their hearts ripped out there. That sounds like a nice script change for once.
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My kingdom for some strikes!
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He’s a brutal watch for being such a talented pitcher. Kind of always has been. I rarely get the urge to buy tickets when he’s the probable starter. Sheets? Yo? Burnes? Woody? Full send. Peralta just isn’t the same.
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Cubs deadline acquisition Michael Soroka could only complete two innings tonight in his Cubs debut after complaining of shoulder soreness. It should be noted that Soroka is experiencing a dip in velocity going on a month now.
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Maybe the Brewers should try to keep winning by so much that they only have to use Megill once a week. Seems to work out pretty well for all involved.
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If the Brewers start hitting home runs, does that make them a…complete baseball team?
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Dealing with Milwaukee is going to become a fascinating game of cat and mouse. The proper response by another team will be that if we ask for a player, they need to hang on to that player like grim death and completely rethink their approach to that player's development. Consequently, Arnold and team will need to shift approach and start faking teams out by making their first proposal the players they actually don't want to acquire, and only pivot to their real target after the other team initially balks. Arnold is already playing 3D chess, so this should not be a difficult transition.
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Well, this article certainly looks prescient today. Nice job Mr. Stern!
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Collins doing nothing with back to back center-cut fastballs is kind of a letdown.
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That ‘39 Yankee team had a .702 win percentage and a +411 run differential. Baseball history is just wild. Pretty cool to be in the same sentence as a team like that.
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19-11; 3-2 in Chicago to clinch the season series.
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If that is true, and Turang has been plan B all along (and their published depth chart, for whatever that is worth, would back that up), and they are waiting for Joey to hit rock bottom again like he did in April-May, well, we’re about a week away from needing to pull the ripcord. In April-May, he had an OPS in the .480s. In June he had a .748 OPS. This month is down to .552. This last home stand? .118. We live in the era of the NL DH and it is like we’ve got a pitcher hitting again. Only when we had pitchers hitting, we had Yovani Gallardo (.837 OPS in 2010!) or Zack Greinke (OPS’d over .600 for three straight seasons, including .788 in 2013) or Brandon Woodruff (postseason OPS? 1.833!…in 3 ABs…) taking some of those at bats. I’d rather see those guys go hack than this version of Ortiz. And, yes, the comparisons to those cherry-picked pitcher seasons is half tongue-in-cheek. But only half.
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To me, the story isn’t that we traded Jorge Quintana. It’s that we had to do it in a salary dump. I’m not one of those people who thinks Attanasio is a cheapskate, but this is one of those situations that is hard to square with him saying repeatedly over the last few weeks that adding salary would not be an obstacle to improving the team. Then we do this deal of Cortes and have to add a prospect to help balance out the money in the acquisition of Shelby + Montgomery? That rings a bit hollow. Now I happen to think it entirely possible Attanasio would have ok’d a higher team salary for a big addition. But little things like this make it harder to defend him on that.
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I got really fired up that maybe Cortes was part of a package for Ha-Seong Kim. Then I remembered Kim wasn't on the Padres anymore. And is in fact still injured. Really, I let myself down more than anything.
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That wasn’t a deadline deal, either. The value proposition of deadline deals is just so skewed against buyers, and the Brewers brass didn’t get to where they are by being the ones to pay a premium in a deal.
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Two things can be true at once. It would be malpractice to pay the going trade rates on most of these players. And watching this version of Joey Ortiz take meaningful at bats down the stretch for one of the winningest Brewers teams of all time is really brutal.
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If Kwan is the biggest bat out there, I don't know if there is a real “go for it” opportunity even if the Brewers were inclined to do it. I like Kwan a lot, but how much does he really raise the ceiling? Is it more than Made would in two years? I kinda doubt it. Neto would help this team a lot, but the Angels are the Angels and it seems that no one can get him without blowing way past “go for it” territory into “nuke your farm system from orbit” territory. I just don’t see the path. It takes two to tango.
