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  1. wntrtxn21
    You don't think Ashby is legitimate? How long has he been in that role? He is a legit question mark for sure... After his horrendous outing today he is a big question mark.
  2. wntrtxn21
    Yelich is once again slumping with another donut today. He is either topping everything or missing it all together. In Sept... 10 for 49 - 0 HRs - 4 RBIs - 3 BBs - 13 Ks. With Urias also slumping, Adames/Tellez out, and Garcia day-to-day, the Crew can't afford to have Yelich tank and go into the playoffs severly slumping.
  3. wntrtxn21
    I saw frelick play twice with th T-Rats and he looked completely overmatched. Good OF, but struggled to get to 91-92 mph fastballs and anything that broke. I would want to see a lot more of him to put him anywhere close to Mitchell's value.
  4. wntrtxn21
    I picked this up earlier off a Dodger chat site where they were roasting Jansen. I thought it looked interesting. Hader/Houser for Gonsolin/Vesia/Ferguson/Miller... I didn't know who Miller was until I researched it and saw he's a minor lg. pitcher.
  5. wntrtxn21
    Sometimes you trade players regardless of their contracts. We saw a lot of that at the trade deadline. Trading contracts implies just moving money and forgetting how much the player could help your team. Cost of the player compared to added wins for the team. How much more are the Brewers making because of Adames? Would they be getting post season money w/o him? Moving Rasmussen and JP made room for the Brewers' own cheap bull pen guys and Ashby looks to be a cheap starter soon. Very well could be a net gain for the Brewers. Looking at just the contracts only tells half of the story.
  6. wntrtxn21
    BA said both Vogelbach and Topa were in the Brewer's dugout yesterday.
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    Very nice pickup for very little. He was great at AAA this year and maybe has some value for injuries this year or an invite next year.
  8. wntrtxn21
    I would forget Garcia and try to retain Escobar. Taylor is ready to step up and play RF. I don't know about your Cain/Lauer thing, but any money targeted for Garcia could go towards keeping Escobar with a 3 year deal. Switch hitting 3B with power and RBI producers are hard to come by. If they can't re-sign Escobar, then Urias is the 3B by default. Either way Urias gets plenty of playing time if there is a DH next year. Everybody in the inf. could get a day off and DH that day. No way I would move Yelich anywhere. Yelich, Cain (assuming he isn't traded), Taylor with JBJ and Pederson as the backups. Tellez is doing better than expected and isn't bad with the glove at 1B. He very well could be the answer at 1B. If they can re-sign Escobar at an affordable price, Stearns has fixed the two black holes the Crew had at 1B/3B.
  9. wntrtxn21
    If Garcia gets to the mutual option ABs, I don't see him turning it down and he will be the RF next year. Stearns is going to have to eat the JBJ signing. Maybe MA opens the checkbook up to sign one good FA, but don't count on it. I think Escobar and Anderson are gone and probably Pina too. There just isn't a whole lot of savings that can be had until 2023.
  10. wntrtxn21
    This looks like a one-and-done deal for Axford. Fastball at 94-95, straight as a string and a very poor breaking ball. Certainly not bad for a 38 yr. old, but not MLB material.
  11. wntrtxn21
    Except Pomeranz sucked as a starter and then improved when he went to the pen. Norris sucked in the bullpen and we are...keeping him in the bullpen. Except Norris hasn't really sucked in the bullpen. His ERA- of 104 out of the pen is slightly below average, but his FIP- of 75 & xFIP- of 76 (which hold much more predictive power over a sample of only 62 IP than ERA does) place him within the top 20-35 relievers in MLB over the last two years. Any good number for Norris comes from facing LH. CC has to hope he can severly limit Norris' exposure to RH batters. He sucks against RH (.333/.412/.520). Nobody in baseball would ever confuse Norris with being anything but a low level reliever. He's better than Perdomo or Milner, so it is a plus for the team.
  12. wntrtxn21
    If CC keeps only 13 pitchers: Against RHP Wong 2B Yelich LF Escobar 3B Tellez 1B Garcia RF Narvaez C Adames SS Cain CF P Bench: Pina-Peterson-Urias-Taylor-JBJ Against LHP Wong 2B Adames SS Escobar 1B Garcia RF Taylor LF Urias 3B Cain CF Pina C P Bench: Yelich-Narvaez-Tellez-JBJ-Peterson If CC keeps 14 pitchers then Peterson is gone.
  13. wntrtxn21
    If you look at the numbers for Toro you can understand why Mariner players and fans are irate at the trade. He has potential, but has shown absolutely nothing in his 3 tries at the big league level. This year is no exception (.211/.286/.385) and his glove is well below average. He does not K a lot and his minor lg. play says there is hope, but the players are looking at this year. Their closer for another badly under performing 3B doesn't make a lot of sense right now.
  14. wntrtxn21
    I agree about Toro. This is a guy who mashed his way through the minors, had brief tastes of MLB pitching in '19 and '20 (less than 200 total PAs) and looks like he's starting to get some traction with a decent performance in 123 PAs so far this season. JosephC makes a good point about Graveman. I'm sure none of the Mariner players threw a big celebration party when Graveman was re-signed to a reduced value deal when there was little market for him prior to the season. They're in a playoff push, so I get why they don't want to appear to be "selling," but you'd think after a lifetime of playing baseball that players would understand when a player is really good versus when a so-so player is on a hot streak. It's possible this move costs them a bit this season, but it's probably just as likely that Graveman reverts to the guy who put up a 5.69 ERA last year and 7.60 ERA in 2018 and gets shelled the rest of the year, in which case the Mariners would look like geniuses for selling at the perfect time. While he's been great this year, this is a guy whose best seasons have been league average (ERA- of 99 in 2017 and 100 in 2016). Even if you attribute his poor 2018 and 2020 seasons to arm injuries/Tommy John, he still looks like an average pitcher whose forward-looking ZIPs projections predict his ERA & FIP to be around 5.00 going forward. You can't compare the years where he was a starter to now. This year he is strictly a reliever, usually one inning. Completely different mind set and pitch usage.
  15. wntrtxn21
    Even if they don't re-sign Garcia I still don't see it unless Stearns gets permission to go past $125M in payroll. Even if they get a guy at half the price, that's still 2/3 or more of the total payroll for only 5 guys. IMO they re-sign Narvaez and Hader (about $13M or more), Wong at $8.5M and that's over $105M and they still have 20 guys left. Woodruff, Adames, and Burnes are arby guys.
  16. wntrtxn21
    IMO the salary far outweighs the production. With Cain at $18M, Bradley's $13M, Yelich coming in at $26M, probably re-signing Garcia at $10M, adding Myers would be around $90M for just 5 players. Unless the Padres were willing to do a straight swap for Cain, I can't see Stearns having any interest.
  17. wntrtxn21
    Just say no to Hosmer. He is owed $60M over the next 4 years ($21M in 2022 and then $13M for the next three years), and he can opt out after 2022.
  18. wntrtxn21
    So Pittsburgh got a Josh Harrison. I am surprised to see them send the equivalent of what? A 40ish? Draft pick salary Frazier and get only Marcano as headline. I suppose Michell has some outstanding Ks going on this season and may be groomed as a late inning stud. Still, you sent money what has to his salary for rest of season for 3 guys having solid (not great) years in minors? Plus Frazier has another year of control? Their has to be more. A ptbnl? Or isn't SD a competitive draft lottery team? That future pick. This is a bad trade considering Frazier has to be at his highest value in trade with added year of control, and this feels sorta like a dump big contract trade. It's had to believe because I think Frazier was only making aroung $4M and the rumors are that they kicked in money to the Padres! It seems like a trade that will keep the Pirates firmly entrenched at the bottom of the standings.
  19. wntrtxn21
    And a super large budget to pay for just about anybody he wants.
  20. wntrtxn21
    I too think the article was pure fiction. I think Yelich right now would be the FIRST contract the Brewers would want to rid themselves of if they could. He isn't anywhere close to the player they thought he was going to be and certainly not even in the top 10 LFs anymore.
  21. wntrtxn21
    Marcano was their #5 prospect, Suwinski and Milano are not in their top 30.
  22. wntrtxn21
    If Stearns could pull off that trade with the O's, it would be one of his biggest steals ever.
  23. wntrtxn21
    In the unlikely scenario that the Angels would let him go, I think to get Walsh it would take a lot more than the Brewers would want to part with. I would imagine Mitchell would be the starting point of any conversation with the Angels for Walsh.
  24. wntrtxn21
    There are millions of fans that enjoy the game, the ENTIRE game. The game is evolving every year. If you find the great game of baseball that boring, don't watch it. There has to be some nascar reruns somewhere for you.
  25. wntrtxn21
    As of 2018 the NBA average game time was 2 hours 18 minutes. That's 45 minutes less than an MLB game. I know that the numbers are what they are, but I would be interested to know what the MEDIAN MLB game is. I've attended and watched plenty of MLB games that run 4+ hours. You will never, ever, see an NBA game go 3.5 hours. The length of game is just one thing, but the variance in length is another. I think the NBA games are paced perfectly. They are just the right amount of time where you could still have a viewing party, and not so long than an 8pm start is a disaster. Baseball is too long. Football is also too long. I watch like one Brewers game a month, and I'm in and out of it. I attend about one a month, and I almost always leave early. You're talking apples and oranges. Baseball was never meant to be a helter-skelter type game. There are many people who don't like the NBA. Perception is in the eye of the beholder.
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