brewerfan82

The closest I can find on FanGraphs is team batting stats with runners in scoring position and less than two outs: https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/splits-leaderboards?splitArr=54,55,59&splitArrPitch=&autoPt=false&splitTeams=false&statType=team&statgroup=2&startDate=2026-03-01&endDate=2026-11-01&players=&filter=&groupBy=season&wxTemperature=&wxPressure=&wxAirDensity=&wxElevation=&wxWindSpeed=&position=B&sort=15,1 They're 7th in the MLB in wRC+ in that situation, 8th in AVG, 3rd in OBP, 13th in SLG, 9th in OPS Over the last month stats: https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/splits-leaderboards?splitArr=54,55,59&splitArrPitch=&autoPt=false&splitTeams=false&statType=team&statgroup=2&startDate=2026-05-07&endDate=2026-11-01&players=&filter=&groupBy=season&wxTemperature=&wxPressure=&wxAirDensity=&wxElevation=&wxWindSpeed=&position=B&sort=9,1 Over the last month they're 7th in the MLB in wRC+ in that situation, 7th in AVG, 4th in OBP, 15th in SLG, 9th in OPS

That's pretty amazing considering they started out 184 games below .500 from 1998-2006.

Not good enough.

It's really amazing how this team can just keep trading away their stars and keep chugging along. Here's how the outgoing pitchers (Peralta, Myers, Quintana) have faired vs. the incoming pitchers (Harrison, Drohan, Sproat) this year: And the comparison is even more favorable since May 1st:

It might help if people stop using "MA" when both Mark Attanasio and Matt Arnold are being discussed... 😉

I'm guessing the same thing may very well be said with a post-30 year old Contreras as well. It sucks because we grew up with players sticking with teams for their whole career and we still like the idea of that, but with the finances of the game, it's just better to have players on pre-FA contracts and team friendly extensions up until their age 30 season while they're still in their prime and then let someone else overpay for them as the decline in their post-30 years.

That's an interesting take and makes sense to me! For me, Christmas is about traditions. Whether or not the film was intended to be, or is or isn't semantically, a "Christmas movie" is irrelevant to me. If you personally (or along with your friends and/or family) have adopted it as a tradition to watch Die Hard during the Christmas season, then for you it is a Christmas movie. No need to decide as a whole if it is or isn't. Of course, I also understand that takes all the fun out of the discussion 😉

This is pretty much how I remember this going, lol

Pretty sure it's that they haven't had the same lineup construction in any game yet. It sounds crazy, but apparently once you factor in injuries, lefty/righty matchups, rotating guys into the DH spot, moving guys around due to being hot or cold, and resting/giving guys playing time in general, the average team goes through like 120 different lineup combos in a season.

It's been bad today, but coming into the game they were tied for the fewest grounded into double plays in baseball:

I love Turang, but I think this is the main issue. By the time Turang is a free agent, he'll be going into his age 30 season and getting very expensive. We'd be paying more for his (theoretically) post-peak years. At the same time Made and Pena will be going into their age 23 seasons, along with Pratt and Jett going into their age 25 and 26 seasons. Hopefully by then some combo of those players will be proven enough to cover the middle infield for a lot less money and the money that could be spent on a Turang extension can be used more productively elsewhere, whether that's to fill holes on the roster or extending younger guys to Chourio/Peralta-type contracts. For a team like the Brewers, I think any extension is better spent on younger players to hold onto them through their age 27-29 years, not to pay for their 30+ years.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mitchga01.shtml#all_batting_st

Here are the most recent BTV values I could find for the players mentioned: Your Luke Adams+ evaluation is much closer, at least according to BTV:

With the discussion about grading the offseason, I was thinking how this whole offseason may have been different if Woodruff hadn't accepted the QO. It could have been something like this: Hold onto Peralta to lead the staff and plan on getting compensation from him next year Without getting Jett Williams in the Peralta deal, does that keep our infield depth shallow enough where a Durbin trade doesn't happen? With $14M saved keeping Peralta at $8M instead of Woodruff at $22M, are we bigger players in free agency? Is there another trade we might have been in on that would have taken on money? All that adds up to something like this difference between what happened and what may have happened: Woodruff -> Peralta Williams -> Durbin Sproat -> Woodruff compensatory pick Harrison -> Peralta compensatory pick Drohan -> Myers Hamilton -> Monasterio Rengifo, Sanchez -> Whatever we do with the extra ~$19M ($14M saved with Peralta over Woodruff + $3.5M from Rengifo + $1.75M from Sanchez) If Woodruff not accepting the QO was their plan A, I think they did a good job pivoting this offseason. How do you think the offseason would have played out differently? Do you think we "accidentally" ended up in a better position with Woodruff accepting the QO? Of course they may have still traded Peralta and also not spent any of that "extra" money too! Who knows! Just thought it was interesting to think about!

So 2/3 of the players were older than him too... Wilken's ranked the 9th best 3B prospect in baseball on MLB.com (https://www.mlb.com/milb/prospects/3b/). I don't think people are arguing that he's the next coming of Mike Schmidt, just that he's a good prospect that doesn't "suck" (not your words, just where this convo started to ramp up) and if healthy has a good chance of making it to the big leagues sometime this year.