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Article: Brewers Option Mejia, Designate Jakson Reetz
Brock Beauchamp replied to TL Schwerz's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
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In part two of this retrospective of the 1979 Milwaukee Brewers’ season narrated by the legendary Bob Uecker, we open with the most Milwaukee of traditions, tailgating before a ballgame. Unfortunately, the season opened with an unfortunate situation after slugger Larry Hisle - the 1978 Brewers MVP - tore a muscle in his shoulder and lost almost the entire season to injury. Stepping in for the injured Hisle were veteran Ben Oglive and a very young Paul Molitor. The 1979 season saw the emergence of the greatest double play tandem in Brewers history, Robin Yount and a second-year Molitor. Also featured in this retrospective are Brewer fan favorites Cecil Cooper, Gorman Thomas, and Sixto Lezcano.
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In part two of this retrospective of the 1979 Milwaukee Brewers’ season narrated by the legendary Bob Uecker, we open with the most Milwaukee of traditions, tailgating before a ballgame. Unfortunately, the season opened with an unfortunate situation after slugger Larry Hisle - the 1978 Brewers MVP - tore a muscle in his shoulder and lost almost the entire season to injury. Stepping in for the injured Hisle were veteran Ben Oglive and a very young Paul Molitor. The 1979 season saw the emergence of the greatest double play tandem in Brewers history, Robin Yount and a second-year Molitor. Also featured in this retrospective are Brewer fan favorites Cecil Cooper, Gorman Thomas, and Sixto Lezcano. View full video
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Exactly this. The Hader trade looked like the first step in a multi-part process to improve the overall roster. Then the Brewers just closed up shop, much to my dismay. The mistake was closing up shop, not trading Hader.
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I don't read this as being a defense of Stearns at all. It mentions his inactivity during the deadline, which frustrated many, including myself. As for Yelich, injuries happen. It sucks for everyone involved but literally any player can get injured and derail a career at any moment. It's no one's fault, it's just a thing that happens and part of the risk of high dollar extensions or free agents. Lorenzo Cain was far from a blunder. He was outstanding in 2018 and just fine in 2019 and 2021. It was only this year, the last of a long-term deal, where the wheels came off. And that's usually the case in any contract more than three years long, particularly to a guy in his 30s when the contract began. You're paying for the front end performance of those contracts and hedging against late-contract collapse. It's part of the cost of doing business in a sport with guaranteed contracts.
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Not off to a good start. The Crew is nearing must win status tonight with Ashby going tomorrow.
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@Tim Muma Fifth in vertical movement and 14th in horizontal movement… does that add up to *too much* movement? Seems like it’d be really hard to keep that pitch in the zone so if the batter can lay off it, he gets a ball.
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A really great breakdown of the week, its fallout, and the state of the organization.
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Sheets was always tantalizing and like so many other pitchers, injuries stole his brilliance. It's unfortunate how fanbases turn so quickly on injured players, it's one of my least liked things about sports.
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Hey everybody. Let’s take a deep breath. The poster on the other end of the keyboard is not the enemy. The Brewers are in a frustrating stretch of play, take a moment to pause and consider whether going hard at another poster is really going to fix your frustration about the organization.
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I know you had a lot of back-and-forth on this but the end product is a great read. Can't wait for tomorrow!
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A baffling set of moves today. It doesn't inspire confidence in a front office I had quite a lot of confidence in a couple of days ago.
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Dinelson Lamet DFAed? wut WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!?! I can't even.
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I read this as "The fact that they have 3 catchers and none of them are particularly good in centerfield" and literally LOLed.
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YoY trade deadline week saw a 220% increase in users and a 13:1 increase in registrations. Huge thanks to the community, you're awesome!
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And to be clear, I'm not even saying the front office failed at the deadline. I think they did some interesting stuff and gave them a C+ grade. But that's still only a C+... because they didn't find some way to get another bat on this roster.
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A great example of this is what the Twins have done (when relatively healthy). Baldelli has several good left-handed hitters (as do the Brewers) so he often intentionally stacks them in a row. He *dares* the opposing manager to pull in a LHP to face Luis Arraez or Max Kepler or Nick Gordon. Why? Because Baldelli has Kyle Garlick sitting on the bench most games, just waiting to unleash his .900-something OPS against LHP against any manager who tries to break up the lefties. A natural result of doing this is managers tend to NOT put in a LHP early, which in turn gives Baldelli the platoon advantage for his lefties longer into games. If a team is going to play platoon-happy - and I think it's the best strategy in modern baseball given the massive pitching advantage right now - the front office needs to give their manager proper platoon bats to exploit those matchups. And the Brewers front office didn't do that yesterday. I don't care WHO they acquired but they needed something to give Counsell the ability to more effectively manage his roster on a daily basis. Counsell is a really good manager, he's going to get something approaching the best out of his players most of the time if you give him the right tools to do it.
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I don't think the point is that Wong is better than Severino, the problem lies in using a backup catcher to pinch-hit for anyone in the middle of your lineup, ever. That speaks to depth, or the lack thereof.
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Well said. There HAD to be a hitter available somewhere that could make this team better without breaking open the farm system. To suggest this team is fine without one more decent bat and good on-base skills is trying to sell the fanbase a line.
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Introducing Dark Mode!
Brock Beauchamp commented on Brock Beauchamp's blog entry in Battle Your Tail Off
That will get the job done for what I need, thanks. -
Possibly. The ship has probably sailed on Lamet starting in MLB but I'm more interested in his recent bullpen appearances. If he's truly healthy again - far from a given for any pitcher, much less Lamet - he could be the 6th/7th inning piece the Brewers badly need right now. If he fills that role capably, I'll be quite satisfied.
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Yeesh. I've warmed up to the Hader trade a bit but I'm struggling to see how Kelly is worth Matt Bush.
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Introducing Dark Mode!
Brock Beauchamp commented on Brock Beauchamp's blog entry in Battle Your Tail Off
If this happens to anyone, screenshot it and send it to me with the page you found it. I’ll take a look and see what’s happening. -
Yeah, the more I look at this trade, the more it makes sense. Losing Hader is hard but Rogers should be a capable replacement this season. And the more I look at the prospects, the more I'm interested in them.
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One aspect of this is the cost-savings. Taylor Rogers' salary is being paid by the Twins this season so the Brewers have very little salary coming back. The other aspect of this is that Rogers has seriously underperformed this season. It wouldn't surprise me in the least to see him rebound to close to Hader-esque levels for the rest of the season. Of course, that still doesn't cover Hader's 2023 season and I'm not very impressed with the return on that.
