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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Let's be real here, though. The Brewers gain an entire year of prime service time by keeping him down for three weeks. Baseball needs to change its rules about service time but I absolutely understand why teams do what they do under the current rules.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    It's probably fine if you run him out once a week in RF if he's hitting. More than twice a week and you're asking for trouble.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    And that's fair. But if you've lived all around the country as I have, it's hard not to become fond of many teams. My first team was the Brewers. I listened to Ueck on the radio in the early-to-mid 80s. It was literally my first experience with baseball. I moved to Minnesota in 86. As a nine year old, it was impossible not to get wrapped up with the 87 Twins. Like so many others, I grew disenchanted with baseball after the strike and stopped watching it entirely for 4-ish years. Going to high school in San Diego and watching those 98 Padres (and having met Tony Gwynn personally, probably my favorite player of all time because he was just so kind and generous to all the kids surrounding him when I met him) is literally what brought my baseball fandom back to life. Put into that context, it kinda makes sense why I like those three teams, right?
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, hah. I'm a bit touchy about this, as people have blasted me for it over the years. If you're just giving me crap, bring it on. :D But my fandom DOES get a little weird at times. In 2002, I was going to college at Long Beach State and went to a billion Angels games (was actually at the first rally monkey game, of all things). I cheered hard for the Twins but when they (inevitably) flounced, I didn't miss a beat and happily cheered on the Angels against the Giants; I was right there losing my mind with the rest of people during that game six comeback. Was actually at Disneyland watching the ESPN crew along with the game. What a weird world that was (Disney owned the Angels, Disneyland (duh), and ESPN at the time). If only I knew the Twins postseason misery that was coming my way after that season...
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I make connections with my local teams and none of my fandoms conflict. I just like baseball. It's super weird how people get so judgmental about fandom. We all do it our own ways; mine is being rooted in a community and growing affectionate for its local team. And I kinda *am* a fan of most baseball teams. I like to see them operate well, have success, and do smart things. It increases my enjoyment of the sport. Except the Yankees and White Sox. I cannot stand the White Sox. I even begrudgingly accept that the Cardinals are a great organization, even if I don't like them. But I legit hate the White Sox.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Twins, Brewers, Padres. The three places I've lived the longest. Used to cheer on the Angels but I just can't do it anymore after watching them squander the two greatest baseball talents of my lifetime.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    WAR is a good metric but the older the player, the less confident I am in it, especially someone like Brock who is punished defensively. Where we have StatCast and lots of reliable defensive metrics today, using old, less reliable, defensive data to evaluate a player's worth is pretty shaky. Offensively, though, I think WAR is pretty reliable for players of all eras. And it does a good job of contextualizing things baseball insiders were just wrong about in the past, like stolen bases. Lou Brock racked up a ton of steals but he wasn't a great base stealer and is rightfully punished for it by WAR. And while Brock didn't hit an "empty" .300, he didn't bring a whole lot to the table beyond batting average. His discipline was fine but not great. His power was mediocre. Brock's stolen base success rate: 75.3%. It's fine. Not great. Whereas if you compare that to someone like Rickey Henderson: 80.7% success rate. And Henderson had 500 more steals than Brock. That's a ton of accumulated value.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I feel like it's pretty dangerous to throw Mitchell out there every day and hope things just work out. Except the Brewers don't have anyone behind him who can be relied upon, either.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    I look forward to actually watching west coast games because eastern/central games I care about end at a reasonable time. I love the Padres and will be happy to watch more of them.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    One huge upside for shorter games at the ballpark is that I have young children. I've basically been unable to expose them to baseball consistently but the pitch clock changes that, at least somewhat. Baseball has an old white guy problem (the fastest shrinking demo in America) and maybe this takes a small step toward repairing that damage.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Really nice first entry! I can't wait to see what you have in store for us next. Do you plan to mainly tackle MiLB or will you examine the big league club as well? Oh, and you can embed tables on this site. It's faster to do and displays more nicely. Here's a primer on it:
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I LOVE the new pitch clock even more than I thought I would. I know games will likely slow down in the regular season but still, this is awesome. I'm hoping that as the season chugs along, we see a down tick in velocity to go along with the faster pace.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Just a tip but we have 40-man and active rosters pulled from MLB so they're always accurate. You can navigate to them using the top right menu, Brewer Resources. https://brewerfanatic.com/forty-man-roster/
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, this news makes the opening day lineup in the outfield much more interesting.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    I find the catching situation in baseball really interesting as a whole. Did the Cards downgrade from Molina to Contreras in hopes of some form of robotic umpiring taking over during that contract? Does Milwaukee have the same hopes for his younger brother? Or do the Brewers think they can shore up William's defense? With the future of catching kinda up in the air right now, how teams are approaching the situation is really interesting to follow.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree. Everybody wins in those situations. It's one of the rare occasions where players get paid, owners save money, and fans get to experience home-grown talent for a long time. I wish more MLB teams took that approach. How nice would it have been to throw $70m at Burnes three years ago and get to see him pitch through 2026 or so? We would have avoided all the messiness of the past two seasons of Burnes being frustrated and fans being irritated at ownership.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I wish owners and players would simply agree on service time being capped at something like 100 days for a season. If a player is on an MLB roster for 100 days, they get 1.0 years of service time. If they're on a roster for 160 days, they get 1.0 years of service time. That renders service time manipulation basically useless unless the team wants to keep a guy down for half a season. The current system is far too easy to game without really being punished by fielding a sub-par product.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    I actually agree with this, which is why I'm in favor of some assistance in building a baseball stadium (tax reductions/deferments, free land, etc) while I'm basically 100% against public financing of anything football-related.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm generally okay with service time manipulation but start becoming irritated if it bleeds into super two manipulation. I totally get wanting that extra year of control but keeping a guy down just to save a few bucks, I can't get behind that.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    That trade was pure black magic and elevated my opinion of Arnold significantly.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Hah! We actually just bought the site. I'm def not a Cubs fan. I'll manage the community but we purchased it because Matt Trueblood is a Cubs fan and we wanted to give him a platform. We purchased this site because I'm a Brewers fan, we're purchasing that site because Matt's a Cubs fan. Right now I'm just getting acquainted with that group. They're a wild bunch, for sure.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    I'd like to address this. As a fan of multiple teams and a member of multiple communities, I hear this said about literally every manager in baseball. Which kinda makes the statement impossible. As for Hiura, that's a pretty big complaint I have about both the front office and Counsell. I don't know who is responsible for throwing Hiura out there against LHP but it's super aggravating.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, I'm aware of Taylor's status, just saying it's not a sure thing either way yet.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    I mean, sure, but is Taylor not going to be in the OD lineup?
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh man, I disagree. I think Counsell is a very good manager who manages the team as is required over 162. He runs a tight clubhouse, And baseball is a game where you can argue 55/45 decisions all day long with neither side being satisfied at the end because process doesn't correlate well with results over that data sample.
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