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  1. Robocaller
    This is irrelevant. The only thing I could find as requirements to win rookie of the year are that the player started the season as a rookie, and exceeded rookie limits during the year (so 130 AB or 50 IP). If a guy came in and hit .390 in 250 ABs with 30 HRs, they're going to be ROY. But to earn the extra pick, the player has to have enough days of service time (172 days, iirc). So, almost all of those guys will have your 400+ PAs unless they sat on the bench most of the season.
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    I think they acquired Toro and Miller strictly to facilitate such service time shenanigans.
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    Except apparently they want to limit their budget this year to avoid repeater's tax.
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    It only makes sense to offload Yelich if they have plans for the money. But since Sale makes more than Yelich (short term), there wouldn't be any short-term savings, so no new players, and Yelich is more likely to be a positive than Sale at this point. And if we traded Lauer, expect lots of starts from Jason Alexander. Expanding it beyond those two players makes it worse for us. Devers would just be a rental.
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    I'm sure they're taking donations so they can do that.
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    Hill-arious.
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    You're missing the possibilities. First, you can wait until a couple weeks into the season to bring a guy up. Then you can demote him at any time, once the guy proves he's not going to be top three for ROY. So you won't use up a year of service unless the guy is performing really well, and in that case it might be worth it both for 2023 and the added pick.
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    I think it's best for both parties to separate. I wish he had gotten 20+ more of McCutchen's starts vs. RH starters. We'd have a good sense of his value. But he was misused in 2022. I think we're waiting for some team to offer an A-ball lottery ticket for him. Maybe if he's hitting .400 in S.T. and some team has an injury, we might get more.
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    Yeah, it's impossible to know if we're doing badly without knowing how other teams are doing. Based on the stats posted elsewhere, few teams have been able to identify and develop catching prospects. And a few of the guys mentioned weren't expected to stay at C even when they were drafted. Then one promising prospect had severe mental health issues. And others were only rated highly because our farm teams were wretched at the time.
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    I thought 1-2 years at $4-8M per year.
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    I would have been down for 1@$5M for him. At this rate, I wonder if the only bullpen help we're going to get is signing a couple of guys to a minor league contract with a S.T. invite.
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    We're getting Moose after he clears waivers, aren't we? :-(
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    Since SF lost Correa, How about Adames (plus Luis Lara and Jadher Areinamo for Kyle Harrison LH starting pitcher, who could be promoted to the majors in 2023. https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=harris003kyl and Casey Schmitt, a 3B/SS who could be promoted during 2023. https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=schmit000cas
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    Is Navaretto a potential backup C for the Brewers in 2024?
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    I was thinking about it and comparing it to cars. Given the disparity of salary totals among teams, it's like you have a race where there are Hyundais competing against Porsches. If you have a Hyundai and are staying close to the Porsches, you can claim a moral victory. Just not a real victory. Since it's not strictly high income teams that spend a lot, profit-sharing wouldn't be a solution to the salary disparities, but it would help a lot. It could also hurt if teams have a guaranteed income of $100M and choose having $50M teams out there to make a profit.
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    early to mid June
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    I mean Longoria would fill the bill. You can guarantee he'll miss about half the games. I just think he's going to be very selective about where (or if) he signs, and not just "potential playoff teams" as has been reported.
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    If he makes the Nashville roster, that will be the 5th! AAA team he's played for. And he's only 24!
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    I would have liked to retain him, but I guess the brewers thought otherwise.
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    I've got to believe the decisions didn't come as a surprise to the players--that there had been some communication. Some of them might have wanted to move on to a different team, as I think they'll be picked up by someone.
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    Excluding 6-25-2022 to 8-02-2022 when he was obviously dealing with something (hitting .146), he hit .286 for the season.
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    It would require an act of God for Wiemer to be as good of a hitter as Braun, though obviously he'll have more defensive value. Braggs might be a good low-end comp. I'm hoping for Cory Hart with a longer plateau of high play.
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    One of the difficulties in analyzing L/R splits is that they tend to be highly variable from season to season for some players. Looking at RH OPS minus LH OPS (Negative means reverse splits for LH hitter) Rowdy: 2022: 0.157, Career: 0.068 Winker: 2022: -0.143 Career: 0.224 Yelich: 2022: 0.063 Career: 0.093 Wong: 2022: 0.404 Career: 0.101 (Wong added for reference) Our LH rookies have had reverse (Turang) or very slight splits (Mitchell, Frelick), but we really don't know if that will persist in the majors; it often doesn't as players face better pitchers. Last year, Contreras killed LHP, while Urias, and Brosseau did slightly better against LHP, while Adames had a reverse split (and that agrees with his career numbers). Taylor had a slight reverse split. I hate to say it, but our best hope is for our LH hitters to randomly not have a bad year vs. LH pitchers. That's right, the best we can hope for is random chance. Or maybe for some of our RH hitters to finally realize they're supposed to mash LH pitchers.
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    I expect Toro and Miller to be on the O.D. roster. I expect Turang to be held in AAA until super 2 has passed, and maybe not then, if those other guys made significant improvement. The past performance of Toro and Miller has been crap, and Turang hasn't played in the majors yet. I can't see how to be confident with that infield mob (along with Brosseau, whom we can expect to hit OK, but not help us in the field).
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    iirc it was a finger/thumb.
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