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  1. Jim French Stepstool
    Since they're winning, I think you just leave him there & wait for Bad Willy--which we are all too familiar with--to leave town, which inevitably happens. Then hope he stays away a long time. I'll tell you one thing. He must be one interesting cat. Watching him after the game doing his celebratory Gatorade thing--just the genuine smile, the pure fun the guy's having. For most people that's probably forced when you're 0-for-twenty something. You can tell that with him it isn't. I get why he's so loved in the clubhouse. I just wish the dry spells weren't so dang-blasted ugly.
  2. Jim French Stepstool
    He has the knack for turning things around in a snap. His first 6-7 ABs of this series I thought were horrible. Now all of a sudden today he's seeing the ball & not helping the pitcher out. And it's not like Adames hitting behind him is doing him any favors these days.
  3. Jim French Stepstool
    Remington Steele needed to run out there & yell at him.
  4. Jim French Stepstool
    Lotsa fat deliveries from Hendricks in the 4th. He obviously needed to WAKE UP!!!!!!!😁
  5. Jim French Stepstool
    It is. But if we can go chunks of the season with three 1B...............
  6. Jim French Stepstool
    He played the last couple games, but DHed. I'm no expert on the rules regarding rehab assignments but I smell some sort of manipulation coming.
  7. Jim French Stepstool
    W/two strikes it would've been more acceptable. I can get on board with that.
  8. Jim French Stepstool
    I wasn't thrilled with the 1st & 3rd play w/Contreras at the plate. I wouldn't have done it, but you're facing a team that hasn't exactly been airtight & if anyone asks about it you'll hear the "it's what we do" line. So IMO not a "Murphy is a moron" type thing. I was much more upset about the inning where we tied it at 2-2. They're kicking it around, you feel like it might be implosion time. Ball gets by the catcher to put runners on 2nd & 3rd with one out--and Yelich can't touch the ball. I might've considered Hudson staying in for the 8th if for no other reason than Mr Everything-Goes-My-Way-vs-the-Brewers (Happ) was due up 2nd & I like turning him around. But again, we made the exact same move Wednesday & it worked out fine. Maybe moving forward we're looking to go away from him throwing 2 innings, then being down for 2-3 days. I guess we'll see. It boiled down to them ambushing Myers early & it paid off.
  9. Jim French Stepstool
    Aahhh. Thanks.
  10. Jim French Stepstool
    Did he mention at all what the eight weeks will turn into? Keeping my fingers crossed about how Yelich looks at the plate today vs a pretty good LH. I thought he had three really bad ABs yesterday. If the middle of the order has more struggles I suspect there will be some call for Chourio to move up in the order. I hope Adames & Hoskins get things going & they leave Chourio where he is. Sometimes there's a mental dynamic at work where if a youngster moves up he feels he needs to do more. His plate discipline has gotten much better & I hope they leave well enough alone---for now.
  11. Jim French Stepstool
    Unless he returns immediately after the 15 days he'll have three weeks off due to the ASG, which sounds pretty good to me as long as they have to do this. I guess the move to Zastryzny means they don't think DL Hall is quite there yet.
  12. Jim French Stepstool
    It's been a source for a long time at some programs, St Mary's specifically, but not nearly as much at UW. That could be bolstered by recent additions to the staff. Kirk Penney & Lance Randall both have quite a bit of international experience. The NIL eligibility is a little trickier depending on the type of visa a kid is visiting under.
  13. Jim French Stepstool
    Recruiting updates: After recent evaluations during summer play UW has offered, besides the aforementioned Ahneman, a couple of in-state kids. Donovan Davis (class of 27) is an extremely talented 6-7 wing from Freedom High School. UW is his first offer but there will certainly be more. Vaughn Karvala from Oregon, WI is a 6-5 wing who is a year ahead of Davis & averaged 24 PPG as a sophomore. He's received a couple other offers & will add more as he's receiving a lot of interest in recent months. It's anyones' guess as to whether these kids will remain in their current high schools. Ahneman is from Fargo ND but his family has moved to the twin cities area & he will be playing at Cretin-Durham Hall, the alma mater of Paul Molitor among others. UW is still recruiting Davion Hannah of Milwaukee, but he's spending the upcoming year at Link Academy in Branson MO. Another offer, LaTrevion Fenderson of Racine is also reportedly going to a prep school but hasn't announced which one. My favorite is Kai Rogers. The former Tosa West center is attending--if you can call it that--something called OT Elite, which isn't really a school at all but rather a basketball league that offers an academic program (I'm not trying to be cute; that's how they describe themselves). Apparently they offer players age 16-20 $100,000 plus signing bonus, but you can forego that & take it in the form of a scholarship & retain college eligibility. I'm sure the academic program is very rigorous.
  14. Jim French Stepstool
    This. I would actually say definitely, rather than probably. And Fear The Chorizo is right regarding a possible deal. I mentioned awhile back that I think the one chance they'd add a substantial arm to the rotation is if one of a group of 3-4 people would be added as a headliner to the deal. Frelick is one of those. Mitchell would actually be another but it's hard to imagine somebody attaching enough value to him to make that work due to the health issues. It's those same issues that probably make them want to keep Frelick. Save for a trade, when Mitchell comes up I think Black goes down.
  15. Jim French Stepstool
    For whatever reason, when we have a watch or warning the entire screen goes blank and we get the text of the type, location, etc of the warning along with audio of the warning. After a minute or two the programming returns. This happens even when the warning is for a county/counties in north-central Illinois (we live in Oconomowoc). Definitely miss the crawl across the bottom of the screen.
  16. Jim French Stepstool
    I think you're most likely correct. I DO think they're open to the idea of trading Black, but if we're talking about one of the top 2-3 starters out there he isn't a headliner.
  17. Jim French Stepstool
    Whoa. I enjoy making fun of some of the stuff that comes out of their mouths. But I wouldn't come close to calling the move a crap sandwich. This organization has done a terrific job of reclamation and has often times gotten some great mileage out of it. It's what they do, and what they HAVE to do. If this one doesn't work, they'll move away from it. I just don't need to hear 73 times that he was a former Cy Young winner. Bill, Sophia, Jeff et al------I understand the logic behind the move. You don't need to bend over backwards to sell it to me.
  18. Jim French Stepstool
    After watching the telecast today, including some of the pregame, I decided that someone definitely needed to devise a drinking game where everyone has to do a shot every time Sophia says "former Cy Young Award winner". If Keuchel isn't here long enough for that to take hold, just transfer the rules to every time Bill Schroeder says "Not even close". If the game involves downing one every time anyone on the broadcast team mentions All Star voting, just give up & join AA pre-emptively.
  19. Jim French Stepstool
    Other than the immense swing-and-miss problem he's had at the MLB level, that's the elephant in the room For Mitchell. Breaks something taking batting practice. Tweaks a hammy swinging-and-missing. At this point, you just can't feel you have a surplus of OFs as long as he's in your plans. Paul Molitor had trouble staying healthy, then enjoyed relative good health later in his career. Hopefully the same thing happens with Garrett.
  20. Jim French Stepstool
    I suspect that's a large part of the reason why he WAS bunting. Probably lets him go if there was a RHP throwing (although he quite likely gets walked in that case).
  21. Jim French Stepstool
    Pretty obvious what Keuchel needs to do to stick around--put the off speed stuff low & on corners, get swings on that stuff, and then maybe he can put himself in a position where he throws upper 80s & it can look like 95. Not much margin for error. Oh, and very, very few walks. When he's laying off pitches off the plate & drawing a few walks, does Bauers remind anyone else of Russell Branyan w/a glove? My goodness, Contreras. OK, it's an elite closer, coming through there in the 9th isn't easy, but at least have an idea how he's going to work you w/1B open & the winning run on third. Give yourself a chance. Really ugly AB. Great BP work again, esp. Koenig.
  22. Jim French Stepstool
    The team website lists Kuechel as the starter. Junis following him would be a good guess, but it's not like Kuechel has been limited. He's averaging btwn 5-6 innings a start for Tacoma.
  23. Jim French Stepstool
    I hear ya. But we need to remember just how good 'good Elivs' looked last year. He's healthy. If he can re-discover whatever might be missing from '23, be it release point, stride, or whatever other mechanic might need to be tweaked, I think he's much better than anyone we would add in a trade.
  24. Jim French Stepstool
    In postgame, Murphy said if they scored runs in the 8th Wilson was probably coming back out. Wilson is such a perfect guy to use an opener for. Was afraid they wouldn't use one w/Koenig unavailable. Glad Milner threw two innings; gave up a couple hard hit balls vs a couple talented hitters but IMO he was OK. Four pretty hard hit balls by Chourio. Love how he's looking to go to right. I thought he was omitting that from his approach for awhile now. Damn, Pegueros' slider must've been vicious. Up until the HBP, quite a few bad looking swings from a couple of pretty good bats. Lets oil up the brooms.
  25. Jim French Stepstool
    That's why I'm more than fine with this as a cash deal. Get the guy with Chris Hook & see what happens.
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