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  1. Brewcrew82
    Gotcha. I, too, would like another lefty masher. Too bad we didn't want to go with Wil Myers. Though, Longoria is still out there. And adding Contreras definitely helps.
  2. Brewcrew82
    Do you not think Jesse Winker is a better option at DH? Without him DHing against RHP, I just don't see a place for him on this team.
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    This! Thank you for digging all of this info up.
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    Hiura is a much bigger question mark than Winker...One injury plagued season in one of the most pitcher friendly ballparks doesn't wipe out an entire career of high-level hitting. Even then, Hiura barely outperformed Winker by wRC+ (in significantly fewer at-bats) because Winker walks and gets on base at an elite level even when he isn't hitting. Neither Hiura nor McCutchen could do that.
  5. Brewcrew82
    Hiura's job is to hit the ball when in the lineup. He failed in September/October by OPSing below .500. He hurts himself by being a trash defender and striking out more than once in every 3 at-bats.
  6. Brewcrew82
    I agree that the team mismanaged the whole Andrew McCutchen situation. First, by the mere act of signing him, and then, second, by subbornly batting him cleanup against RHP when it was clear at this point in his career that he was a below average player against them. But I disagree that Hiura was mismanaged. You can't rely on hitters who strikeout as often as Hiura does to be a consistent cog in your lineup.
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    They traded him because he wasn't a fit in their clubhouse and they needed a second baseman. Winker isn't a sure thing, but considering he's still 29 and was a well above average to borderline elite hitter every season before then, I like the chances of success. Certainly a better option than Hiura.
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    Surgery in the offseason. Mariners say those injuries were a reason for his struggles Then, right from the horse's mouth: https://www.mlb.com/video/jesse-winker-s-current-mindset. Says he's healthy and in a much better spot health-wise after his surgeries.
  9. Brewcrew82
    Pure fiction. Look at this game log from Aug 17 to Sept 9.
  10. Brewcrew82
    Yes, because one injury plagued season in one of the most pitcher friendly ballparks in baseball tells the whole story. Here are the missing chapters of your story (which is like the whole book in this case): .885 career OPS against RHP in 1388 at-bats...Top 10 OPS in baseball against RHP from 2020-2021 (with guys like Soto, Harper, etc.). Good grief.
  11. Brewcrew82
    42% K rate (almost 50% in September/October), team-high BABIP (.366 as of Aug 28), HR-FB of 40%, and a sub .500 OPS from September on (once he started receiving regular at-bats) all seem like non-blind reasons to me...
  12. Brewcrew82
    Keston was never going to maintain that production with the 42% K-rate and a HR-FB ratio of over 40%. Brewers eventually gave in and started him regularly in late-August, and Keston proceeded to OPS below .500... Now we have a much better option in Jesse Winker, so this discussion is kind of pointless.
  13. Brewcrew82
    Yeah, the projection on Devin Williams is way too conservative. It’s been three straight seasons of top 5/3 relief work from him. I’m actually really glad that he’s pitching in the WBC this spring as he’s started slow the last two years before going on to dominate the rest of the season. Hopefully, that experience will enable him to start faster from the closer role. I still think we’re a set-up man short of having a great bullpen. I like Bush/Strzlecki a lot better in the seventh inning then in the eighth. Unfortunately, no one left on the FA market who could fit in that role, with the possible exception of Chafin. Look out for Abner Uribe. I could see him having a 2020 Devin Williams-style breakout if the control gains he showed in the AFL are for real.
  14. Brewcrew82
    The reason Hiura is jerked around at positions is because he's a terrible fielder....I disagree with how stubborn the team was in batting Cutch cleanup against RHP, but I don't think it was the difference in us missing the postseason. We missed the playoffs because of injuries and underperformance in our pitching, as well as a downturn in our fielding.
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    Just above Brett Phillips and just below Joey Gallo. Not good company to keep. Especially if you walk as infrequently as Keston does.
  16. Brewcrew82
    I would definitely take him. And I think a reunion is quite possible. The cost (in terms of prospects) would be virtually nothing.
  17. Brewcrew82
    We'll see. I do think some of the salary dumping we've seen this offseason is part of a strategy to gain more payroll flexibility to go after extensions for those players. Other than Yelich, we have very little in terms of significant long-term payroll commitments. Plus, I think that this FA period has demonstrated that $20 million AAV contracts aren't as onerous of a burden as they used to be given expanding revenues league-wide, even for a small market team such as the Brewers. That doesn't mean we should expect them to extend all three, but it's far from an unreasonable expectation that they'll find a way to sign at least one of them...
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    One can hope given the $20 mil. plus in payroll savings right now and the fact that we have yet to sign a single major league FA... In the end, I do think one will be extended. I actually think it will be Woody due to his age and the increase in the market value of high-end SS this winter. Adames is really good, but I'm not ready to commit $170 mil. plus to him rn.
  19. Brewcrew82
    Yeah. Usually when the Brewers make a signing or a trade it comes out of nowhere. And they don't tend to get involved in competitive markets.
  20. Brewcrew82
    Exactly. The Brewers almost always make a signing later in the offseason, when the market has died down and they're able to find better value (Grandal, Wong, JBJ, McCutchen, etc.). I see no reason to think this offseason will be any different.
  21. Brewcrew82
    He was pretty much limited to 3B for us last year and put up a -3.9 fDWAR and a -4 OAA. He was our worst infield defender other than Wong and Tellez. On the whole, he was only worth 0.6 fWAR, and was outpaced by Keston Hiura. He may have been one of our better hitters against LHP last year, but that's not saying much as we were among the worst teams against LHP. If he wants to stay on the roster, he simply has to do better than a .764 OPS against LHP. It's quite possible that he'll return to his career line of .830, and that's why I think he'll be on the OD roster, but he's definitely on the hot seat.
  22. Brewcrew82
    As I said, the Braves didn't win the World Series because of Jorge Soler, even though he was the World Series MVP. They won because 4-6 of their other hitters (Rosario, Pederson, Freeman, D'Arnaud, etc.) also got hot at the same time. Our hitters? The exact opposite. So, no, adding Jorge Soler would not have won us the World Series in 2021. You brought up CC. What he did was probably the single greatest performance by a trade deadline acquisition in MLB history, and it brought us our first postseason appearance in 26 years. I'm glad we gave up Brantley and LaPorta for that. But that's not the typical scenario.... There's a significant difference between hoarding prospects and drafting and developing as a small market franchise....
  23. Brewcrew82
    Okay. Well, that's a stance that I (and I suspect most others) will have to disagree with. Though, for all we know, a team could have wanted Chourio at the time, too. Frelick may not be "elite" but he's top 100 for a reason. I don't regret trading those guys for CC. But, then again, not every player acquired at the deadline is capable of single handedly carrying a team to the playoffs. Certainly not the guys you just listed. If the Brewers are going to win a World Series, they're going to have to do so by drafting and developing and smart, targeted spending, not by trading their best prospects for the Soler's, Gallo's, and Marte's of the world.
  24. Brewcrew82
    I know about Schwarber. But I don't think it's accurate that JBJ was the single biggest reason we were unable to obtain those guys. Rather, it's the fact that those guys costed prospects and that the trading team had to be interested enough in our prospects compared to other contenders at a time when our farm system was ranked bottom 3 in the entire majors. Would you have been happy trading Frelick, Turang, or Mitchell for Gallo, Marte, or Soler? I sure wouldn't have, as none of those guys would have likely been enough on their own to win us the World Series that year. Soler was the World Series MVP, but the Braves won because Rosario, Freeman, D'Arnaud, etc. all went gangbusters during the playoffs whereas all of our hitters did the exact opposite.
  25. Brewcrew82
    I don't think there's any scenario in which the Cubs would have actually traded those players to us... Plus we made calls on Scherzer and Reynolds. We were outbid and rebuffed...
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