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  1. wiguy94
    Well they are playing the team that lost 7-3 despite throwing a no-hitter haha.
  2. wiguy94
    I have seen you cite this multiple times. Is this based off a study somewhere on performance post neck surgery or is it just an assumption on your part because it being statistically true would be a welcomed sight.
  3. wiguy94
    Winker has some pretty alarming trends from 2021 to 2023. He was hurt last year which could explain some of his problems. He is supposed to be healthy now but those trends have continued downwards. The most alarming trend to me is his trend against Fastballs. His xwOBA against FB has completely fallen off a cliff since peaking in 2021. That trend line looks like a guy who just can't keep up against velocity anymore.
  4. wiguy94
    They shoudn't have lol. It was completely unnecessary. Shifting has been around for a long time. They shifted against Mickey Mantle back in the day and those shifts were way more severe than anything that had been happening lately. The logic in the shift ban was also pointless. The amount of shifting has increased because of hitters trying to hit for power to the pull side. Banning the shift to create "more balls in play" just enables those extreme pull hitters to continue trying to hit HR every time they are at the plate because now when they just miss one by pull a liner to short RF it goes for a hit instead of an out. There's a reason the list of hitters who would most benefit from the shift were a bunch of power hitters and not contact hitters. The kid remark was because all the "hits up the middle should be hits" people are just talking about nostalgia from when they were a kid and taught to hit the ball back up the middle. Nobody is going to tune in to baseball because hits up the middle are now hits. The idea that it adds to the entertainment factor is mostly just not true.
  5. wiguy94
    That's a hilariously brutal attempt at a comparison but the fact you made it shows that you have no reason behind nostalgia so I appreciate you admit you were wrong!
  6. wiguy94
    Very doubtful but the point still stands. Give a logical reason why a baseball hit up the middle should be a hit other than nostalgia because I'm pretty sure you can't.
  7. wiguy94
    I mean you're essentially calling for putting an X on the field and forcing defensive players to stand there. There's zero reason a well hit ball up the middle deserves to be a hit while a well hit ball to where the shortstop traditionally players deserves to be an out. You're just crying out about nostalgia from when you were a kid and hit were told to hit balls up the middle!
  8. wiguy94
    It mostly just feels incredibly unnecessary. Should we bring back spit balls and sticky stuff because that used to be allowed? Definitely should get rid of the DH and have pitchers hit again then. Only day games?
  9. wiguy94
    So where does it end then? Will there be an X on field for every position player? Why should no doubles defense be allowed in the OF if the IF can't shift towards the middle of the field?
  10. wiguy94
    I said overrated not zero value. If Turang and Winker had the same OBP which is more valuable?
  11. wiguy94
    I personally think Winker's OBP is overrated because of how terrible he is as a baserunner. You basically need 3 singles, a double and a single, or a HR to score him from 1B. He's the definition of station to station as a baserunner.
  12. wiguy94
    How long of a leash will the Brewers give Jesse Winker? He had really bad batted ball metrics last year and that has only gotten worse this season. Considering he offers nothing outside of his bat this is pretty problematic. Out of 272 hitters with at least 75 PA this season this is where Winker's batted ball data sits. .215 xBA - 233rd .293 xSLG - 263rd .077 xISO - 261st .288 xwOBACON - 260th 88.7 Avg EV - 152nd 30.4% Sweet Spot Rate - 200th (batted balls with a LA between 8 and 32) 3.6% Barrel Rate - 221st 5.4% solid contact rate - 167th He obviously doesn't strike out that much and he draws a lot of walks but with how bad his baserunning is, how valuable is that high OBP? Not saying I think the Brewers should get rid of him now like I would for Voit, but how long should the leash be? Especially if Hiura continues to lower that K-rate in AAA while being super productive.
  13. wiguy94
    I think they should just get rid of Voit at this point for pretty much anyone. Winker has had horrible batted ball data for over a year now. I thought the surgeries and getting healthy would lead to a bounce back but the batted ball data has only gotten worse this season. Probably not a popular take but I'd give him another 50-100 PA and if he can't start elevating the ball/hitting the ball harder then I don't think he should be an every day starter. If Hiura continues to reduce the K-rate then call him up and make him the full time DH with Winker either benched/traded/DFA'd
  14. wiguy94
    He also hit LHP well in AAA in 2021 so this likely means nothing. The gap between LHP in AAA and the MLB is pretty significant
  15. wiguy94
    I mean since 4/17 Yelich has an 8% BB-rate, 14% K-rate and an xwOBA of .387. He's underperforming that wOBA by .066 which is largely just down to being incredibly unlucky. He's underperformed his xwOBA by about .010 the last two season. If he was underperforming at that level this season his wOBA would be .350 good for like a 120 wRC+. It's fine to acknowledge he looks much better has been incredibly unlucky this season.
  16. wiguy94
    Yelich has had some awful luck this season. He's hitting the ball way better than he has the last 2 seasons but has underperformed his xwOBA by .048 which will only go up after today.
  17. wiguy94
    Bringing Miley back out for the 6th was such a clear punting the game move. He was getting absolutely rocked the 2nd and 3rd time through the order. Down 4-1 vs Kershaw so Counsell decided to punt the game.
  18. wiguy94
    He has an .866 OPS vs the Brewers which is slightly below his .893 career OPS but he has always mashed at Miller/AmFam to the tune of a .956 OPS.
  19. wiguy94
    Also Tyler Glasnow as a comp for Houser is so hilariously inaccurate. I genuinely have zero clue how you ever could have come to that comparison.
  20. wiguy94
    Darin Ruf is a FA currently. Would rather have him than Voit despite Ruf probably being washed.
  21. wiguy94
    Like the Brent Suter article, this article feels absolutely unnecessary. Giving a 30 year old Houser a 5 year extension when he's only had 1 season in his career with a FIP below 4 might be one of the worst decisions a FO could do especially one with a limited budget like we have.
  22. wiguy94
    I think Gasser could potentiall be pitching on Friday.
  23. wiguy94
    Mikolas and Wainwright are 34 and 41 respectively. It's probably more likely than not that both of them are worse than they were last year just because of their ages. Here are the xERA for the Cardinals current starters vs ours. Brewers Burnes - 3.75 Peralta - 3.59 Miley - 4.00 Lauer - 5.82 Rea - 3.62 Houser - 2.44 Cardinals Montgomery - 3.52 Mikolas - 6.05 Flaherty - 5.38 Matz - 4.74 Wainwright - 3.78 Woodford - 7.09 Brewers SP hasn't even been that great this year but our starters look like world beaters compared to that Cardinals rotation.
  24. wiguy94
    2.8 fWAR for guys going 200 and 190 innings really isn’t anything impressive. That’s solid starter level and certainly nothing front of the rotation worthy. They also both overperformed their xERA by about .6 runs and the Cardinals defense this year is not as good as last year to bail out their pitching.
  25. wiguy94
    Winker has like a .360 OBP. They likely aren't going to cut the leash with him any time soon.
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