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Yes this report is so expertly done with good color as well. Reading these reports is far more enjoyable than watching the big league team at the moment 🙁
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Why does Joey get a game off a day after he smacks a nice home run? That’s not how you build off a good day. Why not sub out Durbin and improve the defense??
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Man, for years now the Crew has shown a penchant for having great minor league talent develop to the absolute or near worst of their abilities offensively at the big league level. Not that this is the deciding factor - but it continues to appall me that after their best collective offensive showing in years last year, they decided to fire Ozzie Timmons and promote some blokes from their minor league coaching pool who have seemingly played a part in this developmental problem. I mean, I’m sorry to be harsh, but just looking at the collective visage of Labeouf and their hitting coaches - they do not look like inspiring individuals to say the least.
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This is so absurd. Priester walks a lot of people too AND Myers has been returning from a lengthy injury, so he has a better reason as to why he hasn’t been as effective. Very annoying decision - Priester is not a big league caliber player at this time. The only thing I can think is Myers’ velo has been a bit down - very much so yesterday. Maybe they just think he’s not all the way back.
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It is interesting because they were finally a solid offense last year and then they let Timmons go. That made no sense to me. Labeouf and Dawson both look and seem like jokers.
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I don’t think they reflect their manager at all. Not a single player show’s fight or energy. They all look unnecessarily glum. That’s why they miss a guy like Willy so much to keep it loose. Murphy just went out there and chewed out an ump in a classic way that you hardly see anymore…..and his team looks half asleep. How are they reflecting a hard nosed scrappy guy when they are acting the opposite of that?
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Why would they warm Uribe up…..if they knew they weren’t going to use him no matter what? Koenig clearly didn’t have it, command was spotty and was throwing slower than usual. His pitch count got high. Why not take the platoon advanced with Uribe if he’s warmed up??? They certainly weren’t gonna put him in the game if they lost the lead.
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It is truly painful to me how many non big leaguers are on this team. It is so disrespectful to paying fans to put a guy like Elvin Rodriguez out there in a 2 run game. Also, Rodriguez is another example of Arnold getting too confident in his team’s ability to “work their magic” with pitchers.
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Brewers trade for RHP Quinn Priester
Sugarrayray replied to Ron Robinsons Beard's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Now that Holobetz is involved with the trade, I like it even less. Didn’t like it to begin with. -
Before this team traded for Willy around May 20th several years ago, they began that season with a similar middling vibe. I’m not comparing the players on those teams as much as the team’s identity. Willy came over and immediately injected life and confidence into the Crew. He’s gone now and a lot of that life and confidence seems to be too. I’m not saying this is the ultimate correlation, but man he was a leader. They do not have one now. I simply love Matt Arnold and know he is hamstrung by Attanasio, but I will say he appears to be penny wise and pound stupid at times. Already knowing Yelich ties up such a colossal percentage of the salary, he has invested heavy money in Woodruff, Hoskins, and to a lesser part Civale. Knowing Yelich is already someone who deals with a constant injury, it seems unwise to invest so much in guys who are either coming off career altering injuries, or in Civale’s case someone who rarely comes close to a full season. Add in blithely ignoring the flexor strain Cortes ended last season with, almost all the money being spent on the big league roster is tied up in injuries or ineffectiveness. I’m not criticizing the moves individually. Individually I agreed with almost all of these deals. But collectively, we need to target other types of players with what little money there is for this team.
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This sounds like hyperbole. Humiliate? It’s called repercussions. Frelick is one of the guys on this team that is firmly entrenched in his role. He’s fine. He made a huge base running mistake a game or two prior. Then there was a team meeting. I imagine in this team meeting Murph gave them all a fair warning “it doesn’t matter who you are, if I see blatant mental mistakes continued to be made, there will be repercussions.” Frelick goes out the next day and swiftly does something stupid on defense. Now you tell me, is it fair for Murph to penalize Durbin for being pig stupid on the base paths, but not Frelick because he plays hard? It’s an egalitarian rule. And fairly, Murph did what he most likely said he would do in the closed team meeting. That’s good managing to me. It’s cowardly managing if someone immediately does something that he just addressed, but he DOESN’T follow through with them based on status.
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I know they are complete different pitchers, body types, and ages, so the comparison isn’t great - but watching how Jared Koening basically went from throwing 89 as a starter to 96 and even 97 as a reliever, it makes me think if Jared was still a starter the Brewers would have gotten him up to 92-94. So for a young man who’s just 19 and and well under 200 lbs, you gotta think over the next few years as he gains weight and strength, and technique, he will AT LEAST be able to ride 91-93 and touch 94 right?
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I think they determined he had the stress fractures the season prior. He thought it was just back pain, figured it would heal over the winter, and when he showed back up in Spring and it hadn’t healed, that’s when they got imaging?
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Full truth? Were there indications there was than meets the eye there??
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No you can’t, it’s a pretty laughable attempt.
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That swing by Dunn in an 0 - 2 count in that situation, amongst other things, illustrates why I think he is not big league material.
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He seems to not really have any idea where his sinker is going, like absolutely not a clue. The movement on his pitches does look very nice, however. It’s easy to see why teams are so enticed by him.
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DL Hall had not been a top 100 prospect for some time at that point. He was also looked at as someone with strong reliever risk and an almost absurd injury history….. Ortiz was a lower half top hundred prospect by some publications. Some publications this year have Yophery as a lower half top 100 prospect, and others have included him as someone who could be added soon. The Brewers got a nice draft pick in what was considered an extremely poor draft class. The Red sox are getting a similar draft pick in what is considered a better draft class…..I agree that the Brewers got a better haul, but considering each haul as “not entirely dissimilar” is…..nuts???
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It has crossed my mind. Has it crossed your mind that this package is not entirely dissimilar to the package the Brewers got for Corbin Burnes?
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Yes, and it also seems to me that trust and blind faith are two different things. I do generally trust Matt Arnold. I am saying that there are signs that his approach is starting to appear, at least, to trend too far in the direction of “we can fix anyone who has traits we like. And we can entirely build our pitching staff around that.” I am saying that it is starting to go a little too far in that direction, and paying a very steep price for someone who has been as stupendously awful as Priester has in the majors, is not a good sign.
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Right and my “take” involves feeling that the Brewers’ brass is overestimating their ability to rectify someone as bad as Priester. “What if” is not really a great way of approaching player acquisition. It is quite clear both the Pirates, and the Red Sox believe Priester is not going to turn into a mid-rotation arm. I trust the Brewers to coax pitching talent better than those two organizations. But hoping/betting you can coax talent is a fine strategy when you are not giving up a lot in talent or money to acquiring a poorly performing player. Paying heavy prices in prospects and draft picks to do so is generally ill advised, and something that would appear to be rooted in desperation, with a bit of hubris mixed in. I’m not saying he won’t be good. I’m saying paying this price for a player who has performed terribly, and far below expectations, is not a good method to subscribe to.
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I agree. And how sustainable will it be when you compound your misfires by overpaying to correct for them subsequently. I’m on board with their approach generally, but this morning is the exact direction I don’t want to see it go towards. Now, this is the first time they’ve done this, but I am just really hoping it doesn’t continue this way. Rodriguez alone is hard to part with. Even if it’s dealing from organizational strength. But coupled with the pick? It reeks of desperation. I mean, if this trade was reversed, we would be saying Arnold is cresting new levels of highway robbery (Contreras trade not included, of course).
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I am saying I feel that they have fallen so in love with their ability to fix players of questionable ability, that they have started to ignore some pretty glaring red flags.
