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You are still doing it….making absolute statements (“they can’t possibly know…”) about not having absolute statements. Again, it’s like saying, “You can’t know ANYTHING for sure (are your SURE about that).” As soon as you make that statement, you refute your own statement. Better to say it is simply your opinion when you go down this “can’t possibly know” road. I simply would not want anything to do with the Cubs if I was Cc. My whole Brewers legacy would be gone and no amount of money….since I was a multi millionaire already…would be worth throwing that away. And that is my personal belief.
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Have to believe we are shopping, looking to deal. Yup and you bet. Not sitting back and SET. When ace is dealt in late offseason, I think anything else is still a strong possibility.
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It’s like saying, “You can’t know ANYTHING for sure.” The mere statement violates the meaning.
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You are making absolute stAtements about someone you don’t even know. That is the irony here. He could be 100% sure he would not leave for Chicago, regardless the money.
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I cannot believe that a large majority would pull a Counsell. I think most would realize that this lateral move would totally be a bad look and more importantly bad feel, would not take the poison pill wrapped in gold dust, look elsewhere, sit out a year or two, or stay put.
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Brewers Re-sign Brandon Woodruff - Two Year Deal per Heyman
rickh150 replied to BlazingGunz's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
That Teddy Higuera deal is looking better. -
Brewers Re-sign Brandon Woodruff - Two Year Deal per Heyman
rickh150 replied to BlazingGunz's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
If not for that shoulder injury… -
Brewers Re-sign Brandon Woodruff - Two Year Deal per Heyman
rickh150 replied to BlazingGunz's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
So this is puzzling to me….if Woodruff wants out in 2026, he gets the 10 million deferred anyways from the team AND then he can sign elsewhere too? I doubt it is the following, but I hope it’s like this:….both opt in…he plays 2026 for 20 million; brewers opt in, Woodruff opts out….he is a FA in 2026 with Brewers off the hook; Brewers opt out, Woodruff gets 10 million. -
Brewers Re-sign Brandon Woodruff - Two Year Deal per Heyman
rickh150 replied to BlazingGunz's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Surprised Brewers did this…. But also surprised that I got excited he was back potentially for 2025. I also guess there is a club option for 2026 with a buyout attached. -
Glad Canha and Santana were good fits and fixed a weakness. Those two so helped our last weeks of the year.
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Oh, I’ll celebrate that….. come now. And I should be upset for Hiura and the batting lineup of Winker/Adames/Rowdy hitting #2-4 half the season and the almost 2 dozen players at DH not named Hiura who we would have liked to hit DH with Hiura’s 2022 numbers.
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That Winker postseason AB….after six weeks of not seeing MLB pitching. And not even being on the team! And the season he had on top of it. And the Boooooos…for Counsell.
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You mean Winker, right? You cannot mean Hiura. “Every opportunity” you wrote in the English language, correct?
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Ah…..yeah. Hiura got paid MLB money to hit well in AAA while we failed to do much of anything at his positions of DH or 1B until mid August or so. And they tried umpteen people to the point of embarrassment. And my hope is that if/when he hits, he is given regular at bats in a regular batting spot, in a regular position, and that he is not yanked around to death. The Brewers belief in him to give him contract of 2 mil plus one month and the total lack of belief in him the next is one of the craziest things I have seen in baseball….and it should go as a warning to the rest of players in that you could hit unbelievably well in the minors during the year, have underperforming players at positions above you at next level you could still have zero hope of promotion, regardless of team paying you MLB contract to seemingly play MLB baseball.
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Sorry…signing of Hoskins. Still makes little sense unless we get help in the rotation..
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I see Burnes trade as a continued judgment on Burnes, himself. I think Arnold legitimately sees the return and eventual team by Opening Day as better THIS season. Not that the rotation is better now, of course, but He must think he can add to the staff someone similar or even better than Burnes…some trade must be up his sleeve or close to done. Has to be or the trade for Hoskins makes less sense. From shading him in arby to doing this trade after getting Hoskins, Arnold must think Burnes is trending downward and should be replaceable THIS season. And he likely thinks Ortiz is a huge upgrade at 2B.
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Badgers gave up 40 points in the last 10 minutes of the game! Has that ever been done to a Badger team? Ever? AND in a double digit win?
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Although he probably hasn’t been the MVP for any Big Ten game this season, Tyler Wahl is a big reason this team is undefeated in league play. He defends bigs well and even guards on switches. A couple defensive stops of his stick out today. He was the one dribbling the ball down court with a minute left, up 4. He is hitting his FTs much better lately and he is finishing better at the hope….both big improvements from last year. And he is a post presence. Selfless. He is even better than he was two years ago. And he can be better rested on top of it all with more depth off the bench. Huge presence.
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The competition for Essegian will continue to limit his minutes. It’s more the other good players (Chuck, Blackwell, Klesmit, Storr) that is limiting him than poor play. Connor is likely gone next year to simply play and play big minutes at another top 50 school. He is risking it to stay.
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“Small price…”
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It really didn't matter that Hiura hit over .900 OPS....he could have hit over 1.000 OPS and it wouldn't have mattered. We're going with Winker. Winker is the one we are staying with. And bat him #2 for half the season. I digress, but my logic is that if the Brewers think this high of him now, they MUST have thought he could have at least helped them somewhat late last season! The bar to take a few bats off the bench or even batting DH was super low. And with the team being super high on Chourio, why not? And we so needed a few big at bats, Sveum. Look at those playoff games. A big at bat here or there....how about letting Chourio bat in Turang's spot with bases loaded in Game 1? If Brewers brass believes in him so much now, they had to have had belief in him a couple months ago to hit better than the awfulness we saw. I just assumed they wanted to see more of him in the minors... or that they weren't comfortable with him yet as a hitter (ala Hiura). If they like Chourio enough to give him that contract, they should have had him up in Sept./Oct.
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Take a breath. I'm not trying to be difficult. I'm just saying we could have had better players up in Sept. and October. And these (Chourio, Black, Hiura, and Miz, if not injured) were the ones I was thinking. And the Brewers obviously value Chourio MORE THAN ANYONE. He could have been brought up in September and October, yes. And yes, he could have hit DH. He was an on fire hitter the second half. And if Super Two or long term deal price was the only thing keeping him down, I absolutely hate that reasoning. As Mr. Miyagi once said in Kirate Kid II, "Small price..." for winning in the playoffs. And he, Chourio not Miyagi, could have started the year in AAA if worried about MLB playing clock. Overall, I really do not like what we are doing with our bench over the last two seasons. It is a dumpster fire. And the DH position strategy is the big dumpster fire next to the bench one. I want the best bats playing and coming in off the bench. And no, showing our regular season record does not help the postseason record. And we didn't win a postseason game in October, and we didn't score much either. We were a couple of big hits away from winning each game, though. Sure would have been nice to have a big bat or really any bat coming off our bench last year.
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So a really good and soon to be great player, but still not good enough to be better than Winker in late season 2023. Or Chourio could have helped us, but we are too cheap to risk Super 2.?Also, doesn’t his service time clock stop if he starts the year in AAA, correct? Trying to defend Brewers late season moves is walking thin ice on a warm winter day. We desperately needed hitting, sparks off the bench…and another right handed bat with pop! And most on this board would have dumped Winker in June or July. So the Brewers are paying this guy like he will be starting CF and 3rd hitter. So be it. Yet, they were not willing to bring up same guy last year, even for a month or two in playoff hunt and/or postseason, to help the team in a minor role among a merry go round of low bar hitting role players
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Well, he signed in early December and we were still playing in early October….so less than two months. In general, Chourio’s really, really good to give him over $100 million but not really THAT good yet to outplay Winker (who also was living in the minors at season’s end) off the bench. Madness.
