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  1. rickh150
    Huge DP. For our sanity.
  2. rickh150
    Completely daunted so far…how undaunted will 9th look?
  3. rickh150
    We could trade away our top 10 prospects this year for rotation/bullpen help and upgrades in the field and we still wouldn’t be favored against Dodgers or Phillies. I disagree with most of what you are saying.
  4. rickh150
    Hudson??
  5. rickh150
    It might cost our future #1 SP Misioroski and several other top prospect cogs to get a #1/#2 type pitcher for just the next year to two and a half years…..likely too costly. I don’t see a CC Sabathia type on the trading blocks either. A flash in the pan or two. A #3 or #4 having a good year.
  6. rickh150
    I am pretty sure both Weeks and Hook were on the mound talking/discussing/listening…..not just a delivery. But maybe I am wrong and Weeks just delivered glove.
  7. rickh150
    Right….
  8. rickh150
    Why is this odd? 2/3 of those you picked are under 90 and 1/3 are over. I gave the rough average….not manipulating stats. For Hiura, though, it isn’t quite fair to include his bad years from 4-5 years ago without including his good one. If you are going to go back 3 or 4 years, why not go one further? I mean, he is very different than large majority in that he actually had All Star caliber numbers early and then went down. Leaving out that success is important.
  9. rickh150
    Last comment I would make about this injury riddled team....awful. Depth everywhere.
  10. rickh150
    Hiura wasn’t struggling in 2022 (.765 and 115 wRC+)…..team OPS is .733 right now. His numbers were better than almost everyone returning in 2023. And his 2023/2024 milb numbers are well above avg. I think a big part of this is that CC had a belief that everyone on the bench should be a defense plus player at different positions. And if Winker was the exception, then Hiura didn’t have a place.
  11. rickh150
    So a third of your list avg about 115/120. Some were 140s, others 90s.
  12. rickh150
    Glad it worked well for the Brewers….good decision. Got the same argument for the other parade of guys to play 1B/DH last year?
  13. rickh150
    If the Brewers let Winker go at the All Star break in 2023, do you think the majority of Brewers fans would object? A very low percent would. And this is mid season! They trotted him out more in the 2nd half, and then when everyone thinks his Brewers reign is over, the trot him back to pinch hit after not facing MLB pitching for what, six weeks? In summary, they gave Winker a shot, and I was very glad for that. His numbers career wise are impressive. It all backfired though keeping him around for an extended period of time to a fault. Winker hitting this year does not make up for the craziness of 2023 and the boos of those pinch hit ABs.
  14. rickh150
    Depends on what we were able to get back, ala Burnes trade. I know it’s not popular to say, but this offseason might be the perfect time to get a couple quality prospects back for All Star Yelich along with saving over $100 million for the back end of Yelich’s career. Our OF is stacked with guys fighting for ABs. All are better defensive options too.
  15. rickh150
    Using your numbers….12 of 34 or about 1/3 are above 94 Averaging the ones above 94…
  16. rickh150
    Hiura was not a poor hitter for the team in 2022 and should have been given many more ABs that season. Instead, he was yanked around mercilessly.
  17. rickh150
    Brewers coulda shoulda called him up and there were plenty of times to do it, pre and post injury…. I didnt mind the Winker signing one bit! I thought he could be an upgrade somewhere. He wasn’t. Why he was kept thru the sad weeks and then months of middle of the order ABs (Winker/Adames/Rowdy) to the postseason I do not know. Why Winker got all the breaks, I do not know. Like you said, his career is likely why. But how did that work out for the Brewers? And why Hiura couldn’t be brought up instaed of oh let’s see…John Singleton, Darin Ruf, Luke Voit….guys that were similar but outside the organization, I do not understand. The easy answer is that they should have just let him go after 2022 because they thought so very, very, very little of a guy with a higher career OPS than their current cleanup hitter.
  18. rickh150
    That leaves over a third of the hitters hitting what… 115-120 wRC+
  19. rickh150
    2022 MLB wRC+ 115 (also 351 less ABs than middle of order batter Adames wRC+ 109….Adames wRC+ is 103 from 2022-2024) 2023 minors 960 OPS/ 2024 minors 882 OPS 2023-2024 (half season) 41 HRs in 577 AB (1 HR/14 AB) Just give the guy a chance…
  20. rickh150
    Arizona…. I am using how simply bad Winker was in 2023 and how many at bats he received because he was supposed to be good. He hit second for half the year. He was awful. I have no idea how you are making any case for Winker. No idea what you are talking about. Winker got ALL the breaks with the team last year to a fault, Craig’s fault, and we were stung by any faith put in him. On the opposite end of the spectrum, the team pretended to like Hiura, paid him, watched him perform extremely well in 2023 AAAalong with good in Milwaukee in 2022, and then sat on their hands to watch Winker and 18 other DH and back ups do little to nothing.
  21. rickh150
    That is what is maddening…they brought him back in 2023 by giving him $2 million! Does that sound like they were convinced he couldn’t play at the major league level. And more importantly, he had better OPS than about anyone on the Brewers team in 2022! And then when ALL our backups/DH cannot hit with a laughable OPS around the lows.600 and dead last in 2023 (even with great Sept. numbers), the top hitting guy in almost all AAA cannot come up and hit EVEN then. EVEN THEN! So all who want to defend the Brewers and be company guys with this, you have no leg to stand on. And to make matters even worse, Winker and his awful season gets miraculously put on our postseason roster after six weeks hurt/minors and is the first person to pinch hit against a righty vs the Braves. The boos are still resounding in some darkened corner in AmFam with that. I would have loved to have seen Hiura get an opportunity here last year at DH in the lower part of the order. He could have played poorly and outhit whatever we threw out there…,backup catchers. Give him the at bats and routine (in 2022 hit in every spot of the order- remarkable, and played in four different positions in the field….even then he outhit most of the team!) and he might actually be a player that isn’t so easily brushed aside.
  22. rickh150
    .882 OPS overall, 18 HRs in all of 2024…so pretty good (but stats do not count for Hiura, even mlb #s in 2022).
  23. rickh150
    Would be shocked…costly prospect wise and a rental
  24. rickh150
    Wow… nice take. Don’t include that rookie year…doesn’t count…but do take the couple following it! Real fair. I think it is fair to look at who he actually is now and major in the last couple of years with a minor on who he was, including his early numbers. I think Hiura can still find a spot/niche because many everyday players are worse hitters and he can hit better than many of the DH out there now, including our 22 games with Gary Sanchez at DH. 2022- 765 OPS 113 OPS+ with Brewers 2023- .311, 960 OPS 23 HRs in minors 2024- .270 882 OPS 18 HRs (half season)
  25. rickh150
    If…..you are giving me a qualifier here? We are following three almost .300 hitters with a little over 700 OPS guy? Adames hits 6 or 7 in our current lineup. I like Chourio, Ortiz, and Hoskins all hitting higher than him with a usual lineup. Chourio and Ortiz look like they are both .800 OPS guys in their near future. Hoskins is a career 835. And Hiura hits 7 at DH with Adames moving to 8.
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