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  1. rickh150
    For everyone now, if a DH now… you pick who it is… comes up this year and plays 20 games as DH over a few weeks of the season and hits .949 there, what would compel you to switch? There isn’t a good answer to this, just like there is no defense for this year’s DH with Hiura hitting well in AAA. And finally, the Brewers are asking for my criticism! They are. When they signed the guy to a $2.2 million contract and said we want you in this organization, they are saying we really value what you do or can do. But they obviously do not now and I am calling them on it. Our hitting experts, who have not improved upon a single bat in the last three years (Urias, Taylor, Adames, Tellez) outside of Yelich (who had his own huge slide) carry little weight, the opposite of how the organization develops pitchers and catchers. Hiura has exceeded expectations and the DH spot could not be worse. It could not. I could pick names out of a hat from who CC did not start, and I would have done better than him. And the guys Arnold has signed or called up before or instead of Hiura….he even goes outside of organization to get Jones… have flopped. None of them have hit better than Hiura 2022 or Hiura 2023.
  2. rickh150
    A minuscule sample size, according to svuem… And “no where near that good” is still .817 OPS since June 16, unbelievably. His cherry picked bad stats could still be used as a legit reason to call him up to hit DH on our MLB team.
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    He posted Hiura’s stats from the pandemic… not last year even or when he was crazy good in 2019. The man is doing this this year… 303/.400/.955
  4. rickh150
    Oh my… really reaching when you decide to go to 2020 and 2021. Complaining about me cherry picking stats and then you go cherry picking yourself. You want nothing to do with what he did in AAA in 2022 and definitely not what he did at MLB in 2022. That blows up your 2020/2021 stuff. Again, if you are going to go 🍒 to 2020, why not include 2019, as well? Or include all his stats? The hypocrisy goes on when showing Hiura’s stats since June 16. You even put up the PAs! You said earlier that so few at bats (175 RHP/96 DH) are minuscule examples! So by your own admission, it’s better to take more PAs and see the season worth (.303, .400 OBP, .955 OPS), I guess. And the 15 HRs are with missing the plus month of action. It’s a different standard for Hiura. His results are crazy good this year and our DH has been crazy bad. And a cheap solution is there staring us in the face. And a new one! Hiura’s stats are propped up by HBP!
  5. rickh150
    I don’t find it offensive either. So what. Jake saw an O fer and said he didn’t like what he saw. I don’t know if that means he saw Adames like whiffs and reaches or if he was so behind on heat, I don’t know. And I’m saying he did well the night before…. On base three times, HR. Jake posts he looks poor in one game, but I’m saying he can’t be that poor when he lights it up night before. And he still is hitting #3 or #4 regularly.
  6. rickh150
    And the day before, the 2-3 HR and BB guy? Just a different standard for him,
  7. rickh150
    I don’t know of another example where one AAA player has played this well overall at a position (DH/1B) where the MLB club struggles so terribly much. The fit is almost perfect. He could have slid into the DH/1B role in May and hit last year’s numbers and all would be much better than the freak show there this season. And they thought enough of him to actually pay him and tender him a contract by choice. They could have said, nah, you are not our type of player. We are choosing to go another direction, no hard feelings. But they gave him the money. The strange part is that after an awful ST, he exceeds all expectations at AAA. His Ks are down, he hasn’t committed an error at 1B, he is hitting better there than almost anybody at any level in the organization. Yes, on this issue, I blame team and management. Doesnt make sense to not give him a shot and parade all these others barely fringe players, especially considering his positive numbers against RHP, as a DH, and in general last year (only Yelich on team this year and Tellez last year had a better OPS out of current teammates) and stellar #s this season.
  8. rickh150
    And yet still ..866 against RHP and .949 as DH. Still.
  9. rickh150
    Defense, Ks, career results, what he did yesterday but not the day before (2-3 HR, BB), AAA not as good as AA, like the five or six players above him getting opportunities this season at DH or 1B who have failed miserably, gotten hurt, or whatever……..he has the deck stacked against him this season. Any one of us would be ticked if we were in his position because it just doesn’t make sense to get paid 2.2 million from club to be treated like a nobody when performing better than lightweights any of these last season and this season.
  10. rickh150
    Yep. He can’t hit. Gotta help that .300 hitter in our system. He needs to be more like our #3 hitter.
  11. rickh150
    For prospects?
  12. rickh150
    Black at 1B tonight. Hiura at DH! interesting…
  13. rickh150
    Black at 1B tonight… Hiura at DH.
  14. rickh150
    Black at 1B tonight. Hiura at DH! interesting…
  15. rickh150
    I’m not sure middle infield is a strength when we have no great candidates for SS or 2B for the next three seasons. Black has been moved to 3B, Turang isn’t hitting (yet), Urias is backtracking, and the many hyped prospects are low levels. So to me it is an area of perceived promising results, not a strength.
  16. rickh150
    Fits right in with .235 and .732 OPS. Improvement for #3 spot. Not impressive trade, but it is something.
  17. rickh150
    I would be surprised if Burnes is back in 2024. I would be surprised if Woody and Adames weren’t on the team in 2024. Trades would not bring back much, especially with Adames hitting .200 and Woody being hurt.
  18. rickh150
    Well, the launch angle on that HR wasn’t quite up to snuff; he ran the bases a little slower than the avg. runner too. And that strike out…. man we can’t have that.
  19. rickh150
    The Brewers could have just non-tendered him instead of paying him a guaranteed 2.2 million contract.
  20. rickh150
    If our hitting coaches and analysts don’t like his approach, even more reason to bring him up, especially with what we have seen from our preferred choices at 1B and DH this year. My apologies and I’m done for a while…. Just do not like the reasoning of management with this all. Easy thing would be to play him for a few weeks daily and re-evaluate then. Cut then or trade. Brewerfan82 and sveumrules make solid points, but I disagree with all those getting shots before Hiura.
  21. rickh150
    I am all for seeing Black at DH too. If not Hiura, let’s take a look at him at DH. Option him later.
  22. rickh150
    Apparently. Why give him the 2 million then? If he stinks, why? How does this make sense? He hit better than almost anyone last year at MLB level and at DH and against RHP…only to sit in minors with a.950 OPS this year in the #3 slot at AAA while our MLB offense pinch hits Turang in tight games.
  23. rickh150
    Hitter to hitter, I can compare. In the batting order, why not? What does defense have to do with this? And yes, there is a DH where Hiura could hit and not field, and yes it is wiiiiiide open since our OPS there is awful. I am accurate in saying Hiura had a better OPS than almost anyone on the current team last year or this year. Total failure at DH this year. Utter failure and total disaster. The decision makers there have an F in 2023 And unbelievable stubbornness. Why they chose, they chose, they chose, they chose to pay Hiura 2 million plus million to hit very well at AAA only to not bring him up to fill an offensive hole. It is really nutso…ESPECIALLY NOW with DH OPS at .608, Tellez injured, so many not even fringe players up, and the team struggling with offense. And Hiura hits #3 or #4 at AAA daily. That manager Rick Sweet values his bat and really relies on his offense to carry that team. Black has excellent stats too. Yep. With the running I take Black too. Got others?
  24. rickh150
    I am fairly sure he has, arguably, the best offensive #s in our system. I am sure fire sure we struggle with offense at the major league level, I sadly am sure that we are playing light weight hitting rookies and not even fringe major leaguers that everyone, including CC, knows will not stick here. Just madness. No anything logical.
  25. rickh150
    Not Logical #3 hitter = one of team’s best hitters Adames = #3 hitter 2022 Hiura OPS > 2022 Adames OPS 2023 Hiura 0 MLB ABs < Adames 396 PAs at .692 OPS And now bringing up the farm ahead of him when he has best stats in the system.
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