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  1. rickh150
    Feels like it if he hasn’t gotten called up yet…. Maybe they are keeping him as the secret weapon for the big showdown.
  2. rickh150
    Almost as much as our DH hot potato decision makers… let’s try everyone else and others outside the organization BEFORE the guy with the good numbers in MLB 2022 that we actually thought enough of to give $2.2 million….and then he outperforms those expectations and still cannot get a call…, Always some thing. And the argument of value now is way different than after ST when rosters are being cut and squeezed already and he was awful at a 2.2 mil pickup. Must be nice to hide behind management at every turn and decision and not think for yourself. A good bandwagon soldier.
  3. rickh150
    He is closing in on 50 SBs as well. Putting him and Frelick at top of the order could add a spark…..
  4. rickh150
    AAA to start 2024 and if he excels a call up to MLB late 2024 season. It’s why he was pushed in the first place. He’s on the track now. Preaching patience with his development doesn’t make sense now when he is at AA at 19.
  5. rickh150
    So Brewers sign him for $2.2 million to seemingly hit for Nashville for the entire 2023 season and be their 8th back up at DH or 1B. Great plan.
  6. rickh150
    And like said previously, if he was sooo bad and sooo down on the pecking order, why even sign him? He does really well, better than expectations, and just sits in AAA while others fail here at 1B/DH.. Such a unique situation….in 99.9% of other situations, if you do well you get promoted. And If you are not promoted, it’s usually because you are either rather young or others above you are doing well too. In our situation, MLB DH does incredibly bad and Hiura does incredibly good. And 1B had its issues. On top of it in this situation, the team did not have to sign Hiura. They were not stuck with him and his contract.
  7. rickh150
    Then take 2022 MLB stats. If AAA means nothing, then compare those.
  8. rickh150
    Not really. I am taking him as he is, warts and all. I am not calling for him to be our regular 1B. His defense is suspect, even though he has no errors at 1B this year. I hated watching him play 2B. I am taking him as a DH and a spot replacement/start at 1B or LF. What is happening is that others are listing warts (defense, Krate, hbp, stats since injury, 2020/2021 stats) to support team’s reason for him staying down. Still, I am saying warts and all, Hiura STILL deserves to be up here helping us at DH. Most love the warts it seems. Those are littered here all over. I post his actual full season season stats as a counter to all this and I am the one missing context? Disagree strongly.
  9. rickh150
    You could split stats like this for every player in every season. And we all know this.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. rickh150
    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
  13. 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!
  14. 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.
  15. rickh150
    And the day before, the 2-3 HR and BB guy? Just a different standard for him,
  16. 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.
  17. rickh150
    And yet still ..866 against RHP and .949 as DH. Still.
  18. 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.
  19. rickh150
    Yep. He can’t hit. Gotta help that .300 hitter in our system. He needs to be more like our #3 hitter.
  20. rickh150
    Black at 1B tonight. Hiura at DH! interesting…
  21. rickh150
    Black at 1B tonight… Hiura at DH.
  22. 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.
  23. rickh150
    The Brewers could have just non-tendered him instead of paying him a guaranteed 2.2 million contract.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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