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  1. rickh150
    So let’s review here… 2022 stats do not matter. 2023 Spring Training Stats do matter. 2023 AAA stats do not matter. Winker playing not well at DH does not need to be repeated, even though he continues to play fairly regularly. No matter what Hiura has done or will do this year, it does not matter. Yeah, I disagree with everything. I even disagree with you that Hiura blew his chance this Spring. This is based on him STILL not getting a call up and actually looking for warm bats outside of the organization, I doubt that he makes the team regardless of what he did in Spring Training because of Winker.
  2. rickh150
    Hiura thread….
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    Hiura 2022 ranked 4th on team in OPS and 6th with OBP last year. Only current Brewer ahead of him then was Yelich in OBP and Tellez in OPS. Hiura’s 2022 would rank 2nd on team in OPS and 8th in OBP on team this year. I was a fan of trying Winker and all, but he is hitting .572 OPS at All Star break.
  4. rickh150
    If this be the reason, I’m not sleeping tonight and will walk and talk myself to the nearest mental institution with Cubs gear on.
  5. rickh150
    Miller has been fine. Better than most others playing for us at major league level. He has been one of the pleasant surprises, actually.
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    Sounds great to me…
  7. rickh150
    I am trying to show different stats… not same. Apologies for repeats. I am in the right thread, though. I am game for discussing why he is not on team. Good point……I cannot fathom why he is not in Milwaukee. Cannot get over it. To me, he would instantly be filling a gaping hole. Hit him DH and hit him low in order. Strike outs? Not good, yep. He also struggles with high velocity up in zone especially. Most do, but he specially and maddenly so. Low velocity high in zone were whiffs or fouls back. So maybe hole in his swing is part of it too. But I’ll take it all if he can still put up what he did last season. Who wouldn’t? His barrels/PA was 4th on team last year, 83rd in all of baseball. His barrels/batted ball easily was first on team and 17th in all of baseball. And he is hitting well in AAA this year. If there wasn’t a DH, defense would be another reason. Yet he could fill in at 1B or LF in a pinch. But it is incomprehensible why a top 5 or 10 bat (currently… not in two or three years with Chourio, Black, Frelick, etc.) in the entire organization is not on a team desperate for hitting at the DH spot.
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    Brewers now .601 DH OPS… League worst. Staggeringly bad for a designated bat the manager hand picks each game. The Oakland A’s team OPS is .650, league worst, by the way. It gets worse. The 20th best team DH OPS is the Mets at .703, over 100 points higher than Brewers. Over half MLB have team DH OPS in upper 700s or.800s. Easy way to fix that seemingly in house.
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    2022 Hiura OPS+115 2023 Yelich OPS+129, Contreras 110, Adames 93, Anderson 92, Wiemer 83, Tellez 81… What I like about OPS+ is that fielding your position is not taken into account, but it is adjusted to the ballpark. It compares the league to how you are hitting, as well. It is just the bat. And if Hiura would simply be plopped into that DH position, I think this is what you could expect.
  10. rickh150
    A win and we are 5-2 vs Reds this season, getting the early edge with the tie-breaker, as well.
  11. rickh150
    Ha! Burnes was not even in our pole, How is he an All Star this year?
  12. rickh150
    Something like hit, walk, hit, double to tie..
  13. rickh150
    2011 proves the rule… that it is very unlikely, yet possible so that it is news worthy and note worthy. The exception that proves the rule would be like a sign saying you cannot park on the street on Tuesdays from noon to 5:00P.M. This exception on Tuesdays proves the rule that you must be allowed to park there all other times. “Kinda, exactly” is hedging talk.
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    Only Yelich…. Just him this year….has a better OPS+ than Hiura did last year. Last year Hiura, folks….And I am talking about Hiura’s wacky MLB time in 2022… being yanked around….Up and down from AAA, in and out of lineup, different positions, pulled late in games, or just giving him a pinch hit at bat. There was a time last year when he went 12-42 (.285 BA, .884 OPS) between June 9 and July 10, 2022. He then was sent down inexcusably. Hiura struggles with defense. Yep. Hiura strikes out too much. Yep. I just assumed that the bat still plays, especially with the DH present!! But there is still that road for him here in 2023. The DH allows a good bat to just hit and not play the field. This bat also isn’t required to bat high in the lineup where superior bats live. Then again, maybe they don’t need any help in the DH area….. Let me check that DH OPS again.
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    Great points… not sure why this adds to whatever you are trying to do. That Braves team was 80-55 on Sept. 1……25 games over .500….they then collapse and go 9-18. Crazy. Very unlikely scenarios of a good Cards team getting crazy hot and another very good team getting crazy cold… thus the 1 in 100 odds. Yep, one team to catch, but one team that was 25 games over .500!!! Today, the Cards odds are 3 or 4 times more likely STILL to make the playoffs. Some acting like it is absolutely over…. Like 1 in a million… still boggles me. More like 1 in 25….1 in 30. Do I think this will happen? No. But crazier things have happened….2011 is just one example. Thinking about it, I wonder if the Cards odds of winning World Series Game 6 was EVEN less than this scenerio when they were down by 3 with two outs in the 9th and nobody on… anybody remember that game? Rangers were so close to victory.
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    Huh? I agree with fangraphs…saying it’s like a 1 in 20 chance that Cards could still make the playoffs…. Highly unlikely. Others are more like 1 in 100 or 1000… so be it. And then there are a few pridefuls that say there is a 0% chance …. And then when pushed just a little, they immediately abandon their claim and refute that by agreeing that mathematically, of course, that is not accurate. How is my position on this abnormal or unreasonable at all? The 2011 thing happened. You calling it an outlier… yep, I agree. Of course. Crazy odds. This, much more possible, but still extremely unlikely.
  17. rickh150
    Respectfully, I appreciate your opinions, but I disagree with how Hiura is being not used. He could easily help us at DH with even last year’s numbers. And I’m glad you are fairly cocky today because of Adames’s jacks, but defending him to be top of order bat seems odd to me when you seem cold to even having Hiura bat DH low in order. Those don’t match up for me. But, yeah, go Adames!
  18. rickh150
    Turang….great at bats this week.
  19. rickh150
    Hate the blowing of leads and all, but Brewers baseball is a lot more fun when I actually think we could score runs in each and every inning. These last two weeks of games have been fantastic.
  20. rickh150
    No more than the Reds…. Our pitching is way better.
  21. rickh150
    Nah, not really.
  22. rickh150
    Adames hits middle of our order. Hiura isn’t on the team.
  23. rickh150
    Only one Brewer this year has a better OPS+ than Hiura did last year. Yelich has a better 2023 OPS+ (129) than Hiura’s 2022 OPS+ (114)
  24. rickh150
    2023 Brewers DH #s to date 29th in OPS ( .601) 29th in BA (.204) 4HRs in 360 PA 35% K rate Hiura’s 2022 MLB DH #s .989 OPS in 98 PA (.765 OPS overall, .866 OPS against RHP in 157 PA) .274 BA, 7HRs, .378 OBP (14 HRs in 266 PA) 41% K Rate Hiura’s 2023 AAA #s .319 BA, 392 OBP, .982 OPS
  25. rickh150
    And Teheran should be long relief for one of two games; Houser can pitch an inning in a couple of days.
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