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  1. PeaveyFury
    Not necessarily saying people truly believe it doesn't matter at all....just that any time someone wants to critique something offense related many want to shoot it down as a topic because the team isn't made to score 5.5 runs a game. So to be clear, this isn't what people are actually saying. I think you're unfairly taking the point people are making regarding the makeup of the team and taking it further than people intend it to go.
  2. PeaveyFury
    Who said that? It was been inferred endlessly any time someone complains about the offense. It is basically something along the lines of, "This is a pitching and defense first team." Inferred doesn't equal said, and you're making a huge leap on their behalf. Not a single person who accurately recognizes that this team was built based on pitching and defense believes that offense doesn't matter. That wasn't what was claimed, and wasn't even the the discussion that was taking place until your and timpep's posts.
  3. PeaveyFury
    Who said that?
  4. PeaveyFury
    I agree with your post, but I want to note that I doubt the pick will be viewed as for the future by the media/fans- that guy will be expected to produce immediately, and if/when he doesn't, he'll be called a poor draft pick by same a year from now. I hope they take a receiver or two this weekend, but I don’t view it as a glaring weakness. If BPA at #29 is a WR, then they should take a WR. However, I still view OL, DL, and CB as greater needs. I think you're right as well. BPA, and they have far greater needs. But the media is pushing 'WR help for Rodgers' significantly this week....
  5. PeaveyFury
    I think my issue is that the fans continue to complain about the same things with Gute, despite the fact that he's proven himself right about 99% of the time thus far. Sooner or later, you'd think the fans would get on board.
  6. PeaveyFury
    I agree with your post, but I want to note that I doubt the pick will be viewed as for the future by the media/fans- that guy will be expected to produce immediately, and if/when he doesn't, he'll be called a poor draft pick by same a year from now.
  7. PeaveyFury
    I was referring more to the point that they didn't get much from him thus far due to the IL stint. But to your question, yes, he'll revert to norms in some manner.
  8. PeaveyFury
    I think that with Wagner and Linsley gone, I think they DO have a depth issue now. No real backup OT (other than Jenkins, who is going to start at C otherwise), and some new mix of interior linemen, though they have options there to choose from. They would do well this weekend to snag 2-3 o-line names, and one of them may/should be an early pick.
  9. PeaveyFury
    As LFO noted, you're certainly entitled to your opinion. But, all evidence points the other way in this case. Would the Brewers prefer to be getting more offensive output from both of them right now? Sure. But they were likely signed with the expectation/hope that they would produce closer to their career norms, which in both of their cases, is mostly average for their positions. Their true value is derived from their excellent defensive prowess, which was almost certainly the key factor in deciding to sign them.
  10. PeaveyFury
    Bradley (-28 BAT, +15 BSR, +58 FLD) & Wong (-16 BAT, +24 BSR, +51 FLD) have both derived the majority of their value from defense & base running throughout their careers. They weren't signed for their bats. Exactly.
  11. PeaveyFury
    Because that's literally how the team was designed to operate this year. The pitching and defense was suppose to carry the team, yes, but I think the plan was to be at least average on offense. I think that is what he is getting at...why can't he complain about the offense that is below expectations. Below expectations but meeting expected results? Small samples are small samples. If they still look like this universally into the summer, there's something to that, I suppose. But even then, what's the team's record at that point?
  12. PeaveyFury
    Because that's literally how the team was designed to operate this year.
  13. PeaveyFury
    It only makes sense if they're completely blown away by something unexpected on draft night. Hence, not impossible to think he could be traded, but very, very unlikely for the reasons you cite and more. A plausible scenario, I suppose, would be an earlier-than-expected run on the QBs and the Broncos called offering #9 for Love (or pick your early-teens team accordingly), you'd think that the Packers jump at that without much thought. Realistic? No. Plausible in theory? Sure. Alternately, and perhaps more likely from a logic standpoint- if a QB-needy team make a gamble that a guy will be there later and they whiff on QBs, you might get offered a high 2nd, which you'd also probably have to at least consider...
  14. PeaveyFury
    Unless someone is arguing that Hiura should be added to the OF rotation for some reason, let's keep the Hiura discussion to one of the half dozen other threads it could belong to.
  15. PeaveyFury
    Perhaps. It's also not sustainable to expect to win 8-6 each night. The Brewers are banking on some guys returning closer to career norms. That has happened in the case of a guy like Narvaez, but it hasn't yet with Cain/Yelich etc. since they suffered early injuries. Continuing to complain about it when the team is in first place doesn't make sense to me.
  16. PeaveyFury
    No complaints when the team is winning 2-1 & 3-2 games, though right? The team was built on pitching and defense, and that was apparent early on this offseason. They really do need to clean up from the dearth of prospects that came out of the Ray Montgomery drafts. Hopefully the last couple can infuse some talent into the system offensively.
  17. PeaveyFury
    Posters: "We DESPERATELY NEED BATS! GO GET MORE BATS! SPEND MORE MONEY ON BATS" GM spends money on bats. Same Posters: "NOT THOSE BATS!" Should have added, those same posters while the team is winning close games despite not scoring many runs: "........"
  18. PeaveyFury
    Perhaps YOU weren't, but others were certainly in their own 'I told you so' mode based on said small sample. In the end, I'm content to leave the discussion where things are for now- someone else is paying him $5 million to sit on the IL for the next few months, and the Brewers look pretty smart/vindicated as such, regardless of whether his velocity returned for the baseball equivalent of two blinks of an eye.
  19. PeaveyFury
    Go back about 3 pages in this thread and you'll see that it absolutely was. In summary, I prefer 'hot take accountability' than 'I told you so', but I guess it's fair to call a spade a spade. When you formulate a conclusion like 'Knebel is back to his dominant old self, how could we just give him away' after 4 innings, it's very likely that's going to look like a bad conclusion at some point. The argument was further laid out as to why in Knebel's case it was even MORE likely that it would end up looking like a bad conclusion. But, and as shown over the past few days, I've also discovered that when people are held accountable for using faulty logic to come to a bad conclusion, they really don't like that. Small samples mean nothing. And, the Brewers have had their thought process proven correct in this case- they didn't have the luxury to have Knebel have a season where, at $5million, he oscillates between dominant, hurt, and ineffective (or some combination of the three). The Dodgers did have that luxury, hence the trade. And now, despite a really great 5 initial IP (followed by a couple not so great IP, but we won't go into that), they're paying him to sit on the IL well into the summer based on the current reports.
  20. PeaveyFury
    How about his recent Brewer career? So bad at one point in 2018 that he was sent to the minors, injured all of 2019, and horrible in 2020. Who could possibly have envisioned that claiming 'trade lost' after 4.1 innings might prove to be unwise?
  21. PeaveyFury
    Reposting for effect. I wish Corey the best, but a nice reminder that 4 innings means absolutely nothing vs. the big picture. So you’d cut Woodruff loose if he blew out his elbow tomorrow? Knebel is an all-star. He had TJ surgery. 80% of pitchers will have a major arm injury at some point. It was a cost cutting measure plain and simple, people can debate that all day long with both sides having merit. Sniping with “told ya so” is the lowest form of debate. Complaining or drawing any kind of conclusion based on a small sample size is the lowest form of fanbase complaining. We've historically tried to avoid that here. Just disappointing that we've trended away from that level, I guess.
  22. PeaveyFury
    Reposting for effect. I wish Corey the best, but a nice reminder that 4 innings means absolutely nothing vs. the big picture.
  23. PeaveyFury
    I wonder what that's like, having an aggressive GM that will help out his stud quarterback. Wouldn't be a Packer offseason without fans complaining about the front office despite how good they are at their jobs.....
  24. PeaveyFury
    That's fair enough. My response remains the same though- it's a quick conversational way to identify the variant, with no malice intended. If they had called it something like 'COVID19-B' instead of the very scientific B.1.1.7, it would probably be used more than 'British variant'.
  25. PeaveyFury
    Really terrible timing for him with the injury. It felt like with Pina's age and Narvaez's rough 2020, there was a legitimate opportunity for him to take one of the roster spots this year. The injury basically robbed him of ANY chance to do so.
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