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  1. PeaveyFury
    I'd say that based on how out of the blue the Wong signing happened, taking Tom's assumption that Hiura is the 1B discounts how truly little information Stearns and co let leak out. Wouldn't shock me if they've got more stuff in the fire that we haven't heard about because no one has heard about it.
  2. PeaveyFury
    I don't think it's fair to say we overpaid, as it really doesn't appear so. And Wong is the starter at 2B. There's no way he's sitting in 2021. Hiura is either the 1B, the DH if they get that sorted out, or traded.
  3. PeaveyFury
    Even then, wouldn't you have to be really certain that the Coors issues aren't legit?
  4. PeaveyFury
    I literally had to google his birthday to make sure I hadn't really mis-read his age previous to that post...
  5. PeaveyFury
    Hiura, Mitchell, and Ashby or Small is probably more realistic to me as well.
  6. PeaveyFury
    This is the second player where you've made this claim on recently, and the second time where you're completely incorrect on that point.
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    I... what?
  8. PeaveyFury
    wRC+ is a great measure of a player relative to all hitters in the league while ignoring their position. As a 2B, Wong is above average offensively. Since 2015 there have been 30 2nd basemen to have 2,000 plate appearances. Wong ranks 21st in wRC+. If we just take out the pandemic 2020 season and go to 2019 there were 19 qualified 2nd basemen, Wong was 10th in wRC+ and that was with a career high 108 wRC+. If we use his career 96 wRC+ he would've been 13th. He's just not in any way above average offensively at 2nd. As others have also pointed out, you're using a metric that measures all hitters and trying to contort it into something that you can try to use to measure hitters at a position, when the stat isn't designed to do that. If you use a stat that actually factors positional adjustments as part of its actual calculation, he's an above-average hitter as a 2B. I get questioning whether money should have been allocated to a different position, but there's nothing that indicates that signing Wong to this contract in a vacuum is actually a negative.
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    I split some Ramirez-oriented posts from this afternoon off and into this thread....
  10. PeaveyFury
    I would guess Small or Ashby, and perhaps someone like Je'von Ward. Ramirez does seem like the type of guy you give the farm for if he's available, and he solves a huge problem for Milwaukee's lineup. I'd do a Hiura/Small/Ward-like deal all day.
  11. PeaveyFury
    I would prefer Matt Chapman in Oakland. Would seem to cost less in prospect capital and you arguably would be able to do Chapman (who is a FA after 2023) for Hiura (who isn't a FA until after 2025) + maybe someone like Tristen Lutz. The cost control of Hiura and additional 2 years of control might balance some of the prospect capital for Oakland. Has there been an actual indication that the A's are taking offers/interested in moving Chapman, or is it just a hypothetical? There has at least been chatter about Ramirez.
  12. PeaveyFury
    I think a lot of people were already claiming that they didn't think we'd spend money like they did on Wong, so may be the reality is different than the assumptions? Wong and Turner would be a VERY successful off season for sure.
  13. PeaveyFury
    Yep. I really find it hard to be negative about signing a guy who literally put up a 5+ WAR season in the last non-COVID year and is literally one of the best defensive players at his position in the game.
  14. PeaveyFury
    wRC+ is a great measure of a player relative to all hitters in the league while ignoring their position. As a 2B, Wong is above average offensively.
  15. PeaveyFury
    I think it was pretty obvious that, given the financial limitations, the Brewers are not going to be able to sign players without some warts to their overall game. I'm not even sure the warts are all that real. He's had a 1.5-2 oWAR over most of his career. People see a .700-.750 OPS and equate that to 'not that great,' while forgetting to adjust for positional expectations. He's an above-average offensive 2B, with literal gold-glove caliber defense. Not sure what happens with Hiura, but the team just added a 3-4 WAR player today, and I can't believe that can be viewed as bad by anyone who looks at the numbers. I think this signing also makes a larger trade far more possible. I don't know what the plan is for Hiura, but it isn't to have him play 2B. He adds a lot to the team as a potential DH bat, but moving him to 1B is far from a guaranteed success. Seems far more likely this opens up the possibility of a trade, which hypothetically, would be a pretty significant one.
  16. PeaveyFury
    It IS worth noting, though, that other than Grandal, those guys have been in-season acquisitions.
  17. PeaveyFury
    Taking this a step further, since Garcia is a sunk cost, you might as well roll with him rather than adding Puig.
  18. PeaveyFury
    A DC position in Green Bay is a logical step if you want to either land a high-profile college HC job, or with NFL success, become a 'hot' candidate for an NFL gig. If GB wants him, his ties to the Wisconsin program aren't strong enough to keep him there, IMO.
  19. PeaveyFury
    Do we really know that as a fact? Weren't there substantiated rumors that he was a legit candidate to be DC at Florida State or something like that a couple of years ago?
  20. PeaveyFury
    Just to clarify, the Cards projections ARE factoring in Arenado, right?
  21. PeaveyFury
    So true...
  22. PeaveyFury
    Encarnacion's bat makes a lot of sense if there's a DH, and I'd have zero problem with a non-roster invitee type deal. He's a pretty brutal 1B, though, so you'd kind of be picking your poison there since you'd have a similar problem with Vogelbach defensively. You'd have the makings of a really nice LHB/RHB platoon offensively, though....
  23. PeaveyFury
    Right, which is why I rephrased the question on page two of this thread: I think the subsequent discussion does suggest I re-phrase this question. If the initial poster was actually asking what about the hire makes Swing and a Drive think it's overdue, that's a very reasonable question to ask. As noted, if it truly was to ask the poster, who hasn't dropped back in, why/what he knows to feel this was deserved because he implied that he may know something about her story that we don't, that's perfectly reasonable to ask. But, if the intention was otherwise, that's more problematic.
  24. PeaveyFury
    Is the well even close to dry yet, though? As per above, there's still 148 free agents unsigned....
  25. PeaveyFury
    The Badgers have really been able to 'plug and play' d-coordinators dating back to Dave Aranda. I'm confident they'll be able to backfill that position with a quality replacement.
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