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So what happened? Sedar did send him, didn't he?
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Good to see Braun come through with a big hit, even though it was for naught. Villar is frustrating, and I say that as a guy who wants him at 2B daily. I know it was just an accidental slip, but man, it feels like it's always something.
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More awesome defense.
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Thought Santana had a better arm than that. Weak throw.
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How awesome would it be if Counsell came out of the dugout tonight, used an obscenity to refer to Molina and complained about his framing?
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RISP for Domingo !
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Cain chases Ball 4, Thames weakly grounds out, and another putrid AB from Braun. I remember how often we complained last year that the offense would start a game hot and then do nothing the rest of the game. Now they just skip the hot start.
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Why do people think this? When has a former great with many millions left on his contract ever retired early and forfeited all the remaining money? Schmidt lost $500K by retiring and was on a 1 year deal. Braun has millions and millions of reasons not to retire early. He could hit .100 for the next 3 years and he would still stick around long enough to collect every last dime or force the Brewers to make the difficult decision to release him and still have to pay him. It simply doesn't happen the other way. Prince Fielder "retired" but still got all of his guaranteed money. Because he had a career ending injury and couldn't play anymore. That's an allowed reason to walk away and still get paid. Getting to the point where you just suck and want to preserve your dignity is not.
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Hmm, I certainly believe you but it definitely wasn't Penny. He was on a minor league seal when he retired.
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He didn't overreact at all. He didn't say Braun sucks and we should release him. He even said he thinks Braun will be fine. He simply asked if Braun hypothetically nosedived in production over the rest of his contract at which point they would cut bait if ever. If Braun started the season 9-18 with 3 HRs and a .600 OBP this question would never have been asked. It was asked because he has started slow. When is the correct time for Milwaukee to DFA Christian Yelich? Jimmy Nelson? Why aren't those fair questions? I think the difference is quite obvious, Braun is a player on the tail end of his career making more money and being less productive than those two, and it's reasonable to believe that he could decline in the next 3 years the way that Alex Rodriguez did near the end of his career. But yes, it's obviously related to his start.
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Exactly. ARod was horrible in 2016 but still got every penny owed to him in 2017, or he would have stuck around, which the Yankees didn't want because he was so terrible by then. A-Rod's 'retirement' was nothing more than a release disguised as a retirement to save A-Rod the embarrassment of being released and save the Yankees the burden of releasing an all-time great. The only example I can think of in recent history of a player under contract who actually willingly forfeited the rest of his contract and retired was Salomon Torres, and he obviously lost a lot less than Braun would. I'm sure there are other examples but big money, multiyear players don't do it. It simply doesn't happen.
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Why do people think this? When has a former great with many millions left on his contract ever retired early and forfeited all the remaining money? Schmidt lost $500K by retiring and was on a 1 year deal. Braun has millions and millions of reasons not to retire early. He could hit .100 for the next 3 years and he would still stick around long enough to collect every last dime or force the Brewers to make the difficult decision to release him and still have to pay him. It simply doesn't happen the other way.
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He didn't overreact at all. He didn't say Braun sucks and we should release him. He even said he thinks Braun will be fine. He simply asked if Braun hypothetically nosedived in production over the rest of his contract at which point they would cut bait if ever.
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I'm not a big Braun fan at all but his absolute worst case scenario for this year and next is to platoon against LHP. If he's a compete disaster by his last year in 2020 you could make a business case for it. They did it with Suppan in 2010. Even then I very much doubt they would do it based on his history and legacy here, it's not like they can save a penny by doing it so they may determine that the roster spot isn't worth the potential backlash. In that case they would probably just stash him on the DL whenever they could in 2020 and use him off the bench when he's up. But no unless Braun completely falls off a cliff by mid-2019 I see no way he gets DFAed in the next 3 years.
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How many Mental Mistakes before Counsell gets Fired?
adambr2 replied to 3and2Fastball's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I'm more concerned about personnel decisions that Counsell and Stearns have made further down on the coaching staff. Sedar continues to be back at 3rd every year despite pretty clearly being a bad 3rd base coach. Darnell Coles continues to field bottom half of the league offenses despite having reasonably good individual talent to work with. Why they've found reason to replace other guys while these two remain immune is a mystery to me. -
Making a case for an early promotion of Corbin Burnes
adambr2 replied to adambr2's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
One example of when this really worked well for the team is Cody Bellinger last year. The Dodgers called him up on April 25th after the 172 day service year cutoff and "gained" that extra year of service in 2023. Yeah they'll be paying him more as a Super 2 from 2020-2023 but I doubt they regret it. One major difference is that the Dodgers would have made the playoffs whether Bellinger was called up in April or June, they had a very large margin for error. We don't. -
Making a case for an early promotion of Corbin Burnes
adambr2 replied to adambr2's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I believe you are mistaking the service time requirement for free agency. The extra service year is gained simply by waiting until the theoretical April 13th cutoff to keep him under 172 days for this year. Super 2 players are still under control for (almost) 7 seasons, they simply get 4 years arbitration versus 3. Burnes would be under control through 2024 regardless of being a late April or June callup. The only advantage to waiting until June is financial, not control. -
Neil Walker is both handed. Can he play 3rd and short? If so, I'd say that's a bad miss, but I don't think he can play either. I guess Villar would be the super utility guy then. Nick Franklin is both too but he is pretty much a bad baseball player. He can definitely play 3rd and 1B. I am not sure about SS off the top of my head but I believe not.
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Eric Sogard is 32 and has a career .635 OPS, 77 OPS+ and .312 OBP in over 1600 plate appearances. Giving more ABs to a 32 year old journeyman with a cumulative 2.7 lifetime fWAR is not the answer to our offensive struggles. He started extremely hot for whatever reason when called up last year for his first 150 ABs or so and then reverted right back to career norms. Which do you think you're more likely to get out of him with consistent playing time? You want them to remember that Villar and Thames were bad for long, extended periods last year, but ignore that Sogard has been pretty bad for his entire career.
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No reason to concern ourselves with who is going to close games as long as we're averaging 3 runs per game.
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Neil Walker is both handed.
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Poor Houser. "Good work, you did your job and ate up a couple innings! Unfortunately that means you won't be available for a couple days so we're replacing you with someone who will be." Smart though, they could probably float an extra bullpen arm all year between Williams, Houser, Lopez, and Peralta.
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I wasn't even looking at his numbers from last year. The career numbers of Darvish and Quintana aren't those of high end 1s. Man, if this is how it's going to be every time we face a quality starting pitcher, just a shrug and a tip of the cap, it's going to be a really long season for the offense. Wait til we face Kershaw, and Scherzer, and Greinke, and Syndergaard, and Bumgarner, and DeGrom, and Gonzalez, and Ray, and Arrieta, and Nola, and Strasburg, and numerous dominant relievers. There's a lot of good pitching in the NL.
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The 4/8 lineup was righty heavy against the lefty, Shaw was due for a day off so against the lefty made sense and Thames was off because of the lefty. No problems with any of that. I agree on Sogard and Perez. Both are replacement level players neither of which I would be sorry to see go. Giving Sogard a MLB deal with no competition for his services was just a dumb move and they would have been much better off just paying a little more for Walker, and now we're stuck in a sitiation where we can't send him to AAA and we feel obligated to keep him because we're paying him $2.5M. I get the emphasis on versatility but to me we've started to take it a little too far. We have mostly competent starters whether as one guy or a platoon to where a versatile bench isn't necessarily as important as it was in the past. I'd like them to start worrying a little less about how many positions this guy can play and a little more about whether this guy is actually any good at baseball.
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We finally get 2 good starts in a row and piss them away. If there is a silver lining it's that the bullpen is looking like it's going to be a heck of an asset in the very near future. Williams and Houser look like keepers. Make no mistake, this has been a bad baseball team through 10 games and they're fortunate to be sitting at 5-5 instead of 2-8 or 3-7 where they probably should be.