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  1. adambr2
    [sarcasm]this is a rebuilding year anyway[/sarcasm] The excuse some give when this team looks terrible that is given to fans that dont accept mediocrity, half ass play, stupidity in games, plain bad ole baseball and no effort. I mean I didn't expect them to win every game the rest of the season (not that they've lost this one yet). They've played some good baseball lately, and I don't think today was much different, there were plenty of well hit balls, they found gloves. They've actually had a lot of good ABs today. I can't agree with this. Braun had one of the worst ABs I've ever seen from him. Several 3-1 pitches that went for lazy grounders. Lots of first pitch groundball outs. Not much of a threat at any point tonight. Feel like we've been watching different games -- I haven't seen many good ABs at all tonight.
  2. adambr2
    That was an absolutely pitiful AB by Braun. Horrendous.
  3. adambr2
    This is just so incredibly typical Brewer baseball . Have a big series in Colorado, climb back in the Wild Card race, get fans excited, come to San Francisco to face one of the worst teams in baseball, and the offense disappears like a fart in the wind.
  4. adambr2
    Another beautiful 3-1 grounder for Thames. Low strike wasn't a strike all night til the 6th, then it started being a strike. Just incredible.
  5. adambr2
    So, Corbin Burnes was dominant tonight, 8 innings, 8 Ks, no runs, 2 hits for AA Biloxi. For those who don't know, he's basically been the most dominant starting pitcher in all of the minors. Serious question: Is it totally crazy to think he could help out our bullpen in September if they wanted to find room for him on the roster? Obviously they will need to start limiting his innings anyway.
  6. adambr2
    Damnit. Out.
  7. adambr2
    Not even close to what I was saying. Of course a team of 5 Clayton Kershaw's would beat a team of 5 Garza's over the course of a season your runs saved would be lower compared to Garza's. That is not the comparison I was making it was replacing Garza with the next available person Woodruff in this case and putting Kershaw or whoever at the top. You wouldn't give the least amount of starts to your best pitcher. If you were to put Kershaw as a #5 even Kershaw's win expectations for a season would go down as he is not getting as many opportunities as your #1 pitcher. On average your #5 pitcher gets about 20 starts a year which if you had Kershaw replacing Garza would mean you are missing about 1/3 of Kershaw's value to the team. So if you are really replacing Kershaw with Garza as your #5 starter then yeah your win expectation is not going to go up all that much as you are missing about 1/3 of Kershaw's value. I'm sorry, but this argument is just bizarre. Why do you think most #5 pitchers get 20 starts per year? Because many of them are very marginal starters, who are either spending time in AAA, (Guerra), getting demoted to the pen (Peralta), or end up elsewhere (Milone). If you hypothetically acquire Kershaw and have Woodruff as your #5, it doesn't mean he has to start 20 games a year. If you had five starters you liked and they stayed healthy and you didn't skip starts with days off they would each get 32-33 starts a year. None of that adequately explained why replacing Garza with a #1 pitcher makes us 1 win better next year.
  8. adambr2
    Of course Davies hits a rocket off the pitcher and it rolls right to Fat Panda.
  9. adambr2
    Would be no shock if we take 2 of 3 in Colorado only to lay a giant egg in San Francisco.
  10. adambr2
    C'mon Neil. Gotta at least get the lead guy.
  11. adambr2
    So if team A and team B have the same lineups and bullpen, but Team A has a rotation of 5 Clayton Kershaw's, and Team B has a rotation of 5 Matt Garza's, Team A should be on the average 5 wins better over the course of a full season? That is literally what you are saying. I cannot fathom that you possibly believe that. Do you really think aces get these massive contracts for 1 extra win a season ?
  12. adambr2
    His previous start vs. Cincy was not grear and the one before against the Twins was even worse than the Rockies game, so this is not a stretch we can just chalk up to the Colorado air. That said as I stated in another thread I'm not opposed to one more start to see if he can turn it around but if not the leash needs to be getting short.
  13. adambr2
    Woodruff should be in Garza's spot now. Pretty incredible that the Brewers are going down to a four man rotation for the rest of the month and decided Garza is one of their four best starters?! Can't figure out what would be so attractive about Garza's 9.16 ERA/1.98 WHIP in August that would motivate the Brewers to keep him in the rotation. Too small a sample size? How about the totally mediocre 4.81 ERA/1.40 WHIP/5.10 FIP he has on the season. Maybe his historical performance should keep him in the rotation? From 2015-2017 he has a 5.07 ERA/1.50 WHIP/82 ERA+. It's probably only going to be 2 starts, but 2 starts is pretty huge at this point in the season. It'll be Garza vs Moore in SF, which is a very winnable game, but if Garza gets shelled again and we lose 9-8 and end up missing the playoffs by 1 game, that will give Stearns and Counsell something to think about in the off-season, no doubt. With that said, I'm okay with this one last shot to get back on track, but if he puts up another clunker, it's time to pull the plug. Even if you can't make it til September 1st. Guerra has been pitching well for Colorado Springs and could cover the last start in August since you now can't recall Woodruff for 10 days.
  14. adambr2
    Simple enough question, which one of these two do you see as our true '#1' and the guy you would want on the mound for us in a Wild Card game? Would you be interested in a long-term deal with either or both? Jimmy is 28, Chase is 29. When both are fully healthy, I'd give the slight edge to Chase. I'm fine going year to year with both in arbitration, but I would have no problem with a longer deal that bought out arbitration years with a year or two FA years bought out, preferably as team options, on the end.
  15. adambr2
    Neither would likely clear waivers right now. In the offseason, I'm not sure. Aguilar probably still not much. Maybe an Adam Lind return for a couple lottery tickets. Thames is a tough one to gauge. He's had a productive season but so much of that production was in April that it's hard to tell how the league values him right now. I expect both back here next year. We have a pretty good situation at 1st, both are worth more to us than what we could get back.
  16. adambr2
    I still have yet to hear any reasonable explanation from anyone as to why Justin Verlander and his supermodel wife Kate Upton, who just bought a $6M dollar house in Beverly Hills, are going to agree to not only waive his no-trade clause, but also forfeit his 10/5 rights to veto a trade in the future by doing so, to spend potentially the rest of his career in Milwaukee. The other kicker is that even if he did, the language in the new CBA would allow him to seek an opt-out at the end of this year or 2018, potentially putting us in the position to be giving up top prospects for a 6 or 7 start rental. He would probably get another 5 starts in the postseason as we are winning the World Series so I'm not sure what the complaints are about. If we were that confident that a rented ace would have that big of an impact for us I'm sure we would have just traded for Darvish and at least gotten an extra month out of him.
  17. adambr2
    I still have yet to hear any reasonable explanation from anyone as to why Justin Verlander and his supermodel wife Kate Upton, who just bought a $6M dollar house in Beverly Hills, are going to agree to not only waive his no-trade clause, but also forfeit his 10/5 rights to veto a trade in the future by doing so, to spend potentially the rest of his career in Milwaukee. The other kicker is that even if he did, the language in the new CBA would allow him to seek an opt-out at the end of this year or 2018, potentially putting us in the position to be giving up top prospects for a 6 or 7 start rental.
  18. adambr2
    well, guerra may still be recalled, but it will be after the expense of burning his final option. he's pitching today in colorado springs and has exceeded 20 days optioned to the minor leagues. Is that a big concern on a 32 year old pitcher with 4 good months in the bigs? Sort of. It means they need to make a decision on him next spring. Can't just option him to AAA and keep him as insurance. If he still had an option or two left it wouldn't be a huge deal.
  19. adambr2
    Need to do just as good in San Francisco. At least as good. 2 of 3 in SF followed by 1 win in L.A. would give us a successful 5-4 trip.
  20. adambr2
    Well, we did our part. Too bad the Blue Jays suck.
  21. adambr2
    Chase wasn't fantastic today, but let's not underestimate how big it is for us to get him back for the stretch run here. It's as big for us as adding Quintana was for the Cubs.
  22. adambr2
    I wonder how many traditionalists in Toronto are whining about us stealing with a 5 run lead in the 8th.
  23. adambr2
    Schedule does matter, obviously your strength of schedule is a reflection of how many wins and losses that those teams actually have, so its reasonable to assume they'll have a greater chance of beating poor record teams and less of a chance to beat good teams. The Cubs weren't playing great ball lately, but swept the Jays simply because the Jays aren't a good team, so we got no help there. If they had 3 games against the Dodgers then obviously we'd have different expectations for what we'd get for help. Of course things can happen, you can get hot against good teams or slump against bad ones like we did in July. But for the most part, on the average you'll beat more bad teams and lose more to good ones. I would assume at this point that our chances of getting a wild card are greater than winning the division, despite the gap in the division being smaller.
  24. adambr2
    You suck, Blue Jays.
  25. adambr2
    Osuna has struck out 2 Cubs and retired neither of them.
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