adambr2
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Why? It was to his ankle, not his throwing arm. It was a bad injury, it wasn't Alex Smith bad. He had two surgeries and is by all accounts recovered. Plenty of QBs have suffered season ending knee/ankle/etc injuries and returned to play as normal. I really doubt they would have given him 4 years and 160M if they weren't pretty confident in him going forward. They had every chance to walk away.
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I totally get where you are coming from. I'm a former lifeguard and summer camp aquatics director, and I cannot stress enough the importance of getting kids into swimming lessons. Because I've seen plenty of near drownings, and assisted in the aftermath of a drowning death. It is excruciating for everyone involved. I cannot imagine what it is like on a parent. My 12, 10 and 8-year olds are all very strong swimmers, and we regularly have my 6 and 4-year-olds in lessons. But we live in an area of northern Wisconsin where there is a lake around every corner, and we have a large pond less than 100 yards behind our house. It's always been a priority for us to make sure the kids are comfortable around and can navigate the water. Sure, odds are that if your kids are never strong swimmers, they likely will not be involved in a drowning incident. They are rare. But all it takes is one time. I urge you to continue to take the necessary precautions to avoid it by getting those kids swimming. Good work having them in lessons so far. You don't happen to have some degree of OCD, do you? 5 kids all spaced exactly 2 years apart is quite remarkable!! And congrats! 3 is more than enough for me, lol. Thanks for your feedback as an aquatics director. We'll keep on getting them in lessons.
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Brewers acquire Daniel Norris from Tigers
adambr2 replied to homer's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
The alternative to Norris would be Perdomo/Milner. Do you think they are better options? Certainly Norris hasn't had a good first few outings by any stretch, but shouldn't call for a DFA unless you are convinced one of those guys is better. I think we give Norris a few more chances before we cut ties. And he'll actually probably be easier to hide in the back of the bullpen once September rolls around if he doesn't figure it out before then. Regardless, this is a bit of a miss for Stearns at this point clearly unless something drastically changes. I don't know that we necessarily need a direct replacement for any of those guys. Situational LOOGYs are kind of dead anyway. If they have a 3rd lefty pitching out of the pen in late September and October I think it will be Ashby. -
I'd be ok with the DFA Vogelbach route as well. He's a replacement level player who is 3rd in line for ABs at the one position he can play. He was fine in May when our options were limited. If they want to try to keep him that's fine, but like Shaw he just isn't someone that you really need to try to jump through hoops to keep around.
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Brewers acquire Daniel Norris from Tigers
adambr2 replied to homer's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Norris has already given up as many earned runs for us as Pomeranz did his entire Brewer tenure. Pomeranz was a conversion project who had a better fastball and benefited greatly from the move from the rotation to the pen. I'm not saying Norris should be DFAed now (although it wouldn't bother me if they just moved on), but Pomeranz has really put our expectations for Norris out of whack. Sometimes it just doesn't work out. Sometimes you get Matt Albers instead of Drew Pomeranz. -
I think the rule is just that any player acquired in September isn't eligible for the postseason roster. Not sure how much that even applies now with the hard trade deadline at the end of July. It would seem kind of crazy but keep in mind that Tellez has an option remaining. If they don't want to lose Vogelbach they could option Tellez just for 2 weeks and then call him up when September hits and they gain 2 roster spots. Alternatively, they could do this with Taylor. But somebody who doesn't deserve to get sent down is going to have to get sent down for a couple weeks if they don't want to DFA anyone without options. Unless they are desperately administering COVID tests in the clubhouse as we speak trying to get someone back on the IL for a bit.
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I'm really not very concerned about Dak. McCarthy is notoriously conservative when it comes to QB recovery and in the case of Dak they probably should be. If they start sniffing around on Nick Foles or Gardner Minchew then I'll start to worry. They wouldn't be going into the season with Garrett Gilbert as their backup QB if they really thought they had any reason to question Dak's regular season availability.
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Seems odd. Some of the better bats on this team, Adames, Escobar, Urias, Garcia, aren't unfavorable platoon matchups. Although Adames has always had reverse splits.
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That's fine. If you misspoke you misspoke. If you are saying he's one of the most valuable 2B for the money that's an entirely different argument and not one that I would take exception to. I continued to reply because you questioned numerous times why I would want to trade Wong when I clearly didn't. Wong is great. I'm glad we have him. The 3rd year option is nice too. I want him back. I want Escobar back too, if possible.
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Really not a great series and we still won it. I'll take it.
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My point, your the only person I’ve seen suggest trading Wong or saying the team should think about. Whatever round about way you suggested it. It makes zero sense. Its hard to take your point seriously when you quite obviously haven't really been reading my responses very thoroughly or you are just completely strawmanning your way through this conversation. How many more different ways can I say "I don't want to trade Kolten Wong at all, I just disagree that he's one of the most valuable players for the money in baseball."? Literal word for word quotes from me in this thread: "I really don't have any interest in trading Wong" "He is just a great fit for this team" "I'm all about keeping Wong" "I'm not suggesting we trade Wong"
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Lol what? Albies? Semien? India? (Albies' contract alone blows Wong out of the water as far as best 2B values go) And you didn't say one of the best 2B at his contract, you said "one of the most valuable players in baseball at his contract",which yes, is a total embellishment. More valuable players for their contract just on Wong's own team: Adames, Urias, Narvaez, Woodruff, Burnes, Peralta Again I'm not suggesting we trade Wong. I wouldn't either. Just challenging your statement on him.
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Man, so many missed chances today.
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Strike 5 on Gamel for the K. Really annoying when guys make good pitches and get punished by poor umpires.
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Wong is one of the most valuable players in baseball at his contract. Look, I'm all about keeping Wong but why do we have to say things that are obviously total embellishments to make our points?
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I thought that was a HR by Pina, not a lazy fly. Oh well.
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Man, they've had some mental issues defensively lately that need to get cleaned up. Glad they got out of it. A couple little dumb hits like that in front of Colin Moran just felt like something bad was going to happen.
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Well, it will save Mark A a couple hundred grand.
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justin topa transferred to 60-day injured list
adambr2 replied to djoctagone's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Certainly hope his next stint goes better than this one. We'll see how things go in Nashville for him. -
I certainly hope so. He's terrible.
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Or in Yelich's case, just strike out swinging at it.
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This Peters guy looks like he's throwing BP. 92 MPH cheese over the heart of the plate on 0-2 counts. Should be able to tag him.
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.189/.302/.297/.600 vs. LHP That’s why Pina starts. Pina is at .182/.308/.418 vs. LHP Probably worth starting him given how he's swung the bat the past week, but it's not like Manny is a vastly superior option. Edit: Omar's career splits against lefties aren't much better than what he's shown this season. So I'm rethinking this. I mean a .726 OPS is considerably better than a .600 OPS. Pina is a better hitter both this year and for his career against LHP than Narvaez is. To me it's not only not a big deal if he starts against every lefty, it's ideal. Take advantage of good platoon matchups. Avoid bad ones. Plus it's good to keep Narvaez fresh at this point in the season anyway.
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I really don't have any interest in trading Wong. Everyone is available for the right price but he is just a great fit for this team in everything he does, and he's controlled for 2 more years at a reasonable cost. We finally have a solidified infield for the next couple years and after watching us trot out guys like Arcia and Shaw and Robertson for the longest time it's certainly welcome. It would take one of those offers you just can't refuse to move either of Wong or Urias. I've accepted that Escobar probably won't be back, but if we can keep him, great. Keep them all. As we saw in April and May your depth can go south in a hurry, they'll find ABs for all of them.
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We would have to absolutely tank against the Cardinals for them to be a serious threat. For perspective even if we had a dreadful 4-9 stretch against St. Louis the rest of the season they would STILL need to make up 5 other games without playing us just to even tie. If St. Louis is sitting atop this division in 7 weeks then we were the problem, not the Cardinals.