adambr2

Not really much to sell. They might be willing to sell high on Avisail Garcia...but that would be about it. I doubt they would trade Narvaez. They aren't really in a typical selling position and they certainly don't have guys set to hit FA after the year playing well. I can't seeing them being so far out that they find trading Avisail Garcia/Brett Anderson for peanuts worth it. Better off just hoping the team gets hot. It could get to a point rental players that aren't controllable after 2021 aren't really on the Brewers radar. Yep. They have basically nothing to sell. This roster is chock full of neutral to negative value players. Even Avi is probably just a salary relief sell. No contender is going to have any interest in Hiura or Urias presently. Your big trade assets are Woodruff, Burnes, Peralta, and Hader, and barring a full blown tear down, Hader is probably the one and only one of those that could get moved if they sold. You might also get something modest for Omar Narvaez. That's about it.

This isn't a good baseball team. And we've got no real reason to believe they're just going to turn it around and become one.

LOL worse pitches than these have been strikes all night .

Preferably every night. Need 500 innings or so a year out of him.

Does even the most optimistic guy here really still feel like this team is going anywhere this year?

It's far and away the worst umpiring crew we've had this season and that is no small task.

JP got an enormous break on Whit.

I don't think the pen is terrible but I do think it's one of the most overrated in the league. You have Hader and not much else. Devin hasn't been right all year and JP has come crashing back down to earth.

The JP Feyereisen story was fun while it lasted for like a month.

Felt that inning coming from Burnes coming as soon as the Brewer radio announcers started talking about how today is the best he's ever looked.

I mean no one really has been criticizing the Wong signing. Giving a GM a big pat on the back because one of his signings has performed exactly as expected, not more and not less, seems like a pretty big reach.

Kind of an odd statement, and I'm not sure what you're implying. In the end, the team's results rest on Stearns and CC. This year's results are still very much up in the air. As others have noted, it's worth seeing if it's a small sample size problem or indicative of a larger issue. Right now, I maintain that it's astoundingly unlikely that 8-10 players were acquired and suddenly performed as if they hadn't hit a baseball before. Hyperbole, of course, but still. Small sample is very, very possible, which means no one is to blame, but that's not what the 'fans' want to hear. If it's indicative of a larger problem, my point is that it is far more likely that the approach that the Brewers are preaching offensively is the issue rather than a sudden inability to evaluate talent by a front office that has shown immense skill in that area. We're certain Stearns is the one that needs the mulligan? I was just implying that perhaps being a big fan of a player/manager etc makes it tougher to see their warts. I've been guilty of that myself. I'm not sure what you were implying with your last question. Are you suggesting that perhaps Mark A was all-in on Yelich with David not necessarily in favor. I would think that they would be all on the same page on something this big, but I would concede it's all within the realm of possibility as to who really wanted to do what. I've long suspected that Mark A. tends to get a little too involved in personnel decisions ever since the Jeff Suppan signing.

Sorry, I really couldn't disagree more. The astounding number of players who have come in here and underperformed expectation/career norms, young players who haven't developed properly, etc. isn't indicative of talent evaluation, it's coaching. Sorry, if you're not willing to concede that Stearns has had a poor go of it the last year and a half or so, I just don't think you're looking at things as an impartial observer. The Urias trade as of today is somewhere between bad and disaster. It obviously could end up in a better spot or a worse spot. The Yelich extension, at the very least, is looking like something Stearns probably wishes he had a mulligan on, with the potential to be a disaster. Almost every minor move made since the end of '19 has been somewhere between neutral and bad, with a few exceptions. Sogard was bad. Smoak was bad. JBJ has been very bad. These guys are longtime veterans, I don't buy that after years in the league they are getting here and our coaches are just messing them up. Moose, Gandalf, Thames, Hiura, Braun, these guys all hit just fine in '19 under the same coaches. I don't doubt that there are some things that need to be looked at deeper within our system from a developmental standpoint, but to hold Stearns blameless I think is missing part of the equation. Just because he did a great job in the past does not necessarily mean he will always do a great job, nor does a player's career stats indicate he will always perform at that level. Stearns had some wonderful years and the last couple have been very poor, both of these things can be true. I have no problem with firing Andy Haines, in fact it should probably happen, but I have a hard time believing that it's his fault that Jackie Bradley Jr. suddenly can't hit.

Giving Green a shot is fine. It's not like our existing options are better. As others have pointed our, expectations should be tempered. Realistically I would guess he strikes out 40% of the time at this level and makes no noticeable difference. If there is any offensive improvement to be had with this team, it is going to have to come internally from Yelich, from Hiura, from JBJ, from Urias. Guys with real upside or who are underperforming. We can mix and match with everything else we have but we just don't have MLB-ready help in the minors.

I concur with the previous 2 posters. Up until 2018, David Stearns could walk on water as far as I was concerned. The Schoop trade I thought was his first glaringly bad deal, but at the time it was just a blip on the radar to me because I understood the thinking and figured at least Pomeranz was huge for us around the same time, even if Ray Black hasn't amounted to a hill of beans. Starting after the 2019 season though, it's been a lot of miss and very little hit. And some of the misses have been really, really damaging. Stearns and Arnold have done a really poor job the last 18 months or so. That's the blunt, but obvious truth.

I didn't mean it as a major critique of the organization. I think it exists to some degree in almost any work environment.

But I bet Yelich outhits Trout over the next 6-8 weeks (the expected timeframe that Trout will be on the IL). We're all frustrated, but it's probably not fair to slam someone for getting injured while playing baseball. Hopefully the Brewers can get & stay healthy and we get a better read on what we're working with. If Yelich hits like he should (All-Star level), then this offense very quickly looks much different. It is a head-scratcher that Haines still has a job. Coaching jobs aren't very stable in the best of times, and the Brewer offense has been down long enough that Haines should probably be worried about his job. There's definitely a "good ol boy" system that seems to exist within the Brewer organization. Those who are part of the club tend to have much longer leashes, those who do not seem to be expendable. Andy Haines is a good ol boy. So was Eddie Sedar.

Along with another classic Brewers closer (probably in 2004?) Curtis Leskanic. Before Hader it seems like the Brewers had bout a 20+ year run of a revolving door at closer...most of them having one great year and then one horrible year where they replaced. Axford had a pretty solid 3-year run in there, but other than him, you are right. I think Kolb, Turnbow, Cordero, Axford, Knebel, and Jeffress were all All-Stars during their time as closers here at one point. So it's been a revolving door but at least we've gotten good production there.

Don't agree with that, it is very easy to make incremental improvements that can help them at least score more than zero. There is no reason Shaw should continue to be hitting lefties on a regular basis since Green is in the system. Green isn't great but could hit lefties when necessary. Ok, so call up Green, who is a 27 year old career minor league journeyman and has been in the minors for his entire career for a reason. If you're extremely, extremely lucky, you'll get a Casey McGehee story. The far more likely scenario is no improvement or an improvement which moves the offensive bar basically not at all. There is no help on the way at any position in the realm of strong MLB ready prospects who could be reasonably expected to contribute at a high level offensively. The only one is Keston Hiura and only if something really clicks for him soon. I have no problem with giving Zach Green a shot, but the fact that a 27 year old minor league journeyman with 14 career MLB at-bats was the first name that came up when I said there is no real help on the way kind of proves my point that there is no real help on the way.

This popped up on one of my Facebook groups today as a random Brewer box score. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MIL/MIL200305190.shtml What disturbed me is looking at the lineup and thinking it was a pretty great lineup and wishing ours was more like it.

All their options are bad ones. There is no real help on the way anytime soon at SS or any position for that matter.

Umm, the players? The GM, mangers and coaches don’t hit, pitch and play in the field. It’s also not likely that every player on their team is not a major league caliber player, so the answer is the players need to look in the mirror and simply play up to their capabilities. Not every, but a pretty good handful of this roster is made up of players who simply aren't very good. Roster construction has certainly been a part of the problem. They can't look within and solve a talent and ability problem.

Can’t disagree much with that. Some of this looks like more than just a rough patch. We’re 25% of the season in now. I’d almost rather see them cut a couple of the AAAA players and call up anyone else who might want a chance to play in the majors. Hiura’s demotion was called for. But other than that, poor play doesn’t seem to have any consequences. Agreed. If Urias can't field a ground ball bring on Turang already. This team is going nowhere anyway. Turang is off to a scalding. 462 OPS so far in Biloxi. I've got about the same amount of confidence in his development as I do with the rest of the hitters that come up through our system.

Corbin Burnes record, that we endlessly followed, was strikeouts to start the season without issuing a walk. That record he still has. He also had the one for strikeouts without a walk at any point in the season until today.

Surely you jest. Anyone sitting down the poles staring directly at the batter can pretty accurately tell if a hitter checks or not, it's not a hard call at 1B or 3B on any non-borderline swing or non-swing if the guy is simply paying attention.