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I really doubt you get anything better than a 2nd for Love, but who knows I guess. It wouldn't be fantastic optics to use a 1st+3rd to acquire a guy and sell him at a loss a year later.
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You know our pitching depth is bad when a guy surrenders 5 runs in 3 2/3 with 0 K's and is referred to as "wasn't that bad."
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You know it would be bad at the start of the season when I see the lineup on May 7th having Tyrone Taylor batting 3rd, Urias 5th, McKinney 6th, Pablo Reyes batting 7th and I think, "hey, not a bad lineup today. "
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I disagree. There is value in having a solid, cheap backup QB to a guy who is 38 years old and has dealt with his share of injuries over the years. If the Packers are truly in "go for it" mode before Rodgers declines or retires, a season could be destroyed should no solid backup QB option be available if Rodgers has to miss more than 1-2 games. I mean, it has happened. To me the whole concept of having a solid cheap backup is kind of a farce. How many actual really good backup QBs are there in the NFL? 3, maybe 4? And these are typically your veterans, Dalton, Fitz. Bridgewater, etc. Young QBs to me (at least ones with any decent projection) aren't really molded to be solid backups. Either they're ready or they aren't. The ones who are ready to be solid backups are already solid starters, even though there will be some growing pains. The ones who aren't ready aren't going to step right in and be solid backups. Based on his profile as a developmental project and only one year in the system, my guess would be that Love is still in the "not ready" category.
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That Baseball Trade Values site is pretty shady. I wouldn't take anything they put up there seriously. To me shady implies biased or unethical, I don't think it's that. But yeah it's next to impossible to determine what Yelich's real value is. I'll say this though - if they put him on waivers today, there isn't a team in any market that would make the claim and take on the risk of the contract. There would be trade interest, no doubt, but it would be contingent on how much salary we were wiling to eat. Even the Stanton and Arenado trades required significant amounts of cash exchanged, and they had a lot lower risk profile than Yelich currently has.
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I think we're 17-15 because we got really lucky in April and we have some really awesome pitchers who have still been generally healthy. It isn't a testament to our depth. Our depth has stunk when needed and the lack of good depth is why we are losing games. Reyes has stunk. Bettinger has stunk. Godley stunk. Zimmerman stunk. Maile stinks. Vogelbach stinks. The only piece of depth that has remotely been any good stepping up is Taylor and to some extent, Lauer. Ok, well I suppose if you want to look at it glass half empty that's fine, but on the other hand, if the only reason we're 17-15 is because we got really lucky in April, than haven't we just been really unlucky in May? We've lost 5 in a row, 4 of which were extremely close games where the starting pitching faltered a little bit and the offense couldn't quite make up for it. The sky is not falling. The 2018 Brewers lost 5 in a row in Pittsburgh and we all panicked, then they ended up being extremely good. I never said the sky is falling, and I agree we have been unlucky in May and aren't as bad as the results have been the last 5 games. I just said the depth on our 40 really sucks.
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Prospective trade deadline targets?
adambr2 replied to adambr2's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
No reason the Cubs are looking to sell now, they're only a game and a half behind us. If they are looking to sell in July there will be plenty of teams outside their division interested in Bryant. -
Take your pick. Reyes. Vogelbach. Robertson. Jace Peterson. Fisher. Maile. Godley. Zimmerman. Lindblom. Yardley. At least 25% of our 40 man roster is organizational fodder that could be DFAed tomorrow and their contributions would never be missed. Frankly, I left out a lot of guys that could probably be included. Nottingham for instance, who has been DFAed twice himself in the last month and by very definition probably fits into that category of guys. It has to be the shallowest 40 man roster of any club that realistically expects to contend. There are 4 or 5 pitchers on this roster, mostly holdovers or trades from before Stearns was even here, that are the difference between us being an expected contender and one of the worst franchises in baseball. I think the fact that we're 17-15 despite 15 players from our 40-man being on the injured list shows that actually, this might be one of the deeper 40-man rosters of any club in MLB. Most teams have lots of "organizational fodder" filling out their 40-man. With that said, I won't be heartbroken when Zimmermann retires or Godley/Vogelbach are DFA'd to make room for a Zach Green. I think we're 17-15 because we got really lucky in April and we have some really awesome pitchers who have still been generally healthy. It isn't a testament to our depth. Our depth has stunk when needed and the lack of good depth is why we are losing games. Reyes has stunk. Bettinger has stunk. Godley stunk. Zimmerman stunk. Maile stinks. Vogelbach stinks. The only piece of depth that has remotely been any good stepping up is Taylor and to some extent, Lauer.
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Prospective trade deadline targets?
adambr2 replied to adambr2's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
Pujols is terrible. Not like he is any worse than who we have been throwing out there at 1st but he doesn't solve anything either. Unless the Cardinals are going to bring him back for a week for a goodbye, Pujols is probably done. No doubt the only reason he's continued to do this for so long after his skills have deteriorated so badly is to not leave his checks on the table and now that that is no issue there's no real reason for him to continue doing so. -
Hard to credit Stearns for finding guys that were here before he was. Woodruff was a 2014 pick. Williams, 2013. Hader was acquired by Melvin. Burnes is really the only high end pitching product of the Stearns era. I guess if you want to say that he's had the right guys in place in the minor league system to develop these guys, that's fair.
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Take your pick. Reyes. Vogelbach. Robertson. Jace Peterson. Fisher. Maile. Godley. Zimmerman. Lindblom. Yardley. At least 25% of our 40 man roster is organizational fodder that could be DFAed tomorrow and their contributions would never be missed. Frankly, I left out a lot of guys that could probably be included. Nottingham for instance, who has been DFAed twice himself in the last month and by very definition probably fits into that category of guys. It has to be the shallowest 40 man roster of any club that realistically expects to contend. There are 4 or 5 pitchers on this roster, mostly holdovers or trades from before Stearns was even here, that are the difference between us being an expected contender and one of the worst franchises in baseball.
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I think Counsell has definitely earned some slack. Stearns has too, but post-2019 season, Stearns and Arnold have done a terrible job. I'm not even going to sugarcoat it. They've done a terrible job in the last 2 years.
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Yep. He's terrible. Though, one among many.
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I mean even McKinney just isn't very good. He started out red hot and since then has expectedly settled in to his career norms. He'd be a really weak option to start at 1B, though to your point it's not like we have any better choices.
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Just lighting our money on fire with one guy in Bradley this year has been much more efficient than spreading it out over a few guys like Sogard, Smoak, Holt, etc.
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There's a lot of money invested in Yelich's back Scary enough, the big money doesn't even start til next year. We're still on the Marlins Yelich deal.
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IMO, Taylor shouldn't be optioned currently regardless of the other options. Literally half their lineup (Vogelbach, McKinney, Maile, Shaw) were guys that either came here on minor league deals, were considered last guys on the roster, or were desperation adds after the season began. These aren't guys getting the occasional AB, they are starting every day. This doesn't even count guys like Peterson and Robertson who had roles when healthy, and guys like Reyes who happen to be on the bench today. Guys like Travis Shaw are absolutely fine to have on your roster as a bench bat and occasional starting option against righties. He is not someone that should be relied on to not only start every single day but do so in a run-producing spot in the lineup. I know injuries have played a significant role this year, but they have got to do a little better job filling out the 15-26 spots on their roster because the lack of any real bench depth is having a major impact in this losing streak.
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Splitting hairs but it sounds like he's just being straight up released. Maybe they see no point to the formality of letting him sit on waivers for a few days.
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My God this team is a tease. Shut down the Phillies for 8 innings, put guys on base all game, and still find a way to lose. This series has absolutely sucked.
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That blown 0-1 call changes the entire AB. Now not only can Urias not afford to take a pitch, he has to chase anything close but off the plate (pitch 3, pitch 6) because he doesn't know what else might be called.
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When is somebody going to do something about MLB umpires and how bad they are at their job?
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Anytime we even get a guy on base, there's always 3 scrubs following him ready to erase it.
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Is this as bad as MLB umpires have ever been?
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The walks are why Freddy isn't an ace type pitcher. Realmuto and Miller walk on 4 pitches each. That's the difference between a manageable 3-0 deficit and the 5-0 that we're at. Can't happen.
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No, they're not nearly as bad as they've looked the last 4 games. But they won't stay above. 500 long with the number of mediocre journeymen that they've had take the field lately. It was bound to catch up.