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The script was right, but it has just not been Shaw's day.
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With that said, nice AB by Bradley. If Keston is ever going to bust out of this in a big way now would be the time...
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Imagine having spent roughly the same amount of money as they spent on Bradley on picking up Brad Hand off waivers and tendering Knebel. I like that roster a lot better. And I think that's the best bullpen in baseball.
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Look, I love Suter, and I know he's got numbers that say he can handle high leverage innings, but let's be honest about who he is. Suter is a great option to have as a long man/swing man/6th starter. Reminds me a lot of what the Cubs had with Mike Montgomery. But Suter is a guy who relies on deception and being the smartest guy in the matchup. He is never going to be the most talented guy in the matchup. That is not someone you want to rely on for high leverage innings. The reality is that this pen is just not as good and deep as people thought in spring, especially if Williams has pitched himself out of a high leverage role. Unless they get career years out of guys like Perdomo or Boxberger or Feyereisen or get immediate big help from a guy like Ashby, this pen needs help. They would be wise to pursue a rental or two at the deadline.
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Don't know who else he should have used there. It's just not a deep pen by any stretch.
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Another gem of an appearance for Suter.
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That was big to get out of it. Houser has been extremely fortunate this season. Very shaky peripherals, but good results.
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Ugh. Nothing to show for it. That last pitch was right in the wheelhouse.
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Jace Peterson does not belong on an MLB 40 man roster.
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Can we ever get Colin Moran out? Should have signed him just to keep from having to face him numerous times every year.
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How patient you can be with a guy is directly proportionate to how valuable they are. With a guy like Robertson or Lindblom, you wouldn't let them go day to day for more than 2-3 days without ILing them and getting a replacement here. With someone like Yelich, it's worth going a man down if you can get him back after 6 or 7 games versus ILing him and losing him for an addition 3-4 just to have an extra minor league replacement on board. With that said, I do think the Brewers have not really managed their IL as well as I'd like to see, but with someone like Yelich I can understand going day to day for an extended period.
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Tepera suspended three games, Ross gets 1.
adambr2 replied to KeithStone53151's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
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Burnes saw a sports psychologist to work on the mental side as well..... I still remember starting a thread here circa 2006 questioning if Derrick Turnbow needed to do exactly that.
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Burnes just isn't really a comparable situation to Hiura. He spent a ton of an offseason in their pitching lab and he basically completely reinvented himself as a pitcher from a 4 seam guy to a cutter guy. I'm open to the concept of Hiura figuring some things out in AAA. I just don't think that's really what happened with Burnes.
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If they're both still dealing after '22, their price tag will have skyrocketed by then. If you're going to do it, I'd rather not wait. I think I'd try to do something like 3/39 after '21 to buy out the remaining arby years for both. With two team options at 19M for '25 and 22M for '26, with 3M buyouts for each, for a total of 45M guaranteed over their arby years and a potential of 5/80. This sets both up for life, and reduces our risk. If they tank, we aren't committed past the 45M. If they're still elite, we still have 2 more years control, and if we didn't want to pay the options they'd be highly valued trade assets. If they weren't interested in a structure like that or something similar I'd probably just ride it out in arbitration. Possible that either or both would rather ride it out til free agency and go for Gerrit Cole type money and if they wanted to roll the dice on that it would certainly be their prerogative.
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Jimmy would have hit free agency by now. I think you could pretty legitimately question if he'd still be here even if his career had continued to follow the 2017 trajectory.
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I dunno. Ersan Ilyasova was about the best there is at it. Did people really see him as a flopper? Maybe they did, I don't know.
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Exactly. If Hiura needs to go down, he needs to go down. Expecting his temporary replacement to put up better numbers is not the goal. The goal is to have an improved Hiura for the 2nd half of this season and beyond. Guess I'm not really seeing how playing every day in AAA is going to result in an improved Hiura any more than playing every day in MLB will. He has a major league hitting coach here to work with him and access to every possible resource to improve. He was OPSing like 1.100 in AAA his last season there. He needs to learn how to hit MLB pitching, not AAA pitching.
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It's weird that he just straight up admitted it. That's kind of faux pas to do that to your club. Either he genuinely felt pretty bad about trying to hit the pitcher or he just isn't that bright of a crayon and kind of spit it out without realizing he was confessing under oath.
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For me it's mostly because he punched a guy in the dick. The flopping or no flopping is just whatever to me.
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It's just that Nottingham at his best probably isn't even going to be an upgrade from Hiura even if Hiura is struggling. Neither is Vogelbach. Only way I can see Hiura going down to work on things is if Braun were to return. It's not worth sending Hiura down to work on things unless there is a markedly better replacement to Hiura's floor. Keston is still sitting on a 113 career OPS+ despite the struggles.
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Wilson basically threw Tempera and Ross under the bus which is fine with me. I wonder if the suspensions still happen if Wilson doesn't admit intent after the game.
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Houser to me just isn't close to the level of the other three. He's closer to Brett Anderson though there's still some upside there. If we got a 4-4.50 ERA from him starting I'd be very happy. Burnes is kind of on a tier of his own to me really. I wonder if they will continue to treat Woodruff as their #1 (opening day, first turn in playoffs, etc) when Burnes is clearly the better pitcher.
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Madbum looks like a disastrous contract. Thank God we didn't get anywhere near that.
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Cubs were lucky just to win one game of the series.