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Yardley is absolutely terrible. There is nothing worse in baseball than a pitcher with a big lead putting baserunners on for free.
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That was pretty silly.
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Brett Anderson is not a great pitcher, but he's a really good fit for this team as a 4-5. Keeps the ball on the ground in front of a great defense.
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Really bad idea to assume a win in the 2nd inning. Have to think something more is going on.
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Knebel Traded to the Dodgers for PTBNL [LHP Leo Crawford]
adambr2 replied to markedman5's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
People keep talking about Crawford like he is some kind of interesting prospect. We are talking about a 24 year old soft tossing lefty who has logged 30 innings above High A. He was not even in the top 50 of the Dodgers' prospects and was not in our top 30. The odds of him ever being any kind of regular contributor at the big league level are miniscule. It's not impossible, but people are drastically overestimating the range of likely outcomes. Brent Suter is the exception, not the rule. He was acquired because we were going to DFA Knebel anyway and so it was maybe a flyer that we liked and that was better than getting nothing. Nothing more. If we hadn't traded Corey Knebel for him, Leo Crawford would not even be on the radar of any of us except the real hardcore prospect followers. Not every piece that we trade for is someone we really need to keep an eye on. -
As others mentioned it does not seem to me that Counsell can be happy unless he has a guy like Eric Sogard or Jace Peterson in his lineup. Is this potential scenario not why you acquired Daniel Robertson?
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We didn't have much luck against the Spanish Conquistador last time. Here's hoping for better results today.
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Agree with CheeseWiz, Nate and H/T. I don't have any problem with accepting the possibility that CTE was involved. But first, I don't understand why that is the default assumption. When any other person commits murder, especially of children, we say, "What a scumbag." We don't say, "Well, what was wrong with his brain that caused this?" I think we need to accept that there are terrible people in this world that do terrible things and this man was one of those people. It doesn't mean that there aren't circumstances and sometimes mental conditions that contribute to their actions, but that goes for basically any murderer. Almost no one wakes up one day and just decides to kill people in cold blood, there are circumstances that contribute to the action. But that doesn't make them any less culpable. And to Nate's point, this was an act that required pre-meditation. I am fine with admitting that there's a better than average chance that Phillip Adams never commits this act without him suffering from a TBI, but I will cannot accept that this makes him any less responsible for his actions. As humans we face many circumstances or mental conditions in life that can make us more prone to violence -- depression, anxiety, PTSD, among many other things. As long as we act under our own free will we still have a personal responsibility to not act on these tendencies.
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Knebel Traded to the Dodgers for PTBNL [LHP Leo Crawford]
adambr2 replied to markedman5's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
It's not really about the results, it's more than that the stuff has been back to where it was pre-2019. If he were throwing 91-92 and just getting lucky, I'd agree with you. But it looks like he's been back. Crawford is really nothing more than an organizational piece and probably more likely than not to never see any significant innings at the MLB level. I would not call the possibility of him being the better player in this deal a very reasonable take. -
Urias, while hitless, has had a couple nice deep ABs drawing walks today. It's something...
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I think the whole point of the 3 year contract for Lindblom was that if you struck it rich, you had extra control for cheap. Obviously, wish that had been in the form of team options instead of guarantees. They may reach a point where they just have to eat it.
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The Houser SP/RP argument to me is separate from Lindblom. Lindblom just doesn't belong in the big leagues at all. As far as Stearns goes, he's still a good GM for sure. However, there's no questioning he's made some absolutely brutal moves over the last 18 months or so. The genius tag has definitely run its course. It looked like his first 2 years that everything he touched would turn to gold. Turns out, he has plenty of whiffs just like any other GM.
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Great to see Hiura make up for his mistake.
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I really don't think the pen has been that bad this year. Outside of a rough game by Rasmussen and Williams early struggles everyone has been OK. They haven't been perfect but I think they've been pretty good. If we had managed to score a few more runs we'd probably be talking about them as a strength but when they are put in a position where they have to be perfect for 3 or 4 innings a night or they blow a save they really can't win. Yardley has been bad. Rasmussen has been brutal. Williams will be fine but he has struggled.
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It isn't just that I don't think Houser is a great starter that I want him in the pen. It's also that I think he's a pretty darn good reliever when he can come in for just 1 or 2 innings and throw his best pitches and add a few ticks. The lack of depth in the pen this year has hurt and Houser could help. There isn't much after Hader and Devin.
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Yeah we were doing this through 2 starts last year. Then the wheels fell off. In addition there has been absolutely nothing special about Houser's start today whether he escapes this inning or not. Sometimes the breaks go your way, sometimes they don't. He's gotten the breaks today.
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Why? Arcia was a replacement level player. It's not like they can't go find another Arcia if Urias doesn't pan out.
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Houser is benefiting from some really good defense today.
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Is Narvaez hung over today? That's like the 3rd ball that's just popped right out of his glove.
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Guys who switched to AT&T TV, are you happy with it so far?
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Rather than sign 2 or 3 guys for 4-5M each who can't hit, this year we just gave it all to 1 guy in Bradley who can't hit. Much more efficient.
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Man, good looking AB by Houser. Don't know why Martinez would have been upset about the pitch before that. Pretty clearly missed the outside corner.
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I literally did not even know Jace Peterson was on our roster. Gross.
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Yeah, I really don't understand Counsell's evolution as a manager. It seems like he started out as an innovator and as time has gone he'd kind of went backwards to a traditional manager. Innovation worked great for us in 2018. I can almost hear him saying "Devin is my 8th inning guy", and I just don't get it. He wasn't this guy a couple years ago.
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Obviously you can throw out tonight's game, but this team has regressed the last couple years when they should be improving and it's hard to understand why. It wasn't long ago that the talk was whether or not we'd win 70 games and anything less than making the NBA Finals was going to be a failure. Now we're looking at the playoff picture and thinking making it through the 2nd round will be tough. It really feels like we missed an open championship window. There's still another one that should last all of Giannis' career, but it's not nearly as wide open as it was in '19.