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Grisham is playing a key role on one of the best teams in baseball and Urias is playing behind a couple scrub journeymen in their 30s. So that's fun.
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Dubon's .713 OPS this year isn't exactly screaming "missed opportunity". In comparison, Jace Peterson's OPS currently sits at .787. Granted stats far from tell the whole story, especially this year, but Dubon, at least to me, looks like another "dime a dozen" utility guy. The point wasn't that Dubon is awesome. It was that Dubon provides more production than our existing options at a fraction of the cost. We spent 8M alone just for Sogard and Holt. That's not very efficient spending. Peterson raised his OPS like 150 points last night because he's had very few PAs this season. Like Sogard, Peterson has plenty of an MLB track record to know the mediocrity you'll get eventually.
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You are a stronger man than me... I'm not sure whether watching or not watching this team takes more strength...
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Well, they didn't and still don't have any adequate replacements to give him a break with. There's no Jerry Hairston or Felipe Lopez to bring off the bench this year. Likely the team's best replacement (Mathias) is sitting in a hotel in Appleton in quarantine* *probably It's just a really bad bench. I understand why they threw a lot of darts to try fill the bench and lineup this year but unfortunately they missed the board with almost all of them. I realize Pomeranz was very good for us late last year, but it's too bad Dubon never got more opportunity here. He'd be a great fit, especially being young and cost-controlled.
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I can't believe there are people willing to pay good money just to fly around on an airplane and return to their original airport. Really?
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I never would have thought that Narvaez would have such a bad bat that he couldn't start over Nottingham. I'll go with whoever the hitting coach for the White Sox or Mariners has been the last few years to replace Andy Haines because whoever can get Narvaez to hit with that ugly swing has to be some sort of tactical genius.
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Well, they didn't and still don't have any adequate replacements to give him a break with. There's no Jerry Hairston or Felipe Lopez to bring off the bench this year.
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The real problem is that it is much closer than it should be, though. I guess that depends on the measurement. Keston still has an OPS over 200 points higher than Sogard this year, sadly.
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The problem is that a Keston who is not a Keston is still much better than a Sogard.
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If the season ended today the Bears would miss the playoffs...at 2-0.
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His OPS is now .787, and he has the best K:BB ratio on the entire team. It was .648 before tonight. With this limited ABs, of course one good night is going to swing it. He's got almost a 1,700 plate appearance sample size showing he's not a very good player.
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I truly hope we have learned after this season to stop signing Eric Sogard to contracts.
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Jace Peterson bought himself another week, like this game could get any worse.
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Feels like about our 55th opportunity to get over .500 this year in 53 games.
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I think it takes 5-2 the rest of the way to have a chance. 6-1 should be safe.
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Man this is going to be a tough one to drop if we do. Not anything we can't make up, but we just made it a lot harder on ourselves.
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So disappointing.
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Arcia still Arcia.
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Damn...hard to pass up Evans, but Fournette's a stud who's just getting comfortable. I'd have taken that, but I'll bet that ends up pretty close by the end of the year. Yeah, I wouldn't doubt it. But Fournette was worth next to nothing 2 weeks ago, so I couldn't risk his value tanking again. I still can't understand why he was so shunned in Jacksonville. He was a stud RB there and they treated him like he was Trent Richardson.
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That was a really frustrating element from 2019. It was hard to ever really feel like we were good more than lucky. We won most of our games, but everything against every team seemed to come down to the wire.
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Eh. I'm still not a big Pettine guy, I feel like this should be an upper echelon defense and I feel like we're getting less than the sum of the parts. But we'll see what happens, he obviously isn't going anywhere in 2020 and it would be good for everyone if they don't have a reason to move on from him in 2021.
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Well, he didn't play yesterday because he's hurt. He got the most snaps of anyone in the TE room against the Vikings, and played very well, especially blocking. Tonyan played twice as many snaps in Game 1 (48) as Deguara (24) and Marcades Lewis played 32. But it's clear that MLF wants his TE room to be more involved in 2020 and so far they have been. MLF clearly values blocking from his TEs as a skillset more than outside evaluators.
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*raises hand* Me for sure. I saw a paper tiger 2019 team that was a really hollow 13-3 team that would need a great deal of offseason improvement, particularly after getting dismantled twice by the 49ers. As it is, the guys in charge here obviously felt that there was in fact a lot of internal improvement that could be unlocked within our existing personnel, and as you say, so far they have been proven correct in that evaluation.
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I think DeGuara fit well within the scheme we played using more TEs. I don't know if I would call him a major contributor so far, particularly being inactive yesterday, but he fits what we do. We'll see what happens with Dillon, I would expect from what I see out of Jones that he isn't ceding any more carries than he already is to Williams anytime soon. Generally the Packers last two drafts have been much more forward thinking. Which is fine. It's true our 2020 draft hasn't and won't impact this year's team much. I'm ok with people not liking it, it's just personal preference, there have been many Packer drafts I loved and some I didn't. But the guys in charge of this team seem to know what they're doing evidenced by a pretty good 2-0 team and a boatload of offense so far this season.
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I didn't see a thread for this yet other than the weekly game threads. Anyhow, we're into Week 2. So far, this team has surpassed my expectations. The impact of special teams has been minimal but not negative. The defense has been relatively as expected -- porous in spurts, especially on the ground, but able to make things happen at times on the back of a good secondary and strong pass rush. Jaire looks like one of the best corners in the game and Gary is coming into his own and now given us a trio of dangerous pass rushers. There's still little talent on the D-line particularly in Clark's absence. The offense has been the biggest difference as they have been crisp and consistent as can be through two games. I am quite shocked to see them play this well as usually even with a full preseason the Packers take some games to get into a rhythm offensively. This year, it's been there from the get-go. Rodgers looks much more like his MVP self than the Rodgers of the past couple seasons. Aaron Jones has cemented himself as one of the top RBs in the game. The wide receiver depth after Davante has limitations, but they do enough and work well within our offensive system. The offensive line has done a tremendous job even with the absence of Lane Taylor. Overall, they look like the Packers of the vintage Rodgers' years -- elite offenses and a defense that they hope can do enough to go the distance.