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Everything posted by adambr2
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Would be nice to get Braun going.
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It's still reasonable to debate whether Houser is better suited for a pen or starters role, despite those who wanted to put it to rest two starts into the season. I think both sides have merit.
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The order isn't hugely important. Having a majority of the 9 be good hitters is more of a problem.
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Good news for sure. Says it's faster than the nasal test, but how fast? 15 minutes? A day?
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I think Counsell is a good manager who will be here a long time. But, to look at things completely and totally impartially, I think he absolutely is influenced by personal feelings about players in regard to playing time. Comparatively, while I know Johnathan Villar is no one's favorite player, he's a far more successful infielder than Sogard for his career and he absolutely could not find the field in mid 2018 here before he was traded.
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Packers re-signed Kenny Clark, 4 year/$70M.
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I just can't figure out Freddy Peralta. His performances have such a wide range of possible results, from downright bad to every bit as dominant as Josh Hader. If he could find any sort of consistency with his game he could be pretty special.
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David Stearns is a pretty shrewd guy. Not many players are able to get David Stearns to drastically overpay for your services. Eric Sogard has managed to do it twice.
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Seriously? Yeah, it would be. There was plenty of conversation around Brad Davison when he was suspended for a game in January. Fans were generally much harsher on Davison, deservedly so. I'm shocked that anyone went here much less a mod. I don't think Giannis is dirty at all and I think he's been nothing short of a class act who had his frustration boil over and was deservedly punished for an act that I'm sure he regrets. But anytime any player on your team, much less a star player is suspended for headbutting another player, yes it's conversation worthy. But no I don't it is anything indicative of Giannis aside from one minor mistake.
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We have 8 other second basemen on this roster. Lefties, righties, you name it. Almost all of which are hitting as poorly or worse than Hiura.
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Just a reminder that Andy Haines was just the understudy of the hitting coach of a woefully underperforming Cubs offense in 2018 (who was then fired). That was his resume when we hired him.
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Stearns plainly said when he was acquired that they viewed him as the team's SS of the future, and that Arcia was basically on notice. He's provided an offensive spark in his few chances so far. I too am not real sure what the issue is. The guy doesn't profile as a platoon player, and the Brewers are treating him as such. Of course, Arcia has been one of the team's few non-black holes on offense. Still if Urias isn't at SS, he should be at 3B or 2B. With the DH this year, there is little excuse to not have him in the lineup. Yeah, I agree with all this. Sad though when a .649 OPS can be referred to as "not a black hole."
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The problem with being "not that bad" is that they're not a team on the rise. They've used most of their bullets on the farm to invest in the last few years. So there's little in the way of reinforcements like there was post 2016 when the team was clearly on the rise. They have some exciting young or youngish pitching, and Yelich and Hiura. Everyone else is either really unproven or just a body. "Not bad" is an OK place to be when your arrow is pointing up, but ours isn't. We'll live and die by Yelich for some time. That gives us a chance, but we're starting to look a lot like the late era Melvin teams quickly.
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I'm definitely annoyed with Urias being relegated to the bench most days. We gave up too much to be treating him like a utility infielder. You don't see the Padres sitting Grisham, ever. You gave up Grisham and Davies for this guy, he is intended to be a big part of the future. Find out. I don't buy that he needs to be babied back in. He's 23. You already have a very short season to get him reps. Play him.
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Garcia is better than this, but when I look at his career profile and statistics it's a little puzzling to me how his market was 10 million a year. You can find pretty comparable players on the cheap. I guess they maybe thought there's an upside there to unlock, otherwise it's a little bit of a headscratcher.
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This is just not a very good baseball team.
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Hopefully this means Burnes goes back to the rotation. If the Brewers are going to muddle around .500, at least make it fun and give the future some time. Yep. Give me significant innings out of Urias, Rasmussen, Burnes, Peralta, and Ray and I'll enjoy the heck of out of this season even if we go 25-35, a lot more than I would watching Sogard, Smoak, and Holt try to get us to 30-30.
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I'd probably like to see Ray for the same reason. Unfortunately, though, I don't think there's much parallel to Grisham. Even when Grisham had some struggles in High A and AA, there was always some hope. He was always young for his level and still managed to carry a decent OBP at every level. The troubling thing about Ray's trajectory is that he was supposed to be a fast tracked prospect. Hard to believe, but he turns 26 next month, practically a dinosaur for a top 5 pick who has never even had a cup of coffee at MLB. Wouldn't be the first guy to suddenly figure it out in his late 20s. But I think he's probably a bust.
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Man I miss last year's early season lineups. This one is just one mediocre journeyman after another.
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Look at the pen. Who else you gonna go to? Knebel could definitely use an inning. Still got some work to do on his comeback.
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Yeah pretty much this. Honestly, if you put the profiles of Santana and Garcia side by side without showing me names and show me the contracts, I would have guessed Stearns would have done the Santana contract every time. It just seems like an odd signing with little value. You're basically counting on a breakout from a 29 year old for it to pay off.
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I think this weird season is probably going to be it for Braun. And the time to move on has probably come.
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Honestly I can see Trego's point on Santana. I thought he was a pretty good value sign for the Indians. They got him on a small deal plus a team option year, similar to what we gave a lot of our vets this year. Problem with Santana is that you don't want him playing the field much, but with the DH next year and this year that would have been avoided. Career stat wise and age wise, Garcia and Santana compare quite closely. For 10M a year for Avasail compared to what Santana got, I can see the value. He was still a reasonably decent hitter last year. Garcia still may turn out to be a decent sign, it's too early to say. But most of us were quite fond of Santana's bat when he was a Brewer. I think it's a little biased to act like he's crap now just a year removed when he was pretty much the same hitter he always was during that year.
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Seven out of our nine starters are batting under the Mendoza line, that is truly astounding. I realize some guys are going to get off to slow starts, but is there one single hitter on this roster that benefits from the tutelage of Andy Haines?
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Uber prospect is probably a really generous stretch of the definition on Urias. He was a top 50 by most publications at the time of his debut and probably hasn't improved on that stock since then. Should be noted that Arcia was an uber prospect in his own right at one time. Sometimes it just doesn't happen. That said, Urias is still quite young for this level with plenty of talent to continue developing. Hopefully we see the investment pay off in the next few years. But he does have to hit. Seeing him turn into another Arcia would not be a successful result of the trade.