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  1. adambr2
    Or that they can outright him to the minors. His results have been pretty poor. His stuff is good. I don't think I've ever heard of Stearns having something against the prior regime's acquisitions. They can't outright hin without giving the rest of the league a chance to pick him up first.
  2. adambr2
    Or that they can outright him to the minors. His results have been pretty poor. His stuff is good. I don't think I've ever heard of Stearns having something against the prior regime's acquisitions. They can't outright hin without giving the rest of the league a chance to pick him up first.
  3. adambr2
    He's absolutely earned that right, but that won't make it any easier if he ultimately decides to leave. I do see a lot of seed planting lately from his camp for a possible departure. I do think one of his options in his mind is staying for sure, but I also think he's considering other options too. Ultimately I think I'd now put him at no more than 50/50 and would be surprised if he immediately signed the supermax in July. The money difference just isn't as big of a factor as people want to believe. Not in the NBA. Giannis can go to L.A, build his own brand and make up that difference quickly. It helps our side, but it's just one factor of many where in MLB it might be the main factor. He's going to get another even bigger deal at age 30 or so either way.
  4. adambr2
    He's absolutely earned that right, but that won't make it any easier if he ultimately decides to leave. I do see a lot of seed planting lately from his camp for a possible departure. I do think one of his options in his mind is staying for sure, but I also think he's considering other options too. Ultimately I think I'd now put him at no more than 50/50 and would be surprised if he immediately signed the supermax in July. The money difference just isn't as big of a factor as people want to believe. Not in the NBA. Giannis can go to L.A, build his own brand and make up that difference quickly. It helps our side, but it's just one factor of many where in MLB it might be the main factor. He's going to get another even bigger deal at age 30 or so either way.
  5. adambr2
    Maybe it's just me, but is anyone else a little less confident about Giannis staying in Milwaukee after recent comments? He was asked before the AS game about staying in Milwaukee and said he didn't want to look that far again. Then he was asked a few days later about playing with his brothers and said he would be excited to do that whether it be in Milwaukee or L.A. or wherever. I don't expect Giannis to openly commit to anything yet but he doesn't sound like someone to me who is too set on signing the supermax that will be offered to him in July.
  6. adambr2
    Maybe it's just me, but is anyone else a little less confident about Giannis staying in Milwaukee after recent comments? He was asked before the AS game about staying in Milwaukee and said he didn't want to look that far again. Then he was asked a few days later about playing with his brothers and said he would be excited to do that whether it be in Milwaukee or L.A. or wherever. I don't expect Giannis to openly commit to anything yet but he doesn't sound like someone to me who is too set on signing the supermax that will be offered to him in July.
  7. adambr2
    Yes, Counsell's hands are tied. What do you expect him to do? Pay him out of his own pocket? Speak on his behalf at his arbitration hearing? Come on. Both things would be way outside the limits of professionalism, and even Hader knows that. No, Hader is not going to be able to hold out or ask for his release. Simply not how it works in MLB. The irony is that he is probably going to do exactly what you said in your last sentence if you give him the chance to. He simply responded to a question he was asked.
  8. adambr2
    I still remember when Bill Hall's lasik eye surgery was supposed to be an absolute game changer.
  9. adambr2
    Is Jimmy Butler a double agent for Team LeBron? Good heavens.
  10. adambr2
    Counsell taking Hader's side is not that big of a deal. It is important for managers to earn the respect of their players and players certainly want to feel supported in sensitive matters such as these. Counsell was a little more candid than I would have normally expected but I guarantee Hader feels appreciated for it and I guarantee that David Stearns gets it and it is not going to affect his relationship with Craig in the least - who also has front office experience and understands all sides of this.
  11. adambr2
    https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28714873/mlb-commissioner-rob-manfred-defends-punishment-astros Manfred: We thought about stripping the Astros title but you can't just deviate from precedence without good reason. Also Manfred: Let's enforce a 3 batter minimum, change the entire long standing roster limits both for the regular season and September, mandate how many pitchers can be carried, and overhaul the entire playoff system.
  12. adambr2
    He's not complaining about the contract. He's complaining about the outdated arbitration process, and many would agree with him. He's not complaining about the money? Did he say he thinks 4.1M is a terrible salary? It's obvious what he's complaining about. The arbitration process is outdated and has been for years. He's not the first guy to point it out.
  13. adambr2
    I think that would be a real problem for a team like Milwaukee. I think large markets would be signing a ton of inflated 1-2 year RFA deals knowing they'll be a better value than the FA market. Hader for instance probably gets a 2 year 40M offer this offseason knowing we can't match, someone like Hiura ends up getting a 1 year/35M offer from the Yankees in RFA.
  14. adambr2
    He's not complaining about the contract. He's complaining about the outdated arbitration process, and many would agree with him.
  15. adambr2
    Correction was issued on Suter's deal, it is 2 years, $2.5M. That makes a lot more sense on my question of why the Brewers would be motivated to do it.
  16. adambr2
    Yeah, it's $3.4M for '20 and '21. I'm trying to understand the motive here from the Brewers' perspective. They basically give Suter his $1.25M ask without a hearing then essentially almost double it for 2021? Wouldn't it have been likely cheaper just to go to arbitration twice?
  17. adambr2
    BTW, I 100% believe that Altuve had something under his shirt when he hit that walkoff and begged teammates not to mess with his shirt. How often do you actually see a guy do that ever. They even wrote about it the next day how hilarious it was and how great Altuve is. Sure looks a lot different now. They don't get and don't deserve the benefit of the doubt. Won't ever be proven, but yeah, I completely believe he had a buzzer or something else on him. His bogus "shy" explanation coupled with the fact that he has numerous shirtless photos of himself on his social media doesn't help.
  18. adambr2
    Brewers have avoided a hearing with Suter and agreed to a 2 year deal. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/02/brewers-brent-suter-avoid-arbitration-with-two-year-deal.html
  19. adambr2
    No certainty that the Brewers were willing to meet in the middle though. They might have been confident in their case and not willing to compromise their baseline for Hader by meeting at 5.25 or whatever. Maybe they were willing to negotiate as high as 4.5M and Hader wasn't interested in settling that far off his ask.
  20. adambr2
    Hader should be fine. To be clear though, it's not *just* 2.3M. He also loses on his baseline for future earnings.
  21. adambr2
    I do. There's a 1% chance you're going to come back, if even that high. Why waste a BP arm for an inning of a game you're almost certainly not going to win? Yeah, I mean the other part of it is that 90% of fans in a 5-1 8th inning game have either left the park or mentally tuned out. Very few are really going to care whether Alex Claudio or Luis Urias pitches the 8th inning with a 4 run deficit. And as I mentioned I don't think position players are pitching in even that close of games.
  22. adambr2
    Does that ever actually happen? I would guess 95%+ of the situations where a position player came in and pitched were already legal under the new rule. Pitching a position player in a 10-1 game in the 8th is understandable. A 5-1 game in the 8th is a very bad look and demonstrates a lack of faith in your team rallying -- I don't think any manager wants to do that and therefore don't think the rule is necessary. Managers aren't throwing position players in 4 run games in the 8th currently.
  23. adambr2
    Why would he be willing to waive it?
  24. adambr2
    Pacers are a good team, but shouldn't be much of a threat in a playoff series. They're not going to get to miss Giannis in the playoffs. I'd say Bucks in 5.
  25. adambr2
    I am not sure how we hit triple digits tonight, but the streak lives on.
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