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I think they're doing just fine without him. It's been nice to see guys like DDV get some extra minutes and perform well. This is still a 50+ win team without Middleton. They've still been winning comfortably. Not every game is going to be a 4 quarter blowout from beginning to end. I will say I've started accepting that Giannis just isn't ever going to do much more than 70% at the FT line.
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My guess is our top offer was somewhere in the range of 3 years and 45-50M. Just my hunch.
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I don't think they do. I think those are Forbes estimates, though to be fair, my claim about the franchise growing by more than $1Billion in value also comes from Forbes. If there's a source on actual revenue reporting, please link. https://www.statista.com/statistics/196668/revenue-of-the-milwaukee-brewers/ There's also links to other financial information at the bottom, such as operating income.
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Just because they chould doesn't mean they should. The Brewers are lucky to have so many fans who are concerned about them getting a good deal on their player contracts. We don't do that with anything else in our lives. We don't concern ourselves that the furnace repair company is paying their workers too much. Or the barista at the coffee shop. But somehow, despite never opening their books, in a league without a salary cap, and for a franchise that has grown in value by $1Billion since he bought the team, lots of good and loyal fans fret and stew that Mark A not spend too much on the players he wants us to root for. I am more interested in the Brewers winning games than I am in whether or not they do so at a bargain. It's not that people care about how much money Mark A. is saving. It's understanding the reality of their payroll constraints that will always exist and knowing they're just never going to willingly operate at a loss, so we do have an interest in seeing available capital spend efficiently. If there really was no ceiling and unlimited capital, no one would care whether we gave Grandal 4/73 or 4/200. I am not sure what you mean that they haven't opened their books. They report their operating revenue from year to year.
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I think people disappointed about this need to understand that Grandal was only a Brewer in 2019 because he was a market inefficiency -- or market efficiency, depending on how you want to look at it. Barring that happening again, he was never going to be back.
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Pina is fine for 50% of the starts. I'd like to find an equally competent option for the other 50%.
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I don't think Nottingham is the answer. I'd love for him to prove me wrong.
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Eligible for the Rule 5 Draft - Fall 2019
adambr2 replied to Jim Goulart's topic in Brewers Minor League Talk
Look, I know prospect rankings aren't perfect, but it speaks volumes about how bad our farm system is when our Pipeline #3 prospect was deemed not worth protecting in the Rule 5 draft. That's almost unheard of. -
I was shocked to read that we are only 20th in the NFL in sack percentage this year. That is with the Smith's doing what they're doing. Outside of those two we must just not be generating any pass rush whatsoever. Without looking I figured we would be near the top. Not good. And that's with a 3rd edge rusher who had 10+ sacks last season! Something about this defense isn't right. They aren't nearly as productive as they should be. I don't know if it's the offenses we've faced, or if Pettine just isn't all he was cracked up to be, or if Ted Thompson just decimated the talent so much on defense that it will take years to recover. Maybe a combination of the 3.
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I guess my respect for Belichick (professionally, not necessarily personally) is so great that I figure he probably knows exactly what Brady's limitations are and can tailor the offense in the playoffs perfectly to fit what Brady still can do. Nothing the Patriots do would shock me. They could let Brady walk next year, trade nothing for Mitchell Trubisky and turn him into a Super Bowl winning quarterback and it would not surprise me. Don't get me wrong, they could still lose to Baltimore. They're really good and Jackson is the real deal. But I can't really take anyone in the AFC seriously besides those two teams. Maybe Kansas City could get rolling again, they've really taken a step back the last month.
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To me, the Patriots are always scary. Schedule, superior looking in November or not, it just doesn't matter. For all I know Bellichick fully was fully willing to take a loss to the Ravens in exchange for showing them only 5% of his hand and they'll see the other 95% in January. I have little doubt that he does hold back as much as he can during the regular season knowing full well they'll go 13-3 anyway.
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Yeah, Baltimore and New England is starting to look like a fantastic showdown in the AFC and I'm glad we don't have to deal with either of those teams until a hypothetical Super Bowl. Agreed with most of what OldSchool says --.the good news is that the Packers have as good of a shot as any team in the NFC. The bad news is that there are probably 4 other teams in the NFC with as good of a shot as the Packers. Getting a first round bye is so important this year. The 3 and 4 seeds will be very vulnerable in the WC round in the NFC. There's going to be a couple of legitimate contenders that won't even make it out of the WC round, and we need to make sure we're not one of them. Fortunately, we've got an inside track to do so, but we can't afford any more games like the Charger game where we simply don't show up. 4-2 gets us to 12-4. Of those 4 wins we either need that one at Minnesota or the other two vs Chicago and Detroit, that wins the tiebreaker and gets us the division and bye. Very attainable, but we'll have to earn it.
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The 10 day IL was being abused by some clubs regarding pitcher movement (LA Dodgers for example) so pushing back to 15 days for pitchers legitimizes it. The 10 day still remains for position player usage at this point... Agree here. This isn't just the MLB throwing darts at the wall making rules, there was unfortunately abuse. The Brewers were somewhat a culprit as well. They were? I felt like they didn't take advantage of the 10 day IL nearly enough if anything.
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I do agree that pass rush is king on defense. It sucks that we can't stop the run this year, but there's weirdly very little correlation between winning and being able to stop the run. Like, none. I always found that odd. But if you're going to have a weakness that's what you want it to be.
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You could essentially operate with a full 40 man roster there wasn't one. You could plan your player's days off, IL them for some ailment and have reinforcements available if you wanted them. But would teams actually do that? Maybe for some players I guess, but if your planning on giving yelich a day off, does the team want him on the bench as a just in case guy or are they going to call up Corey ray to sit on the bench for the day? My point is I dont see a reason why we have to make a decision on a guy who gets banged up and wont play for a day or 3. Pitchers are obvious, but position players less so. I just feel like teams should have the option of replacing someone who's legit banged up. Just look at braun. How many times has he been put in limbo. Sometimes he ends up being ILd anyway and sometimes it does end up being just a few days. It kinda goes back to what thurson said about guys playing through injuries. I agree with you, but there probably does need to be some kind of guideline. They could simplify things by just doing similar to what the NFL does. Have a permanent 28 man roster year round and on game day the manager designates 21 as "active." Then just have a single 30 day IL or whatever for long-term injuries that removes a player from the 40.
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While I'm not personally calling Gary a bust at all, the pick does look like a bit of a head scratcher just based on team direction. There's a lot of other guys they could have taken that would be a lot more impactful to the current team. That's not a big deal if you're the Miami Dolphins, but when you're 8-2 and trying to get back to the Super Bowl, we could have used some immediate impact at #12. They had already made big investments in free agency into edge rushers, so you knew even when you drafted Gary that there wasn't going to be much of an immediate impact. I don't know, the only way I think you go that route when you're trying to contend is if you think the guy you're taking is a can't-miss talent who is going to take big 2nd and 3rd year leaps and become a perennial Pro Bowl type player. I'm not sure Gary is that guy, but I guess time will tell.
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Eh, I'm not concerned about the Cowboys. They've already got 4 losses and we've got the tiebreaker on them so we'd have to lose 5 for them to be a factor. If that happens we'll have bigger problems than the Cowboys. The Cardinals I can understand, but I also didn't really like the idea of facing the 49ers following back to back losses at home. They've got a brutal schedule coming up. I tend to doubt they win their own division. Broncos, yeah, that sucked. No two ways about it. That would have been huge. I think the Vikings have a loss coming up to the Seahawks though and maybe even the Chargers.
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You could essentially operate with a full 40 man roster there wasn't one. You could plan your player's days off, IL them for some ailment and have reinforcements available if you wanted them.
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I have Hulu Live and I just got an email that my bill is going from 50.99 to 60.99 starting next month. Add in the price for internet and I'm starting to wonder what the point of ditching cable/dish in the first place was.
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I think he's one of those guys who will always fall into the category of "great coordinator, terrible coach."
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Darvish accuses Yelich of sign stealing
adambr2 replied to MrTPlush's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Boy, really seems to bother you. It's not a huge deal. Yeah, I think he should have handled it better and taken the high road. Doesn't mean I don't love the guy and support him. I can separate my personal opinions from my love for Brewer players. I also don't think it's a huge thing at all. I was just surprised from how he has usually conducted himself in the past that he would take a shot at the pitching ability of a pretty good pitcher over a perceived insult that really wasn't one. -
Broncos are a joke. Fangio sucks as a HC.
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Broncos suck. They'll blow it. They're well on their way with McManus pissing away the field goal.
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The loss to the Illini is the one that is really going to gut our hopes. If we just had the one loss to OSU, won the next 2 and then won the rematch, I think we'd have a pretty ironclad case as a 1 loss B10 champ.
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So Alabama, currently #5, IF they win out has a 19% chance of making the playoff? Even though they're already #5, would be a 1 loss team and would beat Auburn in the meantime, they have a 19% chance of making the playoff if they win out and we have a 33% chance of making the playoff if we win out? Yeah, I call bullcrap on that. They'd win out and have the problem of LSU, Clemson, and OSU already locked into spots ahead of them, and the strong chance that a 1-loss Pac-12 or Big-12 team ends with a better SOS/quality of wins. Alabama's only win vs. a ranked opponent would be that hypothetical Auburn win. Also a dominant win on the road over #24 T A&M. And their only loss would be a close loss to a dominant LSU team. We've been down this road with the committee before. Maybe I am just jaded by their past decisions, but I don't believe for one second that the committee is going to take any 1 loss SEC team, much less Alabama, over a 2 loss B10 champ Wisconsin team with a loss to Illinois and a blowout loss to OSU.