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Looks like an offense that didn't bother with a single game rep together the entire preseason.
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So when Grandal gets rung up on a bad call, our inning ends up going from a potential multi run inning to a goose egg. These guys are changing the outcomes of games. Why is this incompetence allowed to continue without consequence? Why is the job performance of their umpires not important to MLB?
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Well, Pina has been that good against LHP this year. (.997 OPS)
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Not a strike 3 to Grandal. Not that it should be any surprise at this point.
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Those are the consequences when you walk guys. Contreras coming back for the Cubs is a bigger add than anyone we've added in September. Keep it at 1 or this could get ugly fast.
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Brown is the kind of player who is going to end up on the Patriots now and catch 20 TDs this year.
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I think we'll either be pleasantly surprised or this will be an epic disaster.
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The ball never touched the ground and was secured in his glove. It is not a requirement for a catch that the ball be show before he takes his glove off, nor is technically a requirement for him to show the ball. He satisfied the requirement for the catch and the umpire ran out to verify. Had the ball popped out when he took the glove off and set it down before the umpire could get out there to visually verify then it might have been a little murkier but it never even touched the ground.
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Jeffress isn't going to have any trouble getting a major league deal whether it be this year or next. His track record and stuff when he's on is too good not to. For age and market he's probably a good comp to Sam Dyson. (If both were FAs). It would be one thing if he completely fell off a cliff this year but that's not the case. His FIP, K/9 and WHIP this year are still well within range of his career norms. Most relievers are extremely volatile, just look at Edwin Diaz this year. JJ is a pretty good bounceback candidate for 2020.
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We acquired 5 cost controlled years of a league MVP player who is exceeding the MVP year in his second year and you're saying "time will tell"?! Blue chip prospect or not, Brinson is bordering on bust label. It's not too late for Diaz but he's been overmatched so far. Yamamoto is who he is. He could be a #5 at this level but we didn't give up Max Scherzer there. Harrison still could be something, but do you see a Yelich type HOF caliber career like Yelich in the cards for him? I hope all these Marlins go on to have successful careers, but come on. Time has already told.
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Darn it, so you mean to say we could have signed him up until today?
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Part of me feels like we should be happy to have split with Houston. Part of me feels like we should have swept them.
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Brewers not losing helps. Sure, but when you're playing catchup and running out of games, you need to gain ground, not just hold serve. Certainly no exaggeration that the next series is the biggest of the season. Depending on the result we could be anywhere from tied for the wild card to 8 games back. A series win at minimum, 3 of 4, is a must to realistically hope to stay relevant.
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Cardinals won. Phillies won. Cubs winning big. Mets winning. Diamondbacks winning. Once again we just cannot get any help whatsoever.
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Lol not only was that a strike to Austin, but he went around too. I have no problem pointing out when the umpires are garbage in our favor as well.
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Dubon has been starting every day for the Giants and, while obviously very small sample, performing quite well for the Giants as their starting 2B. Given that I don't think we're going to make the playoffs anyway, I'd still rather have kept Dubon. Obviously if we do make the playoffs and Pomeranz ends up being a huge part of it I'll be proven wrong on that. Ray Black is likely a solid pen piece as well for the rest of this year and moving forward. That is not to be discounted. I am pulling for Dubon. It would have been fun to see him get more of a shot with the Brewers. But I think they did decent in that deal. I doubt Black even cracks the opening day roster next year which would likely mean he's gone because he's out of options. But again, time will tell.
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This umpiring crew seems to despise Christian Yelich.
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Dubon has been starting every day for the Giants and, while obviously very small sample, performing quite well for the Giants as their starting 2B. Given that I don't think we're going to make the playoffs anyway, I'd still rather have kept Dubon. Obviously if we do make the playoffs and Pomeranz ends up being a huge part of it I'll be proven wrong on that.
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Shaw has gone full Chris Davis. He is beyond lost.
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Ben May is an absolute pile of garbage as an umpire.
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Several reasons. 1) Money. Promoted players have to be paid the prorated MLB minimum. It's not a ridiculously high amount, but it costs 100K or so per player to call him up the entire month. 2) Service time. Especially in the case of young players it's often not in the team's best interest to blow a month of service time on an extremely minimal role. 3) Player development. In the cases of some players, the organization would prefer them doing something else for their own personal development rather than coming up to Milwaukee to do almost nothing for the month. That might be going right home and getting some rest, preparing for fall/winter league play, or another form of training. 4) Clubhouse. Players do complain at times of the extra congestion in September, and a full 40 man clubhouse is probably going to prove to be pretty uncomfortable and pretty unpopular.
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2019 Standings and Playoff Races Discussion
adambr2 replied to Eye Black's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
But isn't it the bad/losing teams that have given the Brewers problems this year? 1-2 v. Miami (48-88) 1-2 v. Seattle (58-81) 0-3 v. LA Angels (65-73) 0-3 v. Padres (64-73) Had they merely split those games against bottom of the barrel teams, they'd be in position for the wild card right now with a legit shot at the division. Accordingly, to suggest that they have a run in them yet this year because they play some weaker clubs ignores the facts. Outside of Pittsburgh they haven't played well against losing teams. What happened in the past doesn’t matter in baseball. This is a different team than what we had even a week ago, a better team, especially their pitching, and I would argue that you were ignoring that most important fact. I would argue that you consistently ignore the fact that other teams improve too. The Cubs have Wilson Contretas returning from the IL, for instance, and you're still counting on a soft tossing lefty returning from TJ and a guy who hasn't pitched effectively in 2 years to be big enough needle movers to overcome a 4 game gap. It just doesn't normally work like that. -
2019 Standings and Playoff Races Discussion
adambr2 replied to Eye Black's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
The absolute best, cherry picked 20 game stretch for us this season was 14-6. It will take at least that, and that's assuming a win in the Cubs' series. -
I would have thought by 37 I would have grown up a bit. Appears not.
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2019 Standings and Playoff Races Discussion
adambr2 replied to Eye Black's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
What you say makes perfect sense. But, even if we lose 3 of 4 to the Cubbies, it’s not over. If we lose 3 out of 4 to the Cubs it is definitely over. At that point you're 6 back (assuming we neither gain nor lose ground today which is a generous assumption given the matchups) with 20 to play. So then even if the Cubs stumble and finish like 10-10, which is unlikely, you're still needing to go 16-4 just to even tie. And that's assuming none of the other teams we are chasing get hot, we have several teams between us and the Cubs. That's just not happening. Just because something is mathematically possible doesn't make it realistic. It's Cubs series or bust.