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The pitches to Fowler were definitely outside, and more outside than the pitch to Grandal. Yes this guy sucks but those pitches to Fowler were clearly not strikes.
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Gio and Wacha working with two entirely different strike zones today. But I'd expect nothing less from an MLB umpire.
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See now to me, this is a reasonable perspective. If you've got X amount of dollars to spend, not everything is going to neatly fit into a value box for you. You'll have to take some chances on your deals, some of them will pan out, some of them won't. But I'd certainly rather see the money invested back into the club rather than just pocketed. Now I would probably argue that there are better uses for that money than signing guys in their 30s, especially years out, but given what Braun was at the time, and given where we were as a franchise and what we had come from, I guess I can understand the need from a PR perspective to keep the guy a Brewer for his career. I wasn't crazy about the deal at the time and obviously am even less so now, but I can at least understand it. In any event, while it's been an overpay, it certainly hasn't been a criminal misuse of payroll. The Cain contract I guess is somewhat similar to that regard to the Braun extension. I cringe a little seeing that much money committed to guys in their 30's, but it's not like there are any top notch 25 year olds available in free agency, so you've got to use what you've got in the best way you think you can. And it certainly looked like a steal a year ago. Personally, since you asked, I'd like to see more of that money invested in high end reliever arms, which are volatile but can typically be had on shorter contracts.
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So again, if instead of trading Lucroy in 2016, we had extended him as some wanted to do, for say 4 years/80M, putting us on the hook for 20M a year now through 2021, you'd be arguing that because the totality of the contract (12 years/97.25M) was a great deal, that would make the 4/80 still a great deal? Do you really not see how silly that is?
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No, that is simply wrong. You cannot bunch up deals and say they committed 140mil for all that. They committed $40mil for a portion and then $100mil for a different portion. I don't get the fascination with trying to doll up bad contracts on aging players. Just because we made a killing on one deal doesn't mean that production can be apart of the bad deal we made later. They should have made a massive killing and then sent Braun on his way. And really the Braun contract hasn't ended that badly it seems...not good...we shouldn't have done it, but he has stayed relevant for the most part when it comes to production. But lets not try to make it what it isn't. Heck at this rate he could probably get his option picked up if he can be good next year and find a way to play passable at 1B! Probably not getting it picked up as an OFer though. I don't get it either. No one forced us to give Braun another 5/105 years out simply because we did so well on his first contract. The first contract was a great one and the second was a poor one. They are separate entities, you don't just combine them and say well done. Should we do right by Lucroy and give him 4/80 in the offseason? We'll still come out ahead.
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No, they didn't. They signed him to a fantastic 8 year/40 some odd million deal when he was just starting out which carried him through age 31, which would have been a fantastic place to stop. Then signed him to an ill-advised, 5 year/105M extension on top of that in early 2011 a full 5 seasons before he would have even hit free agency, for his age 32-36 seasons.
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He's already locked up. For the next 6+ years. I have no reservation really with giving him a long-term deal but you keep harping on this like he's going to walk in the offseason if they don't do something. Yes, but wouldn’t it be great if we had Yelich signed for 2 additional years at well below market value? But we don't know that Hiura is going to be another Christian Yelich, and I think to say that, you're not seeing how rare it is to have a player become a Christian Yelich. You're a little bit over the top high on players you like -- Hiura, Grisham -- and now lately you've been touting Ray Black as having unhittable stuff and expecting Black and Devin Williams to be lights out late inning guys in September. I don't think you fully appreciate the rarity of the truly elite players in baseball and what it takes to get to that level -- that talent is just one ingredient, and not a guarantee. I would have thought that what happened with guys like Burnes and Nelson this year would have been a humbling reminder of that fact and caused you to second guess some of these forecasts, but it certainly doesn't appear to be the case.
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He's already locked up. For the next 6+ years. I have no reservation really with giving him a long-term deal but you keep harping on this like he's going to walk in the offseason if they don't do something.
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So you think Stearns has had a good year? Hasn’t made an inordinate amount of mistakes, from the early rotation to the horrible pitching shuttle to sending Hiura back down to the imbalance of lefty hitters, to keeping a near .530 hitter vs lefties down all year. Oh, almost forgot, letting DJ go. If I had more time to think, I could probably come up with more bad decision making. Isn’t that enough? You said this back in February: Stearns & co has built a championship caliber team for this year. What Separates this team from any other national league team including the dodgers is there depth. Best 40 man in league and it’s not even Close! This team will overcome injuries because of it, And get stronger at the trade deadline. And like last year dominate sept with Call-ups. This will be one of mlb’s super teams THIS year! What Stearns has done in the last 41 months is simply astounding! viewtopic.php?f=63&t=38134&p=1197234#p1197234 You can't go from that to wanting him fired 6 months later just because the results haven't been as good as you had expected, man.
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Maybe it's just me, but I speculate that there is a disconnect between Stearns and Counsell on Arcia. Counsell pretty clearly doesn't trust Arcia as his starting SS, but Stearns has never, for whatever reason, been willing to provide better options.
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Yep. And since then: Lyles: 3.43 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 5.55 FIP Black: 7.71 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 10.08 FIP Pomeranz: 5.14 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 5.79 FIP Faria: 8 10 ERA ERA, 1.80 WHIP, 6.82 FIP These were nothing more than waiver wire/DFA type trades.
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Yep. Lefties destroy Dakota Hudson to a tune of a .906 OPS. He is a righty bat killer, but lefties destroy Hudson. And we have a lineup that is built with lefties to an almost ridiculous degree and we couldn't touch Hudson.
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It has really seemed like the opposite to me, any time they start to build any sort of momentum they quickly lose a couple games and end up right back at square one. They're only in the race by default because the NL has been a big bowl of mediocrity outside of the Dodgers and Braves. But I obviously hope you're right.
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Absolutely. Unfortunately, we're getting pretty late in the season for moral victories. The standings still aren't a problem -- we came back from a bigger deficit in September last year. The problem to me is that this team just isn't going to be good enough. Last year, when Knebel started coming into form, when the team acquired Soria and Burnes was pitching lights out in the pen, you just got the sense that they could make a run. I just don't have that this year. Woodruff is the big one, but by then it might be too little, too late. Right now the pitching help on the way and in reserve is Brent Suter, Bobby Wahl, Ray Black, Jake Faria...I just don't see it. I just don't think these guys are good enough to carry us to the kind of September we had last year.
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I was thinking that too. I'm going to be very sad when the Cubs don't extend him. Why? He's a good manager and almost every time he's done this move it has worked out. Maddon gets a bad rap and he's not perfect, but Epstein is overrated. He's saddled the Cubs with generally bad bullpens and bad contracts like Jason Heyward.
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Let me guess, just gotta tip our caps to the opposing pitchers. The bills of our caps must be worn from all the cap tipping we've done this year. I wish we had some nights when the opposing team was tipping their respective caps to our pitchers.
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Interesting and probably not a good idea. Good for him to tough it out but there's got to be a better way. What could have been done differently? It was just a freak thing where all the stars aligned poorly. Late extra inning MLB game, late extra inning AAA game, day MLB game the next day. Wilkerson was never intended to be anything other than a sacrificial lamb today to come chew up a bunch of innings if needed and get a day's MLB pay and service time for his trouble.
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Sucks for him, but you still have to make pitches and work through it. It's not an excuse for getting taking yard twice after that.
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The list of pitchers who are so much better under Chris Hook's tutelage is down to one name: Adrian Houser.
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When you can't throw strikes and are constantly in unfavorable counts to hitters, these things will happen.
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Chase trying to ensure a drama free game today.
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First, they rank the 3 teams after applying tiebreakers. Currently, the Cubs would rank 1st, Cardinals 2nd, and us 3rd after applying tiebreakers. They call the 3 teams A, B, and C. On day 1, A hosts B. The winner of that game hosts team C on Day 2 for the division. This is all assuming we aren't competing for other playoff spots, it's division or bust, or ot gets even more complicated. The Cubs would get first choice -- presumably they would choose to be Team C to only have to win one game, but given their current Home/Loss split, it's not impossible they would choose Team A just to keep everything at Wrigley. We would be stuck as Team B regardless, but would still host Game 2 if we won Game 1.
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I've never smoked weed even once in my life which seems like a rarity to me. I don't have any real moral objection to it, I just hadn't tried it by the time I was 18, then I was in the military from 18 to 30 and in a manufacturing job since 30, both of which randomly drug test, and I have always refused to endanger my career.
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For those asking about a move tomorrow, I'm just not sure it's happening. The game is early and San Antonio got done late tonight themselves. I don't know if the Brewers have options outside of traditional commercial airlines but the only nonstop flight I found from San Antonio to DC tomorrow is later in the day, and nothing arriving before 1:55 which is 20 minutes after first pitch. Maybe Wilkerson could make it to the park in the later innings, but the logistics are awfully tough here.
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This game resembled the fight from Rocky II.