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Davies is an idiot. You don’t throw your catcher or pitching coach or whoever he was blaming for his troubles under the bus like he did. Unforgivable. But showing his true lack of character, and if I’m Stearns I hope he pitches better over the next month so I can trade his butt and not sell too low on this coward. I think you're overreacting quite a bit. Regardless of what Davies meant, it's normally for guys to get frustrated and at the end of the day he didn't call anyone but himself out by name. Maybe it was a subtle shot at Hook, maybe it wasn't but it doesn't mean he is some piss poor character lacking individual who needs to be run out of town immediately for some pretty innocent comments.

Yep, I used that trade calculator to find a fair deal for Bumgarner. He calculates as having the exact same value as Lucas Erceg + Joe Gray + Yeison Coca. That's the problem. That's a fair trade, but the Giants will laugh at it. And we shouldn't overpay just because the Giants are going to put a premium price on name and nostalgia, that's not our problem.

This is a mediocre baseball team, folks.

I like Thames a lot, but against Vasquez he may as well just go up there and hang the bat on his shoulders and hope he can't find the zone.

That's what happens when you walk guys. One single and that's all it takes to kill you.

Looks like we found a way to piss another one away.

Hopefully, Hiura still has his number.

It was bound to happen eventually, but Christian Yelich has looked really human over his last 20-25 or so ABs.

My confidence in Guerra is almost nonexistent.

I thought it was gone off the bat to be honest.

Archer is hittable. Maybe stop running ourselves into outs tonight.

Thames isn't fantastic, but he hits RH pitching really well. With the way Aguilar has played this year I'm awfully glad we hung onto Eric.

Hernan Pérez understandably very emotional leaving Miller Park: "Really, I was surprised. I wasn't expecting this," he said. "It's hard. It's really hard. Let's see what the future holds."

I'd probably put Hiura 3rd and Braun 5th on the simple basis that I expect Hiura to outhit Braun overall for the remainder of 2018. But I agree with splitting up the lefties and if you're a believer that it's better not to put pressure on rookies by batting them that high, it works.

If anything, I think it hurts the team to DFA him. Hernan's versatility made carrying 13 pitchers on a 25-man active roster workable. Heck, he was the 14th pitcher on the 25-man roster. Honestly, I would have handed him the 13th pitcher/mop-up role and used him more on the mound, and have him report with pitchers and catchers. I've been on record as saying I'd sign him to a multi-year extension for the versatility, and I'm still of that opinion. Weston Wilson's the closest to matching, and he's not likely to be in Milwaukee until September 2020. David Fry did eight positions in a game... maybe he's another option. This was the wrong move. Come on, really? Perez pitched in games a tiny amount of times because he was the best of the position players at actually having a chance to record outs on the mound in games that no longer matter. That role is useful like twice a season and always come in games that are out of hand anyway. That role will simply go to the next best position player at recording outs, just like Kratz did last year. Advocating for a position player to remain on the roster because of his ability to pitch, unless it's an actual pitcher like Brooks Kieschnick for example, is just silly. The problem with Perez is that he was out of options. If he had options, he'd probably still be on the 40. Saladino is similar and has options. Next year he won't and he'll probably wind up in the same position Perez is in now because of it, with Dubon having options and taking that role. It really isn't worth carrying mediocre 24th and 25th players on the roster when you have no flexibility to send them down as needed, and I'm glad the front office seems to agree.

You're talking about a rookie with the same prospect pedigree of a Kris Bryant, Ronald Acuna, Cody Bellinger, etc. If Hiura was a Yankee or a Cub, he'd have been a top 5 prospect for months...the primary reason he isn't is we're small market and his mediocre defense. His bat grades out right up there with those guys when they were prospects, maybe even better. I'd consider it an overreaction if people were acting this way about us not calling up Freitas over Pina to be backup catcher. Swapping Shaw and Hiura makes the team so much better, especially considering Hiura is probably more likely than not to be a star. Hiura should be in the top 5 of the lineup tonight and every night until/unless he cools off. That's all wonderful. He still has to actually do it first. People acting like it's a guarantee that he will instantly perform at a MVP level bother me. Is it possible? Yes, it's happened before, it will happen again. Is it likely? I think history would say it's not likely, and that doesn't mean he's not going to have a successful rookie season. There's a difference between being successful and being a baseball god right out of the gate. Has anyone actually been acting like Hiura is going to instantly perform like an MVP or be the next Babe Ruth, or is that just some kind of embellishment that has taken on a life of its own? I doubt a single person has indicated that anything close to those two things is realistic. What is realistic? It's probably realistic that Hiura can come in and post an .850 or so OPS at this level, hit with good power and replace the bat of Perez against LHP in the lineup. Which is a pretty large upgrade over the production we were getting from Shaw/Perez. That's what matters. Just because Hiura isn't going to fix every problem on the team doesn't mean you don't let him come in and fix one that he likely can.

Aguilar has a .263/.349/.368 line in 43 PA in June. Not terrible. For Orlando Arcia or Lorenzo Cain, it's not terrible. For a guy who plays a position of high offensive expectations and only that one position, and plays it poorly, it's far from an ideal line. We don't have room on our roster for a .700 OPS first base only backup. Hopefully he can keep turning things around like he has the last couple games.

We sure have a knack lately for making adventures out of routine pop flies.

Huge HR by Orlando.

Good grief Cain. What is the matter with you?

I think people would be disappointed to see what Grandal and Moose would bring back. You're not going to get a haul for either. Rentals just don't bring back great returns anymore, and especially with Grandal, his price tag cuts into his surplus value. Don't get me wrong, you can get something. You're probably going to base your asking price around the Machado price tag last year but end up having to settle for less.

No, it's really not. Because if Cain wasn't out, he would have been starting. So you still wouldn't have had a righty option there.

They've been asking. Edit: Oops, sorry I saw this was already posted. But yeah, it'll probably get thrown out there once a week or so until Hiura is back, which is probably a moot point because he's going to (hopefully?!) be up within a week.

I would also like to add this: If you can't start Aguilar against a lefty, good heavens, just go ahead and trade or DFA the man already. He's useless if he can't be used against LHP. Potential moves: Hiura up, Shaw down (duh) Cain to IL, promote Dubon DFA/trade Aguilar. DFA Tyrone Taylor. Purchase contract of Trent Grisham and promote to 25 man roster (don't freak out, just until Cain comes off the DL, let's give him a cup of coffee, he's earned it. He's going to have to be added in the offseason anyway).

When you have to send Eric Thames up to face a lefty as your last hope in the 9th, your roster construction sucks.