adambr2
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You keep portraying Smoak as this guy who always puts the ball in play. He struck out 156 times last year. That would have led our team last year. Yes, he's not Thames but he is hardly strikeout averse. Personally I think you fall into the trap too often of ignoring everything but this year's data (except for Burnes).
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Yeah it seemed like clickbait from Brewcrewball. There's just no way Stearns lost out on Bellinger+ for Braun because of insistence on a 2nd prospect in an already lopsided trade.
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https://reviewingthebrew.com/2017/08/19/milwaukee-brewers-braun-puig-deal/ That was the only thing I could find on Bellinger for Braun speculation. And that's all it reads as, total speculation. I can't imagine Bellinger was ever an agreed upon prospect but if he was Stearns would definitely never reveal that information.
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I can't imagine Bellinger was ever one of the '2 prospects'. I think that's more of a fan created urban legend.
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Amen to that. Even petite, skinny wives are tough to hoist up as a shield that quickly.
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The problem with your scenario is that next year they would add $16M, plus they need to pick up the $11M for Moustakas, and if the re-sign Smoak that's another $9-11M added on. They also have Knebel, Shaw, Davies, Perez, Guerra, Gamel, Arcia, and Suter arby eligible. With the payroll already at a Brewer record, money becomes a major factor. Moose's 11M option almost certainly isn't getting picked up. As with most mutual options he either outperforms it and it's undermarket (looking likely) or he underperforms it and it's overmarket. It was most likely just a simple way to defer some salary to 2020, same with Grandal's option. Given Hiura's presence I seriously doubt Moose is here next year unless Shaw is traded or continues to completely flame out.
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I totally get people wanting him down, but who do bring up, Williams? He’s terrible in high leverage. It’ll be interesting to see what the crew does. If the choice is Williams Barnes I’ll stick with Burnes. Williams has not impressed, but he's still one of the better arms as far as upside in the system. In addition he is holding righties to a .591 OPS in his career so he is useful against righty batters. It would be good to see him start getting some of the righties that Claudio has been getting.
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They're overtalking this Hader decision. You pull him. If the rest of your pen can't protect a 6 run lead with 1 inning to go, you might as well just give up.
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I’ll still keep Braun. I'm thinking I'd pull the trigger. 15 WAR pace 23 year old might solve our problems at 1st.
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Yeah, Burnes needs an extended vacation in Texas for awhile. He's electric when he's on, so it sucks, but we can't have a functional role for Burnes right now when good Burnes only shows up 40% of the time.
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I totally didn't even realize it's not even the 9th. I thought we had 1 out to go, not 4. Whoops.
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Yeesh Burnes. Total gas can. Dude has to be tipping his pitches or something. It's just unbelievable.
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It's amazing that a guy with stuff so good can have numbers that are this bad. Still, one walk and an excuse me single, no big deal if he can get one more out.
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Nah, kudos to you, that trade would look amazing right now and I definitely made the wrong call on that. It's only natural, I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to bump the threads where people said "Bellinger isn't enough for Braun, he's never even going to be as good as Braun" .
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Like the guy, but he shouldn't be coming back unless he is ready and finding his stroke. Nothing about his minor league numbers so far shows that he is ready. Think of it like spring training. They’re meaningless. They must feel he’s ready. I’ll trust that. Nothing about his major league numbers this year really suggest he's ready either. But we'll see what happens.
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He’s just a better pitcher than gio or Chacín. But especially in the pen. Like I said earlier his FB upticks which helps chase more than the uptick helps gio or Chacín. His numbers are far worse in relief than starting. Small sample size, obviously.
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I don't think we definitely know that to be true. I do believe we were definitely in on Machado last summer. Is Hiura going in a rental, no way, but beyond that, I don't think Stearns has shown any aversion to rentals. Also I think an overlooked value in rentals is a chance to sell a player on extending their stay in Milwaukee if all other options are equal. We've seen that with Moose and Gio. I doubt either are Brewers now if we hadn't rented them.
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No freaking way! Not a chance. Nope. I think you're really underestimating how good Rendon is or overestimating Turang and Ashby. Rendon is an elite player. Turning and Ashby are nice prospects but a long, long ways away. It's fine that you wouldn't do it, everyone has their own opinion on it but if anything it's probably not enough. It's less than the Machado sale price last year. I'd probably do Turang+Ashby without much hesitation. That's an absolute game changing bat at a position of need. I'd much prefer that over Burnes for Bumgarner.
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No. Burnes has far too much upside to trade for a rental and Bumgarner isn't a top of the rotation pitched anymore. He'd be going from an extreme pitcher friendly park to an extreme hitter friendly park, so that transition may also not go well. No interest in MadBum at that price. I personally don't like the guy, but even separating that from him professionally, no interest at that price.
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I am actually not overly concerned about our offense. We are still 4th in the NL in runs scored, even with an absolutely brutal schedule, and two of our best hitters from last year being giant pumpkins so far. Hiura is for real, he's going to give us much improved offensive production at 2nd, and we already have a massive offensive improvement at catcher from last year with Grandal. Even if just one of Shaw or Aguilar turns it around, we can mix and match and still cover the infield by putting either at 1st and leaving Hiura and Moose to cover 2nd and 3rd. Thames has also not been bad as long as you limit him to righties. Now 1st basemen are generally a relatively inexpensive market, so if you can find a deal that makes sense for a great price, there's nothing wrong with pulling the trigger. But we aren't sitting here with a massive offensive problem.
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You didn't answer my question at all or even address it. Aside from that, it's not like I would be mad about acquiring Smoak, I just don't think over the course of the remainder of the season compared to Aguilar/Thames he's going to be nearly the upgrade you're expecting.
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Hiura blew that one. But Claudio still sucks.
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Taylor Jungmann I recall being awesome for a few weeks. Maybe we should just start recycling these AAAA starters with no MLB experience and calling them up for a start or two, DFA them and move onto the next one.
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Teams should just call up any dude from the minors to make his MLB debut against us when we come to town.