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  1. adambr2
    How do you know Smoak would want to be traded? He's been in Toronto for 5 seasons. He has a 1 year old daughter. Seems we would have been able to make the same assumptions about Schoop going from the worst team in baseball to a contender, no?
  2. adambr2
    Gotta be able to cash in a leadoff triple. Too much of that kind of thing this year.
  3. adambr2
    It's definitely a bottom 3-5 system without Hiura IMO. The guys who were near the top with a chance to cement themselves as top prospects (Ray, Erceg, Brown, Lutz), just haven't done that. Guys like Grisham, Gatewood, Diplan and Taylor are basically just organizational fodder at this point. Rasmussen has been exciting, and Turang is looking the part of a top pick so far, but those two are about the top of the good news. Supak has been solid but this isn't a future ace in the making by any means. It's a pretty weak system. It's not a great sign to see farm teams being carried by organizational depth guys like Saladino.
  4. adambr2
    Yeah, everyone sings the praises of college sports, but really the NCAA is worse than any professional sports organization for parity. In football, it's Ohio State, Alabama, and Clemson, and Duke and Kentucky and other 1 year basketball camps. Year after year these guys have the pick of the 5 and 4 star recruits while programs like Wisconsin are left picking the leftovers.
  5. adambr2
    A-Rod got every last penny from his contract, which normally doesn't happen when you retire. My guess is, he was so bad in 2016 that the team would have had no choice but to DFA him, which would have been a rather embarrassing end to his legacy but still required him to be paid. So the team likely approached him about the situation to get him to "retire" instead. He saves face, still gets paid, and the team looks like the good guys and avoids the fan backlash of DFAing a legend at the end of his career.
  6. adambr2
    IMO we definitely have a great shot at the playoffs this year. Dodgers are going to run away with the West, other than them, no one special. I see the Phillies and Braves both as likely playoff teams. Top 2 from the Central IMO will be playoff teams.
  7. adambr2
    By the way, I 100% expect Vanvleet to go back fo being a pumpkin in the Finals, because that's just how it goes for us.
  8. adambr2
    Ah, so this is why Gio was available for 2 million.
  9. adambr2
    I don't know. There is very little difference between Thames and Smoak. Smoak is a switch hitter, but he's so much better as a lefty that the SH thing isn't really an advantage with him. He's not a good righty hitter. We seem to be fueled by a constant desire for change and this search for a "professional" hitter, whatever that is, we apparently do not have any.
  10. adambr2
    Woodruff was short of a full service year coming into 2019, so he will not reach free agency until 2025 when he is 32 years old. Most likely will be a super 2 with arbitration seasons from 2021-24 under the current system. Absolutely no rush whatsoever to do anything with Woodruff unless he wants to sell some arbitration years at a discount in exchange for security like Chase Anderson.
  11. adambr2
    Except Aguilar had a higher slugging percentage than EE both last season and the season before. So surely you can understand if management doesn't want to jump to conclusions based on 127 ABs this year. Also the whole "clogging the bases" thing is just a really silly expression to imply that getting on base is a bad thing, especially when comparing Aguilar to EE who is much older and equally a sloth on the bases. Aguilar can at least play a passable 1B while there is no DH spot in the NL to plug in EE. It's also shows extreme bias to continue to harp on the improvement of the pitching staff in May but completely disregard the improvement of Aguilar when that is brought up.
  12. adambr2
    No. Perez has been the same guy this year as he has his entire career, a guy who can't hit righties and can't get on base. His value is in his versatility and ability to hit lefties and pigeonholing him for the every day job at 2nd will not work out great on a long-term basis.
  13. adambr2
    Devil's advocate but what if we had traded Woodruff for Machado and won the World Series? It is the argument many use to justify the Chapman for Gleyber Torres trade for the Cubs. I'm also glad we didnt trade Woodruff, by the way.
  14. adambr2
    At least a couple people said he was bad last night. Basically because of that one bad lob to Giannis and a missed 3 in the 4th. And this was not just during the game, which is an emotional reaction, but after the game that people said he was bad. Just went and looked back at the whole postgame on here. Did not really see anything overly critical of Hill after the game. I did include his name as a guy who didn't step up, but I included basically everyone in that when I said we needed one guy to step up and no one did.
  15. adambr2
    1) 4th and 26 2) Seattle choke 3) OT heartbreaker to Giants 4) OT heartbreaker to 49ers 5) OT heartbreaker to Cardinals 6) OT heartbreaker to Cardinals (again) That's 6 soul crushers, then 5 instances (Rams, Falcons, Vikings, Giants, Falcons) of just having our rear ends handed to us. It's been brutal. Fortunately we had one year where all the stars aligned or it would make this era look even more miserable in regard to championships.
  16. adambr2
    This thread is about the heartbreak that Wisconsin sports fans have endured this century in coming up short numerous times in having a team that took that next step from great to championship caliber. It isn't saying they've just all sucked. If you think the discussion is ridiculous, no one forced you to participate in it. One can have a differing opinion. This thread comes off poor. Only one teams fan base ends up happy at the end of the season. Wisconsin sports teams are 1-7 in conference championships this century. 4 of those losses were as the higher seeded team. That's certainly a drought worthy of being frustrated about.
  17. adambr2
    San Antonio, Chicago, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Miami, New York, and St. Louis have all had varying degrees of success this century from their professional sports teams. Most of the above have had 3 or more championships and/or numerous other championship appearances.
  18. adambr2
    I know this is a bad attitude to have, but the whole "we'll be back" talk never does much for me. Everyone thinks they'll be back. Sometimes you just don't make it back. We could follow Philly's path next year and get knocked out in Round 2. We just don't know. People think we'll have an improved supporting cast next year -- how? We don't even have enough to keep all our own much less bring in much for outside help, and we're not likely getting immediate help in the draft. I think we'll have to lean on Giannis more than ever before and count on his improvement. Every missed opportunity is a missed opportunity. We were at full health in the ECF which gave us a great shot. We might not have the same luck next year. Best case scenario is we are indeed back, we keep most of the supporting cast, and Durant leaves Golden State and we knock off a weaker Warrior team. Worst case scenario is we don't make it back, Giannis doesn't sign his supermax, and we are forced to trade him after next season. Both scenarios could happen.
  19. adambr2
    This thread is about the heartbreak that Wisconsin sports fans have endured this century in coming up short numerous times in having a team that took that next step from great to championship caliber. It isn't saying they've just all sucked. If you think the discussion is ridiculous, no one forced you to participate in it.
  20. adambr2
    I assume that both his small 20 IP sample and larger 200 IP sample of being shelled by right handed hitting will continue if he continues to be used improperly.
  21. adambr2
    You said the series was in absolutely no jeopardy after Game 3 and anyone was basically nuts if they thought Toronto had 3 more wins in them. I'm just saying, it's hard to come back now and say it wasn't a shock to you. And yes, as hard as this is it is certainly better than being a perennial 7/8 seed.
  22. adambr2
    Makes sense why he would snub her, then.
  23. adambr2
    I am not saying it isn't "good" to at least witness competitive sports. I am definitely saying they've made me a little more jaded and hard to trust across the board. I think people often wonder why Wisconsin sports fans seem excessively pessimistic...I think there's an expectation that of choking that has developed and it's not even limited to one organization.
  24. adambr2
    That's ideal, but I couldn't sit up there for a press conference after a big loss like that. A heart breaking loss that we choked away. Edit-I'm not saying you're wrong, I just honestly understand it, and it doesn't bother me as much as you because that's part of what gives Giannis that "edge." I get it. I just would have preferred to see him sit up there and fight through it and own this experience completely.
  25. adambr2
    Not a fan of Giannis just walking out of his press conference in response to a very legitimate question about experience being a big factor. I'm sure you're as devastated as anyone, probably more, but this happened, sit up there and face the music and own it and be better for it.
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