adambr2
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Why? Just why? You have the meat of the order coming up, Molina is behind the plate.
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Totally forgot the Cards signed him. Hopefully that signing goes the way of Greg Holland for them. (No offense, Dead Simmons, it's just business)
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Nothing is worse than a guy who basically has one single job, to retire lefties, and walks one on 4 pitches. Although one of those pitches was a K, no surprise from this bum of an umpire.
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Absolutely a Cardinal favored strike zone tonight.
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Strike 4. Terrible call on Ball 2.
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That helps. One more.
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Lack of command doesn't just result in walks. It also results in getting way too much of the plate in favorable counts.
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Domingo Santana has 9 RBI so far for the Mariners this year. He got his 9th RBI on May 14th last year.
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I think it's totally possible Thames is going to be the regular starter at 1st vs. RHP by May. They could have traded him, there's reasons they didn't.
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I still remember in about 2010 when BA said on the air that he believed that instant replay had a place in baseball and Schroeder asked him if he was some kind of sadist.
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It's almost like you're new to this message board... These in-game threads are where people can react to the game in real-time and people - generally - realize it's just emotion and not a well-thought out post. This is literally message board 101 stuff. It didn't used to be like this. It has gotten so bad I tend to avoid the in game threads because it is just people bellyaching about stuff that they generally aren't even right about. Gets really old. One time when this was said I went back and looked at a random sample of GTs from the 2006, 2007, 2008 days just to see if that was the case. They are all pretty much the same.
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I'm still baffled that they didn't just stick with Shaw at 2nd, where he was at least not awful and could make a turn, and instead put Moose there.
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Freddy isn't going to make it as a starter in this league with his limited repertoire if he can't improve his command.
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Got to stop walking guys. Back to back nights we started the scoring by allowing a walk in front of a HR. Can't do it.
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Corey Knebel to have Tommy John Surgery
adambr2 replied to Eye Black's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Just wanted to remind everyone of last April. Knebel went down with a hamstring injury, it looked very bad. We wondered what we would do. What we did was have arguably our most dominant stretch of the season for the pen. Ironically it was when Knebel returned that we started to struggle again. I don't say this in any way to correlate Knebel to pen struggles or understate his value, it's a big loss. Just more or less stating that the pieces that had that stretch last year are still here now. They'll get creative and they'll be all right. We will play matchups and probably get unconventional. We may not have a traditional closer in 2019, and that's okay. -
I'm pretty skeptical of this one. I don't think Stearns is the kind of guy to waste his time and that line of negotiating sounds like a big waste of time.
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I admittedly probably just don't know to what degree Hill's importance is to this team. But I will say -- they are 35-7 with Hill on the court this year and 22-12 without him. I don't know how much of that is causation and how much is correlation, but it's certainly a big swing.
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I'm guessing also they are going to try to mix and match quite a bit with their extreme split relievers. Righties have a career .558 OPS off Taylor Williams and lefties have a career .498 OPS off Claudio.
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Hard to find much to complain about as a Bucks fan, but the curious Christian Wood cut is really starting to look like a mistake as he is starting to emerge for the Pelicans. I'd understand more if Tim Frazier was anything at all as we needed the PG depth. But Frazier is awful.
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Ok, much smarter than us a given. But how much a plan can you have when your two closers down just in the last 3 weeks. One last week. Am Curious to see how Counsell handles this pen. Albers and Barmes both closed games last year. Claudio was a closer for part of the 2017 season. Alex Wilson has a bit of experience closing. If Hader was a closer, he'd probably be the best in baseball. They have options. Obviously, Knebel is a very tough loss for however long he's out. It will likely be a committee situation and Hader will probably have plenty of 2 inning saves coming his way. If the Brewers like the way the rotation is looking, I think it's plausible that they could ease Nelson back in a pen role this year, and if so, he might end up being a high leverage option.
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Sorry, I mean no offense, but this is exactly the kind of panic mentality that good GMs just don't have. Not only is getting Kimbrel not enough, but we NEED to trade for a reliever from the Giants even if Kimbrel signs because he won't pitch right away? It's April. Actually, it's not even April. We are 1 game into the season. Teams don't operate this way. It's so early, you're still evaluating what you have, who might develop and take the next step, etc. We don't even know how long JJ and Nelson are still out for. We don't even know if Knebel is done. I don't even care if they do trade with the Giants, but you don't NEED to do anything at all when you're 1 game into the season. We don't even know what we have yet.
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What if you could get a 30 years old Kimbrel for 1 year THIS year at 18 mil? I'm guessing we'd do it. You still haven't offered anything other than personal speculation that this is an option for us.
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All the? There are 4 teams that would go over the luxury tax by signing Kimbrel to 1/19. What's the excuse for the other 26?
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You're making wild assumptions on things you just don't know. Bullpen help is something literally any team could use. You think it's a no-brainer to sign him, yet you think among all 30 teams not one is willing to pay him 1/19?
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Just remember people had these same concerns and fears heading into 2018 without Jimmy Nelson in the rotation, and we missed the WS by one game. Let's see what happens with Jeffress, Knebel, Nelson, etc. Guys like Guerra and Anderson could play pivotal pen roles. Guys like Williams and Barnes could finally take the next step to late inning roles. Someone like Houser or Diplan might come in and surprise us. Someone like Zach Brown might come in and be Corbin Burnes of 2018. And likely, we will add a rental arm at the deadline like we've done the last 2 seasons. I have a pretty good amount of faith in this FO, they've earned it. They have a plan, they're not flying by the seat of their pants. That plan is subject to change based on their ongoing evaluations, but this season is a marathon, not a sprint.