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  1. adambr2
    I kind of think the opposite. I'm thrilled he didn't end up with any of our rivals and think if anything the Padres will be an 80-85 win team or so and just drain a few wins off the totals of the Dodgers and Rockies. Could end up being a good thing.
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    Well, it's a far better investment than Hosmer, I'll give them that.
  3. adambr2
    My only disappointment with this is that it probably shuts the door on any chance we were going to sign Marwin Gonzalez. But as others said, as far as fit and familiarity and maximizing our lineup, not much not to like. This is also a case of a rental turning into more than a rental. Had we not traded for Moose chances are this deal doesn't happen.
  4. adambr2
    I know it's still wildly popular, but batting average is an atrocious measurement of offensive production. Any stat that refers to Travis Shaw as a "hole" is a very, very bad stat.
  5. adambr2
    I would guess not. Thames is a better fallback than we give him credit for, even with the bad season he still had a .804 OPS against RHP. So if we figure that is his floor, if Aguilar regresses they can always go back to a hard platoon of Thames/Aguilar at 1st and probably have a floor of 40 HR and a .825 OPS out of that. I would think on the very rare occasion when neither of Aguilar or Thames is at 1st it will be Grandal at 1st and Pina catching.
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    Or maybe it's because the Brewer's statistical measure of defense is similar to UZR/150, and UZR/150 had Braun at a poor -19.0 when playing 1B. I mean I'm guessing it was a factor but I really doubt barely a 100 inning sample size of UZR/150 was the tipping point. I would guess it has a lot more to do with the somewhat lack of an outfield logjam now comparitvely to last spring and how they feel going forward this year with Aguilar and Thames.
  7. adambr2
    Counsell said going forward Braun is not likely to see much time at 1B. This is expected but one could interpret it as a vote of confidence in Aguilar as well as probably being good news for Thames.
  8. adambr2
    Nothing in the world will ever be more important than making sure strangers on the internet know just how wrong they are.
  9. adambr2
    Nobody's stopping you, go for it! I thought I was by referring to it as an awesome new facility. It looks fantastic.
  10. adambr2
    Shouldn't the focus of this thread be that awesome new facility rather than whatever people call it?
  11. adambr2
    No doubt a solid return. But solid isn't what 95% of this site was saying the return would be. And neither of you dudes have any idea if Sixto would have been available or not if he didn't get injured last year because you also have no idea how good or poor he would have performed the rest of the season. Burnes' value is absolutely higher than Sixto. Again, he already proved at the highest level he can be very good while already having a high ceiling with 6yrs cheap control at the same time Sixto is in A+ coming back from elbow injury. Did Miami say they ranked Stewart higher than the other Philly Top 100s? I highly doubt it given he wasn't even ranked in their Top 30 and now he's 25 in Miami's system...rated 7 spots behind Yamamoto (the 4th piece in the Brinson deal). I find it impossible they wanted Stewart over Medina. They got Stewart as the 3rd piece because that's what Realmuto's value called for...a low level dude who has decent skills and might have a MLB career but it'll take several years to find out. Here's my reference to that point, last paragraph. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/02/the-j-t-realmuto-talks-behind-the-scenes.html
  12. adambr2
    Kluber is a very rare type of SP though who does not decline the 3rd time through the order. In fact, he gets stronger. If the Brewers were to get away from short SP stints with any pitcher, Kluber would be the guy.
  13. adambr2
    You know that he didn't actually walk out of the park once an opener was used for him. He didn't even TWEET that that is what he would do. It was a private txt from him to Bochy that Bochy made public. If you want to judge somebody as a pretentious entitled diva based on private txts not meant for the public...well... that's not a road I want to go down. I'd say that Bochy used poor judgment more than Bumgarner. This is the same guy who yelled "Don't look at me!" at a hitter because he was pissy that he made a bad pitch. The same guy who yelled at the entire Texas Rangers' bench because he didn't like the way they were playing the game. The same guy who yelled "You're not that (expletive) good!" at Alex Guerrero multiple times simply for being frustrated at popping up a pitch. The same guy who throws beanballs every time he feels the slightest whiff of disrespect. He's a pretentious entitled diva. This is simply another small exhibit among many.
  14. adambr2
    https://www.yahoo.com/sports/madison-bumgarner-im-walking-right-ballpark-giants-use-opener-ace-230831660.html I forgot how much of a pretentious entitled diva this guy is. I don't want him just for that reason.
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    He was a knob when he was 17, he was not a knob on last year's team.
  16. adambr2
    Why? #50 on an organizational prospect list is in so deep that it's pretty much completely subjective on anyone's list.
  17. adambr2
    It's a very solid return for Miami. It's true that Sanchez has some red flags, but as Sveum pointed out, he wouldn't have been available at all if he didn't. We might like Peralta a lot, but I really doubt the Marlins saw him as remotely comparable to Sanchez. Corbin Burnes is probably far more comparable -- in terms of value, not necessarily comparable as pitchers. Stewart is a prospect that Miami ranked higher than other Phillies' top 100 pitching prospects. No, Sixto isn't a Robles caliber prospect and I personally value Hiura more than Sixto for sure, but there's certainly no "Miami waited and lost" moment here. Not at this point, anyway.
  18. adambr2
    The option was mutual and I don't think the Brewers were ever going to exercise their end of it, which I think they probably quietly informed Moose's camp of. I don't think Moose turning it down was really anything more than a formality, whether of not he actually would have exercised his end with mutual interest.
  19. adambr2
    I'd say they were definitely a downside in the NLCS. We just didn't have the RH bats to match up well against the LH pitching that LA threw at us. A lot of that was Schoop not panning out. Braun and Aguilar are pretty iffy as to what we'll get in 2019, so hopefully adding Grandal will help quite a bit. I'm not against Moose, it's just not my favorite option there comparing to Marwin. You'll still have to decide against any LHP which one you want to plug in for a bad matchup.
  20. adambr2
    I agree on Cedeno, but Claudio was sold as someone capable of going multiple innings and was decent against right-handed batters. Is that wrong? Well I would say yes it is. Claudio has been very bad vs. RHP. Righties had a whopping. 933 OPS against him in 2018 and for his career, .797, versus a career .498 OPS against vs. lefties. He can go multiple innings, but his splits don't lie. He is, and always has been, very ineffective against righties. The ramifications of this potential rule probably affect him the most. Think of a game against the Cardinals or Cubs. Hader is unavailable, as he normally for several days after his usual multi-inning appearances. Claudio is brought in to face Carpenter, or Rizzo with 1 out. He retires his man, but now instead of going to Knebel, or Woodruff, or Jeffress like they want to, the Brewers are forced to stick with Claudio against Goldschmidt or Baez. He is probably the worst possible option in the pen for this matchup. It is a very, very bad potential rule for the Brewers with the way they operate their bullpen.
  21. adambr2
    There's quite a few arguments against it. One is that it is going to wreck careers. It will be the death of the LOOGY. Guys like Hader will obviously be fine, but guys like Xavier Cedeno and Alex Claudio who are murder vs LHP and can't retire righties will have a very difficult time finding work. It's also going to hurt teams like the Brewers who really on innovation, matchups and strategy by dumbing down the game for the sake of game speed.
  22. adambr2
    I don't see any changes here that are really beneficial to the Brewers' organization and some of them are potentially quite harmful.
  23. adambr2
    3 years/$100M for Dallas Kuechel? Holy overpay.
  24. adambr2
    The fact that the Brewers weren't even interested in Miley at all tells me that their advanced analytics told them they don't think what Miley did in 2018 is sustainable. As good as the price tag looks, I'll trust them on that. They've been right far more than not.
  25. adambr2
    I actually think that's a pretty good proposal by Clancy. I agree it's on the light side, but that's the risk mitigating factor. $32.5M is 3 times as much as Knebel has made in his entire career. He's a reliever. Rather than go for the huge money later, he might weigh the risks and decide to take the life changing guaranteed money, especially if he enjoys being here. It's hard to say, each individual is different in that regard. Villar didn't want to do it that way. Lucroy did.
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