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  1. old nurse
    I would hire Doug White. The team needs someone who understands pitching, pitchers. He has a good pedigree from working in St. Louis and Houston. Shelton can stay the bench coach
  2. old nurse
    What you responded to did not say the outfield was fine. Adding McCutheon and Marwin Gonzales because those players are the ones you can add would not transform the outfield into an elite one. They stated the of is not a position of strength. That is a true statement. It does not mean it is a fine outfield, The reality is Rosario, Kepler and the other outfielders are the better payers on the team. 1b, 2b are anyone's guess You could replace Kepler with Sano or Polanco for this thread.
  3. old nurse
    There is no indication that the Brewers front office would think their outfield from 2017 was fine. There is nothing out there that said the collection they used out there was a fine outfield. It was a below average outfield. That they had a couple of prospects in Brinson and Harrison that were at peak value and they got lucky and traded them, which is to the FO's credit. You, and others ,might have thought the outfield was fine. The FO knew better. They did what they could to improve it. Their OF would have been even better if the could have unloaded Braun, but you can't always do everything without a willing partner.
  4. old nurse
    If the deal is right, they are all expendable.
  5. old nurse
    Your candidate will fail as a manager. That level of detachment will not work. A player's manager is not buddy. The manager should have a rapport good enough that can correct mistakes without the player getting defensive and tuning the manager out. A player's manager would have the respect of the players as a human being. That is a hard thing to maintain. t is also difficult to do with a bad team. . The trend towards younger manager rather than retreads who "know how to win" would show that the clubs are looking towards a people person who can understand the game rather than the master tactician with less people skills.
  6. old nurse
    This week the Brewers fans might think that way. Next week, a couple of of years from now the fans might be complaining about how they won only one playoff series, they should have traded for an ace pitcher for those game sevens rather than some journeyman pitcher, and there was this OF that they could have gotten cheaply from the Twins before he became a star if only they traded for him.
  7. old nurse
    Wil Myers has had 3 healthy years out of 6. Myers plus for Sano At 22 million a year Myers would be a money flush.
  8. old nurse
    A lights out bullpen with spending less than 15 million. Carl Pohlad would be proud
  9. old nurse
    Did I say anywhere mot to sign a good free agent reliever? Did I say DeJong was the answer? With a maybe 90 mph FB DeJong would be the long man in blow outs. Nere is a reminder on spending for relievers https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/offseason-spending-on-relievers-isnt-working-out/
  10. old nurse
    They may be flush with cash but there is no need to just flush the cash
  11. old nurse
    Go back and check the very definition of fwar. It is not designed to be a finite number. Openers, Starters, Primary Pitchers, Relievers Got to love the ways baseball comes up with innovations to screw up the stat classifications
  12. old nurse
    The Angels have one contract that is bad, not several, They have Justin Upton, not Melvin. Calhoun is on the final year of his contract. That is nothing to worry about.
  13. old nurse
    Eddie Rosario woba last 2 years .349 and .340 WRC+ 116 and 113. ISO is around .200 All of these stats are well above average for a corner outfielder BB% is in the 5% range where league average is in the 9% range OPS is never going to like Eddie Rosario. Statistic roulette, pick your favorite.
  14. old nurse
    Adrianza is the back up infielder. Any role greater than that is a failure by the front office. Escobar back as the super utility guy and Adrianza as your disaster backup in AAA is even better. With Grossman he is 29. Long ago he should have developed himself as a serviceable outfielder. . A .750 OPS is not a bad bat, but not as a bat first player. If he could hit like 2016 he would be an unusual but decent DH/emergency OF. Does the club offers him arbitration ? Doing that would mean they do not think they can find better or thinking about Kepler as a trade chip.
  15. old nurse
    Hey Joe?
  16. old nurse
    There is Romero. There are all of the bullpen arms that got called up from Rochester this month and a couple who did not could be a great help. Mejia could get it figured out. Raley, Rooker or Wiel by the end of 2019. Odorizzi as a back of the rotation pitcher was a huge step up from Santiago and Colon or Touchdown Tommy Milone.. When you give up a low prospect and get back a inning eater by today's standards pitcher, that is a step up. ROY candidates, not so much. 2019 is dependent upon the improvement by the group of players currently under the age of 26 improving, finding a rising 2b/ss, finding a 1b, dh or 3b to anchor the middle of the lineup, 4/5 outfielder if you do not think Cave is one. As far as wins go, there have been posts in this thread that said this current collection of players were in contention this year. When to expect wins? When Sano, Buxton, rosario all cause angst for a starting pitcher, or an opener.
  17. old nurse
    The big if in the equation is called hitting. High WAR players do well in arbitration. Light hitters do not do well in free agency except for maybe catchers. In the end 13 days service time may not be a big deal for the number 9 batter in a lineup.
  18. old nurse
    If it is a normal rate than why is it that Chris Davis, Yoan Moncada and Joey Gallo are the only batters with "qualified" AB to post that number this year.? 378 playerss have 150 ab, 19 have a K% greater than 33.0% Sorry, 33% is not normal.
  19. old nurse
    Day game after a night game in 90 degree weather. Seems like a good idea to play your bench. A starter after an opener that neither have had great success. The bench is what it is because the young fringe players are not doing very well enough to be called up and being left on the 40 man roster. You can't promote what is not there.
  20. old nurse
    What would change in a meaningless game. The game showed the FO what some of the September call ups could do. Get out the pitch forks. The whole season and people's career rested on this one.
  21. old nurse
    I read somewhere that his delivery for his pitches are similar so he has the added deception.
  22. old nurse
    Short term results are all that matters then? In Ryan's second go around most of his failure was due to trying to fix things with band aids. for the here and now. To look at the success of a team rather than the organization as a whole is as poor of choice as could be. To expect them to pull elite players out of thin air is unreasonable. To have major league ready available players available for CF, 3B SS, Ace pitcher as well as tanking 2b, and top set up man who was never injured gets injured is a bit much for any team to absorb.
  23. old nurse
    Cuddyer netted the team the draft picks that became JO Berrios and Chargois. The trade would have had to been made by Smith, not Ryan Morneau should have been traded in the Bill Smith era, between the 2012, and the 2013 Morneau there would be little difference in value. Wilingham never had value except in fan fantasies, Kubel was a liability in the field. If there was a market for him after his breakout season it was again a Bill Smith era thing to do. By the time Ryan took over again, Kubel was well known and down to a slightly above replacement level player. . Yup Arizona gave him a fat contract. At that time fat contracts were easier for teams to give for a player than a prospect. The prospect turned out to be Luke Bard as the compensation pick. That pick has not worked out, but a reasonably good choice. Edwin Diaz would have been better, but every GM passed on him a time or two when they should not have. Epstien got lucky. Right time, right place. Got a better deal than Boston did for worse pitchers. He still has the same job, Cherrington does not. Epstien dealing mediocrity having a great season for great prospects was about the last time it happened.
  24. old nurse
    The Tigers have 0 starting pitchers with an ERA under 4. FIP and XFIP disagree on the year Boyd is having. I am not agreeing on the AAAA pitching bit. AAAA pitching is Slegers. That is not what a team sees in September. They may see a few innings from players close to the major leagues who have had ok seasons. I don't recall the lifer minor league pitchers getting a reward call up playing. other than a mop up It doesn't mean they don't exist. It is just highly unlikely
  25. old nurse
    A business controlling costs of labor any way they can. Unethical some say. Welcome to the real world.
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