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  1. old nurse
    Lo Mo II. Short term fill in, not likely to be effective, not likely to have upside, only decline. Any of them should not have more than a one year contract. The time to have had any of these players was in Molitor's first year of managing.
  2. old nurse
    Adaptability to technology not age is the key. Does grips, arm slots and mechanics even matter at the mlb level? The technical equipment analysis should be able to spot the deviation in mechanics. We shall see what they do in the minors. It could work, it could blow up in their face. Time will tell. How instantaneous must the results be for the fans
  3. old nurse
    LeMahuie has a career ops of .673 away from Coors Field. He had one monster year then pedestrian numbers. I do not see him as a dumpster dive, nor is he going to be a top free agent, either.
  4. old nurse
    To pass off Machado's defense with the Orioles as bad analytic is to ignore the previous three years where the shortsop play for the Orioles was above average in terms of DRS and UZR. Perhaps the better exuce for the numbers for Machado was that he was not terribly motivated to play in losing causes with a historically bad team despite it being a contract year.
  5. old nurse
    Bref lists Belisle as being on the 40 man. Most would and should assume gone as Belisle was signed to a one year contract without options.
  6. old nurse
    Who gets protected is dependent upon who gets designated. Hildenberger, May, Reed, Rogers are not going anywhere. Busenitz, Curtis, De Jong, Drake, Duffreyl, MaGill, Moya, Vasquez versus Reed, Anderson or Jay. Likewise they have Gonsalves, Jorge, Romero, Slegers, Stuart and Thorpe. A few are obvious still keepers, but how many do they protect ? Would nay team really want to keep them? Arraez and Rortvedt are interesting calls. Arraez is a throwback type 2b On base but one at a time. Some team will think they can teach Rortvedt to hit well enough to be backup if his defense is good. He is barely 21. It would seem unwise to leave him available given catching talent in the league. Does a tanking team take him for future value.
  7. old nurse
    Player performance is on the player. A manager can try but as in the rest of the world job performance falls on the person performing the job. If the player can not tell that they are doing poorly any hope is lost. A manager can tell the player what they do not know. If the player is under performing, they probably has the knowledge. Player injuries are not on the manager. Molitor may well have better players than he had the year before. Is Molitor to blame for Santana"s injury, Dozier's later claimed injury, Mauer having age catch up to him,
  8. old nurse
    Dozier in 2018 was better than Dozier in2017? the plaatoon of CF was better n 2018 than 2017 Sano was better in 2018 than 2017 A half season of Polanco is better than a full one? Mauer played better in 2018 than 2017? If they got better players you forgot how poorly the others played to take advantage of it. Kyle Gibson was better in 2018, Berrios was better in 2018. Lance Lynn or Big Sexy Odorizzi or Santana? overall pitching was a little less than .5 runs, batting was also down by a little more in actual runs, down 7 by wrc*
  9. old nurse
    What would it take for Realmuto? The fire sale was last year. It would take an A prospect from sickel's list and a B prospect as well as another prospect or two. They would likely throw Castro in. Why would you want Castro. When the Cubs became good, he wasn't. He did not do all that great for the Yankees. He did great for a bad Miami team. DO you think the Twins will be bad so he will be good? Arizona nor San Fransisco might not be deconstructing, It would take similar Realmuto to get either of them. Myers is injured as often as he is healthy, why bother with that? Panik had one good year, why bother.
  10. 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
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. old nurse
    If the deal is right, they are all expendable.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. old nurse
    A lights out bullpen with spending less than 15 million. Carl Pohlad would be proud
  18. 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/
  19. old nurse
    They may be flush with cash but there is no need to just flush the cash
  20. 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
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. old nurse
    Hey Joe?
  25. 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.
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