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  1. Danchat
    Are the Brewers allergic to scoring runs?
  2. Danchat
    One run per inning in six innings straight... wowza. Unthinkable with so many guys hurt.
  3. Danchat
    The 49ers lost a bunch of talent this offseason in anticipation of paying Purdy, and the roster is no longer good enough to go on a deep run. Just look at their defense, how many above average players do they have there... three? I trust Shanahan to work on a replacement, or heck, you trade Purdy (on a $1M salary) to the highest bidder and top what Seattle gave to Darnold (who is a fit for Kyle's system), save around $20M per season or so, and start developing a project behind him. That's just one example. By no means should they do what the Steelers are, but there's got to be a happy medium. Whiffing on Trey Lance shouldn't keep the 49ers from trying to develop another option.
  4. Danchat
    The McCusker move will happen tomorrow, and a corresponding 40 man roster move will be needed. Zebby Matthews will also be called up tomorrow.
  5. Danchat
    Yup, and before that it was Jimmy Kerrigan, Mark Contreras, Tim Beckham. Mickey Gasper is a destroyer of AAA pitching too. I don't have a problem with giving these guys a shot but so often they come up and are completely overmatched by MLB pitching. I know because I used to be the guy who went "we have to call up player XYZ from AAA because they're playing so well!" but I've consistently seen those players underachieve.
  6. Danchat
    This offense went from ice-cold to super clutch within two weeks... there were points in these two games where things looked grim and the hitters powered through and made the comebacks. This looks like a different team... well, the pitching hasn't changed that much but now the margin for error isn't razor thin so it seems like they're better.
  7. Danchat
    Wasn't Tonkin already at AAA for rehab? [quote]The teams combined for 31 hits on the game and finished 16-for-39 with runners in scoring position.[/quote] Holy barnacles, what a game that must have been! Over 2 RISP opportunities per inning.
  8. Danchat
    Nice to finally see this front office make a success free agent bullpen addition... but yeah, now I feel like we've jinxed him.
  9. Danchat
    Feels like the hitting and fielding got noticeably better after Julien was demoted. A lot of that is coincidence with some hitters finally heating up, but getting Miranda and Julien out of the infield has done wonders for our defense. Brooks Lee has been leagues better than he was last year.
  10. Danchat
    Ryan is rolling, it'd be nice to have another 7 inning start. Nice to have a rested bullpen.
  11. Danchat
    He's hit well in 65 PAs so far this year, but he hit .650 OPS in 350 PAs there last year so he has a ton to prove. IMO he's a non-prospect at this point.
  12. Danchat
    Just checking in... wow, Paddack is surpassing my expectations. Nice to see this team rolling!
  13. Danchat
    I'm not opposed to listening to offers on Ryan, but I'd have to be blown out of the water with the offer given his team control and current performance. Ober makes more sense to move and should still command a fairly high price. If you can get a "top prospect" for SWR, I probably make that move. Given the past 8 years of pitcher development in this organization, the 6 years control of a pitching prospect isn't worth as much as it sounds like it is. They're unknowns who may or may not develop, and Falvey has been keen to keep the rotation stacked with veteran arms over playing prospects (see Ober getting buried in the 2023 rotation at the start of the year, didn't move Paddack this year). IMO you have to assume the pipeline doesn't exist.
  14. Danchat
    It's inexcusable that in the time since Big Ben retired, they've taken one legit shot on a QB and that was Kenny Pickett. They should have tried to jump up in the 2024 draft and taken Nix or McCarthy even with as pricey as a trade-up that far would cost them.
  15. Danchat
    Reminds me of an article here that suggested that Julien would be a perfect candidate to be traded right after his superb rookie year, and it wasn't that well received but heck that would have looked great in hindsight. What we've seen from him the past year and a half doesn't look salvagable. Miranda has had long enough stretches of competence the majors that I'm not ready to give up on him, but his mistakes have also been mind-numbing. Seems like staying healthy is a challenge for him too.
  16. Danchat
    They also have Jaylen Warren who is a very solid change-of-pace RB and also a quality receiver, he'll pair well with Johnson. But they now have the exact same problem in the WR room with one quality starter... except they traded a this year 2nd rounder to get Metcalf and overpay him and didn't get a great return for Pickens. The Steelers really have a thing for drafting a headcase/character-issue WR and getting better results than expected from him, but then have to trade him. Antonio Brown, George Pickens, Diontae Johnson, Martavis Bryant, Chase Claypool (no character issues)...
  17. Danchat
    With SWR and Paddack in the rotation, a long reliever would be nice to have.
  18. Danchat
    Don't you think at least one team would have tried this by now and proved to the rest of the league that they're the "smart one"? Dumb groupthink can absolutely be a thing keeping teams stubborn, but methinks if a team thought it'd give them a competitive advantage they'd try it. Isn't the Rice University notorious for having their pitchers go excessive innings / no pitch counts and none of their prospects can reach the majors healthy? Or so I've heard.
  19. Danchat
    Is Stewart as good of a reliever as he's been hyped up to be? Dude's at > 8.00 ERA now...
  20. Danchat
    His numbers were solid last year, but that didn't stop him from collapsing down the stretch enough to earn a demotion to AAA. So it's not just the past 12 appearances that he's been struggling.
  21. Danchat
    Just checking in... Clemens HR to RF in Fenway park, wouldn't have predicted that. It is a hard stadium to hit HRs that way. Nice to see Ober cruising. Correa needs to swap spots in the lineup with Bader, he's cost this team enough runs with his un-clutch hitting.
  22. Danchat
    I'm not, we gave up on Cano only after 10 appearances in the majors compared to Alcala having 144 and 5 years of service time. Even if Alcala reverts back to his peak performance, he's still a guy with a career FIP over 4.0 and his strikeout rate never reached his truest potential. He's a lost cause now, and sometimes to have to bite the bullet and let a guy go even if he randomly overachieves later on. Sometimes players need a change of scenery and he won't get that here.
  23. Danchat
    And to continue this comparison, the Rick Spielman equivalent was just given a promotion and I don't foresee them hiring the Mike Zimmer equivalent who will get them to be "good not great", since this roster and organization needs a reboot. Those Vikings squads would at least go back and forth between overachieving seasons and disappointing ones, compared to the Twins who are on track to have 4 of the last 5 years be major disappointments. Rocco would do well to follow the Leslie Frazier path of being an important coach on a really good team (Bills DC) after getting canned.
  24. Danchat
    Falvey could be desperately trying to get something more out of Alcala as he's what's left from the Pressly trade.
  25. Danchat
    This team was bad at baserunning with Molitor as the manager. That was something that was much discussed here back at the time, didn't seem to matter how good of a runner he was back in his day because his rosters were not good at it.
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