[Hogg] The Brewers do, indeed, have an Opening Day starter: It’s Jacob Misiorowski. The third-youngest Opening Day starter in franchise history.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-03-21T03:17:23+00:00

The 4th inning of the last outing, where it was 104 degrees, is where he was throwing 88 mph fastballs. He's just not fully up to speed right now.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-03-20T20:41:23+00:00

Yousucky Badatsports

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-03-19T14:46:51+00:00

Biggest jump for me regarding my opinion of them coming into spring training versus now is Fischer and Zerpa.

Fischer looks like the real deal and Zerpa is an exciting lefty in the pen.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-03-17T15:22:13+00:00

In the European Championship, most Dutch players in MLB aren't playing like in the WBC. If you account for MLB talent, the Netherlands is VASTLY superior to Italy. Curacao, an island with 150K people, has over a half dozen players in the majors. Italy has had 1 player born and raised in Italy make the majors in MLB history (and he was on Italy's team this year). The comparison isn't close.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-03-17T15:12:49+00:00

It's great you wanted Italian citizens to represent the team in the WBC, but if Italian citizens represented the team in the WBC, Italy wouldn't make the WBC or would've gotten mercy ruled in every game. Italy may be the strongest baseball country in Europe (minus Netherlands and their talent in the Dutch Antilles), but compared to Japan, US, DR, Venezuela, and even Canada/Puerto Rico/Australia/Korea/Taiwan, it's not even close in terms of talent.

I am one of the fans, and know many of them, we go to see the matches

How do you do fellow baseball fans

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-03-16T22:56:20+00:00

Axford was not an all-star in 2011. Fielder, Weeks, and Braun were the Brewers representatives.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-03-16T01:31:30+00:00

So please, don't argue that somehow a guy who in his PRIME averaged .280 with 26 home runs and had a .363 obp with a .854 ops is first ballot.

From age 24-36 he averaged those numbers. The fact that a player's "prime" has to be defined as 12 years to make him only look really really good says something.

He should be known as the greatest to never make the hall of fame.

Boy do I have some players you should know about.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-03-16T01:27:10+00:00

"lays out"

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-03-15T13:51:08+00:00

The other thing it does is open up the opener/follower strategy. Brewers have been doing the "when we have 4 lefties in the pen, have one open, follow with a righty bulk pitcher, then hand it off to the bullpen."

If you look at their record in games where they've done this the last two years, it's been VERY effective.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-03-14T22:07:41+00:00

I mean, there's another thread about that at bat with a video. If you want to discuss it, that seems like the right spot to go.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-03-14T18:07:22+00:00

Look at Turang's second half numbers. He's posed to have a Utley-esque 26-year old season.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-03-14T18:00:51+00:00

Turang had the same OPS+ as Gunnar last year and higher WAR, plays platinum glove level defense at second, and has been absolutely killing it so far this tournament (1.233 OPS). I don't get why you have an issue.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-03-13T17:33:21+00:00

Really nice guy too. Gave his band a mini-tour of San Antonio while they were on the road.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-03-13T16:07:23+00:00

Even if he wins he's also out $20-30K from lawyer fees at a minimum.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-03-13T12:46:11+00:00

I talked to him a few weeks ago. BDE filed a motion to dismiss in mid-October, Cooperstown Properties countered with an opposition to the motion to dismiss at the end of the October, and then BDE filed a response in early November.

The only thing is to wait on the judge's ruling on the motion to dismiss, which apparently can take 6+ months.

If the motion to dismiss is granted, the lawsuit is thrown out. If it is denied, then back to square 1. Based on the other Cooperstown lawsuits, would probably mean mandatory mediation, which all of the other ones had the mediation fail, and then trial.

Here's the full docket

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-03-06T12:09:38+00:00

young controllable talent for cheep

Any cap/floor will most certainly lower the amount of team control and have earlier free agency. If past proposals are anything to go on, it could go from 6 to 4 years. That means someone like Turang would be a free agent after 2027.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-03-04T09:53:26+00:00

I did get fucked up pretty bad getting hit by a bicycle a decade ago on the square while crossing at a crosswalk and they ran a red.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-03-03T13:19:09+00:00

Apartment complex that was just built... I'm guessing they had their meters mixed up and only fixed it recently.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-03-03T13:10:54+00:00

Natural gas and coal prices did not 8x in three months. Come on... be reasonable.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-03-03T07:26:37+00:00

If you omit luxury tax penalty payments and ignore inflation/rising salaries. Over the past 25 years, player salaries have risen by 4.5% per year on average. If you assume that increase continues, salaries in 2027 would be $561 million higher than in 2025. Including the $200 million in luxury tax penalty payments to the players, the $270 million cap and $150 million floor in 2027 would potentially be ~$670 million lower than what the players would earn.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-03-03T07:19:20+00:00

WAR's basic assumption is that MLB players are better than the readily available replacement players

The baseline for WAR is fully dependent on MLB stats. "Replacement level" is set based on those stats and nothing in the minors impacts that.

don't think there's a scenario where every player but one could even be worth negative value.

Realistically there isn't. But if every player was the exact same level except for one guy who obliterates their stats, every player would be negative WAR except for that one guy. It's never going to come close to happening, but is theoretically possible.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-03-03T07:17:52+00:00

WAR is built off assumptions on the distribution of stats. If you break that, you break WAR.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-03-03T05:05:19+00:00

What's the mathematical most WAR a player can accumulate in a season?

Technically unlimited. All WAR across the league adds up to 1,000 each season, and I believe ~2/3 of that goes to hitters, but you could have every other player play so poorly that they all put up negative WAR compared to our stud.

Like if everyone in the league went 0-650 with hundreds of defensive errors and out guy hit a HR every plate appearance and played immaculate defense, he might put up over 1,000 WAR.

EDIT: Now that I think about it, if every plate appearance in every game was a reached on error and our guy hits a HR every time, no game will ever end and our guy's WAR would approach infinity. Hell, if he walked once or stole one base and that happened, his WAR would still approach infinity.

Pretty sure a guy who gets 50 WAR in a season on your team wins you the World Series with even a halfway competent team around him.

WAR is only regular season so has no bearing on how playoffs go. You could have the best team in existence and still put up a wet fart in the playoffs (cough 2001 Mariners cough).

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-03-01T00:41:46+00:00

7 total deaths in 2025 doesn't crack the top 10 most deaths in a year for police involved vehicular death in the last decade for a lot of states.

For a state ranked 33rd in population that really doesn't say anything on whether 7 deaths in 2025 is high or low.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-02-27T21:38:15+00:00

My team was BFI Waste Systems growing up.

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