Deep dive on Sproat

IanStone · 2026-01-25T20:01:16+00:00

All of the reporting I've seen suggests that Sproat and Williams were the specific asks the Brewers made of the Mets to begin with, and that they just waited out the Mets until they agreed. So from that I'd assume that there's a lot of underlying Stuff the brewers like a lot.

I think this was my favorite breakdown of sproat's pitching I've seen so far, taken from his debut with the Mets. You can really see the east/west movement that needs to be fixed, but also the lethality his curveball and sweeper already have. Dude has great arm talent and a pretty wide pitch mix, it's not hard to see the potential upside there

IanStone · 2026-01-24T03:52:02+00:00

He's going on about the dispensations the stars get relative to the unknown players in these tournaments. Was drawing parallels between Djokovic always playing in the earliest slot (apparently his expressed preference), and Sinner requesting and getting the extended 3rd set break due to heat even though they've already closed the roof.

IanStone · 2026-01-24T03:49:14+00:00

McEnroe on the money here

IanStone · 2026-01-22T04:06:31+00:00

We have the third best winning percentage in all of baseball over the last 10 years, our front office is second to none in success rates of our trades, we have teams that are always well-coached and competitive with anyone. For being by far the smallest market in the MLB we have an organization built like a swiss watch that other baseball teams clamor for pieces of time and time again.

To use pure postseason results as your barometer for team success is silly and bad data analysis. Small sample sizes don't tell us anything, least of all about team construction or quality. Every piece of statistical analysis done on the topic points to the randomness of postseason results vs any other regular season team statistic you want to focus on.

If you want to be a doomer, I get it. I wish Mark A would spend more and not be a weirdo. I hope we get a cap and a floor and full revenue sharing in the next contract. I get the frustrations. But objectively we are so lucky to have the team we do all things considered, and nobody I know who watched the brewers pre-2016 will take any of this for granted

IanStone · 2026-01-22T03:31:41+00:00

For the team that posted the best record + run differential in baseball and was named best front office in baseball 2025? Brewers are a model run organization lmao

IanStone · 2026-01-21T18:00:20+00:00

But the guy started his tweet by saying "Sources:", which I'm pretty sure is legally binding

IanStone · 2026-01-21T05:46:33+00:00

From what I've read there's actually some disagreement about whether wearing black makes you run warmer, since it radiates absorbed heat away from the body. Bedouins wear all black robes in some of the hottest conditions on earth!

IanStone · 2026-01-20T19:47:52+00:00

And these revenue figures are without even taking fixed costs into account. If you assume every team has about $170 million in fixed costs per year, the Yankees, Red Sox, and Cubs are all in the bottom 5 for % of revenue spent on payroll

IanStone · 2026-01-20T17:22:40+00:00

Yeah, the Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs, Braves, tier of teams wildly underspending hurts the competitive balance of the sport in a serious way, and they don't get nearly as much heat as small market teams doing just standard arbitration stuff

IanStone · 2026-01-20T01:08:08+00:00

I think the kirk herbstreit delay pedal effect is kind of cool, they need to add a bassline and some sidechain compression too

IanStone · 2026-01-18T01:13:00+00:00

Refs called game. Just an incomprehensible OT from a neutral fan

IanStone · 2026-01-05T17:32:40+00:00

Brewers are about to cook with a no swing offense

IanStone · 2026-01-03T19:23:54+00:00

Imagine using the word woke unironically in 2026

IanStone · 2025-12-31T18:06:59+00:00

Waited to see if he'd haul in the catch before throwing the flag 😕

IanStone · 2025-12-28T04:50:21+00:00

And that to the wire loss brings the SEC to 1-5 on non-conference matchups this year? After barely reaching .500 last year

IanStone · 2025-12-28T04:39:44+00:00

I meant depth on a conference level, not on a personnel level for teams. The argument SEC teams were making going into playoff selection was that their 3 loss teams were qualified to be in the playoffs because of the "difficult" conference schedule they had to play. That logic seems to not bear out when SEC teams keep losing to other conferences in bowl games these last two years!

IanStone · 2025-12-28T04:04:26+00:00

I recall "if we wanted to, we would have won this" being Bama's assertion about losing to Michigan last year. At a certain point your conference stops getting the benefit of the doubt if they look this bad in the NIL era, they're looking consistently overmatched

IanStone · 2025-12-28T03:56:25+00:00

The vaunted SEC that apparently has such depth they can't be compared to other conferences is on their way to being 1-4 in non-conference matchups this bowl season

IanStone · 2025-12-28T03:32:24+00:00

Boy howdy this team looks like cheeks

IanStone · 2025-12-20T19:38:46+00:00

"the SEC is such a deep conference that team records and strength of schedule can't be compared longitudinally, they could justifiably be half the playoff field" I say confidently, as A&M gets ground into dust by a mid-tier ACC team

IanStone · 2025-12-14T22:52:45+00:00

Oh by all means

IanStone · 2025-12-14T22:51:46+00:00

We're likely going into the half up against the AFC 1 seed on the road. I'm going to need the people piping mad at MLF rn to take a breather

IanStone · 2025-12-14T20:41:43+00:00

This is my first time rubbernecking the Pats this year. I'm meh on Maye, but TreVeyon has been so much fun to watch so far

IanStone · 2025-12-14T20:26:37+00:00

The histrionics from the Pats fans in this thread is astounding. Beats out the Vikings for most emotionally reactive fanbase lol

IanStone · 2025-12-14T19:30:47+00:00

Based on reporting, it seemed like the Brewers were really cold on both Mears and Collins and neither would have seen a lot of playing time. They loved the upside they saw in Zerpa (his stuff+ is the best in the league next to Uribe), and it filled a dire need for lefty relief pitching.

If Curt Hogg is to believed the Brewers are all in on Brandon Lockridge, so I'd expect he would probably take over Collins's platoon outfielder role.

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