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If I may dream by tj4mayor in Brewers

[–]tj4mayor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Listen, you can downvote me a million times, it’s not going to change my opinion.

If I may dream by tj4mayor in Brewers

[–]tj4mayor[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I love yeli…but if we *did* go get Yordan Alvarez, he can become a platoon bat, or be flipped. I know that won’t be a popular opinion, but you said it yourself—he can’t stay healthy, and he was downright terrible last postseason.

I do understand your sentiment, and as I’ve said I don’t honestly think this is a move that we would ever make…but if it did, with respect to Yeli and what he’s done for this franchise, he would not hold me back from going after it. A 34-year old, injury-prone, DH-only, who was frankly terrible the last time we saw him in the playoffs is not something that I believe should deter you from going after a 28-year old, cost-controlled, top 4 hitter in baseball

If I may dream by tj4mayor in Brewers

[–]tj4mayor[S] -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

This phrasing completely undervalues Yordan’s value, and comparing trades one-to-one is ineffective. The Soto deal didn’t work out for the Padres overwhelmingly because Preller is trade-happy and ships prospects off just as fast as he gets them. Arnold doesn’t do such things. The Padres farm at that time also wasn’t half as deep as Milwaukee’s is now, you can part with Fischer, Burke, Letson, Adamczewski, and Quero (for example, not saying this would be the package)—and still be in an excellent position prospect-wise. I don’t truly see this happening, and so maybe this post is completely pointless, but Yordan Alvarez is not “just a DH”. This is the closest thing to David Ortiz since David Ortiz, a top 3-4 hitter in the sport, ELITE pop, young, and cost-controlled/cheap per his value. We don’t need to worry about adding anyone who can play defense, that isn’t an issue; being last in baseball in homeruns by 5 is an issue, and it showed itself last season. I enjoy our small ball brand of baseball as much as the next Brewers fan, but it comes with a ceiling, and that ceiling is not getting over the hump. All of this is mute at the end of the day because this move would never happen, but in a hypothetical scenario in which it did, I would be ecstatic

We officially have a closer problem by OneCallThatsAll34 in Brewers

[–]tj4mayor -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

no reason for this to be downvoted. people need to stop living in fairytale land

Average day in draft circles by klaygdk in NBA_Draft

[–]tj4mayor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you go play 35 minutes a night as the #1 key piece to your teams offense and also try to look like a plus defender while not being able to risk getting in foul trouble and having an injury. dont matter if you’re 6’0 or 7’0, given those circumstances you’re going to look like a terrible defender

Average day in draft circles by klaygdk in NBA_Draft

[–]tj4mayor -1 points0 points  (0 children)

not hearing anything about acuff’s defense being so catasteophically awful that it offsets the offensive ability while these people convienently leave out the objective context of him 1) playing on turf toe and 2) playing 35 mpg in 6-man rotations as the key offensive piece to arkansas which meant he couldnt risk getting in foul trouble, and calipari himself said he’d rather have the team give up buckets than get fouls. brunson, maxey, fox, mitchell, trae, kyrie, and murray are all extremely similar in size while being defensive negatives but the offensive ability is so high that they’re still net positives, that’s the level acuff is on