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soccer10k Cooperstown

soccer10k

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Next month for the Brewers:

 

3 vs. Texas

2 vs. Minnesota

3 at Washington

3 at St. Louis

3 vs. Arizona

3 vs. St. Louis

3 at Cubs

2 vs. Houston

4 vs. Cubs

 

So that's 26 straight games against teams currently at or above .500.

 

September is much easier (4 at Miami, 4 vs. SD, 3 vs. Pitt, 3 vs. Cincy, 3 vs. Col), but they could be buried by the time that comes around.

Nobody is buried in this division race

 

I said could be buried. Especially with 6 vs St Louis and 7 vs us. I mean, 4 of those are at home against the Cubs so that should be 3 wins for Milwaukee, but my point stands.

weis21 Myrtle Beach Pelicans

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It's a little a fun how if you scroll down just enough it looks like Derrek Lee is screaming all of your posts.

lee.jpg

 

IVE GOT TO ADMIT ITS GETTING BETTER...IT CANT GET NO WORSE

-Derek Lee (on the 2019 road cubs)

squally1313 Myrtle Beach Pelicans

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Gave it a like even though it didn't quite work.

 

Yeah I know the right/left part doesn't line up. I was more commenting on how they started an announcement about Tommy John surgery with "JAMO UPDATE".

Cubswin11 All-Star

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Hiura is a guy who intrigues me because I think the hit tool is real, but he's doing some things that make me wonder if he'll ever be that valuable. First his defense is awful and that's the main thing I see holding him back, but he's also K'ing at a 31% clip in MLB after being in the high 20s in AAA, he doesn't walk a ton (7% rate). He's currently slashing .307/.377/576 with a .416 BABIP. Last year only 4 qualified players ran K rates of 31% or more and their BABIPs were .313, .344, .249 and .237 and all 4 walked more than him, if you think he improves the K rate by ~5% to 26% only 12 players ran a 26% or higher K rate last year and the highest BABIP of all 12 guys was .351 and 9 of those 12 players had BB rates of 9% or greater and 6 were 10% or greater.

 

I just wonder how good of a hitter he can be with that K rate and his BABIP coming down anywhere from .05-.1, he does hit a lot of line drives and fly balls and uses the whole field and hits the ball hard so he should be able to run a BABIP in the .320-340 or so range but even at that with the not special walks he really just seems more like a guy vs a GUY. Just looking at some of this he seems like he settles in more as a .255-.270/.320-330/.440-470 slash line guy. Which is fine but isn’t all that valuable when taking in the whole picture with defense.

We Got The Whole 9 Myrtle Beach Pelicans

We Got The Whole 9

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Hiura is a guy who intrigues me because I think the hit tool is real, but he's doing some things that make me wonder if he'll ever be that valuable. First his defense is awful and that's the main thing I see holding him back, but he's also K'ing at a 31% clip in MLB after being in the high 20s in AAA, he doesn't walk a ton (7% rate). He's currently slashing .307/.377/576 with a .416 BABIP. Last year only 4 qualified players ran K rates of 31% or more and their BABIPs were .313, .344, .249 and .237 and all 4 walked more than him, if you think he improves the K rate by ~5% to 26% only 12 players ran a 26% or higher K rate last year and the highest BABIP of all 12 guys was .351 and 9 of those 12 players had BB rates of 9% or greater and 6 were 10% or greater.

 

I just wonder how good of a hitter he can be with that K rate and his BABIP coming down anywhere from .05-.1, he does hit a lot of line drives and fly balls and uses the whole field and hits the ball hard so he should be able to run a BABIP in the .320-340 or so range but even at that with the not special walks he really just seems more like a guy vs a GUY. Just looking at some of this he seems like he settles in more as a .255-.270/.320-330/.440-470 slash line guy. Which is fine but isn’t all that valuable when taking in the whole picture with defense.

I looked at his statcast numbers the other day and one thing he definitely has going for him is he crushes breaking balls at 95 AEV. If he cuts the whiffs down on those and offspeed he could be quite a hitter.
Cubswin11 All-Star

Cubswin11

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Hiura is a guy who intrigues me because I think the hit tool is real, but he's doing some things that make me wonder if he'll ever be that valuable. First his defense is awful and that's the main thing I see holding him back, but he's also K'ing at a 31% clip in MLB after being in the high 20s in AAA, he doesn't walk a ton (7% rate). He's currently slashing .307/.377/576 with a .416 BABIP. Last year only 4 qualified players ran K rates of 31% or more and their BABIPs were .313, .344, .249 and .237 and all 4 walked more than him, if you think he improves the K rate by ~5% to 26% only 12 players ran a 26% or higher K rate last year and the highest BABIP of all 12 guys was .351 and 9 of those 12 players had BB rates of 9% or greater and 6 were 10% or greater.

 

I just wonder how good of a hitter he can be with that K rate and his BABIP coming down anywhere from .05-.1, he does hit a lot of line drives and fly balls and uses the whole field and hits the ball hard so he should be able to run a BABIP in the .320-340 or so range but even at that with the not special walks he really just seems more like a guy vs a GUY. Just looking at some of this he seems like he settles in more as a .255-.270/.320-330/.440-470 slash line guy. Which is fine but isn’t all that valuable when taking in the whole picture with defense.

I looked at his statcast numbers the other day and one thing he definitely has going for him is he crushes breaking balls at 95 AEV. If he cuts the whiffs down on those and offspeed he could be quite a hitter.

Yeah for sure, he has a real solid hit too. But I think the Ks are a major problem that could hold him back when everything normalizes and we have a pretty solid sample between AAA/MLB now that he’s gonna K a decent amount.

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Guancous First Round Pick

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horsefeathering flabbergasting. It’s one thing to lose baseball games. It’s another to lose your integrity and bring shame to the city.

 

Headhunting

Internal brawls resulting in serious injury

Historically poor losing streaks

Felipe Vazquez...

Bryants Disco Ball ACL Cubs

Bryants Disco Ball

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Brewers are about to go 17-2 in their last 19 games with more than half of them without their MVP bat. Such a stupid season

 

And if this score holds up, they will have allowed three or fewer runs in 15 of those games. What the ever living horsefeathers is going on here?

 

horsefeathers them so hard.

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