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I like him. He keeps the ball on the ground including the fb (sinker), had good enough secondaries to get whiffs/Ks., and didn't walk guys. Not much to dislike besides the velo and health.

With the lockout looming it wouldn't be the ideal offseason to change pitching coaches.

Re: Arozarena and Tyler Glasnow in the stands during the last game, I don't remember ever before seeing current players watching another MLB game from the stands lol

A few years from now I could see a pitch clock added for home run trots haha. For some reason these crazy HR trots are less offensive to me in the MLB than other levels (I'm probably just getting desensitized). Imagine if a high school or little league player had a trot like Caminero? Everyone would want to drop-kick him lol

They're going to rest up their relievers and probably steamroll the other team in the WS. The Brewers swept the Dodgers but the Rays are having problems with Cleveland. We all know how this WS probably goes. Would be an exciting series if the non-Brewers team surprises us.

What we don't really know is how each individual owner feels about potential CBA changes since high end low revenue teams will have differing views and interests on some things. I don't even know how the owners decide amongst themselves what policies to push for. Do they just have a vote amongst all 30 and majority rules? There's no way they all agree on every issue. The players seem to solve it by just everyone voting on the CBA proposals (not sure what % of votes are needed among players to approve it)

Parity shouldn't mean there's never a clear best franchise or dynasty, parity should mean every franchise has a roughly equal or fair chance to become a dynasty if the franchise is consistently operated really well. So the question is if the Cubs and Brewers both operated with the same level of competence would both teams have the same level of success over the longterm or not? We've seen both the Dodgers and Brewers operate with a very high level of competence and thus far the Dodgers have more rings and 100 more wins over the last 10 years (since 2017) while being in a tougher division (which mattered more with the unbalanced schedule). I also doubt highly that the correlation between winning% and revenue is similar in the MLB as the other 3 major sports.

I'm finding it extremely difficult not to wish arm injuries on the Brewers hurlers

Look at all those prospects they get to keep and spank us with the next decade.

Yeah the FO is big into the Billy Beane thing of finding the thing that's undervalued. They pay for better BB/9 and funky deliveries over velo/stuff and put a great defense around it because of the balls in play. But can't defend against the HR as Jed said.

He gone!

I think he launched a bazooka, possibly towards the Brewers pen.

F*** the Brewers.

I didn't see anything unusual in what Contreras did in his trot that isn't done every day in the MLB these days. I didn't see if he even flipped his bat, so I've routinely seen far more obnoxious celebrations. You know I'm not a big fan of it but I don't get the big deal on this one.

Personally I'm not shocked by Imai's stats this year. He had walk issues earlier in his career, and BB/9 often goes up when coming here They have the bigger east-west zone over there. Could need an adjustment period, or just usually stays a high walk guy. I think he's probably about an average or maybe slightly above average SP.