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maybe, could be.

Yes things are difficult here but still surprising the degree of their drop. Not talking about being stars to just then being normie ball players. But Robert isn't hitting .700-.720 ops. We are talking almost a year and a half of an OPS+ in the 70s. Like, Leury garcia at age 27, just like robert, was 20% better offensively. And he sucked! Eloy Jimenez went from a 140 wRC+ at 25 to out of the league at 28. Vaughn was just an underwhelming 1B who suddenly was hitting worse than if you cut Leury Garcia's age 27 offensive season in half. Out of the league in AAA. Moncada ... well he seems like he's generally the same just injured. A more normal person who just prioritizes looking hot in music videos over baseball strength. Anderson I think is the MOST explainable. Him and Schoop were near carbon copies of one another offensively. Both were putting great offensive numbers up, and both fell off a cliff at age 30. Their approach just wasn't built to last. White sox players being underwhelming is built in for me. I'm used to a Brent Morel coming up and actually being ass. But this crop of dudes actually showing up as top players only to regress to out of the league just as quick is WILD.

it is so astounding that this guy became one of the worst players in baseball while entering his prime. I'm sure some blame goes to him, but man. Every single one of that 2021 core became non mlb players by the time they hit 28. It makes no sense.

My quality has been fine, but it drives me nuts how I'm never signed in, and how hard it is to just find the sign-in. There is no link on the freaking purchase page for those who already have an account! so annoying.

Speaking of not hustling, why the hell was josh rojas walking to first base after he hit into a double play on that hit and run attempt? I hate that guy so much.

Elko isn't good, but there are a lot of not good things on this roster. I do find satisfaction having a tall first baseman after the last few years. Hard to go back. Vargas is acceptable. But you saw what happens with Lenyn, short people don't know where small obstacles like "bases" are. They are too close to the ground, have great balance. Tall people are at a constant fear of stepping on something and falling over, and dying. Nature over nurture here, gotta go tall.

I think that is baseball karma at work. The shortstop was being lazy and you will always be punished correctly.

2016 Zach Collins (10) Zack Burdi (22) 2017 Jake Burger (11) 2018 Nick Madrigal (3) 2019 Andrew Vaughn (4) Just awful. Easy to notice that despite picking in the parts of the draft you should be able to get extremely athletic players with some polish, Hostetler went after short, sometimes wide, righthanded, unathletic college hitters. Burger was probably the most athletic, which is saying something. And a reliever.

Yes but in the bullpen.

I think he fits in a bucket of "plausible starting pitcher", which if you trade Vaughn's 5.5 million salary for his $8? million salary, you'd probably pay $2.5 million for that.

Lmao we traded vaughn

Keep riding the “take advantage of milwaukees pitching surplus” train

STupid mlb didn't have the play where he went from first to third when the shortstop bobbled the ball into LF and no one was covering third. One of those "we are going to be smart and aggressive" plays that hasn't happened since they've chattered. But we did have this triple. SO his real statline is he got to third on his own twice, and a double. Love this dude. Also props to Keith Law who kept Vargas on his breakout players for 2025 ("other names in consideration") when I thought he was toilet paper after last year: Someone please bookmark this, this will almost certainly be when he starts to fade. But I'm not calling the top, this is the start baby.

This is unrelated but I do wonder about it a lot. I feel like baseball and most professional sports have gotten out of brand building and have been in pure exploitation. It's worked getting more money out of their core fans who were addicted...but how many others are becoming addicted? When will the fact that a teenager in the suburbs no longer thinks about a baseball game as something they could do on a random evening in summer. Baseball is a 'premium' event you'd need your parents to pay for. And baseball is no longer just the background of summer, always on. I need to go to my specific app. I need to opt-in to baseball. It's not just everywhere. I am coaching baseball now, the kids all love to play. None of them watch it save for a few who have diehard parents as fans (mostly out of town teams). At some point baseball won't have their hardcore fans to exploit. When does the switch flip back to growing the game? It's more than making some tiktoks. I don't think live sports have a perpetual future as a luxury product. It needs to be part of life, mixed in and around it. Not broadway.

I think we can avoid big time losing streaks but if any bullpen vet starts to show promise they’ll go out and august will be difficult. Offense still gives only a razor thin margin but the pitching has been interesting since mid-May.

Yes. Was brutal. Not even vapes but some guy smoking a blunt.

Went to a few games recently… Personal Opinion: I don’t think you should smoke weed at a baseball game.

Very impressed by this week after feeling like “here we go again” when they lost 4 straight, rallied and playing great ball.

Yes that too.

I'm trying to cheer myself up and remember that there was a chance Jerry could sell to some other poor bastard that sucks, and even though the timeline is long, we are getting a true rich boi. That's a win.

Still fingers crossed for YouTube tv

Changed the title because I kept thinking 78 people died

I feel like the stadium is in good shape and if we wait 60 years it will be quaint.

When the Jerry biography comes out from jeff pearlman in 2035 I'm anxious to see if secretly it proves that bullying works and in fact our fanatic behavior to get him to sell the team made him reach out to Ishbia.

Yes, I guess if anything this lets us know that Jerry does believe he will die and this puts his horizon down to his paper bet. But given where I assumed we could be in the transition, this is only nice in that it's official. We didn't make the playoffs in the 2010s. Very likely we will only have 2020, 2021 to show for it by 2029. It's just a stretch that is hard to come out of.