MAY 28: As expected, Lindblom has cleared outright waivers and been assigned to Nashville. He has indeed accepted that assignment, tweets Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
MAY 26, 5:19pm: The Brewers expect Lindblom to accept a minor league assignment and remain with the organization, according to president of baseball operations David Stearns (via Sophia Minnaert of Baily Sports Wisconsin).
MAY 26, 3:32pm: The Brewers announced that they have designated right-hander Josh Lindblom for assignment, recalled lefty Eric Lauer and outrighted infielder/outfielder Jace Peterson to Triple-A Nashville.
Lindblom spent time with a few major league teams from 2011-17, during which he posted up-and-down production, and he then left for the Korea Baseball Organization. The decision couldn’t have gone better for Lindblom, who thrived as a member of the Lotte Giants and Doosan Bears from 2018-19. Lindblom started 56 games during that stretch and recorded sub-3.00 ERAs in both seasons, also totaling 363 1/3 innings. He also earned the Choi Dong-Won Award — the top pitching award in the KBO – in each campaign, and took home MVP honors in 2019.
Convinced Lindblom’s high spin rate and KBO success would transfer to the bigs, the Brewers signed him to a three-year, $9.125MM pact prior to 2020. But the move didn’t go as planned for Milwaukee, as Lindblom has struggled to a 6.39 ERA with a 25.0 percent strikeout rate and a 9.4 percent walk rate over 20 appearances (10 starts) and 62 frames since returning stateside. As a result, the Brewers are willing to eat a fairly significant chunk of money – around $4.6MM, Adam McCalvy of MLB.com notes – in order to cut ties with Lindblom. They’ll have a week to trade, release or outright him.
Peterson – who has been with the Brewers since 2019 – has been an on-base threat with the club, albeit over a small sample of work. The 31-year-old has collected 89 plate appearances (28 this year) with Milwaukee and batted .203/.371/.391 with four home runs.
Worst signing of the Stearns era.
Let’s wait and see if Yelich’s back holds up over the next 7 years before making that call.
It doesn’t matter. You had to resign Yelich. Injuries can not be foreseen.
Respectfully disagree, 3 years of Lindblom cost lost than one year of Yelich, if Yelich gives league average production for 180 million that is certainly a worse signing than Lindblom. I do not expect that to happen, but 3 years for like 9 million to Lindblom would not be worse than 180 over 8 or nine for Yelich if he doesn’t produce. The latter hamstrings the org for years but the former is not a big deal.
Includes back pay for 2018 (MVP) and 2019 (MVP runner up)
Exactly imagine if the brewers didn’t resign him everyone would he so upset regardless of his play after. When was the last time Milwaukee had as good of a hitter as him maybe Braun but he was on roids.
JBJ raises his hand
Nah….not at 9 mil total. It was a shot to get an unknown #3-5 starter for cheap and it didn’t work. He’ll be off the books after next year…not a massive loss. I still like taking the chance on him. Worked with Thames….not with Lindblom.
Yelich won MVP 2018 – 2nd in MVP 2019…..and imagine the outrage if they didn’t resign him in 2020 to a chris davis like deal…being paid til he is 50 years old.
I respectfully disagree Mr. Shark. I don’t think there would have been much outrage in not signing him after 2019. He was coming off a fabulous year, but also ended the season with a rather severe knee injury. He was under contract for 3 more years at a ridiculously cheap rate, getting all his prime years. His output wasn’t realistically sustainable at those 2 years levels. I think it would have been prudent, and I said it at the time, (though not on here, I’m relatively new, lol) that I wouldn’t have signed him long term then, but at least waited a year, if I signed him at all. If the Brewers are going to continually be low on payroll then they should never tie up 25-30% of their payroll in one position player. But that doesn’t mean I hated the signing, it ain’t my money. Just is the team I root for, and I’d prefer a team that consistently plays meaningful baseball in September over rooting for an uber level player and a bunch of scrubs. (I imagine that’s what Trout feels like, though the Angels spend, lol, so not an apples to apples comp.)But anyway, I don’t think there would have been any outrage if not signed in early 2020, though you are probably right that there would have been some if he had continued to perform and no effort was made and he was traded. That I’ll agree with. lol
worst is certainly a stretch
You’re an idiot.
Constructive
2 year for $24 million on Jackie Bradley Jr. and his .155 batting average ranks right up there.
Now THIS is some “big news” here.
My name is “writer of this story”. I “wrote this story”. I “got paid”….
To write about a 33 year old 7-12 lifetime scrub w a 4.78 ERA.
(Who can I cover next? Maybe the “current whereabouts of Lonnie Chisenhall”?
Suhweeeeet!
Great assignment “writer”.
Lol.
But hey…Lindblom DID win the ChoiDong Won Award.
Least that got reported.
Right up there with the award Marjoe Gortner once won for ‘most promising newcomer’ at the Alco/Duckwall’s AMC Pacer Awards, held in Galax, Virginia
No wonder no one reads newspapers anymore.
@Bald – so, even though it was such a waste of your time to finish reading the post (that presumably no one made you read) you compounded the waste of time by taking more time to write out your long complaint and think of examples to compare to justify the basis for your complaint. Now, I’ve wasted my time too so, yeah, let’s all bash the guy for doing his job – dripping with sarcasm on that part.
Let’s hear it again for the Mute button.
You seem delightful.
I am delightful.
Problem with today’s “fans”…is that they get all butt hurt, when someone calls out the complete ineptitude of one of their “idols”.
Now…it would be ONE thing…if I were criticizing a truly great player. (I mean, a Mike Trout or Clayton Kershaw or Miguel Cabrera, etc). THEN…you would have a point.
But when you get your panties all up in a bunch over a scrub like Lindblom or Tyler Flowers or Jeff Mathis or Chris Davis?
Lol. I simply laugh.
Shows me that “fans” are more akin to “idol worshippers” anymore…as “if Tyler Flowers is truly your favorite player” (a player…who made more money in a nondescript career…than you will ever see in your lifetime)…and you feel that “knee jerk reaction” to have to (literally) DEFEND the guy? Who…basically sucks (even when healthy…he did)…then YOU need to find better heroes. Raise your standards.
(Oh and while we are “at it”. If you don’t like “the length of my posts?” Then ignore em. (I don’t write, like some of you…in 2 sentence “tweets”. No. I am gonna WRITE. Period. When I do. If I do.
Don’t like it? Fine. That’s your prerogative.
But the bottom line is…I DON’T criticize the “other fan”. My beef ain’t with you. (Until you decide to make a beef w me? Then we cool. You CAN agree to disagree. No harm no foul).
But I will criticize baseball. And its “players”. Extensively and deservedly.
Period.
If you get “your feewings huwwt” by that? Then find some feel good crapOLA story to latch onto and read that.
But baseball must be called out…by its fans.
Because it is dying.
It is dying for 3 reasons.
1) so called “fans of today” accept sub-mediocrity return for their investement. That is stupid.
2) “players” of today are balsa wood built, “swing plane graded and exit velocity worshipped”. Also stupid. It is why some of you think a .237 lifetime hitter has a “good career”. Lol. He didn’t. That same player? Against real pitchers of the 60s and 70s and (maybe) the early to mid 80s? Would bat .137 lifetime. They are NOT worth the money. Not worth the time. And would NOT make a roster on any team, prior to 1994.
3) raise your standards. If you are “happy w the sissipated rule changes and multi-millionaires batting .198, just so you can go to some “pretty park” and “watch an idiot in a parrot costume toss hot dogs to a crowd”…rather than watch bona fide baseball players play a game totally AGAINST the way every single one of you was taught to play it…at age 6? Then that is also dumb.
Bash me all ya want. I don’t care.
Bottom line is. YOU were taught “you hit the ball where they ain’t”. You “run hard” on every ball hit. You “throw strikes and move the ball in-out/up-down”. And you “hustle on every play”.
Do YOU care about those things?
Apparently not.
But that is the very essence of “why my long rebuttals…you just don’t get”.
You don’t want to.
Nor do these dead fish whom some of you seem to idol worship, as if you were a 12 year old schoolgirl, listening to Shawn Cassidy back in 1978. “Oooh…he is so dreamy. His exit velocity on that fly out was so great and he really hit that fly ball out to strand 2 runners, off a pitcher with that 4.98 ERA
..a long way”. (But his swing was pretty!)
Yeah? And he FLEW OUT kid. An out. A dumb out. I don’t care if his “swing arc” looks like like Arnold Palmer trying to play left-handed…and his exit velocity was “1”…and he “dribbled or nubbed it 5 feet”.
Did he GET ON BASE? Is the question.
When folks again…understand that this is a very very simple game? Then (if I criticize your little “heroes” and it stings ya? Then you can come at me).
Til then? Learn the damn game.
The game is a watered down garbage version of what it was. And everyone knows it.
Stop…defending it.
And perhaps then? It will change.
But if you keep PAYING for it? Nope. It never will.
You good bro…
Take it easy on bald Phoenix he can’t help it he’s definitely on the spectrum takes one to know one
I think you missed the premise of the rebuttal baldy…they weren’t defending the “Scrub” who, though may not be great in the PRO’s is still in the PRO’s, but that you thought the article was such a waste of time and yet still felt compelled to waste more of the time you apparent deemed so precious, to write a rather long complaint about how the article was such a waste of time…do ya kinda see the irony my friend?
Professional what?
It is a very subjective term these days.
But as you will.
Next case.
@bald What in your opinion should be “big news” here? You seem to spend a lot of time here with your rants and obviously reading articles.
Fewer people read newspapers for several reasons. One is the consolidation of owners and the greed of fewer media companies. This leads to newspapers not having as many journalists as they used to have and the dumbing down of the American public. Then add on top the internet and personal devices where information is readily available. Perhaps if more people did actually read newspapers or at the very least, went to legitimate FACTUAL news sources we would be a smarter country as a whole? Unfortunately, there’s a small part of the population living non fact based alternate reality. And that’s just a start.
Of course, you knew all that correct?
Let’s talk baseball.
Preach 19, newspapers have all been bought up by hedge funds who don’t care about anything except cutting costs and squeezing every penny out.
What’s a newspaper?
@ TheBaldPhoenix Umm…what the…? I mean, huh?
Bald- You’re a moron
@Phoenix
Dick.
At MrTwoTone.
Irregardless of what you call me?
Your sister loves it.
Next case. Lightweight thou art.
I thought he was a nice shrewd pickup at the time lol.
VOOP! V OOP! VOOP! BUST ALERT! Just wasted almost 5 million for Joey! Too bad He is a nice guy! He just did not work out! Brewers must have seen something in Angel Polodorno and His 7 plus ERA!
Perdomos stuff is top-notch if he can improve his command. Lindblom is out there throwing BP
he’s younger, more controllable, optionable, cheaper, and quite frankly, a better pitcher.
I’m surprised Peterson made it through waivers with all of the injuries around the league. I’m not at all surprised that the Brewers are cutting bait on Lindblom.
And there was much rejoicing.
That’s the perfect
Picture to represent this story. RIP
Lorenzo Cane’s 5 year deal isn’t good.
What are you talking about?? Helped us get to game 7 of the NLCS. Also played well in 2019. 2020 he sat out and we all new the last two years of the contract were going to be rough. That happens with most players you sign thats 30+
Agree, It was at least one year too long.
So much for the good prediction of “high spin rates”
Oh. And since some of you asked (or rather…”tried to reason away/explain away” the WHY no one reads a newspaper anymore.
Here is why.
Because “journalists suck”. Writers? Lol. They suck. Especially? SPORTS writers.
Why? Because they are afraid to call it like it is.
Thusly…they “write” (barely) boring tripe about nothing. CrapOLA (like this “story” here) that would not even be a 3 sentence “mention” in the “transactions” portion of an old Sports Pages box score.
Back when the world DID still have some writers willing to write a thought-provoking column…be it in print or online (wherever)…a “Josh Lindblom got DFA” story? Would not be one.
It would have been akin to something you might have caught in “March 1980” in the transactions/recent moves section that reads “Rico Carty Released by Toronto”.
And that is IT. No more. (And…unlike Lindblom here…RICO could actually play the game.)
But yinz all care about a 3 or 4 paragraph ‘quasi story” written about a never was/never will be.
Why? Cause all ya wanna do is “strut your feathers on the web.”
That’s it…Fort Pitt.
Raise your standards.
“Raise your standards”?? It appears you’re also here. So, your “standards” must be about the same as many of the people also here correct?
All one needed to do was read a few of your rants and it was pretty easy to figure out where your mindset is at not only regarding MLB. But, also concerning many other aspects to life.
Is there anything you do like about baseball or other sports?
@19
Whatever.
I don’t play w lightweights, so if you wish to call “rants” that which is basic wisdom? Then go take your ball and play w someone more-inclined to get interpersonal battles. (You will find a plethora of them all across the MLBTR pages here. Have fun).
Because rather than focus the discussion WHERE it belongs…on the game and players and “quasi-reporters” OF each? You just wanna call names.
Meh. Doesn’t turn me on bro. Sorry.
And to answer your puerile question of “is there anything I like about baseball?” (Unless you have not been reading…which you certainly have been), then you already know the answer.
It is N…O. I believe I have stated that the game (in its totally watered down state it is) stinks. On ice.
I don’t think I stuttered. But if I did? I shall repeat it again.
It stinks. Period.
When it BECOMES again, the game that it should be? Then you and I can discuss it.
Don’t worry. I’ll let you know when that (if ever) occurs.
Til then? It sucks.
Comprende?
@bald I asked you the question “is there anything you do like about baseball?” because I don’t quite understand why someone would spend so much time on a baseball-focused website and go on lengthy diatribes completely bashing the game? That doesn’t make sense to me.
Like you, I have many issues with the current game of MLB. Along with I have major issues with a couple ADHD guys in charge of player personnel over the past several years for a team (Brewers) I’ve followed almost since their inception.
“You just wanna call names.” ?? Please point out to me where I, repeat, I called you any names?
Either way, perhaps you need to stick to watching little league, HS, or college “amateur” baseball?
Good luck.
@19.
Honestly? Not much anymore.
The game we played and knew…is certainly not the game these quasi-major leaguers play.
What would I consider “big news”?
The minute MLB grows a set and fires Angel Hernandez.
The day they move the fences back 20 feet, and raise the mound again.
The day when Sabermetrics goes away.
That (to me) would be “big news”.
For it would separate the wheat from the chaff.
Finally. After 35 years of relative “chaff”.
Elimination of nonsensical “rule changes”.
A weaker Players Union (they have had their “50 years” of “pendulum swingback” to make up for the days when “Bobo Newsome got 400 dollars a month and a free car”.
And all they have done is RUIN the game.
Cheapened it. Year by year. With each passing day.
Elimination of the Wild Card play-in ‘everyone gets a trophy’ gunk.
Elimination of Interleague Play. (It was cool for 2 years. Now? It is dumb. ‘Twins v Pirates’ is a “rivalry?” Boring. I mean, sure…if ya wanna have a few games where the “novelty factor” is on display? How about a 4 game set of “Cardinals versus Tigers”. “Yankees versus Pirates”. “Dodgers versus Yankees”. Stuff like that.
But (as The Hansons in Slap Shot once said)…”Old Time Hockey! Eddie Shore!”.)
That is what would be “big news” to Baseball.
It is truly a simple game. It is the simplicity of it…that made it beautiful. Long ago.
Then…over time? It changed. (Never for the “better”. Even those voted into the Hall of Fame nowadays is a “dog and pony show”. A popularity contest akin to “voting for king and queen of the prom”. And all ya get anymore is “let’s debate this player” (with a Bob Costas bigmouth type…who claims he “saw everyone/knew everyone and the dork couldn’t even hold a bat…trying to talk to Brian Kenney, or some Sabermetics geek who could “create a positive stat for a scrub like Chris Archer”).
Then..of course, ya get the “I am a baseball hall voter…throwaway vote, where they throw a vote away on a guy like Bob Tewksbury or Zane Smith, simply to “create a story”. All the while…bonafide players MISS induction by a handful of votes”.
That type of perversion of the game? Is why it is rotten. Top to bottom.
There hasn’t been ONE well-written “baseball story or real news” since 1994.
That news was when the FANS revolted.
And methinks it is time again to do so.
As the consumer…the fans hold the ultimate power. But until enough say “No More”?
Then all we will continue to get is this mish mash amalgam of something that “looks like baseball”. But isn’t. Bad umpires at a time when their job is so easy that an ape could do it.
Boring and blase cookie-cutter “announcers”.
Players who make vastly too much to carry 5.00 ERAs and/or bat .227.
Managers who cannot “manage” their way out of a wet paper bag…for their hands are tied by GMs and “owners” who don’t care about the game.
A corrupt Players Union. Collusion among owners, who give us “bad baseball…Parrots w Hats on backwards…Pierogie Races…and (of course) Fireworks…every time a player hits a “323 foot blast”. (323 feet? That is a blast? Lol).
Yet…”it’s news! Put it on Twitter yay! Rah!”
It is a bad game. Badly run. Badly executed. And rotten…to the core.
When ONE writer has the cajones to write that stuff? Then I shall support it. For that would be real and objective news.
This fluff piece nonsense? However? Is boring.
Just like today’s game. Its players. Its rules. And its voting for HOF quals.
(When Jack Morris and Edgar Martinez and Harold Baines are IN a Hall of Fame…and yet Jim Kaat, Al Oliver, Dave Parker are not?) It’s a sham.
Top to bottom.
Needs ripped apart and rebuilt again.
Before it dies
To Bald: You are right on a lot of things. However, do not rip other people so much! As to you that rip Bald ,please do the same thing. He is a senior like me ,he has forgotten more baseball then many of us! Remember Rodney King, who said can’t we all get along! I do not approve of his felony crimes, ,but what he said was profound. We can all learn from each other! IN summary: Be nice to each other!
@AWP.
I can dig that brother.
I guess that old school in me, simply gives as good as he gets.
So yeah, the younguns can call me a “Boomer” if they wish. It’s ok. I just call em a “Millennial” back.
It’s how we rolled on the East Coast back in the day.
One sidenote however. My issue is not “with these individuals”. It is with BASEBALL. As a whole. Perhaps I have “forgotten more baseball than most remember”.
But I do remember that Wilbur Wood…once thew 99 Complete Games in a 5 year span (1971-1975), that Pete Rose could singlehandedly beat the entire opposing team, all by himself.
That Roberto Clemente played 80 percent of his career with degenerative discs in his back (only to amass stats that only the uber-elite could touch) and that Reggie Jackson once hit a baseball so far, that it would have landed in the secondary parking lot, had the ” electical transformer atop the stadium roof not obstructed the flight path.
That teams that WON 95 games often MISSED the playoffs to a team that won 97 or 98.
And yes sir…I want THAT game…back.
It was a level of excellence that should be expected and coveted.
Sooner these “younguns” learn that? The better the game shall become again.
Peace to you brother.
I think you explained yourself well!
Give him to the jays and let dr. Pete walker sort him out
@bald Disagree. What actually “sucks” are entertainers & opinion pundits on “news” channels pretending to be actual newspeople and/or journalists.
What actually “sucks” are propaganda channels pretending to be factual-based news channels.
What really “sucks” is the American public accepting lies, BS, immoral behaviors from people and then supporting these grifter sociopaths in an alternate reality for the delusional.
While I may agree with you on very few of your opinions regarding MLB. I don’t agree with how you often go about it.
@19
A very sound, coherent rebuttal.
Propagandists on all sides they are, when it comes to “news”. Thusly why the term “Fake News” is so true.
And no sir…we don’t need to agree, but I always appreciate thoughtful push back.
Got no issue w that.
But (and only 1 “but”)…
Baseball as a whole? Sucks.
Period
Ditto bro!
What the hell happened here. For real the article headline simply states he was designated for assignment. It seems like nobody really understands this article, from the comments. And for being a writer.? That jumbled mess of word vomit being spewed multiple times over… is not writing. Btw brewers just sent him down. More than likely he will be back with the brewers. They were only making strategic moves to ensure all players were treated fairly.
1982 – what I think happened is that someone posted an unnecessary attack on the author for which I replied that the guy was just doing his job (more or less) with absolutely not mention to the content. Personally, I have no opinion either way on the content or the decisions of the team related to the moves. From there, Bald just went crazy (crazier?) and it took off.
You’ll get over it.
Truth ain’t always pretty.
Live. Learn. Overcome. (Or don’t) personally? IDGAS.
But your babbling is prototypical of today’s “beg for acceptance/me likey anything you sell me” fan.
Learn…the damn game
Next case
@longtime.
“The guy was just doing…his job?
Lol.
If THAT is a “job”? No wonder Lindblom and Kratz have ‘payments made in their names’ these days.
Get a new job.
Cause this “job”? Lol. Isn’t one.
An ape could write this “story”.
But YOU go right ahead and defend it.
This is part and parcel as to why your “today’s game…sucks”.
Next case
I see my “muted comments” count is rising. For all of you who haven’t yet, the mute button will bring happiness to your day for those that spew hate just to show their level of unhappiness. I’m sure the count will go higher after this. Everyone have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend, enjoy a hot dog, a beer, a slice of apple pie and a ballgame – most of all remember those that served and died for the freedoms that we enjoy, even the freedom to spew hate, and those that elect to mute them for doing so.
Ok I will agree with this @bald guy he has made a lot of sense and truth in his statement. But now I’m going to try and help fix the Brewers some . We need to take Anderson, JBJ, and Bettinger trade them to Cincinnati for Moose, and a top 20 prospect. Move Lauer back to the rotation. Then let’s send down or dfa’d these players Perdoma, Yardley, Vogelbach. Bring up Tim Lopes, Wahl, Kirby and Torres- Costa. With all this movement it would help the Brewers a lot. Shaw can platoon with Huira. Yes Moose is on the IL right now but it gets rid of JBJ contract which would make all of us happy to pay Mooses contract. Now Lopes I think will be a good utility player with Urias which they have options to shuffle back and forth to Nashville with Taylor. Now Torres and Kirby also gives you versatility too because they can also use these spots to rotate your bullpen also between Nashville cause you will still have some decent arms in Weigel, Barker, Sobtka, Sanchez, Black, Ashby, and Small. Obviously we can use Small and Ashby as spot starters. Yes this isn’t going to completely fix all the issues but it’s a start
stubby Glad you’re not the Brewers GM. I don’t completely disagree with you. But, trading JBJ would be a big mistake. It’s only been a couple months and JBJ usually starts slow.
Shaw makes my list of players to DFA in the near future. Yeah, he leads in RBI’s. However, look at the number of guys that have been on base for his .AB’s thus far. Hell, he should be knockin’ in the most runs with that amount of runners!
Stearns/Counsell are a big part of the problem. What does Stearns have to show for Aguilar, Grisham, and Arcia for just a start?
You got a point there Grisham should have stayed and Arcia was I thought coming around last year wasn’t that bad. At the time Aguilar was very painful . He admitted just last week it was his fault for letting himself getting out of shape. But to be honest they screwed up before that getting rid of Cooper. I think they do need to bring Jeffress back on a minor league deal .
A lot of good ideas! Would likely work, but the other sides have to agree with you!
@longtime.
“Those that cannot handle truth? Press mute button”.
In other words? “Can’t handle debate in the arena of ideas…just run away! Run away!” (Queue Monty Python voices).
What short-sighted “fans” like “longtime” don’t “get”…at all, is that the world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows and feelgood “garbola”.
Thusly? They take their ball and go home.
Fine by me.
Bye. Enjoy your “mute button…it love you long time”.
However…if you truly wish to READ (yes, longtime…I know “words and context are hard”…for some)…then TRY.
Because simply bending over/grabbing ankles and “accepting the ridiculous condition” (like a lemming) has not done one thing to keep the game preserved.
Rather, it furthers the complacency of its fans…diminishes the words “great player” (to which…there once were many. Now? Only a handful)…because fans like you want to “prop up” mediocrity. In doing so, it cheapens “greatness”.
“Oh…he had a .240 average and hit 20 HRs and makes 14 million a season…he is a great player”.
No sir. He ISN’T.
.240 and 20 HRs? Is “Ken McMullen”.
Not “dreadfully bad”. But certainly not worthy of ANY thing more than “lookup stats in Baseball Almanac”.
Mediocre, at best. Prototypical of the majority of today’s “great player” (in your eyes)…yet nondescript (at best) in an era where even a player with his “meh” stays…were considered among the weaker of ballplayers.
In cavernous fields…against pitchers who knew HOW to pitch. The mediocre type? Still managed to “hit 20 HRs and bat .240″.
Nowadays? Some sucker would sign him to a contract for 8 mil a year for 5 years.
That is dumb.
And you know it is.
So…”press yer mute button”. Do what ya wanna. I don’t care. Because “avoiders of direct criticism…aimed at the condition (a very very bad one) of this once-great game”? I don’t care what you do.
Because it is exactly that type of “I don’t care” mentality…that has permitted this avalanche of destruction to a game to occur
Until YOU demand better? You won’t get it.
(But you do have your “mute button”)
Lol. Good for you.
Enjoy
A lot of good ideas! Would likely work, but the other sides have to agree with you!
About Mr Lindblom He is humbling himself by going to AAA and not just taking the Money! I am sorry I called it a bust alert! I was a little too harsh on him! He is getting at least a second or 3rd chance! I wish the Brewers could have sent him down without the DFA. I guess that is the way things are done by the rule!
There was a time however…baseball could do that.
Pitcher or position player struggling? Send him down. Let him work it out. Come back if you can.
But now the “controllable options and contract fine print and other assorted crap”? Has created an “upside down triangle”.
Agent negotiates this or that…player signs here…GM sells Owner on it…Agent gets 20 percent and baseball gets a pile of Lindbloms on a roster”. Making more money than God. To produce? Nothing.
The days of “dude…gonna send ya down for a month to AA so you can LEARN WHAT A BASEBALL IS again” are gone.
And with it? Went the entire game.
Now? AA caliber arms who are too old to learn…too unwilling to learn how to survive the game, when even “the best stuff ain’t working”? Litter the leagues.
(And even still? Gregory Polanco or Chris Davis types can’t “hit em”. Lol.
Tells ya how godawful these “players” are anymore.
They have forgotten the word “player”.
They are all more akin to “where my check”? types anymore.
Baseball Welfare is what it has become.
Literally, my friend…you could RELEASE 75 percent of the league…replace em all with minor leaguers…and no team would skip a beat.
It is that bad.
What is even more-telling?
Is that anyone truly cares what a 7-12 lifetime/near 5 ERA never was…is doing.
Baseball has a plethora of 7-12 arms in its history. Those that flamed…out at 24. Not 34.
They didn’t have it. So they became nondescript.
But Lindblom never “had it” at 24. Still don’t “have it” at 34.
Won’t ever “have it”.
Ohhh…”but he DID make the Major Leagues” (as several idol worshippers of “the he made the major leagues” ilk crowd…so often point out, as if that is a “hoo rah” thing.
When the entire league is (at best) AA caliber…across the board (since 2000)? “Making the major leagues…aint “the accomplishment” that it used to be.
95 percent of all pitchers nowadays? Are “Lindblom caliber”.
(Not like he is competing with Seaver and Koosman here. Heck…isnt like he is even competing against Gary Gentry here. Who was 5 times the pitcher of “today’s turnstyle of cookie-cutter wastes of time”.)
When the PITCHER learns how to pitch again? The game shall wright itself.
Til then? Adios Lindblom.
Don’t let the door of the bank hit ya…on your way out of cashing your guaranteed paycheck…for producing absolute zero.