Steve Goetsch

[Steve Goetsch @sgoetsch7]

@TheFFBallers If you are in a competitive window and don’t need a RB what would reach for the moon offers you would want for 1.01? Any players you would target?

[Steve Goetsch @sgoetsch7]

@TheFFBallers I have the 1.01 in a dynasty league with a competitive team, what would be examples of shoot for the moon trades you float to league mates?

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@AdamMcCalvy Do you have a list of players still in big league camp?

[Steve Goetsch @sgoetsch7]

@AnthonyBetss Do we get to hear the original offer now?

[Steve Goetsch @sgoetsch7]

@AdamMcCalvy Is Hoskins being a dfa casualty even a possibility? I hope not, just curious

[Steve Goetsch @sgoetsch7]

@BrewerNation I do like the idea of making a Godfather offer for Buxton, it seems like by this report something like Pratt, Henderson Lara could get the deal done, he fits really well with Mitchell out this year and move Chourio to LF, let Collins be more utility

[Steve Goetsch @sgoetsch7]

@CyrtHogg Do you have an updated list who is still in camp possible for opening day 26 man roster?

[Sports Psychology @SportPsychTips]

As an athlete, your biggest problem in games isn't making mistakes. It's your negative response to making mistakes. Once you learn to stay positive and resilient, you'll perform much better in games.

[Steve Goetsch @sgoetsch7]

@ChiefsKingdom30 @SalVetriDFS @salvetriDFS
Do you have any data or reasoning on McBride?

[Steve Goetsch @sgoetsch7]

@CyrtHogg Any guess what the roster move is? Send Monasterio or Perkins down to keep roster flexibility?

[Steve Goetsch @sgoetsch7]

@Ken_Rosenthal Knowing that Luzardo is injured could the brewers still put a package of something like boeve, wiemer and letson together for him? They also will have 40 man and 26 man roster issues when their injured players come back is there any talk that they may sell and buy?

[Steve Goetsch @sgoetsch7]

@MikeGroll @BrewerNation I think Capra DFA possibly, they have lots of roster crunch coming though (Devin, DL, Ross eventually, a trade piece or two) all of these will need 26 and 40 man spots

[Steve Goetsch @sgoetsch7]

@Barton1331 @CyrtHogg Also, is Yelich not feeling 100% with being DH 2 straight days

[Steve Goetsch @sgoetsch7]

@BiloxiShuckers @CyrtHogg @AdamMcCalvy What were the details of the Casey Martin trade? Any report on him?

[Steve Goetsch @sgoetsch7]

@CyrtHogg @jchourioburner Any chance that changes if he feels ahead of schedule and brewers are in the playoffs?

[Steve Goetsch @sgoetsch7]

@CyrtHogg Could you list the 41 players still in camp or is there a way of seeing this list?

[Steve Goetsch @sgoetsch7]

@CooperGoede Agree but I think it's 85-77 or 83-79

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

After his second year at Michigan, Tom Brady wanted to transfer.

He wasn't playing in games, and he was so low on the depth chart that he only got 2 reps in practice.

Brady met with his coach to express his frustration, “The other quarterbacks get all the reps.”

Coach replied,

“Brady, I want you to stop worrying about what all the other players on our team are doing. All you do is worry about what the starter is doing, what the second guy is doing, what everyone else is doing. You don't worry about what you're doing.”

Coach reminded him, “You came here to be the best. If you're going to be the best, you have to beat out the best.”

And then he recommended that Brady start meeting with Greg Harden, a sports psychologist who worked in Michigan's athletic department.

Brady went to Harden's office and whined, “I'm never going to get my chance. They're only giving me 2 reps.”

Harden simply replied, “Just go out there and focus on doing the best you can with those 2 reps. Make them as perfect as you possibly can.”

“So that's what I did,” Brady said. “They'd put me in for those 2 reps, man, I'd sprint out there like it was Super Bowl 39. 'Let's go boys! Here we go! What play we got?'”

“And I started to do really well with those 2 reps. Because I brought enthusiasm, I brought energy.”

Soon, it went from getting 2 reps to getting 4 reps. Then from 4 to 10, “and before you knew it,” Brady said, with this new mindset that Greg instilled in me—to focus on what you can control, to focus on what you're getting, not what anyone else is getting, to treat every rep like it's the Super Bowl—eventually, I became the starter.”

Takeaway 1:

Greg Harden telling Brady to just focus on being great during his 2 reps reminded me of a piece of advice from the entrepreneur Mark Cuban.

“People come to me all the time and tell me they're stuck,” Cuban explained. “They're stuck in a job they don't like. They're stuck working for a boss they don't like. They're stuck on a team they don't like.”

“I just tell them, 'Be great.'”

“The reality of life is that you can't just always quit your job. You can't just always go to your boss and say, 'Give me the promotion, or I'm out of here.'” You can't just always go to your coach and say, 'Give me more reps, or I'm transferring.'

“So when you're stuck, you've gotta find it within yourself to say, 'Ok, this is where I am. And if I'm going to be here, I'm going to be great.'

Because if you're great at your job, typically other people and companies find out, so it creates opportunities.”

Takeaway 2:

I've written before about “lead measures”—the actions and behaviors that predictably drive success.

The core characteristic of a lead measure, the authors of The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) write, is that “a lead measure is influenceable; it can be directly influenced by you.”

To achieve your goals, they recommend (echoing what the Michigan Coach told Brady), apply a disproportionate energy to the things that are in your control.

Starting at Michigan and for the rest of his career, that’s what Brady did, that’s what drove his success.

In his first media call after he was selected by the New England Patriots with the 199th pick in the 2000 draft, Brady was asked: “Are you aware that [along with starting quarterback, Drew Bledsoe] there’s another quarterback here that they drafted last year?”

Brady said he was aware of that. “And I know he’s a heck of a player,” Brady said. “But I’ve always really concerned myself just with the things I can control. I don’t put a lot of thinking into the other guys because I know I’m not at my best when I’m not just thinking about playing as well as I possibly can.”

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“I never once in my life ever said I wanted to be the best of all time. Ever. I wanted to be the best I could be, period. I learned that in college. It didn’t matter what the other guys were doing. It mattered what I was doing.” — Tom Brady

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[Steve Goetsch @sgoetsch7]

@AdamMcCalvy I know Hiura isn’t on the 40 man and Urias hasn’t been excelling at triple A but do you see either of them getting a shot with the infield injuries? Especially Hiura, what more does he need to do to get maybe one last shot with the team?

[Steve Goetsch @sgoetsch7]

@wiscofan5 @AdamMcCalvy This has to be a joke right? He started the season with an 11 game hit streak, has an OPS of 130 as a catcher and has been fantastic behind the plate.