2015-16 Offseason Optimism Thread

[torts]

Hey everyone! It's Hot Stove season! Who ends up leaving? Or, who ends up staying?

 

This is going to be a great winter! New GM? Younger than me? Interested in trades and drafting?

 

I am 100% okay if this team fields a AAAA level team next year if the moves made put is in the realm of the Cubs/Pirates franchises.

 

I am excited for the future, and I hope you all are too!!

[3and2Fastball]

I'm very excited and optimistic about the future of the Milwaukee Brewers. We are finally getting the rebuilding phase that many of us have wanted for a few years now. I'm very happy to have a new GM in place and players in the system like Arcia & Phillips that are worth really looking forward to.

 

I will be fascinated to see how Stearns builds his team

[kalle8]

I started to follow the Brewers in 2005, so this is my first rebuilding phase. i am excited and wonder how it was when Rickie, JJ, Prince and Corey Hart were rising all together.

[torts]

KROD IS GONE!!!

 

ITTTSSSS HAAAAAAAAPPPEEENNNNIIIINGGGGGGG

[DocLuna7]

KROD IS GONE!!!

 

ITTTSSSS HAAAAAAAAPPPEEENNNNIIIINGGGGGGG

 

 

Next up Adam Lind?

[stalton]

Gotta say, its been fun watching everything transpire. After the wind had left our sails, its nice to get out of the doldrums.

[brewmann04]

I been a fan for a long time and excited about some of the young players we have at both pitcher and everyday starters. But I want to see what Stearns does before being optimistic about 2016

[3and2Fastball]

Great trade today w/ K-Rod. Young affordable talent is what Stearns will stockpile. I'm excited to watch the young Jedi work his magic.

[Matt Breen]

I'm optimistic about the future for the first time in several years. I know the next few years are going to be a struggle, but I like that we are (I think) establishing a plan to excel. The farm system is revitalized, we have some young guys on the verge of making their debuts, the big league roster has a lot of intriguing (if still emerging talent).

 

While I want to win ball games next year, I can also just enjoy watching the young guys develop. Arcia, Reed, Hader, Davies, Houser, Phillips - we'll probably see all these guys this year - and that's just a few of the players.

[JohnBriggs12]

I'm more optimistic about 2016 today than I was yesterday as Stearn showed the willingness to deal a prospect in A ball for a guy who potentially makes the 2016 team better. It's not all about tearing down what you have, but using your depth in some areas (in this case starting pitching) to find help in an area of need, 3B, and the guy he acquired is still very young.

[torts]

I am diggin' everything so far!

[pacopete4]

Yeah, I'm pretty happy with the transactions so far. Hopefully a strong Winters Meeting and signing some cheaper veterans after all the buzz wears off and we head into the 2016 season with a young, exciting group of guys with a bunch of very talented players waiting in the wings.

[brewmann04]

this is going to be a very busy offseason looking forward to it

[markedman5]

Jeff Passan ‏@JeffPassan 50s51 seconds ago

Source: Seattle not done trading. Mariners nearing a deal with Milwaukee. Still trying to ferret out details, but it involves big leaguers.

[jjgott]

A trade a day makes second to last place finishes go away

[pacopete4]

Bold Prediction: Jimmy Nelson, Taylor Jugmann and Willy Peralta will take the next steps in their journey's as MLB pitcher. Nelson will settle in as a true #1, Junmann as a #2 and Peralta as the #3 giving the Brewers a top end of the rotation that competes with the Cardinals and Pirates. Not only that but Davies settles in a a nice #4 as well who gives you a chance to win each start.

[Eye Black]

VIDEO: Born a Brewer

[adambr2]

Bold Prediction: Jimmy Nelson, Taylor Jugmann and Willy Peralta will take the next steps in their journey's as MLB pitcher. Nelson will settle in as a true #1, Junmann as a #2 and Peralta as the #3 giving the Brewers a top end of the rotation that competes with the Cardinals and Pirates. Not only that but Davies settles in a a nice #4 as well who gives you a chance to win each start.

 

Wouldn't having a true 1, 2, 3, and 4 give us an average rotation, not a top end one?

 

I would think we would need two guys to develop aa aces (Nelson and Peralta being the most likely IMO) to really have a top end rotation.