Brewers acquire Trevor Rosenthal

[owbc]

Our offense is statistically better than our pitching so we actually needed arms. 

[wibadgers23]

You can never have enough bullpen arms…or can you?

[LouisEly]

1 minute ago, Jopal78 said:

The Cardinals were a mediocre team in 2011, traded for some bullpen arms and rode them to a title so who knows?

So did the Royals in 2015.  Make it a 5-6 inning game, and with Burnes, Woodruff, Peralta, Ashby, and Lauer, those are going to be damn tough 5-6 innings for the other team.

[SRB]

Doesn't seem odd to me. Rosenthal has the potential to be a lockdown reliever once he's back.

For all of the handwringing about adding a bat, if you actually look at stats the bullpen was our biggest area of need. I like what they're doing. (Would still like for them to add a bat, of course.)

[BigDaddy1974]

does he hit lefties?

[MoreTrife]

18 minutes ago, Jopal78 said:

The Giants did give him a 4.5 million dollar guarantee 

Can someone explain how a 32 yr old guy who hasn't pitched in two years somehow got a 4.5 mill contract??? That blows my mind, absolutely blows it.

[SRB]

Just now, MoreTrife said:

Can someone explain how a 32 yr old guy who hasn't pitched in two years somehow got a 4.5 mill contract??? That blows my mind, absolutely blows it.

He's an extremely good reliever. If he was healthy he'd have been asking for $45 million.

[StearnsFTW]

8 minutes ago, beekay414 said:

Those Cardinals were also 83-79 and like 10 games out of the playoffs going into September lol

I think you're thinking of 2006.

[Jim French Stepstool]

All their moves today could work out to greatly strengthen the BP, and I haven't been down on the offense to the extent some on here have been, but did anyone think they would go through this picking up six players, and five being pitchers? Of course, there's still 15 min.

[mtsportsfan]

Is this some sort of joke ? not funny ! Lol

[MoreTrife]

4 minutes ago, SRB said:

He's an extremely good reliever. If he was healthy he'd have been asking for $45 million.

He hasn't been extremely good since 2017!

[djoctagone]

 

[CheeseheadInQC]

4 minutes ago, MoreTrife said:

He hasn't been extremely good since 2017!

He was great in limited action in 2020. Counterpoint to that is he hasn't pitched since.

[SRB]

11 minutes ago, MoreTrife said:

He hasn't been extremely good since 2017!

The last time he pitched, in 2020, he put up a 14.5 K/9, 1.90 ERA, 2.22 FIP, and after the Padres traded for him he went Sabathia mode and put up a 15.3 K/9, 0.00 ERA, 0.09 FIP (!!) in 10.0 IP.

[Simba2020]

18 minutes ago, MoreTrife said:

Can someone explain how a 32 yr old guy who hasn't pitched in two years somehow got a 4.5 mill contract??? That blows my mind, absolutely blows it.

I was pretty surprised when I saw him get that contract as well. I was also stunned the penny-pinching A's gave him $11 million last year. Nice to be him.

[Never Outhustled]

21 minutes ago, SRB said:

Doesn't seem odd to me. Rosenthal has the potential to be a lockdown reliever once he's back.

For all of the handwringing about adding a bat, if you actually look at stats the bullpen was our biggest area of need. I like what they're doing. (Would still like for them to add a bat, of course.)

Why didn't we just sign him a couple of weeks ago?

[sveumrules]

10 minutes ago, djoctagone said:

 

Bummer, Peters was having a good year, Was hoping it would only cost like Zavier Warren or Gabe Holt or something.

[treego14]

Trade him for Hader.

[Platoon Power]

Tristan Peters is a hefty price to pay for a guy we could have signed ourself a little over a week ago.  I like Rosenthal but can't justify the process in how we added him.

[wibadgers23]

For Tristan Peters? Is David Stearns drunk?

[SRB]

1 minute ago, Never Outhustled said:

Why didn't we just sign him a couple of weeks ago?

Who cares? The fact is we didn't, and we have him now and the team is better off.

[homer]

Consider my head scratched 

[sveumrules]

1 minute ago, Never Outhustled said:

Why didn't we just sign him a couple of weeks ago?

Giants probably offered more money. Then they fell out of contention & don't need him anymore, so buh bye.

[StearnsFTW]

9 minutes ago, sveumrules said:

Giants probably offered more money. Then they fell out of contention & don't need him anymore, so buh bye.

Or Rosenthal preferred SF to Milwaukee.  There's lots of reasons that may have happened.

[Never Outhustled]

5 minutes ago, SRB said:

Who cares? The fact is we didn't, and we have him now and the team is better off.

If we had signed him, we'd have saved a top 20 prospect. Are those inconsequential? 

 

Stearns is embarrassing himself.