Article: Brewers Win Pyrrhic Victory Over Corbin Burnes in MLB Arbitration Case

[Brock Beauchamp]

50 minutes ago, GreatNWwi said:

For a paid contribution this is crap.  The Brewers suck, is there any way they can salvage this?

Really?  How about a hint of neutrality.  Take a look at the two threads regarding this topic.  In there are lots of explanations of how the system works.  There should have been a little bit of knowledge about this topic before throwing this out there.

As for both threads.  This is a huge nothing burger.  The Brewers reputation was not hurt in the least among the league or potential free agents a year from now.  When the Brewers make the next offer to a FA, they will look at the bottom line not how the Brewers acted in arbitration.  Nobody cares except fans.  Burns says his feelings are hurt but he will be over it in a day or two when he realizes this is how it works and he is doing what he loves.

Neutrality isn’t necessarily an admirable trait. Sometimes people actually have opinions on things and that’s fine. Even with the weirdness and dumb rules of arb, having a star player openly talk about being frustrated/angry isn’t a good look for an organization. I guarantee Matt understands the nuances of arb, that’s not the issue here  

Matt isn’t here to defend the Brewers. He isn’t here to blast them, either. His role is to analyze what they do and come to a conclusion. 

[MVP2110]

9 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Neutrality isn’t necessarily an admirable trait. Sometimes people actually have opinions on things and that’s fine. Even with the weirdness and dumb rules of arb, having a star player openly talk about being frustrated/angry isn’t a good look for an organization. I guarantee Matt understands the nuances of arb, that’s not the issue here  

Matt isn’t here to defend the Brewers. He isn’t here to blast them, either. His role is to analyze what they do and come to a conclusion. 

Out of curiosity can you explain why we have two threads on the same topic? On other forums something like that happens they either merge the threads or lock one up so there is a centralized location for discussion, having two separate threads makes the conversation harder to follow

[Brock Beauchamp]

14 minutes ago, MVP2110 said:

Out of curiosity can you explain why we have two threads on the same topic? On other forums something like that happens they either merge the threads or lock one up so there is a centralized location for discussion, having two separate threads makes the conversation harder to follow

One is a front page news story and currently we cannot merge an article thread into a normal thread. I would have moved this thread this morning but it was so active I left it here for awhile longer. I’ll probably move it this afternoon some time  

One of my primary tasks later in the year is resolving the inability to merge an article topic into another topic. 

[GreatNWwi]

36 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Neutrality isn’t necessarily an admirable trait. Sometimes people actually have opinions on things and that’s fine. Even with the weirdness and dumb rules of arb, having a star player openly talk about being frustrated/angry isn’t a good look for an organization. I guarantee Matt understands the nuances of arb, that’s not the issue here  

Matt isn’t here to defend the Brewers. He isn’t here to blast them, either. His role is to analyze what they do and come to a conclusion. 

That is all good and fine, it's an opinion piece.  It is you who pay for it, not me so you have the say here.  My suggestion is kind of a "show your work" when writing a paid for article.  I don't think that was done and the article ended with a leading question on if the Brewers can repair their scarred reputation.

My other point is that the star player speaking out and being hurt does not hurt the team at all unless he causes problems in the clubhouse.  If that is the case it is on him, not the team.  Like I said, nobody in baseball cares about it except Brewers fans.  I think I saw someone post that it happens 10 to 15 times every year around the league.

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 hour ago, GreatNWwi said:

Like I said, nobody in baseball cares about it except Brewers fans.

This isn’t true, though. I’ve seen this situation talked about in every baseball group I’m a member of, including Twins Daily. 

[GreatNWwi]

41 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

This isn’t true, though. I’ve seen this situation talked about in every baseball group I’m a member of, including Twins Daily. 

Sure, Twins Daily where 90% hate anything Wisconsin.  But yes, there will be some people taking note until about Monday next week.