Rosenthal: "It's Time" For The Brewers To Go All-In At The Trade Deadline

[KeithStone53151]

On 7/8/2024 at 8:52 AM, Playing Catch said:

I agree with this.

In addition, I'm getting bored of the national guys* (Smoltz and his partner induced some eyerolls from me), feeding the narrative that the Brewers are some cute story about Papa Murphy and his overachieving kiddos playing for the big, bad, cheap owner who never spends money and always trades away his best players instead of trying to win in the playoffs; Poor, poor Yelich, Contreras, and Hoskins... They deserve true investment in the team, and deserve an organization that will "go for it," like it's now or never.

Pffft... The Brewers are young and good, and only getting better, both this year AND in the next couple of years. The national writers/media are going to have to find a new narrative in the next year or two after the Brewers solidify their stranglehold on the NL Central.

*It irritates me not because I care about what the outside thinks, but because I care about what casual Brewer fans think. When National guys state lazy takes, it feeds lazy narratives surrounding the organization in Wisconsin.

The Brewers answer to the fans, not Yelich/Contreras/Hoskins. If anyone "deserves" investment from the team...it's the fans...not the players, who are simply employees.

[Playing Catch]

4 hours ago, KeithStone53151 said:

The Brewers answer to the fans, not Yelich/Contreras/Hoskins. If anyone "deserves" investment from the team...it's the fans...not the players, who are simply employees.

I agree 100%.

With that said, what "investment" looks like isn't always what casual fans care about. Some examples being scouting well both internationally and domestically, investing in player development, improving the team on the margins, making winning personnel moves, and playing winning baseball rather than making flashy personnel moves and playing flashy baseball.

Sometimes media misses the forest through the trees (which is their job, to get clicks), and sometimes those takes confirm the biases of casual fans.

And just to be clear, I'm not opposed to making "big" moves, so long as the Brewers get team control back. Any rentals should be "little" moves, IMO.

[jay87shot]

I think Eric Fedde is my #1 target assuming the price is still reasonable. Carlos Rodriguez, Bradley Blalock, and Joey Weimer/Oliver Dunn. We get 3 40 man roster spots and the White Sox get 2 rotation options and a potential IF/OF starter all with upside and lots of control. Add in Kopech if necessary.

Any chance the Cubs could trade Justin Steele if they sell. I doubt we would be an option but he would look perfect in our rotation. Black, Boeve, Wichrowski, Manfredi???

[brewmann04]

they won't add a true top line starter but a very solid arm could be more or the Target. We really need to find a way to keep with the other starters on the top teams.

[KeithStone53151]

4 hours ago, jay87shot said:

I think Eric Fedde is my #1 target assuming the price is still reasonable. Carlos Rodriguez, Bradley Blalock, and Joey Weimer/Oliver Dunn. We get 3 40 man roster spots and the White Sox get 2 rotation options and a potential IF/OF starter all with upside and lots of control. Add in Kopech if necessary.

Any chance the Cubs could trade Justin Steele if they sell. I doubt we would be an option but he would look perfect in our rotation. Black, Boeve, Wichrowski, Manfredi???

I feel like we'd be buying high on Fedde if we grab him. I recently was compared him and Civale, and found them to be quite similar. The big difference, is Fedde went overseas for a year and is posting better numbers while Civale went to the Rays and was seemingly broken. I'm just not sure I believe in those better numbers just yet. I think he's more likely to regress to the pitcher he was than maintain his current production...but we'd probably need to pay in prospect value for the pitcher he is now, and I hope we don't do that. I also generally would rather aim higher, there are a fair amount of arms out there better than Fedde even if this truly is who he is going forward.

The Cubs are truly set up for long-term mediocrity right now. I have no idea if they'll tear it down and do a proper rebuild, or if they'll try the bandaid fix again and buy a bunch of guys in free agency(knowing the Cubs, probably the wrong ones). One of those paths would lead to Steele becoming available...though I don't think the Cubs would truly negotiate with us for anybody with team control beyond this year.

[Scooterfletcher]

8 hours ago, KeithStone53151 said:

I feel like we'd be buying high on Fedde if we grab him. 

Agreed.  

[wallus]

Our scraps aren't going to get guys in demand at the Deadline. I wish some posters would look at it from the other side and they would see that guys like Oliver Dunn and Bradley Blaylock have little value.

[brewmann04]

Brewers need to make a move for sure because the cards are coming on