Pre Arby Change of Scenery Ideas

[Scooterfletcher]

Wondering if anyone has opinions on pre-arby guys to target that might need a change of scenery.  
 

Brett Baty from the Mets is one of my top ones.   Grant Holmes (maybe doesn’t fit this topic) but is a guy I’d like to insert in our rotation.

Thoughts on these guys and what it would take to get them?  Also other targets you like ?

[BallFour]

Curtis Mead

[Samurai Bucky]

I'm always fuzzy on Arbitration and Pre Arbitration.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/MIL/milwaukee-brewers-salaries-and-contracts.shtml

Does Arb or Pre-Arb mean that they will be on the roster, but the parties need to negotiate the salary?  For example, Garrett Mitchell made $744.3K.  Perhaps he will make $1M based on what's negotiated?

Also, is it advantageous for them to sigh a player like Mitchell to a scheduled salary for the remainder of his contract like they did for Chourio?

I hope I'm making sense. 😉

[endaround]

1 hour ago, Samurai Bucky said:

I'm always fuzzy on Arbitration and Pre Arbitration.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/MIL/milwaukee-brewers-salaries-and-contracts.shtml

Does Arb or Pre-Arb mean that they will be on the roster, but the parties need to negotiate the salary?  For example, Garrett Mitchell made $744.3K.  Perhaps he will make $1M based on what's negotiated?

Also, is it advantageous for them to sigh a player like Mitchell to a scheduled salary for the remainder of his contract like they did for Chourio?

I hope I'm making sense. 😉

Pre-arb means the layer does not have enough service time to enter arbitration (typically 3 years).  The Brewers can renew Mitchell at the minimum pre-arby salary but many teams do have small incentives to raise salaries above the minimum especially for starters.  You can sign a player to a contract the replaces their arbitration years, but that makes the contract guaranteed where under arbitration you can non-tender the player without any salary owed. For Mitchell, he's just hardly played so it's really hard to guess about what to do.

[Oxy]

On 10/4/2024 at 1:50 PM, Samurai Bucky said:

I'm always fuzzy on Arbitration and Pre Arbitration.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/MIL/milwaukee-brewers-salaries-and-contracts.shtml

Does Arb or Pre-Arb mean that they will be on the roster, but the parties need to negotiate the salary?  For example, Garrett Mitchell made $744.3K.  Perhaps he will make $1M based on what's negotiated?

Also, is it advantageous for them to sigh a player like Mitchell to a scheduled salary for the remainder of his contract like they did for Chourio?

I hope I'm making sense. 😉

Also, to put a bow on this as it is part of the FAQs for this sort of thing-

-A player is eligible for arbitration once 3 yrs of MLB service time is reached OR is among the top 22% of players with between 2 and 3 years of service time (thus is a "super-2" and arbitration eligible).

-A team has 3 "option years" in which to send a player back to the minors.  Once 20 days are spent in the minors for that year, that option year is used up (although the player can still be sent back and forth multiple times that year--thus it is an option "year").

-A player can decline being optioned once 5 years of MLB service time is accrued.

-A player is granted free agency after the season once he accrues 6 years of MLB service time.

-172 days is considered one year of MLB service, although there are usually something like 186 calendar days from opening day till the last day of the regular season.

 

[jay87shot]

Mead, Julian, Baty, Nolan Gorman, Jordan Walker, Spencer Torkelson, Vaughn Grissom, Noelvi Marte among IF

Edward Cabrera, Emerson Hancock probably more pitchers but can't think of any more of the top of my head.

[Playing Catch]

I love the idea of taking a couple of these guys if the Brewers were doing a soft rebuild, but as a team trying to compete, I'm not sure how much patience they can have to watch post-hype prospect try to find big league relevance.

If these guys are really, really cheap, then I love them as minor league free agent/spring training invite kind of players, but the Brewers are too good to just give ABs to these guys hoping they can be competent and competitive.

I think that is the reason they may go with the quad-A, 28-year-old rookies. Guys that simply put together competent, competitive ABs, even though their sticks don't have a lot of juice. I'm thinking guys like Blake Perkins, Monasterio to a lesser degree, and hopefully, Isaac Collins.