Winter meetings stuff

[markedman5]

 

[Playing Catch]

What's the "(cont'd.)" part?

[Underachiever]

I hate the analogy of getting "in field goal range." I want touchdowns!

I know, I'm overthinking it.

[Samurai Bucky]

3 hours ago, Playing Catch said:

What's the "(cont'd.)" part?

There seems to be more tweets being moved to more of a series of tweets -- more like a "thread."  I think it is because the maximum size of a tweet is 280 characters(?).

The (cont'd) part is:

 

 

[young guns]

5 hours ago, Underachiever said:

I hate the analogy of getting "in field goal range." I want touchdowns!

I know, I'm overthinking it.

What's the down and distance? What's the score?  What quarter are we in and how much time is left on the clock?...shoot play clock is running down call a timeout!  Hope Arnold can at least get some base hits, but I'll take a homer or 2 as well.

[liveforoctober]

Does anyone have any strong predictions for Brewers activity at the Winter meetings? 

I'm assuming we will sign the usual 2-4 "invite to spring training" guys. I'm sure Arnold has another surprise 'no name bullpen signing that will end up pitching big innings for us' up his sleeve..

[Playing Catch]

20 hours ago, Samurai Bucky said:

There seems to be more tweets being moved to more of a series of tweets -- more like a "thread."  I think it is because the maximum size of a tweet is 280 characters(?).

The (cont'd) part is:

 

 

Yeah, I tried looking for that and couldn't find anything for some reason. I suspected a new feature that demands my signing up for X in order to see non-embedded tweets.

[patrickgpe]

If 10 teams are in on Williams, Arnold should strike and get the best deal he can. Overall its been an uneventful week like most of the recent ones.

Rule V is at 1pm, I would hope brewers pass and I'd be shocked if they lost anyone. 

 

[jw5511986]

29 minutes ago, patrickgpe said:

If 10 teams are in on Williams, Arnold should strike and get the best deal he can. Overall its been an uneventful week like most of the recent ones.

Rule V is at 1pm, I would hope brewers pass and I'd be shocked if they lost anyone. 

 

Prepare to be shocked

[patrickgpe]

26 minutes ago, jw5511986 said:

Prepare to be shocked

who are you thinking?

[sveumrules]

Just now, patrickgpe said:

who are you thinking?

Jonathan Mayo reporting the White Sox will take Shane Smith with the 1st pick.

[patrickgpe]

4 minutes ago, sveumrules said:

Jonathan Mayo reporting the White Sox will take Shane Smith with the 1st pick.

didn't see that, guess I won't be shocked :)

[StearnsFTW]

That sucks.  He could be their closer next season.

That's a guy I was really hoping they'd keep.

[TURBO]

Honestly, I simply can not believe we didn't protect Smith.  Instead, we will probably go out at the 2025 trade deadline and deal some prospects for yet another failure relief pitcher.

Smith should have been on the 40, end of story.

[patrickgpe]

Brewers could have easily dropped Tyler Jay or JB Bukauskas for the roster spot.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

With the knack this franchise has for developing solid, if not spectacular relief pitching, not only am I not surprised, I'm also not overly alarmed. 

[TURBO]

1 hour ago, sveumrules said:

Jonathan Mayo reporting the White Sox will take Shane Smith with the 1st pick.

The White Sox will make Brewers prospect Shane Smith the first pick in Wednesday’s Rule 5 draft, MLB.com’s Jonathan Mayo reports.

 

Smith, a Wake Forest product, had a 3.04 ERA and a 113/29 K/BB in 94 1/3 innings between Double- and Triple-A last season. Rule 5 picks are often traded after being picked, so it’s not clear yet that Smith will be remaining with the White Sox. If he does, though, he’d likely have a very good shot of claiming a bullpen spot in the spring.

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• Chicago White Sox

1h ago

Source: Jonathan Mayo

[Matt Breen]

I agree, it was weird we didn't protect Smith. 

[shanedog19]

1 hour ago, patrickgpe said:

If 10 teams are in on Williams, Arnold should strike and get the best deal he can. Overall its been an uneventful week like most of the recent ones.

Rule V is at 1pm, I would hope brewers pass and I'd be shocked if they lost anyone. 

 

Let all the interested teams know of the other teams' interest and ask each team to make their best offer. Should come away with a pretty nice haul, especially considering the teams on the list.

[Matt]

Smith being available to be picked at all is so incredibly annoying. 

[CheezWizHed]

On 12/10/2024 at 9:47 AM, Underachiever said:

I hate the analogy of getting "in field goal range." I want touchdowns!

I know, I'm overthinking it.

Just keep going for it on 4th down!

[CheeseheadInQC]

The Brewers have rolled the dice a number of times recently and hadn’t been burned (how lucky was it no one picked Myers last year). Now they have.

[DonBarclay]

1 hour ago, TURBO said:

The White Sox will make Brewers prospect Shane Smith the first pick in Wednesday’s Rule 5 draft, MLB.com’s Jonathan Mayo reports.

 

Smith, a Wake Forest product, had a 3.04 ERA and a 113/29 K/BB in 94 1/3 innings between Double- and Triple-A last season. Rule 5 picks are often traded after being picked, so it’s not clear yet that Smith will be remaining with the White Sox. If he does, though, he’d likely have a very good shot of claiming a bullpen spot in the spring.

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• Chicago White Sox

1h ago

Source: Jonathan Mayo

With this leaking before the pick, is there any chance the Brewers could be working on trading Smith instead of allowing him to be selected? If he’s going 1st overall in the Rule 5, you’d have to think they could get greater than the $100k they’d get from the White Sox in a trade, especially given that the acquiring team then doesn’t have to have him in the majors for the full season. 

[Outlander]

Would have been nice to have Smith as a shuttle option during the season, hopefully nobody wants to deal with Crow coming off an injury.

[liveforoctober]

Based off of Rule 5 history the likelihood is high he gets returned to us at some point this year. A non top 30 prospect ... I get the annoyance of losing him but my guess is we are simply loaning him to someone else to use for a few months for $50k.