Interesting conversation about Attanasio's recent comments

[Brock Beauchamp]

On the latest episode of the Brewer Fanatic Podcast, the guys invite Andrew Wagner on to talk about Attanasio's comments and the hubbub from national writers. It's a really good conversation that gives a local perspective. I particularly found Andrew's comments about why "the local guys are lazy and didn't cover it" informative.

 

[jay87shot]

I didn't listen/read all of the Mark A interview but I do worry that Attenasio is struggling to keep up as the other owners have much deeper pockets. Overall, I like Mark and remember what it was like growing up with the Selig's. I think his heart is generally in the right place but I do think that he runs the team as a straight business and doesn't really gamble with the books. Being the smallest market I get the idea of needing to build a contender as cheaply as possible but I do think needs to be a point where Mark A needs to says, we need player A to give this team a chance at a championship, even though I need to go $10 million over budget lets do it. I think the year we got Sabathia was the only year I can say he possibly did that and that was like 17 years between playoffs or something.

[nate82]

2 hours ago, jay87shot said:

I do think needs to be a point where Mark A needs to says, we need player A to give this team a chance at a championship, even though I need to go $10 million over budget lets do it. I think the year we got Sabathia was the only year I can say he possibly did that and that was like 17 years between playoffs or something.

2018 the plan was to sign Darvish and Cain.  The Darvish part didn’t work out as he chose the Cubs over the Brewers.  The Brewers offer to Darvish was really close so much so that Darvish chose the Cubs over the Brewers because he thought the Cubs were closer to winning than the Brewers were.  Going into the 2018 season he was accurate in this assessment.

In 2019 they went out and signed Grandal.  After losing Prince Fielder they went out and signed Aramis Ramirez when they probably should have started the rebuild. 2016 and 2017 really were the only lean years recently.

The Brewers market can only sustain being above $120mm for so long.  Unless the population increases along with the average household income increasing I don’t see how the Brewers could possibly increase their player salaries.  They could cut a lot from the minors but then you really need to hit on every single FA signing to be successful.  Market wise the Brewers really should be considered to be moved or they would need to be sold to a billionaire who wants to just throw money away every year.

[RobertCrawley]

22 minutes ago, nate82 said:

2018 the plan was to sign Darvish and Cain.  The Darvish part didn’t work out as he chose the Cubs over the Brewers.  The Brewers offer to Darvish was really close so much so that Darvish chose the Cubs over the Brewers because he thought the Cubs were closer to winning than the Brewers were.  Going into the 2018 season he was accurate in this assessment.

In 2019 they went out and signed Grandal.  After losing Prince Fielder they went out and signed Aramis Ramirez when they probably should have started the rebuild. 2016 and 2017 really were the only lean years recently.

The Brewers market can only sustain being above $120mm for so long.  Unless the population increases along with the average household income increasing I don’t see how the Brewers could possibly increase their player salaries.  They could cut a lot from the minors but then you really need to hit on every single FA signing to be successful.  Market wise the Brewers really should be considered to be moved or they would need to be sold to a billionaire who wants to just throw money away every year.

Do we know this for sure? Do we have access to the true bottom line of the club's finances? 

[Frisbee Slider]

1 hour ago, RobertCrawley said:

Do we know this for sure? Do we have access to the true bottom line of the club's finances? 

That question works both ways. We don’t know if the Brewers profitability is below or above what the Brewers ownership group wants or expects. 60% of the Brewers are owned by not Mark A.