Brewers (Cortes) vs Yankees (Fried): 3/29/25, 12:05 pm

[Bulldogboy]

Sal obp machine 

[liveforoctober]

3 minutes ago, edfunderburk said:

How does missing Colin Rea fit in with the other points in your list?

1) You are deflecting from the point of the convo which validates my point, so I appreciate it.

2) The timing of mentioning that he is missed isn't coincidental and is dismissive of Cortes which again, given he was 3 pitches into the season ... seems dramatic for drama's sake.

[trwi7]

11 minutes ago, treego14 said:

The economics of the game did.

The same economics that happened with Sabathia, Fielder, Burnes, Hader, Adames, Carlos Lee, etc.

We didn't trade two of those players, we traded for one of those players and made a bad trade with one of those players, just like we did with Williams.  Again, nobody forced us to trade Williams and nobody forced us to trade him for what we got.

[trwi7]

We can't even slide without hurting ourselves.

[treego14]

1 minute ago, trwi7 said:

We didn't trade two of those players, we traded for one of those players and made a bad trade with one of those players, just like we did with Williams.  Again, nobody forced us to trade Williams and nobody forced us to trade him for what we got.

Keep making excuses for the inherit unfairness of MLB team payrolls.

[trwi7]

Just now, treego14 said:

Keep making excuses for the inherit unfairness of MLB team payrolls.

I would like it to be more fair.  That doesn't excuse our front office trading our good players for crap.

[edfunderburk]

2 minutes ago, liveforoctober said:

1) You are deflecting from the point of the convo which validates my point, so I appreciate it.

2) The timing of mentioning that he is missed isn't coincidental and is dismissive of Cortes which again, given he was 3 pitches into the season ... seems dramatic for drama's sake.

I understand why you interpreted my post as you did

Certainly the Colin Rea post was influenced by 3HR on 3 pitches 

Honestly - I was reminded of Rea’s unique ability to be in almost every game (with the exception of the 10-run outing towards the end of 2024 when he willingly “took one for the team” to keep the bullpen from being used)

For what it’s worth - I don’t think baseball is broken & I actually like Manfred as a commissioner 

[HarryDoyle]

About time.

[yfinn6]

6 minutes ago, treego14 said:

Keep making excuses for the inherit unfairness of MLB team payrolls.

Your point of unfairness is true. The example you're using is poor. 

[Bulldogboy]

Brutal outing. The fact he's currently our number 2 should frighten the heck out of us all. 

[willie key]

9 minutes ago, treego14 said:

Keep making excuses for the inherit unfairness of MLB team payrolls.

There is no rule that says the brewers can’t spend as much as other teams.  If there is show it to me   Every team in mlb can spend what they want

Anyone that constantly complains about this is just proving outsiders right that Milwaukee should not have a team in professional baseball then     So I’m politely saying **** off and deal with it

 

we literally had a New York team beat in the playoffs but the person you are whining about leaving us gave up a 2 run lead in the ninth     Payroll had nothing to do with it

 

[edfunderburk]

Cortes joins Chourio by getting his worst game out of the way early - I’m confident his next start will be better

[Brian]

I think Nestor's arm is shot.  MKE CREW: You fry'em we buy'em. 

[Frisbee Slider]

Was Cortes throwing harder than 90 mph in spring?

[Fear The Chorizo]

1 minute ago, trwi7 said:

I would like it to be more fair.  That doesn't excuse our front office trading our good players for crap.

When teams know an organization won't be able to afford keeping a good player on their team through free agency and may need to trade them to get some form of quality return, I don't really see why they'd be willing to pony up blue chip prospects and great players to acquire them.  Devin Williams threw like 40 pitches and barely got out of blowing his 1st save opportunity as a Yankee a couple days ago - I actually don't think he should be viewed as some organization-changing dominant reliever anymore.  Stating they should have gotten better players without offering up which other trades the Brewers should have made with specific prospects/players that would be realistic offseason trade scenarios isn't much more than throwing strawmen at people endlessly.

The economics of baseball, IMO, actually have me thinking the best value small market teams can gain from their premium talent is to ride them out through their free agent years, don't trade them at all unless at the deadline before they walk if the team is out of it, and pick up the comp draft picks.

Then again, you thought the Yelich trade was a terrible move at the time the Brewers made it for giving up all those great prospects to the Marlins, too.

[edfunderburk]

On his off days - Nestor could pitch Brewers batting practice to get out hitters confidence up 

[Bulldogboy]

Rule 5 generally means not good enough to be protected so....

[HarryDoyle]

Well, you can close the book on Kellner. (Thank God)

[duewizard]

Should have gone  home Rhys.

[edfunderburk]

The Nashville roster includes 16 pitchers 

We should keep 3 with the big league team at all times & wear out the shuttle back & forth

Currently - we do not have a quality MLB pitching staff 

I hope we don’t lose too many games in this first month while we wait on the better pitchers on the IL to recover 

[Bulldogboy]

4 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

Rule 5 generally means not good enough to be protected so....

Whatever. Brewers fans deserve better. 

[duewizard]

...

[yfinn6]

I have never seen anything like this. 

[Brian]

Gloom, despair, and agony on me
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all
Gloom, despair, and agony on me.

[edfunderburk]

Send this dude back to STL this afternoon