Trade deadline day thread

[gregmag]

On 7/31/2025 at 4:38 PM, Bulldogboy said:

This is why Brewers fans are the best. Incredible. 

It’s too bad we can’t all have your superior character, but if we did, you wouldn’t be superior, so I guess it’s okay. 

You actually have a great racket figured out. Trading any prospect for any guy who has his own baseball card is always good. Not doing so is always bad. If the traded prospect becomes a star or the coveted veteran acquisition flops, you just lay low. As long as the Brewers are one of the 29 teams not to win the World Series, you’ll come back to bluster that you were right all along.

Of course, the only reason the Brewers are good enough to make guys like you scream “ALL INNZZZ!!!” is because they ignored guys like you in past years and held onto prospects Chourio, Frelick, Turang, Woodruff, Peralta, Uribe, etc. . . . Oh, wait, I’m sorry — of course you never wanted to trade the prospects who eventually would pan out, just the ones who eventually wouldn’t; and never for guys who ended up contributing like Jonathan Schoop, only for guys who ended up contributing like CC Sabathia. My bad.

[Matt]

18 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

I’m not going to get too worked up over today but we’ve got to stop comparing every other move to Quinn Priester. We acquired Quinn Priester on April 7th. He has been with this team essentially the entire season. He is not “help” we acquired at the deadline. He has nothing to do with anyone else’s reinforcements that they acquired today for the rest of the season.

If you want to cite Andrew Vaughn, fine. Quinn Priester was closer to an offseason acquisition than a midseason acquisition. He was a nice pickup. In April. We move on.

And really, Vaughn's all you need to cite. I would bet a good amount that there wasn't a move this week that will be as impactful as Vaughn's been this month. The Brewers already traded for their impact bat.

[adambr2]

2 minutes ago, Matt said:

And really, Vaughn's all you need to cite. I would bet a good amount that there wasn't a move this week that will be as impactful as Vaughn's been this month. The Brewers already traded for their impact bat.

He’s been amazing. I would have to think the other shoe has to drop at some point, I can’t see how he just became a 1.150 OPS hitter overnight, but if he even continues at .900 that’s a massive offensive upgrade from what we’ve had at 1B.

[Bulldogboy]

24 minutes ago, gregmag said:

It’s too bad we can’t all have your superior character, but if we did, you wouldn’t be superior, so I guess it’s okay. 

You actually have a great racket figured out. Trading any prospect for any guy who has his own baseball card is always good. Not doing so is always bad. If the traded prospect becomes a star or the coveted veteran acquisition flops, you just lay low. As long as the Brewers are one of the 29 teams not to win the World Series, you’ll come back to bluster that you were right all along.

Of course, the only reason the Brewers are good enough to make guys like you scream “ALL INNZZZ!!!” is because they ignored guys like you in past years and held onto prospects Chourio, Frelick, Turang, Woodruff, Peralta, Uribe, etc. . . . Oh, wait, I’m sorry — of course you never wanted to trade the prospects who eventually wouldn’t pan out; just the ones who eventually wouldn’t; and never for guys who ended up contributing like Jonathan Schoop, only for guys who ended up contributing like CC Sabathia. My bad.

The goal of every team is and should be to win a world series. The Brewers have never done so. It is not to have best farm system or to be most scrappy team. At the end of the day today was about getting closer to making that happen. They didn't do that by any measure. Now for you it's about having a parking lot to play beanbag and grill out wearing a Ben sheets jersey. I get that. To those of trying to not live off 82. Think about that 1982. I will continue to call it like I see if they are falling short. They did today.

[narwhalattack]

4 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

The goal of every team is and should be to win a world series. The Brewers have never done so. It is not to have best farm system or to be most scrappy team. At the end of the day today was about getting closer to making that happen. They didn't do that by any measure. Now for you it's about having a parking lot to play beanbag and grill out wearing a Ben sheets jersey. I get that. To those of trying to not live off 82. Think about that 1982. I will continue to call it like I see if they are falling short. They did today.

Must be why the Padres have won like 200 World Series by now, right?

[Scooterfletcher]

4 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

The goal of every team is and should be to win a world series. The Brewers have never done so. It is not to have best farm system or to be most scrappy team. At the end of the day today was about getting closer to making that happen. They didn't do that by any measure. Now for you it's about having a parking lot to play beanbag and grill out wearing a Ben sheets jersey. I get that. To those of trying to not live off 82. Think about that 1982. I will continue to call it like I see if they are falling short. They did today.

Adding Suarez doesn’t increase our World Series odds more than a couple percentage points.   Right now we are the best team in baseball.   If we are hot in the playoffs, we will make the World Series.   Because we keep our prospects, we will have multiple chances at the World Series and my guess is we get there by 2030 (maybe even this year ).

[Matt]

2 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

The goal of every team is and should be to win a world series. The Brewers have never done so. It is not to have best farm system or to be most scrappy team. At the end of the day today was about getting closer to making that happen. They didn't do that by any measure. Now for you it's about having a parking lot to play beanbag and grill out wearing a Ben sheets jersey. I get that. To those of trying to not live off 82. Think about that 1982. I will continue to call it like I see if they are falling short. 

They added a really good arm. Given the workload the bullpen's had I'd say that was a pretty nice move. 

I don't know what people were expecting. I'm honestly a little baffled. All-Star talents weren't being moved. The Brewers didn't miss out on anyone.

[AdvantageSchneider]

6 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

The goal of every team is and should be to win a world series. The Brewers have never done so. It is not to have best farm system or to be most scrappy team. At the end of the day today was about getting closer to making that happen. They didn't do that by any measure. Now for you it's about having a parking lot to play beanbag and grill out wearing a Ben sheets jersey. I get that. To those of trying to not live off 82. Think about that 1982. I will continue to call it like I see if they are falling short. They did today.

Didn't realize they were eliminated from the playoffs today on July 31st despite having the best record in baseball.

[Bulldogboy]

8 minutes ago, Matt said:

They added a really good arm. Given the workload the bullpen's had I'd say that was a pretty nice move. 

I don't know what people were expecting. I'm honestly a little baffled. All-Star talents weren't being moved. The Brewers didn't miss out on anyone.

 

A really good arm that is on the il? I saw some good ones traded that are healthy but ok. Are the Brewers your betting favorites to win it all? If not then they could have gotten better. Wait until you see this team without Chourio for a month. 

[Bulldogboy]

Brewers fans are so happy being competitive that they get offended by the concept of trying to get better. Crazy stuff. Aaron Judge? He might ruin our chemistry!! What about Collins?? We don't really need him we have Vaughn. Lol. It's ok to try to improve your odds of winning a championship. 

[narwhalattack]

3 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

Brewers fans are so happy being competitive that they get offended by the concept of trying to get better. Crazy stuff. Aaron Judge? He might ruin our chemistry!! What about Collins?? We don't really need him we have Vaughn. Lol. It's ok to try to improve your odds of winning a championship. 

I'd much rather see the FO make smart decisions rather than appease fans that have clearly failed the marshmallow test as kids. 

[rickh150]

A bullpen arm and an extra OF…it’s something, I guess. I just can’t believe the left side of infield was not addressed. I actually now view Turang as the reason.  He is seen as the backup to Ortiz in case he falters back to April/May numbers.  The new guy can play a little 2B.

 

[Scooterfletcher]

Just now, rickh150 said:

A bullpen arm and an extra OF…it’s something, I guess. I just can’t believe the left side of infield was not addressed. I actually now view Turang as the reason.  He is seen as the backup to Ortiz in case he falters back to April/May numbers.  The new guy can play a little 2B.

 

Which is the best option as Turang is a better SS than anyone we could add.  

[Bulldogboy]

As bad as Ortiz has been if he sprained his ankle today and missed a month i guess it’s Montesario every day. Wild

[Matt]

9 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

Brewers fans are so happy being competitive that they get offended by the concept of trying to get better. Crazy stuff. Aaron Judge? He might ruin our chemistry!! What about Collins?? We don't really need him we have Vaughn. Lol. It's ok to try to improve your odds of winning a championship. 

This strawman you've built is impressive. No one would have been upset over an upgrade. I think some are just more realistic over how much of an upgrade was out there. 

[rickh150]

22 minutes ago, AdvantageSchneider said:

Didn't realize they were eliminated from the playoffs today on July 31st despite having the best record in baseball.

They did not continue the good feeling building from the streak, comeback wins, HR derby, and Cubs series win.  They did not.  They did get a lot of questions about what they were doing….fringe fans and die hards asking and shaking their heads.  
 

[rickh150]

2 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

As bad as Ortiz has been if he sprained his ankle today and missed a month i guess it’s Montesario every day. Wild

Probably Turang at SS, but 2B would be Monty and new guy. Yep.  

[liveforoctober]

9 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

Brewers fans are so happy being competitive that they get offended by the concept of trying to get better. Crazy stuff. Aaron Judge? He might ruin our chemistry!! What about Collins?? We don't really need him we have Vaughn. Lol. It's ok to try to improve your odds of winning a championship. 

But you are getting upset over a hypothetical. You don't know if acquiring anyone improves our odds. I would have liked to address the infield as well. But we got Schoop and it made us worse. We got Chafin and it made us worse. 

How do we know Gasser doesn't pitch well enough to push Miz to the pen and our pen dominates? How do we know acquiring a new 3rd baseman doesn't push Durbin to second and Turang to short and makes our defense 8% worse overall? 

It is okay to be disappointed in today's outcome but to make 614 posts about how the organization and team failed us over something that you can't prove until the season is over seems a little overkill. 

You are preaching over a hypothetical.

[Matt]

They played Durbin at SS last week. I think that's insane, but I also thought he wouldn't be able to play third and he's been great. 

[CheezWizHed]

4 hours ago, liveforoctober said:

We could have added a prime Walter Johnson to this roster for free and people would have been mad we didn't address the hot dog prices in the 3rd base concourse at the deadline...

@GAME05, could you get on this one please? That should be a good place to get back in the business. 😉

1 hour ago, adambr2 said:

I’m not going to get too worked up over today but we’ve got to stop comparing every other move to Quinn Priester. We acquired Quinn Priester on April 7th. He has been with this team essentially the entire season. He is not “help” we acquired at the deadline. He has nothing to do with anyone else’s reinforcements that they acquired today for the rest of the season.

If you want to cite Andrew Vaughn, fine. Quinn Priester was closer to an offseason acquisition than a midseason acquisition. He was a nice pickup. In April. We move on.

Maybe the point is that not waiting until the deadline is an easier way to find better trades? 

[rickh150]

2 minutes ago, liveforoctober said:

But you are getting upset over a hypothetical. You don't know if acquiring anyone improves our odds. I would have liked to address the infield as well. But we got Schoop and it made us worse. We got Chafin and it made us worse. 

How do we know Gasser doesn't pitch well enough to push Miz to the pen and our pen dominates? How do we know acquiring a new 3rd baseman doesn't push Durbin to second and Turang to short and makes our defense 8% worse overall? 

It is okay to be disappointed in today's outcome but to make 614 posts about how the organization and team failed us over something that you can't prove until the season is over seems a little overkill. 

You are preaching over a hypothetical.

We can’t trade lottery tickets for a FA to be that would be better than Monasterio and Siegler?  Or a decent prospect in a deep, rich system for a veteran utility guy? Seems odd and yes, 614 post worthy to me too.  
 

[HarveysWBs]

8 minutes ago, rickh150 said:

A bullpen arm and an extra OF…it’s something, I guess. I just can’t believe the left side of infield was not addressed. I actually now view Turang as the reason.  He is seen as the backup to Ortiz in case he falters back to April/May numbers.  The new guy can play a little 2B.

 

If that is true, and Turang has been plan B all along (and their published depth chart, for whatever that is worth, would back that up), and they are waiting for Joey to hit rock bottom again like he did in April-May, well, we’re about a week away from needing to pull the ripcord.

In April-May, he had an OPS in the .480s.

In June he had a .748 OPS.

This month is down to .552.

This last home stand? .118.

We live in the era of the NL DH and it is like we’ve got a pitcher hitting again. Only when we had pitchers hitting, we had Yovani Gallardo (.837 OPS in 2010!) or Zack Greinke (OPS’d over .600 for three straight seasons, including .788 in 2013) or Brandon Woodruff (postseason OPS? 1.833!…in 3 ABs…) taking some of those at bats. I’d rather see those guys go hack than this version of Ortiz.

And, yes, the comparisons to those cherry-picked pitcher seasons is half tongue-in-cheek. But only half.

[Matt]

More people need to know Bull Durham math. 

Who the hell knows. Seigler or Ortiz could get hot for a week. *****, have you guys seen what Andrew Vaughn has just done? 

Getting upset over midseason moves or non-moves is silly IMO.

[wallus]

Why are people so infatuated with trades made at the deadline? This team has made a few major trades throughout the season. Wouldn't you want good players for longer?

[Brewcrew82]

37 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

A really good arm that is on the il? I saw some good ones traded that are healthy but ok. Are the Brewers your betting favorites to win it all? If not then they could have gotten better. Wait until you see this team without Chourio for a month. 

Since when is Chourio going to be out for a month?