Off Season Ideas

[BrewerFan]

On 8/8/2025 at 10:44 AM, wntrtxn21 said:

You forgot Collins in the OF. I see Mitchell being moved in a trade with Perkins the backup OF. Murphy moving Turang off 2B. I definitely don't believe Murphy will move Turang off 2B. 

Yes, I forgot about Collins. I don't think they'll trade Mitchell to start the year. He's got so little value and so much talent. I think it's more likely they give it another go and hope he can stay healthy. If he can't, he'd be done. If he can... well, I think he'd be done in Milwaukee. If he had a big year, I think they'd likely trade him. 

They can go with Collins, Mitchell, Perkins, Chourio, Frelick and Lockridge can start the year in AAA. Yelly is likely the full-time DH until someone forces the issue. That was also obviously not the season opening lineup as I don't think there's any chance Wilken goes from AA injury to MLB next year. They'll at least give him 2 months of ABs...or Adams. Or maybe Fischer is that good and he pushes for a spot. 

-As for Murphy moving Turang off of 2B, his natural position is SS. He was drafted as a SS, he won the job as a SS and he got a dead arm. That's pretty common in ST'ing. Murphy had even said that Ortiz at 2B and Turang at SS was "better for both people." Then came the dead arm and they went back to Ortiz to SS and Turang to SS, but I can't possibly see why that would be a permanent placement. His arm go tired... it's not much.

If it comes down to Turang and Durbin vs Ortiz and Turang. If the later duo is better, that's what I think they'll go with. If it's the prior, that's what they should go with. I think it'd be kinda silly to not move him. Ideally, Ortiz would hit and we'd have even more options. You could play Collins, Turang and I guess Durbin at 2B vs RHPers. Or just swap out Ortiz and Turang vs LHPing. 

 

This scenario also came down to Wilken playing 3B and Adams at 1B...so it's at BEST a couple months into the season and most likely... not how it'll play out. But Wilken is the MORE likely player to make it up and I'm just going off the lineup this year(minus the glaring omission of a .290/390 GG caliber LFer). 

Best case scenario? Ortiz hits like last year or like he has for a while now this year. .265/.306/.400 and a .706 OPS. That's good enough. He's really bad vs RHPing though... so I could still see him getting some days off vs righties in the future. 

 

On 8/8/2025 at 10:44 AM, wntrtxn21 said:

Frelick (RF) - Churio (CF) - Contreras (C) - Yelich (DH) - Vaughn (1B) - Wilken (3B) - Collins LF) - Turang (2B) - Ortiz/SS aquired in trade (SS)

Bench:  Perkins - Adams - Durbin - Haase (no way they p/u Jansen's $12M option) 

No, Jansen will be declined. I'd said I hope they bring him back on a ~6M type deal.  Maybe a 5M with a mutual and a 1.5 buyout. I'm not sure what the market will be, but I don't think it's going to be all that strong and that Appleton kid may want to stick around for another year.

A lot of these deals would be contingent upon the small likelihood they work something out with Woodruff. You'll be paying him 30M next year IF he takes a team discount...so if that happens, the Brewers made a historic run to the World Series and generated tens of millions of dollars AND players want to come back. 

If by some shock they bring Woody back, then... I'd assume it'd be Hasse as the backup C, I'd also imagine they would add very little else. I'm not sure they need to add much. Shelby Miller might be nice, but he'd likely come in around 7-8M next year at least. 

I to think Jansen taking some games at catcher has helped Contereas take a little break. 

[KCBrewerfan34]

Woody ain’t getting $30, at his age and with the shoulder. I would be shocked 

[JCREW]

14 hours ago, KCBrewerfan34 said:

Woody ain’t getting $30, at his age and with the shoulder. I would be shocked 

I've been trying to figure out my best guess for Woody next year. It's hard to figure. If he had hit free agency injury free, he'd probably be looking at 7 years, 200M+. With the injury and the added recovery year, I think its more like 4 years $80M. I think someone will definitely offer him 80M. I think some team might even push $100M. That kind of depends on where these big spenders are with their luxury tax space. 

Fangraphs had another writeup on him today. (Congrats to Brewerfanatic's @Michael Trzinski for the shoutout in the article.) He's a great pitcher with an injury that pulled him back from being elite.

I hope the Brewers can sign him for 4 years and $80M. 

Edited August 11, 2025 by JCREW
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[SRB]

I don't see Woodruff taking such a massive cut in free agency. It would be different if he was rehabbing the injury into this offseason, but he's back now and showing that he's healthy. He should fire his agent if he gets less than $150 million.

[wallus]

Offer Woody the QO and hope he takes it. I don't have interest in signing him long term with what we spend on payroll.

[long ball]

C- Contreras is the guy here.  Don’t trade him. Probably add a vet back up so Quero can star the season in AAA. 
1b- I think at this point there’s a good chance Vaughn gets tendered a contract. Hoskins and Bauers become free agents. Tyler black still an option to play the bauers role. 
2b- Turang is the guy. 
3b- Durbin still probably the guy. A lefty platoon partner probably warranted as insurance. 
ss- i think Ortiz he remains the guy until the prospects start to push him (Made/Pratt). We gave Burnes for him and he was good in 2024. No reason to move on from him. 
LF- Chourio is the guy

cf- Mitchell until he gets injured. I don’t see us giving him up when his value will be at its lowest. 
RF- Frelick is the guy 

4th outfielder- Collins

5th outfielder- Perkins 

DH- Yelich 

bench- would like to see a lefty or switch hitting infielder added. Probably a waiver claim type guy. I don’t see the brewers committing to any guaranteed salary for a bench infielder. 
 

rotation

peralta- keep him. 
misiorowski

priester

Henderson

Gasser

Patrick

myers

id like to see another Quintana level signing if not just bring Quintana back. Some of these young starters will probably spend time in the pen and or AAA. Woody will decline his half of the option  brewers will offer the QO, but he will get 3-4 years at $75-120m which we won’t offer  

 

pen- megill, uribe, Ashby, hall, anderson, Mears, Koenig. Then a rotation cast off like Myers or Patrick. 
 

we will bring in some relievers like we did last year with Alexander, wolfram, anderson, etc. one of them will work out like they have with Koenig and Anderson the last couple years. 
 

payroll will possibly go down or stay the same… no multi year deals. This team will star to get expensive in arbitration so we are bound to see some of the arbitration guys eventually get traded, but I don’t think it happens this year. 
 

basically running the thing back without Rhys or Woodruff. 

[cragi]

i cant see Collins as a backup after the season he's had, nor penciling in Mitchell as CF. Probably should flip one if you can add younger prospects.

[BrewerFan]

On 8/11/2025 at 3:17 AM, KCBrewerfan34 said:

Woody ain’t getting $30, at his age and with the shoulder. I would be shocked 

"At his age?" He's 32 years old. 

Have you been watching what they pay pitchers? Wheeler just for 42M dollars over 3 years.  Now he has been a workhorse, but the rest of the pitchers on these list have had more injuries than Woodruff.

25 starters make 20M a year or more(and that number is skewed with the deferred money). As we were talking about the total the Brewers would be paying Woody NEXT year which includes the 10M he's going to get either way, he'll definitely get that.

I also said I don't think he'll take the hometown discount. He could sign a 3 year deal in which...I'd be shocked if he doesn't break 30-35M or he can take a long term deal in which case...7-210 is well within reach. It's expensive, but Max Fried has been riddled with injuries and he got 8 years and 218 dollars. 

Wheeler-42
deGrom-40.1
Glasnow-32.25
Blake Snell-Got two 30M+ deals. 
34M with the Giants
5/145.6 with the Dodgers and he's had two really good years and then a LOT of injured years. 

Those two are certainly not the picture of health.
 

Scherzer was making 37M at 34 with the Nats, then signed a deal for 43.3 for 3 years
Verlander- was making 28M in 2015, he had TJ surgery, came back and signed for 25M after missing a full year with TJ and then made 43.3 the last two years.
Greinke signed a deal for ~35 million a YEAR for...I believe 6 years. Ages 32-37(little injury history)
Kershaw has signed multiple 30M a year deals.
Strausburg and his length injury history got 7/240

Rondon is just shy of 30M at like 28.7 or whatever, he's about a year younger.

Yamamoto got 12 and 325 before throwing a pitch.
Of course Burnes just got 35M, Cole got 36M, they were healthy. 

 

And again, I was referencing an ideal world, IF Woodruff came back what our total obligations would be if he signed some team friendly deal of 3/60 which I think is very unlikely, we'd be paying him 30M next year which just changed some of the calculus on Danny Jansen and spending around the fringes, but Woodruff has had one injury and he's come MOST of the way back from it and he's really only halfway into his season. I expect him to be hitting 96-97 in the post-season.

 

If Woodruff goes for the most money he can get(Which... as a Brewers fan I don't want to see, but as an adult now with a family...I understand and even as a diehard Brewers fan, I'd probably take the most) it's just a matter of the structure. 3- years, as we were discussing, he should get easily get 30M. 7 or even 8 years(8 years would be a waste or an option and a way to defer some money) then I'd expect 25-28 based on what he's showing RIGHT NOW. 

But look at the market, look at the last 5-10 years. 

PITCHERS can continue to throw and have success well into their 30s. Far more than hitters. 

Also, Woody comes back and he is throwing in the mid to upper 90s...with his command, you already know he's a pitcher that will age well. His reputation as a leader and the antithesis of a clubhouse cancer, but someone who mentors pitchers and WANTS to be around the team, those aren't things that get you paid 30M, but they are things that can push a team who is considering 5/125 to 5/150...IMO. Especially given the desperate need for SPers out there. We live in a utopia where we keep finding them, but even then, Woody may be the best pitcher in Brewers history when you look at his consistency, leadership, everything. 

 

I would actually argue looking at the list of pitchers, Woody is younger than when a LOT of them got 30M, a lot got just shy of 30M(27, 28 like Fried) and the BIG notch in Woodruff's column is he doesn't HAVE to come back and throw 97-98 to be worth it.

I still think the further away from shoulder surgery he gets, the more likely, but he's proving he's expanded his repertoire and he can hit his spots. And he'll give up some HRs...who doesn't. But they're RARELY with men on. He's not giving you free passes. He's attacking. 

 

 

Finally, I think the shoulder injury should be a relatively minor concern by the end of the year. Once you come back from it, you're in good shape. You come back, rebuild the strength, you're not at any more risk than anyone else(which to be fair, is always a good amount, but it's no higher than any other pitcher). 

So I'd say give Woody 30M before Glasnow or whoever else will be getting it this off-season or next. 

I'd take Woody moving forward over Burnes and TJ is a surgery most come all the way back from. 

[BrewerFan]

On 8/11/2025 at 5:27 PM, JCREW said:

I've been trying to figure out my best guess for Woody next year. It's hard to figure. If he had hit free agency injury free, he'd probably be looking at 7 years, 200M+. With the injury and the added recovery year, I think its more like 4 years $80M. I think someone will definitely offer him 80M. I think some team might even push $100M. That kind of depends on where these big spenders are with their luxury tax space. 

Fangraphs had another writeup on him today. (Congrats to Brewerfanatic's @Michael Trzinski for the shoutout in the article.) He's a great pitcher with an injury that pulled him back from being elite.

I hope the Brewers can sign him for 4 years and $80M. 

This is where I'm at. 7 years, 200M is probably fair. 

I HOPE he just loves Milwaukee and he's willing to sign here. The Braves would be a great fit for him, don't know if they can afford him(the Mets as well). 

4 and 80... that'd be a gift and I don't even know if that'd be a gift we'd accept as silly as that sounds. That's another big commitment. I cut it at 3/60 because that's really 3/70 and that shouldn't matter, but it's still real cash that has to be paid. 

I'm also struggling. Would it be better to give Woody that money or would it be better to line up extensions for Misiorowski and give him at 10-15M signing bonus(that could help signing him a LOT as he's not waiting).

Turang-I've been saying he's a poor man's Trea Turner since he was in AA and I'm starting to think.... he may not be so poor. 6years 60M? Probably too light.

Frelick-No clue. Not a 2B so less value, but a winner. I may go close to Turang TBH even though he's not as valuable. 

I'm also trying to get Uribe to sign an Ashby type deal and Megill to sign for a 4/20 type deal. I suspect I'll get pushback, but these guys are SO fun and they're great.

Outside of Misiorowski, it's probably just coping with the fact that Woody is likely gone. 

[BrewerFan]

6 hours ago, cragi said:

i cant see Collins as a backup after the season he's had, nor penciling in Mitchell as CF. Probably should flip one if you can add younger prospects.

I made that mistake as well, but I think it'd really just be each guy playing and a pretty regular rotation. Maybe even Collins playing some 2B.

But yeah, you have to at last put him out there every day. .300/.400(almost).... and GG defense and he's a winner.

I spent so long denying chemistry in Baseball because of stories I read about teams that hated each other, but... Jeff kent and Barry Bonds were all-time greats and rare. 

Guys who grind and scratch and claw for every inch and you throw in some talent and stars like Chourio will be when he's an MVP candidate next year, that stuff matters. 

Collins starts, Mitchell gets some games vs RHP and then the players will figure it out with a hammy here or a quad there and hopefully Mitchell can stay healthy and make it really difficult. 

 

But hey.... we are 5.5 GAMES BETTER than ANY OTHER TEAM in Baseball an we've just gone 26-4 in the last 30 games, including a month in which...I thought we'd be playing good ball if we went .500.

 

So screw next year. We've got Ueck in the OF, no longer in the Cheap Seats and.... we'll worry about DEFENDING our Title next year! 

[SF70]

On 8/11/2025 at 4:05 AM, BrewerFan said:

Yes, I forgot about Collins. I don't think they'll trade Mitchell to start the year. He's got so little value and so much talent. I think it's more likely they give it another go and hope he can stay healthy. If he can't, he'd be done. If he can... well, I think he'd be done in Milwaukee. If he had a big year, I think they'd likely trade him. 

They can go with Collins, Mitchell, Perkins, Chourio, Frelick and Lockridge can start the year in AAA. Yelly is likely the full-time DH until someone forces the issue. That was also obviously not the season opening lineup as I don't think there's any chance Wilken goes from AA injury to MLB next year. They'll at least give him 2 months of ABs...or Adams. Or maybe Fischer is that good and he pushes for a spot. 

-As for Murphy moving Turang off of 2B, his natural position is SS. He was drafted as a SS, he won the job as a SS and he got a dead arm. That's pretty common in ST'ing. Murphy had even said that Ortiz at 2B and Turang at SS was "better for both people." Then came the dead arm and they went back to Ortiz to SS and Turang to SS, but I can't possibly see why that would be a permanent placement. His arm go tired... it's not much.

If it comes down to Turang and Durbin vs Ortiz and Turang. If the later duo is better, that's what I think they'll go with. If it's the prior, that's what they should go with. I think it'd be kinda silly to not move him. Ideally, Ortiz would hit and we'd have even more options. You could play Collins, Turang and I guess Durbin at 2B vs RHPers. Or just swap out Ortiz and Turang vs LHPing. 

 

This scenario also came down to Wilken playing 3B and Adams at 1B...so it's at BEST a couple months into the season and most likely... not how it'll play out. But Wilken is the MORE likely player to make it up and I'm just going off the lineup this year(minus the glaring omission of a .290/390 GG caliber LFer). 

Best case scenario? Ortiz hits like last year or like he has for a while now this year. .265/.306/.400 and a .706 OPS. That's good enough. He's really bad vs RHPing though... so I could still see him getting some days off vs righties in the future. 

 

No, Jansen will be declined. I'd said I hope they bring him back on a ~6M type deal.  Maybe a 5M with a mutual and a 1.5 buyout. I'm not sure what the market will be, but I don't think it's going to be all that strong and that Appleton kid may want to stick around for another year.

A lot of these deals would be contingent upon the small likelihood they work something out with Woodruff. You'll be paying him 30M next year IF he takes a team discount...so if that happens, the Brewers made a historic run to the World Series and generated tens of millions of dollars AND players want to come back. 

If by some shock they bring Woody back, then... I'd assume it'd be Hasse as the backup C, I'd also imagine they would add very little else. I'm not sure they need to add much. Shelby Miller might be nice, but he'd likely come in around 7-8M next year at least. 

I to think Jansen taking some games at catcher has helped Contereas take a little break. 

Mitchell isn’t making the starting lineup over Chourio-Collins-Frelick. Then we have Perkins as the 4th OF, with an occasional start from Yelich, so……..

Mitchell gets stashed in AAA to hopefully establish a track-record of health and performance for future trade purposes and depth.

That, or he gets traded this offseason. He doesn’t fit the big-league team with Collins rise, Perkins incredible defense and extra depth with the Lockridge acquisition.

[Lloyd330]

Woody should seek a contract similar to what Nola got last year ( 7/172 - 24.5 per )

Something around 5/135 is what he will probably get. 

But then again - I think it all depends on what Valdez and Imanaga gets

 

[Lloyd330]

Do we try a small extension for Freddy? 

3/77 so that makes it 4/85 with a PO after year 2 and TO after year 3 - 16/16/23/30

He gets a double the money he is owed next season and some security for the future. 

[snoogans8056]

Woody missed his big payday. He needs to take as much as he can get. Guy deserves it.

[StearnsFTW]

Resign Woody for 4/90

Keep Fred

Trade Made/Quero/Henderson/Letson

For Skenes

Skenes/Woody/Peralta/Misiorowski/Priester

 

[mudbutt]

On 8/13/2025 at 9:22 AM, Lloyd330 said:

Woody should seek a contract similar to what Nola got last year ( 7/172 - 24.5 per )

Something around 5/135 is what he will probably get. 

But then again - I think it all depends on what Valdez and Imanaga gets

Imanaga has a goofy contract.  It says Player Option, but there's actually a club option first for a 3 year 57 million extension.  If that was declined, then it gets to him for the player option.  I'd be pretty surprised if the Cubs don't pick the club option up.

[BrewCrewBlueDevil]

At current pace, roll it back..,...

2026

C- Contreras

1B- Vaughn

2B- Turang

3B- Durbin

SS- Ortiz

OF- Chourio, Frelick, Collins

DH- Yelich

Bench: Perkins, FA Catcher, FA SS/Infielder

SP- Peralta, Misorowski, Priester, Henderson, Gasser/Rodriguez,Meyers

Pen: Megill, Uribe, Koenig, Payamps, Yoho/Crow/Yeager/Zastryzny/Mears, Ashby, Hall

Hoskins, Jansen, Woodruff and Quintana won't be affordable.

Barring no major injuries, the #5 starter and a pen piece will be the key.

 

 

 

[wiguy94]

11 hours ago, mudbutt said:

Imanaga has a goofy contract.  It says Player Option, but there's actually a club option first for a 3 year 57 million extension.  If that was declined, then it gets to him for the player option.  I'd be pretty surprised if the Cubs don't pick the club option up.

Yeah it is unfortunately a really nice contract for the Cubs. Not a ton of risk maxing out at 3 years if he struggles and if he's good (like he is) then it's a really affordable 5 year contract.

[Lloyd330]

On 8/13/2025 at 9:27 PM, StearnsFTW said:

Resign Woody for 4/90

Keep Fred

Trade Made/Quero/Henderson/Letson

For Skenes

Skenes/Woody/Peralta/Misiorowski/Priester

 

Im a huge Made guy, but that Skenes offer is tempting - 4 years of control after this season - Plus we would be able to get back alot of value if we trade him in the last year of the deal. 

[ErnieRilesBrianGiles]

On 8/14/2025 at 1:03 PM, BrewCrewBlueDevil said:

At current pace, roll it back..,...

2026

C- Contreras

1B- Vaughn

2B- Turang

3B- Durbin

SS- Ortiz

OF- Chourio, Frelick, Collins

DH- Yelich

Bench: Perkins, FA Catcher, FA SS/Infielder

SP- Peralta, Misorowski, Priester, Henderson, Gasser/Rodriguez,Meyers

Pen: Megill, Uribe, Koenig, Payamps, Yoho/Crow/Yeager/Zastryzny/Mears, Ashby, Hall

Hoskins, Jansen, Woodruff and Quintana won't be affordable.

Barring no major injuries, the #5 starter and a pen piece will be the key.

 

 

 

Hard to argue too much with this (though I really want Woodie back); in fact, if Quero is our backup catcher, Siegler our backup infielder, Bauers/EMJ our backup 1st baseman, we literally might not need to sign a single free agent.

[BrewerFan]

On 8/13/2025 at 9:27 PM, StearnsFTW said:

Resign Woody for 4/90

Keep Fred

Trade Made/Quero/Henderson/Letson

For Skenes

Skenes/Woody/Peralta/Misiorowski/Priester

 

LOL... oh... that'd be fun. MAYBE a Historically dominant rotation. But that wouldn't get it done for Skenes. 

If I'm Pitt, I want Made AND Pena, maybe I decide I want Pratt, but realistically, I'd say, Made, Pena, Quero, Henderson, Fischer, Knoth, Letson and then one of Patrick, Myers. They may want Priester, but that'd be weird. 

That'd be what I would demand if I was running the Pirates. And then I may extend it a touch perhaps. I don't know what they'd have, but a reliever or someone who could help them more now. That'd give the Pirates the #1 Farm system by  ALOT. #2 wouldn't be close. They'd have a window opening is ~3 years with all their young pitching already and our Soto-esque haul would only add to it. 

[BrewerFan]

On 8/14/2025 at 1:03 PM, BrewCrewBlueDevil said:

At current pace, roll it back..,...

2026

C- Contreras

1B- Vaughn

2B- Turang

3B- Durbin

SS- Ortiz

OF- Chourio, Frelick, Collins

DH- Yelich

Bench: Perkins, FA Catcher, FA SS/Infielder

SP- Peralta, Misorowski, Priester, Henderson, Gasser/Rodriguez,Meyers

Pen: Megill, Uribe, Koenig, Payamps, Yoho/Crow/Yeager/Zastryzny/Mears, Ashby, Hall

Hoskins, Jansen, Woodruff and Quintana won't be affordable.

Barring no major injuries, the #5 starter and a pen piece will be the key.

I don't agree with this at all. 

I mean, they won't ALL be affordable, but saying none of them will be?

The Brewers, especially coming off this season, what will hopefully be a good playoff run and running smaller than normal payrolls recently, there's no reason to think they can't add be back in the 140-150 range.

Certainly there is no reason to bring Hoskins back at this point. Jansen, I'd definitely be open to bringing him back... but we'll see where we land with others. 

Quintana won't be needed, he'd be affordable otherwise. If we didn't have Gasser, Myers, Henderson, Misiorowski and others ready for bigger roles in the rotation(Ashby is still viewed as a starter per Murphy and Hall may be as well). 
Payamps will likely be non-tendered and let walk and by mid-year there could be quite a few players who have either made or will be making their debuts. guys like Whichrowski, Hardin, maybe Hunt... and several others who have the stuff, but haven't quite harnessed it, though we've seen how guys take jumps. 

I really wouldn't write Woodruff off. We have a roster full of young, cheap and affordable players. 

As Curt Hogg said, after pointing out why the mutual option won't be picked up;

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“But that doesn’t mean the Brewers won’t find a way to re-sign him. There is mutual interest in working out a deal once again to keep Woodruff, who’s only been a Brewer in his professional career, in Milwaukee for at least another contract.”

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“Woody is not only one of my favorite Brewers ever, he’s one of my favorite people ever, and outside of baseball, too. He and [his wife] Jonie and their family. But that’s somewhat a work in progress and [general manager] Matt Arnold can talk about that. But nothing’s done yet.”

 

That last part about Matt Arnold can talk about that....that's not related to any ongoing contract talks, that was from 2024. 

But I think Woody is special and a big unique. I think he wants to be here, I think the team wants him to be here and listening to him talk... I do believe there's a very real chance they could work something out. What that may be, I don't know. Maybe 3/80 is more likely, 10M already due to him. So he takes 15M in 2026, 25 in '27 and '28 and they defer some money or the 4th year is a mutual option at 15M with a 7.5 buyout and 7.5M is deferred.

We're a small market team, but we do get a pretty substantial chunk from revenue sharing. is it 225-240 at this point, I don't know. I know Forbes put us ~25M in the Black.

 

I ALSO remember it was Attanasio who stepped in and in the past signed FAs to larger deals and that left Stearns with a tighter budget, but I feel like the value in keeping him goes beyond the obvious that he can bring to the team as a pitcher(all of this again, presuming that FB comes back a couple more ticks as... that's where I think he's worth 30M+ on the open market...should he choose to pursue that). 

But he and Yelich are the leaders, the veterans and perhaps given how the Brewers are so much more than the sum of their parts, that's something that should be taken into consideration. 

 

Again, quite a bit has to go right from now until then, but we have a LOT of very good, young players on their way up who should fill what few area's of weakness this team has. 

 

The city is beyond the Brewers. I don't know what the balance sheet actually looks like, if they still have a lot of debt from the facilities they've built in AZ or the massive campus in the DR, but we've got some very wealthy owners and it's not unreasonable to expect them to push a few more chips into the middle from time to time.

This is also different than Adames, Hader, Burnes, Williams. I think Woodruff is more important.

This is all moot if Woodruff is going for every last penny, but we'll have to see.

 

Otherwise, I think you'll see some re-signing some players. I think Montgomery would be an obvious choice. It SEEMED like a potential byproduct of bringing him in now was to see how he was healing, bring him back on a cheap 1 year deal to rebuild value. They liked him a couple years ago. He should be healthy next year. He'd be an interesting piece. 

 

 

But hey, we just came back from 8-1 and won our 13th STRAIGHT game...so lets enjoy THIS season! 

[wallus]

According to Nightengale, the Dbacks will trade Marte in the offseason.

[BrewerFan]

1 hour ago, wallus said:

According to Nightengale, the Dbacks will trade Marte in the offseason.

Well, someone's going to get a stud. 

That's the type of player I'd move one of those two studs for. I don't think I'd have interest in that particular deal... unless we're going to move Turang to SS(likely a less popular idea today though... I don't think mishandling as soft liner is all that relevant). 

But it sounds like they're going to really re-build or what?

[wallus]

2 minutes ago, BrewerFan said:

Well, someone's going to get a stud. 

That's the type of player I'd move one of those two studs for. I don't think I'd have interest in that particular deal... unless we're going to move Turang to SS(likely a less popular idea today though... I don't think mishandling as soft liner is all that relevant). 

But it sounds like they're going to really re-build or what?

Apparently Marte is a diva/malcontent.