Brewers Reportedly Concerned about Payroll

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3 minutes ago, Brian said:

Everyone keeps saying "limited sample size."  MLB statistics across TWO SEASONS (2024-2025) showed a .211 batting average. Maybe he has a "limited sample size" because he is not that good and coaches see that also, he is not that young either being born in 2000. 

That 70 PA across 2 seasons.. he has a .357 OBP 89 wRC+ in that small sample. Black's issue has always been finding a defensive home in the big leagues. Being hurt the same time when Perkins and Mitchell were out cost him an extended opportunity this year that Collins took the ball and ran with.

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14 hours ago, BrewerFan said:

Yeah, and again, not just Woodruff. Priester starts the season with the Brewers, Misiorowski will be there all year, Gasser, Henderson... the whole staff is back save for Quintana and you have several young arms who they don't have room for. They'll be in AAA getting work and ready to step in at any point in time. 

I don't know how you look at this team and think 'no chance they'll be as good next year.'

I can't say they'll win 97 games. We have no idea what'll happen next year with injuries or who'll have a break out season. 

Pretty hard to look at Misiorowski and how he finished up the year and think HE won't have a huge impact.

Even if we were looking at 2027, I'd say I think we'll be pretty damn good, but I could see the argument.

 

We lost Burnes. Won more games. We lost Adames. Won more games. We win 97 games, we lose NOBODY, we have several young, talented players=No way we'll be able to replicate their 97 win season???

 

Ok. 

Virtually a duplicate post. Must feel strong about your opinion.  LOL

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On 12/4/2025 at 7:18 AM, Brian said:

Everyone keeps saying "limited sample size."  MLB statistics across TWO SEASONS (2024-2025) showed a .211 batting average. Maybe he has a "limited sample size" because he is not that good and coaches see that also, he is not that young either being born in 2000. 

Yeah, they also show a .538 BA this year across ONE SEASON. I think we're all pretty capable of searching Baseball Ref. 

I'm also well aware of his age, but if you're going to say "he's not that young," you're talking about his age 23 and 24 seasons... which is pretty young. And his bat is NOT the reason he's not had an extended look. Bad timing and being limited to a defensive position is, but AGAIN... as I pointed out in my post, he's one of about 9 options(that's hyperbole before you genuinely ask me the other 8, it's actually about 4-5 options) who could play 1B if Vaughn struggles... and for whatever reason, you made your take about how much worse the Brewers were going to be exclusively about Tyler Black.

Also, the argument that they won't be as good because they got hot a couple times last year and when they got hot Vaughn hit really well... you do remember that Chourio(born in 2004 as this is how we're talking about age now) was injured that month, right?

 

 

In other worse Tyler Black was ONE small point in a much larger one.

Still #1 in BA, OBP, one of the best staffs that will almost certainly be better this year(deeper at least) going into the year. 
A deep BP.

And we're coming off 3 straight division titles.

We've lost Burnes and Adames, Williams... but I suppose there an argument to be made that losing star players leads to the Brewers getting better.. but keeping them! Well... keeping them leads to... you getting worse!

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On 11/27/2025 at 7:17 PM, adambr2 said:

Also, Mark A has been an awesome owner for the Brewers. Still is. Glad we have him, 

But I hope he doesn’t echo comments like this, because it would make him look quite out of touch. You’re a really rich dude and you spent about 40% of your revenue on payroll last year.  The Brewers will be really good next year and still make you more money. You and your fellow investors can carry a $136M payroll for one season. It will be okay.

They should be carrying a 150 million payroll every year they can afford it