BREAKING: Brewers Agree to Trade Freddy Peralta to New York Mets

[Ron750]

Sickening. Another All Star traded away for prospects. Another short utility fielder, that swings for the fences.  Why don’t we just admit we are a AAAA team? I feel like Terry Malloy.  

[Frisbee Slider]

2 hours ago, Ron750 said:

Why don’t we just admit we are a AAAA team?

AAAA teams don’t win 97 games. 
It’s hard to see our stars leave but there is nothing shrewd or noble about paying a pitcher $100+M that will turn 30 this season.

Milwaukee receives up to 12 seasons (combined) of Williams and Sproat in exchange for 30 starts from Peralta.

The Brewers are still well positioned to win the division. The Dodgers are everybody’s problem and won’t be solved this week.

[Brock Beauchamp]

6 hours ago, tombot1214 said:

This is getting hard to see year after year. Even tho i understand it, the business side of sports sucks. Who cares about the true fans anymore?

Putting our faith  in that Woody can stay healthy all year is not the brightest idea. Ill be surprised if he makes it to the All-Star break. Woody deserves a shot with the Brewers just not a 1. Lets add another outfielder in already crowded area. They should have never gotten rid of Myers in the deal either. Hes proven he can be somewhat of a reliable starter so we give up to starters for unproven prospects and 1 in an area we dont need! We should have used peralta for some leverage to try and get a shortstop who can hit. 

This will not be a well liked comment so sorry in advance. Pay Yelich what he is being paid and get rid of one of the best starters again in the game! Yelich i think should almost call it a career. Love the guy bit last year half the games he didnt even seem like he wanted to be there. 

Another sad release in my opinion is Hoskins. We screwed him last yeat keeping him from playoff roster which i think big mistake. They should have thrown a little bit of money at him to stay. Watch you can see hIm getting better and better the farther away from his off year! Hes another proven stud and they are gambling on a giy with a goodnyear. Keston Huira sound familiar? Look at that one hit wonder! Lets bring him back im sure he would come cheap enough for ownership! 

Baseball will never be totally fare until they put together some type of salary cap that actually is real and not where you can pay excess tax or whatever it is. This crap with small market teams compared to big market teams shouldnt matter. Look at the Packers, smaller market than the Brewers but a hell of a lot more success! 

I would rather go watch players playing ball because they are good and love the game and get paid reasonable over somebody who thinks they are better than me because the make $250 million over 7 years and can be divas. They have ruined the game. Nobody is worth that kind of money!

 

Welcome to Brewer Fanatic!

Yes, this isn't easy to watch every season. Until recently, the Brewers hadn't operated *exactly* like the Rays, but now in back-to-back-to-back seasons, they have.

But I believe you're going the wrong direction with this. A salary cap only promotes owners making gobs of money at the expense of players. Personally, I LIKE the players, they're the ones who provide me actual enjoyment. The owners can piss off, as far as I care.

The real solution here is that revenue needs to be divvied up more fairly. And that's mostly an ownership problem; the 30 owners need to agree to split their local revenue more equitably. The players aren't in the position to tell the Dodgers to share money with the Brewers, that mostly needs to come from the ownership level.

So go ahead and be pissed at the owners when they can't come to terms with one another, they're the actual problem here.

[igor67]

I'll second the increased revenue sharing. MLB needs to increase the share of licensing paid in to use the MLB name, and with so many regional networks collapsing they should be effectively forcing revenue sharing by letting MLB.TV compete with no blackouts in local markets.

[wiguy94]

7 hours ago, tombot1214 said:

This will not be a well liked comment so sorry in advance. Pay Yelich what he is being paid and get rid of one of the best starters again in the game! Yelich i think should almost call it a career. Love the guy bit last year half the games he didnt even seem like he wanted to be there. 

Don't you see though? The Brewers signed Yelich to that extension coming off two straight MVP caliber seasons. Everyone thought the extension was a bargain but injury issues and aging have warped that MVP version of Yelich. Now you think it's bad to be paying him the money he's being paid and think Peralta should be getting paid. Peralta will be entering his age 31 season when he hits FA. If you sign him to a contract you're doing exactly what the Brewers did with Yelich in 2019 and paying for the backside of his career where he's likely going to regress and not live up to the contract. Long term financial commitments to players over 30 hamstring small market teams with low payrolls.

[SF70]

Love the trade.

Gives us a head-start on being the best farm system in baseball and by the time Williams-Sproat graduate the system will only get stronger with all the breakouts in the first half of the minors season.

Right now a postseason top 3 starters of Woodruff-Misiorowski-Patrick is a dynamic trio that can get us to the WS.

FO will probably add another depth starter to make sure we have the requisite depth to get through a Championship season and if we need another playoff starter we can get one at the trade-deadline.

The talent we now have organizationally is second only to the Dodgers and will give us a 10 year stretch of winning unprecedented by any small-market team in BL history. 

[endaround]

47 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

Don't you see though? The Brewers signed Yelich to that extension coming off two straight MVP caliber seasons. Everyone thought the extension was a bargain but injury issues and aging have warped that MVP version of Yelich. Now you think it's bad to be paying him the money he's being paid and think Peralta should be getting paid. Peralta will be entering his age 31 season when he hits FA. If you sign him to a contract you're doing exactly what the Brewers did with Yelich in 2019 and paying for the backside of his career where he's likely going to regress and not live up to the contract. Long term financial commitments to players over 30 hamstring small market teams with low payrolls.

Pitchers and hitters are not the same. Good pitchers pitch well into their late 30s, though injuries are always a risk (regardless of age).

[wiguy94]

3 minutes ago, endaround said:

Pitchers and hitters are not the same. Good pitchers pitch well into their late 30s, though injuries are always a risk (regardless of age).

I agree on average pitchers age better than position players do but it's not a guarantee and pitchers are much more likely to have an injury that will reduce their impact for 12-18 months than position players.