Brewers Acquire Lance McCullers Jr. From Astros

[Underachiever]

1 hour ago, patrickgpe said:

So to be honest, if the move is that we purchased a prospect by taking on 7 million dollars in salary, I won't be too happy if that limits what they can do over the next 3 weeks trade wise. Yes, its possible that Gordon can be turned around but at this point he appears to be a AAAA player. I liked the move initially assuming that Houston was going to pay some / most of his remaining salary. 

Regarding the bold, unless Arnold says, "we couldn't take on any more money after the McCullers trade", how will you know?

[Joseph Zarr]

1 minute ago, Sugarrayray said:

As much as I blame the owner for being cheap, this is Arnold’s one notable fault. He hoards prospects to the point of damn near congesting the system. Instead of ever parting with a good prospect for a good return near the deadline, he always attempts these weird ways to improve marginally. Pretty much none of his tradeline acquisitions have worked.

 

The Brewers don’t need to improve marginally. They need someone who can help them compete in a series with the Dodgers. They could trade for a great young controllable player and still have the best farm system in ball. These Shelby Miller type trade’s are so lame and show such an obsessive aversion of ever trading a real prospect from depth.

[edfunderburk]

Spending $22M on Woodruff was not enough “risk” so now we add another $6M to try to replace our savvy veteran. 

This feels similar to the Rosenthal & Montgomery/Miller trades of previous seasons. 

Hopefully this one pans out well.

Curious to see if Gordon can replace Koenig who looks washed. 

[wiguy94]

Chandler Rome the Astros Athletic guy is reporting Jadyn Fielder is heading back to Houston

[markedman5]

 

 

[tmwiese55]

Seems to me the opposite of being cheap. Think its 3 years in a row now of taking on risk money hoping to get some help rather than being cheap and using prospects instead.  Basically it seems our 'cheap ass' owners are choosing to spend money rather than prospects. 

[Jopal78]

Just now, edfunderburk said:

Spending $22M on Woodruff was not enough “risk” so now we add another $6M to try to replace our savvy veteran. 

This feels similar to the Rosenthal & Montgomery trades of previous seasons. 

Hopefully this one pans out well.

Curious to see if Gordon can replace Koenig who looks washed. 

Taking on Jordan Montgomery’s salary to get Shelby Miller with no minor league talent going back to Arizona was brilliant outside the box thinking. 
 

Think back to when they traded for CC Sabathia they gave up Michael Brantley and other prospects. Brantley went on to be a 300 hitter across 15 seasons and made five All-Star teams.
 

With free agent salaries what they are today the Brewers simply aren’t going to trade that caliber of prospect anymore so these type of outside-of-the-box deals and minor acquisitions to improve the talent floor are most likely all we’re gonna see going forward.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

1 minute ago, markedman5 said:

 

 

 

[wiguy94]

2 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

 

 

I trust Rome saying Fielder is heading to Houston way more than I trust Bob haha

[Matt]

Death, taxes, and Bob Nightengale getting things wrong. 

[GAME05]

I didn't realize you could trade guys on the IL.

[StearnsFTW]

17 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

 

 

Oh Bobby..............

[LouisEly]

So much for CC's and Prince's kids excitement about getting to play together...

[wallus]

We may only have one former legends kid in the organization at a time 

[TwinsBrewersWorldSeries]

7 minutes ago, LouisEly said:

So much for CC's and Prince's kids excitement about getting to play together...

Doubtful either will end up in the bigs here, but this timing sucks.

hate hate hate this trade

[DonBarclay]

I don’t know how Fielder was going to continue to get ABs in the org after they start signing the draft picks. Basically gave up nothing. Will be interesting to see how much $ Houston kicks in.

[rccola42]

2 minutes ago, TwinsBrewersWorldSeries said:

Doubtful either will end up in the bigs here, but this timing sucks.

hate hate hate this trade

Because you wanted the social media picture of them together? I'd prefer we make decisions based on what our smart front office thinks is best for our baseball team.

[wallus]

3 minutes ago, TwinsBrewersWorldSeries said:

Doubtful either will end up in the bigs here, but this timing sucks.

hate hate hate this trade

You gotta be the biggest Jadyn Fielder fan in the world

[markedman5]

Brewers did receive cash in the deal

 

[long ball]

I’m not sure Fielder is a future big leaguer, but it was definitely fun to have him in the org and he was one of the guys I’d be checking on when looking at minor league box scores. 

[markedman5]

 

[MoreTrife]

Seems like a fairly expensive (but not limiting seeing as how we got cash to offset) move to both eat innings in this middle slog with potential for him to turn it around for playoff push. And a wildcard reliever that maybe we have an idea how to work with. No harm if it doesn't work out. 

[LouisEly]

I don't think anybody is/was thinking Jadyn Fielder was going to play in the majors.

It was a reference to them playing together in the minors.

 

[brewerfan82]

I guess the question now is how much cash are people hoping comes back our way to make this deal make sense. If the Astros are eating half of that ~$6.7M, I'll feel a lot better about the deal.

[JCREW]