2026 Offseason and Beyond Trade/Free Agent Ideas

[MrTPlush]

9 minutes ago, igor67 said:

Bauers for 1 year is reasonable, but we have too many guys who are close that could match or exceed what he is giving us that I don't think any multi year deal makes sense.

Who? He is our best hitter by a pretty good gap.

I suppose the cheaper option is Vaughn in another platoon. But you could just have that money going to Bauers and save a roster spot. Bauers also affords some flexibility to be an OFer.

[cragi]

Brewers management is not likely willing to block Burke, Fischer and Adams by giving someone $50 million for the next 2 seasons

[Playing Catch]

The combo of signing Chourio, Pratt, and Lara with the slow-playing of their non-40-man prospects tells me that they want to maintain as much flexibility with their roster not knowing how the CBA shakes out.

Personally, I think a salary cap would be bad for baseball, and particularly bad for the Brewers. All that money that the Dodgers, Mets, Yankees, etc. are currently spending on players would either add to billionaire portfolios, or go back into the league to support teams that are comparatively poor at running an organization, thus flattening out the competitive landscape.

In my humble opinion, baseball is too volatile from season-to-season for it to be run like the NBA or NFL. I also see how multi-billion-dollar, international conglomerations have damaged soccer, with its caving to those interests.

MLB should just keep doing what is working for fans AND owners AND players. Just tweak it. Cap free-agent spending to encourage more monster contracts going to middle-class teams, and systemitize incentives for bringing up 20-year-olds when they are ready to perform, and let the smaller teams like the Brewers, Rays, Guardians continue to capitalize on young rosters. Seeing teams win in different ways is fun.

I don't like a salary floor, either. Just add roster spots for both the 26-man, and the 40-man and up financial incentives for young and middle-class players.

[SF70]

2 hours ago, Playing Catch said:

The combo of signing Chourio, Pratt, and Lara with the slow-playing of their non-40-man prospects tells me that they want to maintain as much flexibility with their roster not knowing how the CBA shakes out.

Personally, I think a salary cap would be bad for baseball, and particularly bad for the Brewers. All that money that the Dodgers, Mets, Yankees, etc. are currently spending on players would either add to billionaire portfolios, or go back into the league to support teams that are comparatively poor at running an organization, thus flattening out the competitive landscape.

In my humble opinion, baseball is too volatile from season-to-season for it to be run like the NBA or NFL. I also see how multi-billion-dollar, international conglomerations have damaged soccer, with its caving to those interests.

MLB should just keep doing what is working for fans AND owners AND players. Just tweak it. Cap free-agent spending to encourage more monster contracts going to middle-class teams, and systemitize incentives for bringing up 20-year-olds when they are ready to perform, and let the smaller teams like the Brewers, Rays, Guardians continue to capitalize on young rosters. Seeing teams win in different ways is fun.

I don't like a salary floor, either. Just add roster spots for both the 26-man, and the 40-man and up financial incentives for young and middle-class players.

I’m with you on a hard cap/floor will be bad for baseball and especially for MKE.

Share more revenue among teams, increase penalties for overspending, neuter the Dodgers Japanese & TV RS advantages. Increase the small-market competitive-balance comp picks and international pool $. That should even things up more and not penalize a team like MKE from being smarter than the rest of baseball.

[MrTPlush]

4 hours ago, cragi said:

Brewers management is not likely willing to block Burke, Fischer and Adams by giving someone $50 million for the next 2 seasons

The best estimate I saw recently by an expert was 2/$30mil. I seriously doubt he is getting $25mil a year.

He also can play four different positions on the field. The odds that all the prospects are healthy and producing all enough that Bauers has no where to play the next two years is very unlikely. 

Most of those guys could sit at AAA and extra year for a bat producing to the tune of a .900 OPS.

 

 

 

 

[liveforoctober]

Just poking around some rosters it looks like Salas is ready to go in San Diego. I wonder what Campusano would cost us if we do decide to move Bill this off season? I am not great at reading defensive metrics for catchers - how does Luis grade out behind the dish?