NEWS: Brewers Agree to One-Year Deal With Starting Pitcher Jose Quintana

Like it.

Might want to start Ashby at AAA but he likely won't be long away from the big club.  We seem to have a little depth to work with....

12 minutes ago, Trax said:

Like it.

Might want to start Ashby at AAA but he likely won't be long away from the big club.  We seem to have a little depth to work with....

I think the other part is not burning the options/40 man spots on the AAA guys (like last year with CF Rodriguez who used a 40 man spot before he was really ready). If Quintana plays well great, if he is a pick up like Julio Teheran or more like Keuchel last year, then use the innings and you can always trade or DFA the pitcher later.

AAA (or AA) will likely have some good arms, but may be a few months or a year away from being MLB ready (Miz, Henderson, Hunt, Wichrowski, Rodriguez)

I think people are missing that Ashby is dominant as a reliever. He will now be placed in the bullpen to continue his great work from the end of last year, when Murphy was at times even using him in a fireman type role. 
 

This signing improves the rotation AND bullpen.

31 minutes ago, biedergb said:

I think the other part is not burning the options/40 man spots on the AAA guys (like last year with CF Rodriguez who used a 40 man spot before he was really ready). If Quintana plays well great, if he is a pick up like Julio Teheran or more like Keuchel last year, then use the innings and you can always trade or DFA the pitcher later.

AAA (or AA) will likely have some good arms, but may be a few months or a year away from being MLB ready (Miz, Henderson, Hunt, Wichrowski, Rodriguez)

Can't believe I saw Hunt pitch in Appleton last year and he is a legit mention in this comparison.  We do have a nice mix, though of more recent times Rodriguez is starting to give me some reason to doubt his ultimate potential. 

We are better today than we were yesterday. 

I figure the pitching lab should make him better.

The rotation is massively more reliable than it was a year ago. That takes pressure off the pen, which also looks a lot more reliable than it did a year ago. Last year we needed magic tricks like Myers and Hudson to save the staff.  Any magic tricks we come up with this season — Hunt? Henderson? Yoho? — are relative gravy.  True, we don’t have two great months of Devin Williams on call; but we may have three decent months of Brandon Woodruff. 
 

This rotation is far from sexy, but it’s also far from the problem it was last March.