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The way that the Marlin's stadium sponsor requires certain words be capitalized/not capitalized will never not be dumb to me.

Good signing, [sarcasm]we needed some help in the bullpen[/sarcasm]

Feel bad for Tyrone because he's been outplaying Garcia. Hopefully he realizes it's just an unfortunate circumstance of service time rules and also that McKinney can play 1B.

Milwaukee Brewers @Brewers 34s Gone, but Nott forgotten! Catcher @JacobNottingham, who was designated for assignment by the #Brewers on April 22 and claimed by the Mariners on April 28, has been re-acquired from Seattle in exchange for cash. Nottingham is in the lineup today against the Dodgers.

Has anything been written about how he's been so bad at it? Seems like he swings right through them.

Let's get it to Phil Bickford appearance territory!

Attaboy Luis!

Milwaukee Brewers @Brewers 2m RHP Josh Lindblom has been placed the 10-day injured list with right knee effusion. OF Corey Ray (#3) has been recalled from the Alternate Training Site and would be making his MLB debut. Ray is from Chicago.

Controversy brewing in Seattle over comments made by Mariners President Kevin Mather to the Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club: https://www.lookoutlanding.com/2021/2/21/22294212/mariners-president-kevin-mather-full-transcript-bellevue-breakfast-rotary-club Highlights: Complained that they had to spend $75,000 on an interpreter for Hisashi Iwakuma. Joked that once he threatened to fire the interpreter, Iwakuma's English "suddenly got better" Randomly mentioned that prospect Julio Rodriguez's English wasn't very good, which prompted a meme-reply from Julio. FWIW, Julio has been working on his English for a while and called his parents after doing his first interview 100% in English. Under no circumstances were the Mariners going to start the service clock of any of their prospects last year. "if we had an injury problem or COVID outbreak, you might’ve seen my big tummy out there in left field. You would not have seen our prospects playing in T-Mobile Park." Disclosed that Jarred Kelenic turned down a long term deal and implied the Player's Union influenced Kelenic to turn down the deal. Said that Kelenic will start in AAA to "get more at bats" before being called up after the Super Two cutoff passes. Claims the baseball industry lost $2.9 billion last year Not a good look for a guy who already had to apologize for a culture of sexual harassment that resulted in multiple financial settlements.

Sadly he is also stealing the spotlight from Nate Orf who also retired today From Twitter: #Athletics INF Nate Orf has voluntarily retired.

Oh jeez. What about baseball makes it anything like a regular business? You don't have to worry about competition (thanks antitrust exemption), you are guaranteed revenue streams from national/local TV deals as well as profit sharing before factoring in ticket sales, concessions, etc., and even if only 10,000 fans show up per game you apparently can still turn around and sell your business for over $1 billion. I agree with you in one sense that if owners just want fans to look at baseball teams like any other private company then they should just be upfront with fans and say they are going to field a team of minimum salary guys. That would make the most sense "financial management"-wise, right? Reduce labor and overhead costs to increase profits? That seems to be the strategy of the Pirates ownership. Weird how none of the "smart" baseball fans talk about what a good job the Pirates owners are doing at maximizing profit margins. It's almost like sports exist as a quasi-public trust and teams owe the fans a certain level of looking beyond the bottom dollar. Especially teams like the Brewers that have benefitted from public investment in the very field they play on. I don't think it's unreasonable that fans hope their favorite team manages its budget closer to that of a non-profit than a purely private corporation. Personally, I'm not arguing Mark A sign every FA possible and he has certainly invested more in the team than Selig did in the last 20 years of ownership. There are of course bad deals and some players make more money than their production on the field warrants. All I was seconding was the fact that owners have the capability to sign whatever players they want, but choose not to for one reason or another. It shouldn't be surprising that a team like the Padres made this deal with Tatis, Jr.. I hope we have a young player of his caliber we can make the same commitment to soon. I always remember how pumped I was when Braun signed his first extension.

This. Not this. This is what fans want to believe. The Brewers have averaged almost 10,000 more fans per game than the Padres over the last 10 years. In that time we have made the postseason 4 times (including two NLCS's) to the Padres 1. Both teams made money off the sale of BAM. CA's top marginal tax rate is almost double WI. You are correct that I want to believe that the Brewers to have the same capacity to sign players as the Padres do.

This.

Good for Fernando. Goes to show that owners can still shell out the dough even though they made "no money" last year. Man, Padres fans must be feeling like we did back before the 2018 season! I always have a soft spot for them after living there for high school. They deserve to see some winning baseball now that the Chargers are gone!

I agree and I think this also goes against a salary cap because as we've seen in the NBA teams will just give more money to marginal players to fill up their salary cap. Very rarely to teams go into the season with a big salary cap cushion. I think what this does show is that there is money in the budget for a player of JT's caliber. Now it's just a matter of Stearns finding that player. Hopefully we're in it enough at the trade deadline to add for the playoff push.

The number of unique champions in last 10 championships MLB: 8 (no cap) NFL: 8 (cap) NBA: 7 (cap) NHL: 7 (cap) I would say dynasties are equally as rare in MLB. Where's the dynasty in baseball since maybe the Yankees of 96-01? I guess maybe the every other year Giants? Market size is irrelevant in the NFL because of the national TV deals. It's why markets like Tampa can support the Super Bowl winning Bucs but not the Rays. If you want to bring about more revenue parity, you can look at evening out the disparity between the local media rights deals or try to sign more national TV deals. But capping employee salary will not make things more fair for the smaller media market teams.

[sarcasm]I too root for the owners to pocket more money![/sarcasm] The truth is there is absolutely nothing preventing Mark A from signing any player he wants to. We have about the same payroll now that we did in 2014, with money basically being given away with 0% interest rates. Having a salary cap would do nothing to entice better players to come to Milwaukee. In fact it would probably make us less competitive in FA. As we've seen in the NFL and QBs, why would a team like the Brewers tie up a large chunk of their capped payroll on one player? We probably would not have signed Yelich with a salary cap. We'd probably be doing the same dumpster diving we currently are doing and hope we can get a career year out of a Brock Holt or Eric Sogard. And teams like the Pirates would continue to just have a team consisting of minimum salary guys. As for Turner, it seems clear we were just used to get more money from the Dodgers which is a bummer. Hopefully this is another wake up call to the FO that either they understand that prices have gone up or that they need to double their efforts to develop our minor leaguers better so we don't need to rely on one year band aids. Hopefully someone like Lamb and/or Franco are able to have an outlier year for us this year. Sorry to derail the Turner thread.

[sarcasm]Stearns somewhere: "Bleep it, let's just do it and be legends"[/sarcasm]

I was going to throw out Clint Coulter but I don’t think he ever had the stats that made people want him called up?

Oh man this is a good one! Didn’t he try the outfield for a hot second but stunk out there as well?

In light of the Freitas KBO news how bout we go down memory lane of guys people were clamoring to be called up only to not really do much once they got here. Off the top of my head: Freitas Nate Orf Caleb Gindl Taylor Green Hernan Iribarren

I always found it odd that Atlanta is farther west than Detroit yet Atlanta is considered as an "east coast" city and Detroit is considered a "midwest" one.

Says who? When has the money aspect "come back to bite" the Cards? They have an ownership that seems willing to acquire players to win when the opportunity presents itself. They just gave $8 million to a 39 year old Adam Wainwright. I think for the most part the Cards do the things we wish the Brewers would do in FA.