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  1. Pretty sure they aren't planning to make him a starter - it's shoring up mid-late inning bullpen depth.
  2. As frustrating as it is, there aren't many impact bats obviously available at the deadline this year - and to be honest they wouldn't have an obvious positional home in Milwaukee. If Mitchell stays healthy I want him in the lineup. I want Lara playing more and Pratt has been awesome at SS. 3B is the power void and I question the value in Hamilton/Ortiz there most games (especially if Hamilton is playing more) - but that's the roster construction the Brewers live by. Man I hope Fischer keeps hitting because his bat at 3B would be awesome in a year or 2. Chourio and Yelich need to start hitting, along with WIld Bill - those are your impact bats that have largely been scuffling since the AS break and even a bit longer. Despite that, the team has among MLB's best post AS break records. I have more confidence in Chourio and Contreras picking it back up and getting hot at the right time of year. Yelich is a sunk cost and in a perfect world he'd be jettisoned to the bench in order to bring in an impact DH - but having Vaughn/Bauers already rostered lets them do that already.
  3. When it comes to looking at potential future value to an organization - this is a tough trade to swallow as a Brewer fan who likes seeing them have talent and depth across their system. When it comes to a pure numbers game, the Brewers currently have a bevy of young and toolsy OF talent (two of which are signed to longterm contracts) already in Milwaukee, and their system still has similar-aged OF prospect depth that is as hyped or even more as these two. It may not solve any immediate minor league /40 man roster control for the logjam that is headed towards Milwaukee, but it does open up playing time for other guys on the way up/through the system that are also developing. I hope both of these guys find a way to have long, insignificant baseball careers as long as they're in the Cardinal organization.
  4. Steve Phillips is saying the return is Made, Fischer, and Payne plus 3 lottery tickets - two of which are Harrison and Drohan.
  5. Screw Rosenthal - he is just stirring the pot. i've lost alot of respect for hime ever since that water cooler incident with the team photographer. A different thought occurred to me this morning in that the Brewers may be content to continue sitting on the game's best farm system because of all the CBA uncertainty for next year and beyond. They may view having as much young talent as possible stockpiled is the best way to come out the other side of things when baseball resumes. I do think at least one starter, one quality reliever, and maybe one bat will be headed this way before the deadline - but it wont be by sending any of their best prospects away based on how this deadline has unfolded so far. After this season, I'd be perfectly content if it takes 1 or two years to get the new CBA right, and then see the Dodgers' expensive, veteran-laden roster all 2 years older when mlb play resumes
  6. He then blew out his elbow in 2024, didnt pitch at all in 2025, and cant stay on the mound in 2026 because of hamstring problems. If you want to go ahead and send Ryan out there for 150+ IP next season, have at it - i'll tell you he wont get there. The more likely scenario is the ship is sailing away on Ryan's ceiling to be a quality starting pitcher as a big leaguer and his injury history and delayed development has him headed to the bullpen if he wants an extended mlb career.
  7. Counter-counterpoint : Because of injuries, Ryan has been able to eclipse 100IP in only 1 of his professional seasons. At this rate he'll be ramped up to a full mlb starting pitcher workload by the time he reaches free agency at 32. The truth is it would be a surprise for Ryan to last long enough as a pitcher to ever reach free agency based on his career arc and agr he's already reached.
  8. Totally get that and agree when it comes to recycling concrete on road work projects and even building demolition work, but not in the case of large wind turbines - the amount of rebar/steel and concrete and the depth it's in the ground make it economically and oftentimes logistically impractical to dig up/break up and recycle. Think of a 50-80 foot diameter and 15-20' deep chunk of concrete buried in the ground that is chock full of rebar (roughly 750 cubic yards of concrete or more). Can it be done? sure. Would you want the the energy balance and cost of all the equipment needed to accomplish that counting against the carbon footprint of a turbine? If you did, that wind turbine would look far dirtier than the equivalent mass of high sulphur coal needed to produce the same amount of "green" energy.
  9. Well, then it's win win....but there 100% HAS to be full revenue sharing 1st
  10. That isnt a conspiracy theory in my opinion
  11. If Henderson is discounted in any way due to his injury history, then both Dodger pitching prospects in this trade are total bums, too. Ryan can't even stay healthy enough this season.
  12. It absolutely exists - remember in the 90s when the yankees where outbidding everyone and winning everything, so many of their blue chip prospects they traded away amounted to nothing, too.
  13. Don't need a salary cap or floor nearly as much as baseball needs full revenue sharing. I would bet the Dodgers bring in more revenue themselves that doesnt need to be shared than the bottom half of mlb combined
  14. Sounds like Brandon Woodruff along with that growing injury history...and he's only a couple years younger than him, too. More comparable to him than a much younger Henderson, who has actually been able to pitch the past few years at the MLB level.
  15. Wouldn't surprise me in the least to see the Dodgers announce a mega deal extension for Skubal before the end of this league year....typically that would never happen with a Boras client in a free agent year - but skubal may want to cash in a super long, guaranteed contract with the team he'll probably sign with eventually, and who knows when a new CBA will be signed along with what free agent contract parameters will be in it?
  16. Maybe the Brewers should call the Dodgers and ask if Glasnow is available - dude is getting paid close to $30M a year and he just lost his spot in the postseason rotation. Such a joke
  17. I'd take Drohan over Ryan 100 times out of 100. Ryan had a handful of good starts with the dodgers back in 2024, blew his elbow out, and now has made less than 10 starts in AAA with a 1.3 WHIP and mid 4's ERA as an almost 28 yr old. He's still a prospect because he didnt exhaust his rookie eligibility back in 2024 ....the fact he's still a top 100 is only because he was in the Dodger organization
  18. The Dodgers arent deep with top milb pitching either - they just see their young pitching prospects blow their arms out and then have the luxury of allowing them to take forever and a day to resume pitching and hype them up enough for teams to think they're great prospects. Both Ryan and Smith aren't setting the world on fire this season in the minors and both are coming off major arm injuries.
  19. This feels like many are undervaluing, not overvaluing Brewers prospects - including Brewers fans. The potential "comp" package scenarios people are throwing out there online all blow what the Dodgers actually had to give up out of the water
  20. Logan Henderson is way more valuable than River freaking Ryan...not to mention 3 years younger
  21. River Ryan....lol. dude is closing in on 30 and he is still a prospect?
  22. There is 0 chance we see baseball in 2027. That sucks, but it needs to happen for MLB to be an actual professional sports league where more than 1 team can go out and acquire the premier trade piece every deadline on top of paying arguably the best player ever $2M and deferring $68M, while two other starters making close to $100m combined annually bide their time to rejoin the squad in August rested and ready for another WS run.
  23. Yelich stinks and shows no signs of not stinking- him playing everyday is slowly killing this team
  24. Give me a specific example of that this season, or in recent years, particularly since the very rules I'm saying the Dodgers are taking advantage of have been put into place. I'm talking specifically about the Dodgers using the 60 day IL as a means to take mildly injured players off their 40 man roster and then time it where they get back conveniently with enough time to get ramped up for the poststeason they know their economic advantages all but guarantees. You're referencing generalizations from past seasons, yet failing to realize any of those short term IL stint gymnastics never led to those players being taken off the 40 man roster to make room for fill-in players.
  25. Calling Snell's elbow procedure a surgery is technically correct, but honestly it's a preventative maintenance sort of thing that couldve been done last offseason. Then again, May-July seems to be also part of Snell's offseason. Both Snell and Glasnow missed a bunch of time last season, magically had no setbacks ramping up to get stretched out into September and the playoffs. Its rinse and repeat this year. They are timing some of these guys going on the 60 day IL knowing they wont need them until late August/stretch run, and they've got zero problems paying guys $40+ million a year to take 2 months of the season off. Plus they can time their return to happen after they use prospect capital to add someone like Skubal to their rotation, and then avoid losing those type of players via DFA's for nothing if they would've had to activate Snell or Glasnow in late June or early July. My larger point is the current economic system and roster rules have allowed the Dodgers and only the Dodgers to make a complete farce of a 162 game regular season,
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