Fear The Chorizo

The article mentions how frequently they talked with Jenkins about the position change. This is about Jenkins' agent seeing cap space that can be thrown his clients way sooner than what his existing contract would get it to him and trying to get something done before training camp opens.

I should have further elaborated in my earlier post that im ok with HOF enshrinement for these sort of situations AFTER they breathe their last breath. IMO they shouldn't get the satisfaction of knowing they're in the baseball HOF during their lifetimes - actions do have consequences.

As long as the full story of these guys goes into their HOF sections (i.e., why they were banned from the game for life), I have zero problems with all time great players going into HOF's... infamy is just as important to teach people. I think the same should happen to the group of obvious PEDers with numbers deserving HOF credentials after they leave this earth.

Made's bat could play up a few levels from where he's at, but defensively he needs more time to develop - which is totally ok given the fact he just turned 18.

Yes, but that 0.235 average is deceiving given a horribly slow start - that's actually jumped up like 100 points in a couple weeks. BA is 0.260 over his last month or so. With Wilken being a college draftee with elite power - if he continues his recent hot streak at AA there shouldn't be anything blocking him from a AAA promotion soon, and frankly there is plenty of 40 man roster fodder to DFA/option/trade to get him to the majors once he proves he's ready. Agreed that time isn't now or in the very near future, but I tend to throw out Wilken's 2024 #'s because of the HBP to the face. If he's hovering at or above a 1.000 OPS consistently I don't care where his BA sits and he should be steadily working towards Milwaukee.

Making this type of move would be when Arnold should get fired.

The issue wasn't going all in for 2008 or prior to the 2012 season - it was that the drafting between those seasons wasn't good enough to bring in another core of young talent to avoid having to slog through a few seasons of non-contention afterwards....and those teams were built on hitting with poor defense, and had no organizational pitching depth compared to what the Brewers have now.

I fully agree, but a small market team has to be willing to sacrifice longterm WAR from prospects who may turn into good mlb players for rentals that could lead teams to a championship. As long as the organization is well run in the draft and develop department, it's easier to replace that production longterm with other cheap, in-house prospects. I think of it as the currency the Brewers can afford to spend on improving their chances to win a world series compared to giving out 9 figure free agent contracts like candy in free agency.

To start, I guess Mark must not be good at convincing the rest of Brewers' ownership to set a bunch of their money that's also tied up and not just sitting in Venmo accounts on fire. With incredibly rare exceptions (dying Illitch Siedler and that's about it), owners aren't sending GM's their own cash to sign pricey free agents in MLB - the market size /revenue those clubs generate are what write those checks, not the owners. Not that those facts will ever change some people's assumptions that Mark A. sleeps on pillows filled with cash, but whatever.

I think Wilken could be a fast mover if he keeps heating up, and frankly should be - not sure if this season as a Brewer happens, but seeing him with a legit shot at the everyday 3B or 1B option in Milwaukee next Spring Training makes too much sense if he's past that HBP to the face last year and continues to put up gaudy #'s in AA/AAA this year (despite a still very low BA). He's got the pop and potential to be an everyday corner IF this organization has lacked pretty much since Prince was a Brewer.

Yes, but in the smallest market in all of baseball, those "shots" need to be in-season trade acquisitions to bolster a playoff-caliber roster that gets built through draft/develop + pre arbitration extensions - it's a fool's errand and strawman argument to think they should try and compete in free agency with the huge market behemoths to try and sign the veteran star free agents. There may be no salary cap, but that doesn't mean the smallest markets can compete with signing the best players in the open market - that's actually proven to make it more difficult than if there was some sort of cap that only a handful of teams would ever dream of exceeding, and forcing premier free agents to seek more money with other teams. Adding all the deferred contract shenanigans to skirt/limit luxury tax penalties and it's even more egregious. The Brewers have enough in their minor league system to be significant players at this year's trade deadline to try and fill holes for the stretch run - if their team is good enough to be considered a contender this season another month or so into the schedule. The alternative option is for them to be soft sellers at this year's deadline and make way for some more of their prospects to get their feet wet at the MLB level. Such is life for the Brewers, like it or not.

It's time for the Mis in Milwaukee...use those bullets in the majors. My goodness that ball explodes out of his hand

The answer to the title of this article is pretty simple... No

I guess my outlook is the exact opposite, honestly... Q1 growth stalled because companies imported a ton of stuff end of Q1 to stockpile prior to tariffs taking effect in part due to confusion, but also as a safeguard - even if whatever they stockpiled wouldn't be enough to sustain a longterm trade war without alot of pain stateside. We are now not even 1 month into OMG TARIFFS!!!!!! and China is already foregoing a ton of their imposed tariffs on imports because if the US doesn't totally cave, China's economy implodes if they can't sell their crap elsewhere - not in a couple years, more like months. Factor in the corporate behemoths who rely on China for way.too.much. and all parties involved don't want that sort of implosion to happen overnight. Low level tariffs will get carried through in a deal that still allows for the flow of cheap stuff coming in stateside from the far east, and a smaller can gets kicked further down the road. Deals are gradually being sorted out with friendlier nations to reset the marketplace to a new normal. Meanwhile prices on essentials continue to drop. The market has been gradually coming to terms with the fact that sometimes what the 🍊 man says either isn't exactly what he means or isn't an absolute that things have to shift 100% his way to "make a deal" . That should come as no surprise to anyone who's got a pulse over the past decade, but apparently it still does with far too many. I think now is still a very good time to buy, and it will continue to be, for awhile. When the market tries to play the jump to conclusions game based on what comes out of Washington verbally, or even on a sandwich board in the Rose Garden, it tends to overreact more than a touch.

I honestly think if you don't get an early long term extension with a bonafide stud prearbitration (Chourio, Braun, etc), small market teams are almost always better off trading away players the offseason before they reach free agency...I think at times it's ok to hang onto position players until their free agent year (adames, fielder) and just recoup the comp pick for them declining the option. For really good pitchers, I think it's better to trade them ahead if time to replenish the cupboard (Hader, Devin, Burnes) rather than risking injury that last year. Look at the Dodgers' current IL pitching staff's payroll - the Brewers can't take that financial risk to have a bunch of pricey veteran arms on the roster only to see them cashing checks to be injured. You get those mid to late 20's years of prime production of their arms before moving on from them and having to pay crazy money to watch them get injured or regress. Cortes and Woodruff are among the highest paid Brewers' pitchers....enough said

Yeah, they simply don't - their pitching as constructed is too thin to sustain a team that will be able to win 7 out of every 10 games, regardless of who they are playing. The Cubs could opt to empty a decent farm system to bring in veteran arms and probably will need to at some point, but with how fast pitchers are dropping like flies with the Dodgers there's going to be other huge market teams driving the price of pitching up via trade, too. One thing about their offensive barrage to start the season - Their early season schedule has been incredibly favorable towards games with good hitting conditions. Most of their Wrigley home games in April have been good weather, most with wind howling out - which makes that park a bandbox. And then playing most of April in CA or AZ also limits those 40 degree, misty nights where hitting is no fun. The Brewers have uncharacteristically lost a handful of games they should have won with their own bullpen struggles here and there - that's magnified early in the season standings, because adding those ~3 games in the win column now would have the Brewers equal to the Cubs in 1st.

I think Johnson might still be available tomorrow, too

I see Golden's potential as Amon-Ra St Brown, but with much better speed - I'd take a shot at that 2/3 into the first round in every single draft year.

Golden might resemble a few of the Packers' current stable of wideouts, but he plays more physically and is faster than anyone they have in the room, even with a healthy Watson (if that ever happens again). Not a reach to pick him where he went, and a big need position - hard to fault the pick looking at it from any number of ways.

I think there's a knee concern in there, too - if a corner can't run a 40 at any point leading up to the draft, you can't take him in the 1st round.

This is the player some of us thought he could develop into once he filled out a bit and didn't look like a gust of wind could send him into orbit. It's also the type of player a bunch of draftniks though he could turn into one day when he was considered a potential 1st overall draft pick heading into his senior year in H.S. for a time. He'll never give you 30HR in a season, but man he can give you just about everything else on a baseball field.

Adames was surprised the Brewers never called after he declined the qualifying offer....and after the Brewers approached him about longer term contract extensions an offseason or two earlier that he declined. I mean, what did he expect would happen once he reached free agency and the GM has all but indicated if he got to free agency he most certainly would get more $$ elsewhere? A great guy/great teammate is more than fine in my book to earn a good year to year salary playing through his prime years. A guy past his prime making a ton more guaranteed money for multiple seasons is a franchise-crippling anchor, no matter how great of a teammate he is. That's, quite frankly, what Adames is now that he signed for $182M as a 29 yr old SS showing signs of defensive decline on top of the extended stretches of bad at the plate.

They don't have the pitching - but they'll score alot of runs, especially if the wind blows out of Wrigley more than it blows in.... If all goes right with them, they just might claw up over that 83 win total for a change...and they should considering their payroll is roughly $60M over the Cardinals and ~$75M over the rest of the teams that would be among the threats to win this division. Pittsburgh just isn't there yet.

Wanted to steer some discussion away from the daily "OMG the sky is falling" in the markets and see if I can get any recommendations for dividend ETFs people would recommend looking into to further diversify my mix of investments. I'm in good shape with my 401k/roth retirement account, and now have a healthy rainy day savings account built up to the point where I'll have extra cash month to month to invest elsewhere. I'm at a spot where I'm thinking of using the routine funds that built up my rainy day savings to invest in a low fee ETF that also pays a dividend instead of further increasing how much I'm putting straight into my retirement plan. Anyone have some solid ones they'd recommend? Looking for one that's a good option to continually invest in over time that does pay a decent sized dividend. I've done some research on my own but also looking to see if there's similar ETFs others like to what I'm considering. With the market chaos unfolding it actually feels to me like a good time to dip a toe into this type of investment. thanks in advance!!

Unfortunately for the Cobs, they still have all of their remaining g games against the Brewers left to play a full month into the season