Fear The Chorizo

That isnt a conspiracy theory in my opinion

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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

Logan Henderson is way more valuable than River freaking Ryan...not to mention 3 years younger

River Ryan....lol. dude is closing in on 30 and he is still a prospect?

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.

Yelich stinks and shows no signs of not stinking- him playing everyday is slowly killing this team

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.

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,

Please explain - what you refer to over the years are shorter term IL stints and maximizing rehab assignments. That is not at all what the Dodgers have established a pattern of doing the past few years. The Brewers also have a history of waiting too long for a key veteran player to hit the IL and play shorthanded at the MLB level for close to a week, only to retroactively IL that player once he proves he cant get into the lineup.

Mods feel free to move this elsewhere if there's a better fit on this board. With trade deadline season fully heated up and all the assumptions of the Dodgers landing any and every impact player if they want to despite already having dramatic payroll and roster advantages over the rest of MLB, I decided to take a closer look at their 40 man roster. They currently have a surprising amount of minor league guys and role player type arms on it, and the reason is so many of their best arms and players currently sit on the 60 day IL. Snell, Glasnow, and Will Smith are obviously key cogs in the Dodgers' plans to try and 3 peat as World Series Champs this October - the timing of them all curiously going on the 60 day IL with various minor/nagging injury issues has to be questioned, given the fact all are appearing to readily ramp up their rehabs and will likely be back in Dodger blue in early to mid-August - just enough time to shake the rust off and be rested/primed for another playoff run. Add in Treinan on the 15-day IL also progressing back on schedule for a similar return date. Current rules allow for players to be placed on the 60 day IL and be removed from the 40 man roster in order to give guys with legitimate moderate but not season-ending injuries the opportunity to get back to MLB. I do think there's value in preserving that option, but I also think teams are gaming that system, the Dodgers in particular, to preserve health/wear and tear on their veteran players so they're fresh for the postseason. They've essentially created a 45 man roster with using the 60 day IL, and have been able to protect losing some of their developed prospects by timing the return of their veteran studs after the trade deadline. It's yet another advantage that organization has over essentially everyone else in MLB. Knowing the only reason the Dodgers could be in the mix for an impact starter like Skubal is because they're stowing 3-5 of an already stellar rotation (including Ohtani with the weird "two way player" roster exemption they get) in their back pocket until the calendar gets to mid-August is particularly sickening. I don't want to completely do away with a 60-day IL option, but I think MLB needs to strongly consider placing limits on how long that list can be before forcing teams/players onto a season ending IL where their year (regular and postseason) is done. The Dodgers currently have 8 players on their 60-day IL who could in theory return to the 26-man MLB gameday roster, while the Brewers have 6. That seems reasonably close in comparison until you see that the only Brewer currently on the list with any shot at returning to Milwaukee this year is Lockridge - the rest are pitchers who have underwent season ending surgery this league year, the lone exception being Zastrysny - whose shoulder probably needs the knife, too.

Remember when the Brewers landed C.C. they got extra aggressive and increased their prospect package two weeks before the deadline so they could get extra starts from him. If Detroit is insistent to wait until the last minute to get as big a return as possible, for what will be 4 or even 5 fewer starts for the team winning the bidding (remember CC was on short rest much of september after Sheets went down and no way is Boras letting Skubal do that), i almost hope the tiger GM's phone gets lost on Aug 3 and he doesnt get dealt at all.

Tend to agree with prospects being overvalued....but that simply isn't the case for Made. You just cant give up on the potential ceiling for a 19 yr old, 5 tool player built like an NFL safety that can play IF, switch hits and is OPS-ing well over 0.800 in a pitcher-friendly AA league. When you factor in contract cost, current career arc, and remaining team control, there are barely a handful of MLB players or other prospects I'd think of trading Made for in a 1 for 1 swap. I would exclude basically all pitchers given their injury risk with that list, too. Made may never realize that potential of being a perennial MVP candidate, but he's a good enough prospect for the Brewers to keep him around and find out for themselves.

I get that thought....I just hope next offseason actually happens this winter and not 2029 after a very long break from baseball. It's because of what I'm assuming is either a nonexistent offseason and perhaps totally missed 2027 season due to CBA strife that I do want the brewers to get very aggressive at this deadline, since it could be their best chance to win a WS. I'm not saying trade Made or unload their system, but get a couple impact players to give them the best shot this year, knowing the farm is crazy deep right now.

This has the feel of a precursor move reshuffling the roster and creating space before a targeted reliever gets added, especially if one or two of the guys coming here from Cleveland don't have to be put on the 40 man.

I can't bring myself to trade Fischer for a rental - I know he's got swing and miss warts but the rest of his offensive profile in his 1st professional season at 3rd or 1B in a year or two in Milwaukee would be unreal to have. If Fischer were part of a trade for a Mason Miller, I could get behind that. I want Skubal and Miller - and I think if the Brewers were serious about going after both they could readily put packages together that we both wouldn't mind seeing go and other organizations vying for those arms couldn't match. That's how damn good the Brewers' farm system is right now.

Mark my words, if the Dodgers land Skubal they wont resign him - not in December and not ever....because the rest of baseball will be willing to miss as many regular seasons as needed to fully share broadcast revenue and implement a salary cap that will force the Dodgers to actually cut or trade players from their existing roster to get under the future cap. No CBA in place after this league year ends means no offseason to sign any free agents, either

That is why the brewers will need to be selectively trading prospects the next few deadlines...they have so damn many that profile as major leaguers they cant keep them all