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  1. Harold Hutchison
    If the Brewers launched a similar partnership (with this particular media group) I would be furious. As a non-fan of the Cubs I hope it backfires. If working with Sinclair Broadcasting would enable the Brewers to boost payroll and/or spend more on scouting/minor league development/sabremetrics... then I hope the Brewers do it. They need every edge they can get.
  2. Harold Hutchison
    If the choice here is either trying to get a good return for Thames, or putting out the lineup likely to win the most games for a team that has WS aspirations, then surely it's not even a close decision? Aguilar/Shaw/Thames puts the best offense in the lineup, no question about it. No black holes (other than the risk of Arcia replicating the first half of 2018) aside from the pitcher. cf: Cain rf: Yelich lf: Braun 2b: Shaw 3b: Aguilar c: Grandal 1b: Thames ss: Arcia Where is the weak link in that lineup?
  3. Harold Hutchison
    2017 slash: .259/.289/.414 2018 slash: .253/.290/.386 career slash: .256/.285/.388 He hit for a little more power in 2017 but his slash for both years are pretty much identical to his career slash. 2017 BB%/K%: 4.37/17.25 2018 BB%/K%: 5.38/22.47 career BB%/K%: 4.01/20.28 Even his BB% and K% were all around career numbers. His wrist may have been a problem but it doesn't look like it really effected his results at the plate. Well, the stuff that really matters. Looks like it really hindered his RBI numbers though. The K rate went substantially higher from 20107 to 2018... SLG dropped 28 points, ISO went down 22. The RBI numbers matter. Simply put, if he gets more RBIs, maybe there's another win or two in the post-season. Maybe it's the Crew in the 2018 season instead of Punky Machado and the big-spending Dodgers who can't buy class.
  4. Harold Hutchison
    So once again, you are suggesting that Jesus plays 3B for at least the first month of the season? You must own a glue factory the way you beat dead horses around here... The thing is... if the Crew wants a good return for Thames, he has to be a very big run producer. That requires playing time. You can't really sit Shaw or Aguilar, they're also both good. So, how else to get all three in the lineup on a regular basis?
  5. Harold Hutchison
    No contending team would take Thames but a rebuilding team might and hope he has a hot half so they can flip him. Of course the Brewers would have to eat at least half of his remaining salary. Thames has one year and a player option. This is one reason I think the Crew should roll with an Aguilar-Arcia-Shaw-Thames infield for at least the first month. Not only do they get that extra year of free agency with Hirua, but Thmes then could have a hot enough streak that someone will maybe send the Crew an Adam Lind-esque return around May 15 or so...
  6. Harold Hutchison
    My eye's on Cameron Roegner, Clayton Andrews, and Scott Sunitsch to really take off...
  7. Harold Hutchison
    This is the point. Right now, I can think of nine teams that could afford to survive more than one bad contract and still be able to field a contender: The Yankees, Red Sox, Angels, Mariners, and White Sox in the American League, and the Cubs, Dodgers, Giants, and Mets in the National League. Those are it. You have a second tier of teams that could survive one bad contract and make a run, but some teams, the Brewers included, can't. Jeffrey Hammonds, Matt Garza, Randy Wolf, Jeff Suppan, Braden Looper, Kyle Lohse... all those deals killed the Crew to one extent or another over the years. Those smaller teams had to get smarter about how they built their teams, including the contracts. If they could get team-friendly extensions (like Lucroy and Braun signed), they got them. But if not... they have to make a deal - and the market is small. Fixing this is essential.
  8. Harold Hutchison
    This. The Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers, Angels, Cubs, White Sox, Mets, Giants, and Mariners would pretty much hand the World Series off between them. Nine teams out of thirty. That ain't right.
  9. Harold Hutchison
    If they get Keuchel, they can option Nelson to AAA. Nelson may want to be there opening day, but I'll believe it when I see it. If the Crew gets Keuchel, they should not feel pressured to put Nelson on the MLB roster. Use an option, have him build himself back up in San Antonio.
  10. Harold Hutchison
    Did Hernan Perez show up?
  11. Harold Hutchison
    [sarcasm]Hey, Prince Fielder is a free agent... maybe he could make a comeback, too.[/sarcasm]
  12. Harold Hutchison
    Didn't you literally just say, "hard pass for me," because of his injuries? I'm getting old, but I'm not at the point where I am contradicting myself in threads on the same day. Usually I wait a couple of weeks. I re-considered, and decided I was open to a "prove it" type of deal, with appropriate team options.
  13. Harold Hutchison
    I see it as Chacin, Anderson, Peralta, Burnes, Woodruff in the rotation to start, and Nelson and Davies in San Antonio, given the time they missed last year. If Anderson starts hot, the Crew deals him for prospects, and whichever one of Nelson/Davies is doing better comes up. Probably Davies, as I think Nelson will need to shake a lot of rust off.
  14. Harold Hutchison
    This. That said, I think that the Brewers NEED to do these moves, even in times of plenty - because they can't offer the big contracts that the Yankees, Dodgers, Mets, Angels, Red Sox, Mariners, Cubs, and White Sox can. If you can reclaim a few players like Miley, Cirillo, Jeffress (twice), then they should. Low-risk one-year deals with team options, like the one with Lawrie, could pay off big.
  15. Harold Hutchison
    Don't forget how he plunked Braun... Right before Schoop hit that salami off him. Recently re-watched that, and ENJOYED watching Schoop hit that drive.
  16. Harold Hutchison
    I think he'll be a surprise. Maybe not Jeffress-level, but anyone remember how Cirillo turned it around after some down years? I think he'll be at least as useful as Cirillo was in his second stint.
  17. Harold Hutchison
    Vogt is a great guy, hit reasonably well with the Crew. But the cold, hard logic is that since the Crew got Grandal, he was the third, fourth, or fifth-best catcher (depending on how you view Nottingham and Kratz) on the team. I wish him luck... unless he's playing the Crew. In that case, may he slump and get the yips.
  18. Harold Hutchison
    It wasn’t that they couldn’t spend based on payroll. Their owner was a crook and milked every dollar out of that organization. Short-term, finding pitchers would have helped on the margins, but long-term, they need to rebuild their farm, and get talent. The trades have some decent players coming to them. But high draft picks for the next 2-3 years will get more impact p;ayers in their system. They have a long road.
  19. Harold Hutchison
    It wasn’t that they couldn’t spend based on payroll. Their owner was a crook and milked every dollar out of that organization. Short-term, finding pitchers would have helped on the margins, but long-term, they need to rebuild their farm, and get talent. The trades have some decent players coming to them. But high draft picks for the next 2-3 years will get more impact p;ayers in their system. They have a long road.
  20. Harold Hutchison
    The Yelich package probably had twice as much value as this package, maybe more. Well yeah, it was 5 years vs 2 years for players with not dissimilar production so twice as much value makes sense even if there are obviously other considerations in play too. But as a baseline it makes sense. Alfaro is also probably being underrated by many. It's 5 years of team control for a catcher who has a 99 OPS+ (i.e far above average for a catcher) in his first 500 PAs, Alfaro provides about 80-85% of the offense for league minimum. And he will likely get better. Sanchez isn't a bad pickup... Stewart could really determine how this goes.
  21. Harold Hutchison
    Grandal did also cost a 3rd-round pick in the 2019 draft. But at this point... Nottingham I could have been okay with dealing, but Ashby and Peralta... no.
  22. Harold Hutchison
    For Harper, I'd offer this: 2019: $35 million 2020: Team option for $35 million/$15 million buyout. 2021: Team option for $35 million/$10 million buyout. $10 million each year deferred in equal payment to October 1 of 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026.
  23. Harold Hutchison
    Jeffress has consistently dominated as a Brewer. As in sub-2.25 ERA. I think, in this case, an extension makes sense. Now, I am sure agent39/Josh can't speak publicly on how he'd react to my proposed extension, but I'd say that just from what I've observed stats-wise, Jeffress fits very well with Milwaukee, and it is in the Brewers' interest to keep a dominant performer in the fold.
  24. Harold Hutchison
    We're talking about offering someone who has missed more that 25% of the major league season in three of the seven years he has played? Hard pass for me. For $30-35 million a year... I'd need to be sure he'd be in 150+ games a season.
  25. Harold Hutchison
    1. I'd make it three batters or the end of the inning, whichever comes first. 2. No problem with that. 3. I'd actually make it August 15 - between the July 31 and September 1 deadlines. 4. If a pitcher is trying to pick off a runner, the clock should restart. 5. OK with the roster expansion, not OK with the 12-pitcher maximum. That's targeting the Brewers and other teams. 6. Depends on the way it's implemented. 7. Might be okay with that. 8. Depends on how that is implemented. I think they should also let teams trade amateur draft picks. Every other sport has that - and baseball should as well. Why not let a team trade down to get more picks to boost a farm system or trade picks to move up?
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