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Technically didn’t the runner on 3rd pass up Cain? Shouldn’t he be out? That’d be the most Brewers thing ever. -
I hope Aguilar’s season is the opposite of last year and he goes on a tear in the 2nd half of this season.
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He's pretty good, I guess...
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The funny thing is that several of the uber-negative "regulars" haven't posted tonight. It makes me think that there are several that only log on to the site to post IGT negativity. Sorry, I've been busy...
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This is what gets me worried. We end up making minor changes and hover around or slightly above .500. Either go all-in at some point while Yelich is here, or reload. That’s why I couldn’t stand the moves this off-season: going young with 3/5 of the starting rotation is what a rebuilding team should do, but then we signed Moose and Grandal to one-year deals, like a team going for it all would do. We didn’t go a clear direction, and here we are, hovering around .500 and wasting one of the 5 years we have Yelich under control.
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Do fans really though? I mean we all obviously love Yelich A LOT...but doesn't seem he has the ungodly appeal Braun had before everything went down. This is interesting. From what I see, Yelich’s appeal today is no less than that of Braun in his early years.
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Yes, if the Brewers ever were to make a big commitment to a player, Yelich is the type of player to do it with. He has major fan appeal and doing so would be a big win with the fan base, regardless of his production declines in his mid-thirties. If we are paying him 35M a year to be mediocre in his mid 30s that will not be a big win. That will be crippling. Braun had every bit of the same appeal in 2011 as Yelich has now. I agree, and I’d think most people on here would agree, that those later years would hinder the club. I do believe that to the general fan, they still see Braun as a better player than he is, based on how good he used to be, so they don’t likely see his contract as crippling. I’d guess that’s how they’d see Yelich too. Not that any of that matters as it’s all up to Stearns and company.
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Yes, if the Brewers ever were to make a big commitment to a player, Yelich is the type of player to do it with. He has major fan appeal and doing so would be a big win with the fan base, regardless of his production declines in his mid-thirties.
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While the old GMs’ lackluster track records of developing pitching doesn’t mean that Stearns will have similar difficulties, it does however show that developing great starting pitching isn’t easy. This is why I thought it to be foolish for a team one game away from the World Series to attempt to have 3/5 of the starting rotation be unproven. It’s a good approach for a rebuilding team, but not one that needed to just supplement to improve a few areas.
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I’m actually not opposed to this either since I don’t think we will take advantage of our time with Yelich. I don’t see it happening though.
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Do they though? Doesn't really seem like it. In fact, they seem to be decreasing for FA's who are in their 30's(which is where Yelich would be). So I don't see him getting 300 or 400 million as a FA in another 3+ years. For mid-tier or even upper-middle tier players I’d agree that the contracts haven’t grown compared to the superstar contracts. It wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility for Yelich to get an Arenado or Machado equivalent contract.
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Contracts will keep increasing too, so the 10 year/$300 million contracts will be $400 million before you know it. Now I know a lot can happen in three years so there are risks there, but if the Brewers were ever going to do one of these monster contracts, you’d have to think that Yelich is the best candidate for it.
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It’d be interesting if the Brewers were to offer that effective next year. Would give Yelich big guaranteed money sooner, and the Brewers would be paying it earlier in his career when he’s most productive.
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With the 2019 season not looking very promising at this point, we’ll be 2/5 through Yelich’s contract at the end of this season. He is the type of guy that only comes around once every decade (or more) and that you can build a franchise around. When is it time to attempt to extend Yelich? If we wait until free agency after 2022, he’s likely gone, so our best bet is likely to buy out some of his existing contract and give us a few extra years. There isn’t much of a proven core to the MLB club beyond this year, so unless Stearns makes some deals or we get improvements from within the organization, who knows if 2020 will be a rebuilding year of sorts. If that’s the case, then we’ll be 3/5 of the way through Yelich’s contract. It’d be a major shame if we aren’t able to take advantage of having one of the best players in MLB, and one of the best players in franchise history, by making another deep postseason run. I feel that as of now our window of opportunity is closing drastically. I’m sure I’m overreacting to an extent, but extending Yelich would extend the window greatly.
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Ok, let's talk it out as a real life scenario. We place Chacin on waivers. Any team claiming Jhoulys Chacin owes him over $3.25M for the rest of 2019. Chacin has a FIP near 6 and an ERA of 5.18, and a WHIP of 1.50 for the season. Which contender is making that claim and picking up that tab? The sellers aren't going to, because that's just a waste of their money. Contenders are likely in the market for better options than that. Who is paying $3.25M for a 2 and a half month rental of that? $3.25 million is nothing in the MLB. If someone thinks there’s value that can help them make the postseason, they’d spend that in a minute. Edit: However $4.5 million was too much for Stearns this off-season for Miley, and we’ve been struggling with starters all season.
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Shopping Grandal to the Dodgers
mtrebs replied to pacopete4's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
Think about how the Cubs felt watching the Marlins win 2 WS championships in their first decade of existence... Everyone always talks about the Cubs streak of losing. Yes, the 100+ years is quite the feat in futility, but at least they had franchise championships under their belt. We are at 50 years now, and while we’d have to do more than that all over again, and then some, we have nothing to fall back on. Now that the Cubs have won it again, we kind have sort of taken over the loser role as a franchise, just without the lovable part. -
Oh please. Leave Hader out of it. You cannot complain when the best reliver in all of baseball every once in awhile blows a save. It is somewhat concerning about the number/frequency of home runs that Hader is giving up. Potentially it could be from how they are using him this year, where he only plays like twice a week. Maybe he’s too rusty with that level of usage and one more outing per week may keep him more loose.
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Wow, can’t believe we won!
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If it goes to extras, we’ll lose, so we better somehow get a run here.
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It’s lining up for Vogt to take us down tonight.
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That slide by Hiura ranks up there with some of the best slides I’ve ever seen.
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Yeah, I couldn’t make it to today’s game either so I put my tickets up on StubHub. I normally sell them at around break-even, even after the StubHub fees. I had to lower them to half face value to sell the tickets for today. I get it. Who wants to go watch this team right now?
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Travis Shaw. About right. The grand slam was to Posey and it was only his 4th HR on the season. It seems like we’ve been giving up a lot of home runs to guys that don’t hit a lot of home runs lately.
