JohnBriggs12

I'd want Trey Mancini or Chance Sisco back in any deal with Baltimore.

1, Hader 2. Phillips 3. Meideros 4. Clark 5. Whoever is drafted in first round.

That would be more offensive to baseball purists than the DH. Maybe they should ban pitchers from throwing faster than 96 mph (anything over 96 would be a ball). What's killing the game are all these relievers who can come in for an inning and throw upper 90's heat. Maybe teams could designate one "hard throwing" reliever who would be exempt. Think of the strategy involved with deciding when to use your designated hard thrower?

I'm with you 100%. Gallo = Matt Davidson.

And you know this because? A. Everybody assumes it B. Stearns has let you in on it C. It's not possible a young player already in the majors has any appeal whatsoever because they are building for 2023 and beyond when Arcia will be gone, not 2020 It's not what you would take Crickets, it's what Stearns would take and unless Stearns is on here or you have a pipeline to what he's thinking, I wouldn't rule out any possibility but I agree, none of these proposals are appealing, but not because some players have major league experience.

After posting those kinds of numbers, one would assume he wouldn't still be around but leave it to Brewers to consider resurrecting him. Who's next, Suppan? Really? You want to resurrect every other name guy, why not Capuano? Who are you referring to? I don't recall every advocating resurrecting pitchers in their late 30's coming off a season where they posted a WHiP over 1.8. Capuano's 2015 season make Garza's numbers look good by comparison and I want the Brewers to eat Garza's contract. I've advocated taking fliers on guys like Alfredo Simon who's only a year removed from being an All Star and who had 8 starts last year where he gave up one run or less. By the way, I don't consider Capuano to be a "name guy". He's a decade removed from being anything more than a 5th starter.

With the strikeout rate among position players at an all time high and pitchers struggling more than ever hitting, it's only a matter of time. Pitching is dominating the game now. I think we could see a DH in the NL as soon as 2017, certainly by 2020. Players union wants it. More and more NL owners are going to see it's not worth the risk having high priced pitchers hitting.

After posting those kinds of numbers, one would assume he wouldn't still be around but leave it to Brewers to consider resurrecting him. Who's next, Suppan?

This thread isn't ranking only the Brewers you'd actually consider trading but who'd have the highest value if you did. Prospects have lots of value.

1. Nelson 2. Arcia 3. Lucroy 4. Davis 5. Peralta 6. Braun 7. Jeffress 8. Lopez 9. Jungmann 10. Smith

Heyman mentioned Brewers still among possible landing spots for Pedro Alvarez (I would assume to play 3B) and it was reported earlier in the week that they were among the teams showing interest in Austin Jackson. If they are, and Stearns lands those two, I'll be the first to reverse field and give Stearns a big pat on the back. That would make the Brewers a lot more interesting team to watch in 2016 and give them some viable trade chips. Imagine a lineup with 4 hitters with 30 HR potential with Davis, Braun, Carter and Alvarez and a bona fide major league CF? Harvey's Wallbangers reincarnated! Counsell's Crushers?? Infield defense would take a hit but Bernie would get to slide a lot.

There was absolutely nothing wrong with what he had said. His issue and why the jsonline comment section type irrational, knee jerk, over reactive fans blew up is solely because he gets asked questions and tells the truth. We live in a world where truth is highly devalued. People need everything so sugar coated in order to make themselves feel good. A Brewer fan cannot handle a Brewer player simply saying that we are most likely not going to be competing for a playoff spot.... we all now that it true but it is not okay for a player to say so publicly. There prefer (actually NEED) the David Stearns, loop around the question, we are acquiring best talent to have sustained success in the future type answer. Only thing Lucroy is allowed to say, is "no matter the moves we make, we are going to go out and try to win the world series this season." Those fans can now sleep at night and the world is good. A GM doesn't need to go search to hard to find out Lucroy is a class act, blue collar, hard working, great guy, great teammate who is competitive and has a fire to win. They can ask anyone in the Brewers locker room or front office. Rangers can walk down and talk to Prince. His issue is he doesn't believe in lying or sugar coating the truth. Highly doubt a GM of a contending team is going to back away from Lucroy because he said he wants to compete, win, and get to a World Series. "Oh No! He may poison our locker room with that attitude!" "We can't get him! He is a cancer! He wants to win and will say it publicly!" This was about as "knee jerk" of a response to this situation as it gets. While society might be more PC, it still doesn't mean you just spout off about everything and anything and it all is okay. Lucroy chose to give his answer the way he did. While you might commend him, others won't and don't, including other MLB players. My only problem with Lucroy's remarks is that he's partially responsible for the current state of the team. He, like many Brewer hitters, didn't hit a lick last April, and it was that slow start that cemented in Attanasio's mind the need for a complete rebuild. Had he and a few more swung the bats like they were capable of early on in 2015, the current roster might be a lot more to his liking.

davis has two minor league options remaining. domingo santana has one minor league option remaining. if davis is kept optioned for most of the 2016 season, any major league club (including the brewers) would have an extra year of control of the player. that's an increase in value for any club. is it fair to davis to bury him in the minor leagues? probably not, but it may be in the brewers' best interests to do so. That would bring on an almost certain grievance from the union and not only that, it would sour the team's image or what's left of it among players who might consider an offer down the road. It's one thing for a team like the Cubs to hold back Bryant for two weeks, it's quite another for a team to send down their leading HR hitter the previous season for more "seasoning" at age 28.

Garza was arguably the worst starting pitcher in the NL last year who made at least 20 starts. Ok, it was a virtual tie between him and Lohse, but nobody else was close. Hill isn't the player he once was but he's not going to kill a team as bench bat with some versatility. Garza along with Lohse are the reasons the Brewers decided to blow up their roster. Now some may see that as a good thing in the long run, but he's a bounce back candidate only in the sense he can't be worse. No contender would touch him.

Looking at Houston's corner of/dh situation, it's hard to see where Braun fits so I'm skeptical too especially of a return of a prime prospect. Houston might not want to pay Colby Rasmus $15.8 million (obviously he's not a $16 million per year player and they may have extended the QO figuring he wouldn't take it) and would see Braun as a significant upgrade and a better value. The question would be what if anything beyond Rasmus they'd give up or will Brewers just look at an opportunity to get out from under Braun's deal and take a year of Rasmus as the return.

Arizona's paying Greinke how much? I seriously doubt they figured they'd recoup money by dealing Hill who had negative trade value at this point.

Dullness isn't Block's biggest problem. His biggest problem is that he is terrible at describing the action on the field and the context of what was going on. He brings zero insight to strategy, doesn't update people who are just tuning in as to the key moments that led to that point in the game and I could go on and on. The bottom line was if you tune in, it was hard following what was going on. He's made some progress, as his first year was unbelievably bad, but not enough. You are better off following the game on your phone or computer. At least you know what's going on. I never turned on the radio to listen unless I was driving and had no choice.

Arguments aside and there are cases to be made both ways, there needs to be uniformity.

Reed and either Moran or Tyler White? Brewers reportedly sniffing around on Austin Jackson...would make sense if Braun goes.

I live in Chicago and I'm a Directv customer. My reading of it is that it would cost me $85 for a single team subscription to watch Brewers only. If I had Comcast cable as my provider, I could pay the extra $10 to get the Brewer broadcast of Brewer/Cub games, as Comcast is the Cub cable provider, but as a Directv subscriber that option would not be available and I would get those games only through the Cub feed. That's a pretty significant savings though I got to say I'll miss watching Brewer games with the out of town perspectives and to get away from Brian and Bill, that I often used so I may opt to pay the $110 for the full package which is still down significantly. On the other hand, I want to see the single team subscription succeed wildly as I'd love for the NFL to adopt it too.

Royals were bottom feeders for 2 decades, drafting year after year in the top 10. They struck gold with Greinke as the 6th overall pick in 2002 and turned him and some better drafts in more recent years into the core of their current team. Losing like they did for 2 decades isn't exactly appealing Though even this team has benefitted greatly by failures of the two big market teams in their division, the Tigers and White Sox. Cubs and Astros went through historically bad seasons, with dramatic attendance drops that they could afford with much bigger local television and radio deals. They also have ability to compliment a young core with top of the line FA. I see Brewers purposely tanking this offseason, something they didn't really have to do. They got good returns with guys close to the majors in season last year for Gomez and Parra, but settled for nothing that enhances their chances the next 4-5 years for Lind. That made no sense. They could have kept Lind to start the year or even tried to extend him a couple years, found a bona fide major league CF in FA as a placeholder and held on to a valuable bench bat/platoon option in Rogers, and had a decent major league lineup that would have been better upon the arrival of Arcia. They also could have found a veteran arm to add to the mix but they seem content with trying to milk something out of the awful Garza deal even if that means him starting every 5th day and watching him get lit up but the good teams. I guess we can be thankful things don't appear to be quite as bad as in Cincinnati, but the Reds don't have Cub fans in their back yard making things even more miserable.

Any revenue sharing needs to have with it a minimum payroll requirement of at least $80 million and perhaps $100 million. Having a half dozen teams in the NL including the Brewers basically taking a stance refusing to compete is bad for the game.

Staying as positive as I can, I'm looking forward to seeing if Nelson or another starter can take a step forward to a true number 1. I'm also looking forward to see if Davies is the guy we saw in September over a full season. Offensively I'm looking forward to a big rebound year for Gennett and watching if Davis or Carter or both can win the NL HR title. Deep down, I'm pulling for them to exceed all expectations and throw a wrench into all this rebuild talk. Nothing would make me happier. Not expecting it to happen as most of their moves and lack of moves seemed designed to insure at least 95 losses, but I'm ever the eternal optimist. Along those lines I'm hoping we see Arcia by June and he explodes.

I don't have confidence in this team's ability but have to question you about a "drastic reduction in power"? They have two guys, albeit flawed, who are capable of competing for HR title in Davis and Carter, and Braun is still a good bet for 25-30 too. If you like Broxton (I don't...see Junior Lake), one thing he does possess is some pop. He might hit .215 and strike out 175 times but if he plays everyday, he'll hit 15-18 most likely. If Nieuwenhuis wins the job, he's capable of 12-15. There's others capable of double digit HR totals with enough AB's too. Gennett will give you 8-10 as would Villar if he plays regularly. If as I'm hoping they realize Hernan Perez belongs at 3rd, I think he's capable of 10-12 too.

That roster is going to beat the 2019 Cubs who'll have Rizzo, Bryant, Schwarber, Heyward, Russell all still in their primes and no doubt some major arms they'll simply buy on the open market? Dream on! Did you like read the article? Was that ever the claim? Umm no. Said 2019 the contention window should just be opening. Unless two of those pitchers turn out to be aces, that roster won't ever be any better than longshot contenders, something they always have the ability to do if they play their cards right and don't tear down the roster like they are doing now. Just that presently they appear intent on insuring that they'll have zero chance between now and then. They stand as good of chance at developing two aces with the draft picks they have this year and the guys they have in their system as they do by trading away all their remaining big league talent anyway. This is all a shell game and a fantasy that I'm not buying. Sorry.