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  1. JohnBriggs12
    Anybody else think a reunion with Junior Guerra would make sense? His walks were up last year but his overall numbers were solid, and even at 36, he doesn't have a ton of wear and tear on his arm.
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    The two guys I think make the most sense for the Brewers from a cost and need basis, C.J. Cron and Jake Lamb are still available. It's a waiting game to get them to accept the low end of their range. The Brewers should be able to land both without a huge investment. Both add power, and have logical platoon partners already on the roster. I still could see Joc Pederson as a target too, but he's got quite a few suitors and might be out of their range. I also am sure the Brewers will add arms on minor league deals or minimal contracts.
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    Small was considered the most advanced college pitchers in the draft when he was drafted in 2019. The knock on him was his ceiling wasn't all that high. He logged 107 innings in college in 2019 in the SEC, considered the best of any college conferences and Brewers protected him at lower levels that he dominated. He'd likely have started 2020 at AA and progressed to AAA. By the way at Mississippi State as a senior, in those 107 innings, he allowed just 61 hits and fanned 176. Not a lottery ticket at all. In fact, he's one of the more sure things they have to be a major league starter by 2022.
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    Arcia was one of the bright spots in 2020
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    Man, it would suck to see Feliciano and Turang as Cubs in the future... That would really suck. Of course. But it would suck a lot less if Contreras helped fix the offense and we won the division the next couple years and made deep playoff runs. He's a really good player and the offense as constructed last year wasn't nearly good enough. Got to give something to get something. And the Brewers have other legit catcher prospects than Feliciano too
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    I live in Illinois too and 15 of their 16 games have been shown in the Chicago area at least. All but week two against the Lions were available. I watched that on an outdoor screen at Buffalo Wild Wings for the price of a couple beers and some wings. In the last several years, typically no more than 3 or 4 Packer games were not shown in Chicago market. I may be old school but the joy is in the journey. Losses are going to happen. It's part of the ebb and flow of a season. But the 3 1/2 hours of a game with it's ebbs and flows is far superior to watching highlights. It irritates me that there's a satellite delay and sometimes my phone lets me know a score happened before I see it.
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    Getting Darvish off the books frees up money to bring back both Lester and Quintana on short term modest deals, which I believe is their plan. If they held on to Darvish, they'd have an ace presumably but their rotation would be very, very thin. Also wouldn't shock me if they somehow landed Bauer instead of Lester/Quintana
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    I don't think it was a bad deal for the Cubs at all. Darvish had a nice 12 start stretch in 2020, but overall as a Cub he was 15-14 with a 3.60 ERA and he's 34. Over his last couple years Davies is 17-11 with and ERA in the low 3's. Davies has been one of the more reliable pitchers in the NL since he came to the Brewers in 2015 going 50-36. Davies has made 9 starts at Wrigley and is 4-3 with a 3.70. Davies isn't chopped liver by any means even if David Stearns didn't seem value him very highly when he traded him to San Diego. Davies has often been compared to Hendricks. He throws a bit harder, but with a similar thinking mans approach and coolness. Add in the young players in the deal, I give the Cubs the edge for the long term certainly, and they've freed up cash they will likely use to add yet another starter.
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    He was no kid when he came up to the Braves in 1964 as a reliever. He was 25. He didn't become a starter until he was 28 yet still won over 300 games. Amazingly in his late 30's he had 3 consecutive seasons with 40+ starts, We'll never see that again. He was very reliable out of the pen in 65 the Braves last year in Milwaukee. That team had a nice top of the rotation with Cloninger, Blasingame and Ken Johnson who came from Astros early in the season. But Blasingame kind of ran out of gas the last 6 weeks (he was only 21). In hindsight had they moved Niekro to the rotation then, who knows what would have happened. They were only a half game back on August 26.
  10. JohnBriggs12
    No Darvish, but Tyler Chatwood is an intriguing FA and in the Brewer price range.
  11. JohnBriggs12
    With Bell now with Nationals, how about Ryan Zimmerman to platoon with Vogelbach? He's mashed lefties his entire career. Would he play for anyone other than the Nats? Maybe he could entice his draft mate Braun to come back for another go?
  12. JohnBriggs12
    I think he'll have to improve to be the next Hernan Perez. He had a fielding percentage of under .900 as a 3rd basemen in the minors. He wasn't very good at SS either. His natural position is 2B. Not as much power as Hernan either, though he'll take a walk now and then. Good news is his strikeout rate is fairly low and he had a bit of a power surge in AAA in 2019. Seems we already have a similar type player in Mathias, who certainly didn't seem overmatched in his limited action.
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    Cozens has power but he's got 188 hits at AAA and 361 K's at AAA. Even my limited math ability tells me that's just about 2 strikeouts for every hit. He does walk some, and why wouldn't a guy who's got that much trouble putting the ball in play. Those kind of strikeout numbers facing AAA pitching doesn't bode well for how he'd do against major league pitching. We've seen this guy before at the plate. His name is Keon Broxton. I get the poor man's Alex Claudio comparison for Milner. He kind of looks like Zach Davies and has a similar frame (6'3" 175) so I'm guessing he's not a hard thrower.
  14. JohnBriggs12
    Prior to last year, I considered Suarez to be the premier right handed slugger in the NL right up there with Alonso, and despite struggling last year he still had 15 HR. Strikeouts are an issue but this is one guy I hated having up there with the game on the line. Brewers as division rivals would have to overpay though.
  15. JohnBriggs12
    I've always like Moran. His slugging percentage and OPS has increased every year, and Miller Park/Am Fam Field would boost his production. He's barely passable at 3B, but with the K artists on the Brewer staff and the moving of infielders around, Counsell can work around that. I see a guy with 25-30 HR potential that doesn't strike out all that much.
  16. JohnBriggs12
    Garbage? Really? His 38 RBI in 2020 was 6 more than any other Brewer. While not a big time power bat, he's hit one HR every 23.3 AB's. The major league average is one every 29.7 ABs. Franco has surpassed that in every season he's played. His career OPS+ is 94, which is essentially average. He's had no serious injuries. He doesn't take a ton of walks but he doesn't strike out a ton either. He'd be valuable in the 6th spot in the order as a run producer. No he's not an All Star but he's a legit major league bat which is something the Brewers lacked for most of the last couple years at 3B.
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    I like the idea on its own merits, but I doubt that there is any chance that the MLB Player's Association is going to accept a rule that cuts a player's at-bats in half. But it also gives guys on the bench more AB's as once the starting pitcher is pulled, pinch hitters essentially will take 95% of the AB's in that spot in the lineup.
  18. JohnBriggs12
    I think Franco's probably going to get one year in the deal in the $6 million range in the current market. Cron makes a lot more sense than Moreland with Vogelbach under contract. Cron's about a $3-4 million player in this market. I think guys in this category for the most part will take one year deals at modest amounts. If Brewers could get those two for $10 million combined I think they could find the money.
  19. JohnBriggs12
    True, but unfortunately baseball more than any other sport is one where players are judged by statistics, and stats weren't kept as meticulously and preserved as they have been for the traditional major leagues for well over a century. I look forward to seeing and reading what they have. We know the names of the top of the top, but digging into the detailed history is something I look forward to and hope there's enough to make it representative.
  20. JohnBriggs12
    He was serviceable. He was used in a ton of games and for the most part got the job done. He just never did it all that impressively.
  21. JohnBriggs12
    I remember being at a game he pitched at Miller Park back in 2017. I wasn't familiar with him but he threw the ball very well that day, eventually losing a duel with Jimmy Nelson that day. He had not pitched above A ball when the Padres took him in Rule 5 draft in 2016 and up to that point his minor league stats didn't really stand out either. Interesting move. There's something there that someone liked in the Brewer organization.
  22. JohnBriggs12
    Newly signed OF/1B Dustin Peterson is playing for Sultanes de Monterrey in the Mexican Pacific Winter League and doing quite well: .316/.373/.602
  23. JohnBriggs12
    Peterson played for the Sugar Land Skeeters in 2020 and hit .309/.400/.500. His manager was Pete Incaviglia. He's tearing up the Mexican Pacific Winter League to the tune of .316/.373/.602 with 11 HR in 150 AB's.
  24. JohnBriggs12
    Ok, the current administration says there will be 20 million vaccinated in December, 30 million in January and 50 million in February. Most experts say by February there will be a 3rd if not a 4th vaccine. Lets look at the numbers. There are 21 million healthcare workers who are first in line along with a little over 3 million long care facility residents. The next large group is seniors 65 and over. There are reportedly 55 million or so 65 and over in the U.S. So that's basically 80 million or so in line plus the so-called essential workers ahead of the general population. I would argue as hard as Trump worked to get sports up and running for the mental health of the nation, that if he were president, he would classify the maybe 30-50 thousand in day to day operations of baseball as essential, certainly the 5-10,000 involved at the major league level. Who knows with Biden? Certainly by March most of those in the high risk groups will be vaccinated. Healthy athletes in their 20's and 30's are at extremely low levels of risk from this disease. It's ridiculous to think they can't start the season on time. Vaccinated individuals are going to be given cards and/or apps on their phones to prove they've been vaccinated. Baseball is so far behind football it's ridiculous.
  25. JohnBriggs12
    Not sure about the Aguilar comparison, but he's been a good contact hitter in the upper minors for some time. Would you prefer a guy like him for close to minimum salary over a more proven power bat like Cron for $4 million or so? I mean Freitas can play 1B and he's got a career AAA line of .326/.403/.474 which is considerably better than Rayelo.
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