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A big NO on trading Adamczewsk, that dude has to fabulous of a hit tool for him to be included in any short term player trade.

Reid Detmers? Good underlying numbers Two more years of team control

We don't know what the incentives/escalators are built in though.

So my question is twofold 1. First, why isn't Matt Arnold signed too an extension already? 2. Why aren't high quality GM's paid more than they seem to be? It was hard to find clear numbers for MLB GM's compared to say managers or players. That said, i couldn't find anything showing a GM making even just 10 million per. The highest paid GM that i could find was Andrew Friedman when he signed a 7ry/35 million dollar deal with the Dodgers. In the grand scheme baseball economics, that strikes me as pocket change for easily the most important person in a team's organization, so long as that person is given the power to run his organization without to much interference. A GM who is given a budget and largely told have at it, he won't just choose players to sign/cut loose, they help build the whole front office staff working underneath him. Who oversees the draft. Those who are highest in charge of scouting very young Latin players. How well he gets along with companions at work to where a GM is willing to take input on decisions. A quality GM like that who wins and builds a strong overall organization, that seems easily worth at least 10 million per.to me. That brings me to Matt Arnold who is in the last year of his contract if what i read is correct. I won't claim to know if Arnold has aspirations beyond the small market Brewers, similar to David Stearns leaving for the Mets. If that ends up being the case, i'd say thanks and wish him well so long as it wasn't with say the Cardinals. That said, if Arnold was open to staying, but were to leave with contract issues being a sizable factor as to why, i will be irritated given what GM's are paid. This current Brewers organization is humming along on so many levels and Matt Arnold deserves a bunch of credit as to why. I'd really hate to see him leave over maybe 3-5 million per, peanuts in the overall team revenues from year to year.

I've wondered why this took so long. Black hasn't had a legit place anywhere on the infield for awhile now, yet he's a very good athlete, which helps in chasing down fly balls

Given our small market status, pretty much nobody on the roster should be off limits to being traded before they can reach free agency. That said, as with any potential trade, whether it would make sense for the Brewers would reside in the exact details of the trade since a variety of factors could impact if the trade made sense. Quality of players offered in return Service time of all players involved Money in the present What kind of money the team would be ok risking on a pitching contract How much money Attanasio is willing to spend on future payrolls If other starters like Peralta, Lauer, Houser, and Ashby continued pitching well If those above also remained healthy I'm sure that the Brewers front office at least thinks about this stuff now, even if they have no real intention of trading a starter any time soon this season. It's a constant balance which all winning small market teams face as they must always focus more on the present and future compared to teams with much larger revenue streams.

I remember being so excited when i saw the Badgers landed this current coaching staff. Never would i have thought the overall results of their tenure would be this disappointing. Sure, Granato has had to deal with quite a few of his players leaving early to go pro, but that is pretty common for good college programs, without them falling apart like Wisconsin has.

For whatever reason, baseball is to afraid to change rules in hopes of making the game more entertaining to fans. The NFL and NBA regularly tweak their rules in ways they feel will make their product better, to the point that when these changes happen, often fans just shrug and let things play out to see if the result is a better product. With baseball though, often there is freak out over changes compared to other sports, for tradition reasons i guess. Oh my lord, we are going to start extra innings with a runner on second base or say shifting might be limited. If the NFL people were in charge of baseball, i highly doubt that they'd be so afraid to try and shake things up in hopes of a more entertaining game.

I wouldn't Devin is really good and really cheap, which will make him valuable to the team going forward, regardless of this dumb mistake which he's made.

Up 5-1 to down 7-5 while our two best relief pitchers watched from the bullpen.

Counsell of prior years would have used Williams in that really high leverage spot instead of being a slave to slotting pitchers by select innings.

Clearly the biggest concern is that Yelich is rarely driving the ball, whether it's into the gaps for doubles or home runs. The question then is why? Is he dealing with a nagging injury which is the main cause? Is it instead a mix of minor injuries and all the time missed which has thrown off his timing at the plate? Or is it mainly a mental issue to where the struggles/inability to hit as he expects to do, it's gotten into his head and thus as each game goes by with him rolling over on even grooved pitches that he used to crush, his frustration within himself just deepens? Then again, it very well could be a combination of all of the above. So long as it's not mainly being caused by say his back issues or any other specific injury that could negatively impact his performance for years to come, i'm reasonably confident that Christian will bounce back, just probably not to his MVP level seasons.

Except he's barely been needed, taking only 97 (20th most, about 2.2%) of the Brewers 4,382 total position player plate appearances from 2020-21. When he has been sparingly called upon, he has posted a 115 wRC+, putting him in a three way tie for 5th on the team along with Yelich & Wong. Yea, Jace is a decent utility player. He can play multiple positions, he takes walks at an above average rate, and he has a little bit of power. I'm fine with him in the role he has. In 97 at bats over the two seasons with the Brewers, Jace has drawn 20 walks leading to roughly a .350 OBP and he's hit 4 home runs.

Regarding Cabrera, he's been continuously available seemingly every year, always seems somewhat productive, always signed for relatively cheap, yet Stearns has never gone that way. I've also wondered why Stearns hasn't shown interest in Cabrera over the last 2-3 years? Hell, he signed with Arizona this year for only 1.7 million, pocket change.

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