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I think at least one of Frelick, Mitchell, Wiemer or Taylor gets traded this off season maybe two depending on if the Brewers see Chourio as a viable option to start the year with the Brewers and not in AAA. I think Mitchell and Wiemer are probably safe one because of injury and the other because of their offensive ineffectiveness. If someone gets traded I think it will be Frelick or Taylor. Perkins will still be cheap so I think the Brewers hang onto him as he just doesn't have enough value to trade. He provides more value as the 5th OF or someone they move back and forth from AAA.

To be more precise here are the UFA for 2024 which middle of the order bat should the Brewers sign who is not named Ohtani. I can only really see one and that is J.D. Martinez and I am not sure he will leave LA. After that you have Hoskins, Gallo, and Chapman. Not really an exciting list after Ohtani and I don't think any of those players would be better than Canha.

I think Williams is more likely to be traded this off season than Burnes will be as I don't believe the Brewers will get offers that they will deem as appropriate for Burnes. I think at best you are looking at a 1 75-100 prospect and a low level prospect in return. So something like Mauricio and Clifford from the Mets. If you think the Brewers are going to get a top 50 prospect for Burnes you are setting yourself up for disappointment it is not going to happen.

Other than Ohtani there isn't a legitimate middle of the order bat in FA and there really hasn't been one in the last few years in FA other than Freeman and he wasn't coming to Milwaukee regardless of what the Brewers would have offered it was LA or Atlanta. Of all the FA bat pick ups the Canha and Santana types have been the more valuable pick ups in FA. There have been more busts in FA than there have been success. If the Brewers are to improve it is better to trade than it is to go through FA. Other than Olson there hasn't been much if any movement of middle of the order bats. Probably around what Conforto received last off season. I think the Brewers stay away from FA and will keep Canha who I think would be fine as a platoon bat at 1B and DH. Canha is a far better option than anyone else in FA not named Ohtani.

It is baseball everything that can happen or not happen should be expected. The team lost after the first game when their ace couldn't get past the 3rd inning without blowing up. Then their third best pitcher the wheels fell off after the 5th inning. The offense couldn't get going enough to overcome the disappoint in the starters. In playoff baseball your starters have to show up if they don't then you are in trouble no matter how many runs your hitters put up. I get over things really fast also. I was already over the game after about 5 minutes from when it ended.

I said if the Yankees job became available that he would probably take the Yankees job over the Mets. The Yankees job never became available so we will never know if he would have taken it over the Mets job. The Yankees could pay the same as the Mets or even more as they have countless number of times in the past.

This is completely 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000% false. Arnold and Counsell are good friends in fact early in the morning in Whitefish Bay you can see them taking walks together and discussing baseball. That doesn't sound like they don't get along with each other. https://www.mlb.com/news/craig-counsell-matt-arnold-work-in-step There are more articles about Counsell's and Arnold's friendship than there is of there being him not getting along with Arnold. I am not sure why everyone is saying the Mets and the Mets are the only team in baseball that will pay big money for a manager. Currently the highest paid manager is only paid about $6m a season with not the Yankees and not the Mets oh wait it is the Dodgers....... Wait are the Dodgers still in Brooklyn? I think they play in Los Angeles now? Anyways your right the only place that will pay a large amount is New York. The Mets only paid Showalter $3.5m wait that has to be typo because we all know Cohan overpays for everything! The real number was $30.5m!!!!! It must be the lying press because we all know Cohan overpays whenever he can! Seriously? You don't believe the Giants, Blue Jays or the White Sox won't pay top dollar for a manager because??? Just because someone can outspend doesn't mean they will. I also don't believe money is the driving point for Counsell I think being in contention for a WS is the driving point for Counsell and the way the Mets are currently constructed with no starting pitching and an aging core is not that appealing even at $10-15m a year if your goal is to be contending for a WS. I don't believe Counsell will want to be on a rebuild which I think is what Stearns is going to do with the Mets. He is going to go out and get the players he wants and I wouldn't be surprised if Stearns shakes up the whole roster by trading some of the vets on that team though I am not sure he will be able to get much for Lindor. For WS aspirations the Blue Jays make the most sense. They have under performed offensively with the talent they have with Vlad, Bichette and others. Toronto is also not afraid of giving out big contracts so hiring Counsell to a hefty contract to be their manager wouldn't be surprising at all. Toronto is also very similar to what the Brewers have now though with more talented hitters. The Giants are also another team that wouldn't be afraid of spending money on Counsell or on the team either as they are rumored to be a team willing to spend on Ohtani this off season. The Blue Jays should probably be the favorites if they let go of their current manager for Counsell as the team would be willing to spend both on players to improve their team and on a manager to get them over the hump in the playoffs.

If CC is going anywhere I think it will be to Toronto so much talent on that team and they consistently under perform. If there is a team that would be a WS contender and is similar to the Brewers it is Toronto. I don’t believe CC will go to NY.

I am predicting bad Peralta shows up today and gives up 4 runs in the first and then 3 more in the third before getting removed and the series is over. Brewers score 5 runs but lose 12-5.

This is all on Burnes. If you are an ace pitcher the three early runs is enough for you to win in the playoffs if you are not an ace then it is not enough. A 3-run lead didn't even last a whole inning and Burnes blew it that was the game in the 3rd inning it was over because Burnes couldn't keep an early 3-run lead everything after that is just noise. This loss is 100% on Burnes you can't be giving up 4 runs in 4 innings as an ace. The series is more than likely over as tomorrow is going to be a low scoring game if the Brewers are not able to jump out ahead early it is over. This was a bad team to be playing against as they match up better than the Marlins or even the Phillies do with the Brewers.

That is like 2 home games for the Rays.

For an ace 3-runs should be more than enough Burnes is not pitching like an ace today or this season. He is pitching more like a #3. Definitely don’t want the Brewers to extend Burnes beyond his last arb year. He looks to be someone who is going to regress a lot as he gets older. Whoever signs him to a long term contract will be regretting it after year 2 or 3.

Bad Burnes showed up today. Maybe he will cry about this in his next arbitration meeting.

Ouch under 20k people at the Rays game today lowest since 1919.

What I find weird is that the Brewers paid for the majority or all of their spring training facilities improvements. This would be a lot more than what they paid for those improvements but still the team should be paying for the majority but they won’t.

Giannis will not be signing a contract extension this year and don’t expect a discount. The Bucks will have to offer him a second super max deal next summer in order to sign him. So cap wise the Bucks are not going to improve between now and next summer. How well the Bucks play will determine if Giannis stays or goes. If the team is not competitive he won’t resign with the Bucks.

CC won’t win because you have Ross, Bell and Schumaker who all out performed the writers expectations for their team’s records. It is as simple as that. The Brewers would have had to win 100+ games for CC to win the MOY. It is dumb but that is how the writers look at this award. I don’t even expect CC to be the runner up. All 3 that were named will be ahead of CC because of the expectations for the teams they managed. You can even add Lovullo to the list but I think he gets knocked down due to winning it in 2017. I would give CC about a 5% chance of winning this award.

No thanks he was rather cancerous with the Celtics in the playoffs. The Celtics were also shopping him since they were eliminated. Buyer be ware with Brogdon.

Brogdon will be traded by Portland at some point. Portland already have a bunch of guards on their roster. Not sure on value for Brogdon but probably a first that is top 15 protected or a 2nd round pick. His value is somewhere between that.

The Cubs don’t own a tiebreaker against anyone. So they are eliminated.

It doesn’t matter this game means about as much as a spring training game does for the Brewers. He could pitch all 9 innings it doesn’t matter.

Why?

You can say whatever you want about coach Prime but his team doesn’t give up. Rather impressive so far.

That 2021 team was more of mirage than it was real. A lot of wins that were 1-run games. They went 31-17 in 1-run games in 2021. It was a bit of luck and a few players having career years. For as much devil magic the Cardinals have the Giants seem to have just as much.

But like two weeks ago this was supposed to be the Brewers. I was told the Brewers would be eliminated with the Cubs running away with the division.