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I think it would be best to just move Yelich to DH permanently as his defense in the OF has completely collapsed this year. Renfroe is a better LF than he is a RF defensively. Renfroe has the arm to play RF but he isn't the greatest at getting to fly balls I would prefer him in LF than RF. Having Frelick/Mitchell in CF, Mitchell/Taylor in RF and then Renfroe/Mitchell/Taylor/Yelich in LF gives the Brewers the best OF defense. I don't know if the Brewers will trade one of their young OF's but it is possible. I think the more likely outcome is that they are all still with the Brewers. I think it is more likely that Taylor is traded though I don't think the Brewers will get much in return for him. I think the A's maybe a good fit for Taylor something like Hiura and Taylor for Puk and Irvin. That gives the Brewers a questionable relief pitcher in Puk and another back end of the rotation starter in Irvin. You could exchange Hiura for Small in this package but I would prefer to keep Small for a different trade or as starting pitching depth. Both Hiura and Taylor scream A's type of players to me. Taylor being someone very similar to Canha and others the A's have had in the OF recently. I think you mean Rodriguez as Henderson is the Orioles top positional prospect. Of all the trades that I have seen for Burnes I think the Orioles make the most sense as they have a lot of what I think the Brewers will want in return for Burnes. The Orioles also have a lot of free salary that they could dedicate this off season to just about anyone. For example the Orioles could extend Burnes at $30m a season and sign Judge to a $30m a season contract and pay all of the increases to the players they already have and that would still leave them about $20m short of what the Brewers payroll is this year. So the Orioles could spend another $20m in salary on other parts of their team. I believe the Orioles are going to be that mystery team this off season who will be in on someone like Judge. Everyone is predicting Mets, Yankees or Red Sox but I think the Orioles are going to be really aggressive this off season in free agency and in trades. I wouldn't be surprised if the Orioles offer a trade similar to what the D-backs did with the Braves for Shelby Miller but with more prospects than MLB players (Inciarte and Blair). So something like what I proposed with Rodriguez and Holliday leading the deal. Holliday would actually be a pretty good comp with Swanson.

The at bat ended the same way that it would have with Hiura in there. Hiura was lucky he got hit by a pitch because that last PA was looking like a strike out for Hiura.

I think a trade of Rendon for Yelich is about as equal as it could be and I don't think the Angels would be interested in eating any of Rendon's salary or adding a prospect or two to the deal. Overall Yelich is going to cost more than Rendon when taking in his whole contract compared to Rendon. Also it would be three years early not two for the Brewers. Yelich is eligible to be a FA in 2030 and Rendon in 2027. I think at most you could get about $7-10m in salary relief from the Angels if you needed more you would have to add prospects. This would be without the Angels sending any other prospects over. I would rather live with resigning Jace and having him platoon with Urias at 3B than trading Yelich for Rendon. That wrist injury could kill all of Rendon's power and then you are back to what the Brewers have with Yelich. I still think Baltimore makes the most sense for the Brewers to make a trade with if it means trading Burnes. Rodriguez is ready to start in the majors and he profiles as a top of the rotation starter. If you could get Rodriguez, Holliday and some lower level prospects in a trade I think the Brewers have to pull the trigger on that trade. Rordiguez would be able to join the rotation in 2023 and then in 2024 if you keep Woodruff you have a rotation of Woodruff, Peralta, Ashby, Rodriguez and Gasser. It basically resets everything and you have a very competitive team in 2024 with the starting rotation. The Brewers would then have Holliday who looks like someone who could move really fast in the minors and be your starting SS in 2025 or 2026. The Orioles have a lot of middle infielders in Henderson, Westburg, Norby, Hernaiz, Ortiz and Prieto so losing Holliday wouldn't hurt as much. Henderson looks to be either the Orioles starting SS, 2B, or 3B of the future. I think he probably fits best at SS or 3B and I think they will have him play SS in 2023 so that may make Holliday available this offseason.

Houses in Phoenix are still selling at a premium. Even new houses in some areas are starting at $600k. The migration of people from California needs to stop already but is unlikely as a lot of jobs are moving from NY and California to Phoenix. The company I work for will be moving another group from NYC to Phoenix soon. These are also all high paying jobs in finance. Then there is the TSMC plant opening up in the next year or two. But I have heard those jobs will pay closer to Taiwan wages. Which is going to be challenging for those workers to find affordable housing in that area. Majority of the houses in that area range from $400k - 2m+.

It is mostly Germany that is in trouble. Which basically means all of western Europe because Germany is basically the biggest economy in western Europe. France is not even being impacted by the Ukraine war. Why is that? It is because France gets about 70% of its electricity from nuclear power plants compared to Germany which only gets about 13% because Germany has shut down the majority of their nuclear power plants. Germany was supposed to shut down all of its nuclear power plants by the end of this year and thankfully for Germany the Ukraine war stopped this. Not that I want to see a positive out of war but this is a positive for Germany. I believe Germany only has 3 operational nuclear plants right now but could bring a few more back online that they shutdown. Ironically Germany has started to use more coal to fuel its energy deficiency which we all know now is one of the least green friendly options. I can't believe I am going to say this but the world needs to be more like France when it comes to energy options. Right now France gets 69% from nuclear, 11% from hyrdro, 7% wind, 6% gas, 2% solar and 5% other. If the US wanted to be serious about green energy it would follow the French model which is more nuclear. The US currently sits at about 19% of its total energy from nuclear. That needs to increase to about 50-65% in the next 20-30 years. Renewables are right around where they should be. The US is already at about the same for wind and solar as France is so that goal has been reached. Hopefully our government wakes up and starts investing more into nuclear. While the US can produce enough on its own through natural gas it is time to start retiring the coal plants. If the US replaces its coal plants with nuclear plants that would get the US to about 40% nuclear. Also one nuclear plant equals about two coal plants or about 3 (1gw) sized renewable plants. Not sure why we are not making more nuclear plants as this seems to be the correct choice over green renewable plants. Environmentally in total cost to the environment nuclear is the best option.

If it is a fast charging station then 30 minutes would be about an 80%+ charge. But I highly doubt Kwik Trip installed one of those it is probably just a basic one.

If that is what you got out of that then sure you just throw your hands up and say, 'well, no point anyway.' Which is not what I said at all. I said the Brewers are not interested in an extension with Burnes and if they were it would have been in 2018 not because he was a rookie but because of his age. Take a quick look at the age at which Peralta and Ashby signed theirs they are and were a lot younger than Burnes. What Attanasio says and what the Brewers front office does are two different things. Not sure why you are confused by this. It is not that the Brewers don't want him it is that the risk of a pitcher being absolutely worthless in a year or two in their deal is far higher as they get closer to their age 30 season. Burnes is too close to that age 30 season thus the risk is far to high for the Brewers to take on. This is what we call being a small market team in MLB. Small market teams can't take on these huge enormous risks. If they go sour it ruins the franchise for a long time. Just look at how the Yelich contract has hindered the Brewers. Nice strawman. You still haven't answered why the Brewers should come to Burnes with an extension offer if they are not even interested in doing one. It is fairly obvious they just want to go year to year with Burnes. I don't see why this is a problem. The Brewers are not going to pay FA prices for a pitcher so again why should they come to Burnes with an offer? If it is just optics then that is just dumb casual fan stuff.

I don't think the Brewers are or ever were going to reach to Burnes for a contract extension. If they were it would have been in 2018. Right now at age 27 it doesn't make much sense for the Brewers to offer an extension or even to talk to Burnes about one. If you are not going to be interested in doing a long term contract why approach someone asking about one? I think some of you are missing the point that Burnes can also contact the Brewers and ask for an extension. He hasn't so I don't believe he is all that insulted by not being approached. To me this is not an issue. The Brewers don't want to extend Burnes beyond his arbitration years and why would they talk to him about an extension that they are not interested in doing?

Adames says sure why not.

I think he is the reserve for someone on the Brewers probably Black. Might be Ward plays the first half and Black the second if healthy. The reason Black is listed as an OF is because the teams draft positions. Meaning each team gets a randomly selected position that they have to fill. It looks like the Brewers got C, 1B and OF. I think Black will still get chances to play in the INF but he will be used more as a utility player.

He is usually really reliable but once the month turns to January not so much.

Unlikely with his delivery. At best I think you could get 3-innings from him. He is better as a reliever.

This is the dumbest thing I have seen posted in a long time. Almost as dumb as wearing the wrong baseball hat.

Wong is absolute garbage at defense this year that option is definitely not being picked up. His offense is just not good enough to be this bad at defense. This is starting to become Weeks bad defensively.

Not even remotely true just about every team has someone like Houser in the #5 spot in the rotation.

None of those things matter to the Mets ownership group. The Mets ownership would still go out and sign someone to a 10-year $400m contract with Yelich's albatross contract.

The Cubs traded Chris Carpenter a reliever who had TJ surgery in the same off season and Xander Bogaerts brother. So the compensation will be just about nothing. Also this looks to be a title only for Alderson and is not the same position that Stearns has now. This would actually be a step down from his current position with the Brewers.

He is better defensively at DH than in the OF.

Yelich has to be the DH next year and I don't care if that means 2 or 3 rookies in the OF.

Some horrible defense this inning.

That is a lot of pitchers thrown hopefully they are all ok.

Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeroy Jenkins!!!!!!!!

Definitely wasn’t but the pitcher had a DP there. Not sure why they went home there.

Obviously but for the ones who find baseball interesting these are some must needed changes.

There is still an umpire in tennis even with all of the technical advancements that have been used there. I really don't understand why MLB hasn't put in a tennis like system for fair and foul balls. Other than a money excuse it should be fairly easy for MLB to do this. Roboumps needs to happen at some point and you still need umpires to call safe and out plays. So the umpire is not going anywhere. A system where balls and strikes are relayed to the umpire that are on the border of the strike zone would be perfect IMHO. The strike zone needs to be called consistently from game to game and the only way to do that is to put in an automated strike zone. Without it all we get are horrible umpires making horrible calls. These are not 1-2 inches off the strike zone that they are calling. These are completely unhittable balls and the best a hitter can hope for is either a ball off the end of the bat that finds its way for a single or fouling the ball off which they shouldn't have to be swinging at anyways. If a pitcher hits their spot and it is a strike then it should be a strike rewarding a pitcher for hitting their spots and the pitch being out of the strike zone being called a strike is just dumb.