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This. In regards to the extension, I don’t understand how anyone can be any amount of upset about this. Yelich just put up back-to-back MVP worthy seasons, is on track to be a future hall of famer, and is the type of player/body type that can produce into his mid-30s. 22 will likely end up in the rafters in Milwaukee forever. There is legitimately no one in baseball not named Trout that is more worthy of a long-term deal, and every other team in baseball is jealous of the Brewers for inking this deal right now. When you factor dollars in as well, as a Brewers fan which deal would you take for our small-market team from this list? Rendon 7 years/$245m ($35m AAV) Harper 13 years/$330m ($25mAAV) Machado 10 years/$300m ($30m AAV) Arenado 8 years/$260m ($32.5m AAV) Trout 12 years/$426m ($35.5 AAV) Yelich 9 years/$215 m ($23.8 AAV) Even with our obvious bias aside, when factoring in length of deal, dollars (factoring in team resources), and production - the answer is Yelich, every time. Yes every long term deal has risk, and sure this could end up being an albatross by the end of the deal. But this is a no-brainer and a great day for Brewers fans. Enjoy it. (Also I’ll enjoy it even more when I hear that it is official...) -
The bridge between the “m” and the “b” is the one misstep, and for me it ruins it. Obviously not a huge deal at all, but I just can’t not look at it. Just looks weird. Plus it’s not actually truly an “m” and a “b” anymore (nitpicking...I know). Revert that connection to the old separated bridge and I think it looks great, might even prefer it to the old logo. Problem is, then it would look too similar, and they wouldn’t be able to sell as much new stuff. Errr...I mean then we would have no way to symbolize the connection between the team and the city
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I’m saying that in MLB, more people would care about their 6 or 7-seed team because they actually have a shot, just like we all cared about our 5-seed last year even though they were the 10th best team in the playoffs. In the NBA, even a 5-seed has no shot, much less the 8-seed, which is the main reason no one cares.
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Big difference in MLB vs NBA. In the NBA, the last team in has literally 0% chance of winning the title. In MLB, the last team in has won the title multiple times. And as mentioned, that’s an argument against expanding the MLB playoffs. You inevitably will eventually have some .500 or even sub-.500 teams advance to and even win the World Series
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Love the idea of having a 3-game series all at the higher seed’s ballpark in the wild card round. The lower seed already doesn’t get a home game, so at least make it a series instead of one game. Everything else I hate.
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Brewers sign Gyorko - MLB deal
BuckyBrewer61 replied to KeithStone53151's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
It’s a business. Like actually, plain and simple, a business. Hard stop. Just because there’s a game on the field that we all care about doesn’t mean Mark or any other business owner would run it differently than any other business. And no business owner puts his own personal money into his company unless he expects more in return. Mark’s not making $350 million extra dollars back into his own pocket if he signs Cole no matter how many World Series he wins. It’s a business. And the Brewers profits (which is money they actually will reinvest...like businesses do) are known to be significantly less than other ball clubs around MLB. It sucks that small market teams are at a disadvantage. But the “Mark should spend all his own money because he’s rich” clamoring is getting old -
Brewers sign Gyorko - MLB deal
BuckyBrewer61 replied to KeithStone53151's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
A bit of an aside...and by no means do I think the Brewers are tanking or intentionally cutting payroll. Just because Christian Yelich is on our team doesn’t mean we need to “go for it” and make some big splash. Would I like to see it? Sure I would. But one player does not make a contender in baseball. It’s not like basketball where you can sell every asset to get Anthony Davis just because you have LeBron, and in turn become certain instant contenders. Mike Trout is on a trajectory to join the conversation of best baseball players of all time. In 9 seasons, he has made one postseason appearance and won zero games. And that was with many big splashy free agent signings along the way Of course you keep your roster and expectations in mind when you make personnel decisions. But those expectations do not fall solely on one player. -
I get that this offseason hasn’t been sexy, but these deals have all been solid value and small-market team-friendly. Unless you actually thought the Brewers would sign a giant FA contract like they never have before, or that Opening Day rosters are set in December, not sure what’s not to like about this offseason to date.
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Just look back at last year’s pre-Spring Training Bleacher Report article for the offseason winners and losers. They credit 3 teams as winners: 1. Cincinnati Reds 2. New York Mets 3. Washington Nationals Clearly only one of those teams was actually a winner, and was lauded in the article for wisely not giving Bryce Harper $300mil. We see it over and over, the teams making headlines in the offseason don’t consistently make headlines come summer/fall. David Stearns is having a very nice offseason filling holes with good pieces, even if the average fan doesn’t recognize their names. And he’s not finished.
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Would imagine there is a possibility of this. Braun isn’t exactly well-liked around MLB. If he rakes, any fan base will be happy with him, but if not he could be turned on quickly. But not in Milwaukee. And I do believe winning in Milwaukee would mean more to him than anywhere else.
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It does fill a hole that does exist, though. This moves Braun to 1B, and fills 40-50 games of OF at bats with a good hitter instead of Gamel. They need bats, and this fills that need. Love their creativity in filling these holes, even if they did pay a lot. $10m for 40-50 OF games is strong money to pay. Meant that in addition to the 80 or so games you could move Braun to 1B. Then Braun can play a handful in the OF as well, and Gamel can be a true 5th OF - start once a week or so and PH. Clearly, Garcia is going to get a full starter’s worth of at bats
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It does fill a hole that does exist, though. This moves Braun to 1B, and fills 40-50 games of OF at bats with a good hitter instead of Gamel. They need bats, and this fills that need. Love their creativity in filling these holes, even if they did pay a lot.
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This. Garcia appeared to be part of Stearns’ plan from early on. Think the market was hotter - both overall and for Garcia - than anticipated. But he was plan A and I don’t think Stearns was going to be denied here. No it’s not Cole/Rendon/Strasburg money, but for those bemoaning how cheap Mark A is this offseason, here is an example of the Brewers loosening the pursestrings to get their guy.
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Madison Bumgarner to the Dbacks, 5-years/$85M
BuckyBrewer61 replied to Brewcrewin07's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
When it comes down to it, huge free agent contracts are simply a gamble. And with giant contracts, the best case scenario is it’s a fair deal, most often it’s a good deal for a few years then a bad deal on the back end, and in some cases it’s an all around bad deal from the start. When you’re the Yankees, Nats, Dodgers, Angels...you can afford a bad big contract. Even multiple.. Look at how much dead money is on those rosters BEFORE they go out and still hand out mega deals. Pujols for the Angels, Ellsbury and Tulowitzki for the Yankees, the Dodgers paid Homer Bailey $20mil just to go home last year. The Brewers can’t do that. If they signed Strasburg then he got hurt, then fans would really learn how it feels to scrape the bottom of the barrel. When you only have so many eggs, you don’t put them in one basket. Sure maybe it could work out, but history tells us it’s less likely, and it’s a fool’s strategy. -
Milwaukee has to recycle it’s talent to compete. They can’t sign top free agents and it’s looking like they won’t even sign middle of the road free agent starting pitchers. Remember a few years ago when the Brewers were desperately trying to win and held onto the best players for awhile, guys like Lucroy and Gomez? Did eventually trading them kill this team? No, it got them to where they are today. Had they hung onto those guys they would have continued their slow descent to mediocrity. Trading Hader is not going to kill us and it’s not even remotely similar to trading Yelich. Hader's controllable through 2023. He's not comparable to Gomez or Lucroy's situation. I'd hold on to him for 2 more years and they can still get a haul. You assume he’ll still warrant a “haul” in two years. I’d guess he’ll still be good then, but maybe not. And he certainly will have less value given less years of control. But we’ve seen repeatedly the Brewers failing to sell high on their assets over the years - Aramis Ramirez, Casey McGehee, even Lucroy and Gomez as mentioned were traded after their value peaked. People see a potential Hader trade as a sign of a rebuild, I believe management sees it as a reload. Maximize value at its peak and restock on controllable assets before you lose the chance. And if you don’t get great value offered in return, then they’ll happily keep him. It’s a win-win.
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Gerrit Cole to Yankees - 9 years / $324 million
BuckyBrewer61 replied to Eye Black's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
That’s the thing though - when you’re the Yankees, it doesn’t matter if it blows up. Jacoby Ellsbury made $42M the past two seasons to do nothing, and they still turn around and hand out contracts like this, no big deal. The huge advantage of big market money goes well beyond the big headline free agent signings. -
While I understand and agree with the importance of building the minor league system, the thing Stearns is always focused on - and we hear over and over again - is obtaining young, controllable talent. He has a lot of overall value including years of team control. Right now is the time to cash in those assets for major league ready talent, and if/when the time comes to exchange those assets for minor league/prospect talent I suspect he will do so. Bottom line, he is putting us in position to have valuable assets for years to come. At this point they are more heavily major league assets, and I for one will enjoy that while I can.
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I guess the rebrand is working on me if the goal was an increase in merchandise sales... I just bought some extra “old” ball in glove caps since I assume those won’t be readily available in the future
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Random thought, may be mentioned earlier in the thread but didn’t page through all of it - I’m sure I’m forgetting someone, or maybe many people...but this feels like the biggest free agent contract that’s been signed this early (or pre-February for that matter) in a couple years. Earliest one I can think of was Lo Cain in January 2017, otherwise the last 2 offseason have been mostly dead until pitchers and catchers report Maybe the start of a more active Hot Stove this year?
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I won’t rehash my opinion on the new primary logo any more as I’ve rambled enough earlier in this thread. But my thoughts: - My only big gripe is the bridge connecting the m and b. I’ll get over it. - Other updates to the ball in glove are fine, pretty neutral - Bricks in the state of Wisconsin outline and mean face Barrelman were unnecessary changes. Overall a meh, but I’d like them better without them. - Like the barley seams baseball a lot, and nice to have a good secondary logo to put on the sleeve - Home cream, pinstripes, and road greys are excellent. Nod to the past with those blue and yellow striped sleeve cuffs, I’m a fan on the block letters and the colors look great. And I wasn’t originally a fan of the navy and blue, I’ve been a royal blue guy but this combo really looks good. - The navy alternate...not exactly sure why, but I don’t like it. Generally like cursive but it looks a little out of place in this uni set. There a faint bit of light blue in the circle logo, could’ve used that for an alternate? I think that uni will be the first to be tweaked. Overall, I give it a B+. Big upgrade from the generic barley M set IMO.
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Hears Astros are using cameras to steal signs Hears the Brewers have been accused of the same
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Just because it’s small doesn’t mean it’s insignificant. IMO the bridge noticeably changes the logo for the worse, and to me that isn’t nitpicky. The ball seam is a very small change too. So if that bothers you, you can understand how the bridge bothers others.
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Ok here are my best mobile device amateur photo editing skills in all their glory Just losing the bridge alone and restoring the true “m” and “b” makes this logo update 10x more palatable to me
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All told, if they just got rid of the bridge between the m and the b and kept them separated, I think it’d actually be ok. The more I stare at it, the more that sticks out as the most egregious error. Also, I still call it the First Wisconsin building
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Said on the radio today that a press event to unveil the new logo/uniforms is being held next week. They didn’t say exactly when.
