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  1. Roderick
    Well it at least means that no teams (do they still split by league?) with a worse record wanted to pick up the player.
  2. Roderick
    The Cardinals are on the list from the reporter. I don't even know where to begin with that if he was actually traded to the Cardinals.
  3. Roderick
    I assume the $8M and change left on Hill's contract would be more than the Royals would do, especially if they want to keep some flexibility for later. So the Brewers would have to and could eat a chunk, $5Mish?, and hopefully improve the prospect that much more.
  4. Roderick
    Im sorry, I was not clear. What I meant to say was, if Chris Carter were a Free Agent right now. What could he command on the open market. After the start he has had, you think he would only command the league minimum? If that's the case, then yes, he is worthless, do not trade him. Also, why the heck are we paying him 2.5 million if he could only now get league min from every other team, is Milwaukee really that bad a place to live and play? I'm sure he misunderstood the point of your post. Tough to say, because midyear rosters are pretty set versus the offseason. So my response would be if the season just ended and it was the offseason, he would get a 2016 contract of ~$5M if he were suddenly on the free agent market today would be my guess. Positives because he is not tied up long term, but could be kept if the team wanted. As for midseason value, if only one team has a need, less, but if two teams in contention with deep pockets have a need, then you may have a bidding war.
  5. Roderick
    I really only pay attention to the Brewers, but I would find it very hard to believe that any team would pay him a $8M (prorated obviously) contract for this year. And then kick in three prospects to boot, to make it apples to apples.
  6. Roderick
    I think we can be fairly confident that Lind was worth alot more on the trade market when we traded him than Carter would have trade value right now. I think most GMs are thinking that Carter's true self is the .199 batting average he put up last year (.161 ave the last 15 games). Houston wouldn't even retain him for nothing other than his salary cost, which is less than what Lind makes this year. I don't think the Brewers had much competition to sign him at the time either, right? So knowing all of this and what actual GMs in the league have actually done regarding Lind and Carter, I think it is clear we would not get as much as we got from the Lind trade if we were to trade Carter today.
  7. Roderick
    If I had a playoff contending team, had slightly above average depth of pockets, and was looking at playing a replacement level catcher for the next two years, and did not have any other holes (where I would have to keep Arcia because I will need a SS next year, etc) I would trade quite a bit. Ignoring the fact you would dicker individually about the prospects involved, as you can see from our own compiled top 25 prospect list variations on what some people thought of prospects versus others. Like for some reason I am not that high on Gatewood and Harrison. To me if the other club puts a value on acquiring them, that is just fine with me. Also ignoring that the team trading Lucroy doesn't require a certain type of prospect. For example, requiring starting pitching that is one year away. We are assuming years away and just want the best available prospect(s). Also another assumption, that there are no other average or better catchers available by another trade that might cost me less prospects. I have no idea if that is the case for Lucroy right now. So lets say if I was Team X, I would be willing to trade any two of the guys in our minor leagues to them. I assume a team would then pick Arcia and Hader at this point in time if that was the case. If they wanted more in quantity, then you start more dickering, where maybe they don't choose the first two guys - depends who else they wanted and how much I valued them. That would be my starting point.
  8. Roderick
    Ditto.
  9. Roderick
    Probably better for the minor league board, but it seemed like from the last article I saw, if you follow the logical chain of events is that we will still be stuck with Colorado Springs for another two year contract after this year. San Antonio would be an option but wouldn't be ready for 2017, iirc.
  10. Roderick
    I've been on board with moving on from Maldonado for at least a year now. He's got an amazing arm and that's about it. His bat belongs no where near an MLB team. He gets sparse at bats and games played. At least look at the times when he has had consistent playing time. The first time Lucroy was hurt Maldy was above average for a catcher at batting, last year he did not do so well when Lucroy was out. I still think when we trade away Lucroy, Maldy will come out looking just below average for catchers at batting and has one of the best arms in the game.
  11. Roderick
    Well Dillard hit a homer this week.
  12. Roderick
    the article is wrong in assuming, unless they already know that the brewers intend to stash him at aaa and that kirkman is wiling to accept the assignment. when a player is designated for assignment, the club has ten days to trade, release or assign the player to the minor leagues. in the early part of these ten days, a club can put in a waiver claim and add him to their 40-man roster. but given that kirkman is out of minor league options, another club would have to also add him to their 25-man roster. by the end of ten days, the brewers may decide they want to part ways entirely with kirkman, and they'll release him. or, they may decide they'd like to keep him at aaa, but kirkman has to agree to it, because he's already been outrighted to the minor leagues once before. or, another team may be willing to take a chance on him and acquire him for their major league roster via a trade. mariñez was designated for assignment on 8 may by the rays. four days later, the brewers agreed to trade for him. Thanks.
  13. Roderick
    The article says Kirkman to AAA Colorado Springs. Did the Padres just not wish to keep him? Doesn't Kirkman go through waivers again and someone might still pick him up? How did the Brewers get him if the Padres could just option him to AAA. Or is the article wrong in assuming?
  14. Roderick
    Arbitration is scaled in. It being his first year next year, his cost will not be a big factor in the Brewers plans on whether to trade or not.
  15. Roderick
    I remember an agent didn't submit a list of no-trade teams by the deadline and was fired by the player. But I don't even remember which player that was anymore.
  16. Roderick
    I think that is assuming a little too much as concrete. Obviously the best case scenario is that he keeps playing as he has and a team gives us a real prospect in July. But, I could clearly see the Brewers retaining Carter through the deadline if they don't get as a good an offer as they want. And there is definitely no reason to just take whatever is offered. Why is there a rush to get rid of him, it isn't like there is a Fielder waiting to come up? I could easily see the Brewers keeping him for 1.5 years, before trading him.
  17. Roderick
    Only 40. Bahhh. He is on pace for 56 dingers.
  18. Roderick
    I don't think it is really something that we would have examples for the Brewers as more recently they were expecting to compete, so the players they picked up weren't really looked as flip candidates. And before that time, but still when MA owned the team, I don't think they wanted to stretch payroll as they just had bought the team and took on a bunch of debt and wanted to be conservative. And before MA we know they didn't want to spend anything. I think the key thing as to why it is being mentioned more is because the Brewers have dropped payroll so much that they probably can still balance the books and take a flyer on a come-back type of player. Worst case scenario, you eat the salary and cut them half way through the season. Otherwise you get a player that may produce enough to help the team and best case he really produces and we are able to flip for prospects. Since there is a cap on how much you can spend on the draft and central/south american players, it would appear the next best way for the team to leverage the ability to spend some cash to try to improve the farm system. Either that or trade with the Diamondbacks.
  19. Roderick
    Next wave is 3 years away...Braun won't be the hitter he is today I'm in the pool that thinks it's sooner. The minute Arcia, Phillips, Hader arrive (2017) this team is in position to start moving forward. I think to assume we would be competitive sooner than later we needed two out of the three of Jungmann/Davies/Anderson to pitch like they are at least #4 level pitchers in the league. Combined with Nelson being a #2 type and Peralta pitching good enough to bring back a trade haul. I don't see much of that happening, you may rearrange the deck chairs on the titanic with Peralta and Garza gone and youngsters in the rotation, but I don't see enough starting pitching to think 2017 would be any sort of springboard.
  20. Roderick
    I assume it would make you more likely to be released though. Probably. In this case, it made it easier for the Brewers to slide Wang off the 40 man roster with less risk of losing him, as he cost ~$300K versus the usual cheap minor leaguer. Edit - here is an article that mentions his pay for 2015. http://m.mlb.com/news/article/130977224/brewers-claim-matt-dominguez-off-waivers
  21. Roderick
    Smith is definitely going to be out at least 60 days, right? If so, is there any value to keeping Smith off the 60 day DL and on the 15 day DL? Just wondering if a player was going to be out for the season, but they didn't need the 40 man spot, would they keep them on the 15 day DL until they needed the spot? I see they picked Garza for the 60 day this time, and assume if it needs to happen again that Smith will be reclassified.
  22. Roderick
    It's only 60 games, but considering that Gomez has about a .270 obp / .640 ops since joining the Astros, I think the last thing that the Astros have on their mind right now is actually risking paying him ~$15M to play another year for them. Plenty of time for Gomez to get hot, also plenty of time for him to have an injury and be out six weeks.
  23. Roderick
    Which is why, when/if we trade Braun, I would assume the Brewers send a lot of cash with him to net that much better a haul.
  24. Roderick
    Getting hurt...an excellent way to make a 500,000 dollars and accumulate MLB service time. Plus then the big league club can only decrease your pay 20% the following year in the minors, right? Something like that for Wang I thought.
  25. Roderick
    The best case scenario is if both teams win on the trade (but especially the Brewers). Teams are more likely to trade with you. Lets say the Astros need a catcher. If Gomez and Fiers are sucking, while Santana and the minors are doing great from our end, do we think the Astros would realistically want to trade for Lucroy and risk having another high-profile trade with Milwaukee blowup in their face?
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