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  1. Oxy
    1. Grisham 2. Turang 3. Supak 4. Small 5. Ashby 6. Rasmussen 7. Feliciano 8. Ray 9. Lutz 10. Brown 11. Devin Williams 12. Payton Henry 13. Noah Zavolas 14. Alec Bettinger 15. Bowden Francis 16. Braden Webb 17. Dylan File 18. Max Lazar 19. Eduardo Garcia 20. Felix Valerio 21. Joe Gray 22. Micah Bello 23. Antoine Kelly 24. David Fry 25. Carlos Rodriguez 26. Thomas Jankins
  2. Oxy
    Brewers have every Thursday off (plus a Monday) from now until September. Arcia should be able to hold down all the meaningful defensive innings if need be, but I still would imagine that Perez will be back soon.
  3. Oxy
    The Brewers have at least one off day every week from now until September. Arcia could easily play every meaningful defensive inning from now until then without a problem.
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    I don't think there is anything wrong with bringing up a guy who is absolutely raking at AAA. Yes, I know that AAA is juiced this year and that Saladino has a long, poor track record. I also know that he is a human being, and not a statistical robot, so things can change. Since Perez had a horrible June, it made sense to both reward Saladino for his good work this year while also giving another guy some time at AAA to perhaps find his stroke. Of course, that doesn't mean that anything he does will translate to any MLB success, but it is/was worth a shot.
  5. Oxy
    Because the downside is... not having a roster spot for Donnie Hart? Burch Smith? Stokes? Tyrone Taylor? Aaron Wilkerson?
  6. Oxy
    He'll still have an option next year after coming off shoulder surgery. Unless that was a serious Jimmy Nelson style injury I'm struggling to see how 20-25 clubs DON'T put in a waiver claim for him. No way he gets to the Brewers.
  7. Oxy
    When Rock and BA interviewed him in the booth 5 or 6 weeks ago I recall him saying he was going to Appleton. I see that he's pitched 3 innings in ARZ so far. He's pitched 101 and 102 innings the last 2 springs in Mississippi. Anybody know what the plan for him is?
  8. Oxy
    They signed Moose and Grandal before the season, and had young pitching coming up. It's easier to accumulate lots of cheap arms and cycle through them than it is cheap bats and "cycle" through them. I think it is a sound sustainable strategy for the 4 and 5 spots in the rotation, but you need 3 reliable starters anyway. Woodruff's injury really put a crimp on the staff though.
  9. Oxy
    That's a beautiful observation. Ban batting gloves. Players already use that little foam thing around their thumbs and can wrap their batting handle with different materials to alleviate the risk of blisters. Braun would either have to retire or just pretend to go through the motions of re-applying the velcro a dozen times between pitches. Or else he'd have to remove three times as many pebbles on or around home plate in order to get a 30 second breather.
  10. Oxy
    Faria and Pomeranz have the capability to start as well--although they aren't likely to turn into guys who will consistently give you 7 strong innings. Neither is Lyles. But when you add them together along with Houser, Burnes, Peralta, Chacin and Gio (not to mention Woody, Davies and Anderson), you have a LOT of guys with the capability to give you 3-5 strong innings to cycle through and to see who steps up during the stretch run and the playoffs. The competition to make the playoffs as well as the playoff roster will be fierce and hopefully bring out the best in a few of these guys. We don't need all of them, but we do need some of them to really get hot at the right time. The fact that none of them are big name/big salary guys means that we aren't tied down to anybody in particular. We don't have to stick with a guy who is fatigued or slightly injured or falling apart at the wrong time.
  11. Oxy
    Yeah, I remember commenting in early June how the only guys on the pitching staff who were nearly guaranteed to be on the Playoff roster were Woodruff and Hader. At that time, Davies, Jeffress and Guerra were the next best bets. It's now August and the situation hasn't changed much. It would be surprising if Anderson and Davies didn't make it though. Jeffress and Guerra are still iffy but more likely than not to make the roster. It's a very strange situation to be in for a team with high aspirations.
  12. Oxy
    Doesn't matter when he was drafted. It's all about major league service time relative to age. Age is irrelevant to MLB service time. Junior Guerra was a "Super 2" this year, but avoided arbitration by signing the deal the Brewers offered before the arbitration hearing date. Gotcha. I thought it had to do with how long he was a pro ball player. That is the "Rule 5 Draft" rules. Eligible players are those who: were 18 or younger on the June 5 preceding their signing and this is the fifth Rule 5 draft upcoming; or were 19 or older on the June 5 preceding their signing and this is the fourth Rule 5 draft upcoming. I think they are eligible for free agency as well at that time, but I'm not sure. Still, if a player re-signs a minor league deal after 5 year in the minor league system he is still eligible for the Rule 5 draft. This is why there are a lot of latino players who were signed when they were 16, and by the time they are 21 teams need to figure out what to do with them even though they are still developing. One of the downsides of signing a lot of LA players.
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    Just to be technical, but players on the IL count as on the active roster, since they accrue service time. on the 40-man, not the 25-man I think this is kind of a sticky wicket in the labor agreement. If a player has options, and has used an option in a year in which he gets injured while on the 25-man roster then it is advantageous for the team to option the player before putting him on the IL, as then he does not accrue MLB service time (nor salary). This would be poor management, of course, and rarely happens. However, it gets trickier when that player comes off the IL and is on "rehab." If his play hasn't been MLB worthy (Burnes) and he has already used his option that year (Burnes), it only makes sense to option the player rather than "rehab" the player, even though he may have been on the 25 man at the time he was injured. Anyways, I think there is going to be some major re-hauls to the "options" system in the next labor agreement.
  14. Oxy
    Nobody makes people sit there. If you can't bring a glove/pay attention etc. make sure to sit someplace safe. The tickets are cheaper too! and would be the same distance away from the field as Oakland's stadium. If the rest of the stadium was FULL and the "dangerous" seats were cheap and empty you might have point, but it's quite the opposite.
  15. Oxy
    Odd that SF kept Smith and Bumgarner but cleaned out the rest of their bullpen. They must be working on extensions with those two (still coulda traded them though).
  16. Oxy
    Perfect post! And the reason why I'm not going to invest much time caring about anyone but the top 2 or 3 guys in the minors. Almost every player in the system (and everybody else's system) is destined to make virtually no impact in MLB. Yeesh. Things are looking fairly similar these days, although the MLB roster is in FAR better shape with lots of young talent.
  17. Oxy
    Yep. Gaining a spot starter/possible bullpen asset that's at least better than the Burch Smiths of the world for nothing isn't much to get concerned about. This isn't going to stop a larger move if they find one they like. Is he better than Burch Smith? I'll be curious if he's claimed.
  18. Oxy
    Wheeler and Lugo please. I want to keep a significant amount of payroll flexibility this offseason and into next year. If we add too much and are a middling contender again next year we are going to be stuck with way too many old expensive veterans and no farm system to speak of and the early-to-mid-to-late 2020s are going to be miserable.
  19. Oxy
    Interesting. If he finishes strong his arby number might be above his option number anyway so they'd execute the option. If he flounders in the last couple of months I don't think it'll be picked up (depending on the buyout. Cots is down right now).
  20. Oxy
    He seems like he has the makeup for something like this. Baseball rat who I think will end up as a decent to good defensive second basemen. Offer him the Albies contract right now. If he closes this season like it looks like he can, bump it up a little in the offseason. If he continues his tear next year you just keep bumping the offer up every couple of months. 8-10 years would be great.
  21. Oxy
    I like Anderson but I can't see them picking up the option. I don't think the upside is there for that kind of cash. I think they'll make a trade in the next week for a starter with control and sign a couple FAs.
  22. Oxy
    I like giving the guy a start right off the bat. Give him at least 3 ABs at a regular spot in the order rather than bringing him in to PH in high leverage situation late in the game. He's hit well enough if AAA to earn a start.
  23. Oxy
    Yeah, I'd rather bring Thames off the bench and let Gamel roam the OF.
  24. Oxy
    Right now Hader is 2x-3x more valuable than Andrew Miller was when he was traded. Theoretically we should be able to get a Miller like return if we trade him in 2021 when he has 2.5 years of arby left. Between now and that time, Hader will be paid 1.5 years of the league minimum and .5 years of his first arby year. THAT two year span between now and 2021 should be about as valuable as the last 2.5 years under arby 2 and arby 3. There is no way we could get the proper value for him right now, but I think I'd trade him if we could.
  25. Oxy
    I can't separate those 3. In a vacuum, Woodruff is probably a step or 2 below Hiura and Hader, but the Brewers are so thin at SP and have such trouble developing them that it elevates his value for the Brewer organization.
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