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  1. narwhalattack
    I don't think I've heard from Patrick in a while. Used to enjoy reading his takes on the draft when I was younger.
  2. narwhalattack
    I for one am eating crow when it comes to Priester. A young and solid mid-rotation starter who helped stabilize the rotation was definitely worth losing that comp pick.
  3. narwhalattack
    I'm curious as to how the rest of the picks will go. None of these picks seem like the kind to strain the budget, so I imagine there will be some opportunities to splurge later on.
  4. narwhalattack
    I think this is the first time I've seen near universal approval for most, if not all, of the Day 1 picks
  5. narwhalattack
    Considering we never pick anyone mocked to us, this means that we're definitely not gonna pick Bodine 😆
  6. narwhalattack
    Y’all ready to see us pick someone nobody has predicted?
  7. narwhalattack
    I genuinely have no idea who we’re gonna pick. Just when you think they’ll favor college guys, they pick a raw HS kid in Payne. Just when you think they’ll favor the speedy slap hitter types, they go ahead and draft Wilken.
  8. narwhalattack
    It was an exaggeration on my part, but I’ve always been a bit frustrated when a prospect does well and gets called up to the majors, and then gets sent down after one game. It’s not as if we’re exactly sitting on an embarrassment of riches.
  9. narwhalattack
    Hey, don’t jinx us now 😛
  10. narwhalattack
    If Mis fares well, I hope they let him stick around rather than shuttling him back and forth between the majors and AAA. Let the guy grow in the majors rather than settling for some fringe starter who gives up 5 runs on a GOOD day.
  11. narwhalattack
    Prospects hurt us. They always do. 🥲
  12. narwhalattack
    My only gripe with the FO is their tendency to burn draft picks/prospects to trade for mediocre pitchers, and our past tendency of drafting slap hitters and hoping that they develop some power (Turang, Frelick, etc.) biting us in the ass. But otherwise I think the bigger issue is that we’re a small market team in a league where big markets can simply run roughshod in the free agent market. Teams like the Yankees, Dodgers, and Mets seemingly have an unlimited budget to buy the best talent available, and if their acquisitions don’t work out, they’ll just sign some other big name talent. Meanwhile for us, and other small market teams, there’s just fewer bites of the apple available when it comes to obtaining talent. Sure the draft and international FA signings may be somewhat of an equalizer, but because we have fewer bites of the apple, each failed prospect hurts more. And even if the prospects succeed, what’s the point in getting excited about up and coming young talent from your farm system when they’re just going to be signed by big market teams when they reach free agency? Overall, I think Arnold is doing the best he can given the resources available to him, but he’s running a team in a league where small market teams are effectively glorified AAAA teams for bigger market teams.
  13. narwhalattack
    Remember when we traded away draft capital to get Priester? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Pepperidge Farm also remembers doing the same to get Alex Claudio, and trading away Reese Olson to get Daniel Norris.
  14. narwhalattack
    Wow, those are some names I haven’t thought about in quite some time. While I wouldn’t say that Brett Phillips was successful here (played a total of 52 games for Milwaukee), a lot of these names were a walk down memory lane 😆
  15. narwhalattack
    With most trades, I find that over time I’m not as upset about the loss itself. I’m often more underwhelmed by the return for whatever/whoever we trade. We trade away draft capital and prospects for relief help and we end up with Norris and Claudio- neither of whom did enough to justify what we had to give up for them. We trade Burnes and Williams at the height of their success… and end up with what is amounting to be either roster fillers or victims of the injury gods. In most cases the guys we trade away don’t amount to much after the trade, but more often than not the guys we receive don’t amount to much either. Freddy and Contreras are the two exceptions I can think of in recent history.
  16. narwhalattack
    I’m certainly eating crow. Maybe they are smarter than me after all…. Except when they burn prospects and draft picks for bad relievers 😂
  17. narwhalattack
    The FO better be certain that they have something special in Priester, because the draft pick by itself is a hefty loss. So far, there are at least three pitchers (Claudio, Norris, Hall) who would fall under the “They traded WHAT for this guy?!” category.
  18. narwhalattack
    What is it with this team burning prospects and draft picks for uninspiring pitchers? You’d think we would’ve learned after trading away Reese Olson for Daniel Norris.
  19. narwhalattack
    I’m pretty lukewarm about this trade. A solid starter and a guy with a profile the FO seemed to have somewhat of a fixation with in the past- a versatile utility guy who can get on base but has very little pop. Not exactly blowing my mind but I wasn’t really expecting a whole lot out of a trade involving a reliever.
  20. narwhalattack
    I think it’s more likely that America officially converts to the metric system than it is for Sasaki to come to Milwaukee. In fact, I’m not sure if many people outside the US knows about the existence of Milwaukee…
  21. narwhalattack
    I guess such is the fate of small market teams. Good enough to get to the playoffs, but not good enough to outgun teams with deeper pockets.
  22. narwhalattack
    From a fan standpoint, at this point the toughest part now is having high expectations for next year but knowing we have to wait a whole year to see what we do for the next draft. Gonna feel like a long wait 😆
  23. narwhalattack
    Like I said, we may never truly know what actually happened behind the scenes, but unless he changed his mind after getting drafted (which like you said is absolutely possible!) , it’s not exactly a good look for Tod. As someone who can only look from the outside perspective, things don’t seem all that impressive on paper.
  24. narwhalattack
    I’m honestly more critical of the process. Although perhaps we’ll never truly know what went on behind the scenes and what Tod Johnson truly thought this whole time, it seems like drafting Payne was supposed to help with swinging for the fences later. We swing for the fences, and then fail to sign the guy we swung for the fences for. On top of that, for high picks you’d think that they’d do their due diligence on at least gauging what it would take to sign the guys they want to pick. If Levonas didn’t change his mind after getting drafted, that means that someone didn’t do their due diligence. Then we had a lot of money to spend because Levonas didn’t sign, and then we didn’t make the most of it. Maybe the guys we managed to sign will turn out great, but IMO the process itself seems flawed.
  25. narwhalattack
    Done or not, this year’s draft has been pretty subpar. We reach for Payne with the expectation that we’ll swing for the fences later, and then we fail to sign the guys we swung for the fences for. On top of that, I don’t think going, “We… hope we could sign this guy? I dunno lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯“ on a high pick is a sound strategy even if we do end up with an extra pick next year. And if we’re truly done signing, the fact that we didn’t even use all the money we can means that someone fumbled on estimating what we can afford. A bumbling mess on each step. Someone needs to have a “Dude, ***” talk with Tod Johnson.
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