Thurston Fluff

Yea I don't blame them for trying. It was a low cost gamble at a position of need. It's better to cut our losses now than compound the mistake. I hope he catches on somewhere and turns it around. I could see some out of contention team taking a flyer on him getting hot in an attempt to flip him for a lottery ticket or maybe someone they can plug in anticipating a need because they're going to trade someone else.

IOW, MLB (CBA + DFA) +LR +CP = DFA - LR + CP. Did I get that right? 😄 Truth be told, I don't think calling Pratt up in the middle of the game had anything to do with Renigfro's health status. I don't think they saw him have some minor injury, where he didn't even come out of the game, then decided they had to get to a phone immediately and tell Pratt the moment had come. I'd imagine him being 15 abs away from a $100k bonus and an added $100K every 50 ab's after that was a bigger factor.

Not to take this too far off track but I don't think the Brewers sacrifice any season for any other. Be it future or current. They make moves that keep a balance between this season and future seasons.

Not to take this too far off track but I don't think the Brewers sacrifice any season for any other. Be it future or current. They make moves that keep a balance between this season and future seasons.

The rest of my post was about how bringing him up now gave him the best chance to make them MORE competitive. The entire post was about probabilities of making them more competitive in the post season.

It won't make them less competitive if he does slightly better plus there's a chance he adjusts to the majors like is is to AAA. Given the chances of making us less competitive is virtually nonexistent why not pull the trigger now and see if he adjusts in time for the playoffs?

Today is the day free agents on a new deal can be traded. While Renigfro isn't likely to have the phone ringing off the hook I could see him being traded in a package deal with one of the prospects. Black seems like a possible candidate IMHO.

If the term you can never have too much pitching applied it's this season. Imagine where we'd be without the Harrison, Drohan trade. A head scratching trade at the time proves to be one of the most prescient moves of the year.

Just to be clear, when I said he's high on my list it's within the context of the one I'd most be in favor of not that I'm in favor of signing any of them. That aside, you've given me ample reason to question my preference list.

They have to know if they don't do it soon it will delay the start of the 2027 season for him. At this point the only way it makes sense to wait is because they don't think the 2027 season will start on time. Does anyone know how a lockout effects injury rehab? Just curious if a team is allowed/obligated to provide it in their facilities.

While I agree with you for the most part the one thing I think is wrong is determining his value based on how much free agents of his value got paid. The most expensive way to attain players is not the best way to go about determining value. If the choice was to use the same money we can use for Contreras the next ten years or lock up four or five of our best prospects for the next ten years I think the better value is for the latter. All that said, of all the players that could signed to a "locked up for life" contract Contreras is very high on my list. I do question if his leadership is special to him or if it's more young players gravitate to older players by nature. Adames was one of those guys but we didn't miss a beat when he left. One might say that's because we had Contreras and/or Yelich to take over that role. But that would more or less show the role is transitional as opposed to fixed on a player. By the time Contreras and Yelich are gone Churio will be the veteran younger players turn to and so on.

I think there should be an earned error rate stat. While that sounds counter intuitive it really isn't. In a game where some teams/players force more action than others it stands to reason the ones that do will create more errors. Take base stealing for example. If the league average error rate on stolen bases is 1 out of every 50 attempts a team that attempts 100 steals would expect to see 2 errors. A team that attempts 200 steals would expect to see 4. Simply attempting to steal more bases should earn a team more errors.

St Louis is on a four game winning streak and haven't gained a single game in the standings.

It's possible but I doubt there would be an agreement to reduce years of control without more shared revenue. I think they just want to have some cost certainty going into an uncertain time.

Does he really think there's a team out there who wants to sign a player with a career 5.25 ERA who's sporting a 6.94 ERA this season? On a team known for getting the most out of pitchers no less. I supposed it doesn't hurt to try but if his goal is to get back to a big league career it seems to me the best place for him would have been remaining in our system.