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  1. Thurston Fluff
    Maybe their plan is to only allow grounders to third.
  2. Thurston Fluff
    Dating apps are pure crap. I registered on five different apps and not a single one knew what year my dining set was made.
  3. Thurston Fluff
    It's likely they will spend more but that might be just to maintain their current level than to improve. Cody Bellinger is going to cost them more than $12.5 million and Stroman chose free agency because he wanted to make more than he would have if he stayed. So they either pay more to keep both or pay more for someone else his caliber. To get better would be added costs on top of what it would cost to remain the same. Which is why free agency isn't the panacea to improving a team it's made out to be.
  4. Thurston Fluff
    I think a lot of people are looking at 2024 as a mini rebuild. Rebuilds tend to be with cheap players because there's little reason to pay when there's little hope of being competitive. I get why some think we're going to rebuild but I don't agree. It'd be hard to ask for and receive half a billion of public funds only to turn around and cut payroll. There's enough talent in the pipeline to keep this thing going if we supplement the roster of youngsters with a veteran or two.
  5. Thurston Fluff
    If last postseason didn't dispel your notion of what constitutes a championship roster I don't know what to say.
  6. Thurston Fluff
    Or they waited until the last minute for some other reason. The fact remains nobody was willing to give up anything for him and we were forced to let him go for nothing. That's a pretty good indication nobody was willing to trade anything for him.
  7. Thurston Fluff
    Why would anyone trade so much as a single used baseball for a guy who likely won't pitch a single inning, make $11 million, and be a free agent when he is healthy enough to pitch again? It's worse than trading for nothing from their perspective.
  8. Thurston Fluff
    This seems more like a Blake Perkins move than a move for a starter. The only difference is Perkins had an option left. I seriously doubt they have him penciled in as the starter. He does provide some power off the bench I suppose. Question for someone who knows how arbitration works. If the Brewers cut bait before the season starts are they on the hook for his salary?
  9. Thurston Fluff
    So? We have to operate like the money spent on him is a bonus if everything pans out, not something we rely on to fill a need.
  10. Thurston Fluff
    I think they non-tender him and take their chances of resigning him later. If someone wants to overpay in a trade by the deadline today take it. Why take a chance of paying him a huge amount to rehab and him deciding to become a free agent instead of signing a team friendly extension?
  11. Thurston Fluff
    That's a very large assumption. It could be as simple as him not thinking he could do it at a level that would actually help. If the manager really wanted him to do it he could have just put him in the lineup and said you have no choice.
  12. Thurston Fluff
    He did refuse but context matters. The fact that he did so in Seattle is irrelevant as he had the entire off season and spring training knowing he had to learn a new position. The Brewer asked him to do it in the middle of the season. I think if he felt more comfortable on defense to begin with he might have tried. He dude struggled at the position he played his entire pro career. I can't imagine how bad he'd have looked playing an entirely new position on the fly in the middle of the season. Personally, I think it was kind of a "do you think you can do it?" sort of request and he said probably not.
  13. Thurston Fluff
    I wanted them to hire from within so I'm happy. I think rewarding your guys with promotions is the antithesis of what the Cubs did and why the Brewers will be able to hire new talented people to the front office while the Cubs will have to pay through the nose to poach other team's talent. Treating your people right matters. Negotiating with a managing prospect behind your manager's back is not treating people right. Especially one who has a history with your club. Perhaps one of the market inefficiencies is in the front office more so than on the field at this point. Whether Murphy pans out or not is to be determined. The same could have been said about any hire. Honestly whether he pans out or not isn't as relevant as showing your employees they have a chance to progress here. If he fails we move on and every one still knows he got his shot.
  14. Thurston Fluff
    I was using that as an example of how we can use a Burnes trade to shore up our current roster while adding to our future. Burnes getting us an elite first baseman plus a couple of elite prospects is not gonna happen. What can happen is we get a serviceable player at a position of need plus a high ceiling prospect or two. If we could manage to shore up a weak spot without using all the trade value Burnes has while doing so I'd consider it a good trade. My main point is it isn't a bad thing to add a veteran to the mix.
  15. Thurston Fluff
    Trading Burnes doesn't have to be for all prospects. If for example we could get a league average first baseman plus a lower level high ceiling prospect or two would be beneficial as well. We'd get the immediate help we need at a position of need plus a boost for the future all at once.
  16. Thurston Fluff
    There's more ways to win than having two top 10 pitchers. We have to get over what we no longer have and get on with figuring out how we can win with what we have. A top farm system combined with highly valuable trading pieces isn't exactly an empty cupboard.
  17. Thurston Fluff
    Yea it couldn't possibly be good management that made those trades successful. It had to be sheer luck to get that one in a million successful trade. I mean what evidence do we have that makes anyone think Arnold might be able to swing a decent trade again?
  18. Thurston Fluff
    They did so last time with less trade chips and fewer options in the minors. Granted Hader, Burnes and Woody were close but so are Chourio, Misiorowski, and Black. Then we have a good batch of second tier prospects like Gasser, Quero and Rodriguez. Combine that with who's already here and it's not hard to imagine them continuing without any rebuild let alone a two year one.
  19. Thurston Fluff
    This is the most important part of a very well thought out post. It's why I'd prefer a signing from within for our next manager. The best way not to lose our good infrastructure is to make those who built it feel like their best path for their career is staying here. Matt Arnold is a great example. That's not something a team that secretly hires a new manager while the current one is still employed can offer. The Cubs appear to operate on the shiny new toy theory. They get the shiniest toy possible, when a shinier toy comes along they go after it. I can't deny it worked for them ten years ago but it didn't sustain long term success. If the goal is to continue to be competitive, organizational continuity is important. Losing a piece or two doesn't matter as much as making sure all the pieces feel wanted and welcome. The way the Brewers treated Counsell showed that. The way the Cubs treated Ross didn't. It doesn't take a genius to know which organization competent front office personnel looking to build and sustain a career would want to work for.
  20. Thurston Fluff
    Gary and his Demons is hilarious.
  21. Thurston Fluff
    In general yes, In the near future no.
  22. Thurston Fluff
    It might be more believable if he'd have finished the challenge here before he left.
  23. Thurston Fluff
    Money spent does not equal championships won either. A team that gets to the playoffs the most have the best chance of winning one over a team that doesn't. If that hasn't been demonstrated amply enough after this post season I don't know what to say. I have shown that both teams are about equal overall and the Brewers are far ahead of late in getting there. For you to say the Cubs have a better chance of winning a World Series in the near future while completely ignoring the last five years of actual production is ignoring all available evidence. Like for instance they've had more resources for the past five years and have failed to outperform the Brewers in four of them. The only time they didn't was in the covid year. Frankly I think you're just arguing to argue now.
  24. Thurston Fluff
    If all it took was resources the Cubs would be a dynasty and wouldn't need to pay a record price to get someone capable to manage it. Since the Brewers were in the same division as the Cubs the Cubs went to the playoffs eight times to the Brewers seven. That doesn't sound like an exponentially better chance of winning the world series in the future to me. As for the next five years I'll take the team that actually got to the playoffs four of the last five years as opposed to the team that went once in that span. It doesn't take a delusional fan to think the team that actually gets there more often lately has at least as good a chance as one that made it once.
  25. Thurston Fluff
    The Cubs weren't the ones selling themselves as helping fellow managers. Like I said, if the Cubs came to him someone who was truly doing this on principal would have said come to me when you have an opening. It was Counsell who negotiated for a job that wasn't open. I don't fault him for it. Just for playing it like he's doing it for the good of the managing profession. One would think managing a team that went to the playoffs in five of the past six years, has one of the better farm systems in the league and some of the best trade chips in baseball to revamp without rebuilding would be enough to think one of the best managers of all time could win here. If he really wants to be viewed as such, then maybe managing a team that has the odds stacked against it would be the place to prove it.
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