Thurston Fluff
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Sad to see Jeff Beck passed away.
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Free agency is used by teams to make up for failing in other areas.
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Lauer has been kind of critical of the way the team operates and doesn't strike me as the type of player that ages well. I don't think he's going to sign a team friendly deal and I don't think he's the type that will play up to the value he'll get as a free agent.
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Lauer has been kind of critical of the way the team operates and doesn't strike me as the type of player that ages well. I don't think he's going to sign a team friendly deal and I don't think he's the type that will play up to the value he'll get as a free agent.
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Getting a starter who is under control of 4+ years would be a smart move this year. We could trade Lauer this season and still be set up for the eventual departure of Burnes and Woodruff.
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Getting a starter who is under control of 4+ years would be a smart move this year. We could trade Lauer this season and still be set up for the eventual departure of Burnes and Woodruff.
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I have mixed feeling about him. He was a good defender with one of the sweetest pivots on double plays I ever did see. He was decent hitter overall. On the flip side he was not good on the bases. He's the only guy I ever saw get picked off first on a fake throw to third then first. He got picked off like that more than once. Overall he ran into way too many outs on the base paths. He was also one of the many guys found to be using steroids.
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The biggest problem we had last season was too few quality starters. It makes some amount of sense to start with seven capable starters and let the chips fall where they may. If everyone is healthy to start the season then Hauser and/or Ashby goes to the pen where they've had success before and the relief corps depth improves. An outside the box thought is they move Peralta to the pen to shore up the back end. It reduces the workload after an injury plagued season and addresses a need.
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If we never give out a $100 million plus deal that goes five years or longer (indexed to inflation) I'm perfectly fine with that. I've accepted we have players for five years then need to trade them a long time ago. I think it's the best way to run a successful small market baseball team. I believe it's not only possible to win a championship that way but it's the best way to do so.
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If we never give out a $100 million plus deal that goes five years or longer (indexed to inflation) I'm perfectly fine with that. I've accepted we have players for five years then need to trade them a long time ago. I think it's the best way to run a successful small market baseball team. I believe it's not only possible to win a championship that way but it's the best way to do so.
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Yes he would. But if he signed a long term contract after his rookie year he'd also have cost more than Peralta did. Now we'd be on the hook for that throughout the contract. As it is we can let him go anytime without further cost. Monty57 used Peralta's contract and said if Huria had that contract he'd be affordable now which is true. But he was not going to sign that contract. Peralta signed that before he became an all star. Ditto for Ashby. Signing young players who've already been successful is not the same as signing young players who's potential has yet to be realized. Which is why I'm saying lets pump the brakes on extending guys who've yet to play a single game for us and are going to cost more than players who we knew was a fit here and were cheap to extend.
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If the deal is about the same as they get in arbitration what's the financial advantage? It seems like getting an extra year or so of control is offset by not being able to decline arbitration if they're going to be more costly than they're worth. Like I said I'm not against doing it but I also think people are starting to get carried away with how beneficial it is.
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I know signing young players early is the new mantra around here but it isn't without risks of it's own. We tried to sign Jonathan Villar after his breakout season in 2016. Luckily he refused. Can you imagine if the Brewers upped the anti enough to get that deal done? Similarly, can you imagine what would have happened if they signed Huira to a long term contract after his rookie year? I'm fine with doing it to some extent but lets not pretend every young player who had a year or two of success is worth the price. IT isn't like we totally lose out if Adames, Burnes or Woodruff don't sign extensions. We can still trade them and get some nice controllable players in return. After all a year and a half of Hader turned into an all star catcher with five years of control and a decent pitching prospect with six years of control. I don't see how it's that much worse than the risk of having signed those three to affordable deals that buy an extra year or two of team control only to have them turn into Villar or Huira.
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Dude is one of my all time favorites mostly because he was so overlooked for how good he was.
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Like everyone I'm way happy about the trade as well as curious as to why we had to seemingly give up so little. Putting on my "what am I missing" hat I wonder if some teams are getting ahead of the curve with the rule changes. If stolen bases are going up in value then poor throwing catchers would go down as well. That could explain why Contreras, a poor throwing catcher, could be had for someone who's speed and base stealing abilities are his main features. Time will tell.
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There is no scenario where trading Wong gets us a guaranteed needle mover. There is a scenario where all the planets align and Winker actually moves the needle.
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This article would have been better had it focused on talking to Yelich about accepting a trade. If they approach Yelich and asked him who he would waive his no trade clause for we'd at least know which teams not to waste our time talking to. Personally I don't think he'd accept any trade. In generally there are few markets that have as tolerant a media or fan base for under performing athletes than Milwaukee. Less so for a player who has no past performance legacy for the team. He'd be going to a place where he didn't have any good will built up and expose himself to all kinds of grief.
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For the most part I'm with you on this. If he signs a deal that buys out his last two years of arbitration and adds a year to it I'd be ok with it. The cost certainty has value and it wouldn't be so long that the final years are bound to be negative in value. If it becomes essentially a free agent deal that extends him long term then not so much.
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Without knowing the parameters of a deal it's hard to judge if it's worth it. I don't think they'd be able to sign him and one of Woodruff and Burnes so it might be a sign they know they can't extend either of them.
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I could see them trading Adames the same way they traded Grisham. His power over on base profile as a batter is ok on a team that isn't made up of mostly similar types. Turang may not have the power but he hits for average and gets on base. We need more of that. Adames could very well get us a legit third baseman. He doesn't need to be a 30-40 HR guy. 20ish HR power who can also hit for average fits our offensive needs better. I'd love to see a couple more guys who hit in that .280 range to go along with our power bats. That gives Urias second and Turang at short. Our defense stays strong and we get a more diverse offense.
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I could see them trading Adames the same way they traded Grisham. His power over on base profile as a batter is ok on a team that isn't made up of mostly similar types. Turang may not have the power but he hits for average and gets on base. We need more of that. Adames could very well get us a legit third baseman. He doesn't need to be a 30-40 HR guy. 20ish HR power who can also hit for average fits our offensive needs better. I'd love to see a couple more guys who hit in that .280 range to go along with our power bats. That gives Urias second and Turang at short. Our defense stays strong and we get a more diverse offense.
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Given the likelihood of rebuilding the farm via trades of at least some of Hader, Woodfuff, Burnes, Lauer and others in the near future I'm more comfortable trading more farm talent that I usually am. If they aren't named Chourio lets talk. Not a fan of rentals for top level talent but if there's some team control beyond this season all the more reason to let some upper level prospects go.
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Given the likelihood of rebuilding the farm via trades of at least some of Hader, Woodfuff, Burnes, Lauer and others in the near future I'm more comfortable trading more farm talent that I usually am. If they aren't named Chourio lets talk. Not a fan of rentals for top level talent but if there's some team control beyond this season all the more reason to let some upper level prospects go.
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I cut the cord as soon as streaming became tenable. The only reason I was thinking of keeping dish was for Brewers games. Then I realized I really only ever watched west coast night games anyway. As you said, it lends itself to radio very well and who the hell wants to be sitting in the house watching tv in Summer?
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The new team rankings for NCAA wrestling came out. As per usual the Big Ten dominates with ten teams in the top twenty five and seven in the top 10 (including Wisconsin at number nine.) The top three all come from the Big Ten. That a Big Ten team will become national champions isn't even a question at this point. The only remaining debate worth having is what's the highest place a team not from the Big Ten will take?
