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  1. Thurston Fluff
    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.
  3. Thurston Fluff
    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.
  4. Thurston Fluff
    I don't think it was a salary dump. It was trading someone with one year of control for multiple players with something like 17 years of control combined. That trade didn't even necessarily make our team worse on it's own next season. If one of our young outfielders produces near league average and one or more of those relievers gives us league average production we pretty much break even next year. Saving the money was a bonus but how, or when, we spend it doesn't make it THE reason we traded him. It's simply a smart way to keep our team competitive year in and year out. I don't care if they spend a dime on free agents this off season. At this point I think we have a better team than we had last year and have plenty of money to trade for anyone we want at the deadline. With a lot of young players on the roster I think it makes more sense to have room for a mid season trade than spend it now. When July comes around we'll have a better idea where we need to improve.
  5. Thurston Fluff
    There's a difference between making the team worse and making the offense worse. We had a mediocre bullpen and one of the softest tossing groups in the league. That has improved. As far as losing a guy who hit lefties well we also got one that hits lefties well at a position where we needed long term help. I fail to see how to see how not getting worse at one aspect while getting better at another makes us worse overall.
  6. Thurston Fluff
    Dude is one of my all time favorites mostly because he was so overlooked for how good he was.
  7. Thurston Fluff
    To review Game05 suggestion of Crokinole it's pretty fun and easy. It takes about five minutes to learn how to play and doesn't take mad skills to actually play. If you can play football with one of those triangles made of paper you can play Crikinole. It sort of mixes paper football with curling minus the brooms. It takes enough strategy to make it not purely luck driven but not so much that it takes forever before the game begins to be fun. Well recommended sir, my family thanks you.
  8. Thurston Fluff
    o Our windows were closed but the furnace wasn't working. Took until noon and $800 to get it back on. Not complaining though. Just thankful that we can afford it and it could be fixed.
  9. Thurston Fluff
    Waking up Christmas morning without heat. It's zero outside and 42 inside.
  10. Thurston Fluff
    Seems like he got some $ on his name more than his ability. Given the money being tossed around I think it might be best to go the throw as many things at the wall as possible and see what sticks route. I'd rather find a few guys that are younger with decent stuff but hasn't put it together yet than rely on old guys with a name and diminished stuff. It doesn't appear we're going to get a guaranteed back of the pen type so we might be best served adding talent over past performance.
  11. Thurston Fluff
    I believe I read somewhere it's from a b flat 5 to F4 which is pretty impressive. Pavarotti goes to F5 and he's considered the world's greatest tenor.
  12. Thurston Fluff
    Spending $15 million on old, average players is not what smart teams do. It's what teams that don't have to be smart due to unlimited resources do. If teams with limited resources do that they settle for average. Just like the player they just paid will be average.
  13. Thurston Fluff
    We have a team that can contend because we let players like Turang get a chance not in spite of it. Had we went out and got a free agent starting pitcher a few years ago we'd have wasted a decent portion of Peralta's value by having him in the bullpen. Just think of what would have happened if we didn't actually give Burnes a chance to work out his problems and just signed some aging veteran. We'd have wasted a year or two of his time here just because he struggled for a year. Not to mention how negatively it effects trade values. Not much demand for old average players. A team like the Brewers have to trust young players to come in and figure it out or we'll be filling holes forever with expensive alternatives that provide average production. Settling for average in the name of knowing what your getting is a fools errand. Settling for average because you're afraid of youth is a recipe for continued mediocrity.
  14. Thurston Fluff
    I should have worded that better. Why would anyone want him playing third over Urias? I understand Urias can also play second but we also have a young player ready to make the leap from AAA who can play second. If the reports on his defense are accurate he can probably play it better. This team has to develop young players to compete. That means we have to trust rookies at some point. Spending free agent money on an aging veteran to play a position we have covered doesn't make sens to me. The $15 million that it would have required to get him would get us a lot more relief pitching production than the difference in production of a Urias/Turner vs Urias/Turang combination would.
  15. Thurston Fluff
    I don't get why anyone wanted him here. Looking at WAR Urias had a better year in 2022 than Turner. I know Turner had a better OPS+ but that seems like a pretty large premium to pay for a six point difference in OPS+. Am I missing something?
  16. Thurston Fluff
    I thought the same thing. It doesn't have to be someone overpaid but someone with a reputation for being reliable in the last year of a contract on a non-contending team might find Huira interesting enough to take a flyer on. If he rebounds they have him under control for a while or they can flip him for prospects.
  17. Thurston Fluff
    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.
  18. Thurston Fluff
    I got one for the family. If it sucks it's on you. Apologies accepted in advance and refunded if deemed not necessary.
  19. Thurston Fluff
    This is the earliest I've finished my Christmas shopping.
  20. Thurston Fluff
    I didn't really think of the short timeline of his rise from the baseball wastelands until you put it in writing here. It's hard not to be happy for guys like Jace.
  21. Thurston Fluff
    File this one in the stupid signing the blows up in the team's face while unnecessarily increasing the cost of every other free agent contract for little to no gain what so ever.
  22. Thurston Fluff
    If I were the Mets I'd take this sort of short term risk with a higher AAV over a long term risk with less AAV.
  23. Thurston Fluff
    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.
  24. Thurston Fluff
    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.
  25. Thurston Fluff
    They face lefties about 25% of the time. We were middle of the pack on offense despite being bad against lefties. We traded ONE player who hits lefties well. I just don't see how that makes the entire offense so much worse. As far as expecting too much out of rookies, why is it so hard to think at least one of the rookies hit above .255, get on base more than more than 31.5% and provide better defense? I'd be less confident if we had to rely on one player but we have four. Considering one of them has already did just that in the short amount of time he's been up I don't think it's to much to ask for them to pick up the slack of losing Renfroe. Maybe not in the same way but contributing in other ways. My own personal belief is between the four rookies and the skillsets they have they will compensate for losing Renfroe on their own. Adding the money saved to improve other areas will be where we actually improve the offense.
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