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  1. Playing Catch
    Switch-tosser!
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    Yeah, I tried looking for that and couldn't find anything for some reason. I suspected a new feature that demands my signing up for X in order to see non-embedded tweets.
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    Yeah, I don't disagree. I was merely trying to logic a reason why the Orioles perhaps wouldn't spend more now. I'm loathe to jump to the cheap owners being cheap rationale.
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    Carlos Correa was awesome last year when healthy. The Twins won't have any trouble finding another team to take all, or nearly all of the contract. The Yankees come to mind. Or Houston, if they don't sign Bregman, or a number of other teams.
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    Kind of cynical, Jim! The way I understand it is that Euros can't do NIL, because they don't have green cards (which is why the Badgers are going that direction with recruiting). Jakucionus looks every part the Dalton Knecht of 2025 to me. He was pretty incredible. I thought Illinois played great, so a 6-point road loss to Illinois wasn't too painful. It was annoying, though, that every time the Badgers made a run, the announcers credited Illinois "letting them back in the ballgame, just like the Northwestern game," essentially denying any credit to the number 20 team in the country, or a really tough Northwestern team. I was also annoyed by the officiating (so sue me!). Blackwell had 4 FTAs, and Tonje had 2. That's simply BS, with the amount of times they drove the lane, and the comparative fouls being called on the other end. It neutered the Badgers offense.
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    Isaac Collins is also on the 40-man. He played 10 games at 3rd last season. According to @Joseph Zarr, he was cromulent defensively.
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    Your general point is a good one. If you are the O's, aren't you thinking, "We don't need Soto, we should simply resign Santander and Burnes." That would be a perfectly excellent offseason. I suppose they may be looking at big numbers for their superstars in upcoming seasons, and they don't want to tie up payroll in Burnes.
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    What's the "(cont'd.)" part?
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    My first thought was... the White Sox leaked this rumor to drive up the prospect price from other teams. The Brewers have the quality and quantity of prospects the Sox would like in return. This rumor would put pressure on Boston to offer up more of both quantity/quality to get Crochet. My 2nd thought was... maybe a 3-way deal with Dodgers... Brewers get Crochet Dodgers get Devin Williams and Filippo Di Turi White Sox get Daulton Rushing, Tyler Black, and Luis Lara In this scenario, the Brewers are willing to trade from depth, if not quality, only have to give up 3 decent prospects, rather than dip into their better prospects to procure Crochet. The Dodgers get something back for giving up 1 premium prospect. The White Sox get 1 premium prospect, one MLB ready bat, and a sure-fire CF prospect. It seems like maybe the Dodgers are giving up too much in this hypothetical. But the idea of flipping Devin for more prospects in order to get Crochet, I think, seems plausible.
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    I was actually thinking about Arenado today, and I think a trade could work if the Brewers sent back prospects, but why would they want Hoskins?
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    I don't know that I have any questions, but boy, oh boy, that roster is chock-full of legitimate, though unranked prospects. There's like a dozen that very well could be in the BF list by this time next year with another strong season.
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    Exactly. I don't know why I care, but the idea that the Twins fans have that recent ownership never spent in FA is pure fallacy. One thing about the O's and other teams is that they decided to go young. ANY time a team has a young roster, it's going to spend less in free agency, and have a lower payroll.
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    This has been a commonly repeated belief, but as of yet, I don't believe we actually know how profitable owning a team is -- particularly with a terrible stadium. Do you have a source for this belief that cheap owners are profiting at a percentage beyond that of any of the other owners?
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    Are we sure that this idea that baseball is a dying vestige of some bygone era correct? I mean there were twenty-six teams that averaged more than 20,000 in attendance last season. That's eighty-two events annually. Annual attendance in 2024 was just over 70,000,000 in MLB, 17th largest figure historically, and even on an average per game basis, far, far larger crowds than in any decade other than the 2000s and 2010s. I'm not naive to the belief that baseball struggles on TV, but that's nearly true with everything these days. Also, based on my career, I'm around tons of high school aged kids, and anecdotally, I'd say that while kids don't know much about baseball, they are very curious about it. They want to play it, pay attention to it. My impression is that it's kind of novel for them. I get that owners and players want to expand the sport for money reasons, but they are going to have a hard time convincing me that it's in an adapt-or-die situation.
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    It's hard because there hasn't really been a fire sale like the Marlins since, that I can remember. Maybe Volpe? If the Yankees sign Adames? Pages if the Dodgers sign Soto? I'm trying to think of guys that could be "blocked" if their team signs a FA.
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    I think all of this (correct) talk of every option being a lousy defender demonstrates why the Brewers (and me) valued Joey Ortiz so much. Good glove/competent sticks are harder to find than people think.
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    Bohm isn't a world-beater, no. And he's certainly not worth a good starting pitcher. But he derives a lot of hitting value with a good batting average, and I'm a sucker for those types of hitters, especially when you need to drive in the guy standing on 2nd base. His defense improved last season, and he's got 2 years of team control, which is kind of the perfect amount of time before the organization will know if the kids are ready for the Show. I guess one can call me "fascinated". I mean, the Brewers need to find SOMEBODY to play infield, right? Isn't Bohm better than going with a AAAA platoon of Monasterio and Ollie Dunn?
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    Wow. Impressive research. That was a lot of talent that Fickell and company didn't adequately replace through the portal.
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    From a capitalistic point of view, the Dodgers superteam is totally fair. From a league standpoint, it damages the credibility of the "competition". But that won't matter so long as fans keep showing up. This isn't a thing in Milwaukee, but Pittsburgh? Cincinnati? Kansas City? At some point those owners and fanbases are gunna get fed up.
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    Hehehe, perfect timing.
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    The Brewers actually drafted Riggio out of high school. Didn't sign, obviously. I love the idea of getting Schmidt for Williams. No idea if that would be something the Yankees would do, however.
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    That's my thoughts as well, but... Sasaki isn't a normal situation. The Brewers don't get these kinds of opportunities very often. I'm definitely of two minds on this one.
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    It doesn't make me sad. They aren't good enough. They wash themselves out. They get on with their lives. It's sad in the sense that they may not end up with a free education, but if they're playing the transfer game, they're not there to play school anyway. It DOES make me sad that the whole "free college" aspect of playing D1 football has been totally lost in all of the NIL stuff. Ask any of us that are paying off student debt into middle age if getting a scholarship is being compensated for "working" as a football player.
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    I respectfully disagree. None of the criticism would be unfair. He was terrible. 1-5, 5 fouls. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Klesmit? 1-9 from deep. NINE shots from deep. Terrible. I will remain bitter about that loss all season. We still don't know how good this team can be, but that loss will get in the way of some kind of goal, be it a B1G championship, or a much-needed game to get into the dance. The Badgers were "in control" of that game throughout, and let it slip through their fingers. Bad, bad loss.
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    I LOATHE this idea. I curse Jayson Stark for even writing about it. How this is even being discussed is maddening. ALL of the other rules other than the Manfred Man make baseball more baseball-like. This idea was a stupid thing for Stark to even dream up, let alone write about. As far as the Manfred Man thing, it doesn't really bother me that much. I don't think it should start until like, the 12th inning, but if they don't do this, the union gets its undies in a bundle about pitchers health and all that. So I get it.
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