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  1. SRB
    It's a nice list based on potential, but it's also pretty risky. I feel like Lohse and Garza are the only SP that you can count on being solid, and obviously Garza has his injury issues and everybody is waiting for Lohse's wheels to fall off. I agree with your optimism though. If Gallardo returns to form (please, Yovani!) and Peralta has a breakout season then it's a great rotation.
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    Isn't he from Taiwan? If he had played professionally in Korea then there's no way he could be in the majors right now due to the MLB-KBO posting agreement. I don't think he played in the Taiwanese pro league either though.
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    Hopefully they at least let him start the season on the roster to see how he performs in low-leverage situations in real MLB games. Obviously there are players like Mike Leake who go straight from college to MLB, but when is the last time someone Wang's age stayed in the major leagues without having played above Rk? Bob Feller eighty years ago?
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    Record: 90-72 All Stars: Braun, Garza Biggest Surprise: Khris Davis Biggest Disappointment: Jean Segura Playoffs: Yes, WC Place in Division: 2nd (behind St. Louis) World Series: Brewers v. Rangers Ok, maybe I'm being a homer, but I honestly do not think Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, or Chicago are that impressive. If not a Wild Card spot, Brewers have a solid chance of winning the division if something happens to St. Louis.
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    Even setting aside the millions of reasons why Braun should in no way have to give up his justly-earned awards, who would you give it to instead? There seems to be an unrealistic state of disbelief among the anti-PED crowd about the number of prominent major leaguers who are routinely violating the basic drug agreement. The real lesson of the Biogenesis scandal was just how easy players think they can circumvent the testing system. I mean, Braun cheated death in 2011 and then went right back to using (presumably quite confident he wouldn't fail any more tests). I assure you, the level of PEDs in the MLB extends far beyond some shady guy in Miami with a handful of clients. *Edit -- Also, how about my just-devised theory? The reason A-Rod and Braun were the only real star players who had to go through a place like Biogensis is because they became too risky for whoever is/are the top-rate supplier(s) to keep dealing with them. A-Rod was already a known steroid-user and Braun had just screwed up and failed a test. Much easier for whoever the big dealers lurking behind the scenes are to cut them loose in order to avoid an investigation and forcing MLB's hand. Biogenesis proved that the testing system is a joke. I'm sure whoever supplies other star players is much more discrete than Anthony Bosch.
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    Maybe it would help the image of the Brewers organization if the team relinquished all the fans who turned on their star player because ESPN told them to. (Just kidding you're entitled to your opinion, but no he shouldn't give the award back.)
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    Braun is the kind of arrogant-in-a-good-way player who thrives on proving a point. When his original scandal broke back in 2011 he came back and had the best season of his career. Since I don't think PEDs have any impact on performance whatsoever other than durability, I'm putting a healthy Braun at: .330/.400/.600/1.000, 40 HR, 35 SB, 110 RBI
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    Very interesting, though I'm not sure how much I buy position players (as opposed to pitchers, who get legitimate arm fatigue) having that large of a production drop simply due to fatigue. There are more physically demanding sports where professional athletes get little to no off-season, like association football in Europe. I guess maybe baseball is more tiring if you play shortstop and have Segura's speed-heavy skill set.
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    Top SP signings that offseason: Barry Zito, 8/$136M Gil Meche, 5/$55M Daisuke Matsuzaka, 6/$52M Jason Schmidt, 3/$47M Jeff Suppan, 4/$42M Ted Lilly, 4/$40M Looking at old offseason signings is pretty funny. I completely forgot Jason Schmidt existed -- he went on to appear in just 10 games for the Dodgers (with a 6.02 ERA), so I guess Suppan wasn't the worst deal in the world.
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    I generally find Keith Law to be a dunce, but hard to disagree really. The Brewers have not had a hit with a top-top pick in quite a while at this point. Would be nice for a high upside guy like Roache to burst onto the scene but if that's the best we have going then yeah, it's a bad farm system right now. Thankfully it's a fluid thing, as Houston going from worst to first in just a couple years is proof.
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    Wow, that is so team friendly I honestly can't believe this deal. Even if the option vests that presumably means Garza is healthy, he'll still be just 35, and given continuing inflation for free agent pitchers $13m is going to be peanuts by the 2018 season.
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    Keep in mind that if it actually is a medical concern, the Brewers organization probably wants to keep that under wraps (and therefore would not tell McCalvy/Haudricourt/et al) because publicly announcing that the Brewers backed out of a deal due to medical concerns would conceivably hurt Garza's free agent value and conceivably raise legal issues. (Likewise if that's what's going on Garza's side would want to keep it a secret too.)
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    I like McCalvy but neither he nor Haudricourt tend to break stuff like this because they are Brewers reporters and thus are just given the organization's public stance (since it's obvious they're going to report it publicly). If from a proven source I think "friend of friend" info can be more plausible because it's an unintended leak. (Btw, what was with Rosenthal/MLBTR suggesting that @BrewerNation broke the Garza signing first? That dude just outright makes everything up and probably got the Garza story from reading the Trade forum on here...) Really hoping the originally-reported deal goes though.
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    If you think about it, over the last two offseasons the Brewers have gotten 7 years of #2/#3 starting pitchers for a mere $85 million (plus the Lohse draft pick). That is pretty remarkable/smart. I guess underrated pitchers with bad goatees are the new market inefficiency. Obviously Tanaka has higher upside, but does anyone expect him to be much better than a #2/#3 caliber pitcher? He cost $175 million for 7 years.
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    Wow, great deal for a pitcher as good as Garza. This is a guy the Rangers traded Mike Olt, Justin Grimm, CJ Edwards, and Neil Ramirez for (last year), and we got him without giving up a draft pick for basically the same contract Jeff Suppan got.
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    Mark Reynolds is a MLB player who once hit .260/.349/.543 and garnered a few MVP votes (and even now fills a valuable platoon role and if nothing else is a much better option for Yuni B's old job of "HR power off the bench"). Hunter Morris is a 1B-only prospect who is the wrong side of 25 and yet has struggled to crack a .770 OPS in the minor leagues. I know which one deserves Melvin's middle finger!
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    Perfect signing, I love this. He is a much better offensive player than anybody else we could have hoped to get (and obviously his upside is 2009). His downfall as a solid player has always been his horrible defense, but if they use him at 1B and not 3B then hopefully it won't be so bad.
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    My lack of concern about PEDs stems from the fact that it is an entirely arbitrary distinction invented by the media and others (e.g. Congress) as to what substances are "unfair" and "evil" and what substances are not. Do you have a problem with the inhuman workout and supplement regimes that modern athletes undertake, which give them the inhuman physiques that they have? I mean, what is "reality" that you want to see? Why is a cortisone shot not an outrage? And your comparisons do not hold water. Pitchers purposely throwing bad pitches fundamentally alters the game and would not, in fact, be more exciting in any way. PEDs do not alter the game, they alter the physical capabilities of players to perform the game at a higher level (in theory), and more importantly they keep players healthy and let them return sooner (why do you think Braun was taking PEDs?). What's really hilarious to me is all the people making these grand stands against PEDs who then go and cheer for Clay Matthews on the weekends. Unless you are as angry at the NFL as you are at Braun, then I don't consider your moral arguments very genuine.
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    Speak for yourself. I honestly could not have cared less about the whole scandal and it affected my feelings toward the Brewers exactly zero percent. The only thing I got out of the whole thing was annoyed at the self-righteous, phoney stance people (especially baseball writers) take on the steroid issue. My only wish is that PEDs actually had a demonstrable effect on baseball performance, and that if they did the rest of the Brewers would start taking them so we could win more games and I would be treated to a more exiting game with a higher level of play.
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    Another horrible, bloated contract. You never know when even the best pitcher in baseball is going to fall apart (see recently: Tim Linecum, Roy Halladay). Just is never a good idea to commit that much money to one player. You'd think they would learn when the success-rate of these contracts is empirically like 5% (if that -- does A-Rod's first deal count?), but guess not.
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    Reminds me of a bench version of Carlos Gomez, i.e. a player with huge tools who the Brewers are hoping can have a breakout in his late-20s. Though by "bench version" I mean that Golson's "breakout" would probably just be showing up as a valuable bench contributor.
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    Considering 2010 Weeks is arguably the best season by a 2B in Brewers franchise history, seems a little silly calling him the "biggest disappointment" ever.
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    Sadly the Hall of Fame became an irrelevant joke the minute Barry Bonds wasn't a unanimous first year induction. It's obnoxious, know-nothing writers voting based on their personal attitudes toward players and/or their personal hunches about what players did or did not do decades ago. And both sides of the stats debate have just become tiresome and based on personal grudges (e.g. why is voting for Jack Morris such an outrage, but voting for Tom Glavine isn't, when the latter had a worse career FIP and was likely only able to have a longer career due to better medical care in the 2000s?)
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    1. Breakout season from someone in the minors (e.g. Tyrone Taylor) so we actually have a prospect worth getting excited about for the first time in a long time. 2. Competent first round pick in the June draft for the first time in a long time. 3. Either (a) the Brewers are competitive in 2014, or (b) the front office shows a willingness to trade players like Gomez while still at peak value. 4. Segura shows that 2013 was not a fluke. 5. A new GM (sorry, Doug...)
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