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YUNIS BACK!!!!!!

we dont need marlins man because we already got front row Amy

On our way to 162-0!!!!!

good thing we have plenty of pitching depth in the minors

looked like his face smacked the dirt, not so much about the arm I think

armpit/face

whelp, I jinxed him,m its all my fault

NO HITTER WATCH

WORLD SERIES HERE WE COME!!!! GET OUT THE WAY!

wait, am I the only one predicting WORLD SERIES???? CMON GUYS!

and as every year, please keep negative posts to literally any other thread on this forum! This thread is just about optimism and positivity around the 2018 season, and the squad! I cant wait to listen to tomorrows game! CANT. WAIT!

So many bats! So many arms! So many dingers! WHO ELSE IS READY FOR THIS SEASON?!!? IN THE IMMORTAL WORDS OF ONE MR. JOHN BELUSHI....

Greg Bird 1B for Yankees is out 6-8 weeks to recover from surgery around bone spurs

https://www.lids.com/milwaukee-brewers-new-era-mlb-cooperstown-59fifty-cap/20684551 Thanks! Though, I am looking for the dark blue/red hat with white M, not the blue and yellow M hat.

This is the thread that got locked: viewtopic.php?f=63&t=36521 thanks, I removed that first paragraph as a result!

Win-Loss Record: 90-72 Playoffs (Yes, No): Yes Highest Playoff Level Achieved: World Series All Star Game Representative(s): Knebel, Cain, Yelich Offensive Player of the Year: Yelich Pitcher of the Year: Pitcher-to-be-acquired this summer Most Surprising Player: just how good Yelich will be with 80 games at Miller Park Most Disappointing Player: our entire 2nd base platoon

edited for correction the deferred money is most likely just set aside from this seasons earnings (and subsequent seasons) and then distributed across the deferred years per contract (either with interest, or without). There is without doubt value in structuring contracts like this for baseball franchises in a "spend more now" mode or else you wouldn't see it done in a non-cap league (where in cap leagues is where the true value lies with deferred earnings).

does anyone know where I can get one of the braves fitted hats? mines looking a bit worn out and i'd like to replace it but I cant find anywhere online that sells them anymore

just keeps getting better lol

am I, are we?

worrying about what player arbitration earnings will be in 3 years is insane. those players may not even be on the team or in the majors in 3 years. the brewers dont have to offer contracts to players during arbitration years, they can cut them, they can trade them, there are plenty of options that are there to mitigate worrying about unknowns. Also, I think you're missing the fact that Cobb may not even want to come here. so it doesn't matter what the brewers offer. quit acting as if this is only about the money, its not. Baltimore got a deal, cool, brewers maybe made an offer, we've seen plenty of times where players have no interest coming here. that could have been the case. Im not worried about all the arby increases... just the players who would need to be good for us to be good. You have to assume Davies Nelson Knebel Shaw are going to need to be retained... and if we don't then we are going to be so bad it won't even matter. I'm not looking at the perez villar increases but every good player is going to get more expensive. Thats a fact. What is with this prevalent "no one wants to come here" take. Is it easier for you to think this is the case than your franchise is run by tightwads. Is it easier to watch stars leave because... well the town sucks. Cobb was about money. Arrieta was about money. It could have been an expansion team in the Sudan. They were after money. please, dont come at me with the "team is run by tightwads" argument, I live in Pittsburgh, i see what a team run by tightwads looks like. Its not the brewers. Cobb may not be interested in living in Milwaukee, playing most of his games at miller park. you can say Cobb was about the money, but you literally have no idea if the Brewers even made an offer. None of us do until its been reported, which it has not been. Plus, Cobb rejected a qualifying offer, so on top of whatever deal the brewers had they lose a draft pick on top of it. I personally dont hold draft picks to much value, but the team ownership/leadership probably do, so there's that nugget on top.

worrying about what player arbitration earnings will be in 3 years is insane. those players may not even be on the team or in the majors in 3 years. the brewers dont have to offer contracts to players during arbitration years, they can cut them, they can trade them, there are plenty of options that are there to mitigate worrying about unknowns. Also, I think you're missing the fact that Cobb may not even want to come here. so it doesn't matter what the brewers offer. quit acting as if this is only about the money, its not. Baltimore got a deal, cool, brewers maybe made an offer, we've seen plenty of times where players have no interest coming here. that could have been the case.

no one in Cincinnati is complaining that their team is still paying Griffey 3.5 mil a year through 2025 because it really has no lasting impact on team payroll.

13 14 15 16 17 +5 mil defered... if thats not backloaded, up is down. Now would trading a player who is 34 be easier and also more profitable if they cist 3 years at 48 mil or 3 years at 42 mil. At 35, 2 years and 33 mil or 2 years and 27 mil. Glad we saved money in our lowest payroll year of the next 3! that is not backloaded. MLB is not in a cap era, so deferring money has no real impact year to year (ie to skirt under cap rules), and is common practice for most big contracts. Braun is getting deffered money until 2031 even though his contract rate goes down each of the last two years, does that make his contract backloaded? I dont think so. No one looks at deferred monies as backloading contracts. If anything, the $1 mil a year or whatever it is, is basically negligible and unnoticed to 99.9% of teams and their fans.

They might've flinched when prices got above what they wanted to do. I don't think that is too puzzling. I know you like Cobb for $60M over four years but maybe the year were just something they didn't want to do with him (and I don't blame them really). But again... you are backloading a 32 year old for what? The off chance the market completely evaporates and a steal falls in your lap. That's pretty dumb. If the steal comes you make it fit, you don't backload a deal then hold to incredibly frugal offers. If we paid Cain 20 17 15 15 13 I wouldn't disagree one bit. Payroll would be at 102 and we'd be watching his deal decline as he aged and our roster pushed up arby prices. Sitting at 95 mil leaves us short now and hurts us then. If it wasn't cobb... because we clearly didn't fight for him... who is the 15mil arm that makes this make sense... that we also didn't get. we're paying Cain 14 15 16 17 18, that is not backloading a contract, so you should stop describing it as so. If they did 12 13 15 18 22 then yeah... but they didnt, its an even distributed increase across 5 years.