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I’ve noticed those but I’d say no. In the southern league the parks are fairly even to each other. I went through the whole teams splits to see if this was a trend (like it would be in CS) and it wasn’t.

We are 1-0 since last night.... win came against one of the most elite pitchers in baseball. I’ll take that

Arcia is hitting better in AAA now than he ever did before calling him up. I hope they keep him down until September/end of season to continue this. Then September he gets to come back & work his way back up. No need to rush him. Get everything figured out 1st. He is walking a good amount which is unheard of for him

I get on my students & athletes all the time for the way they speak & use social media. They literally don’t think before they post or see how things are bad. A bunch of the tweets are rap lyrics which I see all the time & they try to justify it as it’s just a song. Just completely blind to how that language could negatively impact their self brand & perception. Now we have the “just send it” era which is the I don’t care going to send or post whatever mindset.... No excuse for the homophobic or racial tweets. I don’t think he is a racist or those are his views since he is on a very diverse team & appears to be really liked by his teammates. Him & Jeffress are very close and if he was as awful as his tweets, doubt that’d be the case. Be very interesting to see how this plays out. Not good for Hader or the Brewers.... that’s for sure

Tweeting “I hate gay people” or “kkk” or “white power” along with quite a bit of other stuff is not just dumb stuff. Pretty sad to see really. I only saw two of the tweets that showed up on my feed, one was a movie quote and then one really dumb & bad one. I’ll have to go check out the rest.

Excuse me, how do we know the Brewers offer had them in a close 2nd place?? Last I heard, Philly was the front-runner to land Machado on Monday until LA increased it offer.. IMHO its clear the Brewers were in on the negotiations and made a "solid" offer to Baltimore. That said unless all the various offers are listed for public review or the Orioles come out and say that unless LA 'did x' the deal would have been with Milwaukee, I don't buy the Brewers were a close 2nd. Nightengale tweeted it earlier. He is usually pretty good imo. I’m not wasting my time to go back and repost it, its on here multiple times, on twitter, on bleacher report Brewer feed. Believe it or don’t. Twitter rumors are twitter rumors. Maybe his sources are wrong but we do know Brewers where right there whole time. Never dropped out. End of day, no Machado.... we know Burnes wasn’t going anywhere. Everything else is merely speculation.

A 16-17 year old high school kid tweeted some dumb stuff.... shocking. One was a Will Ferrell quote from Semi Pro.... people need to get a life. Really? Go back 6-7 in someone’s Twitter to dig stuff up when they were young adolescent?

.240 hitter with 3-4 gold gloves. I’m okay with that. Saying we could have had Machado instead is misleading because we would have only had him for 2 months. Arcia also hit .275 with 15 HRs at 22 with incredible, run saving defense after he was a top 10 prospect in baseball. He was awful this year at 23, yes, but still has a ton of potential. Look no further than Segura when you give up on a young kid who struggles. My big questions for you are: What makes you think that this is our last year to compete? We were here last year, again this year. Each off-season we have made more moves to improve. Our entire roster is under control with most of our top prospects knocking on the door... why was Machado it for us to compete again? What will cause this team (who is also missing there top pitcher all season) to get worse? Why is Machado the only trade we could possibly make to improve this team & push us over? Is there honestly not a single player available who could impact our team majorly before deadline? Machado is really good player, outstanding actually but two months of him will not be something I look back at as a mistake we didn’t get done that will haunt our future. He has zero positive impact on us moving past this season. We were just 18 games over without him before awful spell. We are building a darn good team. I just don’t get how you don’t see any of that and believe Machado was our last hope to ever make playoffs again....

Brilliantly put! The fact he was attacking top bat in trade market & just fell in a close 2nd in pretty competitive race shows he has the stones to go after it & stones to stick to what he believes is the true value.

I would classify Yelich and Cain as "sell out" moves. I guess I prefer to wait until Aug. 1 to judge Stern's performance during this season. He's made some nice depth moves grabbing Saladino and Miller. Thus far, I wouldn't consider yelich a sell out move. Brinson is playing poorly and you probably wouldn't have seen any of the other players in the bigs for a few years. We have a lot of depth in the minors to afford that. Cain was just money, that is never a sell out move. If an owner is willing to pony up some cash, that's always a positive in my opinion for a good baseball player, especially with the way cain has played this year. Giving up hiura, Peralta or Burnes would've sucked. Badly. I’d disagree with not being sellout moves but get what your saying. Cain was the largest FA contract in Brewer history and whether we like it or not, in our market, it is not as easy as just Mark saying here is my checkbook. Guy made his millions by being brilliant at managing and investing money. He knows with the market size what is realistic & what will put team in trouble. Doesn’t matter how the players in Yelich trade are playing now.... at time, Brinson was MLB ready CF who was top 15 Prospect in all Milb with all-star potential. Harrison was coming off monster season & AFL and had as much helium as any prospect in baseball entering AA. Diaz was entering AA and like entire roster struggled a bit in Carolina but had a bat scouts love & just barrels balls. Yamomoto not huge loss since Barrie’s a bit but good pitcher. That was a lot to give up! That was 3 Top 10 prospects & Top 100 prospects. That’s selling out to me.

Stearns will sell out to win....when it comes with some years of control.

So this subject went 90 pages for a guy no one wanted. Yeah ok. 2018 is now. We should absolutely without any doubt be tying to make the playoffs so I’m sure we aren’t done in July. I think vast majority wanted Machado. Just most agree with not for Burnes, Peralta, or Hiura. Argument is that Brewers should have gave O’s whoever and whatever they wanted regardless to who it was just to get Machado. That is where the major disagreement is. Slinging David Stearns will make moves still & im sure it will be a good one (or two or three). I’m just happy he didn’t budge on his value placement of Machado the rental. If he was 1 1/2 years of control.... bye Hiura, Burnes, and more..... plus we would at least snag a 1st round comp pick after he hits market after a year & half of terrorizing the NL Central.

This 100 times out of 100. This team can only get better in 2019 & 2020 since we retain almost entire roster & Slinging Stearns can keep making moves to build roster & fill holes. Hiura looks like he can excel offensively at 2nd. Arcia & Dubon will get next year to see if they are future at SS or fill elsewhere. Nottingham will continue to get more looks at catcher to see if he can be guy or Stearns brings in help there. Loaded with upper level SPs with Nelson coming back with whole rotation under contract.... be interesting how he approaches that. Future is bright.... Machado would have been fun but team is headed in right direction

Greinke had multiple years of control CC would net a 1st round pick & there was a lot of hope that he’d resign here Both untrue with Machado As for we don’t know how many times we will be here.... well this is 2nd straight season we have been in this position.... that GM you keep trashing does this interesting thing called roster building for a competitive & sustainable future. You don’t do that by throwing major chips away for short sided goals. Please list the star players we are losing after this season that lead you to believe since we didn’t buy a rental Machado.... we doomed ourselves. Answer is none by the way. Essentially our entire roster is here until at least 2020 ( beside Thames & Chacin 19 I believe). Moreover please realize that not trading these prospects now for Machado doesn’t mean they need to be stars on our roster. They are chips that can be used to help us either on the field or another trade. Hopefully for a trade that brings back another great player who has control. Life goes on after Machado. I highly doubt Stearns has thrown in towel on making deals for this season because they didn’t overpay for rental. Last point Melvin who I love is in no way greater than Stearns. Unlike Stearns, he got short sighted, traded away whole system, and put us in a position where we needed to firesale team & rebuild. For that, we made playoffs twice with no ring. CC was exciting & helped get to playoffs but he didn’t make us a champion. Little proof Machado would either. Stearns is building this team to compete for long time. He can’t do that if he gets dumb & shortsighted. Eyes on now & the future

Man you are coming off as really pechulant here with this. Did you have money on the crew getting him or what? Wait until the deadline passes to judge him as a GM this year. You can't say he made a bad move when nothing has been done yet. What if we get degrom because we passed up on Machado? What if we end up with realmuto? We have a couple weeks yet. Patience. What if they could have gotten all 3?? Lol I’d love to see you explain the math to me on that one? Whole top 10 list pretty much whipped clean

That was a terrific trade yes...He STOLE Yelich. However, we will never know, but let's say it came out that DS wasn't willing to include Woodruff, Peralta OR Burnes in the deal, and had he been willing to include any one of them, he would have gotten Machado...isn't that being negligent?? You can part with one of them. Absolutely not negligent if it was Burnes or Peralta (both who are contributing in MLB now) we knew that all along. Woodruff I believe would have been on table but again a guy who can help this team win down the stretch out of pen or in rotation barring injury. If DS didn’t want to part with one of the 3 top pitching prospects that are all MLB ready.... is call. He doesn’t owe us fans anything to be held or considered negligent. We are talking rental! Zero control, zero compensation for losing, and zero chance of resigning. Even with CC we were going to get 1st round pick (got screwed with) and had an outside shot to resign. Manny is going over 200 million on lowest end. Moreover, we had 2nd strongest package in a pretty darn big race against some strong competition. Not like he didn’t try. Dodgers can afford to play with fire & overpay on prospects.... we can afford to. Look what happened last time we did that.... no ring & a bottom 5 farm for years.

[sarcasm]Cam Roegner as the centerpiece & build from there[/sarcasm]

I remember the days where I could just go to jsonline comment section to get a great laugh in on the irrational, over the top, sky is falling reactions & rants..... this brings me back. I’m just happy Stearns is the one running this team. Sucks coming in 2nd, would have loved to have him but sounds like Dodgers paid big. If it ends up being both Diaz & May... plus great job Orioles. Selling off farm for 2 months of Machado wasn’t going to win you a World Series. Bad investment. No we don’t know if Burnes, Peralta, Woodruff and etc will amount to anything.... however that is the risk you take to obtain 6 years of control of a talented pitcher. Burnes has been dominant since the get-go & now pitching out of pen at MLB level has had two stellar outing. Very small sample but no way in heck I’m throwing away 6 years of control of an MLB ready pitcher who looks as though he will at least be a sold middle rotation guy for 2 months of an elite bat on a fringe team. Dangle a guy with some control.... my hears are open. If it’s for Thor or DeGrom.... Burnes is yours Mets. It’s all about controllable assets... rentals just don’t have enough upside

Baltimore & this All-Game crap just stringing it out. As soon as the game is over I bet Manny is informed on who his new team is.... With Hiura, Burnes, Peralta.... think Ray as of right now should be off table as well for rental... hasn’t been rumored or talked about in this deal but think he is building way back to a center piece & a good chip for a pitcher now or in off season. Outside of Average, his overall numbers are looking really good with good improvement in all areas of his game.

Uberaggressive Armchair GMs are my favorite. I think there are more examples of the Eagles & Redskins trying to buy super teams and absolutely crashing & burning than there are success stories. Same with baseball. There are plenty of big blockbuster trades in July to win it all & those teams do not. Quintana & Gray certainly didn’t bring home rings for their teams last year.... Funny that DS goes out and gets Yelich (now an All Star) and signing the leader in WAR this season in FA & still get to read non sense about him not being aggressive because unlike an arm chair GM he has a responsibility to be smart & make wise investments to win now & in future in a small market. If a team like Philly wants to overpay.... so be it. They can burn whole system down for a rental for all I care. Burnes I could handle trading in a big deal for a DeGrom who has control, not for Machado. I personally don’t think Machado for few months wins us a World Series. We need more than one new bat to do that. He’s out the door as soon as season ends & we get no compensation for it in draft. Stay strong DS

I wouldn’t be worried.... 2.2 innings today is tied for his 2nd longest outing. He has only finished 3 innings once. My guess is he has a strict 50 pitch, pitch count.

I know nothing outside of what I’ve read online. All looks not good for Brewers. Phillies offering their top pitching prospect doesn’t help us retain Burnes. Only thing that helps is he is young & struggling... probably over 2 years away to even be close to pitching an MLB game at best. Rumors all pointed to them wanting mlb ready or near ready prospects. Maybe Phillies are trying to pull rabbit out of a hat with throwing him out there to get closer to the Brewers offer.... all smoke screens & false leaks. Really just needs to be over soon so we all can move on

Burnes is a deal breaker. I walk 10/10 times to loss him on a rental regardless of how good. Watching him pitch so far at mlb level has shown a good glimpse of why we need to keep him around. May never be a true ace but that’s fine...kid is solid, consistent, and just a really darn good pitcher.

Looks like Phillies should pull out the Machado victory. (My opinion) Congrats to them... we keep Burnes & move forward. 2 extra inning losses to Marlins, swept by a bad Pirates team in 5 game series.... could have really used a game changer for bringing back momentum to the team & fans... at least we got Aguilar to win final vote & Jeffress added... bout only good thing in last week of Brewer baseball

According to @jonmorosi, the #Phillies are willing to include No. 2 prospect Adonis Medina (@MLB No. 73) in a package for Manny Machado, while the #Brewers & #Dodgers⁠ ⁠ offers have not included top pitching prospects Corbin Burnes & Dustin May. The latest: atmlb.com/2NiEiEq