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Splitting hairs but Nelson will be league minimum for 2 full seasons at ths point prior to arbitration.

Thanks, but don't need any more reasons.

As others have said, just get yourself in the playoffs and see what happens. Personally, I'll be happy to take my chances. We really don't know what will happen, injury wise, from here on out. Remember in 2008 where we thought we'd be golden with a 1/2 of CC/Sheets? You never know.

Kemp played in 399 straight games and then in May 2012 he went down with a "Hamstring injury" at that time he was batting: .359/.446/.726/ 1.173 12HRs in 34 games 140PAs 118ABs Since then he's accumulated 599 PAs .276/.328/.436/.764 17HRs and just 16SBs. I just don't like behind the numbers his 2011 season and start to 2012 to me stands out as not the norm. Now he has multiple injuries behind him ankle/hamstring/shoulder joint issue.... How is it a good idea to take a guy on being paid to be 2011 who was healthy then who's cressed his prime and should eventually begin his decline? He's not a defensive stalwart. Why can't we go with our own Khris Davis and cheer him on for 525k this year? I'll wager $50 now with anyone Davis hits more HRs than Kemp this year. Great post and highly relevant months later.

This thread is what happens when people set their eyes on a championship instead of just being happy to get into the playoffs. The problem with most professional franchises is that they possess an extremely short term vision regardless of what "mode" they are in. There's a group of posters on the this forum who regularly lament the fact that WI is all about the Packers and that the Brewers for many are just a summer distraction, well why is that? Maybe the rich history and huge disparity of championships between the organizations might have something to do with it? The Brewers simply haven't earned the right to be held in the same kind of regard as the Packers and I don't intend that to be a slight against baseball at all. The Brewers as a franchise simply don't have anything legitimate to hang their hats on... 1 WS appearance 30 years ago doesn't really mean anything. I would love for the Brewers to become a power in MLB but they aren't going to do without the front end pitching and if they aren't able to develop that pitching and aren't able to compete for it in Free Agency, then they need to trade for it and I'm not talking about unloading prospects for 1-2 year window. I'm talking about trading for pieces of the puzzle with longevity that they can build around. I don't disagree with most of this, and by and large, have been one of those posters taking a longer term view. You can't deny, with any business sense whatsoever, that the Crew doesn't take a major PR hit with the fans, media, players and other front offices competing for the same players for doing this IN SEASON WHILE LEADING THE DIVISION, however. Many prospect gurus have been amazed at the return the Cubs got for a front line starter, and the primary piece wasn't even a pitcher. No struggling team is trading a top 10 or 20 prospect (in season at the deadline), a potential ace, for anything the Brewers have to offer. That's just fact. The rest is fantasy baseball. Welcome to the real world.

No. This thread is what happens when theory trumps business common sense. As many players that put the Brewers in their no-trade clauses now, can you imagine what would happen in the future? You'd eliminate yourself from consideration for even mid-level free agents and the ability to add someone before the deadline in coming years. Melvin is a lot of things. Stupid is not one of them.

I'm not familiar with Arcia's defense, but is he moving into mid-season top 100 prospect territory???

In my opinion it was bad asset management on the part of the Brewers. With Estrada struggling, Mills could have been brought up to make a few starts, and then been either kept or traded for something of actual value based on how he did. For a team doing everything to hold on to what appears a dubious prospect in Wang who's 3-4 years away, it just doesn't make much sense. So, I'd be curious to hear the long list of past examples of major league GM's bringing a previously failed guy up to take over in the rotation for an established big league starter, then flipping him for something of value. How about the list of 1st place teams doing this? If this is an established practice, then it's bad asset management as you say. It just feels like conjecture (at best) to me, though.

If I'm dreaming, please don't wake me.

Couldn't have laid this out any better on Sunday. That KRod appearance will haunt us in the short term.

TheCrew, What does Ratterree's swing and approach look like? I'm guessing the swing is a tad long given the strikouts but the discipline looks OK given the splits. What's your outlook on him as a prospect? A bit old for the level so maybe the power and moderately better recent results are fools gold.

Glad that Luc is out of the game.

Maybe, but with a big series on the horizon needing to re-establish momentum at home against a good team, why overextend your guys?

I said it yesterday during the game and I'll say it again today. There was no need for KRod to be in that game yesterday. None. Thanks, RRR. Now pray that Braun can save you.

Nothing to see here. It's just the "boo yah network" doing what the "boo yah network" does: Create worthless discussion about who's next.

This just doesn't even make sense.

That was a laser from "Seggy."

Oh my goodness is Davis' arm bad. Wow.

The guy has only thrown like 250 or so innings in the majors to date. I'm not sure I would have been counting on him to begin with.

They've got this part of the "Cardinal equation" down. Now they need to hit on some draft picks and Dominican signings with more regularity. With Seid in place, the draft will always be a concern for me. He's been terrible at the top of the draft where it counts.

Wow. Glad you're not building the team I follow. What has Taylor Green ever done to merit playing time at the major league level, particulary coming off major surgery and sitting out a year as a result? He's cheap. That's it.

You start hitting on a couple guys in the DR and the draft, while still the true blue building block of any small market, can become more of a gamble on the riskier, high upside talent. We need an infusion of guys with Gomez like upside given what we've spent on marginal draft talent. Personally, I'd much rather roll the dice on a guy like this than select a Jungman, Arnett or Bradley.

This is assuming YoGo has committed to his profession, worked hard this off-season and kept himself out of the bars. From what I've witnessed first hand, a very big if. He seems to fit in a bit too well with Milwaukee's culture although he has a ton to lose if he continues down the path he's blazed.

My question is how, given the Cardinals success in drafting from the bottom of the 1st round each year, is Attanasio not pissed about having to continually spend massive amounts of money to patch starting pitching holes? He's got to be tired of the "its hard to find and develop starting pitching" line when others in the division appear to be doing just fine at it.

The Pirates stayed healthy and clearly caught lightening in a bottle last year. Nothing about that team screamed 94 wins. I think you'll see a market correction in the way of .500 or less this year.