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  1. Frisbee Slider
    The Browns, Lions, Texans and Jaguars have really never been very close to winning a Super Bowl. They still have millions of fans. (tying this topic to people who wish major-league baseball was more like the NFL).
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    Every team in every sport says we aim to win a championship. It is as true for Milwaukee as it is for most other teams in the world.
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    Ryan Pressly being pressed to waive his no trade clause so Astros can trade his $14 million salary to the Cubs. Curious what the Cubs would give up to acquire Pressly. Pressly is 36 years old and coming off a season with 1.34 WHIP and declining strikeout rate. I suppose he is a ‘proven closer’ and maybe he will help the backend of the Cub bullpen. Seems like Pressly’s best days are behind him, though.
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    I noticed this, too. I know very little about the Cubs system but didn’t think they had one of the best systems in the minors.
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    Looking back on 2015, I thought surely we had more unsung heroes than this but actually no, not really. The bullpen was good with K-Rod, Jeffress, Will Smith, Knebel and Cotts (also Blazek). Rotation had Taylor Jungmann’s bright rookie season 3.77 ERA over 117 IP and Mike Fiers with 3.89 ERA over 118 IP. Jimmy Nelson was solid enough, too. Offset by Lohse and Garza’s worst years in their careers.
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    Fair. Adames would have chosen Milwaukee for similar amount. You would really want Adames for seven years, though?
  7. Frisbee Slider
    Which free agent signings from this off-season do we wish the Brewers would have made? And would that free agent reasonably have chosen Milwaukee if offered a similar dollar amount?
  8. Frisbee Slider
    Genuinely, we should want the naming rights to be as valuable as possible for the Milwaukee Brewers, and should not want to undermine the corporate name.
  9. Frisbee Slider
    We will get the best of whatever Hoskins has left, which I think is plenty more than last year. Otherwise, in a contract year, there is not much separation between 2024 Hoskins and Rowdy Tellez.
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    I’m genuinely less bothered by someone signing a 38 year old reliever who was barely above replacement level from 2020 to 2023 (due to injury). Yates had a nice bounce back year in 2024 but age could easily cause a regression.
  11. Frisbee Slider
    But don’t you think the Cleveland Browns or Jacksonville Jaguars deserve to regularly appear in the Super Bowl?
  12. Frisbee Slider
    There isn’t a lot of pain in this recent article https://www.mlb.com/amp/press-release/press-release-mlb-finishes-2024-season-with-highest-attendance-in-seven-years.html
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    I don’t think anyone would disagree that having more money makes it easier to win. On a microlevel, many specific long term free agent signings are just poor decisions. Three WS winners in past 30 years from bottom half of payroll rankings is eye opening. I still don’t think I’d want the MLB to turn itself into the NFL.
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    Signing players after arbitration to long term contracts typically means signing someone who is past their prime and will not live up to their contract. Granted, if you have a high payroll you can better absorb these mistakes. in most cases, it is still an suboptimal decision. We shouldn’t want to sign players who are past their prime to long term contracts. Maybe 🤷‍♂️ I think the league wide outcome in that scenario is a boring product.
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    2017 Astros had 17th highest payroll and won WS 2024 Diamondbacks made it to WS with #20 payroll 2020 Rays made it to WS with #28 payroll
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    Competitive balance is not universally desirable or desired. I consider competitive balance’ to mean 30 similarly mediocre teams with a few random outliers.
  17. Frisbee Slider
    Eventually the Dodgers run out of roster spots and can no longer sign more players? 🤷‍♂️
  18. Frisbee Slider
    Everyone should agree Milwaukee having a higher payroll would be nice. It is suspect to want the Brewers to commit a quarter billion or half billion dollars to brand name free agents. That’s just poor decision making in many cases. I would rather root against MLB teams that spend too much money unwisely than watch a product that is mediocre by design like the NFL. I loved rooting against Dallas and San Francisco in the early 90’s but those teams don’t exist in the NFL anymore since 1994 salary cap.
  19. Frisbee Slider
    The very highest spending teams don’t appear in the World Series as often as we think. It is not uncommon for teams outside of top ten in payroll to make it to World Series. I think the Brewers have been objectively more entertaining and competitive than the Packers over the same time period. (For alternative salary structure comparison)
  20. Frisbee Slider
    When the Packers sign roster depth players with upside do we hammer them? Have the Brewers, in aggregate, been more competitive than the Packers over the past decade?
  21. Frisbee Slider
    I feel like Milwaukee has had more than three first round pitchers who did not pan out 🙂 I really liked Medeiros when he was drafted
  22. Frisbee Slider
    I’m glad we don’t have to listen to predictions of how good the Cardinals are expected to be and how Jordan Walker is closer than ever to breaking out.
  23. Frisbee Slider
    The Brewers didn’t get much worse and a lot of the Cubs improvement relies on Kyle Tucker. It is conceivable the Brewers get more output or WAR from nearly all offensive positions in 2025 compared to 2024. Advantage: Brewers
  24. Frisbee Slider
    Not that this provides much comfort but if given the choice between the Dodgers or ‘the field’ I would take the field in terms of most likely World Series champion in 2025.
  25. Frisbee Slider
    On a lighter, happier note, do you have a favorite Bob Uecker commercial ad read? “You’ve got a lot more going for you with Hank… Hardware hank”“
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