Collins drew walks and had a decent swing plane. I think we can expect his ‘power numbers’ to regress in 2026 based off his nine HR last year.
A lot of wall scraping HR in hitter friendly parks off bad pitchers on off speed pitches. The walk off against Diaz was clutch but even Collins admitted he was fooled and was sitting fastball. I suppose similar things could be said of most hitters
Signing 30-year olds who are 6′ 5″ seems like a predictable risk. Players rarely become more healthy and productive after they are done with arbitration.
Did we want to pay 32-year old Bregman $175 million to decline in performance and block our prospects?
Bo Bichette $42 million per season to block our prospects, too?
Pete Alonso, $155 million?
Our payroll is what it is and we don’t really need Rhys Hoskins or Matt Garza 2.0. I understand a desire to ‘do something’ in free agency but only if it actually helps the team, which is rarely the case for Milwaukee.
Kept Woodruff, got good value for Peralta. Acquired additional upside arms in Harrison and Zerpa. What more could we have realistically done?
I’m not sure pushing all our prospect chips into the center of the table prior to a potential lockout would be wise.
The idea that a business can raise prices by one percent and demand does not decrease by one percent means demand is inelastic, at least to a point. This makes sense because there really aren’t substitutes or alternatives to MLB if you really enjoy baseball.
Businesses should maximize profit.
I suppose you could watch another sport or form of entertainment. At the same time, most of the price increases are likely attributable to inflation and everything being twice as expense than before.
I don’t see a scenario where Lockridge is our primary CF against LHP. Yelich also is unlikely to be benched against lefties, even if it feels like should.
Yelich had .351 OBP against LH starting pitching last season (171 PA).
Right handed power bat off the bench and a veteran who probably doesn’t require frequent at bats to stay relatively sharp. The over/under on total AB from Sanchez in Milwaukee this season can’t be very high.
Quietly, Castellanos has only 1.3 bWAR combined over four seasons and nearly 2,500 plate appearances. At that salary, you’d hope for more than replacement level production.
On topic, glad Sanchez is back. Contreras catches nearly every game anyway.
If a team said they traded this 3B for one of the more promising LHP entering last year, they would be happy:
To be fair, Durbin rarely strikes out and squares the ball up very well.