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Today’s Dodgers starting lineup has over $1.7 billion in contract commitments. Last season, Los Angeles paid nearly $170 million in luxury tax penalties. Go Brewers! # Player Pos Contract Total Years 1 Ohtani DH $700M 10 yrs 2 Betts SS $365M 12 yrs 3 Freeman 1B $162M 6 yrs 4 Tucker RF $240M 4 yrs 5 Pages CF $0.8M 1 yr 6 Muncy 3B $10M 1 yr 7 Hernandez, T. LF $66M 3 yrs 8 Rushing C $0.79M 1 yr 9 Kim 2B $12.5M 3 yrs P Wrobleski SP $0.79M 1 yr Total $1,717.88M

Milwaukee has been an equal or better regular season team since 2024

The Dodgers send a tough lefty in Justin Wrobleski, whose 2.49 ERA and 1.03 WHIP look intimidating until you notice he rarely misses bats. Wrobleski posted zero strikeouts over six innings against St. Louis earlier this month and is sitting at 4.8 K/9 on the season. He's been allowing plenty of loud contact and is due for regression. Logan Henderson gets the ball for Milwaukee. Henderson has done a terrific job limiting walks and striking out batters this season. Interestingly, his ground ball rate is among the worst in baseball at 17.8%.

Fair. At the same time, if the lazy bottom feeding teams also get a leg up and keep their talent longer it might end up being a wash. Milwaukee is excellent at optimizing the quirks of the current system.

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If the system were even, would Milwaukee be better or worse off? I agree with all your points.

In most cases, Milwaukee should enjoy the ride for up to six seasons for young players. Get peak performance at affordable prices then let another team pay exorbitant salaries when they are aging veterans in their 30's.

Ashby’s contract includes incentives based on innings pitched and receiving Cy Young votes. We can only assume Attanasio has given instructions to limit Ashby’s effectiveness, in the near term.

I didn’t watch the play, but if it never touched his glove then it’s a hit.

Bunty!

If Cabrera goes on the disabled list, the Cubs rotation becomes: Shota, Taillon, Rea, Brown and Assad? Sounds like Cabrera only experienced a blister, though

PCA backwards K without swinging the bat once.

Bauers batting average approaching.300 and OPS near .900.

Hamilton has 0.5 bWAR entering today. Baseball Reference must think he’s doing something correct 🤷‍♂️

I learned today that both of PCA’s parents are professional actors.

What an interesting group of three pitchers to face Los Angeles 🙂

Murphy said Miz was tired after six innings, too. Opening comments from post game interview.

Post interview Murphy suggested Miz was tired after six innings.

Edward Cabrera started the season with 11.2 scoreless innings for Chicago. Since then, he has allowed three earned runs in 6 of his last 7 starts. The other start, he allowed five earned runs. Kyle Harrison has allowed a .323 BABIP this season, which is higher than his career average. Interestingly, Harrison has pitched better in his two starts with Sánchez behind the plate than the six with Contreras.

If we can’t trust Perkins against LHP, when can we trust him? Also, Perkins has 0.2 bWAR this season 🤷‍♂️