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As good as the BP is likely to be overall this is where the so-so starting pitching can catch up to them if you're having to cover 4+ innings almost every game and are so frequently in close low scoring games.

I'd need several years trimmed off that deal to make sense for the Brewers. Which then doesn't make sense for him unless he just happens to be the type who wants to play it safe to lock in money, which I'd doubt he is. I'd guess the Brewers aren't really even considering this without a really team friendly deal, so good chances they won't even 'insult' him with the offer. Catchers fall apart quickly so a team like MKE likely aren't looking to be locked into someone's mid 30s. If Quero looks good again this year and going forward you'd be better off going for a very early super cheap deal with him when Contreras gets traded, a Freddy Peralta type deal team friendly.

Yup its her only issue/quirk. If you notice she has none or next none of the "umm, y'know, uhh," little things that almost all of us subconsciously do all day long without the pressure of a camera on. That is really impressive. Her only thing is the 'he said' and with how she's cleaned out all the other ones I'm guessing she could if she wanted but it almost seems like it allows her to take a breath when running out of air. To what you said, she just has to diversify it to "he continued, he mentioned, also, he said, in addition" etc. But I'm with you, she's really good and if that's her only tick she's better than almost everyone else.

If this was the other way around most here would be pretty mad and calling bush and dirty. Which it was. Though I'd chalk it up to Hoskins just being a lumbering guy, not actually trying to be a jerk. Which is likely why he didn't respond and put his head down and took yelling, which he knew he deserved. McNeil should play it a bit cooler as long time vet and just turn to the umpire with a complaint rather than getting in his face to fight. Though I do give him credit for keeping it real

I'd say the O/U should be set at 81 and I'd take under. Going with 78 wins, tempted to do less planning on some deadline selling.

I do feel like they skew it towards the warm/domes but they can't just do it 100%. I've never checked and my 'gut' on this has been a bit thrown the last few years as MKE has had more on the road lately. But you can't just make some teams do 7-10 games on the road to start every year and you do have to toss them all an actual opening day some times. So, if they haven't been skewing or quit skewing it they should got back to it. But either way, don't think they can be as extreme as described here.

Right, first thought I had when I saw the mitchell injury was see that's why all the talk on OF surplus was overdone. First none have proven they're good yet and as shown here and last year (and like every year before) injuries happen so having an extra guy is a good thing. Especially now with the DH. With how much help Weimer needs and should be in AAA they could've even kept Taylor and it would've been fine unless they had incredibly lucky health and development which would be a good problem to have.

I was surprised at that number too and thought I'd have for sure done, as long as I read correctly that its a basic 1 year deal. Even factor in that he'd probably need a little more to come here, I'd have done one year 5.5 to help our depth.

To the comments above and the deferred salary so needing shady ways to get money. He gets like 65 mil per year in advertising money, thats why he didn't care about deferring the money. He has no need to do anything shady. Doesn't mean he didn't, but there is no financial reason for him to do so. If I had to guess, his interpreter/friend boned him here and put him in a bad spot. But we'll see

Get some right. I'd still like to see MKE add one of the mid level guys listed and I'd hope are at least talking to Montgomery since this might be a sign he also has to do a 1 and 1 deal. I'm cautiously optimistic on DL Hall though to surprise and be legit good right away to fill a bunch of the gap left by Burnes/Wood

Well yea, thus the buy low and hope you get lucky. LA is one of the smartest teams and they were banking on him to be legit before the torn ACL. Of course they could've been wrong and the injury changes things. Thus, the buy low hoping you can grab what was a top prospect like 18 months ago for next to nothing and hope it works out here. And keep in mind, with how bad our O has been for years just being 750 ops is an improvement here. If he's looked out of it so far batting too though well that's different, but still no harm in taking him back if you're making the trade anyway.

Interesting and creative idea and write up. I'd assume that's too much to pull off but you never know, either way good talk for a message board during offseason. I'd probably just lean toward keeping it simple signing Davis without the LAD trade if they're not confident in the 3B options in house, it shouldn't be thaaat much money. But really just wanted to add in, has Lux looked fine with the hitting? if you work on this trade with LAD you might as well try and get a buy low on him and hope you get lucky? Even if he's off SS for good due to throwing he could be in the 1B/DH rotation for now and then hopefully gets competent enough to cover some 2B down the line if needed. Could be a solution to 1B the next few years after Hoskins if you have some luck. Looks like 2 years left after this on arbitration which shouldn't be too expensive due to the slow start to his career and the injury. If he's looked bad on hitting too though this is probably irrelevant.

Completely minor nitpick but Phi probably could be moved in the ATL/LAD tier. If I had to pick which one to put them in. Oddly, could probably argue they're in a separate tier on account of ATL/LAD being so good. So something like LAD/ATL big gap, Phi, big gap, everyone else, gap, trash teams. To keep it simple I'd probably just put them up with the top tier. While I'd agree 23 is probably low and his write up probably too harsh I certainly get it. Our O has been bad for years, and we're banking on rookies and a guy who hasn't played in a year to improve it. Pitching lost two aces and replaced with youth/scrap heaps. On paper we have one reliable starting P and he normally is a 5 inning guy. One proven guy but he's old af. Then a bunch of guys who last year we'd have all mocked/rolled our eyes at as 'bullpen/punt days'. I get this site is gonna skew homer and we're all digging up ways to thinking folks like Collin Rea can ever be more than just mediocre filler guys. But from an outsiders view, they look at our rotation and see nothing to bank on (while having had a trash O for years). So I get it. But following as close as people like us do along with the the homerism I said above there is a real justification behind trusting the management in regards to pitching, so like many of you I do expect them to do better than what it looks like on paper to an outsider. They've been doing this for years and keep producing results, so I give the benefit of the doubt and do think they'll be competitive and basically have as good a chance at the division as the other 3. Especially have to give them credit in regards to bullpen, which for hot take national writers that's hard to quantify since they're not as close to it as us. I guess in summary, I'm probably more pessimistic than the avg joe here, but more optimistic due to their P development track record than a writer like that. If Hall and Ashby prove to be our next Burnes/Woodruff all of a sudden we're onto something potentially big. But from a national writer, I get when he quickly looks at it goes well this uh doesn't look too hot.

Seems if both are down to having to take Hoskins/Bellinger style deals we should be in the conversation, these are the spots we should be open to spending and taking some risks (since its way less than massive 6-8 year deals) like the Moose/Grandall year. I'm not one with all this data like many here have but just off top of my head isn't Snell a bit of fly ball pitcher so our stadium isn't ideal for him (assuming he wants to have a 1 year show it season). I don't really recall Montgomery's profile and am not too confident in my Snell memory, but if anyone had that data/info I'd be interested to know. If not, no worries as both seem like long shots. IDK, if I'm Snell (or I guess both) I'd be all about San Fran. Big pitcher park, team that's been trying to spend money, has to be something that can be worked out.

I'm generally low on Chapman and didn't think he was worthy of the big deals talked about. That said, at that deal and MKEs general plight at corner IF for a while now I could've gotten behind that deal. Baseballwise, MKE would probably be a better spot for him to inflate his O stats to hope for a bigger payday next offseason but who knows where he preferred to live. Being from CA and coming up with Oak that is likely much tilted in their favor so we would have had to pay more. I'd guess MKE wasn't willing to do more than the 1+1 Hoskins type structure for him, and I'm fine with that. He's just not that good of a hitter. Fine to roll with the young guy and see what happens. With the SPs left hanging out thee if a 1+1 or 1+2 type deal shows with one of them its better than on Chapman.

Better this than having to roster a backup IF who is a complete waste of an AB when needed, like we seem to do almost every year. And of course that guy has to get 1-2 starts a week to stay fresh.

Generally good news, depending on the money of course. I'd thought a few weeks ago this seemed more and more likely as a possibility. And who knows, if the team is hanging around in the race he could be a good 'trade deadline' acquisition for the stretch. Otherwise just get ready for '25

Negro League Museum too. Tons of great BBQ. I did a random trip to KC for the first time last year, thought it was a underrated city and worth going for everyone. Was going to note Brewers do play there in early May, pretty sure its a M-W though.

Yea he seems perfectly fine depth guy, and with our pitching programs it wouldn't surprise me if he has his best year. I was also surprised he commanded 7 mil though. But hey, if you got the same guy for 3 mil you're being cheap, now you're not which is what matters to some.

Yea the conjecture would be that we're not 'going for it' since they traded Burnes so why bother. While of course that's generally true, Brewers management still plans on being competitive and trying to win the division so signing Hoskins still makes sense. And they're not wrong either with how weak the division is and the expanded WC.

Add that to the Hader trade midseason being problematic. I'd guess management knows long term it was best to trade and get more than a comp pick, even if it moves your WS chances this year from 4% down to 1% with the trade. If they went into the year with him and he does well, with the crap division and expanded playoffs there's almost no way they can trade him at the deadline while likely in 1st place or very close. Combine that with injury risk you said and Burnes' slightly combative attitude last year they thought it best to just get it done now. As fans it hurts this year as you go from clear division favorites back to the pack with the other mediocre teams in the division. Still, the division is so weak they can still be competitive and have a chance. Especially if some kind of stable starting pitching is added with this freed up money.

Kind of thought Hoskins deal meant they were more likely to play it out so this came as a surprise. I'm nowhere near the prospect expert many here so generally default to ya'll. First thought was surprised it was only two plays, then noticed they're both MLB ready and understood it. I'd guess the Brewers pitching experts think they can make a lot of the P like they did with Wood, Burnes, and so many others. Reading the SS is glove heavy and questionable hitting from ya'll does make me think I'd have liked at least one more lower level 'lottery ticket' type. But have to remember Burnes is only 1 year and Bal probably won't resign him, once the Dodgers were out of play it probably killed his trade value. Curious if one of the remaining FA SPs is open to a 1-2 year prove it Hoskins deal too since they're not seeing the money they hoped. Otherwise our starting pitching is really underwhelming. Division is so weak though they could still win with some luck, but maybe this will entice the Cubs to spend up.

Yea after seeing the kicker isn't good I went from no-brainer to I get it and don't think he was crazy wrong, but still would've taken the kick due to the value of 3 score lead with only 4ish possessions left for the other team. If you had prime Vinatieri or Crosby type guy I think it leads to clear take the points no brainer level.

Right, that's why he's available at all. Also why its only a 1 year risk so could be a spot for MKE. If they have decided to splurge a bit this year in last year of Burnes while knowing their financial commitments drop off to nothing other than Yelich next year he could be one that make sense. Hope you get over 20 starts out of him with good results could help shift 100+ innings away from unknowns or known replacement level Rhea/Ross/Teheran or whatever random they pick up midseason type starts

I think Ryu is still out there and expected to take a 1 year. Did generally fine after coming back form injury last year. I'm also a bit underwhelmed by our rotation and would prefer another proven guy of some kind.