MrTPlush

It’s a shame we haven’t at least made a World Series because I feel like our sustained success is underrated in sports. Like, it’s historically great. The Brewers have only missed the postseason once since our first appearance in 2018. Even that year (2022) we won 86 games. The Brewers haven’t seen a sub .500 season (ignoring 2020 for obvious reasons) since 2016. I can’t think of another small market that has even come close to that. Maybe the Cardinals, but even they were nowhere near 8/9 postseason appearances in a 9 year stretch. They also are a notch about us on a market/payroll scale. Heck, most large markets fail the achieve that kind of sustained success. Mind you, I post this as our farm system and arguably the MLB roster are the strongest they have ever been in that stretch.

On the heels of Skubal to the Dodgers, I wouldn’t make any major moves (Miller etc.). There is no reason to chase the Dodgers this year. Save the prospects and hope other owners have a spine in the offseason to cause a lockout if change doesn’t happen. No telling what will happen with the 2027 season.

People are relieved about this? Really? I don’t really care we didn’t trade a crap ton of talent to get him, but the Dodgers getting him? There is no relief in that. It’s pretty sad and pathetic.

He hasn’t been that guy for two years. His H/9 and K/9 are also career worsts. His is an average pitcher. Im not really anti-Kirby, but he doesn’t seem worth giving up any notable prospects for. He may be better with our defense and maybe we can help his control be elite again…but that doesn’t increase his trade value. We have a short term need for pitching depth, but I don’t think we are desperate for it long term where we need to pay the price for years of control of Kirby.

I’d rather have nothing if Kirby was the price of Skubal. I don’t see the allure of Kirby. Gives up a bazillion hits, gives up his fair share of homers, walks his fair share of batters, and doesn’t strike out enough guys to make up for it. Certainly would be a nice reliable starter that is controllable…maybe some upside via defense and our ‘pitching lab’. Someone would need to make him back into the guy that wasn’t even averaging one walk per nine innings. Ceiling seems limited enough that he should cost a lot less than Skubal…and evens then, he feels a lot like many of the guys we already have.

And an extra start of Skubal

Trading for Naylor to be anything other than an emergency 3rd catcher is shameful. Be that 2026 or 2027. I can’t imagine we would be focused on our back up catcher for 2027 at this important of a deadline. Maybe Perkins/Yoho were on their way out by Monday and we just traded for Naylor just incase Quero is traded. I just can’t see us really concerning ourselves in July 2026 acquiring a garbage back-up catcher for next year.

Surely we have enough lower value prospects of our own to trade that we don’t need to trade Sanchez to get prospects to flip. Sanchez’s bat isn’t to shabby. Idk if I’d want to trade him for Naylor’s black hole to be #2 or have Quero get sporadic ABs and probably be a black hole too.

Yah, Naylor feels like a replacement of the #3 on the roster. No way he is taking Sanchez’s spot. Not today, not tomorrow. Quero has got to be a popular piece for us to move in any notable trade.

Just make a Skubal forum at this point.

I think people overrate top prospects a bit and get a little too attached to the potential. There are a lot of total busts in the Top 5 all the time, even the #1 guy can flop (Profar) or greatly never get anywhere near perennial AS level. Or it may take them years to put it all together (Buxton). There are people that probably wouldn’t trade Made for anyone. I’d trade Made for a lot of players, probably dozens of them. Basically any player that is controllable through 2029 minimum and has a few years of production and an All Star level season.

Given, most of these prospects will probably fair better in our system than others, I don’t think this would look quite like you are thinking. (Assuming you are inferring we are going to see all the great players experts wanted us to trade for Skubal etc.) Statistically, most prospects fail and while top prospects might have higher floors, their failure to get anywhere near their potential is just as great. I mean look at Chourio, he has shown flashes, but he has yet to break out to be the star he is supposed to be and he very well may never. (Yes I do know he is just 22) Most of the guys we are pearl clutching are likely going to be a fraction of their potential. Lucky if one actually reaches their potential. We all pearl clutched a player in the Yelich trade, I don’t know if any of them had a positive career WAR. The most regretful guys we have traded over the years have been mostly lower minor league players. Of course, we don’t know if Made is going to flop, Lara is going to flop, if Fischer is going to be Barry Bonds, or if Harrison is going to end up an injury riddled mess. It will be interesting regardless to look at this time in retrospect years from now. Hopefully whatever decision we make ends up in a World Series trophy. Be that 2026 or 2030.

Didn’t everyone complain when the site switched over no one liked the forced threads from articles? Given I rarely visit the site anymore, but looks like we don’t even get the ‘Article’ disclaimer in the title anymore. I miss the forum being a forum. *Hits close on Lysol ad for 12th time trying to write post*

It’s like the rest of my post just vanished, I can resend it for you if you’d like. What an obnoxious post dude, thanks for the laugh. You don’t even have to pay, just close the tab 🙂

That trade proposal reminds me of when Oakland shipped Addison Russel ++ for a duo of rental starters. (And traded Yoenis Cespedes for rental Jon Lester) They did so with a marginal lead in the division, but ended up failing to win 90 games despite 66-41 at the end of July, lost the division by double digits, and BARELY edged the Mariners for the last WC spot. In the end they lost the WC game and their three starters they sold the #1 farm system in baseball for: Jon Lester started and got lit up, Hammel gave up a hit and no outs managed, and Samardzija didn’t even pitch. I can confidently say I don’t support that deadline concept.