MrTPlush

What is the Yount treatment? I don’t think he needed that second MVP to be a HOFer.

I don’t know if Finger’s number being retired should really be a predictor of anything. If they could go back in time, are they really retiring his number? That’s always been a bit of a weird one. I guess the Cy Young, MVP, and HOF resume just put him over the top. If Yelich somehow makes the HOF, sure, a no brainer. At this point he doesn’t even have 50 WAR yet though. Falls into the Jimmy Rollins and Miguel Tejada type category, imo.

I think Yeli gets his number ‘shadow-retired’ like Braun has. I have seen a lot of people think his number is a lock to be retired suddenly and I think once the World Series high wears off that vibe (hopefully) changes. Let’s not try to make Yelich into something he isn’t. The World Series win was a team effort and there were plenty of other leaders on the team past Yelich. If someone would have proposed Yelich’s number being retired before the season or even after being announced captain most would have thought that was a crazy idea. Now after one postseason run we are going to retire his number? I think Yelich can have a nice legacy and remembrance that doesn’t involve forcing a number retirement. If we feel the need to retire a number wait for Murphy to retire and put a coach in the rafters.

I will never understand the hype the Padres got for being ‘hot’ and were going to take us down like we weren’t a 103 win team that went something like 18-6 in September. The Padres were only slightly better at 20-6, I believe. The way that was talked up you would have thought we went .500 in September.

Matt Klein was offered the Astros job, he has declined.

It is Chourio, though I see I was off .002 I don’t think it is completely an apples to oranges thing. Chourio’s defense is irrelevant to the matter. The pondering is, does Vaughn struggle to hit righties notably more than other players, especially if we decided to deep dive into more average players beyond clickbait comparisons to Chourio/Contreras? His career numbers would say no. Some of his years would say he is arguably above average. I won’t pretend to really know what is baked into his righty numbers. Certainly towards the end of the year he was getting pretty strong preferential treatment on who he went up against, but I don’t know if that was necessarily the case earlier in the year or midway through games. Of course I’m doubting Vaughn replicates either his numbers against righties or lefties next year. If the Brewers thought that could happen we would just roll with Vaughn. He is probably a .750 OPS bat. But even if we just chalked up Vaughn as a platoon player, I really don’t get why that is always a big negative to many. No one can play every single and we have done a pretty good job having versatile guys on the bench. We can afford to have a platoon at 1B if we wanted to or someone like Vaughn on the roster who is not very versatile. Dang shame Yelich clogs up the DH spot and is too fragile to put at 1B.

Saying Vaughn is a platoon player and someone saying he is only worth $4mil (dang near FA minimum guys sign for), yes, that is what is being inferred.

Vaughn faced righties more than lefties this year. We shouldn’t act like he was in some strict platoon all year long. Vaughn vs RHP in 2026 - .764 OPS _____ vs. RHP in 2026 - 776 OPS One of these is Vaughn, who is apparently a gigantic liability who should never see RHP. The other is someone people glaze more than a Krispy Kreme doughnut. This isn’t even the first year of Vaughn’s career he hit pretty well against righties. Then some of his other years his OPS split between the two wasn’t that far off what most batters experience. If Andrew Vaughn hits like he did this year..,or even like his 2022-2023 self (or ‘25 Brewer version), the Brewers really don’t need to platoon him. He got platooned because it made sense for the roster construction we had.

He is probably #4 or #5. Pitchers never get any love. DeGroms crazy season landed him #5. Only recent pitchers to win MVP were a Clayton Kershaw 2014 (a HORRIBLE MVP contending class) and Verlander’s triple crown season in 2011.

There is no financial risk for Bauers, at least short term. The amount of teams looking to give him a 3+ year deal, debatable. Amount of teams willing to give him like $20mil+ for just next year? Many, many I would guess. The risk is that no team wants to offer him a multi-year contract and he has to settle for a one year prove it deal. However, by the time that conclusion happens the Brewers are off the NLCS MVP high and decide to just move a cheaper different direction. Then Bauers is stuck taking a one-year deal with an unfamiliar team. That is the nightmare situation for Bauers. Woodruff had the same situation last year, he probably could have made just as much no matter what, but coming off an injury with a new team and unfamiliar medical staff? Not ideal. Bauers isn’t declining unless he is very confident that multi-year deal is coming. If not, he will take the guaranteed money with the team he finally found success with.

I wouldn’t say he is fine. He is worse than Bauers and that is pretty low bar as is. Bauers provides offense and even with that his defense is bleach in the eyes to watch. We have watched some pretty bad growing pains over the years with some prospects coming up..,but almost all of them had plus defense to take some of the sting out. Fischer could be a liability all around.

Fischer first needs to learn how to field a baseball. Brewers aren’t rushing a defensive hack to the majors and watching his offensive growing pain while he boots balls all over the place.

MLBTR projected $14.5mil compared to his option at $14.6mil. They did that before the postseason. Contreras’ postseason performance and World Series MVP can both be used in an arbitration argument. We weren’t going to be able to nickel and dime him in arbitration. Bob Nightengale reported the Brewers are hoping to work out an extension. I guess we will see where that goes.

I really don’t care if he accepts it. He likely is their best 1B option for 2027 and after a World Series win I am 100% confident it would have no meaningful effect on other ways we spend money. If he declines, I’m not bothered. I hope he gets a big payday then.

How many teams need a first baseman? How many want to spend tens of millions on one with virtually zero track record? A lot of ways to spend money and teams usually have lots of holes to fill. A quick glance and I see few poor offensive teams that need 1B filled, some teams have albatross contracts at 1B, and a team like Cleveland is too cheap. If no teams buys into him being a Top 5 1B, the money just ain’t going to be big.