MrTPlush

Turang is such an underrated MLB player. #9 in baseball for value per Fangraphs in 2026.

I remember when a large portion of the forum was begging to sign Rendon. Holy yikes that would have been.

Definitely a little weird, especially if you were a 2011 or 2018+ player who actively failed in the postseason. I saw plenty of players thrilled and cheering for the Brewers in the postseason. CC infamously switched to the Brewers after NY lost ticking off Cleveland fans. Lol Lots of guys excited, just know it isn’t their moment.

Contreras doesn’t even have 20 WAR. Basically zero chance, unless he has 6+ 5 WAR seasons in him. Great player, but not THAT special. Yelich, also zero shot. He isn’t good anymore, was way too mid of a player after those two great seasons. Chourio started so young he certainly has helped his case. Right now he is a fringe All-Star. Get back to me when he has a Top 5 MVP finish. Miz, the only one that is really on the HOF radar right now. Cy Young in his second year so has the elite pedigree. Needs health and more elite seasons though. Many can string an elite year or two of pitching…the league may figure out that fastball if he can’t have the off speed help it out. Turang may be a dark horse? 7.3 WAR this year and around 5 each of the two years prior…keeps that up and he may be on the HOF radar, but I don’t know if he has the offense to get the attention. The defense eventually falls off and hurts his value. If I had to guess, zero HOFers. Remind me in 20 years.

Interest in the Brewers really took off for a few reasons (coming from someone that has lived their life in the northern half of Wisconsin). 1) The success helps a ton, obviously. But that did not favors for the Bucks in the long run much. 2) But also, the roof. The ability to have group trips, school trips, and make mini-vacations with 100% certainty the game(s) would be played changed things dramatically. People started going and it trickled from there. My family did yearly trips to Miller Park, we would have never gone to County Stadium. Too risky worrying about weather.

It will get displayed somewhere. It would be fitting to their state inspired year/run to do a trophy tour, I recall the Cubs doing that. Though I don’t know if that is super common.

Right, that’s why I said I could only see him coming back under a QO acceptance. Or if his market was just that terrible he signed a one year deal. What I am saying is, we aren’t signing Bauers to a 4+ year contract (imo). If Brewers want to blow WS money on a 30+ year old, they are going to extend already franchise icon and postseason MVP Contreras. In that sense, it very much is Bauers versus Contreras. I can’t see Brewers brass say, “Yah, let’s pony up money for Bauers instead of Contreras.”

I’ll put it here since the thread is more neutral versus the catchers thread. I can’t envision any chance Bauers returns under just about any circumstance…minus a QO if that exists. If the Brewers are willing to drop $15mil a year for someone 30+, I’m sorry, but they are just going to sign Contreras to an extension. No way they pay both and no way they pick Bauers over Contreras. Jake Bauers was an incredible story, but I think the book is closed.

The fact Ras started Game 5 on short rest and had 60 pitches to use is pretty much proof he could have started Game 1. My guess is he wanted Martinez on the road and figured why not Game 1 and let Ras have an extra days rest. It would have been a monumental momentum swing if they had won Game 1. The second they lost it, they put their backs against a wall…and when they lost Game 2? Full disaster was on display. To me, it seemed like classic overmanaging and overthinking in the postseason. Maybe he knew he was severely disadvantaged on paper and by recent results, but his decisions were poor across the board. But also, it may have not mattered. The Brewers made pitching a nightmare for his team and their starters kept leaving games early. He didn’t have the pen the Brewets had to do that. Murphy may have emptied his pen in a Game 4 loss, but even that aggressive move caused Cash to blow his Game 5 starter and use his ace bullpen arm for two innings. Using Ashby in a loss seemed bad, but the Padres had to match that and we had way more arrows in the quiver for the next day. A close loss was as good as a win, because the Brewers went into Game 5 a freight train and the Rays broke down on the tracks to simply force that Game 5. In the end, it was a classic example of why teams never force a Game 6. If you go down 3-0, you are outmatched and it isn’t fluky. You may put everything you have into Game 4 to sneak a win…but a whippin’ is coming Game 5. However, I’m confident someday in my lifetime, someone will choke the 3-0 lead away in the World Series. Thankfully, we aren’t going to be that page in history…this team was too focused and too good.

May has won four times now, third year in a row. Probably hungover/drunk. He was awful. He pitched and sucked in both postseason losses and sucked in another game. Sucked in the regular season…could we really blame him if he isn’t that interested in celebrating? He hardly was a big part of winning. Probably his personality at some point.

I just want to say, I didn’t start that convo, I kinda forgot what thread I was in. I’ve only posted in what feels like 20 separate ones the last few days.

Yah, the narrative the Brewers are proof that everything is fine and just be the Brewers is rather absurd. The Brewers are a historical outlier and always will be. You could change nothing about baseball and a small market team will never have the kind of consistent success the Brewers are currently on. Mainly because now all teams, large market and small, will try to mirror different parts of what the Brewers did. While we are on the top of the hill now, I think many unwisely think we will just stay ahead of the curve if baseball stayed the same. When our time of dominance is over and the next rebuild/run has to take place, I don’t know that we want baseball to look like this. I don’t know how extreme things need to change, but there needs to be change. You can’t tell me you look at Kyle Tucker’s contract and say “Yah, I love this kind of financial manipulation”.

Maybe so, but watching your team win it all is still always special. On the bright side, I do think it makes 99% of Brewers baseball more enjoyable or at least less stressful. When you start making the postseason year after year and come up short you start to worry if the prime ‘can’t miss’ opportunity is slipping away. I mean, Wisconsin fans would know more than anyone after watching the Packers blow Rodgers entire career. What if the Bears had squeaked out that W in 2010? We may look as good as ever, but there is no guarantee we ever get another crack at the WS again. I may never have this high again, but I also know I will never feel the pain and dread the Alonso HR and Dodgers sweep etc. gave again either.

The bites of the apple finally paid off. I looked back in history at other teams with similar sustained success/postseason appearances (not as frequent as you may think). All of them eventually won a World Series except the current Yankees run has yet to pay off despite similar yearly postseason appearances for an extended period of time.

People are crying about how little excitement the players had on the field. people are weird lol

I couldn’t agree with this more, I always loved this forum because it was filled with people willing to sell a kidney for the Brewers to win a championship. Thankfully, I get to keep both my kidneys now!

Gets overshadowed so much because the entire bullpen decided to also be (nearly) untouchable. If there was a postseason MVP, it still would be Contreras. Dude went off every single series. 1.100+ OPS in the NLDS/NLCS and his worst series was still a .350+ BA and .850+ OPS. Add in his contributions behind the plate and leading the pitching staff, yah…I don’t think even 18 scoreless can beat that. On the bright side, I don’t think Brewers fans will forget his contributions and Contreras was a class act trying to give him some attention when he accepted the MVP award.

Well they aren’t trading him, doesn’t make financial sense post World Series (especially as the MVP) or competitive sense. No return is worth losing either of those things he provides for next year. I could see a somewhat reasonable extension. I think both sides may have extra motivation after the WS. Idk…I can’t see him lasting that long behind the plate without a partial move to DH/1B. As much as one can love Yelich, I really wouldn’t look forward to trying to once again rationalize why a .720 OPS DH is a valuable veteran presence worth the money/spot on the roster. While no one will ever complain about Yelich’s contract being a failure again, that doesn’t mean every contract for an aging player will have a romantic end. Braun’s didn’t of course

At least under current rules, we would already control Made through Chourio’s entire contract…I think just one year short. I’m actually surprised we locked up multiple guys to these contracts before this year. Team control could wildly change here soon. I don’t think we can even theorize how we could do these contracts now until that is ironed out. It may make less sense for us to do it for all we know.

In September 2004, a man named Mark Attanasio bought a baseball team in baseball’s smallest market. At the time the team was wrapping up it’s 4th 94+ loss season in a row. No winning season in over a decade and no postseason appearance since 1982. He took over a franchise lucky to convince 2 million fans to come to the ballpark. In his first year as owner, the Brewers went .500 and a few years later won more games than they lost. 2008 saw a postseason appearance and 3 million fans come to watch them. In his 22 years owning the Brewers, only once have they lost 90+ games. 2 postseason appearances before him and now we have 12 total. I have always and will always be grateful this cheap ass bought the Milwaukee Brewers.

That is the team we wished we could be years ago before this success. A well-run organization that finds talent that isn’t in FA. Poetic that is the team we ended up playing and beating. I’ve always kind of pulled for them…especially since they have to be in the same division as Yankees/Red Sox. Minus, Yandy Diaz, that guy seems like a clown. Bat flipping on the verge of WS defeat and it wasn’t even a hit? Bat flipping a useless hit when getting blown out?

After so many years of heartbreak, especially the Alonso homer and Dodgers sweep, one really just had to wonder if it would ever happen. It always seemed like things always went wrong for us and other teams had improbable moments. The second that ball hit the roof and fell into Chourio’s lap I instantly wondered, that was our moment…wasn’t it? Did we finally get the break we have so often watched other teams get? Then came the Chourio walk-off and the Mitchell HR robbery. The moment Jake Bauers hit that HR, I knew that was it. This team was a team of destiny and it was piling up improbable moments like we saved them up since 2018.

Once I saw it was a double sided shirt with massive graphics I was like “Yikes” Hard pass for me lol

During the celebration it look like you could even try to fit all the fans on the field level of the stadium if you tried.