MrTPlush

TD would just about do it.

RANDALL COBB! Thank god we had someone smart enough to bring him in.

I can’t believe they threw it, lol.

This rain probably won’t have much effect. The storms are still about an hour or so west.

At least he isn’t signed for half an eternity like a different OFer

We might. It honestly doesn't take a lot to go from a 13-3 team to a 7-10 team in this league. I just want to point out, no team has ever gone from 13-3 to 7-10 in the next year.

Sigh…too soon

Jesus Sanchez is an OUTFIELDER and made a running barehanded catch. If you have a chance, look it up, just unreal.

They do that during and after most of the time too.

That TD pass was pretty incredible.

Kevin King is a pile of crap.

Stearns certainly fell into a good situation with how the team was left to him and it is a big reason why they started competing so quickly. Looking at the 2017-2018 teams you have guys like Domingo Santana, Josh Hader, Zach Davies, Jimmy Nelson, Adrian Houser, Brandon Woodruff, Corey Knebel, and even Braun. He was also given a fantastic payroll situation to be able to sign Cain (who was huge in 2018) and was left Jonathan Lucroy who gave them the ability to trade for Yelich. Of course Stearns also worked a lot of magic to jumpstart this run early on. Manny Pina, Jesus Aguilar, Travis Shaw, Chase Anderson, Wade Miley, and Freddy Peralta all played a part in the turnaround for the team. While a big part of Doug Melvin is still on this team it has certainly started to be more and more David Stearns as his draft picks start to arrive and many of the Doug Melvin acquisitions disappear. I felt like 21-22 was going to be a really defining time for Stearns as the Brewers GM...and it certainly is going pretty well so far.

Weather wise it looks like a line of thunderstorms will hold off and the game will stay dry, but if the storms move a little faster than expected the 4th Q could get a little wet.

At the same time, though, that was EXPECTED to be a brutal/long rebuild at the time. Considering they found a way to basically be competitive 1.5 years later (missing the WC just one full season after Stearns was hired), I wouldn't be surprised if they end up with a Cardinals-like situation where they never really have to truly 'rebuild' (call it soft if you'd prefer, I suppose), while still being vaguely in the WC race, etc. I don't think it was expected to be brutal, like 100+ loses and lots of 90 loss seasons brutal. We had a few strong pieces (Gomez/Lucroy/etc.) to largely replenish the farm. We did turn it around way faster than expected though. I think most thought 2019/2020 is when we would start competing again. If Devin Williams stays elite, Freddy Peralta stay a legit ace, and at least one of Ashby/Small becomes a TOR guy they probably have the pitching core to be a good team. The problem is the offense. They have nice depth of intriguing hitters, but they are far from locks to be MLB players. Obviously the wild card is how they deal with some of the current core when they near FA. On another note I don't really buy into him maybe wanting to leave for a "bigger challenge". Being a GM is a constant challenge no matter where you are. We have hardly been cruising the last four years even though the end of the year records make it look that way. It has taken a lot of luck and some key moves to get us where we are. It has been anything but easy for Stearns. If he wants a challenge he should stick around till 2023-2025 when he has a competing team, but a bunch of studs about to hit FA. We saw how the Cubs traversed a similar situation and they totally failed bringing all of those guys into the 2021 season. The Cubs will likely feel the effects of those decision for years to come.

That assumes we have to rebuild after the current group leaves. With the likes of Ashby, Small and Williams being groomed to take over for Woodruff/Hader and company it may not be a one off build like the Braun/Fielder years. The ability to build a dynasty is something he knows he can do here considering he's half way there, he knows this is a quality organization and the owner and fans are behind him all the way. Those are not all guaranteed in NY. Maybe they will need a rebuild, maybe they won’t. I think the most realistic expectation is at least a soft rebuild. Possibly comparable to their last one…which all things considered wasn’t a long or brutal rebuild. The odds we can survive all those guys leaving is pretty darn unlikely. Of course I didn’t think it would be possible to bring three elite aces through the system at the same time either…so who knows.

It’s incredibly common and almost common occurrence for manager and GM contracts to go down to a year remaining and then extend it prior to the lame duck season. If the Brewers enter 2022 with no extension announced then I would be really concerned.

Cincy has PIT and the Phillies have BAL. So they have that going for them. The Padres are borderline doomed. They have to play the Giants for two series still, the Dodgers, and the Braves. While anything can happen in a small sample, that's hoping for a lot of success against good teams to outplay all the other teams in the WC race and catch the Cards. The teams behind the Cards really need the Brewers to play spoiler. Outside of our two series they are playing the Cubs.

Orlando Arcia would 100% be offered one, teams pretty much offer rings to everyone that was on the team at any point in the year. The likes of Zach Godley, Jordan Zimmerman, and John Axford would likely be offered rings too. Of course a player can decline if they so choose. Probably easier to just offer it to everyone versus trying to decide what constitutes worthy of a ring.

They certainly could start 0-4....but I think Rodgers is too good (the whole offense really) to not go off in at least one of them.

Going to guess Attanasio would not allow a new GM to dump Counsell. If Stearns were to leave I would pretty much expect them to just promote from within. At least in the short term.

That’s pretty much where I’m at too, although I can’t recall a Rodgers-lead team ever taking such a bad early season loss. It’s really cast a cloud of uncertainty over this season … at least until they notch a couple wins. You would have to go back to 2014 to find the last time they lost their first game, which was a pretty bad one to the Seahawks. Of course that year they were on the way to the Super Bowl if not for a ridiculous turn of events and boneheaded plays.

Antwan Roberts (Fresh RB) has entered the transfer portal. He had been suspended over the incident with the dismissed Freshman RB Crawford.

Mahomes with a more normal but still good group on offense…I’d like to see that. Not that I don’t think he is great, but I wonder if he would be as insanely inhuman s he is made out to be with offense around him he has.

There is absolutely nothing to point to Stearns having any interest in the Mets job. The only thing that gets hashed over and over is the fact that is his hometown team or something. It doesn’t make a ton of sense for Stearns to leave the Brewers. He might as well ride the Brewers until the team dies (probably when Woodruff/Burnes/Hader/Adames are going out the door) and then leave for a premium job when he looks like a genius still. Basically what Theo Epstein does…it’s a genius plan for a GM. I would predict the Brewers/Stearns come to an extension agreement this off-season going through 2024 or 2025. Trust Stearns through the rest of the window and possibly to start you on the right path to a rebuild. Then let him go to a more interesting and probably a big market team. Can’t blame a guy building such a resume to not want to man our entire rebuild of suck.

I don't follow the rumors and what voters are saying...but I am guessing it is pretty clear cut between one of the guys doing well with lots of innings or the guy with low innings (Scherzer). I would guess Burnes is the odd man out as any voter willing to give a vote to a guy with lower innings will want Scherzer. That being said this could be a real messy year with votes being really scattered...more than usual.