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  1. MrTPlush
    Why would you call that timeout if you are the Packers?
  2. MrTPlush
    You know when a team signs a competent but questionably good enough to even make a Super Bowl QB to a big contract, it starts becoming obvious after a few years they aren’t good enough, and they are then perpetually stuck with the QB for years? The Packers may be in that conversation now.
  3. MrTPlush
    First off - Offering him the QO is a total no brainer move. Has zero effect on long term payroll and arguably nothing for next year either. I doubt it would strongly stop them from making any other type of move. Name a single player that would be likely to sign here on a one year deal and have anywhere near the potential of Woodruff. No one. Second - There is certainly a chance he could accept, but I’m guessing he won’t based on his comments when the injury happened. It sure sounded like he didn’t really expect to be back. Which tells me he knew he’d decline his mutual option and would decline the likely QO offer. I wouldn’t be shocked if he ends up with a multi-year deal that ends up a lower average salary, but includes an opt out. The biggest argument for accepting the QO is the fact a strong and healthy year would line him up for $100mil+. He could still get long term insurance while still keeping the door open for a big payday. His best offer may be 3/$60m, but he may take 3/$40mil with an opt-out after year one. $8mil $16mil $16mil
  4. MrTPlush
    If they don’t I am going to assume there was a handshake agreement to not do so when he signed that deal.
  5. MrTPlush
    Yah, I think MLF might finally be cooked. I don’t know that he is bad, but I am very confident that he isn’t a net positive either. Love also seems to not be that guy. But we are much more stuck with him and improving on him isn’t really a simple task. And seeing him under a different coach could be beneficial.
  6. MrTPlush
    The only good part of that drive is Love didn’t force a ball creating an INT.
  7. MrTPlush
    MLF is so average. What a goofy drive against the Panthers. The Panthers have all three timeouts anyway. We have gone nowhere, there is somehow now less than a minute, and we burn our first timeout with the clock paused.
  8. MrTPlush
    I don’t think the #5 payroll winning it would have made it any better. Since their first WS appearance in 2017, the Dodgers have represented the NL over 50% of the time. There has been a single team that didn’t have a Top 10 payroll to make the World Series dating back to 2018, the Diamondbacks. A small market has won a single World Series in the last 20 years. I don’t think a team winning 12/13 division titles is parity. Hilariously, the year they didn’t win the division they had 106 wins. Parity should include all teams, not 1/3 of teams.
  9. MrTPlush
    Dodgers have a disaster year and had to play in the WC Series. And they win the World Series. The game is ruined.
  10. MrTPlush
    The Andy Pages glazing was short lived.
  11. MrTPlush
    Imagine had he slid head first or simply ran through home plate.
  12. MrTPlush
    Yamamoto after 96 pitches last night is…a choice.
  13. MrTPlush
    We say this a lot when the Brewers have a flop FA signing…but who was the great alternative? And outside of that alternative, how many other flops would we realistically have targeted too? His $17mil salary is an eye brow raiser…but then you remember it was for two years. Often times the realistic alternative was spending $17mil less on the payroll. Maybe he was a bad signing, but usually for use that’s FA in a nutshell when you have to spend money on sloppy seconds.
  14. MrTPlush
    Our offense definitely was terrible, even outside of the fact LA pitched lights out. I don’t think we beat them even if our hitting had been a little more human. But yah, we didn’t do ourselves favors. How much of a money issue you want to make it I suppose is in the eye of the beholder. We were probably doomed the second Woodruff was injured, because we didn’t have the depth. Yelich becoming useless was a crippling factor. We invest and take risks on 2-3 players max…and we simply need them to show up and perform or our odds to win a high level series is doomed. Teams like the Dodgers and Blue Jays can take risks on multiple players every offseason like Woodruff. One of those teams likely goes and throws 3 years at him this offseason. Half those big contracts can be injured or not show up and yet they will still win these 7 game series. Its is hard to win when you depend on Joey Ortiz and Isaac Collin’s to pick up the slack when your top guys are cold. Dodgers and Blue Jays never have to look to a Joey Ortiz to get a big hit. It’s not that they will always win or we have zero chance…but our margin of error is basically zero. We are running a 400M and the Dodgers are running a 100M.
  15. MrTPlush
    I don’t really see the parallel between us and the Blue Jays. The Blue Jays are a Goliath themselves, sporting a Top 5 payroll and are loaded with mega talents. They also had the best record in the AL while fighting off two big markets to win their division. Their Top 2 players? A $150mil FA signing that is 35 and a player with a half a billion dollar contract. One that helped carry them to an ALCS win and the other carrying them in the World Series. They can pay 3 starters $19mil+ a year in their 30s and get the luxury of one injured and one just needing to pitch in relief in the postseason. I wouldn’t bow down to the Dodgers either if we had a $250mil+ payroll.
  16. MrTPlush
    He means the later and it makes no sense. It makes no sense for anyone involved really. Peralta got his insurance, he has made $30mil now. Like Woodruff, his arm can implode 5 games into 2026 and make another $15mil regardless. Plus millions more even after that if it wasn’t career ending…even if he doesn’t become elite again like Woodruff. Woodruff didn’t even make it through a partial 2025 season and he still is likely going to bank another $50mil+ in the worst case. And for the Brewers, buying a single additional year of FA for $42mil is insane.
  17. MrTPlush
    I could see a reunion if he sits long enough on the market and our preferred hitting options we may be hoping for sign elsewhere. If we have a lot of excess money to spend, yah, I could definitely see a reunion with Woodruff happening. I don’t think we are going out of the gate and signing him in December though. Woodruff is the exact kind of guy we can take some risk to get impact talent without long term payroll obligations. About the only good way we can use payroll outside of arby salaries and veteran pitching filler.
  18. MrTPlush
    Revenue sharing is even worse than a salary cap. A salary cap at least forces some teams to spend less. Revenue sharing can just go straight into the owners pocket. I think Attanasio does miles better than someone else would in Milwaukee….but thinking he is going to get $40mil more in revenue sharing and spend it…is, a pipe dream. Mainly because that’s how it works and also the fact he is not a sole owner.
  19. MrTPlush
    There is no way the Dodgers aren’t running a profit. Their TV deal alone equals their payroll…and that’s assuming it was evenly weighted for all 25 years, it probably isn’t.
  20. MrTPlush
    Ummm, yah, so Woodruff is going to get more than $5mil. Lol He could end up with a one year deal, but PLENTY of teams are jumping in and taking a shot on him in that situation.
  21. MrTPlush
    I don’t really see a point in trading him. You get an okay return and lose a starter that has dependably given you incredible regular season value and is a great pitcher? We are clearly going to try to win next year and are completely void of veteran pitching. Woodruff is almost certainly gone and Quintana is quite plausible gone too. We would spend double or more just to find another veteran arm…that is way worse. Way too much confidence in Priester repeating his year and Miz even being able to hold down a spot in the rotation next year…let alone be a great starter.
  22. MrTPlush
    Cal on deck and struck out with zero pitches anywhere near the zone.
  23. MrTPlush
    World Series Set: #1 Seed $509mil vs. #5 Seed $255mil #1 and #5 seeds outspent their opponents (#15 and #22) $764 million to $285 million to purchase their World Series appearances. Dodgers will be playing another Top 5 payroll and will still be doubling that opponents payroll.
  24. MrTPlush
    Someone mentioned it before, but the current ‘competitive balance’ stuff is actually embarrassing. Large markets get a slap on the wrist punishment in the draft and the small market gets a marginal boost. Both of which won’t see the fruits or turds of that labor for half a decade. On the other hand the free agency advantage is so lopsided the only way to somewhat bring that down is to basically take 10 rounds of Dodgers picks away so they basically have no farm. These big markets basically have a minor league farm system and an instant reward free agency farm system. A big issue I don’t see talked about often in the competitive balance issue is the major decline in trade returns you get now. It used to be blue chippers, heck, even for rentals. Now you get middling prospects regardless. Small markets don’t even get the big boost trading their guys off anymore. 10 years ago trading Peralta was a no brainer, now it feels like you might as well roll the dice with him.
  25. MrTPlush
    So there is no payroll issue argument because a few of our highly paid guys didn’t play/perform in the postseason? I don’t know that Hoskins or Woodruff are even Top 10 salaries on the Dodgers. Here is a list of expensive players the Dodgers paid this year and aren’t on their postseason roster: Michael Conforto - $17mil (left off roster) Kirby Yates - $13mil (left off roster) Chris Taylor - $17mil (released midseason) Tanner Scott - $13mil (injured) Pitchers Gonsolin, Kopech, Phillips, and Graterol - $20mil (injured) BONUS: Clayton Kershaw -$16mil (1 postseason appearance so far) That is $96mil of payroll not even playing for them in the postseason, but yah, no reason to complain, right? Certainly no issue they have endless money to have ridiculous depth and have zero issue with all that wasted money. A guy that would be our #2 starter riding the pine and being in the conversation to miss the NLCS roster entirely.
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