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  1. MrTPlush
    Acquiring CJ Abrams to be DH would be a horrendous use of assets. Nor is Yelich be traded (he would likely block the trade), not going to the bench, and not being DFA’d to make that trade happen.
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    I’m guessing we exist on his no-trade list due to pitching depth. Does want to be an injury fill-in and then possibly pushed to a pitching role. Not great if you aspire to get a contract this offseason. If one can recall, that was an issue for Lucroy and Cleveland..,he didn’t want to split time at 1B etc. it isn’t a nothing burger because any agreement to a trade here could involve a handshake agreement he has to start regardless of performance etc.
  3. MrTPlush
    It’s rare because one singular move/player minimally increases odds. Luck and timing are the biggest things you need…and you can’t trade for them. Making the postseason is always the biggest odds increaser. I always remember 2016 where the Cubs traded for Chapman and the Indians got Andrew Miller. Both moves helped send those team to the WS. Cubs won 103 games and didn’t ‘need’ Chapman. Chapman infamously almost choked away Game 7 though.
  4. MrTPlush
    I don’t think I could get behind the price Miller would likely cost and I don’t see us desperate enough for an elite bullpen arm like that. The bullpen should be fine and hopefully gets a boost in the postseason via Logan Henderson and other starters. Skubal is the obvious answer if we are trying to make a splash. Miz/Skubal is a potential WS winning combo.
  5. MrTPlush
    I’m definitely not anti-make a big splash. But I’m definitely trading prospects…and maybe a lesser young starter if need be.
  6. MrTPlush
    Our World Series odds are like 9% right now. If we swap Henderson for Skubal, how much do you really think that goes up? To 12%? Our consistent success over the years is because we haven’t chased these type of marginal improvement. Now I could see us giving it a shot for once since we are getting a bit deep between MLB and MiLB…but I’m pretty sure it won’t come at the expense of a potential huge impact player like Henderson. It just doesn’t make a ton of sense to go big on a rental by giving up a big MLB piece. That’s just a terrible gamble. Reminds me when people thought we should trade Prince Fielder to get an ace pitcher. Addition by subtraction is just a bad route to take.
  7. MrTPlush
    Trading a guy with a sub 3 FIP, sub 1.000 WHIP, a 11+ K/9 through his first 13 MLB starts for a rental is insanity. We traded an entire season of Freddy Peralta and Corbin Burnes before and got nowhere near a Logan Henderson back. Logan Henderson, as he sits now, arguably is more valuable than the entire trade packages of Peralta+Burnes combined (at the time of those trades).
  8. MrTPlush
    Sal Frelick had 6 WAR over three years coming into 2026. 3 WAR in full-time ABs in 2025 with a mid .700s OPS. He definitely has value, especially to a middling team that has zero hope of competing next year and probably has an open OF spot. Though he is injured and it may be a legitimately concerning injury. So I don’t know that he is really tradable right now.
  9. MrTPlush
    The main reason, because he is a two month rental. It isn’t like we get all of spring training and a few months of the season to ‘work on things’. You are essentially hoping to catch lightning in a bottle, which historically, this fan base almost always hates and complains about at the deadline. If the cost that of a backend starter, sure. If I have to pay a premium for a former act, no thanks. I wouldn’t get into a bidding war for him.
  10. MrTPlush
    The entire Brewers fan base on social media is obsessed with Freddy Peralta like it is a done deal we will go trade for him, begging for it. The air quality is finally decent, I think people need to go outside and get fresh air. The obsession with a negative WAR pitcher is getting a little strange. If he is free, great. But giving up value? Idk about that. Though it probably helps the Mets that he had that cheap contract versus a massive final arby year price tag.
  11. MrTPlush
    If his name was anything else, no one would want Peralta. If he is free, it is what it is, but I’d rather them set their sights on someone who is more stable and can go farther than 4 innings. we are also talking a guy that will be a free agent at the end of the year and was on the verge of hundreds of millions. No doubt he wants to start every fifth day and we want to win…after a month his best way to help us is in the bullpen, who knows. So there is potential conflict there.
  12. MrTPlush
    Overpaid for what we got, but great clubhouse presence and gave us 21 starts of near 3 ERA baseball the last two years. So not a complete waste. One of my favorite Brewers ever, but pretty neutral whether he comes back here or not. I won’t say ‘he better not’ because that’s kind of ridiculous without any contract term to go off of. Certainly, I wouldn’t offer any meaningful amount of money again. He may come back a solid reliever instead of trying to start again, who knows.
  13. MrTPlush
    People don’t go to AAA games to see their specific teams players. At least not in the sense it dramatically shifts attendance one way or the other. Plenty of teams sell well and even teams with zero attachment to MiLB can sell tickets impressively well. Nashville looks empty because MLB always required/preferred AAA stadiums to have 10k+ seating capacity. Which none of them really get close to achieving. Reality: Nashville is a Top 5 attendance team across all of MiLB.
  14. MrTPlush
    Did he bang the trash can between starts?
  15. MrTPlush
    This would have been exciting a decade ago.
  16. MrTPlush
    More so the point of why is Chourio batting reverse disrespectful, but the pitcher being a 40mph throwing positional player not? I mean, that seems like a wild take. Not to mention when a guy jacks a homer off a positional player that gets a similar ‘disrespectful’ tag to it. Maybe we just need a mercy rule and allow teams to just quit instead of using a positional player to pitch. Chourio giving himself a disadvantage in the AB seemed to be more respectful, but I guess that’s just my opinion.
  17. MrTPlush
    I love how Chourio batting lefty is a crime, but a positional player throwing rainbows to the plate is not.
  18. MrTPlush
    Are you Mark Attanasio’s secret burner account?
  19. MrTPlush
    This rich .1% of fans = Massive and expensive overhaul behind home plate including exclusive club. The other 99.9% of fans = Best we can do is an overpriced beer garden right next to the parking lot where you can do the same thing yourself for cheaper (and just make better food yourself) and an overcrowded minigolf course/playground. The later wouldn’t have been a horrible idea had it actually been out by the parking lots. The one on the home plate side is nice and great to occupy kids while tailgating or before the game in general. However, this one is by the outside concourse and surrounded by concrete. Nowhere to relax, no grass. If I have walked across the bridge it means I’m ready to go inside at that point. Or the alternative is to make it accessible from the inside and not the outside. Imagine activities in the open air during a game versus everything being in a cramped concourse feeling like a warehouse.
  20. MrTPlush
    Watching Miz pitch is insane. He isn’t just blowing 103 past hitters and hoping they miss it. He is genuinely dotting the corners and locating his breaking stuff. Of his 15 strikeouts, every single one of them was on a pitch on the edge or just off except the one to end the game which was just inside the zone. The fastball gets all the hype, but every game he is casually dotting strike 3 off speed pitches. Miz could be throwing 95mph and he would still be pitching like an ace.
  21. MrTPlush
    That logic makes no sense. You are comparing a 21 year old being motivated after an extension versus a 31 year old past his prime. Lara is motivated to be the best he can be whether this contract has $1 of escalators of $100mil because he will be a max of like 31 years old at the end of it anyway. He is playing for another big contract either way. I don’t think anyone lets off the gas because their contract is $10mil instead of $10mil plus another $5mil in incentives. If they have that thought process they probably wouldn’t have made it past varsity in high school.
  22. MrTPlush
    I see a hell of a lot of regression potential, little upside potential, and a lot of black holes that are definitely black holes. I mean compare our line up to that of the Braves or Dodgers…who also have pretty good pitching. Better odds than last year for sure though.
  23. MrTPlush
    A salary floor is more important: Why? Partially because a salary floor wouldn’t exist without salary cap. So the answer is really both combined. But even then, the forced revenue sharing that must happen to allow such a salary floor is more important than a cap. A floor or cap is useless by itself, honestly. Forcing the limitation of the Dodgers ability to spend while forcing the spending of other teams is the most ideal situation. In theory, it should also spread out talent a little more and make more teams competitive.
  24. MrTPlush
    They are better and by a lot for a variety of reasons. They can carelessly spend money to fix problems, we can’t. They have a better ability to drop prospect capital to fill holes. With all that money, they naturally have better depth in general. Also, the top versus bottom offensively is quite a bit different. We have 3 sub .600 OPS hitters and none that are close to a .900 OPS (within say .020 OPS). The Dodgers have zero sub .600 hitters taking major ABs and two that are close to a .900 OPS. We have black hole free outs to get them out of jams…they don’t have that in their lineup. That’s just a huge difference. We may have some true TOR guys better than we have in awhile…but they still have a really strong rotation that is better than ours, likely. Their bullpen is as good or better. We need to play incredible baseball and get some luck…that’s tough facing the Dodgers. Unfortunately we get one stab at it per year…so even if we succeed 3/10 times…that’s not very often in the grand scheme.
  25. MrTPlush
    Not a great outing by Ashby. But his defense sure didn’t help with Chourio chickening out on a fly ball and a 2 out error.
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