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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. MrTPlush
    Cal on deck and struck out with zero pitches anywhere near the zone.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. MrTPlush
    Under the current system, sure. That’s because we have zero shot to ever resign them. We only have players 4-5 years now as is because we have to trade them away so we don’t lose them for nothing. If there was a salary cap, that cheap control isn’t as essential for small markets because their ability to retain the talent isn’t unfair like it is now.
  15. MrTPlush
    Smarter with their money? How exactly are they supposed to be smarter? 1) All three of those players had pretty big impacts this season. Even Hoskins was pretty decent when he played this year. The postseason struggles (or not playing at all) sucks…but hardly something you can go predict. Without them, we don’t win the division. Or worse 2) What is your alternative that is so much smarter? Short term deals with risk (Woodruff/Hoskins) is by far the best way for us to find impact talent without hamstringing our payroll long term. If you don’t like big long term deals like Yelich and don’t like spending money on Hoskins/Woodruff types…your solution is? Jeff Suppan types?
  16. MrTPlush
    Surely you see the difference between $45mil and hundreds of millions. And it certainly did help them, they aren’t even a .500 team if we booted $45mil off their roster. Most of the pests that series were some of their higher paid people. But thus, I can’t blame someone for wanting to ignore the payroll reality. It’s probably way less depressing to watch if you think the Brewers actually have a reasonable chance to win.
  17. MrTPlush
    You just gotta pay the site and you get like a full mod protection it appears. Surely the only reason he isn’t banned is because he dropped some bread trying to convince people he isn’t a Fubs fan.
  18. MrTPlush
    Do players on the 2025 Cubs flex a World Series win the 2016 Cubs had? Idk, guessing the answer is no.
  19. MrTPlush
    Funny the day it happened, funny today, and will always be funny.
  20. MrTPlush
    Today may end in a loss, but I predict we don’t lose the rest of the series after today.
  21. MrTPlush
    Well for starters you don’t face elite pitching daily in the regular season. That every day is rough for average hitters and even more rough for a team needing steals/multiple hits in a row to manufacture runs. This sweep isn’t even slightly surprising.
  22. MrTPlush
    Correct, you got at least 5 owners on each side of the coin that would be entirely against it. Thus, you could only lose another 4 before losing majority. You would probably lose 5 before even threatening a lockout. I don’t know that there are even 10 teams that would actually go to battle to fix things.
  23. MrTPlush
    I guess one can always take appreciation in the fact it wasn’t another choke job in the books. Honestly, they played better this series than I assumed going in. Our pitching showed up and balled out. But as I said before the series, the starting pitching is so lopsided in the Dodgers favor it isn’t even funny. Beating that was going to be a tall ask. Our hitters aren’t elite, even the good ones aren’t exactly All Star forces. Seems more likely to depend on lesser pitching stopping elite bats than it is for middling hitting to hit against the elite pitchers of the game. Also, I’ll go against the grain a bit, I think Murphy’s pitching decisions were great. Every single one of them to be honest. We held them the 2/5/3 runs. The 5 run game involved 3/5 runs coming from our ace. Not sure what more you could ask for. While I thought using Uribe mid game in tight spots was bold…it was the right decision. Use your best guys when you need them most. No point waiting to be down 5 runs. Reality is, we were going to live or die on the backs of Ashby/Uribe pitching a lot. They weren’t going to chill and pitch every 3-4 days. No need to sugar coat it, we never had a chance…and to no fault of our own. Maybe someday that changes, but for now, it’s time to just watch another big market trot to the World Series. History has told this story over and over again.
  24. MrTPlush
    I’m not mad at our hitting. I’m mad at baseball economics. Oh well.
  25. MrTPlush
    Literally no where. NO WHERE Was I blaming Yelich for the teams poor success in the NLCS.🤣 Y’all arguing to a brick wall. lol It probably has more to do with his garbage health and staying on the field. At that rate suiting up every day in October is an accomplishment. But thus, highest paid man in franchise history and turns in to a negative contributor come fall. Deserved or not, he gets to wear that on his legacy. $200mil man who can’t hit a ball out of the infield or get it to go more than 5 feet without hitting the ground in-front of him.
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