MrTPlush

I’d be interested what the experts think a realistic Megill trade would look like. I really struggle to see multiple young promising players coming back for a 33 year old closer who is honestly pushing middle of the pack. Most articles/rankings usually don’t have him even a Top 10 closer. The amount of teams looking for a rental reliever is limited and most of those probably wouldn’t even label him their closer. Also, he is so old, regardless of how good he pitches you likely wouldn’t offer him a QO…not that the QO will be a thing in tue future.

To be fair, those games were the Badgers national championship. If you asked a Badgers fan before 2000 or now if they think the Badgers will ever win it all, they would say no. That very well may be the peak of Badgers basketball forever. The Brewers may be incredibly disadvantaged in baseball, but it is nowhere near the disadvantaged teams experience in college sports…especially now. My bold prediction would be if this team loses it really won’t be thought of that fondly because I think a different Brewers team will get over the hump sooner rather than later quickly shadowing this run. Now if 20 years from now we never see a World Series again, yah, I suppose it will. Largely because this is most of the fan bases 1982. The very large majority of fans weren’t alive or were way too young to really appreciate that run. So this run is really by far the best they have ever seen. But that’s just it, you only remember losing teams if that is all you have to hang your hat on. I’ve seen plenty of Kansas basketball national final losers and I don’t really look back at them fondly, but that’s also because they have actually won numerous times in that timeframe.

Well there is zero chance he is Top 4, I doubt he garners a vote.

Brewers hold a team option for Contreras. Even in some wild world where they shortened arbitration and didn’t grandfather current players in, he isn’t going anywhere.

I feel for Woodruff. Dude has been absolutely grinding to even make this an actual possibility. He has basically nothing to gain pitching in the World Series from a personal standpoint. He can quietly go into the offseason and get a juicy one year deal from some team. Instead he is willing to risk pushing his way back to health at the risk any big injury could ruin his chances of pitching in 2027 and possibly his career.

Well, the reality is we have zero idea of the long term reality of baseball financials. I recall Contreras being pretty attached to Atlanta…would it be wild for him to take a slightly team friendly extension to stay after a World Series run? Possible. I guess I would, personally, shy away of absolutes after a World Series appearance.

Jake Woodford will be watching the World Series wondering if his ring will feature the Rays or Brewers logo. He put up a negative WAR effort for both the Brewers and Rays this year.

And we may lose it because of hard decisions. What if we didn’t trade Peralta…or probably a little more relevant with less what if, what if we had traded for Skubal? Everyone is flying high thinking “WE DIDN’T NEED SKUBAL” right now. How we feeling about that if we lose 4/7 games? Does anyone regret trading for Sabathia? Anyone regret not trading Fielder? I don’t think there needs to be a hard strict rule to these decisions. I think that limits a orgs options and abilities. Thankfully, I don’t think the Brewers Brass thinks that way after the aggressive Skubal pursuit. I would guess the Brewers will go into the offseason pretty neutral on bringing him back, keeping the door open to go either direction based on offers.

Hopefully he gets flashbacks to his Mets start at AmFam.

Well, I recall once everyone in shambles because we lost a pitching coach once…and again when we lost a manager. So, regardless of the chances, I’m not going to invest too much thought worrying about it. I doubt we lose them for a lateral transfer…so unless someone believes in their heart they are manager material we may be fine.

If the Brewers keep their same plate discipline and attitude offensively, I think we will win this series. That is probably my biggest concern. Can they really go up against Rasmussen/Peralta and keep making aces frustrated? On the flip side Miz/Henderson have been major disappointments…I really like to think they will step up this weekend. Its a coin flip, so give me a Game 7 coin flip…Brewers in 7.

Fans will cheer for Peralta, but they should boo him over and over…and heckle him to make him feel like he is back in NYC. I want to see the camera pan to him in shambles after giving up 5+ in 2 innings. Sorry, but I ain’t cheering for anyone on the other team when we need four wins to hoist the trophy. I hope it’s the worst two weeks of his career. After that, best of luck to him.

Look at when Peralta was traded…look at when this article/post was posted.

Rays are just better. 100% the harder team for us because of Rasmussen and Peralta. Just a matter of if their offense can score enough to win.

I think the older generation just tends to dislike a personality like Tim Dillard.

Speaking of watch parties….yall see the Rays watch party inside the stadium? Yikes

Figured I’d stop posting Contreras stuff in the Attanasio thread, kinda an odd place tbh. Here are the FA catchers this offseason.

Umm thanks? Kinda weird comment since you predicted they would not trade Contreras? I’m not sure it’s a sure thing they stick to their status-quo of operations after a World Series appearance. Especially if they are suddenly NL favorites for once. I think they could trade Megill, but he also isn’t Hader or Williams. We traded them, but they also had the best reliever in the game hype to get some decent prospects back. Megill…I don’t know the return is enough to not just hold onto him. Also, like you, I ponder if the Brewers may consider trying Ashby as a starter again. Losing both Ashby and Megill in the pen seems like quite a loss. I don’t think both those outcomes exist at the same time.

Not trading prospects for a rental like Skubal…I can’t blame a GM for not doing that. Making (hopefully winning) the World Series and proceeding to trade any major piece (Megill/Contreras) for pieces that may provide something years from now? You will rightfully have fans grabbing pitchforks. If there was ever a time to stand pat and just eat the reality all you will get is a QO comp pick, it is when said players literally get you to a World Series.

People are saying his breakout started in the second half last year. I mean first off, he hardly played between June-August…and he was awful. He actually had a solid April/May and exploded in September. He was crazy consistent and solid this year though. I think enough teams will buy into the breakout to offer him a nice contract, but it is a still a risk with very little track record. He is also going to be 31 years old in the first year of the contract, not great. On paper he is a great 1B/DH combo, but the teams with dumb money to blow on someone as risky as him need the DH for their overpaid aging stars.

I think I’m more worried about Miz pulling a Paul Skenes regression or Henderson coming crashing back down to earth than I am of whatever Harrison/Preister can do. In the end I think our rotation ends up good, just not sure who actually makes that up and how good the top of the rotation is.

*casually looking for where I said that* Also we are talking about future years, not the 2026 Brewers. Feel free to look up my post history. You will see where I said before the postseason ever started, “The Brewers don’t need to be one of the top HR teams in the regular season, they just need to pretend they are one of those kind of teams for about 19 games” Guess who leads the postseason for home runs as a team? Any team can catch lightning in a bottle and have a short power surge. However, who is more likely to do that in a more macro sense year over year? The 2nd worst team for HRs or one that is Top 10? How often will a low power team out homer their opponent in the postseason 3+ series? Especially when the opposing team will typically have notably more power on paper? How many times have two bottom half power teams met in the World Series? HRs matter and we don’t hit many of them…and it may be worse in the coming years. That is a big flaw for postseason success. I’m going to go out on a limb and say we probably aren’t going to magically become a homerun mashing team in October every year. Could a true Brewer-ball low HR output team make the World Series? Possibly, I think this years team could have probably gotten there even if we subtracted off a few homers, but so many of those homers were massive momentum swings in games. A lot of them solo in nature too. That lack of power is going to make postseason success tough in future years, doesn’t mean it is impossible, but it will always be big hurdle to overcome and once again may depend on some uncharacteristic power output. I don’t think there is anything crazy about that take.

Assuming Miz stays healthy and Henderson or Harrison solidifies as a strong #2, they should have plenty of strong chances to return. But who knows what baseball looks like, history hasn’t been kind to small markets. It will be tough even with a ton of promise. Brewer-ball still has the fatal flaw of lacking HR power. Which is a problem come October.

It’s not speculation, that is the rule. And my comment was after someone said “If he is still injured.” That kinda infers a pre existing issue you decided to add him to the roster for anyway.

In the end I’m pretty neutral on whatever they decide to do…though I think it would be pretty lame to trade him at this point. Attanasio has been pretty hands off these days, so I doubt Arnold would try to extend him. If they do, it’s because Attanasio opened the checkbook to do it, so I’d probably look at the contract a little differently.