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  1. MrTPlush
    No, I actually thought he was legally obligated to only play 3B. Anything else and his contract would have been void and we would have lost draft picks. Thanks for the clarification. In that scenario I would have just kept Wong and still left Urias at 3B. Or put Turang at 2B and Urias at 3B. Spending 10mil+ on Justin Turner never really made a ton of sense. Once we weren't willing to keep Wong (or even Renfroe for that matter) it should have been pretty obvious the Brewers weren't going to go out and sign Justin Turner for similar or even more money.
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    The Red Sox will reportedly only use him at 1B and DH….mostly. I never really understood so many wanting him. Luis Urias put up 50% more WAR while being dang near a decade and half younger. I think many, myself included often times, really underrate how decent Urias is. With the boom of Dominican players, 3B is the new SS…even passable production seems to be good.
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    Well there is your Adames comp. Pretty much exactly what he was expected to get this off-season, but 7 years versus 6.
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    Joey Gallo is garbage. Even his ‘good’ 2021 was a .199 batting average and 213 strikeout. Lol at paying $11mil for a 40% K rate. Should have asked the Brewers about Hiura at that point. At least he is cheap. Chris Carter was out of the league performing like Gallo.
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    Zeke may be TD dependent, but the Cowboys feed him. The last time he failed to score 15+ points was Week 5 (not including the bye and two games he missed). Cook is just as, if not more TD dependent. Pollard is a no brainer. The second guy, I think I would go Cook because A) starting both guys on the same team just sounds wrong and B) Cook has sucked lately…but he finally gets a generous match up. His last 5 or so games have been brutal opponents. More potential upside with Cook. The other debatable, I would tend to agree, roll the dice on Keenan Allen and his dozen plus targets against the worst defending defense against WRs for fantasy purposes.
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    Personally, if I am eating at the ballpark, I’d rather spend $18-$22 on a filling meal that tastes great versus $12 for nasty cheap garbage that probably leaves me still hungry. When they hyped up that big renovation years ago I was hoping we were going to start having Kauffman Stadium level options…or at least a real grilled brat like the Chicago teams do. But of course, I’m sure the profit margins on cheap cafeteria food is way higher instead of giving options to actually be proud of.
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    You mean fancifying the food stands, not the actual food. Because the food and the food options really aren’t that much better than before they blew $15mil or whatever on that renovation. Anyone that has gone to other stadiums knows the Brewers have some of the worst food at the ballpark. Honestly, of all the stadiums I have gone to, AmFam is an easily last place by miles. The only other place I can think of with such poor food is Dodger Stadium. AmFam food gives such high school concession stand vibes. Cold nacho cheese and sausages that might have sat in an open container in the fridge since last season. If you are on the club level you can get treated to the upgraded hospital cafeteria quality food.
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    No one is pro-Lutz. It’s the fact he is a prospect and not some 40 year old journeyman people (alright a single person) is trying to clamor about. I don’t get your bet either. You want to bet that a minor league player won’t amass 150 PAs in his career? I could say that about 90%+ of the prospects in our entire minor league system and be right. Not exactly an impressive bet. Lutz probably has no useful MLB career. That goes for almost any prospect though and probably for at least half of our Top 10 prospects.
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    Tristian Lutz is going into his age 24 season. Tyrone Taylor didn’t debut until he was 25. Ji Man Choi didn’t debut till 25, he was a former Rule 5 pick. Brent Suter did debut till 26, I believe. Dan Uggla didn’t debut till 26 (another Rule 5 pick). Garrett Cooper didn’t debut till 26. Plenty of guys don’t debut till 24+ and go on to be very valuable assets. Actually, feel free to take a look at the below links to see when players are debuting age-wise. Spoiler: https://completegameloss.com/2020/09/24/mlb-debuts-by-season-and-franchise/ https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2022-debuts.shtml
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    I’m not sure what you want me to say when you describe exactly what a prospect is…as not being a prospect. Prospects have question marks and 90% of them only have a tool or two. Most players are not 5-tool players. You are calling our #14 prospect that played at AA as a 21 year old ‘not a prospect’. I mean…I don’t know if you could find another baseball fan that would look at Valerio and not call him a prospect. He wasn’t protected because he isn’t ready to hit MLB pitching and no one is going to stash him on their roster all year. I also can’t help you if you don’t know how to see the difference between 27 year old Corey Ray and 23 year old Tristian Lutz. One is a prospect the other is a minor league journeyman. One has been playing AAA baseball since 2019 and the other hasn’t ever played at AAA.
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    I wish you had just led with this in your previous post so I knew not waste my time just to find out a prospect to you has to basically be a Top 100 prospect.
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    Umm, I’d say about 24 prospects a year. Now if we are talking at AA+ and comparable to Yeager. Because you know, guys below AA rarely get selected. This past Rule 5 draft we didn’t protect Felix Valerio. MLB.com lists him as our #14 prospect. Victor Castaneda was also left unprotected, rated #30 in our system. Tristian Lutz quietly had a bounce back season at AA last year, was left unprotected. I am sure I could find more and do this for the last decade…but I think this sums it up enough.
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    Correa did have the huge benefit of hitting FA going into his 28 year old season. That is rare and leaves a ton of prime years left. Not shockingly, he got paid bucks over it.
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    I don’t know that anyone is trying to act like he is some star in the bullpen. But a useful bullpen arm? We would have seen October baseball if we had a few of those last year. That’s a great addition to a trade and more than just a throw in.
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    As in the MLB Rule 5 draft? If so, that’s just poor analysis. He would have to be on an MLB roster the entire year. Many notable prospects with MLB upside aren’t drafted. Even non competing teams rarely make Rule 5 picks to waste MLB roster spots.
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    From that FA graphs article:? “Because now it’s time to come down to Milwaukee’s role in this trade. If you want to know why your life is harder than it should be, you should become familiar with an economic concept called rent-seeking. Rent-seeking is the behavior of middlemen, people or more often companies that insert themselves between the people who produce goods and services and those who consume them, charging additional fees and exploiting regulatory loopholes while providing little or no additional value to the proposition. Examples include: Health insurance companies, Ticketmaster, rideshare and gig economy startups. Think sub-cable company levels of cost-to-usefulness ratio and you’ll be on the right track. That’s how much the Brewers won this trade.” Honestly, the A’s are stupid. They should have just taken Contreras, because that would have made way more sense. At minimum, they should have traded for Contreras and then shipped him off to the Brewers after the fact. I have no doubt Matt Arnold is like every Brewers fan under the sun and would have shipped Ruiz plus multiple other players to get Contreras. The fact the Brewers only sent Ruiz and got a bullpen pitcher and a prospect on top of Contreras is really just a total failure by the A’s. This must have been a trade completely done via text because there is no way Arnold could have kept a straight face in person or composed himself on the phone hearing this offer.
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    I don’t really agree with that. It is the job of him and his staff to evaluate talent. If they end up with a big fat negative WAR from this trade, that’s on him. Using that logic are the other GMs total idiots regardless of what their players do in relation? Even if they get multiple HOFers out of it? I wouldn’t blame him in 5 years if Contreras has some freak shoulder injury and becomes a shell of the hitter he is now or can’t be behind the plate due to something like an injury. That you can’t predict at all right now. That being said it will be hard to lose this trade. We have Contreras for 5 years, so we basically aren’t giving up any control. The odds Ruiz out produces Contreras over his team control are not overly likely. And of course we have so many up and coming OFers, even if Ruiz has a slightly better 5-6 years I think we will have plenty of guys roaming to OF that we won’t miss him at all. On another note, acquiring a pre-army guy, I hope we can maybe go out and try to find another way to improve the offense. Winker’s potential upside is great and Contreras helps greatly at a position of need. If Arnold adds another bay it will be one heck of an off-season.
  18. MrTPlush
    A sacrifice bunt won’t count as an AB. So any bunt resulting in a successful sacrifice is only a PA. if the player is credited with an AB they either were going for a hit intentionally or they failed miserably at a sacrifice bunt.
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    It’s pretty lopsided for us even if you want to give Ruiz a more generous grade. Maybe $15mil…maybe? I don’t think Contreras having similar trade value to Adames is outlandish (both sit near $40mil), which is where they place him. Contreras was always a highly regarded hitter and always hit in the minors. I think the chance his breakout is real (not saying he will be as good as 2022) is a fairly safe bet. But it’s all subjective and teams will value these guys wildly different. Some people here love Adames and want to hand him $25mil a year. I’d rather ship him out on a bus and not even really consider any extension. The differences between fans goes on in MLB front offices in a much similar manner. At face value this is a pretty big win for the Brewers. About as big of one as you are going to see in a trade at face value. The future may tell a different story, who knows.
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    Yah, the Brewers surely contacted the A’s about Murphy. That’s probably when the A’s figured out that Ruiz was available and the Brewers were willing to part with him. Thus, how a three team trade became to be. A’s wanted Ruiz bad, but didn’t have anyone the Brewers were going to want. I think they then had to go find the Brewers an impact bat at a position of need. The fact it ended up a catcher might have just been coincidental. Certainly we caught a bit of a break having a team want Ruiz that badly. I don’t think this trade is a knock on prospect experts or the trade value site. Just a classic example of how one team can have a massively different valuation than most of baseball. Prospect experts and the trade value site are trying to generalize and on an individual basis that can really vary amongst teams.
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    After today, I am quite confident Matt Arnold is not dumb enough to hand out $25mil a season to a guy that can’t even manage a .300 OBP. I really don’t get so many clamoring for him to get a massive extension.
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    I love any time a local company gets to be a focal point in a stadium. I love a good lite beer and hot dog…but local flare in stadiums is great. The brewery and exclusive beers should be a hit…or shall I say, a grand slam. Ha…ha, ha.
  23. MrTPlush
    As we all fall in love with his offense, his K-rate is pretty concerning. He has to get that down or his offense is not going to look like 2022. He never really had K issues in the minors…so hopefully it will correct itself. Also, his defense is lacking. Omar Narváez had great offense when we acquired him, but teams weren’t exactly lining up to give up a ton of value for him. As we can see from this trade, teams (Braves) value defense a lot at the catching position. Of course, maybe we can help him improve like we did Omar…but the defense is a huge knock. Lastly, Contreras has a pretty short track record. 350 good plate appearances isn’t a lot (Hi Hiura). I still don’t really like this trade for the Braves (really don’t for the A’s) and don’t understand it. But there are reasons we didn’t need to package 3 top ten prospects to get him. We may have just acquired a Top 10 catcher in MLB for half a decade, time will tell. I am optimistic.
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    Important consideration: the pedigree and talent in front of him at the OF position in this organization, it is pretty likely he would have never seen the light of day at Am Fam field. Even if he becomes a good player, he probably never would have never gotten the chance to flourish here and to get this kind of value for a guy buried on the organizational chart is an A+.
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