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  1. balsamlaker
    First, I will say I think Johnson made a huge impact on the team during his tenure. I would guess the combination of money and moving closer to his family is Nashville were too much to pass up. With that said what type of pitching coach will they go after - a veteran coach like Price, Farrell, or C. Hernandez; someone from within the organization like Hook, Dewey, or Dabney; or someone outside the organization that is into analytics like Brian Bannister from the Red Sox (if they could pry him away)?
  2. balsamlaker
    Most interesting part of the Nashville deal is it is for four years, so the Rangers will not be coming to San Antonio in 2020.
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    If the Texas to Nashville rumor has any truth to it, it is likely to come down to Washington and Milwaukee for Fresno and San Antonio. Is there any reason that Milwaukee would favor Fresno, other than ballpark factors? Is there any reason San Antonio would favor Washington? At the rookie ball level, if the Brewers leave the Pioneer League, I would think Hillsboro or State College would be the most likely options.
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    Nashville is definitely the best option for 2019 with option #2 being Wichita in 2021 with a placeholder for the next two years. The rookie league affiliate is also going to be very interesting as the only person who will like the Colorado Springs affiliation would be a bus driver getting paid by the hour. Returning to Ogden would be ideal if they plan on staying in the Pioneer League and maybe there is a chance as the LAD just announced four affiliation extensions, but not one with Ogden. Great Falls and Orem would also be Pioneer options likely better than Colorado Springs.
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    I agree that Wichita would be a great AAA location for Milwaukee, especially if they get a new ballpark. I read this article as a AAA club (maybe New Orleans) is going to buy a AA team (maybe Jackson) and move the AA team to New Orleans and the AAA to Wichita. Is that how others also read it?
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    It will be interesting to see what happens over the next month or so at both the AAA and rookie levels. The Colorado Springs rookie team bus trips are going to be outrageous meaning if you want to stay in the Pioneer League it may make more sense to try to get into Idaho Falls or Ogden. In AAA all of the options are probably better than the current situation, with Fresno likely the least popular option. Who knows maybe native New Yorker Stearns goes totally outside the box and gets the team into Rochester for AAA and a short-season team in New England.
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    Most years the team has had more than 15 unsigned other than the years (2015, 2016) when they were restocking numbers in the minor league system. Most years they sign 20-25 drafted players.
  8. balsamlaker
    trwi7 - The easiest answer is probably they just have to renovate a stadium, not build a stadium. With how things have changed politically/economically in Arizona regarding spring training facilities, any build or remodel was likely going to involve the team paying the cost and the area contributing yearly like this deal is.
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    Excited to see the aggressive timeline as I was hoping to make my first trip in 2019. Exciting for the Brewers to be close to ending the decade-long discussion and develop an improved spring training home, Arizona league home, rehab facility, and operations home.
  10. balsamlaker
    Rumor is a current PCL team could be the team moving to Wichita. Announcement possibly next month.
  11. balsamlaker
    Wildcat...unless there is still the possibility of a Gilbert deal. The interesting part, to me at least, regarding the proposal mentioned in the Pollack study is it has the team build the park and the city pays to use it. This seems the opposite of what most arrangements are for spring training homes. I would be interested to hear if jvrocksaz has heard anything new in AZ or if all seems quiet. Have any other proposals (connected to the Brewers) over the last decade gotten as far as to see a site plan like the Pollack study has?
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    Maybe the total "lack of news" is the Brewers just keeping an eye on the Blue Jays and Dunedin to see if they reach an agreement by the end of 2017. Until that lease is signed it will likely always be a possibility with the Brewers' VP of Baseball Projects having spent about two decades worth of springs in Dunedin.
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    Wichita has hired a consultant (Beacon Sports) to find them a MiLB team.
  14. balsamlaker
    DHonks, that is why I did not include Tucson as an option. The Orlando-area is also not a great option travel-wise especially for rookie ball as there is only one team left within 70 miles of Disney. Until the playoffs gulf coast league teams only play the 3-4 teams closest to their site, so that travel outside of Central Florida is not horrible.
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    Anyone have a prediction when something will happen regarding the Brewers spring training home? Bob Quinn (I think) mentioned they have been talking about spring training changes for the last decade and there are about a dozen teams that have changed homes since 2009. Some options: Maryvale Renovations - hard to think if this was going to happen that it isn't already done Building a New Stadium in Arizona (Gilbert?) Getting involved with a renovation in Dunedin if Blue Jay lease expires at the end of the year Moving into City of Palms Park in Fort Myers (would college lease be an issue) Convincing the Mets and Port St. Lucie into making First Data Field a two-team complex Building a New Stadium in Florida (Naples or Boca Raton?) I did not include Tucson options or Orlando-area options because of the distance of travel not only for spring training, but also rookie-league games.
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    The one thing I took from the Stearns interview was the appeal of the Carolina League for its fairness to hitters and pitchers. We should find out in the next year how important this is for the parent club as the Pioneer League has always been a hitter's paradise and now you replace Helena with Colorado Springs. Maybe this makes them look at the Appy or NY/Penn League. The Appy league teams are all owned by parent clubs and it doesn't look like the Brewers are in the running for Greeneville. The Aberdeen IronBirds and the Vermont Lake Monsters would be good choices and it is well known that Cal Ripken, Jr. has been trying to sell a majority interest in the IronBirds for some time. Regarding AAA, replacing Colorado Springs with San Antonio should greatly decrease the hitter's advantage in the PCL, so there are a number of nice options at AAA.
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    There are only a handful of AAA and another handful of AA teams owned by the major league clubs. Most of the team owned clubs are in high-A or rookie league, so I would think if the Brewers were to buy another team it would likely be a rookie league club. With that said, the AAA situation should be better than the current one as no AAA team will be in Colorado Springs and it looks like Vegas will have a new ballpark. Also, Syracuse and New Orleans will not be options. Worst case scenario is probably Fresno, but maybe the team can get into the new Vegas stadium - hopefully Oakland takes the worst case scenario. Billings seems like a natural fit for the rookie level as they choose a "beer batter" every game and fans get discounted beers if he gets a hit.
  18. balsamlaker
    The Mets will be leaving Las Vegas. If Las Vegas can complete a Summerlin stadium deal, they could be a nice option for Milwaukee at the AAA level.
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    It sounds like the Brewers are out of the running for the Greeneville team. Regarding the talk of the Brewers working with another MiLB owner to get something done, hopefully it will involve something at the AAA level. The Biloxi owner has connections to two AAA teams, I believe, and the Reno team ownership group would not be surprising either.
  20. balsamlaker
    Sometimes I think as fans we focus more on where the affiliate is than the major league team does. With that said and with arrangements in place with Biloxi and Carolina, you do wonder if they will try to get back together with Nashville and/or add another affiliate like Greeneville for rookie-ball. I would think that Nashville is still a more likely destination than New Orleans (partly because New Orleans is locked in for 3 more years) and the Brewers have a much different farm system than when Nashville joined the A's. As I have mentioned previously I also wonder how a city like Wichita may get involved with either AA or AAA baseball sooner rather than later.
  21. balsamlaker
    Maybe the Gilbert proposal is not that far fetched. It sounds like the Braves are chipping in $55.5 million for their new spring training home.
  22. balsamlaker
    In March I threw out there the possibility of Colorado Springs moving to Wichita. That did not happen obviously, but the Wichita mayor commented a couple of weeks ago that he expects to make a MILB announcement by the end of the year. Any chance the Fresno sale to stay in Fresno falls through and the Grizzlies move to Wichita? I would think that Wichita would be very interesting to the Brewers organization as a AAA affiliate especially if they build a new stadium.
  23. balsamlaker
    A quick five year recap: 2012 - Gila River and Scottsdale mentioned as new ballpark options 2013 - Dunedin mentioned and HoHoKam and Phoenix Muni agree with the A's and ASU to generation-long leases 2014 - Peoria, Gila River, and Fort McDowell mentioned and Sloan Park opens 2015 - Quinn states he has talked facilities for ten of his eleven years with the club 2016 - Attanasio states the team needs to be "moved in and operating" in a state-of-the-art complex in the "next few years" 2017 - Gilbert and Pima County mentioned Options: Building new - seems like public money has dried up so unless the Brewers or private funding comes through, it doesn't seem like an option. Renovating - the options seem to be Maryvale, Tucson, or Florida. Other than Tucson there are not many options of unused stadiums still standing compared to Florida that has 7-8 that have been vacated in the last decade. Would Attanasio and company consider the Orlando area or even Dodgertown in Vero Beach?
  24. balsamlaker
    If the Brewers are going to add, you have to think this would be the one with Stearns previously work with the Astros.
  25. balsamlaker
    If Arizona is the Brewers overwhelming preference, Tucson may be the best option if they (Tucson) can secure AAA baseball again. Victory Field in Indianapolis was probably the last nice AAA home stadium they were in. When the PDCs come around for re-upping, Tucson may not be great but probably compares just fine to some of the options they may be looking at (Tacoma, Syracuse, Las Vegas, Norfolk, Fresno, etc.). Tucson also seems to have one thing many of these other locations don't seem to have...an interest in the Brewers.
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