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I want Montgomery more because Cardinal fans want him back, and it would hurt their feelings and give me some fun reading at Gateway Redbirds for a few days.
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You're right. My apologies to Keith Stone and the board.
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2024 Divisional Rivals Thread
Underachiever replied to Playing Catch's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I completely missed that the Cards signed Brandon Crawford. I think with Lance Lynn on the mound, and an infield of Goldschmidt, Matt Carpenter, Brandon Crawford and Arenado, they are real threat to win the 2019 World Series.- 343 replies
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I hear the sad trombone after pretty much every one of your posts.
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2024 Divisional Rivals Thread
Underachiever replied to Playing Catch's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Here is my paranoid take. This makes the Cards go get Snell. Or Montgomery -
True. Nor is it a Wendy's.
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2024 Spring Training Game Thread
Underachiever replied to Brewcrew82's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Of course I didn't see the game, but at least he wasn't wild. Silver lining? In fact, he gave up two doubles and a single to four hitters on only 8 pitches, so he was in the strike zone. Look at his pitch location. Belt high, middle of the plate on all three of the hits he gave up. Even Mike McCarthy thinks he'll get that cleaned up. -
I completely get it. I, too, root for lifelong Brewers. I have way more affection for Gantner than a lot of people on here, because he was truly one of us. I drove from LA to Anaheim just to see Gorman Thomas play when the Brewers brought him back in 1986. When Molitor signed with the Jays, it hurt me way more than an adult should react, ask my wife. But when I saw that the offers from Toronto and the Brewers weren't even close, I felt better. But, the Brewers offered Yelich 7/$188 million as an extension in the offseason after he broke his knee cap. I think he did what was best for him. It's not a red herring. As it turned out, he was not good for the next two years. He would have become a FA after 2021, right? In my opinion, CY would have been on the Bellinger plan, without Bellinger's resurgent 2023 to boost his value.
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Oh crap, I don't need to know anything that badly. I thought there was a trolling attempt with Counsell/Cubs that it was referring to.
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I don't know what this is referring to.
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They did? Yelich took an extension before he hit free agency, right? From whom or how could he have gotten more money at the time he signed his contract? Didn't Braun extend before he hit free agency as well? As we've been discussing in another thread about Bellinger, those two took the guaranteed money before their free agency years, so it's just not the same, in my mind. And, if I remember, Yount got a bunch of loans from the Brewers because it was rumored he had really messed up some business deals. I just checked on Baseball Reference, and his salary for those years was listed as "6/5.55 million, including various subsidized loans." I wonder if a deal like that is even allowed anymore. Plus, the Brewers made him the highest paid player in MLB in 1990. So, I just think you are a little rose-tinted in your rear-view mirror.
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And coming off of that 2019 season, Rendon got 7/245 in FA. I can understand why Bellinger waited.
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What offer did Bellinger not take that makes you say this? What if this was the best offer he got? I feel like there has been a dearth of long-term contracts by teams (non-Dodger division). Five players got more than 4 years (Ohtani, Yamamoto, Hader, Nola, Jung-Hoo Lee). Eduardo Rodriguez got 4/80, Jordan Hicks got 4/44, but everyone else got three years or fewer. I think that there was an attempt by teams to keep years down. The opt-outs are another big change. I just think that there is such a desire to demonize Boras that one, we minimize the players' desire for a big contract out of the equation, and two, we don't account for a possible soft collusion by the owners to keep salaries down.
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Regarding the math on the 25% pay bump: I don't think that is true. The number I am seeing is that the brewers were in the 5.25 million range. The jump to 8 mill per year is 50%. Even if the Brewers went to $6mil, that's 33%. Add in the fact that he got $40 million guaranteed over 5 years, that's huge. I don't recall ever hearing how many years the Brewers offered, but if it was 5-6 Million over three years, that's an additional $20 million in guarantees. People who have money like more money, hometown boy or not. Plus, it's obvious he wanted to go, so the back of the envelope math I just provided is really not pertinent to the discussion.
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For those concerned about Sal learning a new position and its effect on his hitting, do you have the same concern about if Yelich had to learn first base? There has been a lot of sentiment on here for moving CY to 1B, and I haven't heard anyone worried that his hitting will suffer.
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And by talking about fairness, he really downplayed the money part, to the point that the fairness aspect of the money was hidden in the money part that really said it was about fairness and Mark Attanasio made his point about fairness when he was the one paying the money out all these years, which I guess is fair.
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This was written, and published, not on a blog, but in a newspaper!!!! I have no idea what this means: First, no matter where Counsell is working, no loyal Brewers fans should ever help a Cubs fan find their seats “somewhere by third base” – nor should you ever point out the third baseman, or his base. If a Cubs fan cheers loudly and gets angry during an infield-fly pop-up, the next step is… to sip your Pepsi. Most importantly, no answers can be given to a North Sider begging questions about the “designated” part of the DH. (Wait, is he going back to the minors?!)
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Doesn’t the restructure (if that’s what it is) indicate that the wrist injury is a real concern? Given that it seems the Brewers often have bad luck with guys who are “day to day with shoulder tightness” and end up missing four months, I don’t like this.
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I disagree. Manfred stumbled on a reasonable-sounding, media-friendly reason for proposing the FA deadline. However, it is to force the players' hands. Saying a player cannot sign until the season starts is incredibly punitive. Ended the year injured? Now you have to sign a contract in December, perhaps before you can demonstrate that you are healthy, or wait until the season starts. Then, the team can pay you less because you won't be ready to start the season. Would MLB provide a Spring Training for these players who are not signed? I know they did it in 2021, but would they sustain it annually? What does it do to trades? Is there a deadline for that as well? I think the only reason one would be in favor of the deadline is if one believed that the reason that some free agents haven't signed is completely because of the player and their agent. And there are those who already claim Mark A is cheap, this plays right into the owners' hands.
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Keith Law said Justin Steele's upside was as a #5 starter as recently as September of 22. I'm not tapping any brakes.
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I think you gotta pick a lane. Boras is the best, or he wouldn't be getting the most high-profile clients. Otherwise you fall on the side of the owners. Any free agent deadline would keep money in their pockets because their monopoly gives the players no reasonable other place to try their skill. I would imagine that every free agent still out there has had some sort of offer by now. They could have taken it. They are gambling with their own career, and for every Brandon Woodruff, there is a Dansby Swanson that gets what they were looking for. How would that deadline even work? "Sign by December 31, or you're out of the league." It's unworkable.
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What can I say? I heard Junk say he was taking his wife around the world on their wedding night. I guess I misunderstood.
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Pablo Sandoval was out there the whole time, THE WHOLE TIME!?!?! https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/giants/2024/02/19/san-francisco-giants-farhan-zaidi-pablo-sandoval/72662635007/
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Maybe he is getting the Shohei deferral to lighten the hit. A couple mil a year for five years. He gets some cash, Brewers don’t take a big hit
