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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
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Your post wasn't there when I started mine. Seems we were both typing at the same time.
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Maybe I am slow, but how can the two number sets above (by KeithStone and brewerfan82) both be correct?
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Perfectly cromulent word.
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Where does River Ryan compare with other pitchers with an aquatic-themed name? Steve Lake, Steve Trout, Anthony Bass and the great John Wetteland come to mind. And no, a submarining pitching motion doesn't count.
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Will the Brewers sign Woody?
Underachiever replied to eddiemathews's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
How can a contract for a guy with that kind of uncertainty ever be called "team-friendly?" I feel so bad for the guy. But that doesn't mean that I want the Brewers to sign him. -
One of my favorite baseball memories of the last few years is Hader's 8-K wipeout of the Reds in 2018. Despite the outcome of that game, I think that the evolution of Hader's more traditional use as a one-inning closer was inevitable. I think the Brewers had to weigh the value of Hader over a 162-game season, and the decision to have him available for more games is the best one. There is nothing to indicate that he wouldn't have pitched multiple innings if the playoffs required it, as he showed with the Padres in 2022. But the prudent use of a dominant closer over the course of a six-month season will probably always be to stick to the one inning. Are all games important? Certainly. But do you want Hader pitching a five-out save in May against the White Sox? I'm not sure I do. The separate issue of then what happens in an arbitration hearing is a different discussion. I don't think that a manager is worrying about a January hearing during the 8th inning of a game when he is lining up his bullpen.
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Yes. I think if Chicago had won, problem solved and no movie. I was living in Cincinnati when they shot 8 Men Out. there. Terrific movie.
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4. Repeat the same point in multiple posts in this thread, and across different threads, making every thread the same thread.
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Brewers are going to win the division. Ok, the Cubs may sign some guys to change that. But St. Louis? Baby Brewers over the collection of geriatrics in St. Louis any day. Add Sonny Gray, subtract Montgomery. Lance Lynn? Will be interesting to see what is higher: his ERA or his K/9. Both should be in the 5.something range. Kyle Gibson will give them innings, but he didn't have great numbers in Baltimore. Along with Mikolas, that's most of your rotation. Goldschmidt turns 37 this year. Oh that's right, Matt Carpenter is back from the dead (they are only paying him the minimum. Padres on the hook for the rest). That's 105 million in salary to those 6 players, average age 36. (I ignored Arenado, because he's younger, I still think he is good, and he made my rant less effective.)
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Doesn't really matter what Houser was due to make. The Brewers didn't want him, apparently. Or they really liked the pitcher they got from Boston. Either way, they bucked the sunk cost fallacy.
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Interesting article. This was news to me: McNally won 21 games and Cuellar, Dobson, and Palmer each won 20, matching the record of the 1920 Chicago White Sox. Urban “Red” Faber (23), Lefty Williams (22), Ed Cicotte and Dickey Kerr (21 each) did it for the second-place White Sox, the year after Chicago won the tainted 1919 World Series. They should make a movie about that...
