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  1. Jopal78
    Neither team would do that trade. Duran had a bWAR of 4.7. Peralta had a bWAR of 5.5 in 2025. Under this scenario, Boston isn’t going to trade 3 future seasons of Duran plus a top pitching prospect for 32 starts from Peralta and Trevor Megill. They wouldn’t do it straight up Peralta for Duran and most likely wouldn’t agree to Peralta AND Megill for JUST Duran. For the Brewers, Peralta is their best trade chip this offseason, they’re not likely going to cash it in for an already well paid OFer because , it doesn’t move the team forward subtracting from the pitching to add an OFer where they’re already 5 deep.
  2. Jopal78
    I’ve been on these boards long enough to recall you thought it foolhardy when Joey Wiemer was traded too 😎. Thats why we’re fans and not working in baseball.
  3. Jopal78
    Collins doesn't play CF and Frelick is going to play RF most days. The Brewers have a laundry list of players to cycle through LF, so the trade really is a player the Brewers didn’t need (Collins) and a player they didn’t want (Mears) for a lefty pitcher they like who may still have some upside, with a slight reduction in payroll. Zerpa < Collins + Mears.
  4. Jopal78
    Shaping up to be another Brewers style offseason: bargain shopping for depth to raise the talent “floor” and hoping for young players Turang, Chourio, Durbin, Frelick to continue to develop offensively with a boost from Contreras being healthy again.
  5. Jopal78
    Having had TJ surgery in March of ‘25. He should be close to being mound ready by the time Spring Training rolls around.
  6. Jopal78
    A million bucks and a 40 man roster spot for a guy with 1100 MLB PAs, with 2+ years of team control and an option remaining.., what’s not to like? Depth is a good thing, and the Brewers did use 14 different players in the OF last year: Chourio, Frelick, Mitchell, Yelich, Lockridge, Perkins, Collins, Cameron, Avans, Berroa, Contreras, Monasterio, Black and Bauers.
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    If Peralta is not dealt, the above would probably be the reason why. What I mean is, like with Adames in ‘24, the one year of control remaining for Peralta is most likely more valuable to the Brewers than for any team trying to trade for him. Also different from Corbin Burnes in ‘23 where he was set to earn 15 million dollars and the Brewers were likely more motivated to move him for cost savings as well as talent replenishment. Unless there’s a contending team without a true top of the rotation starter (like Baltimore in ‘23), there’s probably a lack of teams willing to trade blue chip major league ready players for a season of qualitiy starting pitching depth.
  8. Jopal78
    Cam Schlitter and Spencer Jones for Peralta. Who says no.
  9. Jopal78
    It’s admirable you did the research, but where the Brewers are in their success cycle they’d be kind of dumb to trade major league assets for players in A ball. I think they want to try to win as much as they can with the current group before having to re-tool
  10. Jopal78
    Seriously? Look at it from a talent equation, if the Brewers trade Megill, the 2026 team has less talent. In the current baseball economy, where mediocre free agents get 10 million dollar AAV guarantees. Who could the Brewers add for 4 million dollars that would make up the talent deficit created by trading Megill. Secondly, Megill isn’t Hader or Williams. He hasn’t pitched more than 48 innings in a season and had a forearm strain last year. Never say never, but the odds Milwaukee lands quality major league ready talent in exchange for Megill is doubtful. If it comes down to salary relief and a couple of low level minor leaguers, the 2026 team would be better off with Megill.
  11. Jopal78
    Yep, jerseys aren’t my style. Seemed pretty loud when I was there for all the playoff games this year 🤯, but good on you for challenging one’s fandom. I can tell you jersey wearing crowd was certainly a hodge podge mix.
  12. Jopal78
    Zoom it in I’m not a jersey guy. Don’t own one, wouldn’t buy one. So the Brewers introducing their 5th New Jersey in the last five years, looks like a cheap cash grab to me. But obviously there are folks who are into jerseys, collect them, etc. and they’re probably excited. From an intangible perspective, I wish the Brewers would choose an identity and stick with it. Be retro and wear the 80’s pinstripes at home and powder blue on the road. Great. Or wear the cream colored jersey at home and the traditional traveling grays with Milwaukee on the chest. But when you seemingly where a different uni each night and have a half dozen mascots running around your stadium, it’s not the kind of image/identity typically associated with a club that’s won their division 4 of the last 5 years and been in the post season 7 of the last 8 seasons.
  13. Jopal78
    It doesn’t really matter what his WAR is vis an vis his salary. Buxton will play 90+ games a season if his team gets lucky. Functionally, it really means a team needs two players for whatever position they have Buxton penciled in, because years and years of history, tell us he is likely to miss multiple months with injuries. To us fans it all seems like Monopoly money, but the reality is the Twins have $45 million dollars guaranteed to superstar who can’t be counted on to be healthy, not to mention injury prone players typically dont get healthier as they age. That’s why I don’t see a bevy of teams lining up to take on a $45 million commitment not knowing how many games they’re going to get out of the player. I’ll grant you there’s one or two teams that may be willing take a $45 million gamble, but if that’s case, what’s the return for the Twins? Salary relief. As a further example, look what the Cubs got last year for Cody Bellinger (30.5 career bWAR in 4200 ABs); you’re really going to argue that an oft injured Buxton (29.8 career bWAR in 3100 ABs) is so far superior to Bellinger to warrant premium prospects in return? (So you don’t have to check, the Yankees sent Cody Poteet to the Cubs who they then released in spring training.)
  14. Jopal78
    Yeah, and there’s a reason an “elite” player is making less AAV than Rhys Hoskins, because it’s a given he’s going to miss at least 2-3 months with injuries (maybe more) every year. No way around it, his injuries make his guarantee dead weight; which in turn is the only reason the Twins would shop him in the first place (they prefer the salary relief to the intrinsic value of a flawed star player on a rebuilding team).
  15. Jopal78
    Maybe I’m too cynical or perhaps just a curmudgeon but they just changed color schemes before the 2020 season to Navy blue, Cream and gold. Added a City Connect two years ago. Now they’re introducing a new color scheme as a road/alternate uniform. Smells to me like jersey sales were soft this year. (Not to mention kind of a half-assed approach in not just going full retro powder blue). Then just from a swagger/aesthetic vibe in the post season at Wrigley the stands were an ocean of cubbie blue, dodger blue in LA. But up at AmFam it was a mish mash of different colors, jerseys and a half dozen mascots giving off circus vibes more than heritage baseball swagger.
  16. Jopal78
    Too many uniforms: home cream, home pinstripes, away gray, alternate blue tops, city connects, and now a powder blue alternate Jersey? A branding nightmare, and a ploy to separate folks from their money buying the latest jersey. Pick a home, road and alternate and stick with it.
  17. Jopal78
    Is Tyler Black out of options? If not, there’s no need to trade him. They would be selling him at a low point, and AAA will need players anyways.
  18. Jopal78
    McKinstry has 1200 big league PAs across 3 organizations in 5 seasons that says he’s Andrew Monasterio. He had 2 big months in 2025, and another 170 PAs with a OPS below .670 further suggesting a couple of hot streaks not sustainable trends. Give up controllable starting pitching for a player similar to what they have? Pass.
  19. Jopal78
    The Brewers are in an awful market, one that really shouldn’t have an MLB team. Attanasio was a founding member of Crescent Capital, an investment firm, with over $50 billion dollars invested. Attanasio doesn’t need profits from the baseball team to finance his lifestyle. Nor has there been any evidence he hasn’t poured every dollar the Milwaukee market will bear back into baseball operations. Give the guy some credit for trying to come up with new revenue streams in the Milwaukee market to keep his team competitive in a sport where salaries have grown exponentially since the last CBA. The notion that his team “should spend” on these boards usually ignores where that money comes from. As a business owner sticking your own personal money into your business to potentially enhance customer experience and with no guarantee of increased revenue, market growth. equity, etc. makes zero financial sense. Thats why the Brewers are bargain shoppers in free agency.
  20. Jopal78
    Why would any of those teams do that trade? It doesn’t make any of them better in the short run or long run. i suppose the real unsaid premise is moving Yelich’s contract would allow the Brewers to reallocate the salary commitment into different or better players. The Brewers won the NL Central in ‘25 with one of the youngest rosters, and under this proposal they’re to give up “prospects” and Yelich to get Castellanos and “low level prospects”? It doesn’t improve the major league roster, or the future, and Castellanos is essentially deadweight. Trout has a 5 yr/185 million dollar guarantee remaining. Nobody is taking that on when he hasn’t played a full season of games in nearly a decade. Yelich forced his way out of Miami because he thought they weren’t trying to win after dealing Stanton away. Given those facts it seems very unlikely Yelich would consent to go to the Angels perhaps baseball’s most dysfunctional team, that hasn’t been competitive in over a decade and is on their 7th manager in 12 seasons.
  21. Jopal78
    Ortiz had 5 fewer PAs in ‘25 than ‘24. He walked 19 fewer times in ‘25 but also struck out 29 times less. Meaning he put more balls in play. While Ortiz’s ground ball and fly ball tendencies remained static in ‘25 his BABIP dropped from .283 to .260. So he could definitely bounce back. With his defense, if he rebounds back to .329/.398 he’ll play in the majors for a decade: JJ Hardy- 14 years- .305/.408 Villar-10 years- .322/.397 Jean Segura-12 years-.327/.401
  22. Jopal78
    It’s good to be Frankie Montas and get $17,000,000 to not pitch for the Mets in 2026 (DFA’d) Makes Woodruff‘s 22 million seem like a bargain.
  23. Jopal78
    I don’t think anyone is forgetting it. I can’t believe it’s this hard for folks to understand. In February of 2024 Woodruff signed a 2 year contract guaranteeing him 17.5 million dollars. The breakdown was 2.5 million in ‘24, 5 million in ‘25 and a 10 million dollar buy out on a mutual option for ‘26. Thats 17.5 million guaranteed between 24-25. There was no way for the Brewers to pay him a penny less than that for 24-25 and the money was as good as spent when the ink went down on the contract in February of 2024. However the actual payments might be structured is immaterial and really nothing more than speculation.
  24. Jopal78
    I wouldn’t call it being “poached” it’s certainly not a lateral move for Meccage. He probably got a couple hundred thousand dollar raise and is a big league coach now in the Bay Area. Bound to lose lower tier coaches when you’re a successful organization
  25. Jopal78
    Huh, guess i misremembered. Sorry. That’s right he wasn’t going to pitch in his sixth and final year due to the shoulder injury
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