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  1. Jopal78
    I know it’s done by other teams in baseball. But the Brewers really don’t eat big remaining guarantees except when the player has become so diminished they are not competitive. They ate $10 million when they released Cain and is .450 OPS, and as you point out they ate another $10 million when they released Suppan with his WHIP of 2.0 and ERA of 8. However, those are not the only instances. They never released Garza in ‘17 they just stopped using him and his contract expired. Ditto Kyle Lohse in ‘15, they moved him to the pen and used him sparingly. They did release Randy Wolf in 2012 but it was at the end of August and they ate just $3.5M. Yelich for all his warts is roughly a league average bat. It’s certainly disappointing production given his salad days of 2018-2019, but there’s next to zero chance he gets released or “quietly retires” absent a complete and sudden collapse of his baseball skills. Finally on a side note, I doubt major league veterans with a guaranteed salary view a DFA as embarrassing. They still get paid, which is always paramount. They are all competitors so the chance for a fresh start with a new club is probably liberating. Look at Pujols. He got DFA’d by the Angels after years of sucking went to the Dodgers played another season and a half while putting up and .850+ OPS and knocking 36 more homers.
  2. Jopal78
    It’s a sunk cost sure. But the chance that they pay Yelich almost $60 million to stay home and not play for them is zero. The chance they pay him even $10 million to stay home and not play for the Brewers is realistically next to zero. He would need a Lorenzo Cain like collapse (435 OPS) first. And by the time the money owed him is down to $10 million, it’s probably August of 2028 anyways. I am also 100% confident that Yelich will show up to collect every penny of that money rather than retire and take a haircut on what he’s owed even if it means getting splinters in his ass from the bench
  3. Jopal78
    He has 10/5 rights and a $58.5M guarantee remaining so that pretty much tells you all you need to know for Yelich’s future with Milwaukee
  4. Jopal78
    Good on you. I suppose you should get your application in for a front office job.
  5. Jopal78
    Yelich has 10/5 rights. He’s almost certainly not going anywhere.
  6. Jopal78
    Frelick does not have a time table to return right now. So if Lara can turn in a couple more 3 for 4s while scoring runners from 3rd with less than two outs, Ol’ Sal might find things have changed by the time he gets back.
  7. Jopal78
    Lara’s batted balls have had more authority and better expected results than Frelick but in a microscopic sample. Neither project as power hitters, but with Lara there is at least a plausible path to more offensive impact than Frelick because Lara appears capable of matching Frelick’s contact skills while batting the ball a little harder and getting it airborne more often. Coupled with the fact, Lara has a $31 million dollar guarantee while Sal does not, I would imagine Lara gets every chance to claim RF as his with Frelick and Lockridge as the OF backups.
  8. Jopal78
    Miller has 76 career saves and has blown just 7 save opportunities in his career. In 202 career innings, Miller has allowed 54 earned runs. Megill was an All-Star last year and blew 6 saves that season. Even omitting his poor career numbers before Milwaukee, Megill has pitched 167 innings with the Brewers, and has allowed 54 earned runs. That is the delta you mention and it’s significant. What it’s reasonably worth in a trade, who knows? It is certainly a strategy to ease the SP’s burden knowing that Ashby, Uribe, Megill, and Miller are out in the pen.
  9. Jopal78
    The Brewers announcers outside of BA are all awful. Uecker was like a companion telling you about the game. The guys now are all broadcasting majors from college too self aware and trying too hard to drop pop culture references and be funny. I think Dillard is a bozo too, but he could have potential if he toned it down I only wish they’d fire the lot of them and start over (let BA do his half season hybrid thing).
  10. Jopal78
    The better debate is if all are healthy who are the Brewers Top 5 OFers. Chourio Mitchell Lara Bauers Frelick Lockridge Perkins
  11. Jopal78
    Megill hadn’t pitched since Wednesday (and only 3 times in the last 14 days!). Good time to be a Brewers fan, if we’re complaining about the mop up man.
  12. Jopal78
    Maybe not, but for an error no damage done. He’s a guy to eat innings as a mop up pitcher, what do folks expect?
  13. Jopal78
    McCullers: 0 earned runs tonight.
  14. Jopal78
    Quite possibly. I’d actually be glad. The game today is devoid of personality (Judge is text book vanilla, Ohtani the game’s biggest star doesn’t speak the language so who knows what his personality is…..) and while PCA definitely can be a tool, a guy who is a character, and a terrific player, is good for the game.
  15. Jopal78
    Yeah but Bregman, Swanson, Hoerner below a .710 OPS. PCA is on a hot streak carrying the team. Why don’t the Brewers ever have a guy on a tear like that? Probably Yelich in the second half of his MVP year was the last time.
  16. Jopal78
    With Chourio and Lara signed long term and Mitchell breaking out, I think Frelick should definitely rent not buy.
  17. Jopal78
    Lara has a golden opportunity to turn the page on Sal Frelick. Scoring the runner on 3rd with less than two outs is just what he needed.
  18. Jopal78
    Really? Toronto is the size of Chicago and is a major airline hub for North America where one can fly direct to almost anywhere in the world.
  19. Jopal78
    Talent wins games. Chemistry/culture is usually an excuse for failure. When was the last time a championship team complained the chemistry wasn’t right?
  20. Jopal78
    Who knows? Maybe his family lives somewhere that makes it inconvenient to get to Milwaukee. Doesn’t like small markets, cold weather in the spring, etc., etc. Its probably has little to do with baseball and is all about maintaining leverage and personal comfort.
  21. Jopal78
    No trade clauses are nothing more than a negotiating chip for the player. You think Gausman would really rather play out the string in Toronto, than pitch meaningful games for the Brewers? I don’t. That clause was nothing more than protection from being shipped somewhere he didn’t want to go while having multiple years left in his deal. At this point, if he was traded to Milwaukee it probably wouldn’t be much of an issue, given the alternative of pitching meaningless games on a moribund team.
  22. Jopal78
    It is what it is. When free agents in the caliber of Mitch Garver, Jeimer Candelario, Alex Cobb, etc, sign free agent deals for in excess of $10 million per season. Can you really blame the Milwaukee Brewers for wanting to hang on to their young talent?
  23. Jopal78
    Maybe as a defense oriented CFer (then not for the Angels as Trout is their every day CFer), but if the metrics mean anything even Sal’s defense in RF has taken a huge step back this year. I get it. He’s a former first round pick, that sped his way to the majors. He’s “gritty” and uses speed and hustle as well as anyone. Someone you should want to root for. But at the end of the day, Frelick has squeezed 105% out of his undersized frame and is about to start getting paid larger salaries in arbitration, he doesn’t have impact upside sought by rebuilding clubs.
  24. Jopal78
    FWIW Keith Law published his Top 70 prospects following the draft. He is bearish on the Brewers youngsters only including 3 in his Top 70: Made (2), Pena (23), Alexander Frias (69).
  25. Jopal78
    Holmes - NYM Singer - CIN Bleday - CIN Two SP whose acquisition improves the pen by moving Drohan, Henderson whomever to the pen to limit their innings. Bleday can play all 3 OF spots and has some power off the bench. Probably could acquire all 3 without giving up their top prospects
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