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Or is the Brewers success a product of having to constantly trade impending free agents which keeps adding extra minor league talent into the organization beyond the amateur draft/international signings. If all things were equal, that avenue of adding extra talent would likely diminish if not dry up completely.
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Were there posts for a Priester extension? Brewers certainly dodged a bullet there. Pre-arbitration extensions with pitchers are difficult to attain because of the exploding salary structure for starting pitching and teams also needing to protect themselves from injury risk. As fans, I think everyone would like to see Harrison and Misiorowski head the rotation for many years to come, but is very unlikely that either get extended.
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You can sign any player to an extension if you’re willing to pay them what they want.
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They’re 9 games under .500. There’s a lot of season left but the Tigers need to really play well the next 10 weeks
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He initially complained of his arm “feeling dead” so I’d say him feeling good is as positive of a sign as we’ll get,
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Yeah his injury history is proved into his guarantee, but I doubt the substantial interest part. It’s like when the Brewers traded for Shelby Miller they got him for free by absorbing some salary, and almost immediately was injured again. Same thing with Trevor Rosenthal. Never was able to ring the bell for Milwaukee Those are insignificant moves for role players. Buxton is a middle of the order hitter
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Buxton would likely be on a Hall of Fame trajectory if he didn’t average less than 90 games played per season. … and as we know too well with Yelich, players who are constantly injured with sprains, strains, spasms, do not suddenly get healthier as they age into their mid 30s. Thats why no team is going to trade for a veteran guy with a 40+ million dollar guarantee remaining when they can’t count on him to be available when they need him. That being said, given where the Twins are in the success cycle I’m sure Minnesota would love to move Buxton’s contract. The most likely explanation why they haven’t yet is lack of interest due to unreliability and financial cost. Apparently the Twins are not yet in salary dump mode either where they’ll pay part of his contract to move him just for the financial savings.
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No. Like I said, he’s the Twins best player. Why would they move him for anything but elite prospects? And Minnesota isn’t at the point where they’re willing to give him away simply for salary relief. .
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Nope. Nobody is paying for a guy who can’t be counted on to ring the bell.
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Buxton has already missed 15% of his team’s games this year. Plus. he’s owed 40+ million dollars through the end of 2028. With his unreliability and remaining guarantee the Twins are stuck with him. Nobody is going to give the Twins prospects for Buxton, and unless the Twins intend to tank there’s no incentive for Minnesota to include cash simply to move him.
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Surgery for TOS is typically 8 months or more between surgery and taking a big league mound again. Lack of command could be nothing more than rust. However, nerve issues absolutely could manifest with an inability to spin the ball like before and diminished velocity. -
Brewers (Gasser) vs Twins (Ober): 5/17/26, 1:10pm
Jopal78 replied to Frisbee Slider's topic in Archived Game Threads
I don’t really consider the Twins to be any sort of rival to the Brewers. They’ve been in the NL for nearly 30 years. When they were in the AL they had far more intense rivalries than with Minnesota. Then again, I thought inter league play was dumb after the novelty wore off but enough people dig Yankees/Mets, Cubs/White Sox, etc, that they need to craft these “home and away” geographic rivalries . -
Probably should just have the decompression surgery then plan on getting after opponents in April of ‘28
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The Reds have a negative run differential and are 4-10 against winning teams this season and 20-11 against losing teams. They’ll probably fade before June 1st. Looking ahead their end of the season schedule is brutal with 18 of their final 21 games against MIL, LAD, CHC and ATL
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His in-zone contact rate is just 65.3 percent, significantly lower than the 82.6 percent big-league average. He whiffs nearly 44 percent of the time, while the average is 25 percent. That is why his market was nonexistent, and most likely means it’s only a matter of time before teams further refine their attack against him
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Gray won 14 games with St. Louis in 2025 and 13 games in 2024, lead the league in FIP with Minnesota in 2023 and finished 2nd in the Cy Young voting that year, but okay you’re right wins are meaningless and I’m cherry picking stats, he has no value….. sheesh.
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Ok. Rewind to February 2026, if your goal is to win the AL East you’re picking Kyle Harrison to pitch you there over Sonny Gray? (Despite poo pooing him with metrics, Gray lead the NL in K:BB ratio last season and his WHIP would have been right behind Peralta on the ‘25 Brewers) If you’re being honest, of course you’re not choosing Harrison. And you’re right, big market clubs like Boston aren’t really don’t care of Harrison is the better pitcher going forward, whereas it’s lifeblood in Milwaukee. Back to the point, Boston is rolling with Sonny Gray, as you put it, because they know what they are likely going to get in the here and now with Gray more than they did with Harrison. The Red Sox are also paying Gray just $11M this season and a $10M buy out on a mutual option for ‘28, with the Cardinals paying the remaining $20M. Harrison has been great for the Brewers. But that does t change the fact he was down in the pecking order in Boston for objective quantifiable reasons (they had multiple players who would help them win more now, and had young ascending players who they believed would help them more to win in the future), and that’s why they moved Harrison to solidify a different area on the roster.
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The depth thing is true as well though. We will never really know why Boston acquired Harrison in the first place . On possibility is when the Devers situation ruptured and the Red Sox needed to move him immediately, there were limited teams willing to take on that big of a contract, and Harrison and Co. may have been the best of a group of weak offers. I do think it’s safe to say the Red Sox were never really enamored with Harrison. That would certainly explain why he spent most of his time in Worcester while the big league club cycled through starters at the back of their rotation. Also, it is true by the time camp opened Boston had assembled five pitchers who were likely going to start in front of Harrison (Crochet, Gray, Bello, Oviedo, Suarez) they also had Early and Tolle consensus Top 100 prospects who were major league ready. Depending how you want to rank them Harrison was somewhere between 6th and 8th on the depth chart. They were presented with an opportunity to get a starting 3B, a utility infielder and whatever Siegler is for Harrison and Drohan and they took it. It makes perfect sense unless you view these things as a binary: because Harrison has performed well, Boston must have made a mistake.
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It’s also a byproduct of being in the smallest market in the league. There is more patience for players like Harrison and Sproat to hone their skills, because even if the Brewers lost 90 games, nobody in leadership is getting fired. Then you have Boston who won 89 games last year, made the playoffs yet was considered a disappointing season. This year they started off on the wrong foot in April and their manager is already fired and the media is wondering if the GM should next. Harrison is a talented guy, but I think it’s safe to say the Red Sox believed they were better off with Gray, Suarez Oviedo Bello , Tolle, Early and traded Harrison to get infield depth. Like I wrote before it’s not a binary system where because Harrison has pitched well for Milwaukee Boston automatically made a poor decision, trading him away.
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Be serious. Suarez and Gray are both veteran all stars. Harrison is a talented player but prior to this season his career era+ was 91 and his career whip was 1.31. Boston was adding pitchers to help them win immediately
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They liked them better than Harrison? It’s not a binary situation where one team is smart and the other is unwise. The Red Sox built up a lot of SP depth then used some of it to fill a hole on their roster- infield depth.
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Take a peek at their rotation. Top 100 prospects Early, Tolle, then Crochet, Saurez, Gray, and Bello. That’s six, Harrison was probably no higher than 7 on their depth chart (In hindsight you can say they had the ordering wrong) They wanted infield 3B depth more than they wanted starting pitching depth .
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What would it cost now to extend Miz?
Jopal78 replied to TwinsBrewersWorldSeries's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Be my guest…. Use up that bandwidth to gush your hopes and dreams. There is a snow ball’s chance in hell Misiorowski signs an extension with the Brewers. Now where is that ignore button…. -
What would it cost now to extend Miz?
Jopal78 replied to TwinsBrewersWorldSeries's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
If he’s the most dominant pitching talent the Brewers have ever had, why would Misiorowski be interested in an extension in the first place? He got a multi million dollar bonus when drafted (2.3M), so his circumstances are different than Chourio, Peralta, Ashby, etc. That’s kind of the end of the discussion. Misiorowski has no incentive to do anything else but build his resume and hit free agency after 2031, then let teams come to him with amounts of money that would shock the conscience. From the Brewers perspective, they could sign any player they want if they’re willing to pay the going rate, but we all know they’re not going to do that. It’s the same as what Paul Dolan said about Lindor when he was in Cleveland, “Enjoy him”. -
He signed an 8 year contract with a 50 million dollar guarantee. By your comment above, I take it you’re not a fan of that event in the first place. The reality is Pratt signed a cut-rate extension with the Brewers where he’s going to have an AAV of 6.3 million dollars. With the price of even mediocre free agents reaching 10 million AAV, Pratt will have to fail almost completely for the Brewers to not have a bargain on their hands. Keep in mind the biggest money for Pratt is in the club options, where he does not get a buy out if the Brewers decline them. True they are paying him more than they have to this year, but that’s no reason to throw him in the major league lineup when he hasn’t yet mastered AAA pitching
