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Lindblom is garbage. I don’t care that he has 8 pitches he throws. He never can put anyone away. Cant even use him to mop up because he puts a ton of guys on base -
Knebel Traded to the Dodgers for PTBNL [LHP Leo Crawford]
Jopal78 replied to markedman5's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
But it wasn’t. It was short sighted and miserly. Knebel before TJ surgery was an above average relief pitcher with the ability to be dominant at times. With a salary of 5 million dollars you can consider him a bargain given what Trevor Rosenthal and others received as free agents Nowadays it is the exception when a pitcher doesn’t make it back from TJ surgery. It’s not Knebel’s fault his rehab from TJ surgery was waylaid by COVID-19. By the time he was throwing, camp shut down and he had to rehab on his own. Then the first innings he pitched post surgery were in MLB regular season games in 2020. He was due 5 million dollars in arbitration. But the Brewers decided to cut bait rather than take a chance, and got a Dodger nobody in return. That’s their prerogative but for an analytical team that’s seeking value it was and is a dumb move. They threw more money away on Jimmy Nelson who blew out his shoulder in two places and had a smaller track record of being good than Knebel. There are inequities in the game like the Dodgers having a guy like David Price coming out of the bullpen. This isn’t one of them; this is Stearns weakening his own club and aiding his competition. -
Brewers sign Pablo Reyes to minor league contract
Jopal78 replied to markedman5's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
It’s not inexperience, it’s poor performance. Yardley is 31 years old and has been in the majors with two different clubs. His problem is he doesn’t have “stuff” he’s an arm action hide the ball guy. When he misses his spots and the batter knows he has to throw a strike he’s getting hit. Same deal with Rasmussen. He’s been behind on nearly every batter he’s faced. He needs to command his pitches simple as that. He missed his spot with Arenado. Sano took him deep on a 3-1 pitch, after he had issued a walk, wild pitch and a 1-1 single. -
Brewers sign Dee Strange-Gordon to minor-league deal
Jopal78 replied to Eye Black's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
He signed a two time all-star with 4000 MLB PA's to a minor league deal. And your problem with this is....? Ricky Bones, Jose Hernandez and Derrick Turnbow are former all stars too. Every team is required to have one; big deal. As for Gordon-Strange, he hasn’t been decent in 5 years, which is exactly why they signs him to a minor guy deal. -
Imagine how upset we would be if the Brewers lineup read Happ-Bryant-Rizzo-Contreras-Baez the past few years and have zero playoff wins since 2017. I think we have the Brewers and Orlando Arcia to thank for that. Game 163 put the nail in that "dynasty" in the making. And I love nothing more. Perspective. The lineup of Fielder, Braun, Weeks, Hart, Hardy, etc. weren’t exactly playoff stalwarts, and in fact probably lost almost as many regular season games as they won. The Cubs group won a title so they’re the best group the Cubs have had in 100 years and a more successful group than the Brewers ever have.
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It seems like he’s been around for a long time but Woodruff has less than 300 total innings across 5 years. With barely any regular work since the end of 2019. He’ll be fine but surely is still ramping up
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Hiura probably belongs at the ATS site. He’s not going to last two more weeks as a starter if he keeps striking out at a 50% clip
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Man, they should’ve kept Knebel and non-tendered Arcia. If the team “needs pitching” as the GM says, and they’re so strapped they don’t have 3 million dollars (the difference between Knebel salary and Arcia) heaven help them. As is I’d bet $10 the Dodgers get more from Knebel this year than the Brewers ever will from these two guys.
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New year, same Hiura.... feel the breeze
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Mets extend Lindor - 10 years/341 million
Jopal78 replied to adambr2's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
That a professional sports team is some sort of "toy" for a billionaire is a fallacy. Take the Dodgers for example, they reportedly collected 185 million dollars in tickets receipts in 2019. Their TV Deal is worth 8+ billion dollars over 25 years which comes out to $325,000,000 dollars a year. Nobody knows for sure but that is a half-billion dollars of revenue a year from tickets and TV. A payroll of $250,000,0000 is easily doable without the members of the LLC having to throw personal finances into the pot. The hedge fund guys that own these teams are not pumping their own personal cash into the teams on any large scale. It defeats the purpose of buying an MLB team: 1.) they're scarce, 2.) they never sell for less than they're bought for 3.) there's no risk they go out of business, or interfered with by government regulation, and 4.) even the small market ones generate piles of annual revenue. Frankly, winning a World Series might result in a short term boost in revenue, but winning a championship doesn't really make the asset more valuable. -
But do you live in Wisconsin? If so, you'll be blacked out like the rest of us. Get a VPN that locates you outside the US, no blackouts.
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Mets extend Lindor - 10 years/341 million
Jopal78 replied to adambr2's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
The good news is Javy Baez probably will be gone from the division if the going rate for super star shortstops is now 30+ million AAV. -
The good news for Brewer fans is 3/5's of their starting rotation (Kwang Hyun Kim, Dakota Hudson and Miles Mikolas) are on the IL to begin the year. That's asking for a lot of innings from John Gant who was a reliever and Daniel Ponce De Leon who has topped 100 innings in a year twice since turning pro in 2015. Then removing Gant and Carlos Martinez from the pen and Hicks coming back from TJ surgery they will be relying a lot Gallegos, Cabrera and Andrew Miller for a lot of innings early. The bad news is they seemingly have some player every year who comes out of nowhere to be a huge force for them like DeJong in '17, Carpenter in '18 and Erdman in '19 etc. I get the feeling someone like Tyler O'Neill will come out and put up an OPS of .850 and really tie the lineup together, and Wainwright will keep up his little twilight tear he's been on since the start of 2020.
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It's like I said originally, Lucroy was a great Brewer until he started whining about money/his contract disguised as gripes about not winning. I suppose that's his right as a pro-ball player to gripe about money. After all careers are short. However, as a fan I get to chuckle whenever I hear his name because of his whining and the fact his career completely flamed out about 2 months after the Brewers traded him off guaranteeing no team was going to give him the huge deal he wanted in the first place.
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It will be intriguing to see what happens with the Cubs. They literally have half their major league team heading towards free agency. With that many players close to leaving, and without appearing they close to signing any of their core players to an extension; there probably won’t be major reinforcements coming at the deadline. If their pitching is even average pitching along with the best hitting line up in the division, I’d put my money on them for first place.
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Lucroy signed an initial extension with the Brewers to get a guarantee so he was protected financially against getting injured. Going that route he forfeited the likelihood he would have made more money going year to year, especially with the seasons he ended up producing. If he didn’t contemplate potentially being seriously underpaid when he signed that first extension, then he and his agent(s) were foolish. Look at the article linked, a few months after mentioning they turned down his contract request but he wasn’t complaining, he in fact asked to be traded because the team was going to rebuild. Think about that, if they would have given him the massive extension he wanted would he have complained about the team rebuilding? Of course not. Those complaints are nothing more than sour grapes. When they did finally trade him he vetoed the first one because the Indians were going to play him at first base more, which he perceived would hurt his value. Cleveland won the pennant that year, illustrating again Lucroy didn’t care all that much about winning as he claimed and was more about future dollars.
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No, he proposed a second extension with the Brewers and the team turned him down. https://www.mlb.com/brewers/news/brewers-jonathan-lucroy-talks-negotiations/c-137818528 After they turned him down, he started griping about only wanting to play for a winner and asked to be traded. I never rooted for the guy to fail. Rather as fate played out the big contract he tried to maneuver himself into never worked out and that seemed right to me.
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Maybe but those are all what if games. By that logic had the Brewers not traded Greinke to the Angels they wouldn’t have gotten Yelich. According to MLB in 2017 they had Brinson as the #13 prospect and Mejia as #14.
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I don’t know, I guess it runs me the wrong way when players disguise their gripes about their contracts as complaints about “winning”. The Brewers were wise to not give him a second extension and he left town whining about money and playing time. Then he totally failed to back it up.
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He's a catcher and he's (almost) 35. Not really that surprising. Just not a lot of guys can catch into their mid to late 30's and stay effective. Really takes a toll on the body. Is there anything more satisfying than Lucroy’s post-Brewers career? Here’s a guy when the Brewers turned down his overture for an extension well into his 30’s, he demanded a trade because the team “wasn’t winning”, then he vetoed a trade because of the projected time behind the plate wasnt to his liking. When he finally was traded, the Brewers starting to play competitive baseball, he never got the long term contract he wanted. His skills then disappeared over night, proving the Brewers wisdom in rejecting his desire for a long term contract in the first place.
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Ray Black, if healthy, would make it over Boxberger. They would expose Black to waivers if he didn’t make it, not with Boxberger.
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They sent him down yesterday in what was obviously a service time manipulation. Which is interesting because he was on the roster all season in 2020.
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In fact, Randy Wolf was released at the end of August in 2012 after making 25 starts for the Brewers. He had maybe 15% of his annual salary remaining when let go. I will rephrase though: The Brewers do not have a history of paying players while they play for different clubs. Even if they wanted to move Garcia’s contract, he’s the textbook definition of a mediocre outfielder (not really bad at anything, but not outstanding at anything either) on an expiring contract. The return would never be such that it would warrant picking up his contract. As posted earlier the difference between Garcia and other readily available outfielders is such no GM is going to give up players to acquire him right now.
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Though the Brewers haven't included cash in trades, they've been content to pay players to stay home. The line between the two is virtually non-existent, IMO. Perhaps that's a function of not having players with terrible that other teams were even willing to take on by the point the Brewers were willing to move them (Suppan, Lohse, Garza, etc)? You may be right about eating the remainder of a contract. But they don’t do that much either. In fact no money was eaten with Garza or Lohse as they were never released. They last pitched for Milwaukee on Sept. 27 and October 1st respectively in the final years of their deals. Suppan was released in June of the final year of his contract eating maybe 6 million dollars. That only occurred when Suppan became completely worthless allowing almost an earned run per inning. Garcia by contrast is far from worthless
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Bruce since 2017: .301/.474 Gracia since 2017: .336/.456 (Those numbers also include the two best years of Garcia’s career.) If you can have Bruce for just his salary, what GM would give up any capital to acquire basically the same guy with a 10 million dollar salary to boot. Really. Ok, bruce has better slugging while garcia is significantly better at literally everything else...also garcia is 29 while Bruce is 33. The likelihood of Garcia living up to his last couple years production is much high than Bruce living up to his. There a reason Garcia is getting 12 million a year while Bruce is a minor league deal. We aren't a match because they can just go get Bruce for free is a poor poor argument. A couple of absolutes: 1. The Brewers hardly ever include cash in trades. 2. The Brewers are not going to give Garcia away. This Accordingly, my point is the White Sox GM is not going to give a player from their organization and take on 12 million dollars in payroll for Garcia when players like Bruce are available for a minimal salary. The difference between Garcia and a player like Bruce doesn’t warrant such a cost.
