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  1. Jopal78
    These trades make me think of one other thing: the sea change that has happened in Milwaukee over the last 20 years. Go back to the late 90s early 2000s a Brewers pitcher with a winning career record and career ERA of 4.01 would be at the front of the rotation not being traded off the spare parts
  2. Jopal78
    I do not have high hopes for Andrew Vaughn, that being said he was a #3 pick for a reason it’s not like he was a sleeper or a reach. He played 57 games in the minor leagues before debuting in the majors then played for three different managers and two different GM’s in 4+ years. So maybe just maybe there’s some untapped potential in there. we shall see. One other factor to consider is whether or not arbitration salaries are guaranteed. It’s my understanding if the player and team come to terms before the filing deadline. The contract is guaranteed if they do not, thenit may not be guarantee. The Brewers might have some financial wiggle room to keep Vaughan around next year at a price more palpable to them.
  3. Jopal78
    Do you mean a story, or Trevor Story the guy who has a 55 million dollar guarantee after this season? Because that Story won’t be coming to Milwaukee.
  4. Jopal78
    Montas went to the Mets as a free agent. Not the Athletics. Every team shooting for the playoffs wants more SP. The only variance is how badly they want it.
  5. Jopal78
    Another mediocre SP, Frankie Montas got 2yrs/34 million last year as a free agent. That is what Civale cares about, not where he goes to work for the six weeks until he’s traded again. Heck, he could probably keep his apartment in Milwaukee instead of moving to Chicago from now until July 31st.
  6. Jopal78
    Time will tell on this one and what the White Sox flip Civale for at the end of July. Lets not forget the Brewers did not have to trade any real talent to get Montas last year. So if the White Sox trade Civale in a few weeks for spare parts, then who cares. However, if the Sox end up with real talent then the Brewers probably made a mistake.
  7. Jopal78
    What a weird deal for Milwaukee. The White Sox get Civale at a discounted price (Brewers kicking in cash), will now be able to flip a veteran starting pitcher at the deadline instead of Vaughn a former #3 overall pick who was a bust for them. Meanwhile the Brewers are paying a guy 5.5 million to play in the minors with no path to the 26 man roster with Hoskins, Yelich, Bauers, Collins, Cameron, etc. in front of him
  8. Jopal78
    I don’t understand your point? Is it your contention the Brewers should trade major league starting pitching (the most valuable commodity in the game) for rentals? Or do you mean trade SP from their minor league system for rentals. option one (major league starting pitching depth for rentals) just sounds dumb. Option 2 is plausible but as you say they’d probably have to view themselves as having a real shot at the playoffs to send away future talent for rentals
  9. Jopal78
    Having your agent contact other teams to find a deal is what they call tampering, and other teams can’t do it. That’s why Civale had to go public in the first place. (Did anyone else notice how careful his word choice was: didn’t complain or fault the Brewers, didn’t explicitly mention money) Whats interesting is neither Arnold or Murphy said they intended to facilitate his request. The Brewers know you can never have too much starting pitching and most likely are not going to simply give Civale away because Aaron’s concerned about his next contract.
  10. Jopal78
    Why would they cringe? Is anyone mistaken that this is solely about future earnings? Murphy absolutely knows that, Arnold knows that too. Civale likely doesn’t care what Murphy has to say about it either. He’s concerned with going somewhere else so he can start.
  11. Jopal78
    To have a piece of information leaked it has to be a piece of information that was intended to be kept a secret in the first place. Every week that goes by with Civale pitching out of the pen potentially hurts his financial future, why would he ever keep his wish for a trade secret? Frankly he puts more pressure on himself to go out and perform when he is called upon now, which if he can follow through is only a good thing for both he and the Brewers.
  12. Jopal78
    They play for money. Moving him to the bullpen will potentially cost Civale millions of dollars. Putting a little pressure on Milwaukee to send him somewhere he can start is only looking out for his own financial interest. Let’s not forget Yelich requested a trade in Miami for no other reason than he didn’t want to play there if they weren’t going to win.
  13. Jopal78
    Man, I’d sure like to be a Brewer hitting coach. Don’t have to have any clue on how to help hitters besides watching the ball spin. No communication skills, analytical skills, tireless work ethic. Yet you get a multi year guarantee for hundreds of thousands of dollars and spend each summer traveling around to major US cities, wine, women staying in the fanciest hotels, private first class air travel.
  14. Jopal78
    For a franchise that mostly squandered the Fielder, Braun, Weeks, Hart, years due to an inability to develop starting pitching; I think the last thing they would consider is trading homegrown pre-arbitration eligible starting pitching merely because they have a little depth there in 2025. Civale (performance) would probably only bring salary relief (like the pile of nothing the Brewers traded for Montas). Woodruff and Cortes have no value until their actually healthy and pitching. In exchange for 10-12 starts by Quintana for a contender, I’m not sure the Brewers would get a vast improvement over Durbin and Ortiz. I thought they’d have a load of riches to trade at the deadline if they wanted to retool but it certainly seems to have gone up in smoke with injury and ineffectiveness
  15. Jopal78
    Stop you’re going to make me pee myself. As if AP awards based on regular season numbers mean a thing in relation to who wins the Super Bowl! Rodgers would drop 15 TDs a year on just Detroit and Chicago. Think those games are a good barometer of who’s achieving or underachieving? They lost how many title games with Rodgers? 4-5? Teams don’t get to the NFC Title game with a roster of underachievers. Stop being a spoiled Packer fan. Spoiled being in the playoffs anlmost every year for 30 years, There are fans in about 25 NFL cities that would switch with you in less than a heartbeat.
  16. Jopal78
    How many Super Bowls have Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen been to? Prescott? How many has Burrow won? Their goals every year weren’t to win the Super Bowl? Some how those teams aren’t successful because they haven’t racked up multiple Super Bowls wins? Give me a break. Sheesh, if the Packers went three years without a winning season, you guys would probably be the first ones off the bus
  17. Jopal78
    I wouldn’t say it’s out of thin air, but I don’t think there’s official statistics published because defining whether a contract “worked out” is somewhat subjective. We do know every year there is a wave of free agent players who are released from second contracts due to performance vs pay issues. With the Packers in the last decade or so, I think it’s safe to say the second contracts they gave out to Jaire Alexander, Aaron Jones, Nick Perry, Morgan Burnett, Dean Lowry, Randall Cobb didnt work out as they all were released (maybe Cobb’s deal simply expired … don’t recall) at this moment Rashan Gary’s deal isn’t looking too hot either. As for Gutekunst’s first round picks, who cares? Finding college players who can perform in the NFL is the objective of the draft, and the measure of success is how many you can find each year not the round where they picked them. Viewed through your lens emphasizing first round picks you’d have to say the Patriots 2000 draft was a bust because they missed on every until the 6th round.
  18. Jopal78
    I don’t know what you’re upset about. I would’ve simply kept Alexander at his current price too, BUT at 28 and having missed most of the season 3 of the last four year, what are the odds he stays healthy? They played the percentages and made the move, plus they demonstrated a lot of patience trying to work something out with Alexander first to keep him. It’s the NFL, maybe 10% of the time a second contract works out for the team handing it out. That Alexander is hurt all the time as he gets older and had no guaranteed money left on his contract, has no relationship to whether or not the GM is good at drafting players. As to Gutekunst, he takes a lot of flak because Packer fans are spoiled by success. That his teams have gone to the playoffs 5 of his 7 seasons (more than the 49ers, Rams, Cowboys, Vikings, Steelers during that time), and won a playoff game in 3 of those 5 seasons with 2 different starting QBs no less, is lost on most Packer fans who only wonder why they haven’t won even more and blame the GM.
  19. Jopal78
    I understand your thought process. The real question is what team is going to give up a premium piece for Megill? He is the “closer” in Milwaukee but the relief ace on their staff is Uribe. Besides strikeouts, by any other metric you want to use Megill is the Brewers’ 3rd or 4th best reliever. He might be at “peak value” but it does not mean there would be intense demand to acquire him via trade. Yoho might get another chance this year depending on the circumstances but he’s giving off Ethan Small vibes right now (nothing left to prove in AAA yet incapable of getting MLB hitters out consistently), it’s a big assumption to assume he would come up and continue where he left off in AAA.
  20. Jopal78
    Why would they trade Megill? Just to do it? He’s is not eligible for free agency until 2028. Thus, the Brewers would expect significant talent in a trade involving a long term piece from their major league roster. At the same time, Megill’s command has been really spotty in 2025 (I don’t think there is another “closer” in the majors with a KK:BB ratio of less than 2:1), which would likely diminish other team’s interest in trading significant talent to get him now. And Yoho? You saw his repertoire the first time around which he couldn’t land for strikes and didn’t fool major league hitters? The Brewers acquired and called up Zastryzny and Easton McGee when they had bullpen needs after demoting Yoho. I think that’s as solid of a message of where he stands in 2025.
  21. Jopal78
    He’s been good and been bad for long stretches the last few years. (Bad with the Cubs, good with the Cubs, bad with the White Sox, marginal with the Dodgers, good with the Phillies, bad with the Orioles) That’s why he’s a journeyman pitcher now.
  22. Jopal78
    No, I do get it but it’s absurd example. Supposing a challenge system existed, the Reds could’ve challenged the umpire’s call on Durbin and perhaps it would have been overturned as strike 3, and game over. As it turns out Durbin reached base after the call, and the next batter Bauers made an out. I get it, he hit the ball and it nearly left the yard but it in fact was caught for the final out of the game. So explain how the missed call on Durbin made any difference in the outcome of the game whatsoever.
  23. Jopal78
    Exactly my point. The missed call on Durbin turned out to have no impact whatsoever on the actual outcome of the game.
  24. Jopal78
    What percentage of games turn on a single ball or called strike, let alone in the 8th or 9th inning? If they want to impose a uniform strike zone and have a machine call balls and strikes, fine. Adding another challenge system is dropping a nuclear bomb on an ant hill.
  25. Jopal78
    What a stupid rule change. If you’re gonna have a challenge for balls and strikes, it necessarily means the umpires frequently get the calls wrong so why not have a completely automated system for all balls and strikes and cure the problem without needless delays. To hell with catchers who are good at framing, which is simply trying to trick an umpire into calling something a strike that’s not. if an umpire has a funky strike zone, but calls it consistently for both sides, a challenge system where you get multiple challenges as long as they’re correct will disrupt any sort of pace of play. The beauty of baseball there was no clock, no replay and that’s the way it’s always been. More knee jerk reaction to media criticism as they mutate the game into something ridiculously silly.
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