Jopal78
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It an interesting concept. With Woodruff the only starting pitcher heading to free agency after ‘26, even in ‘27 the Brewers will likely have more arms than major league roster spots, so trading some starting pitching for an established major league hitter makes a lot of sense, just not Bohm.
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Who else would you get for $22 million total? You are not going to sign any premier free agent to a multi year deal at that price. There is a reason Littel is sitting home, nobody wants to give him the guarantee he is looking for. Further any free agent who signed a one year free agent deal this offseason for big dollars has an equal set of question marks about them, and yes, I mean, Suarez too. -
Does it really matter if he pitches the first game of the year, or the 5th game of the year six days later. Until he’s not healthy it’s a non-story.
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I think he knows they’re shopping him, but as the article notes he had a flexor strain last season, rehabbed, then received a PRP injection in the offseason suggesting the muscles and/or ligaments weren’t completely healthy after the 2025 season. Most likely teams are wary of putting up much value where his medicals are questionable.
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2025-26 Offseason Around the League Thread
Jopal78 replied to sveumrules's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Corresponds with a precipitous decline in ability and increasing injuries. Doesn’t run well, does not play defense well and maybe is a league average bat. -
With incentives tied to plate appearances, it looks like St. Louis views him as a utility infielder not a starter. A view that likely explains why he was a free agent until after camp opened and signed a 2 million dollar guarantee.
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I get your point those starters mostly were no good. I don’t disagree. Jamey Wright, however, is interesting. He averaged more than 6 innings per start in the 77 starts he made as a Brewer. He also induced ground balls at a slightly better than average pace in an era before analytics and defense were stressed. Maybe his command would still doom him, but if he came up in today’s era, I bet he’d have a much better stat line.
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2025-26 Offseason Around the League Thread
Jopal78 replied to sveumrules's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Probably none of it. Bryant didn’t have a significant injury history prior to signing with Colorado, so it’s unlikely the Rockies would have taken on the kind of premium necessary when the loss they’re seeking to protect against is 180+ million dollars. After he was diagnosed with a degenerative disc condition, no insurance company would write Colorado a policy to protect against long term disability of a player who has that large of a guarantee. It’s a messy situation where the team can require Bryant to submit to exams, imaging, participate in rehab, etc. and he may not want to do that for the next 3 years, so like Strasberg with the Nats and Rendon with the Angels, they’ll likely workout an amended contract and he’ll retire. -
So if they all decamped to the NPB, that league would become the preeminent baseball league in the world, and Major league baseball fans would suddenly be tuning in during the middle of the night to catch the Toyo Carp or Yakult Swallows? Or is it just what the players union’s messaging wants you to believe? The reality is the franchise outlives every generation, loyalty to a team doesn’t end because players leave. Baseball players are more like actors in a very long running play, the stage and the story (rivalries, team heritage collective history etc.) matters more than the cast.
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My point is, the 40 man roster is full, there is not a lot of chaff there to begin with, yet there are other non-roster players likely to see Milwaukee before Wilken. So it could be a numbers/opportunity thing with him. Verbosity aside, I do not think you’re saying anything different; so I don’t know what I’m seriously misinterpreting.
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Easton McGee.
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No. The 40 man roster primarily defines who can be called up to the major leagues. Wilken wouldn’t even be Rule 5 eligible until after the conclusion of the ‘26 season so I’m not sure what the Rule 5 draft has to do with anything.
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That’s where we disagree. Sure anything is possible, but he‘s not on the 40 man roster. With plenty of players the Brewers need and/or like ahead of Wilken it could very well be the end of the discussion for ‘26. He necessarily is going to have to force their hand with his play, and keep his contact rate up as he faces better pitching. Time will tell if he can do it,
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I didn’t say he was old. Someone argued he was “young” for AA last season. That argument is flawed. Sure a high school draftee or 17 year old kid can be overmatched playing against fully grown men. But a college draftee who turned pro 3 years ago in AA; where a 1/3 of the players on his own team were younger than he was? Sorry no. Adding up all the ages of every player and dividing that by the total number of players in a league doesn’t tell us anything useful in this context.
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I was wondering when someone was going to say “he was young for the league” the oldest cliché in talking about minor league players. He’s a college player, and there were 9 players younger on Biloxi last season. Nice tone by the way…..
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I hope you’re right, but remember even when the Brewers had Hart, Hardy, Weeks, Braun, Fielder, there were still “meh” players brought aboard every year
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Time will tell. He’s not on the 40 man roster and as you alluded to there’s a lot of talent nearing major league ready, so Wilken’s performance will need to force the issue. Metrics aside, Frelick was a college bat and put up .844 OPS in AA, Braun was .956, So he’s behind a couple of Brewer college draftees who developed into everyday contributors. Keston Hiura was .755 in AA and Garrett Mitchell was, like Wilken, injured a bunch and put up a .681 there.
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Right. Wilken hasn’t played a full season since turning pro because of injuries, and has a .784 OPS in A and AA as a college age player. Nothing there suggests he sees the majors anytime soon.
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Gary Sanchez would make it 39, no?
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What’s your point? Perhaps your time would be better spent reading and thinking about what you read than arguing for the sake of doing it with nothing to say . The GMs own words from a few days ago are below: As for contracts, it is professional sports, the athletes play for money and 97% of them don’t give a crap where they do it so long as the pay is right. So yeah, you’re 100% right Gallen has a dollar amount he wants to play for, and nobody wants him badly enough to pay that number so he’s sitting home. Eventually a team will either come up with the money he wants, or he’ll change his mind and play for less. Not rocket science.
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I think it’s pretty apparent they intend to at least give it a whirl with who they have in house, or a trade of some sort which is why I didn’t suggest alternatives. The Contreras comment above isn’t relevant to anything, of course they were going to go to hearing over a seemingly small amount, arbitration salaries are about the comps. Fair question. On MLB’s website it notes DeJong (1.9 WAR in ‘24-25) signed a minor league deal. Rengifo (1.5 WAR) is unsigned. They play for money, So maybe Urias is mulling multiple guaranteed offers, or maybe he is waiting for a guarantee of any sort. Maybe he prefers to sit out a year than slum it on an NRI. We don’t know. We do however know if someone wanted him badly enough he would be signed by now.
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The first lines do not make any sense. I would hope a front office has some sort of strategic framework for the future which identifies players in the majors or minors who are viewed likely being able to help win games should the player become available. Like I said above. These are multi- million dollar businesses, they don’t go into off season roster building shooting from the hip or making it up as they go along with no contingency plans. I can only assume they wanted Harrison/ young SP all off season, and wanted him badly enough to trade their starting 3B to get him. The 3B free agents left are all garbage. Maybe they can wait Urias out as a band aid, but if he was a player who they really viewed as an improvement over what’s in house, they would likely have acquired him already.
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Like I said, if he wasn’t a solution when he was available as a waiver claim, did he suddenly become a solution because he’s presumably cheaper after being released?
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Except Urias was DFA’d in November and could have been acquired with merely a waiver claim. If he wasn’t the solution then, would he be the solution now simply becase his cost is likely less?
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Why does a contrary opinion have to be pessimism? To your point about David Hamilton, the Red Sox liked him well enough at one point to absorb Jackie Bradley Jr.’s contract in order to acquire him (They released Bradley after 290 PAs). 3 years later, the Red Sox obviously preferred Durbin and Monasterio to David Hamilton. Couple that with the stat sheet showing a career .642 OPS and it’s “realistic” to wonder if Hamilton is going to hit enough to be more than a bench player. Pitching wins games, and the Brewers have shown a knack of being able to develop young pitchers, so it makes sense that they’re trying to acquire as many young staying pitchers as possible. At the same time, it’s not so much that Durbin is traded it’s that on offense they have now traded away nearly 1100 PAs of above league average offense without really replacing those players. So it is realistic to wonder if the Brewers are going to hit enough especially from the left side of the their infield to win consistently, especially if their pitching staff isn’t as strong as last year with the departures of Peralta and Quintana. However, there are plenty of unknowns at this point: Like Turang last year, maybe Chourio grew into some adult strength over the off season and hits 35+ homers, and Vaughn puts up a .500 slugging percent again, then it wouldn’t matter as much if neither 3B and SS has an OPS above .650
