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  1. Jopal78
    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.
  2. Jopal78
    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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    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….
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    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”.
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    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
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    Look at the totality of the circumstances. He made 11 starts, went 5 IP or more in 8 of them. Made only 1 start where he allowed more than 4 runs (that was the last week of the regular season when playoff positioning was no longer in question). The back of the rotation was a mess in 2024 with Miley and Gasser blowing out their elbows. Bryce Wilson barely averaging 4+ innings per start, Dallas Keuchel running on fumes, then ultimately Joe Ross. Ross was moved to the pen when Montas arrived. Ross as the #5 starter had an ERA of 4.97. The last two months of the season in the pen his era was 1.97. Adding Montas improved the rotation AND improved the bullpen. I get it, you don’t like Montas and liked Joey Wiemer, but there are no facts that support the position that Montas was anything but a solid acquisition for the Brewers.
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    You may be right, but whether he’s worth rostering is not wholly dependent on his metrics, but is equally dependent on who else they have that could take his spot. It’s unrealistic to assume they’re going to reach a breaking point and call up one of their higher ceiling prospects who has a lower floor currently than Rengifo then let that player repeatedly fail in the majors while the team has postseason ambitions. Fact is, no matter how bad their SS and 3B play offensively, they’re going to run them out there until the decision makers believe they have a player ready to take their jobs, and by all indications there isn’t right now.
  10. Jopal78
    Montas took the ball every 5th day, ate innings at the back of the rotation and kept them up in every game but one. And for that production they gave up a renal middle reliever who had missed three months with an injury and a journeyman outfielder. How is it anything but a huge win from the Brewers prospective?
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    Indisputable talent, but is Sproat going to be anything when he’s staked to a huge lead and has trouble finishing 5 innings .
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    Rengifo may be a declining player but his OBP is 30 points below where it was last year and 50 points below his career average. His slugging percentage is 60 points below where it was last year and 100 points below below his career average. His exit velocity is the same as last year and he’s hitting more balls in the air than last year. Unless Rengifo has truly hit the the wall physically at 29 which doesn’t seem likely, his statistics suggest he’s going to start playing better
  14. Jopal78
    With thoracic outlet syndrome, it is probably wishful thinking that he would ultimately avoid surgery, but obviously the best thing for his career would be to try to rehab the injury. First time will tell.
  15. Jopal78
    Yep, trade Made and Williams tomorrow for Machado and call up Pratt to SS. Sheesh
  16. Jopal78
    I thought the Cardinals were supposed to be rebuilding
  17. Jopal78
    A CFer with a .750 OPS and Mitchell’s speed and defense would play in the majors for a decade or more. Lorenzo Cain 13 years .749 OPS Mike Cameron 17 years .249 BA .782 OPS Carlos Gómez 13 years .724 OPS Devon White 17 years .739 OPS [Collectively 8 All Star appearances too] If Mitchell has super star potential then yes, he should pick up his game. If this is his ceiling (low BA with .750 OPS) the Brewers don’t need to worry about CF so long as he’s healthy.
  18. Jopal78
    Crazier to think that Clemens threw 6 more innings than Higuera (254 to 248) that year while starting one less game (33 to 34). Clemens allowed 47! fewer hits (179 to 226) and struck out 31 more (238 to 207).
  19. Jopal78
    A team can’t leave someone on the 60 day IL after the World Series. They’d have to DFA Zerpa or keep him on the 40 man until late February early March when the 60 day Il applies again. Could it happen? Sure, but the Brewers are also going to have minor league players they want to protect and other loves they want to make which could place 40 man spots at a premium. if Zerpa has surgery as rumored he’s done for this year and possibly/probably into next year. 2028 would be his final year of control. So just considering Mears could give the Royals 110-120 innings before free agency after 2027; Zerpa may not even get to that number of IP pitched between now and September 2028 if he has an elbow injury requiring surgery. Sorry, but it looks like a bust. Maybe I’ll be wrong, but the circumstances don’t look good right now for Zerpa to contribute meaningfully as a brewer. Then again, if the biggest thing to argue about is the future of a middle reliever, it means it’s a good time to be a Brewer fan
  20. Jopal78
    With a .390 OBP it doesn’t really matter
  21. Jopal78
    Of course it’s bad luck, but if he has hurt his elbow to where he requires surgery (unknown but getting a second opinion is an ominous indicator) and is out until some unknown time in 2027, while already heading into his second year of arbitration. If all those things turn out to be true, he likely will never pitch again for the Brewers (this is especially so considering all the talent they will need to add to the 40 man roster in the short run). Thus, if you give up a pitcher like Mears who has been decent for the Royals, along with a depth piece in Collins for 11 innings of Zerpa, it’s the definition of a bust: more talent and production went out the door than came back.
  22. Jopal78
    Of course they don’t have insurance in Woodruff, it doesn’t make any financial sense for the team. Same idea with an insurer. It would e like writing a policy for a motorist with a history of crashes, why would any company write a policy for a pitcher who already has significant injury history, it would not be a likely money making situation. Maybe if a player has a 250+ million dollar guarantee they could be insured, as you mention, for very specific outcomes: career ending injury, injury resulting in multi-season disability,
  23. Jopal78
    I’d rather have Mears than Zerpa straight up. I’d take Collins even with a bad start over Greg Jones too. Even at a more base level, Zerpa goes down and somebody has to pick up the 50 or so innings he was likely to pitch the rest of the way weakening the depth. So yeah, a bust.
  24. Jopal78
    D’Oh. An era of nearly 7, with his stuff. Example #1 he needs to learn how to pitch.
  25. Jopal78
    While low stakes a bust of a trade and it’s not even May 1st yet. 2nd opinion almost always means the ligament is damaged and it’s a question of rehab or TJ. If he needs TJ surgery it means he’s almost certainly getting non-tendered after the season.
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