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  1. Jopal78
    Unless they believe there’s somebody they can get who’s better they’ll keep him and give him another contract. Sherman and McCarthy hung around like that longer than they should have
  2. Jopal78
    He’s played 12 of 14 games, they are undefeated in the games he missed! Give me a break.
  3. Jopal78
    Ha ha. They haven’t played a game without Parsons yet. If you mean Watson and Elgton Jenkins as best players, I guess the bar is set low for the definition of best players. They’re 3-1 since Wyatt went down. Hard to argue his loss has meant much despite the hype.
  4. Jopal78
    There’s no negativity, I don’t buy into the Packers/media hype machine. Nobody had the 2010 Packers winning the Super Bowl. They happened to gel late in the season and get on a roll. What does that have to do with calling the 2026 squad’s mediocrity? My point is: playing what turned out to be a fairly easy schedule while adding a premium talent like Parsons, the Packers have not performed any better this season than their wild card team of ‘24 who got bounced in the first round. They apparently weren’t as good as they thought they were and paid a high price to find that out. We’ll see if they can win Sunday earn that division title and maybe get on a roll.
  5. Jopal78
    Oh boy. Every team has Super Bowl odds. They’re not a predictor of reality, it’s to set betting expectations so the house makes money either way. There is no way to back door your way to the Super Bowl. 5 of the Packers 9 wins have come against doormat teams who have less than 20 wins combined. They are 1-3 this year against non-losing teams outside the NFC North (Which may suggest their division isn’t too good this year either). More importantly, they might not make the playoffs and Parsons hasn’t missed a game yet! Super Bowl Contender. Sheesh.
  6. Jopal78
    Come on! Sounds like an apologist. Every team has injuries. A team with Super Bowl aspirations doesn’t drop games to Cleveland, and Carolina and get lit up for 40 points on defense. Those were with Parsons. To go further 2 best OLs? Elgton Jenkins was already a bust at Center when he was hurt. (Their OL actually improved when he went down). Who’s the other OL? Tom, Walker, and Rhyan have played all 14 games. Banks 12, Belton 11. Maybe you mean Morgan… haha. They were 4-3-1 with losses to Cleveland, Carolina and a tie with Dallas before Wyatt got hurt so not sure you’re right there either. Watson has never had 650 receiving yards in a season due to injuries. If he’s truly one of their “2 best WRs” as you say, then it also means their receivers aren’t any good. Point is they were 11-6 last year. Added arguably the best defensive player in football and are 9-4 with 3 games remaining when said best player suffered a catastrophic injury. Sounds to me like they weren’t as good as they thought they were; paid a high price (Parsons) to find that out and now are going to have to really hit on some players in the second day of the draft and later to get better for next year.
  7. Jopal78
    Didn’t take long for the Parsons trade to turn on the Packers. Despite adding a superstar defender the Packers are not better (record wise) in ‘25 with Parsons than without in ‘24. So one could already argue the Packers mis-evaluated where they were as a team and the juice wasn’t worth the squeeze. With Parsons out into next season they can’t cut underachieving Rashan Gary now. Yet he, Love and Parsons all makehuge dollars resulting in limited cap room without converting guarantees to bonuses and fouling their future cap. With cap issues Infusing more talent into the roster will be more challenging and only exacerbated by the 2 first round picks that went to Dallas (cue up jokes they would’ve botched the picks anyways!) Finally a big question mark if Parsons who relied on speed and explosiveness will be the same post surgery. The Packers do not have an out with Parsons until after 2027. Bakhtiari’s struggled for 2 years after his non-contact ACL injury and still ultimately ended his career. Though Watson seemed to have recovered back to pre-injury levels. If Parsons doesn’t make it all the way back, and the team goes backward on the field it probably costs the front office their jobs
  8. Jopal78
    They won the division with 97 wins and basically return the whole squad in 2026 if they choose to. The wish list likely includes a five tool shortstop, controllable starting pitching and/ or a power hitting corner infielder. The shopping list likely includes a back up catcher, utility infielder and pitching depth.
  9. Jopal78
    Look at it conceptually: Duran coming off of a down here with a 4.7 war. Say he simply matches that for the next three years that would be 14.1 war. Peralta coming off his best season is a 5.5 war pitcher. He took a team friendly extension once in the past, so I would put the odds at him declaring free agency after 2026 as near 100%, no matter what team he is on. Megill has been a 1.5 war pitcher and has two seasons of control left. 14.1 > 5.5 + 3. That’s why these two teams don’t really lineup for those players. Boston will certainly want more than Peralta and McGill for just Duran. Additionally, the Brewers are not likely interested in dipping into their minor-league talent to acquire a corner outfield bat, where they’re already have everyday starters at those positions plus a litany of bench players for those spots on their 40 man roster
  10. Jopal78
    Neither team would do that trade. Duran had a bWAR of 4.7. Peralta had a bWAR of 5.5 in 2025. Under this scenario, Boston isn’t going to trade 3 future seasons of Duran plus a top pitching prospect for 32 starts from Peralta and Trevor Megill. They wouldn’t do it straight up Peralta for Duran and most likely wouldn’t agree to Peralta AND Megill for JUST Duran. For the Brewers, Peralta is their best trade chip this offseason, they’re not likely going to cash it in for an already well paid OFer because , it doesn’t move the team forward subtracting from the pitching to add an OFer where they’re already 5 deep.
  11. Jopal78
    I’ve been on these boards long enough to recall you thought it foolhardy when Joey Wiemer was traded too 😎. Thats why we’re fans and not working in baseball.
  12. Jopal78
    Collins doesn't play CF and Frelick is going to play RF most days. The Brewers have a laundry list of players to cycle through LF, so the trade really is a player the Brewers didn’t need (Collins) and a player they didn’t want (Mears) for a lefty pitcher they like who may still have some upside, with a slight reduction in payroll. Zerpa < Collins + Mears.
  13. Jopal78
    Shaping up to be another Brewers style offseason: bargain shopping for depth to raise the talent “floor” and hoping for young players Turang, Chourio, Durbin, Frelick to continue to develop offensively with a boost from Contreras being healthy again.
  14. Jopal78
    Having had TJ surgery in March of ‘25. He should be close to being mound ready by the time Spring Training rolls around.
  15. Jopal78
    A million bucks and a 40 man roster spot for a guy with 1100 MLB PAs, with 2+ years of team control and an option remaining.., what’s not to like? Depth is a good thing, and the Brewers did use 14 different players in the OF last year: Chourio, Frelick, Mitchell, Yelich, Lockridge, Perkins, Collins, Cameron, Avans, Berroa, Contreras, Monasterio, Black and Bauers.
  16. Jopal78
    If Peralta is not dealt, the above would probably be the reason why. What I mean is, like with Adames in ‘24, the one year of control remaining for Peralta is most likely more valuable to the Brewers than for any team trying to trade for him. Also different from Corbin Burnes in ‘23 where he was set to earn 15 million dollars and the Brewers were likely more motivated to move him for cost savings as well as talent replenishment. Unless there’s a contending team without a true top of the rotation starter (like Baltimore in ‘23), there’s probably a lack of teams willing to trade blue chip major league ready players for a season of qualitiy starting pitching depth.
  17. Jopal78
    Cam Schlitter and Spencer Jones for Peralta. Who says no.
  18. Jopal78
    It’s admirable you did the research, but where the Brewers are in their success cycle they’d be kind of dumb to trade major league assets for players in A ball. I think they want to try to win as much as they can with the current group before having to re-tool
  19. Jopal78
    Seriously? Look at it from a talent equation, if the Brewers trade Megill, the 2026 team has less talent. In the current baseball economy, where mediocre free agents get 10 million dollar AAV guarantees. Who could the Brewers add for 4 million dollars that would make up the talent deficit created by trading Megill. Secondly, Megill isn’t Hader or Williams. He hasn’t pitched more than 48 innings in a season and had a forearm strain last year. Never say never, but the odds Milwaukee lands quality major league ready talent in exchange for Megill is doubtful. If it comes down to salary relief and a couple of low level minor leaguers, the 2026 team would be better off with Megill.
  20. Jopal78
    Yep, jerseys aren’t my style. Seemed pretty loud when I was there for all the playoff games this year 🤯, but good on you for challenging one’s fandom. I can tell you jersey wearing crowd was certainly a hodge podge mix.
  21. Jopal78
    Zoom it in I’m not a jersey guy. Don’t own one, wouldn’t buy one. So the Brewers introducing their 5th New Jersey in the last five years, looks like a cheap cash grab to me. But obviously there are folks who are into jerseys, collect them, etc. and they’re probably excited. From an intangible perspective, I wish the Brewers would choose an identity and stick with it. Be retro and wear the 80’s pinstripes at home and powder blue on the road. Great. Or wear the cream colored jersey at home and the traditional traveling grays with Milwaukee on the chest. But when you seemingly where a different uni each night and have a half dozen mascots running around your stadium, it’s not the kind of image/identity typically associated with a club that’s won their division 4 of the last 5 years and been in the post season 7 of the last 8 seasons.
  22. Jopal78
    It doesn’t really matter what his WAR is vis an vis his salary. Buxton will play 90+ games a season if his team gets lucky. Functionally, it really means a team needs two players for whatever position they have Buxton penciled in, because years and years of history, tell us he is likely to miss multiple months with injuries. To us fans it all seems like Monopoly money, but the reality is the Twins have $45 million dollars guaranteed to superstar who can’t be counted on to be healthy, not to mention injury prone players typically dont get healthier as they age. That’s why I don’t see a bevy of teams lining up to take on a $45 million commitment not knowing how many games they’re going to get out of the player. I’ll grant you there’s one or two teams that may be willing take a $45 million gamble, but if that’s case, what’s the return for the Twins? Salary relief. As a further example, look what the Cubs got last year for Cody Bellinger (30.5 career bWAR in 4200 ABs); you’re really going to argue that an oft injured Buxton (29.8 career bWAR in 3100 ABs) is so far superior to Bellinger to warrant premium prospects in return? (So you don’t have to check, the Yankees sent Cody Poteet to the Cubs who they then released in spring training.)
  23. Jopal78
    Yeah, and there’s a reason an “elite” player is making less AAV than Rhys Hoskins, because it’s a given he’s going to miss at least 2-3 months with injuries (maybe more) every year. No way around it, his injuries make his guarantee dead weight; which in turn is the only reason the Twins would shop him in the first place (they prefer the salary relief to the intrinsic value of a flawed star player on a rebuilding team).
  24. Jopal78
    Maybe I’m too cynical or perhaps just a curmudgeon but they just changed color schemes before the 2020 season to Navy blue, Cream and gold. Added a City Connect two years ago. Now they’re introducing a new color scheme as a road/alternate uniform. Smells to me like jersey sales were soft this year. (Not to mention kind of a half-assed approach in not just going full retro powder blue). Then just from a swagger/aesthetic vibe in the post season at Wrigley the stands were an ocean of cubbie blue, dodger blue in LA. But up at AmFam it was a mish mash of different colors, jerseys and a half dozen mascots giving off circus vibes more than heritage baseball swagger.
  25. Jopal78
    Too many uniforms: home cream, home pinstripes, away gray, alternate blue tops, city connects, and now a powder blue alternate Jersey? A branding nightmare, and a ploy to separate folks from their money buying the latest jersey. Pick a home, road and alternate and stick with it.
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