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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.
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Trevor Megill trade value
Jopal78 replied to liveforoctober's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
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. -
Trevor Megill trade value
Jopal78 replied to liveforoctober's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
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. -
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.
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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.
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Exactly my point. The missed call on Durbin turned out to have no impact whatsoever on the actual outcome of the game.
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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.
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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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Miley wasn’t pitching all that well in AAA for the Reds ye used some shrewd maneuvering to get added to the major league squad. Might not be for long if he gets clobbered in mop up time.
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Murphy is a genius. Hehe. Just needed to get a couple of arms healthy to raise the talent floor
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Snake bit. Injured twice now in final rehab start before rejoining Milwaukee
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Woodruff leaves rehab start after being hit in the elbow with a batted ball. X-rays tomorrow in Milwaukee. Man, that guys is snake but he won’t be back before July now
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You must have a very liberal definition of “premier power bats in all of baseball”. Sure, Saurez hits homeruns but literally doesn’t do much else. Since he turned 30 his OBP is .320. He’s 2nd among all active players in errors, 4th among active players in strikeouts yet is only 18th in games played amongst active players. Not only that, the Reds signed him to a big extension in 2018 and since then he’s been traded twice in salary dumps. Saurez couldn’t hold the jock of the real premier power bats like Ohtani, Judge, Soto, etc. Who knows, maybe the Brewers will feel it crucial to add homeruns to their roster, but Saurez is kind of the antithesis of the type of player the Brewers value.
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Suarez is a low avg/OBP hitter with below average defense at 3B. Would he raise the “floor” of talent on the roster? Sure, but it seems more like a trade off speed and defense for power. I’m not certain such a trade off would be high priority for the Brewers
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First set of images “inconclusive” which suggests to me there is damage to the ligament but the team doctors couldn’t reach a conclusion on the severity of the damage from the examination and images, so they’ll send him to a specialist for evaluation.
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With their win tonight, Milwaukee is one game out of the 3rd wild card, two games out of the 2nd wild card spot and 3 games out of the 1st wild card spot. Should they stay hot (not undefeated) for another week and they’d likely be in a playoff spot and nipping the Cubs’ heels. It’s also just 60+ games and a good week of baseball or a bad week of baseball doesn’t suggest much at this point in the season.
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The Rockies are 9-50. I knew they were awful but hadn’t checked their record. They’re on pace to win 25 games.
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The Brewers have some financial incentive to cut Alexander loose as well if he’s not up to snuff. With another 4 innings he’ll trigger the first of several incentives based on innings pitched totaling $800,000+. With how often he’s used he could conceivably collect them all (100 IP).
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Despite his struggles Yelich is almost on a 30/30 pace this season.
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Rule 5 to CWS - Shane Smith Discussion Thread
Jopal78 replied to jesusoftheapes's topic in Brewers Minor League Talk
Smith was ugly again yesterday against the Mets: 3 2/3 innings-86 pitches: 3 earned runs, 2 hits (one for a homer), 5 walks, a HBP 4.67 ERA across his last 3 starts. -
Clearly they would just DFA the bottom of their roster. Nobody is going to trade for those players. Heck they got Civale last year for next to nothing when he was making 60% of what he is now. He’s barely pitched this year. He needs to perform first to rebuild any value. Alexander has an ERA over 5, if the Brewers dropped him he’d accept an outright assignment to AAA if it meant he had to forfeit his salary to refuse.
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And the fact that you quite probably (like all of us) don’t know beans about managing a major league team, and the Brewers winning despite what you think they should have done. I don’t begrudge your point of view either. The same retrospective “told you so” type of arguments are 24/7 on sports talk radio and it is a multi million dollar industry so clearly it resonates with a large swath of sports fans.
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I’m not going to touch the wisdom in day trading, but it’s not something that’s generally part of good financial planning. So maybe you and Murphy have something in common despite making bad decisions you come out smelling like a rose. But kidding aside , you’re Monday morning quarterbacking. Murphy could push all the wrong buttons and they win like today. Or just as easily he could make all the best moves and the team still loses. There’s no real way to quantify in game decisions besides starting from a negative outcome and saying, “See? He sucks”.
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Yet they won. Maybe just maybe he’s right and you’re not. Or maybe the in game decisions don’t really matter too much and it’s players who wins games
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No. You need to look at context on this one. Zack Scott (who?!) was the Mets GM for 7 months in 2021 and made that trade. Scott was elevated to GM when Jared Porter had been hired in November of ‘20 and quickly fired in late January ‘21 for sexting. Scott himself was arrested for DUI in August of 2021, placed on administrative leave and subsequently fired after the season in ‘21. This was on top of the whole Brodie Van Wagenen/Carlos Beltran fiascos. Despite being in complete disarray and without any real leadership, the Mets were themselves in the playoff race in ‘21 when a GM with little experience made a boner of a trade in retrospect . It is more an outlier than an indicator of what mediocre talent can reap in a potential trade.
