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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.)
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    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).
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Jopal78
    Is Tyler Black out of options? If not, there’s no need to trade him. They would be selling him at a low point, and AAA will need players anyways.
  9. Jopal78
    McKinstry has 1200 big league PAs across 3 organizations in 5 seasons that says he’s Andrew Monasterio. He had 2 big months in 2025, and another 170 PAs with a OPS below .670 further suggesting a couple of hot streaks not sustainable trends. Give up controllable starting pitching for a player similar to what they have? Pass.
  10. Jopal78
    The Brewers are in an awful market, one that really shouldn’t have an MLB team. Attanasio was a founding member of Crescent Capital, an investment firm, with over $50 billion dollars invested. Attanasio doesn’t need profits from the baseball team to finance his lifestyle. Nor has there been any evidence he hasn’t poured every dollar the Milwaukee market will bear back into baseball operations. Give the guy some credit for trying to come up with new revenue streams in the Milwaukee market to keep his team competitive in a sport where salaries have grown exponentially since the last CBA. The notion that his team “should spend” on these boards usually ignores where that money comes from. As a business owner sticking your own personal money into your business to potentially enhance customer experience and with no guarantee of increased revenue, market growth. equity, etc. makes zero financial sense. Thats why the Brewers are bargain shoppers in free agency.
  11. Jopal78
    Why would any of those teams do that trade? It doesn’t make any of them better in the short run or long run. i suppose the real unsaid premise is moving Yelich’s contract would allow the Brewers to reallocate the salary commitment into different or better players. The Brewers won the NL Central in ‘25 with one of the youngest rosters, and under this proposal they’re to give up “prospects” and Yelich to get Castellanos and “low level prospects”? It doesn’t improve the major league roster, or the future, and Castellanos is essentially deadweight. Trout has a 5 yr/185 million dollar guarantee remaining. Nobody is taking that on when he hasn’t played a full season of games in nearly a decade. Yelich forced his way out of Miami because he thought they weren’t trying to win after dealing Stanton away. Given those facts it seems very unlikely Yelich would consent to go to the Angels perhaps baseball’s most dysfunctional team, that hasn’t been competitive in over a decade and is on their 7th manager in 12 seasons.
  12. Jopal78
    Ortiz had 5 fewer PAs in ‘25 than ‘24. He walked 19 fewer times in ‘25 but also struck out 29 times less. Meaning he put more balls in play. While Ortiz’s ground ball and fly ball tendencies remained static in ‘25 his BABIP dropped from .283 to .260. So he could definitely bounce back. With his defense, if he rebounds back to .329/.398 he’ll play in the majors for a decade: JJ Hardy- 14 years- .305/.408 Villar-10 years- .322/.397 Jean Segura-12 years-.327/.401
  13. Jopal78
    It’s good to be Frankie Montas and get $17,000,000 to not pitch for the Mets in 2026 (DFA’d) Makes Woodruff‘s 22 million seem like a bargain.
  14. Jopal78
    I don’t think anyone is forgetting it. I can’t believe it’s this hard for folks to understand. In February of 2024 Woodruff signed a 2 year contract guaranteeing him 17.5 million dollars. The breakdown was 2.5 million in ‘24, 5 million in ‘25 and a 10 million dollar buy out on a mutual option for ‘26. Thats 17.5 million guaranteed between 24-25. There was no way for the Brewers to pay him a penny less than that for 24-25 and the money was as good as spent when the ink went down on the contract in February of 2024. However the actual payments might be structured is immaterial and really nothing more than speculation.
  15. Jopal78
    I wouldn’t call it being “poached” it’s certainly not a lateral move for Meccage. He probably got a couple hundred thousand dollar raise and is a big league coach now in the Bay Area. Bound to lose lower tier coaches when you’re a successful organization
  16. Jopal78
    Huh, guess i misremembered. Sorry. That’s right he wasn’t going to pitch in his sixth and final year due to the shoulder injury
  17. Jopal78
    Dude. When was Woodruff non-tendered? Let’s put the buyout thing to bed, it doesn’t mean he’s getting extra money. Buyouts on mutual options are nothing more than accounting tricks to push guaranteed money for the current financial year into the next financial year. That’s why Woodruff’s contract for 24-25 was referred to as having a 17.5 million dollar guarantee. He got 2.5 in ‘24, 5 in ‘25 and another 10 when he rejected his half of the mutual option which I’m sure his contract states when and how it’s to be paid. Upon receipt he’s paid in full at that point.
  18. Jopal78
    Are the Brewers a more talented team with Woodruff than without? Of course. Had Woodruff rejected the QO, were the Brewers likely to be more than the usual bargain hunters in free agency? Most likely not. With Peralta potentially being on the trading block, is it strategically a good thing to have veteran arms on the roster and not rely solely on young unproven pitchers? Of course. Whats not to like then about Woodruff being back with the Brewers in ‘26.
  19. Jopal78
    Astros DFA’d the better of the two Urias brothers. Ramon managed to put up a 2.2 WAR last season and would be a definite utility upgrade over Monasterio (plays 1B, 2B and 3B) Probably won’t make it to the Brewers though on waivers
  20. Jopal78
    Wasn’t physicality the knock on Musgrave coming into the draft? Size, speed are terrific, physicality to fight through contact, block and break tackles was lacking. No surprise when he gets to the NFL where every player is physical, when healthy, he has struggled to get on the field as a blocker or pass catcher. i’m sure the Packers thought they could teach some tenacity when he was drafted and it hasn’t worked
  21. Jopal78
    Fixed it for you: Guarantee me that some of the 85 games that Buxton plays in occur in September or the playoffs. If he’s just the annual late-season gut-punch Brewer injury, I don’t need him
  22. Jopal78
    This is the Brewers’ MO the last 6-8 years playing out. They identify and draft/acquire high floor/questionable ceiling players: Collins, Perkins, Frelick. Ortiz, Durbin, Patrick, Myers, etc. However, Durbin, Frelick, Collins, didn’t show a lot of power in the minor leagues so without remodeling their bodies in the gym during the offseason, I wouldn’t expect 10+ homer players to become 20 homerun players, especially when those 3 will all be 26 or older next season. Having gotten his feet wet in ‘25, Durbin may be able to get his BABiP up to league average in ‘26 boosting which theoretically could add 30 points to his OPS. I don’t see a lot of room for realistic improvement for ‘26 on Frelick or Collins’ OBP of .351 and .368 respectively.
  23. Jopal78
    This board sucks now. Lack of interesting discussion, and a bunch of dudes arguing about stupid thumbs down buttons as if it even matters.
  24. Jopal78
    Yes it was the translator making bets with Ohtani’s money. If we want to be cynical how does a translator have access to Ohtani’s bank accounts unless it’s with knowledge and consent? As for Clase and Ortiz. I assume they’re about to get lifetime bans like Pete Rose, Joe Jackson etc.
  25. Jopal78
    If I post the link, you don’t bother to read it claiming you remember it and it didn’t say what I said it did. (Contreras extension talk) This time I post text (recent Forbes sports article) and you criticize its authenticity for not having a link. Ok troll.
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