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Certainly a possibility, but not a given. Also, the Dodgers gambles on both Nelson and Knebel came up snake eyes. You have to keep Woodruff’s position in perspective. As long as he’s Brewers property he won’t know what other teams would do, and probably has to wait until all the free agent chips fall. Moreover, if the Brewers have guaranteed money on the table to allow him to rehab and come back, he’d have to have big cojones to turn it down believing he could get better elsewhere .
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But Woodruff is also in a no-win situation. There’s no guarantee any team is going to give him a major league deal for 2024 (let alone 2025) when he’s not going to pitch. Both being in a bad spot, I imagine Woodruff will sign a 2 year extension with a club/mutual option for ‘26. They can pay him a small guarantee in ‘24, then the 12 or so million in ‘25 and the mutual/club option can be at market rate salary for ‘26 with a substantial buyout; so if Woodruff is healthy and all the way back both parties can benefit, and if he’s not the Brewers still did him right and were able to spread the money out over multiple seasons.
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Maybe they tried and no team was willing to part with anything the Brewers considered worthwhile.
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Nice rooftop deck. West Loop? Ukrainian Village? Looks like it cost some good coin, but terrific view.. well done.
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On the other hand, Counsell was handed a roster consisting of nearly all below league average hitters, and a bullpen with mostly castoffs and minimum salary guys, had his star pitching rotation gutted for most of the year yet managed that group to 92 wins. Pretty enticing achievement. He probably leaves one way or the other due to lack of interest in presiding over another rebuild and/or money. -
Isn’t that the way it works? Once they’ve taken a player group as far as they can most GMs and managers do not stick around for the inevitable rebuild. In fact it’s probably for the best to get a new manager to preside over a group of players who will likely be significantly different than the squad we’ve gotten to know 2018-2023.
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The bottom of the 9th in a playoff game and the best they got is Montesario?
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Some bite at the apple; an offense that made the pitching staff work south out a safety net. Should have sold you n an attempt to add the next Caroll and Gallen
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Instant replay in baseball is stupid.
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The most recent rumors are Counsell intends to manage in 2024, so the family concerns seemingly would have no bearing on him leaving Milwaukee. Therefore it is all about money, and the direction of the team. Franconia presided over a handful of bad teams in a Cleveland but was well paid to do so.
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It’s about money nothing more nothing less. Counsell given his tenure and success likely feels he deserves to be amongst the highest paid managers. The Brewers no doubt would love to have him back but “at the right price” which is probably less than what the top managers are paid.
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Will CC finally win his first MOY Award?
Jopal78 replied to Brewcrew82's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Skip Schumaker probably now wins NL MOY. He took mostly the same group of Marlins from 93 losses in ‘22 to potentially 86 wins and the #2 wild card this year. Counsell got robbed of the award by Schildt Snitker and arguably Kapler. This year Schumaker got more out of less. Counsell still has mostly the same group that won 95 games in ‘21. -
No team is going to give a 31+ year old who has missed 38 of 51 games (‘21-‘23) with 5 operations on a knee any sort of guarantee. I doubt Bakhtiari puts his body through the grinder for the veteran minimum. (Remember Urlacher refused a 2.5 million dollar deal from the Bears as not worth the punishment to his body, defacto ending his career). Thus, despite Bakhtiari saying he’s not retiring, it’s likely the end of the line.
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Walker has played in about 60 games between college and the pros, with countless practices. He knows he can’t be doing that, but Walker is quickly proving he’s a knucklehead incapable of playing smart football. Nixon is another one who hurt the team bringing kicks out of the end zone and barely making the 20 yard line.
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Well, they probably would’ve cut him had they not given him a 2nd round tender. Such is the career of undrafted players: he has strength and size but after coaching him up the best they could he’s a fringe roster player.
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Took one half of a game to move Left Tackle to the Packers biggest area of need.
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Ever realize #4 is retired on all Wisconsin pro-sports franchises? Bucks-4 Moncrief Brewers—4 Molitor Packers—4 Favre
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For all those big stadium music tours that take place during Winter? The big acts don’t typically tour the Midwest between November and March. Without events to pack the place there’s not much value in winterizing it for Monster Truck Jam and Wrestle Mania.
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His career sure was a puzzler. I recall he had two pretty good years for the Brewers but with Rickie Weeks and Bill Hall on the roster they traded him to Oakland for Nelson Cruz, and Ginter’s career instantly fizzled out.
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Brewers (Megill) vs Cardinals (Rom): 9/19/23, 6:45pm
Jopal78 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Archived Game Threads
His best start of the season and 200th career win against Milwaukee last night was only fitting. Wainwright has been the biggest Brewer killer, west of Aaron Nola. More innings pitched against Milwaukee than any other team, more wins against. A quarter of his career complete games (7 of 28) were against the Brewers, and 3 of his 11 shutouts occurred against Milwaukee. Glad he’ll be retiring because even in the midst of a crappy season he still has their number. -
They would have to get rid of Anderson first. If you think about it the Brewers basically play a man short every night with Anderson on the roster getting virtually zero playing time.
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On the one hand it’s tough luck getting DFA’d from a team in the chase as you head into free agency. Then on the hand he gets to start his winter break early and still will get a million bucks from the Reds to do so.
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Now wait a minute… Joe Oliver came to the Brewers after missing the ‘94 season with an injury and coming off the strike and delayed start of the 95 season. He certainly wasn’t washed up because he had a career year with the Brewers then played six more seasons, where he produced exactly at his career marks. He just wasn’t ever a dynamic player to begin with. In the 80s Ted Simmons and BJ Surhoff caught the vast majority of Brewers’ games. A hall of famer and a former #1 overall pick. Surhoff/Nilsson/Oliver/Matheny covers the bulk of the games in the 90s.
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True, but Baltimore, Arizona, Cincinnati Minnesota and Seattle all wracked up multiple seasons of 90 losses over the last decade or so, and are now laden with young premium players from drafting near top of the first round. It has nothing to do with market size.
