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  1. Jopal78
    A proposal that doesn’t make sense for either team. Assuming the Padres the primary reason they want to move Cease is for salary relief (he’s one of their few highly paid players not on a multi year deal), and to bolster the chances of the 2025 squad. It’s questionable at best if the package of players from the Brewers would make them better in 2025. As for the Brewers Cease is an upgrade over Civale for sure but is also a FA after 2025. For which they give up 6 years of a highly regarded prospect in Quero, weaken their bullpen by subtracting Payamps and include another prospect Rodriguez who has already pitched in the majors. A price too rich for Milwaukee‘S blood.
  2. Jopal78
    Hmmm, I’d like to know what your friends do for these other clubs. They certainly don’t know their baseball history with comments like that. Mo Vaughn was pretty damn good for the Angels, likely on a Hall of Fame track, until he suffered what ostensibly was a career ending biceps tendon injury after the 2000 season. Vaughn was so good in fact that despite missing the entire 2001 season recovering from surgery the Angels were still able to trade him to the Mets for Kevin Appier.
  3. Jopal78
    In my mind, Sheffield has one bad year for the Brewers, one okay year for the Brewers and one year where he was hurt and barely played, then they shipped him out to San Diego. That he had a huge career after leaving Milwaukee never meant anything to me. After ‘92 the Brewers fielded mostly awful teams where Sheffield wouldn’t have made a difference anyhow had he not wore Out his welcome.
  4. Jopal78
    The last few years February is when the Brewers made their moves. I am sure they have any number of offers out to players with what they’re willing to pay and they are content to wait those players out. They’ll likely land a couple.
  5. Jopal78
    Yep, and Jake Bauers also had 400+ games in the outfield in minor leagues. Perhaps you are right and the Brewers are going to buck their recent history and break in a first round pick as a bench player while playing positions in the pros at which he is inexperienced. I just don’t see it. However, I will add, Rhy Hoskins’s performance likely has not earned him much more than to start spring training at the top of the depth chart. So Black could always play his way into being a regular at 1B
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    Sure maybe when he fails everywhere else, but the fact is he doesn’t play there now and hasn’t as a pro. Which means, like I said earlier, the chances as you suggest that he’s up with the major league team and playing OF randomly are quite slim at this point.
  7. Jopal78
    I don’t know where this Black playing the outfield stuff comes from. He’s played in the outfield less than 40 games since high school. I guess he’s athletic so anything is “possible”. However, based on how the Brewers value defense it seems kind of unlikely they’d have a rookie coming off the bench periodically to play a position he has rarely played since he was a kid. Plus, the unlikelihood they keep one of their young bonus babies on the 26 man roster to play a couple times a week while earning service time. It’s just not something the Brewers do. So Black will likely either make the club as a regular with his bat, or he’ll play everyday in AAA until there’s a need.
  8. Jopal78
    I don’t think the Brewers would waste Black’s pre-arbitration years coming off the bench especially after and up and down year in the minors in ‘24. I could be wrong but he either forces his way into the everyday mix at 1B and DH with his hitting during spring training or he’s going to wait in AAA for another chance. Also, this is right about the time that the Brewers have begun signing players in years past. I’m willing to bet the player they have now isn’t what they open camp with.
  9. Jopal78
    Exactly, when you’re a lawyer/agent, a client firing you is part of the business and unless all his clients left him en masse, it doesn’t really suggest anything noteworthy. The reality is professional ethics require an agent to convey all offers or counter proposals to their client. So a ball player wishing they had done something different once the ink is dry on the contract is really just sour grapes and not uncommon. Jordan Montgomery, for example probably was a little hasty in his criticism. After all it was his 6+ era that got him moved to the bullpen. Yet depsite all that he had a player option which he exercised for ‘25 where he will make 22 million pitching in long relief and will have made $47 million in total from Arizona while basically sucking.
  10. Jopal78
    Sorry to say but Scott Boras is still the gold standard in MLB and only getting better. When pro ballplayers are trying to make as much money as possible in the short amount of time they have the insane earning capacity in the major leagues they simply are not going to waste their chances with Boras if he isn’t delivering results. The reality is teams are simply not handing out as many mega deals as they used to. Boras being the wily fox he is, has adapted, getting his clients lots of opt out opportunities and high AAVs. His clients contracts continually push the AAV and with the opt outs is ensuring his clients will always have a chance to be amongst the highest paid, and even if their performance doesn’t live up to the AAV they’re protected with the player options. Corbin Burnes for example has an AAV of $35 million which places him Top 15 in AAV in all of MLB and if he pitches well he gets to test the waters again in 2 years to further increase the AAV. On the other hand, Cody Bellinger got 27.5 million dollars in from the Cubs last year and after the Cubs paid the Yankees to take him, he’s still owed $58 million over the next 2 years. The AAV is 28.5 million a season which places him in the Top 50 of all MLB players in terms of AAV despite having simply decent production.
  11. Jopal78
    Ok, and the seller will have to pay huge tax on the income. For some uber rich card enthusiast I suppose it’s a cool buy, but the chances it’s worth anything significant in 20 years seems really remote. Lucky Kid to get the right card at the right time
  12. Jopal78
    I think this kid should’ve taken the Pirates ticket offer. 2 tickets behind the plate even for the Pirates against bad teams would still get at least $100 for the pair or $8100 a year for 30 years. Obviously some games would sell for more. An auction house might net more but they are going to take 40-50%
  13. Jopal78
    Not a chance. Maybe if Skenes winds up being a legendary pitcher it would hold value to card collectors but even the those typically are t the folks paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for cards. One of a kind memorabilia sure I can see it, one of a kind baseball cards sure fire money losers at those amounts.
  14. Jopal78
    Exactly. It boggles my mind someone will shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars (if not more) for a baseball card which in 15 years won’t be worth even 1/20th of that. Babe Ruth game worn jersey from 90 years ago, I get that. A 1/1 rookie baseball card from 2024…. Not so much.
  15. Jopal78
    If the Reds don’t add him to the 40 man roster before breaking camp he can opt out 5 days before Opening Day. With Miley being 38 and a finesse pitcher coming off TJ surgery. I’m sure it’s the cash, a 2.5 million dollar guarantee for a lottery ticket was apparently too much for Milwaukee
  16. Jopal78
    The Brewers and Padres don’t really match up for a trade. Milwaukee doesn’t have a glaring need at SP (Peralta, Civale, Cortes, Myers, Hall, Woodruff, maybe Wade Mikey yet). Next, with the Padres roster, they’re not looking to rebuild so they wouldn’t have much interest in anything but major league ready talent
  17. Jopal78
    You are incorrect about value. Pro sports teams have become the ultimate investment. They are scarce. There is no risk of losing your money: they’ll never go out of business, and the sale prices only go up. Plus only the elite investors can get in due to the amount of capital needed to buy one. The value of Attanasio’s team isn’t tied to fans in the seats it’s tied to what other teams sell for, and intangibles like “heritage” and “brand”. Judging by the teams they fielded during his ownership, he is aware however the revenue generated from the smallest market in MLB is influenced almost entirely by the product on the field. Good teams on the field mean more luxury suite leases, more consumers of game broadcasts, more licensing fees, internet clicks, merch sales, ticket sales, concessions and parking, etc. With their run the last 5 years the potential market revenue is very likely maxed or close to maxed out. So there really is no reason for him to sink more money in his team, and while fans might be disappointed to see Burnes and Adames leave for more money elsewhere the fact they do probably doesn’t bother him that much as an owner.
  18. Jopal78
    The Dodgers didn’t get where they are by giving away talent. May has tore his elbow ligament twice, an increasingly common occurrence (de Grom, Evoldi, Buehler, Taillon, Drew Rasmussen, etc.). He missed last year not with an arm injury but with an esophageal tear. I’m sure if the Dodgers wanted to trade Dustin May, there would be any number of teams lining up for the reasons you state thereby driving up the price to the realm of legitimate talent.
  19. Jopal78
    My point is, someone will always pay money to broadcast baseball games. The rate they pay may fluctuate as technology changes how the game is consumed, but there is zero chance teams won’t have someone paying them for rights. Secondly, a team doesn’t have to be in a major market to have a competitive advantage financially over the teams they’re competing against. DeWitt can afford to hire better players than Attanasio can because the Cardinals media market is huge geographically. He might be cutting payroll in 2025 because he doesn’t have the horses to compete with Milwaukee but that doesn’t mean there’s an interest in ceding that competitive advantage in the future. Same for the Tigers, in the long run the Ilitch family has no interest in making their path in the AL Central more difficult by giving the Twins, Guardians and Royals more resources. Eating the rich always sounds good, but I think you’re over estimating how willing the middle market clubs (which make up most of MLB) would be to change their status quo financially.
  20. Jopal78
    Quero #15 Pratt #44 Black #56 Jesus Made (!) #78 Misiorowski #87 Of note, thinks Black should be Brewers 1B full time because he would out produce Hoskins. Black projects as a better defender at 2B or CF than 1B but is blocked at those positions. Misiorowski’s shaky command will limit him to relief work in the majors. Jesus Made is the only player on his Top 100 who has yet to play stateside. Pretty high praise.
  21. Jopal78
    Anything is possible, but if you think Bill DeWitt would vote to share his market revenue with Attanasio without the Yankees, Dodgers, and Red Sox sharing with him you’re dreaming
  22. Jopal78
    The ship has sailed on increased revenue sharing. The big boys already have their own networks which they co-own with private equity firms and other investors. Even if the vote to share all broadcast revenue was unanimous there would still be no practical way to unentangle the clubs from their business partners. This disadvantage is why they’ve expanded the playoffs to 12 teams. Only 3-4 teams have a legit chance to win it all, but if teams play .500 ball for the first 100 games they have a shot at the playoffs and who knows they could always get lucky.
  23. Jopal78
    My question would be does increased payroll directly correlate to increased franchise value or even increased profits? They’re professional baseball teams after all, and not some entity that has any sort of fiduciary duty to their fans. I think the Brewer’s owner has done a fantastic job with the product he has put out on the field compared to the last 10 years before buying the team, and in comparison to similarly situated franchises: Pittsburgh Cincinnati, Cleveland, Kansas City, Detroit, etc. Attanasio doesn’t owe me anything, and is unpopular as it may be doesn’t owe any of you anything either. I don’t understand why people think someone should invest more money in payroll without a direct correlation to it benefiting him somehow, especially if it means running his team at a loss or investing more revenue (his own money) than his market will bear.
  24. Jopal78
    Small cell lung cancer is a death sentence. I must’ve listened to Uecker at least 3,000 times in my life. The passion he had for Brewers baseball was incredible in light of what he likely was physically experiencing during the 2024 season, and mentally knowing the end of his life was approaching.
  25. Jopal78
    They do injury settlements in the NFL. They’re common with players who get hurt in preseason and don’t make the team. In this scenario Watson gets a chunk of cash (likely the pro rata amount of pay he would get for the weeks he is projected to miss) and the Packers release him. Packers get cap space, Watson gets to sign with another team and potentially not miss an entire season on IR which would almost certainly be the case with the Packers
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