Jopal78
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No. The 40 man roster primarily defines who can be called up to the major leagues. Wilken wouldn’t even be Rule 5 eligible until after the conclusion of the ‘26 season so I’m not sure what the Rule 5 draft has to do with anything.
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That’s where we disagree. Sure anything is possible, but he‘s not on the 40 man roster. With plenty of players the Brewers need and/or like ahead of Wilken it could very well be the end of the discussion for ‘26. He necessarily is going to have to force their hand with his play, and keep his contact rate up as he faces better pitching. Time will tell if he can do it,
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I didn’t say he was old. Someone argued he was “young” for AA last season. That argument is flawed. Sure a high school draftee or 17 year old kid can be overmatched playing against fully grown men. But a college draftee who turned pro 3 years ago in AA; where a 1/3 of the players on his own team were younger than he was? Sorry no. Adding up all the ages of every player and dividing that by the total number of players in a league doesn’t tell us anything useful in this context.
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I was wondering when someone was going to say “he was young for the league” the oldest cliché in talking about minor league players. He’s a college player, and there were 9 players younger on Biloxi last season. Nice tone by the way…..
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I hope you’re right, but remember even when the Brewers had Hart, Hardy, Weeks, Braun, Fielder, there were still “meh” players brought aboard every year
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Time will tell. He’s not on the 40 man roster and as you alluded to there’s a lot of talent nearing major league ready, so Wilken’s performance will need to force the issue. Metrics aside, Frelick was a college bat and put up .844 OPS in AA, Braun was .956, So he’s behind a couple of Brewer college draftees who developed into everyday contributors. Keston Hiura was .755 in AA and Garrett Mitchell was, like Wilken, injured a bunch and put up a .681 there.
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Right. Wilken hasn’t played a full season since turning pro because of injuries, and has a .784 OPS in A and AA as a college age player. Nothing there suggests he sees the majors anytime soon.
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Gary Sanchez would make it 39, no?
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What’s your point? Perhaps your time would be better spent reading and thinking about what you read than arguing for the sake of doing it with nothing to say . The GMs own words from a few days ago are below: As for contracts, it is professional sports, the athletes play for money and 97% of them don’t give a crap where they do it so long as the pay is right. So yeah, you’re 100% right Gallen has a dollar amount he wants to play for, and nobody wants him badly enough to pay that number so he’s sitting home. Eventually a team will either come up with the money he wants, or he’ll change his mind and play for less. Not rocket science.
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I think it’s pretty apparent they intend to at least give it a whirl with who they have in house, or a trade of some sort which is why I didn’t suggest alternatives. The Contreras comment above isn’t relevant to anything, of course they were going to go to hearing over a seemingly small amount, arbitration salaries are about the comps. Fair question. On MLB’s website it notes DeJong (1.9 WAR in ‘24-25) signed a minor league deal. Rengifo (1.5 WAR) is unsigned. They play for money, So maybe Urias is mulling multiple guaranteed offers, or maybe he is waiting for a guarantee of any sort. Maybe he prefers to sit out a year than slum it on an NRI. We don’t know. We do however know if someone wanted him badly enough he would be signed by now.
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The first lines do not make any sense. I would hope a front office has some sort of strategic framework for the future which identifies players in the majors or minors who are viewed likely being able to help win games should the player become available. Like I said above. These are multi- million dollar businesses, they don’t go into off season roster building shooting from the hip or making it up as they go along with no contingency plans. I can only assume they wanted Harrison/ young SP all off season, and wanted him badly enough to trade their starting 3B to get him. The 3B free agents left are all garbage. Maybe they can wait Urias out as a band aid, but if he was a player who they really viewed as an improvement over what’s in house, they would likely have acquired him already.
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Like I said, if he wasn’t a solution when he was available as a waiver claim, did he suddenly become a solution because he’s presumably cheaper after being released?
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Except Urias was DFA’d in November and could have been acquired with merely a waiver claim. If he wasn’t the solution then, would he be the solution now simply becase his cost is likely less?
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Why does a contrary opinion have to be pessimism? To your point about David Hamilton, the Red Sox liked him well enough at one point to absorb Jackie Bradley Jr.’s contract in order to acquire him (They released Bradley after 290 PAs). 3 years later, the Red Sox obviously preferred Durbin and Monasterio to David Hamilton. Couple that with the stat sheet showing a career .642 OPS and it’s “realistic” to wonder if Hamilton is going to hit enough to be more than a bench player. Pitching wins games, and the Brewers have shown a knack of being able to develop young pitchers, so it makes sense that they’re trying to acquire as many young staying pitchers as possible. At the same time, it’s not so much that Durbin is traded it’s that on offense they have now traded away nearly 1100 PAs of above league average offense without really replacing those players. So it is realistic to wonder if the Brewers are going to hit enough especially from the left side of the their infield to win consistently, especially if their pitching staff isn’t as strong as last year with the departures of Peralta and Quintana. However, there are plenty of unknowns at this point: Like Turang last year, maybe Chourio grew into some adult strength over the off season and hits 35+ homers, and Vaughn puts up a .500 slugging percent again, then it wouldn’t matter as much if neither 3B and SS has an OPS above .650
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To your point about MLB proven, the starting pitching has taken a step back with Peralta being gone. Also, I think it gets overlooked Quintana wasn’t any sort of world beater but he was third on the team in innings pitched last year and for the most part gave them a chance to win the games he pitched so all the new inexperienced pitchers have some big shoes to fill.
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The minor leagues? I would say they have 10 pitchers (barring injury) who are locks for the 26 man roster: Anderson, Ashby, Hall, Koenig, Uribe, Priester, Patrick. Woodruff, Misiorowski, Megill. If they carry the max of 13, tha leaves just 3 spots for Zerpa, Logan Henderson, Sproat, Harrison, Yoho, Carlos Rodriguez, Zastryzny, Gasser.
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Ramon Urias was DFA’d back in November. If the Brewers didn’t claim him then they probably don’t want him now unless it’s as an NRI. The Astros are going to trade Paredes away before long because they don’t have a place for him to play. Christian Walker at 1B, Altuve at 2B Correa at 3B, Alvarez at DH. Paredes has never played OF in the major leagues. It is probably a safe, bet that the other teams know this and are all lowballing the Astros. I would not be upset if the Brewers traded away some combination of Blake Perkins, Tyler Black, Craig Yoho and Carlos Rodriguez for Paredes
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Gary Sanchez - 1 year / 1.75MM deal to return to Milwaukee
Jopal78 replied to patrickgpe's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
McGuire most likely has an out clause which I assume he would exercise before reporting to AAA to split time or back up Quero. This is what the Brewers do seemingly every winter: have offers out to players who ultimately start to sign as camp opens and opportunities are dwindling (Notice how Quintana signed today as opposed to March 1st last year) -
Like a golden handcuff? What that really means is there’s no true ace, no clean top of the rotation plan, and a rotation built more to avoid disaster than dominate. Admittedly the stars just might align and power the Brewers to multiple championships, but more likely, they keep them hovering around respectability like the last coupe years, good enough to avoid collapse, never bold enough to break through.
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Great. In hindsight, it’s easy to look back and say “look at the trajectory”. What is factual, however, Priester wasn’t with the major league club in Boston, but he was traded. I think that’s pretty compelling evidence that they did not consider him near top of the rotation at the time they traded him. That’s where the patience part comes in. Perhaps Boston thought with some further refinement he could become a top of the rotation starter, but they’re trying to win as many games as possible in a tough division and need their 40 man roster for players who can help them sooner than later. The Brewers are good at what they do, and have earned the benefit of the doubt. But I push back at the notion they are playing chess while other teams are playing checkers, or that every prospect they acquire is without warts and seemingly infallible.
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You need to read more carefully, notice the word “impatient” referring to Boston. Also I realize (hope) you’re making a joke, but Priester finished fourth amongst the ‘25 Brewers regular starters in FIP, so not really a top of the rotation arm just yet. And FWIW there were numerous posters here who were incensed the Brewers traded Yophery Rodriguez to get Priester.
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What’s arrogant about it? People who write about minor league baseball players for a living who have actually seen these players play said years ago that Harrison struggles with command because of arm angle. To date, the lack of command has showed up in the major leagues as evidenced by the BB/9 ratio. Boston’s front office may be impatient, but they’re not stupid, and likely to trade away a young controllable arm if they feel the player is close to developing into a TOR starter, and especially not for Durbin who is a useful versatile player but likely not superstar material. So it’s not arrogance it’s skepticism ground in reality. Yet, on this site to suggest any prospect acquired by the Brewers will end up less than a key contributor is met immediately with claims of being arrogant, stupid etc. Like I said, we can wait for the other shoe to drop, but creating a hole in the infield without a ready replacement to get some young pitchers they don’t immediately need, seems like shuffling pieces around to seem active as opposed to a strategy to build the best best 40 man roster they can.
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For context, in 2023 MLB had the Giants farm system ranked 21st. It was lower in ‘24. Harrison was also traded in the Devers deal where San Francisco absorbed $250 million dollars in guaranteed salary and the word on Harrison then was he struggled with command/ developing secondary offerings. I get unconditional prospect love is paramount here, but I’m not relevance of pointing out what a great prospect Harrison was multiple seasons ago. … and yes I am aware the Brewers may have the patience to work with a pitcher to help them reach their apex that Boston doesn’t, but still unless there is another transaction coming, it seems like creating a roster hole in the majors to shuffle pieces around rather than strategic building. Time will tell.
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What’s negative about it? In fact it’s entirely factual. I guess the point is, Williams was a premium reliever whether the Brewers “needed him” or not. After these series of moves, what do they have in exchange for a bona fide ace reliever? Lockridge (almost certainly ticketed for AAA OF duty) A couple of minor league pictures who very well may or may not be good and a utility infielder who they already traded away once before in a salary dump to move JBJ’s contract to Boston. original point: they’ve earned the benefit of the doubt, but it seems like a lot of shuffling pieces around right now.
