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  1. Jopal78
    Yep, wait until they start eliminating parking spots/tailgating to build a huge bar/restaurant/event space. Why let people drink their own beer in the parking lot when you can sell it to them.
  2. Jopal78
    Just give him 19 and be done with it
  3. Jopal78
    I didn’t call them “lowly”. But I think fans view teams as some sort of public trust, when its a business. The corporations and organizations that are going to shell out $40,000 for seats behind the plate with Truss club access are to generate way more revenue than a group of regular fans going to a game 10 times a year and getting an $9 brat and $14 beer each time they go. If the goal is to generate as much ticket and in Park revenue as possible, those fans just aren’t that important in today’s calculus where premium experiences are both extremely profitable and popular. The Brewers absolutely know what a typical family spends for a game at the ballpark and how often they go; what a season ticket holder spends; what a private group likely spends; what ages and demographics generate the most revenue and they’re adjusting their seats accordingly to capture the most revenue.
  4. Jopal78
    They wouldn’t build it if they didn’t have a good idea that they could sell enough of them to make it worthwhile displacing folks. Frankly, the fan who buys the $50 ticket and drinks beer and eats hot dogs in the parking lot before carrying in a bag of peanuts isn’t generating much revenue for them. If they perceive they have potential a significant customer base who will pay more for tickets and spend more in the park, they’re going to cater to those folks more than the $50 fan. Thats the way pro sports operate now.
  5. Jopal78
    Frelick is quickly eroding whatever trade value he has. Mitchell due to his injury history and remaining team control has limited trade value to begin with.
  6. Jopal78
    Every player would rather try to rehab an injury before having surgery. In Priester’s case if he ultimately cannot rehab this and has shoulder surgery he’s likely going to miss a big chunk of 2027 too.
  7. Jopal78
    I always thought Bauers was a useful player. Hard to tell if the break out is a real or this is just an extended hot streak. However, if he finishes with an .890 OPS and 25+ homers he’ll do a lot better than 2yr/16 million as a free agent
  8. Jopal78
    I get Lara is forcing their hand with his AAA numbers and the struggles of some of the hitters on the 26 man roster, but Lara at 5’7” and 169 lbs os going to make Greg Jones, Frelick and Ortiz looks like hulks in comparison. It’s probably unrealistic to assume another tiny speed and defense guy will have a major league profile much different from Jones, Frelick, Ortiz, etc.
  9. Jopal78
    Or bring him up and send Frelick down when Lockridge is healthy. Clearly the league has adjusted to Frelick where pulling the ball worked for him last year but hasn’t been working so far this year. I think a fair criticism of Murphy is Frelick’s OPS is barely above .600 yet he’s third on the team in PAs behind Turang and Contreras.
  10. Jopal78
    I don’t know, Devers had a .948 OPS in May and . Adames had an .829 OPS those are the two big stars he acquired. Besides the hitters that slumped in April his inherited star starting pitchers Ray and Webb haven’t pitched well so far this season.
  11. Jopal78
    Why would he be ashamed? I think he’s President of Baseball Ops because besides a fluke year they haven’t been good in a decade. Probably too early to say if he has a clue what he’s doing.
  12. Jopal78
    I think any of those players “could” be jettisoned or sent down based on their contract status. However, why would they get rid of Gary Sanchez? Given Contreras’s proclivity to play almost every day, Sanchez sees very little playing time. Yet with sporadic playing time el Gary has a 113 OPS+. He’s also one of the few bats on the club with the potential to go deep at any time.
  13. Jopal78
    Likely a fresh arm that’s disposable Zastryzny has 90 career innings across parts of 7 seasons. They could as easily DFA him when they need another fresh arm.
  14. Jopal78
    Frelick doesn’t have an issue with making contact or controlling the strike zone, he just doesn’t hit the ball hard enough. Last year he starting pulling the ball and got some homers, but it appears to me pitchers have made an adjustment against him and he’s back to putting the ball in play but not driving it, which has always limited his offensive production.
  15. Jopal78
    But even if he shakes out of it, what is he? A light hitting CFer miscast as a corner OFer? The Brewers drafted Frelick for his high floor and athleticism, and that is seemingly what they got: an average major leaguer without a lot of upside.
  16. Jopal78
    Ok, I’ll bite. Mark Attanasio is high finance, private equity, institutional capital rich. This narrative that owners pocket their baseball team’s money is ridiculous, and just dumb sportswriter drivel. The Brewers are merely one asset in a much larger portfolio of Attanasio’s holdings. He’s interested in increasing the team’s value ten fold more than the cash it generates on a year to year basis. Teams like the Brewers and Pirates spend what their market provides balanced against what the executives propose in their annual budget.
  17. Jopal78
    The Union is never going to agree to a hard cap on their members’ earnings. Maybe some sort of lower soft cap/competitive balance tax and altering how it’s calculated so teams cannot manipulate it with deferments, and real penalties for going over. Those coupled with increased revenue sharing and the revenue sharing money being spent on baseball operations is probably the best either side is going to get. Maybe a watered down floor for revenue sharing recipients.
  18. Jopal78
    Brewers got swept in the NLCS by LA last year, right? What was it 2015 when the Royals won the World Series? The last non financial big dog to even make the World Series was who? The D’Backs in 2023 then the Rays way back during Covid ball? So about once every 3-4 years or so.
  19. Jopal78
    They can argue whatever they want. They created the system, executives operated within the system to use their financial clout to get an advantage over the other teams. Those are all facts. They certainly didn’t intend to create a two tiered system where the same half dozen teams are in the World Series all the time. The biggest stars in the union are the prime examples for the argument that money is devalued in society today Judge (40 million) Soto (60 million) and Ohtani (70 million). Never a better climate to try to paint the union as the bad guys, out for themselves at the expense of “the game”.
  20. Jopal78
    The players are not going to agree to a cap period. The owners likely won’t have their house in order enough to advance any coherent arguments in their favor to win in the court of public opinion.
  21. Jopal78
    It’s interesting, this time around the owners seemingly hold all the cards. They can argue to the public: “Labor agreements always have unintended consequences and over the years we’ve unintentionally created disparity in our game. No fan should feel their team has no chance to compete because of the system, so we are looking to restore balance in our sport the way it used to be”. Problem is MLB is horrible at these things and probably can’t even get their house in order. The Dodgers have hundreds of millions of dollars guaranteed decades into the future, the Braves have shareholders whom they owe a fiduciary duty, and idiot owners like Nuttig who cuts a guy (Tellez) in September before he can earn a salary escalator on a one year deal.
  22. Jopal78
    Yep, they proposed increased revenue sharing to argue they’re the good guys. Then they tied it to an integrity tax to make sure that money is funneled into union members salary and not used for other things that might help a club gain an edge: international scouting, pitching labs, data capture. All of which will help an organization be more successful than funneling money into a couple of mediocre vets just to meet a soft salary floor. I will credit the union that they know they have a real problem with potential dissension in their ranks that the system works for the stars but not for players like, for example, Jake Bauers: 30 years old, played parts of 7 seasons, hasn’t reached free agency yet has less career earnings than some first year arbitration players like Brice Turang for example.
  23. Jopal78
    Really? I saw a competitive integrity tax for teams that spend less than 150 million on payroll. (That’s 13 teams this year including the Brewers) Killing the QO, eliminating any draft pick compensation for losing free agents, eliminating any draft penalties for signing free agents, reducing free agency to 5 years, increasing pre arbitration salaries, increasing the pre-arbitration bonus pool, and expanding the eligibility of super 2 status to qualify for arbitration. It’s a boot to the throat for small market clubs. Nobody should lose sight of the fact the #1 goal of the players union is to get as much money as possible for its members. Likewise, the revenue sharing proposal is just a fig leave of cover so they can argue they do care about the integrity of the game.
  24. Jopal78
    I’d add that it’s not Peralta’s fault the Mets stumbled out of the gate and are looking up in their division. Moreover, with 13 games left head to head with the Braves the Mets certainly aren’t finished just yet in their division, likewise talks of selling are mostly sport writer fantasy
  25. Jopal78
    The OP is right, the Mets have received more from Peralta here and now than Milwaukee has from their pieces. But they have 5 more years to get something out of Williams and Sproat. More importantly, I wouldn’t say Sproat “mows down” lineups, in fact clean innings with him seem few and far between. MLB is littered with guys who throw 99 and have no idea where it’s going. That’s Sproat right now (He striking out nearly 10 batters per 9 innings but has a K:BB ratio of less than 2:1). I doubt they’re going to move him to the pen as another long man; they’ll want him to continue to work as a starter. When (if) Woodruff comes of the IL, they’ll ship him off to AAA
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