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Exactly. Maile can be sent to Nashville this year and stay under Brewer control. Nottingham cannot without exposing him to waivers, which is exactly what they are in the process of doing. I'm sure the Brewers would prefer that Nottingham be their 3rd catcher too, but there's simply no room for three catchers on most MLB rosters.

I just don't agree with this. I understand he is out of options but he is such a better option than Maile. The more prudent thing to do would have been to send Taylor down and let him get more ABs in Nashville. There is no reason for a 4th/5th OF if they are insistent on keeping McKinney as well. I think if Nottingham were going to stick around, it would be as a 3rd catcher and RH power bench/1B option. The only reason Maile is still Brewers property (or actualy why he was signed at all) is that he still has an option that can be used this year.

I highly doubt the Brewers front office is worried about the "so far" portion of this deal. I bet he is. You don't think the Brewers care they traded away a guy who has OPS'd .822 for another team while winning a gold glove? The same time we have trotted out 2020 Garcia and now Bradley Jr.? I bet he is just as concerned about the 'to be determined' part because that also doesn't look especially bright for us compared to the Padres. I hope Stearns is sitting in his office trying to figure out where they went wrong on this one because I don't think they expected the current results of Urias/Grisham. And I say 'so far' because things could change...maybe not overly likely the tables turn, but it could. Urias is still young and Grisham is far from proven still. I am not going to sit here and say this trade is definitively the worst trade ever because there are still many years to see where all the chips fall. However, if we waited 7 years to discuss a move this site would be a bit boring. I doubt anyone in the Brewers front office was expecting a 22-year-old Urias to come in and immediately make a major impact. If they were, they wouldn't have hung on to Arcia as long as they did. That was very much a "for the future" type of deal. And I'd argue that the "to be determined" part looks a heck of alot more even now than it did at the end of last season, as Lauer now looks like he could be a legit MLB pitcher, and Zach Davies is now throwing junk balls for the Cubs after being included as little more than a throw-in in the Darvish deal. Truth is, I'll admit I'm looking at this deal through Brewer goggles, as it's going to really suck if Grisham turns out to be a superstar, while Urias turns out to be your typical no-hit middle infielder.

I highly doubt the Brewers front office is worried about the "so far" portion of this deal.

Going out on a minor league rehab assignment tomorrow, per pretty much every beat reporter. Two ABs tomorrow, then will take it day by day. Very positive news! Gonna be watching those Nashville box scores like a hawk for the next few days.

Trent Grisham's .OPS has been in steady decline since his high water mark of 1.025 on April 22 after starting the year on a tremendous hot streak. Perhaps we should hold off at least for a little while longer before anointing him a "star outfielder". The jury is still out on him. Jury is still out on Lauer as well. I don't think it's prudent at this point to call him "almost certainly" anything yet. He has a 117 career OPS+ in 651 plate appearances with high end defense at a premium defensive position. His WAR for a full projected season would have been 6.7 last year and would be at 6.3 so far this year. If he was a Milwaukee Brewer we would most definitely be throwing around the word "star" when discussing him. Oh without a doubt! But remember that a lot of people threw that word around with Keston Hiura following his debut in 2019, and even through the first part of last year's abbreviated season. It will be interesting to see if Grisham's decline over the last month is simply an outlier, or if MLB pitching is learning his tendencies and how to effectively attack him, like they did with Hiura. Not that it matters a lot, but Grisham only has 559 career MLB plate appearances, not 651.

I applaud you for putting Houser in the rotation LOL Welcome to the Dark Side!

Trent Grisham's .OPS has been in steady decline since his high water mark of 1.025 on April 22 after starting the year on a tremendous hot streak. Perhaps we should hold off at least for a little while longer before anointing him a "star outfielder". The jury is still out on him. Jury is still out on Lauer as well. I don't think it's prudent at this point to call him "almost certainly" anything yet.

I think the Brewers perhaps pigeonholed Grisham as a leftfielder with limited power potential (maybe 20-25 HRs). I don't think they ever saw him as a regular centerfielder, which was perhaps their biggest mistake in this transaction. With the way the Brewers seem to value up-the-middle athletes, if they truly saw Grisham as the centerfielder of the future, I don't think there is any way they would have traded him. I don't think they lost faith in him, but when offered the chance to grab a 22-year-old blue-chip SS that was MLB-ready, in exchange for a limited-ceiling corner OF (in their eyes) they couldn't say no. If there is one silver lining, it's that thankfully it is easier to fill OF spots via free agency than it is middle infield spots.

For what was supposed to be a "very minor issue", it is getting a little concerning how long Garrett Mitchell has been out.

You have to take into account the Coors effect. Is Arenado still worth about $20m+ a season when you take him out of Coors? I am not sure I would want Arenado at that much and taking him out of Coors. Yelich and his recent injuries is a concern but I am going to take Yelich as his offense is more of a known than Arenado's outside of Coors and playing in a more pitchers friendly ballpark in St. Louis. I think DJ LeMahieu has proven that Coors-bred players can excel outside of that environment.

Jealousy. Arenado is a stud. He would have fit perfectly on this Brewer team. But he's a Cardinal now, so I hope he's only average from now on.

At the end of the day, Jackie Bradley's career .OPS is .726. If he was performing anywhere close to that level right now, no one would be complaining. I don't think it is fair whatsoever to blame Stearns when a guy with more than 3,400 plate appearances in his career starts the season so significantly below his career norms. Nothing in Bradley's past several seasons indicated this level of falloff for a player who just turned 31. Fortunately, nothing can be derived from 114 ABs.

That's the problem, though. It is available on ONE streaming service, and that particular service is most likely not only the most expensive, but also least popular of all of them. I would think it would make sound financial sense for Sinclair to make the product that they are trying to get in front of peoples' eyes easy to get. I know if I were an advertiser, I'd be extremely upset that Sinclair is still charging a good chunk of change for ad time, yet they have made it so thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of fans don't have access to a product they want to watch.

In the end it is probably a bit of a mix of not acquiring the right fits for the roster, and the guys they do acquire failing to meet even the minimum expectations. Yeah, Stearns deserves some of the blame, but the blame on guys with track records as average to decent major league players like Garcia and Narvaez hitting like Little Leaguers last year, and Bradley Jr. this year, has to fall with them as well. That point was potentially driven home with Narvaez and Garcia, as both have looked much better this year, albeit in a small sample. We'll see what Bradley can do to prove his detractors wrong. I never expected the .800+ he put up last year, but I certainly expected better than the abysmal .558 he put up so far. Honestly I was expecting anywhere from a .725-750 with Gold Glove defense, and anything more would have been gravy. To say he's been a disappointment so far is an understatement.

I don't think it was ever the Brewers' intention to have Shaw regularly in a run-producing spot, and if Yelich hadn't gotten hurt and Hiura performed anywhere close to expectations, he never would have been. I don't mind him at all as a guy batting #6 in a lineup on a somewhat regular basis. Probably not as much as he has been playing, though.

One minor correction - Morrison was signed to a minor league deal, and hit his way onto the ballclub with a good spring. He was always nothing more than a "lightning in a bottle" type flyer. I agree on Smoak, Sogard, Gyorko and Holt, though. All four were signed for relatively inexpensive deals, but were expected to be big contributors, and outside of Gyorko (who the least was expected from) they were failures.

Agreed. Green has carried over his very strong spring training stats so far. If he continues to swing a hot bat, and the MLB offense continues to struggle, he should be up in short order. He only just turned 27, too, so it isn't like he's some AAAA guy who is owning minor league pitching. He deserves a shot.

Well, it's certainly early, but where are the good moves the last two years? Feyereisen trade for sure. Wong looks fine so far. Gyorko did fine. JBJ looks like a bust. Garcia looks like a bust. Urias/Grisham trade looks like a bomb. Sogard, Morrison, Smoak, Holt, all busts. Lindblom looks like a bust. The Yelich long-term extension, although certainly early, absolutely is concerning at this point in time. Maybe bombed is too strong but the batting average is certainly low. Narvaez has certainly turned things around enough to make it appear at least that his 2020 was an aberration. Boxberger has looked like a good value signing, as was Phelps last year (who pitched well, then was dealt for assets). Lauer has looked like a whole different pitcher so far, albeit in a small sample. Perdomo looks to be a nice find. Topa looked great last year. Yardley pitched very well last year, and looks like a solid depth piece. McKinney has been good at times, but has gone cold lately. I agree that some of the "name" acquisitions have been major disappointments, but he's also managed to mine some decent depth.

That's fine. I mean, he's had 34 ABs this year, but that's certainly enough to determine that the Yelich we saw in 2020 is who he really is.

Right ... also, I am impressed with what Trent Grisham has done as a Padre as well, but I think we should probably hold off on unveiling his Hall of Fame bust, at least for a little while.

I understand this sentiment but also what difference does it make who the hitting coach is when you are putting out lineups that have Pablo Reyes, Billy McKinney, Vogelbach etc. getting significant playing time. A lot of players are scuffling but if this offense was "going good" it would still be below league average. Bingo. Even the best hitting coach wouldn't be able to squeeze blood from this turnip.

Except that they are going on a year now being removed from many providers, and like many in this thread have mentioned, a lot of fans have already moved on. Sinclair dropped the ball by not having a DTC option available for this baseball season. There are tons of DTC streaming options out there, so it isn't exactly reinventing the wheel technology-wise. Of course, Sinclair is an absolutely terrible company, so that isn't surprising.

Yeah, Yelich looks exactly like the guy from 2020. I know, small sample. Blah, blah, blah. I mean, yeah, the power hasn't been there yet, but Yelich is hitting .350 this year in the games he's played. With a team struggling to get runners on base, I'd take that.

So what you are saying is that is either a false narrative, or we simply haven't developed enough big time guys.