KCBrewerfan34

Do you give up your top pick for signing FA's or did they change that practice?

Not a FA but Stearns should check in to see if the Twins will trade Dozier. Making like $5 million for 2018, we give a QO and recover a pick. he would be sweet.

I like it, takes Burnes out though.

Good bye Matt. Thank goodness we don't have that option. No reason to try and get cute.

No mention of Brinson??, how does he fit into 2018? I have to believe they are going to try and upgrade the lineup with a splash. They could spend $30-$40 million if they really think they're close. I have complete faith in Stearns, he's terrific and I start worrying about him leaving for greener pastures. I don't see any long term moves at 2B as Hiura has to be close because of his bat. The fly in the ointment is the Nelson injury, its too bad because he took such a jump and I love how competitive he is. swarzak should be re-signed sooner rather than later. I'm on the fence on Hader, he is an absolute weapon for 2-3 innings in the middle relief innings where lets face it this team lost a ton of games this year. Maybe Barnes takes another step forward. My dream scenario would be Braun and some prospects for Stanton. He would hit 70 in our park and some health.

Give the $5 million to Swarzak, fast.

4-0 Padres, what a great baseball day!!!! Lets do it again tomorrow If win tomorrow I'm cheering for a Cards sweep of the Cubs

SD 2-0 MID 8, I love the Padres

packers slackers

Take a look at the Rockies schedule. More to like if you're a Brewers fan.

Spriggs is a bust IMHO and a bust we traded up for. UGH!!!

Please say they're pulling the plug on Garza, please!!!!!

Get ready to see a silly move, unless Cobb takes a big paycut he hasn't nearly lived up to his $48 million dollar contract, we probably need to sign Adams and if Im picking one or the other its a NO brainer, DA all the way. as a side note I love #13, he could be our Wes Welker down the road. GO Pack

If you wanted to add a bat what position would it even be at? CF?

Not even close to what I was saying. Of course a team of 5 Clayton Kershaw's would beat a team of 5 Garza's over the course of a season your runs saved would be lower compared to Garza's. That is not the comparison I was making it was replacing Garza with the next available person Woodruff in this case and putting Kershaw or whoever at the top. You wouldn't give the least amount of starts to your best pitcher. If you were to put Kershaw as a #5 even Kershaw's win expectations for a season would go down as he is not getting as many opportunities as your #1 pitcher. On average your #5 pitcher gets about 20 starts a year which if you had Kershaw replacing Garza would mean you are missing about 1/3 of Kershaw's value to the team. So if you are really replacing Kershaw with Garza as your #5 starter then yeah your win expectation is not going to go up all that much as you are missing about 1/3 of Kershaw's value. Nate you have to compare the same number of starts assuming no injury, each starting pitcher in the majors typically gets 32 starts, maybe adjust if a team goes to a 4 man rotation during the pennant run. For the purposes of this futile exercise you have to compare 32 Matt Garza starts to Chris Sale's starts. I'm guessing you would get 8-10 more wins (maybe more) with Sale which equates to a TON!!!! I would argue a great #1 starter can have a greater impact on a team than a great hitter and he's only pitching every 5th day. Didn't Robin Yount win the MVP on a last place team? Give me #1 starters any day of the week and I will build an average offense with high OBP guys (no superstars) and I like my chances.

The Red Sox went from a 90 win team to a 90 win team this off season. So 0 wins added from the addition of Sale. So yes if the Brewers got Bumgarner they would only improve by about 1 win as nothing else for the Brewers is changing and no this is not based on WAR. Now if you said Villar or Broxton would be replaced by Trout or a Harper level of talent then yes you would see a more dramatic increase in your expected wins. Positional players have more of an impact on a teams wins than starting pitchers for obvious reasons. Plus you are not replacing Garza for whoever Garza would be replaced by. Even moving down one pitcher to the next you are gaining at most 1 win over the season. Take 2011 for example the Brewers expected wins didn't change when they acquired Marcum and it only changed by about 2 wins when they acquired Greinke. That team without Greinke or Marcum was about an above 500 team with those two acquisitions it bumped the Brewers up to about an 88 win team. So they went from an 86 win team to an expected 88 win team and beat the expected by 8 wins mostly due to their offense was better in 2011 compared to 2010. This is flat out wrong. Other factors are involved I would empty our top 5 prospects for a #1 starter, I don't consider DeGrom a #1

I'm predicting we go 2-7 on this road trip

Plush, Garza is finished. doesn't pass the eye test. Do we have an off day coming up?? SKIP HIM!!!!!!!

And replace him with...? Guerra? Jungmann? Espino? Blazek? All seem like options just as bad. ANYBODY, go watch his last 3 games and stop yourself right before you start slashing your wrists. I would rather use the bullpen by committee. Hader should have started in Colorado tonight.

3 clunkers in a row for Garza, frickin pull him out of the rotation. this just in, we're in a pennant race. Is there any accountability when it comes to Garza or are the Brewers afraid he will quit on the team again if they send him to the pen. FFS

Lat tightness (Lester), that can't be good (for the Cubs).

Has Garza cleared waivers?

A serious question. Does it even matter? Upgrading second base, is it really going to make a difference. I don't think I've ever seen a team take the gas pipe like this team has.

How in the world does CC not bunt Pina in the 9th, especially right after the Rays messed up the play with Perez. absolutely mind boggling. The way our offense is playing it may be time to so some small ball, actually I think we're past that point.

Giving one of our worst hitters the most plate appearances seems like the opposite of what you would want. Check his OBP