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Ok perfect. Good to hear it’s just bumping everyone back a day. if we make some moves, Pannone is DFA fodder here after his start, but at least he got a call up and a big league paycheck

Since stallings is the corresponding move I’m hopeful that there’s no major injury concern with Drohan. I’m sure we will learn more before the game.

I actually think the best we can hope for is Detroit hanging on to him and Mize and those guys not getting traded to a different contender. If we face Detroit in the World Series I’ll live with it 😏

I wouldn’t trade Made. I probably wouldn’t trade Peña. I have a prospect crush on Adamczewski and would prefer to keep him. The rest of the prospects yet to make their debut I could probably be convinced individually are worth trading for Skubal. I don’t want to trade Henderson even though I understand the injury risk may be higher on him than our other pre-arb starters. I know you have to give something to get something, but I’m not sure the Brewers would be willing to give up a good enough centerpiece to make a deal. And my message board GM feeling is that I wouldn’t either.

I dont agree that Myers and Sproat were a wash in trade value at the time of the trade. from last year, the Dustin may trade may be a decent comp for a Freddy package. The Res Sox gave up Tibbs who has obviously had some helium since the trade, but he was still a pretty legitimate prospect at the time of the deal. I think if we end up trading for Freddy, the reaction on BF is going to be pretty negative on what it took to bring him back. personally, don’t think I’d want him back at this point. I just don’t think a Jett/Burke package is that bad.

I don’t necessarily feel inclined to defend the Jett/Burke package for Freddy since it wasn’t my idea. This is the fangraphs post for anyone interested: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/lets-make-some-deadline-trades-2026-edition/ Freddy certainly has less trade value now than he did in the off-season: he’s stunk, less control, and acquiring team can’t recoup a draft pick. Worth noting, Jett Williams trade value has likely dropped since the time of the original trade as well since he’s struggled in AAA this year (I’m basing this on results alone, i haven’t dug into the batter ball profile at all). Burke to me is probably more valuable to the Brewers than he is in a trade. He’s not rule 5 eligible for another season and he’s in that mix of guys to play 1b/DH after we no longer have bauers, Vaughn, and slightly further out Yelich. We don’t need all of Burke, Fischer, and Adams to pan out. Similar to the OF situation a few years back with Frelick, Chourio, Weimer, and Mitchell. Hang onto all of them and hope you get a starting caliber player(s) emerge from the group. Ultimately power only 1b/DH types probably aren’t that valuable in a trade and that’s reflected in his FV rating (40+ according the fangraphs off-season prospect write up) I do think it’s highly unlikely the Brewers and Mets could agree on a trade package centered around Jett Williams. The optics of it would be bad for both sides and furthermore I’d guess the Brewers are higher on Jett than the Mets are and that’s probably partly why the trade got done in the first place. if we agree to a trade for Freddy, i don’t see it actually including Jett.

Dan Zymborski also pitched a Peralta to brewers trade: Blake Burke and Jett Williams as the package. I don’t actually hate this package. Williams hasn’t hit at AAA and Burke doesn’t have a vastly different skillset than Fischer. Burke may never be a starting caliber 1b/DH type at the mlb level. ultimately it only makes sense if the Brewers think they can get him back on track to a sub 4 era type starter the rest of the way.

My armchair GM/Manager feelings are mixed. Reasons to keep in in the rotation: 1. we have a 4 game lead over Atlanta on the 2 seed and developing sproat as a starter at the big league level is probably best long term. 2. we don’t currently have a healthy option who is better than sproat 3. he’s one of the few starters we have who could theoretically go a full seasons workload since he threw 142 innings last year between mlb and aaa. reasons to bounce him the the pen: 1. He’s not an option to start a playoff game in his current form, but might be able to help us in a relief role. Better to figure that out in the regular season than wing it in the playoffs 2. Ideally, Harrison will returns and to form soon and Misiorowski/Henderson remain healthy. If we acquire a SP by the deadline then we are looking at moving Gasser, Drohan, or Sproat to a relief role. Sproat has probably performed the worst as a starter of that group. I think ultimately I’d stick with him in the rotation for the time being, but acquisitions, overall pitching staff health, and the standings could quickly impact that.

I’m probably in the minority, but I don’t really mind him being the 4th outfielder. who knows what happens at the deadline. If the Brewers add a complementary bat who plays corner outfield, Lara may get optioned if Frelick returns at some point.

Man… I’ve generally not been bought in a trading for Skubal. I’ve mostly been skeptical that the Tigers will trade him however I think I’m coming around on the idea at this point. He’s been awesome this year since coming back from injury. His playoff performance has been every bit as good as his regular season performance. Even while playing better, the tigers just haven’t been able to truly get back into the playoff picture and have a bunch of teams to jump. Henderson scares me long term due to frequent injury issues. I’d hate to trade him, but if he’s the main piece for a Skubal trade, I think I’d get over it. Not sure really what a package would need to look like, but Henderson would have to be a pretty damn good centerpiece since he was a pretty highly ranked prospect who has done nothing but succeed at the mlb level so far. Henderson would hurt because he’s helping this years team so much, but if they went in for Skubal I’d have to imagine they make some other moves as well. (I’m not prepared to defend this. It’s just a gut feeling from a fan perspective and subject to change at any point lol)

Top tier dream target: Joe Ryan mid tier dream targets: Taylor ward (I know he has not hit for much power this season but he has in the past). Morejon from the pitching side lower tier gamble: Eugenio Suarez. He hasn’t hit well this season at all. Would be a gamble for sure, hoping he can find the power stroke at either DH or some starts at third base (I know Ortiz has been playing very well, but we’ve seen hot months from him in the past, just check out his blazing hot august last month followed up by his pitiful September/October offensive results)

We have seen Ortiz hot streaks before. Even last year when he was generally awful at the plate he managed to hit 343/387/443 in 75 PA last August. How did he follow it up in September? 214/225/257 in 72 PA. im happy we are getting the current hot streak, but I’m not confident he will be a competent hitter the rest of the way and in the playoffs. I hope he is though!

Dud of a game. Can’t win them all, but I have a little optimism if we get to face Devin only down 4

Well at least we can go to 2-3 innings of Bryse Wilson

That might be true, but my main point by that comment was that IF he’s starting a game in the playoffs it’s probably like game 4 of the NLCS. I’m just not sure how important it is to acquire a guy like this. He’s not a ceiling raiser. now i don’t think Joe Ryan is getting traded, but he’s someone who is hopefully starting multiple playoff games for you.