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  1. True Blue Brew Crew
    The risk is much lower at this point with more than half of his 2023 contract already paid and a 2023 collection of at bats to evaluate.
  2. True Blue Brew Crew
    The appropriate expenditure of assets that the 2023 team warrants. A prospect outside of the top 20 for a bat that is not super high impact but yet a significant improvement over what they've been getting from much of the lineup to date. Exactly the kind of trade I've been calling for on the transaction rumors and proposals forum.
  3. True Blue Brew Crew
    The pool of players available on the trade market is so weak this year that the Brewers shouldn't even discussing anyone in their top 10
  4. True Blue Brew Crew
    If I have my math right, the Brewers signed 17 out of 20 draft picks. Anyone else come to a different total?
  5. True Blue Brew Crew
    Jackson ChourioJeferson QueroJacob MisiorowskiTyler BlackSal FrelickAbner UribeCarlos F RodriguezRobert GasserBrock WilkenLuis LaraCooper PrattMike BoeveEric Brown JrFreddy ZamoraJosh KnothJuan BaezEric BitontiRobert MooreHendry MendezJustin Jarvis
  6. True Blue Brew Crew
    Just want to thank you for the reverse jinx. Well done. Surely this dude was joking, right?
  7. True Blue Brew Crew
    Simple. Avoid the bigger named stars and go for the older veteran in the last few months of their deal who are having solid years or are showing something hopeful. Those guys can be had for a middling prospect. And often they have as much if not more of an impact that the big name bat. Jorge Soler was acquired by the Braves two years ago for a mid 20's prospect named Kasey Kalich who has since been released from the minors by the Royals and hasn't pitched for anyone this year. All Soler did was become WS MVP for the Braves that year. Eddie Rosario was acquired for the corpse of Pablo Sandoval at the same deadline and he was the Braves NLCS MVP. Other players who fit the same mold whose playoff contribution far outsized the price to acquire them include Steve Pearce, Howie Kendrick, and Randall Simon. Yes these are longshots but that's all this current Brewers team is worth spending on.
  8. True Blue Brew Crew
    This is where I'm at as well. It would realistically take 3-4 new bats in the lineup to make much difference with this offense. Remember, since 2019 this is an offense that has averaged 1 run per game vs playoff pitching where you get team's top 3 starters and the best of their bullpen. As the Padres have shown, there's no guarantee that the star bat will even show up in October. Meanwhile the Braves have shown that the scrapheap bat can play like an MVP in October. Potential difference making older bats in the last year of their contracts can be acquired straight up for prospects in the 20-30 range of your system. That's where the Brewers should be operating in this deadline season. It could even be a current struggling Brewer who gets hot down the stretch or in the playoffs. Perhaps even more significant is the fact that the available group of bats this deadline aren't of superstar calibur. I wouldn't think of touching anyone in the top 10 of the Brewers system to add to the current group. The time to do that was when the Brewers had more controllable years left with Woodruff and Burnes. Now it's time keep the next wave together while taking some shots at fortifying the current club with prospect capital among those who don't project to be core pieces going forward. Think acquiring the Eduardo Escobars instead of the Manny Machados.
  9. True Blue Brew Crew
    Mark A calling in a favor from the Commish who was happy to oblige
  10. True Blue Brew Crew
    So you don't think this has already been hashed out at the top with MLB approval? The AAA stadium is very new and consistently rated one of the best minor league parks. The AAA team is going nowhere. This A's move to Vegas has literally been in the works for years. About as long as Las Vegas Ballpark has existed. By the way, look up the Gwinett Stripers AAA team and take a look at where it's located.
  11. True Blue Brew Crew
    Slow start...frustrating bullpen...no significant trades made prior to deadline...young talent flashes late...playoffs missed...another year of what ifs...offseason firesale...team put up for sale.
  12. True Blue Brew Crew
    Stunned to see some here digging in on this notion of an easy pivot to Jackson for the Jets. In addition to a skillset not suited for the offense run by the Jets NEW offensive coordinator, who happens to be Rodgers favored offensive coordinator, it also ignores the HIGH likelihood that the Ravens will simply match any offer Jackson signs. So when you toss around the idea that the Jets can just go ahead and give up 2 firsts and sign Jackson, you're not only ignoring fit, but you're also ignoring the fact it would be a high risk low reward gamble that the Ravens wouldn't just match the offer. The Jets would still have no QB, but they now would have completely alienated the QB they actually want in Rodgers. It's widely reported that the reason there has been so little activity on Jackson is because teams know that the Ravens will almost assuredly keep Jackson at the offer sheet he signs. Poison pills are no longer allowed. The Ravens seem very willing to let some other team do all the contract work for them. This is moot anyway because the Rodgers to the Jets trade is 99.9% gonna get done.
  13. True Blue Brew Crew
    The Jets specifically hired Hackett with the aim of bringing in Rodgers. Don't be like Jets fans and act like it would be so easy to just pivot to Jackson in that system. Gonna tell Hackett, "yeah nevermind" and go out and get a new OC who runs an offense Jackson fits? Yeah, no.
  14. True Blue Brew Crew
    This has bothered me ever since I read it, finally I tracked this down. If we eliminate every player based on their worst moment, there probably wouldn't be anyone left to draft.
  15. True Blue Brew Crew
    When this all settled, I think 3 key factors will emerge as to why Aaron Rodgers is quarterbacking the Packers in 2023... 60 million guaranteed dollars a weak NFC and familiarity in GB vs uprooting and competing in the stacked AFC the Packers unwillingness to get messy The first one answers why not retire, the second answers why not ask to be traded, and the third answers why the Packers accommodate him.
  16. True Blue Brew Crew
    Given the status of the clock ticking on Burnes and Woodruff, it should be both from day 1. I'll say it again, some day even the most team sympathizing fans will be lamenting the years wasted with this pitching and wishing they had lined up the offensive talent sooner. Simply put, while I often side with the notion of holding a player back to manipulate service time, this is not the moment to be doing it with Frelick.
  17. True Blue Brew Crew
    The A's aren't dumb. They may have overrated Ruiz a tad or perhaps not. The angle here is clearly their large OF and the return of stolen bases to relevance. Who knows, Ruiz might swipe 100 bags for them in 2023 with the basepaths shortened and the new limit on holding runners. And if he does, I'll still think this is a fantastic trade for Milwaukee given what they're getting in Contreras and the fact that Chourio, Frelick, Mitchell, and Weimer are still in the organizational OF.
  18. True Blue Brew Crew
    Outstanding trade, bravo Arnold
  19. True Blue Brew Crew
    Davis replacing someone even worse than he was does not mean the Brewers couldn't have benefited from going to Mitchell sooner. Again they finished 1 game out of the wild card with Mitchell vastly outperforming Davis. And bringing up Davis's baserunning and defense is pretty disingenuous given Mitchell's proficiency in those areas.
  20. True Blue Brew Crew
    It could be nothing. OR it could be like giving Jonathan Davis 91 plate appearances while a division lead turned into a massive deficit and eventually a missed playoff berth. Don't act the Brewers giving plate appearance to cheap journeymen has never cost them anything in regard to on field success or playing time for younger, more talented options. Davis put up an OPS+ of 71 while Garrett Mitchell, who finally supplanted him, put up an OPS+ of 136. The Brewers finished one game out of the final wild card spot.
  21. True Blue Brew Crew
    If the Brewers have a less than 1% chance of signing a player like Jose Abreu, just fold the franchise. Thankfully that's not even close to being accurate.
  22. True Blue Brew Crew
    If the Brewers have a less than 1% chance of signing a player like Jose Abreu, just fold the franchise. Thankfully that's not even close to being accurate.
  23. True Blue Brew Crew
    ??? It literally could happen right now if they choose to do so. They also could have been more aggressive adding bats in either of the PAST 2 seasons.
  24. True Blue Brew Crew
    If guys like Perkins and Singleton are on the roster to manipulate service time for their prospects after trading Renfroe to save money and clear the way, then they are punting on yet another season of Burnes and Woodruff. At some point you have to line up your talent. And the Brewers have done a terrible job with it during these years of unprecedented pitching talent. It better not happen but it's definitely a reasonable fear.
  25. True Blue Brew Crew
    Who has high expectations of the Brewers slugging out 3 solo HRs versus the Dodgers, Padres, Mets, and Braves pitching staffs in October? This is not a lineup that can be expected to do much when you face playoff teams' top 3 starters and best bullpen arms. Tim, you're right. It is an unaccepted outcome to not add at least one bat when this franchise possesses the kind of pitching it is near impossible for a small market to assemble for a sustained period of time. And it only took a few hours for the glaring deadline mistake to bear out when a 3rd catcher was batting with 2 outs and the bases loaded, in a game the team was down 2 runs. Unacceptable.
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