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Mark A calling in a favor from the Commish who was happy to oblige

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.

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.

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.

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.

Knew someone would overreact, thanks for providing the proof.

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.

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.

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.

The 1980's style of offense the football team has played since Barry Alvarez didn't hinder them from hanging with the big boys for a long time either. And yet suddenly they've decided to revamp the whole approach on that side. Kids they are a changing.

Pace of play wasn't brought up as a factor in winning or losing, it was mentioned as a factor in attracting better talent.

Duke, UNC, Kentucky, and Villanova are all unranked. This is not at all like college football where the same 6 teams have a shot at winning a championship each year. NIL and the portal have not ruined things for teams on the periphery. The Badgers biggest hinderance imo is their archaic style of play. We all see now how much an up tempo offense is attracting talent on the football side. Greg Gard seems like a good guy but ranking 347th out of 363 in pace of play isn't going to attract a wide net of talent.

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.

Outstanding trade, bravo Arnold

The most "ball don't lie" game I've ever witnessed

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.

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.

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.

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.

??? 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.

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.

So about that first part, the cap gymnastics. The Bucks are so far above the cap that if they let Khris walk, they wouldn't have the cap space to replace him. Which is why they will pay him.

Exactly. I believe Gasser was the priority guy of the two that the Brewers got back and was just posting about it in the minor league forum. If the Brewers had no affection for any of the Padres next tier guys, then the deal doesn't happen, but they did so the deal went down.

He emptied the farm no doubt. However, I don't think there's a snowball's chance in Las Vegas, that Preller was trading anyone who might be needed to get Soto. That's doesn't make Gasser and Ruiz a pair of nobodies, but they clearly are in the tiers of prospects that were easier to part with. By getting Rogers, the Brewers were picking from a group that came after a handful of off limits guys that were saved for Soto/Bell.

What an odd thing to say. If they have Ruiz around #10 in the system which is about where I'd have him, it doesn't mean they have low hopes for Ruiz, it means they're feeling just that much better about the others. You know, the ones they had a say in drafting and signing. Of course they like the guys they scouted for months and then brought into the system and helped now develop for months and years. Again, I think some just don't want to accept that the Brewers weren't getting anyone who would be a no brainer automatic top 3 guy at this point in the process when they were looking for a team's current successful closer in return. Getting Rogers meant a lower tier of prospects. The fact San Diego was saving it's better prospects for Soto and was willing to give up it's own closer rather than keeping him to pair with Hader in late innings, is exactly why the two teams lined up. The Brewers wanted MLB talent as part of the deal and San Diego was more than happy to oblige since it meant holding their best prospects for Soto/Bell. The hint that Gasser and Ruiz are tier below guys is literally in the fact San Diego was willing to part with them while pursuing a rare, cheap superstar being moved at the deadline. And quite honestly if someone wants to jump Gasser and Ruiz, who were 2nd to 3rd tier guys in the Padres system, to at or near the top of the Brewers list, then they're essentially saying they didn't think much of the Brewers prospects to begin with. Yet it sounds like people are very excited about the guys who have been in the Brewers system prior to the trade. Which tells me, especially about Ruiz, is this all boils down to with varying degree: shiny new toy, some shiny recent stats, and partially attaching an inflated value because people have long been expecting a haul for Hader.