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Oh my goodness, am I still one the few that thinks we need Kimbrel OR trade now. I mean protect Haders arm, sign Kimbrel tonight or at worst overpay slightly for an experienced closer in trade. How can you go from best closer to NO closer overnight. Can’t wait. Albers? Barnes? Wilson? Williams? Goodness gracious No. Stearns get er done.

I mean 2 innings so I would expect him to miss the rest of the series. Got the win. William's, Claudio, Albers etc. need to step up. Only threw 21 pitches > Sun at the latest be available if needed

Insane till bullpen jells, then insanely fun!

Broke the cards hearts did cain

This games moving right along

Ewe that hurts

Counsell not screwing around with this game

This offense needs to learn how to put the pedal down

Ozuna’s arm the wet noodle. Not his bat

I’ll take him as my DH

What you mean like a hall of famer?

Really hoping moose has a great year not just for the Brewers sake but for his as well so he can get that big contract that he’d deserve.

Well, I'm not feeling optimistic as a Brewers fan, but I sure wouldn't play Doctor and tell him to get a major surgery done if he doesn't need it because of what Taylor Williams dealt with years ago. That's an ENORMOUS undertaking, the rehab. Plus, it's literally life threatening. People di to build me a new ligament throw with. Even if I do think it'll end up there....I mean...Im about 8 years and a whole patients history shy of being qualified to diagnose him. We should know soon what knebel decides to do. Regardless I’m sure stearns planning on the year with out him. He must have really good reports on jeffress ‘s velo and maybe that’s why no upgrade.

The problem is if I was a potential selling team like the Giants at the deadline I wouldn’t make any trades right now I’d wait till then and extort.

I keep going back to this like I kept going back to, "it wasn't the part of the shoulder that you normally have wear and tear with so Nelson's recovery should be easier," type of optimistic thinking. The two aren't the same, but you're right, Knebel could be fine and if he's back, Jeffress certainly could be and the Brewers are back on schedule...(sorta, they're gonna be hurting while they go through a hellacious first half). But partially torn UCL that has the normally tight lipped Brewers "concerned" doesn't seem encouraging to me. Worst case scenario is they give him the plasma rich plalet injections and they try to have it recover on it's own and wait 3 months and then he's likely done through 2021. Best case, same thing he's dealt with and a little rest and he'll be back throwing 99 up in the zone and breaking off that nasty 11/5curve. Oh I'm counting on him being out all year, I have since they first mentioned it. It was more in relation to the idea that rehab never works, or that all UCL damage requires surgery. In some cases it's the better route to take. It's just that when it doesn't and surgery is required anyway you remember it so well since it's such a long rehab time. You Gotta play the percentages, just ask Taylor Williams who had the smallest of tears or fraying. Timing matters in this case, get the surgery done now and he’ll be ready to help us win our second consecutive series after the All-Star break.

I get the logic here, but you're saying lets wait and see what issues we have at the trade deadline and address them using one of our biggest trade pieces in Corey Ray. The problem with that is we KNOW what our biggest problem right now is, we're covered just about everywhere else, even catcher, and why wait half a season to address what you know is a problem already? I'd be good with bringing in Melancon and seeing if he can have a bounce back year. But the two guys originally mentioned(3 if you debate Watson vs Smith) are guys who you could instantly plug into the pen, the young guy we control for 5 years and profiles as a elite back of the BP arm with a upper 90's fastball and he's seen success in the big leagues and we all know what Will Smith is capable of. Finally, every team has their 25 man pretty much set right now. At the trade deadline, you'll have more teams selling, but everyone is going to be looking for relievers who can come in and get 10-12 K's per 9 innings. That's usually the most searched for commodity at the deadline. We make this trade now and you're not bidding against other teams who will inevitably suffer injuries. Or a stupid team like Pitt last year who went out and made that awful deal for Archer because they took 5 in a row from us before the deadlinel If we still had Wahl and a guy like Barnes who hadn't already shown he's not a great big league pitcher, I'd be more on board with giving them a shot. But we're likely going to see Wilson in high leverage situations and THAT is not a good thing if you want to be competitive. IF NL goes according to plan, gonna potentially be 11 buyers, it’s gonna really hurt to add good pitching this year in all likelihood.

Hoping successful meant throwing in the low to mid 90s again on the way to 97

Yes, agree Now if we can get some late inning help

+1 Just hoping early on starters and offense can overcome. Or perhaps we could try going into the season with faith that our remaining healthy pen arms can pick up the slack, instead of determining that the sky has already fallen if we don't go out and sign a guy with plenty of red flags of his own. Faith no.....Hope yes

+1 Just hoping early on starters and offense can overcome.

No, you don't know. You don't work for the Brewers. Those are the only people that know. You have a theory based on the Forbes and Fangraph numbers. More than theory I would argue, and since I’m not Rick S or Mark A or DS or an employee of their CPA firm your technically correct in saying I don’t know. More than a little rudimentary research with Forbes and fan graphs, but with just those two sites alone even a dummy like me can GUESSTIMATE more accurately than someone who just believes the “party line” that still talks as if the brewers are FINANCIALLY a small market team CURRENTLY in regards to revenue. All I’ve been saying is they could spend more without loss, not that they would. Why would they even get into serious discussion with Kimbrel knowing they need more $ at the deadline, if we’re already stretched as thin as some have said.

That’s good enough for me, Rosenthal and Heyman not a peep should a dampened earlier reports anyhow. Thinking with the heart instead of the brain. I just hope the fact he’s not a member of our bullpen is because of LONG TERM demands or brewers rejecting medicals and not because they didn’t want to offer a high enough pillow deal because they don’t want to increase their payroll. We have plenty of $ to spend but Mark A and investors probably would like 30+ mil profit again. Why do you keep harping on the comment that we have plenty of money to spend, etc... You just don't know. Stop speaking like you have inside information when clearly, you do not. You have made this comment, or one like it many times. But I do know. It’s explained why in spending tread. Just because we have $ to invest in payroll doesn’t mean we will. Although the $ won’t be an issue at the deadline so that’s positive.

This Brewer team by the second half of the year will be,with average health, the best team in brewer history. We have the best architect, the best 40 man, and great talent in upper minors that will help strengthen as the year moves along. National reporters and media talking heads are ignorant of what’s brewing here in Milwaukee.they gonna call it David vs Goliath, I’m gonna call it brewers in 5 over the Yankees.

Chacin and Davies. The key to our early season starting staff. I’m expecting a regression from both, just hope it’s slight. The young guns even with growing pains gonna be dominant more than not. Anderson weapon out of pen as is Guerra and Hader. With the rest lots of questions especially with the high leverage. Albers the key, with his experience closing last year early. Wilson only other besides Hader, that’s closed out games. Pins and needles WE will be early on, late in close games with this pen. Thinking stearns got good readings on jeffress gun, and thinking be ok til 3rd week of April.

My hope is that by the time Braun is ready to either hang them up or move on, Tristen Lutz will be ready. He profiles as a prototypical RF, which would allow Yelich to play his more natural LF. I really like Ray, but he's playing his age 24 year, and there isn't much of a path to regular playing time on the Brewers, barring injury, until Braun's contract is up. I think when Stearns drafted ray he thought he was getting a better hit tool, since that’s not the case, I look for Ray to be part of a package at some point. Stearns has moved on from the high k power outfielder no matter how Athletic he is. Thank goodness.