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Starting with the 40 man roster...we have to trade some pitchers. Keep Wood, ManRod, Kuehner, Jett, Adams, Zerpa on 40man. Hardin doesn't have to be 40 man rostered yet. Offers: Offer Woodruff an incentive based LOW baseline contract if he wants to be starter #6/Ashby may want to be #6 as well. Monitor QPriester to see if he can return from thoracic damage so it could be a 5 man rotation or 6 with both Woo and Ashby. QO to Bauers but I cannot see San Diego passing on a chance to replace France with a Dodger killer. We get their #1 pick when they do. So we lose Bauers (or keep him and trade Vaughn). Regardless, put Adams in as a replacement for the one that leaves and now we have an OBP guy that can play third (this roster has Bauers leaving). Matt Strahm has had a really sharp career until getting traded to KC. We pick him up off the free agent floor, as we do, send him to the pitching lab and get another MUCH NEEDED lefty in the pen. 2-3mil initially but incentives offered as well. Trade material: Ortiz is a sell high and can play excellent D with versatility. Some 2nd half pop in that bat too. Tyler Black is the Craig Yoho of field players and it time for him to take his talents elsewhere. He has hit so some possibility here. Stiven Cruz, Wichrowski, Birchard on the block. Im not going to detail the trades but I would like back C/3B Ryan Sprock (mlb.com #25 for Toronto) and RHP Tyler Harrison (mlb.com #21 for Tampa...but #26 Gavin Giese would be nice too). Whatever players, picks, future considerations need to be added...make it so. I am not going to present the details of mock trades. It just happens. Sprock and Harrison et al are not on the 40 man. 26 man roster justification: SPOILER ALERT--WE ARE RUNNING IT BACK. $$$ not spent on sexy free agents is money for annual pay upgrades, arbitration, Turang, Made, and maybe Contreras (but I doubt Boras lets him do that). Jett becomes the utility INF/OF and allows Bunty to be full time 3B with Jett (and Adams?) adding days off. Bo in the bigs allows Quero and Wood to see if the next starting catcher is in AAA. Dinges is a DH and Sprock is at AA. Everyone else in the field is the same as last year. Period. Why make moves when we have A LOT of kids knocking on the door? Why get rid of players that just won it all with the win our way mantra when EVERYONE has bought in? Starting pitching evolves a bit. Miz, Logan, Gasser....then Ashby states his case to be a starter and I let him. Woo might want on but it will be as mentioned before, with a low base (2mil?) and incentives for starts, innings, and quality starts. QP is closely monitored and Good Kyle needs to show up in spring training. 6 starters worked well last year and we can always move someone to the pen later if need be. Relieving is in transition as always. We need bodies. Ashby to the rotation, Zerpa and Fitz still out...so Megill stays. Contreras, Megill, and 1B don't change this year, nor are they traded. VIBES WIN OUT and we run them all back. AUribe is the setup and closer in waiting. DL Hall takes over the Ashby role. Chad and Grant are given innings and told to forget about the postseason snubs last year. Strahm is reminded he is back in the national league and is allowed to do well. Wagoner is given EVERY CHANCE to excel in high leverage innings. We will see if he is the new Abner after Megill leaves. Drohan, Sproat, ManRod, CCrow, and Kuehner will be up and down from time to time. Hardin, Letson, Knoth, DeBerry, and others may have to be added to the 40 if they are jamming and demanding mlb playing time. Megill and Strahm (as well as Vaughn and dare I say...Wild Bill) are All Star break trade options if 2027 is not 2026. Made (up for Jett and making Hamilton give up a lot of ABs at 3B and play some utility) and Wood (for Bo) come up and stay up at some point in 2027. C: William Contreras ($14.50M) 1B: Andrew Vaughn ($8.00M) 2B: Brice Turang ($9.90M) 3B: David Hamilton ($2.3M) SS: Cooper Pratt ($3.50M) LF: Jackson Chourio ($8.00M) CF: Garrett Mitchell ($3.40M) RF: Sal Frelick ($1.50M) DH: Christian Yelich ($22.00M) 4th OF: Luis Lara ($2.00M) Utility: Jett Williams ($.8M) Utility: Luke Adams ($0.80M) Backup C: Bo Naylor ($1.25M) POS: Add Dead Money Here ($0.00M) SP1: Jacob Misiorowski ($1.00M) SP2: Quinn Priester ($1.00M) SP3: Kyle Harrison ($1.00M) SP4: Logan Henderson ($1.00M) SP5: Robert Gasser ($1.00M) RP: Trevor Megill ($7.50M) RP: Abner Uribe ($1.00M) RP: Aaron Ashby ($7.50M) RP: Grant Anderson ($1.50M) RP: Cameron Wagoner ($0.80M) RP: Chad Patrick ($1.00M) RP: D.L. Hall ($0.95M) RP: Matt Strahm ($3.00M) POS: Add Dead Money Here ($0.00M) Payroll is 24.14% under budget

Lets do some Matthew Wood insight soon please!

As little as they used Andrew Vaughn in the postseason, if we keep Jake I can't see them not bringing Luke Adams up and replacing King Vaughn for a cheaper model that gets on base and leaves AAA for Burke and Fischer.

What if it starts next year? So we just picked up his 14.5ish mil/1 yr option. Last year it was Woodruff on 20ish mil, this coming year will be Bauers on 23mil QO, the following year when Contreras' contract starts will have one more year of Yelich and start wild bill on the on 25 we kind have been carrying the last 2 years. 🤷‍♂️

1B is a real concern since they did not use Vaughn as much as they could have. Judging by usage, 8.5mil seems like a lot. Maybe he returns on a cheaper deal but why would he now that he is fixed of whatever the ChiSox did to him. Luke Adams could platoon or be on the roster as a 3B, 1B backup. Tyler Black should have progressed to the point where we are seriously talking about him but we are not. Bauers is gone as I think he takes a multi-year deal over a 1 year 23mil QO. Burke and Fischer are a not deemed ready for opening day. Maybe a cheap FA, but it is not a great year for that. 1B is the issue. C is for Contreras at catcher. If he takes a hometown discount at 4/90mil then awesome but I doubt it. Keep him (and Megill) and enjoy the good will/merch sales from the '26 playoff run. Bo and Quero will fight for backing up rights and Sanchez can be a stop gap filler. I think the real interesting question will be with the 40 man and what to do with 2 AA catchers with promise. Darrien Miller and Matt Wood will be picked up if not on the 40...trade bait? Saved for a future role? We don't know what Matt Arnold et al thinks of these guys but they will not be overlooked on the Rule 5 draft. Yes, I know I am higher on the two lefty bats than you are. Make Ashby a starter...he deserves a shot and Woo on incentives, Kyle Harrison rebound, or QP after thoracic surgery are not promised. Let Wagoner vie for a spot in the pen. Trade Ortiz for pen help...he is a sell high right now. Fitz and Zerpa won't be ready in time and Koenig has fallen off as that happens to pen guys. Jett could be a utility guy for a lot of positions and he can pitch run when needed. Prospects aplenty coming to a AmFam near you that means trades and this wonderful 2026 roster will be shifting quickly. Ought to be fun.

We are not going to non-tender Bunty. If anything, we are going to sell on Ortiz high and bring back talent. 40 man roster designations and Rule 5 draft candidates will show some roster direction too. I highhhhhlllly doubt we traded for Zerpa to cut him...especially if Ashby starts. I think they say goodbye to Sanchez and let Bo fight it out with Quero. It is in my mind that secretly they think that Quero is cooked.

When CB Bucknor missed the call at first (Jake Bauers didn't touch first call) he shared a smile with Murphy over the need of a challenge...I think they are longtime mates.

FINISH!!!!

They are not happy over on TB reddit...

I have no idea either but doesn't bode well for him in 2027 with that arby # even with Bauers moving on....

Trevor might get some 9th RHH if it lines up well and Megill is rolling....

Miz empties the tank...and then pitches some more

Vaughn?

You can't walk him there you have to make Mitchell be a hitter...ouch

Lezzzgo!

Payne gonna be Simpson ++

Running laterally rather than in the baseline?

It is time!! Nobody is standing up and rallying the troops...it is time!

This still doesn't feel like Brewer baseball to me it feels like we're trying to win the game the old fashioned way with one big shot rather than getting on base and waiting for the guy behind us the game.

This feels like the soft underbelly of Tampa's pitching

I do like this pitching usage-wise... that Tampa is throwing the kitchen sink at the Brewers and the Brewers are just treating this like a Tuesday game. We have better pitching and we have better hitting... just a matter of time.

Lots of chatter on podcast about who would throw the last pitch if the Brewers have a lead. That's why you have Miz down there so he could pump 100+ and strike someone out and be immortal getting out number 27 for the Brewers and a sweep...🤷‍♂️

The Bunty giveth and the Bunty taketh away