MadScientist

On the other hand, he's right at the age where Go-Go started figuring things out.

The article boils down to the luxury tax not doing much and they will 'talk' about revenue sharing. If baseball is to thrive, all local TV monies has to be put into a pool and split among the teams. Bumping up the minimum that teams have to spend is a good idea to keep some owners from pocketing the shared revenue, aided by a bump in minimums and arby rates. The trick would be spending the minimum in a year like this without getting into a bad contract situation.

This is a make or break year for Segura. If he doesn't show a jump in production, he'll be a utility player, playing at or near minimum after this season. He came up and had success for half a season and pitchers adjusted. He hasn't adjusted for 2 1/2 seasons. It's not impossible that he will figure it out, although the odds are not great. Still rooting for him to improve, only good things will come from him playing better.

New Orleans would be a good location, for easy scouting of AA and AAA, plus quick transfer of players. If that doesn't work, I will be satisfied if 1) they are not in Colorado and 2) they are not in the worst stadium in AAA.

It to be over with. It's depressing going into a season knowing they don't have a chance. There are a few questions that hopefully will be answered: 1) Craig Counsell - Now he has his people in place, so how will the Brewers respond to him? How much fight will he get out of them in this lost season? How will slumps be managed / broken? Will players develop under his coaches? How idiotically will he manage the staff (because every manager idiotically manages the staff/bullpen, so sayeth fans everywhere). 2) What will the time frame of the rebuild be? Are young players stepping up at the major leagues and upper minors, or is it looking like a bunch of mediocrity? 3) Are any stars emerging at any level? 4) Is the pipeline looking like it will sustain a long run of competitive baseball?

Padres get the normal sandwhich pick after the 1st and before the 2nd round. You may have forgotten but the days of actually getting the teams pick are long gone. Hmmm... MLB Trade Rumors and Baseball America disagree with you. "By signing Upton, the Tigers will surrender their second draft pick of the offseason. Detroit’s No. 9 overall selection is protected under the collective bargaining agreement, but the team already parted with its second-round pick to add right-hander Jordan Zimmermann to the rotation, so they’ll forfeit their third-round pick — currently projected to be the 85th in the draft, per Baseball America — to sign Upton." Detroit loses the pick, but SD doesn't get it. They just get the sandwich pick.

Additional penalty - all other teams get access to the Cardinals internal scouting databases for the 2016 season.

He'll probably settle for crazy. I'd be disappointed in Sterns if he wasn't asking for a massive return. The point is not to trade Lucroy, the point is to get the highest talent return possible to speed up the rebuild. Let the other GM get antsy and blink.

Really? Davis is a proven big time power guy in the major leagues coming off a two month stretch where he blasted 20 HR. Santana is not and went 83 AB's in winter ball without a single HR. There are huge questions whether Santana can handle major league pitching. He's had some big numbers in the minors but after starting with a flourish right after the trade, he struggled. I think the difficult decision is more a long term thing. Do they want to keep Kris around for the next window or trade him when the value is high and roll the dice with Santana. Part of the calculus will be what sort of package they could get for Davis, and when they seriously expect the MLB roster to be competitive. If they were both on the MLB roster, no way would you start Santana over Davis right now.

Except that baseball is big on curses so don't expect them to win another World Series again in our lifetime, which is a good thing. Don't say that, with our luck that would only mean a short life span for us. MLB has to do something significant. This isn't one of those 'everybody does it, but they were the ones caught' situations. I have to think other teams would raise a stink if the Cards got a nothing penalty. At least a couple of first rounders (real losses as noted above), plus removal from the competitive balance lottery for 5 years would be a good starting point.

1) Villar 3B 2) Lucroy C 3) Braun RF 4) Davis LF 5) Carter 1B 6) Santana CF 7) Gennett 2B 8) Segura SS Not much for defense, but serious power from 3-6. If you aren't going to win, at least pound out HR's and make it fun.

For a forum that loved Branyon, I'm surprised that there isn't more love for Carter. I hope the hitting coach doesn't try to 'fix' him to make him a 250 hitter. Just work a little on pitch selection to get the OBP up. If he can get that close to 350, with 30 HR's that should put him in the 800 OPS range. Valuable to keep or trade, and well within the realm of possibilities.

The training staff still needs to work on cutting down the shower injuries, but at least the salad tong problem seems to be under control.

How he is doing at the break will affect his trade value. If he's on a hot streak and somehow managing a 900 OPS, teams are not going to make offers like he's a career 900 OPS guy, but the will likely offer more than if he is at last year's 734. Even if he is just at his career averages, there's likely to be some contender willing to offer a legit prospect. A-Ram brought one back last year, so Carter can too.

The new 3TO.

Option A really isn't an option, since teams don't buy early. Last year the Brewers were out of it and would have sold in May / June if anybody was buying. Likewise option C isn't an option because buying in early June makes no sense. Wait until the deadline. If they are in first at the deadline (and if that's the case does somebody have two more wishes coming) it will make the sell and rebuild a bit harder, but they'd better not buy much of anything, or at least not pay much of anything.

So he was a round-about throw-in from Seattle as part of the Lind trade.

An OBP of 323 isn't stellar, but isn't horrible. His power is impressive. His HR/AB was top 5 in the NL. HR's top 10 even with 100 fewer PA's than he could have had. Davis is a legit, valuable MLB bat. If the Brewers trade him, they should command a very solid return for giving up one of better power hitters in baseball, who is still cheap and controllable. Yes his arm is poor, but his range is reasonable. He's not a dumpster fire in left. I'm not saying they should keep him to build around him for the future, but he should not be dumped just to make room for Santana.

6-9 months means Jan-April for ready to go, so that should give him most or all of the first half to show his stuff. If he is successful, he'll be a possibility for flipping for prospects.

Loogy for nothing (and the chicks for free). Hopefully they can catch lightning in a bottle for this guy and flip him at the deadline. Perhaps for a AAA outfielder.

I don't think it was that people really liked Rogers that much as the fact he was already at 1B, in the system, and cheap. Looked like a guy we should have given a chance to instead of going out and getting someone or moving another guy to 1B. Well they did give him a chance, just with Pittsburgh. Rodgers didn't seem like the kind of player the Brewers were motivated to trade, but I guess Pittsburgh motivated them. Good luck to him, although I kind of hope he doesn't have a huge career year that would have made him worth a whole lot more next off season.

I saw a fan post about how he was trying to hit more homers last year. Sounds like that could have screwed him up. Just let him go back to being a guy who gets on base a ton and it will be a really good pick-up.

The Brewers picked up two players from the minor league phase of the rule 5 draft Mitchell Lambson http://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.cgi?id=lambso000mit Kender Villegas http://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.cgi?id=villeg001ken Many expected Sterns to grab a guy from the Houston system, but instead he got Lambson who was in Houston's system until last year when he was traded to Atlanta for cash.

There is no reason to think they are unlikely to amount to anything. All three project as plausible major league arms even if they end up being bullpen guys. Lind was pretty much worthless to this team and if he was just released would probably get a one year deal worth about what he is getting payed now. The only argument I can see against this deal is that the team needs a 3B more than pitching but they can find a 3B with other assets. Im sure someone smarter than I would have this answer, but it is a very low percentage of any rookie ball/short season players ever reaching the majors and none of these guys are classified as elite. On a percentage basis, there is every reason to think that none of these guys will ever amount to anything. Its highly likely that Zach Davies has already pitched more major league innings than all three of these guys will ever pitch. I have no problem trading away Lind of course. It was a good thing to do for the future, but these guys are really low level assets. Unfortunately we will never know what the other two serious offers for Lind were. What is clear is that Sterns likes these guys, a lot. He also knows the flame out rate for low level players and thought getting 3 greatly improves the chances of getting a major leaguer out of this deal. I'm not jumping up and down over this, but I'm cautiously optimistic. They could easily be a bunch of Will Inman types, but something in Sterns' metrics said they were legit prospects. For now I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. If nothing else, it looks like a better return for Lind than Oakland got for Lawrie.

Says his Miami-area home so it is possible he lives outside city limits. It also says one bullet went in a field so that might support that claim. He also has a 10,000 square foot house so maybe another sign his house isn't in the city limits of whatever said city. EDIT: Seems as though he lives in Davies, Florida in a cramped area....so I agree, shocking he wasn't charged for that. Well it is Florida... Given the lack of physical evidence for the domestic violence, and the lack of an arrest, it will be hard for MLB to do much. Does anybody know what if anything in the CBA covers this? I'm glad the Brewers already traded K-Rod before this popped up in the news. Chapman probably won't be traded any time soon, and the return late in the off-season won't be all that good. I expect this will have blown over enough that the Reds can get something decent at the trade deadline.