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  1. Brewcrew82
    The reason Hiura is jerked around at positions is because he's a terrible fielder....I disagree with how stubborn the team was in batting Cutch cleanup against RHP, but I don't think it was the difference in us missing the postseason. We missed the playoffs because of injuries and underperformance in our pitching, as well as a downturn in our fielding.
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    Just above Brett Phillips and just below Joey Gallo. Not good company to keep. Especially if you walk as infrequently as Keston does.
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    I would definitely take him. And I think a reunion is quite possible. The cost (in terms of prospects) would be virtually nothing.
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    We'll see. I do think some of the salary dumping we've seen this offseason is part of a strategy to gain more payroll flexibility to go after extensions for those players. Other than Yelich, we have very little in terms of significant long-term payroll commitments. Plus, I think that this FA period has demonstrated that $20 million AAV contracts aren't as onerous of a burden as they used to be given expanding revenues league-wide, even for a small market team such as the Brewers. That doesn't mean we should expect them to extend all three, but it's far from an unreasonable expectation that they'll find a way to sign at least one of them...
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    One can hope given the $20 mil. plus in payroll savings right now and the fact that we have yet to sign a single major league FA... In the end, I do think one will be extended. I actually think it will be Woody due to his age and the increase in the market value of high-end SS this winter. Adames is really good, but I'm not ready to commit $170 mil. plus to him rn.
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    Yeah. Usually when the Brewers make a signing or a trade it comes out of nowhere. And they don't tend to get involved in competitive markets.
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    Exactly. The Brewers almost always make a signing later in the offseason, when the market has died down and they're able to find better value (Grandal, Wong, JBJ, McCutchen, etc.). I see no reason to think this offseason will be any different.
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    He was pretty much limited to 3B for us last year and put up a -3.9 fDWAR and a -4 OAA. He was our worst infield defender other than Wong and Tellez. On the whole, he was only worth 0.6 fWAR, and was outpaced by Keston Hiura. He may have been one of our better hitters against LHP last year, but that's not saying much as we were among the worst teams against LHP. If he wants to stay on the roster, he simply has to do better than a .764 OPS against LHP. It's quite possible that he'll return to his career line of .830, and that's why I think he'll be on the OD roster, but he's definitely on the hot seat.
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    As I said, the Braves didn't win the World Series because of Jorge Soler, even though he was the World Series MVP. They won because 4-6 of their other hitters (Rosario, Pederson, Freeman, D'Arnaud, etc.) also got hot at the same time. Our hitters? The exact opposite. So, no, adding Jorge Soler would not have won us the World Series in 2021. You brought up CC. What he did was probably the single greatest performance by a trade deadline acquisition in MLB history, and it brought us our first postseason appearance in 26 years. I'm glad we gave up Brantley and LaPorta for that. But that's not the typical scenario.... There's a significant difference between hoarding prospects and drafting and developing as a small market franchise....
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    Okay. Well, that's a stance that I (and I suspect most others) will have to disagree with. Though, for all we know, a team could have wanted Chourio at the time, too. Frelick may not be "elite" but he's top 100 for a reason. I don't regret trading those guys for CC. But, then again, not every player acquired at the deadline is capable of single handedly carrying a team to the playoffs. Certainly not the guys you just listed. If the Brewers are going to win a World Series, they're going to have to do so by drafting and developing and smart, targeted spending, not by trading their best prospects for the Soler's, Gallo's, and Marte's of the world.
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    I know about Schwarber. But I don't think it's accurate that JBJ was the single biggest reason we were unable to obtain those guys. Rather, it's the fact that those guys costed prospects and that the trading team had to be interested enough in our prospects compared to other contenders at a time when our farm system was ranked bottom 3 in the entire majors. Would you have been happy trading Frelick, Turang, or Mitchell for Gallo, Marte, or Soler? I sure wouldn't have, as none of those guys would have likely been enough on their own to win us the World Series that year. Soler was the World Series MVP, but the Braves won because Rosario, Freeman, D'Arnaud, etc. all went gangbusters during the playoffs whereas all of our hitters did the exact opposite.
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    I don't think there's any scenario in which the Cubs would have actually traded those players to us... Plus we made calls on Scherzer and Reynolds. We were outbid and rebuffed...
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    People on this very site. It wasn't unanimous for sure, but there were plenty of people who liked the signing at the time, myself included. I don't think anyone expected him to be more than average with the bat, as the majority of his value has always come from his GG defense in the OF. What we didn't expect (and what there was no indication for) was him suddenly becoming the worst hitter in the majors, to the point where it negated all of his defensive value. I know the 2017-2020 version of JBJ would have been quite helpful for us this past season with Cain completely losing it...
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    With JBJ, A LOT of people liked that signing at the time as insurance for the aging and oft-injured Lorenzo Cain. Nobody foresaw him suddenly ceasing to be a major league hitter at the age of 31. McCutchen, I'll give you. That signing never made sense from the start and became worse by how they decided to persistently hit him cleanup against RHP.
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    Justin Turner, Brandon Drury, Evan Longoria, Adam Duvall, Robbie Grossman, Wil Myers, Trey Mancini, Edwin Rios, Taylor Rogers, Andrew Chafin, Matt Moore, Cory Knebel, Michael Fulmer, Reyes Moronto, Chad Green, Trevor May, etc. Any of those guys I could see the Brewers being interested in and are not out of their price range. "Second-tier" may be too loose of a term here as not all of these guys are that level, but they represent the next-best options now that the premier free agents have largely signed and would add something to the team for next season.
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    But those were still FA signings were they not? It seems to me you're telling us that they won't sign anyone. That's where I disagree. And they did sign Yasmani Grandal, Mike Moustakas, and Avi Garcia in the offseasons before that, too. Talk to me when it's late February and all of the second-tier FA options are gone. Because we're never going to be involved in the 10 year megadeals that the big markets have been doling out like candy over the last couple weeks. Do you have particular reason to think they're going to spend more than $20 million less than they did last season, when they have repeatedly said they're going into this season to compete and return to the playoffs?
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    A little off-topic here. But with all of these WI natives (Jansen, Varsho, Lux, Miller, etc.) floating around in offseason discussions, it makes me so frustrated that my alma matter, the University of Wisconsin, continues to not field a baseball program.
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    FWIW, our payroll is currently $20 million below what it was this season, and Mark Attanasio said in his season seat-holder Q+A that they are planning on spending around the same amount next year. And then there's the recent rumors of them showing interest in Justin Turner... To assume that we won't add anything in FA at this point isn't really based in reality. Still plenty of second-tier FA options available now that the first-tier options have pretty much all signed. And we were never going to be in on those first-tier options to begin with.
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    I don't believe so....
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    Miller's career minor league slash line: .305/.368/.450. AAA slash line in 2021: .297/.374/.489. Nice. Can see why the Brewers are intrigued considering his speed and defensive versatility. Don't see why we need Jon Singleton on the roster at this point. Him or Trevor Kelley are the next to go imo.
  21. Brewcrew82
    Thing that hurts Brosseau is his subpar defense and inability to play SS, or even 2B. Plus, last season he didn't even hit LHP all that extraordinarily with a .764 OPS. Granted, it's better than what some of our hitters did, but for someone whose calling-card is hitting LHP it's not enough.
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    Not just Hiura's seat getting warm but also Brosseau's....
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    WI native (Mequon). Young, controllable, right-handed. 91st percentile 0AA btw 1B and 2B. Also, 90th percentile sprint speed. Doesn't strike out a lot. BUT he doesn't hit the ball all that hard. Hard to be angry, though, when we gave up virtually nothing for him. Defense and speed are going to be a big part of the team this year and going forward.
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