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  1. wiguy94
    I mean some of these guys surely don't have much of a future in this org beyond org depth. Leaving them off AAA roster so they can go to an org that might value them more is just goodwill to the players. Guys like Peterson, Warren, Spain, Perez are all guys who probably didn't have much of a future here. Especially so on Peterson and Warren who are well down the pecking order of pitching prospects and corner IF prospects.
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    I can pretty certainly say the Brewers will not be getting a Top 20 prospect in baseball for 2 years of Trevor Megill.
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    Yeah I'm a bit confused about those comments as well. For his career, Ashby has an 8.2% BB-rate as a RP which is actually above average by RP standards. It's at 7.9% as a RP the last two seasons. I think the perfect role for Ashby is in the early Josh Hader role where he's basically a relief ace. You let him be a multi-inning fireman. I just don't think Ashby has the control to be a SP and his velo drops off a bit as a SP as well. I think even in a Hader role that Ashby would be valuable at this contract amount and that he would still have good trade value if you decided to trade him before those two club option years kick in. By the way these are Ashby's numbers as a RP the last two years. 54 G, 84.1 IP, 2.03 ERA, 2.88 xERA, 2.31 FIP, 2.72 xFIP, 2.65 SIERA, 29.7% K-rate, 7.9% BB-rate, 21.8% K-BB rate, 60% GB-rate, 3.4% barrel rate Those are just out of this world numbers. The combination of K-BB rate, ground ball rate, and barrel rate is basically everything you could ever want in a pitcher. This is a Top 5 RP in baseball profile.
  4. wiguy94
    That Marte trade does not feel realistic at all. Marte is a legitimate superstar and they would likely want significantly more upside in return if they were trading him especially if they were sending money as well.
  5. wiguy94
    I don’t buy it. I think the Pirates are leaking their interest and offers to avoid a grievance from the MLBPA. I don’t sincerely think they are pursuing Schwarber. Oh you can’t file a grievance against us. We tried to sign FA but nobody would sign here.
  6. wiguy94
    Honestly don’t think I even agree with the premise of the article. The Dodgers to me are clearly the best fit for Buxton. They need OF help and have shown they aren’t particularly scared to take on players that have injury history. They showed last year that they can make the playoffs in spite of mass injury issues. I think they would love a player like Buxton.
  7. wiguy94
    I believe Uribe is another guy who gets really good seam shifted wake on both his sinker and slider. Edit: Found the tweet from pitch profiler. Supposedly Uribe's sinker had the 2nd most seam shifted wake among MLB pitchers this season
  8. wiguy94
    Sounds like the road grays are the ones being replaced and supposedly there were will be a new city connect as those rotate every 3 years I guess? Road - Powder Blue, Navy Blue Home - Cream, Pinstripe City Connect - TBD I agree with the consensus that gray pants with the powder blue was a miss. Should have gone full powder blue. I also think I would have preferred keeping the road grays as the secondary road jersey not the Navy Blue.
  9. wiguy94
    To be fair you could have crossed Basallo off the list even before they signed him to that extension. Basallo was like a consensus Top 10 prospect in baseball before he debuted. I don't think any team at this point in time is going to trade a consensus Top 10 prospect with full team control for 1 year of a good/very good not great SP
  10. wiguy94
    He has used 2 of his 3 option years so only one option year remaining.
  11. wiguy94
    Yeah great point as well
  12. wiguy94
    I mean there’s an age component here. Frelick was 21 when he was drafted and didn’t play a game in AA until he was 22 years old. Lara was 20 the entire season in AA. Lara also has better EV than his power numbers indicate. His lack of power is currently more a matter of his swing than how hard he can hit the ball. Lara put up slightly better EV than Cooper Pratt did in Biloxi last year according to Baseball America but I don’t see nearly as many if any people showing concern about Pratt’s lack of power.
  13. wiguy94
    It was the Rosenthal special. ”In what has become an annual rite of autumn, the Milwaukee Brewers are fretting over their payroll, according to people briefed on their plans. The possibility exists that the team might need to subtract from their roster in order to add.”
  14. wiguy94
    The Brewers year end 40-man payroll in 2025 according to Cot’s was $131M so they were right there in the range you want them to be.
  15. wiguy94
    % of revenue to payroll is just a really pointless number to care about. There’s much more spending to running a baseball team than just payroll. Seeing that chart get so much traction is really annoying. To make it easier, I’m just going to refer to all non-payroll expenditures as overhead. These expenditures probably have some variation across the league but this spread is probably pretty small. A team that has $600M in revenue and say $200M in overhead has 66% of their revenue left over for payroll. A team that has $350M in revenue and say $150M in overhead has 57% of their revenue left over for payroll. The lower your revenue is the lower your % of revenue spent on payroll is going to be because you’re spending a higher % of revenue on overhead. If you look at that chart for example and look at the Dodgers revenue minus payroll and compare it to the Brewers revenue minus payroll the numbers are basically identical.
  16. wiguy94
    Ken Rosenthal does this crap literally every single offseason with the Brewers. This is nothing new.
  17. wiguy94
    I don't even think Cairone getting to A+ is particularly realistic. None of the Brewers recently drafted HS pitchers have made it to A+ in their first pro season.
  18. wiguy94
    I don't think there's any world where Tampa trades Caminero. He's 22 and just put up a 40 HR and 4.6 fWAR season. I don't think any MLB team would trade a player like that.
  19. wiguy94
    Honestly my reading of him being lower rated is mostly because he's lower on Dinges bat than most. Seems he really doesn't like how long Dinges swing is. He projects 40 hit, 45 power. Baseball America has 45 hit, 60 power for Dinges.
  20. wiguy94
    I love Longenhagen's reviews. He's really in a class of his own when it comes to thoroughness and thoughtful evaluations. He goes into such depth and like @mudbutt said his evaluations feel more critical which is probably for the best because the vast majority of prospects fail. I also like that he really seems to avoid groupthink. Not that all his evaluations are correct but I wish we had some more varied opinions on prospects and less groupthink.
  21. wiguy94
    Scooter do you look at the other team's MLB roster before you talk about trades? Detroit's starting catcher put up 4 fWAR last year and has 5 more years of team control. Why would they want Jeferson Quero?
  22. wiguy94
    You missed why this makes sense for Christian Yelich. He has both a full trade clause and 10-5 rights. He would need to accept a trade. Why would he want to go to the Angels?
  23. wiguy94
    Yeah Benge destroyed the minors last year. His AAA numbers sucked so I went and looked at the under the hood numbers and they are great as well. .272/.356/.522 expected slash line, .376 xwOBA, 20% whiff, 92.1 Avg EV, 53.5% hard hit, 15.5% barrel. Those are pretty darn good underlying numbers for a guy who had a 53 wRC+ in AAA.
  24. wiguy94
    I don't think that's a realistic offer. I don't think you can get a Benge level prospect for 1 year of Freddy Peralta. I've seen Benge as high as 15 in Top 100 lists.
  25. wiguy94
    This is a pretty tough mindset to take with a small market team. Brewers basically don't pay the market rate for any of their players because they are either pre-arb, arb, or have signed extensions below market value. Any FA you sign to a market rate deal is going to be a higher proportion of our team salary because they are being fairly paid for their contribution.
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