Yeah there's no chance the Nationals would do that trade. Brewers would probably do it in a heartbeat though. Pena and Pratt are both very good prospects but Wood has 5 years of control and has shown he can be a star in MLB with even more upside.
Imagine the lineup you could rock if you traded for Wood.
1. Yelich - DH
2. Chourio - CF/RF
3. Wood - LF
4. Contreras - C
5. Turang - 2B
6. Vaughn - 1B
7. Frelick - CF/RF
8. Durbin - 3B
9. ? - SS
Yeah Misiorowski is definitely safe. He has .109 service time. The lowest the Super 2 cutoff has been since 2009 is 2.116 so it would need to be a crazy outlier low cutoff for him to hit Super 2.
Duran isn't really a CF. More of a corner OF. Don't really see the fit for the Brewers there. His offensive profile is aided by playing half his games at Fenway. Loves shooting flyballs the opposite way for XBH off the Green Monster. Plus he's going to get really expensive in Arb 4 in 2027.
I'd say very likely no. MLB is the one who gets us access to the public statcast data. That stuff isn't handled org side. The Brewers will have their own trackman (or something else) cameras set up for private data but if we want public data it would need to come from MLB.
Predictions for him seem to be all over the place.
Baseball America predicted 1/$27.5
Kiley predicted 2/$25M
Clemens predicted 2/$34M
Think we will have a better feel for which way it goes when the Brewers either offer Woodruff a QO or not. Guess we will find out in the next 90-ish minutes.
Manager of the Year if that counts. Other than that nope and honestly don’t think there’s really an argument for any Brewers player to get an award this year.
I couldn’t imagine the corny Manfred Runner being a thing in the playoffs. Much like I couldn’t imagine the NHL doing 3on3 and a shootout in the playoffs.
I’m glad both of those leagues have the sense to have rules to make the games shorter in the regular season then get rid of them for the postseason.
I think the only way we will get a salary cap passed is if team control is reduced or changed. Instead of 6+ years of full team control, maybe replace arbitration with restricted free agency. Think restricted free agency is a nice middle ground between players being able to get paid earlier and teams still maintaining team control. I'd also be down for term caps on contracts like the NHL and NBA have.
It started tailing off a bit. His velo peaked in August trended down in both September and October though the September drop off wasn't as extreme as the October drop off
August - 99.0mph (this was his peak velo month)
September - 98.3mph
October - 97.3mph
Slider saw something similar happen
August - 87.6mph (this was his peak velo month)
September - 86.2mph
October - 85.3mph
Yeah Uribe’s hardest sinker was 97.7mph in the NLCS compared to his season average of 98.7mph. His velo was down 2-3mph. I think it’s pretty safe to say Uribe just wore down because of overuse during the whole season. I mean the guy threw over 80 innings including the postseason I believe
Durbin had a .973 OPS in the series. Are you really trying to pretend that isn’t really good? That was the second best OPS of anyone in the NLCS behind Ohtani.
Murphy using Uribe every other game for 6 and a half months straight has finally worn him down. Uribe is clearly out of gas. His average sinker velo in the regular season was 98.7mph. The hardest sinker he's thrown in the NLCS is 97.7mph. His average velo is down over 2mph on both his sinker and slider in this series.
With Muncy getting up there in age and the big Japanese posting this offseason being a 3B, we probably will see the Dodgers throw out a huge contract for him. It's just not the same sport that us and the Dodgers play.