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  1. wiguy94
    If the owners really truly wanted a salary cap league, I think they could get it done. Moving to an NHL style cap league getting rid of arbitration and replacing it with restricted free agency would honestly help the middle and lower class of MLB players. The current league format really only benefits the great players of the league. Solid 2 WAR player hitting FA at 30 years old isn't getting the security that the 4 WAR player hitting FA at 30 years old is getting. So many players have a good 3-4 years in the league but then fall off before they hit FA. A cap system that gets them to FA even if it is restricted FA would likely benefit them. Basically the only way I see the MLB moving to a salary cap would be if the union had a fracture between the stars and the regular joes which I could eventually see happening. Maybe not yet but eventually I think players will get fed up about not reaching FA and getting a chance for that payday while the stars of the league are making the vast majority of the league's salary.
  2. wiguy94
    The Brewers have shown absolutely nothing that would lead one to indicate they believe reverse splits are real.
  3. wiguy94
    I'm already dreading Caleb Durbin being used as a weak side platoon guy by the Brewers. In his minor league career his OPS against RHP is over .800 and his OPS against LHP is in the .600's.
  4. wiguy94
    Kind of curious to hear people's thoughts on this. Basically Lorenzen's agent is trying to market Lorenzen as someone who can achieve two-way player status as a roster loophole to allow the team to carry 14 pitchers. I can't see good teams signing Lorenzen and having him play 20 games at DH or in the OF with 3+ PA to get two-way status, but feel like bad/tanking teams could have their pitchers DH to improve their trade value. Example being the White Sox could sign Lorenzen for 2/$20M and have him DH their first 20 games of the season. After 20 games of 3+ PA and 20 IP he would achieve two-way status for all of 2025 and 2026 which theoretically would massively increase his trade value and allow a contender to trade for him and be capable of rostering 14 pitchers. Should the MLB allow this to happen or isn't it against the spirit of the rule that was created because Ohtani is an anomaly?
  5. wiguy94
    On both that list and my personal list I have him at 17.
  6. wiguy94
    Not Brewers related but man I really hope attitudes like this start becoming the norm from team owners. Being a fan has become ridiculously expensive with ticket/food/merchandise prices skyrocketing. It's time for franchises to start caring more about the fans that make their leagues possible. Without us their franchise valuations wouldn't be skyrocketing. Their revenues wouldn't be skyrocketing.
  7. wiguy94
    I pray the Brewers did not trade for Caleb Durbin thinking he would be a weak side platoon guy. He's had monster reverse splits in the minor leagues. 2024 - .883 vs RHP, .657 vs LHP 2023 - .872 vs RHP, .608 vs LHP 2022 - .745 vs RHP, .640 vs LHP 2021 (only 56 total PA) - .693 vs RHP, .384 vs LHP
  8. wiguy94
    I just want the Brewers to add one more good hitter. Right now I think we have 3 likely good hitters (talking 115+ wRC+) in Chourio, Contreras, and Yelich and Yelich has injury concerns. Adding another good LHH would be awesome for balancing the lineup. 1. Chourio 2. Yelich 3. Contreras 4. Mystery 115 wRC+ LHH 5. Hoskins 6. Mitchell 7. Ortiz 8. Frelick 9. Turang I don't think it's a realistic option and I don't know how we would make it fit defensively, but like Brandon Lowe would be an ideal option to fill that mystery cleanup spot.
  9. wiguy94
    You know what they say. Breakfast Data is the most important meal of the day!
  10. wiguy94
    Durbin has had pronounced reverse splits in his minor league career
  11. wiguy94
    Feel like we probably need to see a bit of a power uptick if we want to see similar run production because we had really good HR sequencing last year and not sure we can expect that again. Despite be 16th in HR this is how we fared some HR sequencing. Solo HR - 80 (29th) 2-Run HR - 63 (6th) 3-run HR - 24 (9th) Grand Slam - 10 (2nd) % of HR that were Solo HR - 45.2% (30th) % of HR that were multi-run HR - 54.8% (1st) % of HR that were 3-run/GS - 19.2% (2nd) So we had really, really good HR sequencing in 2024.
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    Feel like some of these are pretty generous. Frelick and Turang combined for 9 HR in 1143 PA in 2024 which is 127 PA/HR. I don't think 16 HR in 1023 PA for a 64 PA/HR leap is realistic. This is also assuming health. If the team stays perfectly healthy then they might be okay in the power department, but if injuries force guys like Black, Perkins, Frelick, Monasterio/Durbin into playing every day then the power is a massive concern.
  13. wiguy94
    Honestly I don't think it would be that big of a risk. He's making $15M in 2025 then has 2 club options at $25M each. If he doesn't have a great year then you can buy him out for $2M. If we could do Frelick for Robert, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
  14. wiguy94
    His changeup had a 40% whiff rate last year so it was a very good pitch for him.
  15. wiguy94
    Even crazier that it's with no deferred money. That's a legit $765M. Ohtani signed for $700M but when factoring in deferrals it was around $470M.
  16. wiguy94
    Every team gets the same share of MLB shared revenue. Brewers put in less than they receive because we are a small market team, but the amount of money we have to work with is still well the vast majority of the league.
  17. wiguy94
    15/$765M. No deferred money. Escalators can take it over $800M
  18. wiguy94
    If you guys can keep the Carolina and Wisconsin episodes under 75 minutes it might be the most impressive piece of podcasting ever because I know both you and @Spencer Michaelis could probably talk about some of these prospects for a good 10+ minutes.
  19. wiguy94
    I've read through the comments on the Athletic article and on twitter and I haven't found a single person in favor of this. Absolutely no chance this would ever get approved.
  20. wiguy94
    I find it really hard to believe this would ever get approved. This would be deeply unpopular with traditional baseball fans and I don't think this would bring any new fans to the sport.
  21. wiguy94
    Feel like you're underrating what Montas did. He had 1 really bad start that blew up his Brewers numbers but outside of that start he was exactly what we needed in solidifying the rotation. Overall Brewers Numbers - 11 GS, 57.1 IP, 4.55 ERA Brewers Numbers taking out his blowup against the D-Backs - 10 GS, 54.2 IP, 3.62 ERA Sure Junis had a better ERA but Junis wasn't starting until September. His first time throwing 5 innings after the deadline was 9/7. He could not have solidified the rotation starting in August like Montas did so him having a better ERA is mostly pointless.
  22. wiguy94
    So the change was that nobody used to have fully guaranteed pay to now the people who settle have the fully guaranteed pay?
  23. wiguy94
    I thought they changed that rule in the last CBA?
  24. wiguy94
    No. He has no place on the Brewers roster. Bauers was a LHH. Wisdom is a RHH which makes him redundant with Hoskins.
  25. wiguy94
    I'd bet Pratt starts in Biloxi. I'd also very much bet against all 4 of Made, Pena, Anderson, and Ortuno going straight from DSL to A ball.
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