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Substitute Rojas for Y Vargas and Sheehan for Pepiot and we got a deal.

Nah forget Manoah, start the return with Ricky Tiedemann, LH stud starter +.

Huh? Thats the point of letting talented players hit all-handed pitching. The Kind of talent we finally have now big-leagued. Let ‘em play!

Remember this day fellow Brewers fans. The last 7+ years have just been the appetizer— today is the beginning of the main course followed by the desert—10 years or there-abouts of excellence— including a WS and maybe another. Its really gonna happen.

Please no platoon, especially now that CC is gone. Play the best and let him face the opposite hand to become a better player.

Maybe the best news I’ve ever heard as a 54 years Brewers fan. Matt Arnold going to build a future juggernaut and crush his predecessors BOTA proclamation.

I think you might have nailed the contract. Hoping for 2 option years though, say a total of $145M.

Absolutely. The M’s likely won’t entertain trading both of Woo/Hancock, so one of our OF’s for Woo makes the most sense, which is the trade proposal mentioned by Spencer in his blueprint. This would allow for a Burnes trade that doesn’t necessarily have to have a big-league starter returned in the deal.

I just don’t see Friedman giving up the prospect package required to acquire both Burnes-Adames. Not for just 1 year of each. He’s a prospect hoarder with the best of em.

No. Not for 3 years of a 3 to 3.5 WAR player. I think it’s probable 1 of Mitchell/Wiemer averages that WAR for 5 years vs the 3 likely from RA. It’s also possible both Mitchell and Wiemer average RA’s WAR.

Forgive me, but a Chourio extension is a total no-brainer and the best Brewers news I’ve heard maybe ever. Having this talent locked-up so he’s playing for US in his age 28 & 29 seasons and hopefully his age 30 as well is huge. Not having to play service-time games and also to be able to get him into the OD lineup because the team knows he’s ready helps the FO and team plan ahead to put the best overall team out there as soon as they can. It also gives them an opportunity to receive the 1st round pick if Chourio wins the ROY or an MVP. Call me crazy, but the thought of potentially having 5 of the top 40 picks in the ‘25 draft and the pool money that goes with them for this teams amateur draft department is beyond exciting.

I’m conflicted after reading what you and Brewerfan had to say regarding TT. My thing is I just don’t see much playing time for TT next season. I think Mitchell-Frelick need to play everyday and my gut tells me Wiemer smashes AAA pitching and forces his way back to MKE as another RH hitting option. They also have Perkins as well.

That’s your opinion and that’s fine, mine differs. Quero-Wilken are studs. CRod is a backend starter. Misiorowski a #2-3 or closer. EBJ a wild card. The rest are too far away to comment on other than Pratt is also a stud. This teams farm is tremendously deep, especially positionally, and even more so stacked with high-end teenage talent that should hit MKE in ‘27/‘28, which happens to coincide with the last couple years of arby with Mitchell-Frelick-Wiemer-Black.

While Rosenthal speculates about the two courses the Brewers could follow in the wake of this kind of move, he's noncommittal about them, and it's not clear to me which direction it would push them to pursue. Obviously, signing Chourio to a deal lasting more than six years and fixing his position at the center of their competitive universe would influence the team's decisions about Corbin Burnes and Willy Adames, who are trade candidates this winter. Less obvious is whether it would give them greater conviction and the goodwill with the fan base to pull the trigger on deals involving one or both, or whether it would represent the kind of investment on which Mark Attanasio would want to maximize the immediate return. I know which way I lean. Burnes and Adames are guys worth keeping if the team wants to maximize their chances of winning the NL Central in 2024, but signing Chourio to a deal like this would indicate a commitment to the direction we already know Attanasio and Matt Arnold to prefer: steady, consistent, conservative competitiveness. In that case, as soon as Chourio's name is on the dotted line, the move is to get the best possible offers for Burnes and Adames. There's no mandate to trade them, but presumably, Arnold would find pretty good talent available in exchange for players of that quality. If so, he should move them. The team can probably acquire at least one player who can help them (albeit less) right away in that process, but locking Chourio into one outfield spot for most of the next decade would also give them the flexibility to trade more fearlessly from the stockpile of young outfielders around them. The guy in that group with the highest trade value is Sal Frelick. In this scenario, I would be looking to get a controllable mid-rotation starter in exchange for Frelick, letting Chourio take over center field for the next few years and filling right field with whatever amalgam of the myriad others on hand works best. The best version of this plan, pending further details on the offer and (of course) its actual execution, involves a quarter-step back for 2024, with an eye toward regaining a firm footing on the top of the NL Central hill from 2025 onward. Rosenthal doesn't report things like this without real fire fueling the smoke. There will be further news about this soon. In the meantime, it's fun to debate and to wonder: How long, and on what team-friendly terms, will Chourio be a Brewer? And what will the next step be? View full article 10 year extension and start Chourio in CF OD. Keep all of the OF’s because I think it would be selling low even with Frelick. Move Yelich to mostly DH, with Frelick in LF and Mitchell in RF and just watch them run everything down. Wiemer to AAA. TT can get sold this offseason. At the trade-deadline or next offseason an OF can get sold.

No player options. 8 guaranteed years with 2 team options. This deal needs to give the team all of his prime years, while still letting him hit FA at 30 years of age.

Incredible news. This is the player to build around. He’s ready now so this gives the team a good opportunity to get another 1st round pick in ‘25 and a superstar player for hopefully a decade or more.

They already have prospects that will impact the team in 2-3 years. Gasser-Chourio-Black in ‘24 Quero-Wilken-EBJ-CRod-Misiorowski in ‘25/‘26. Henderson-Knoth-Pratt-Bitonti-Lara-Baez-Adams-Boeve in ‘26/‘27. The ‘24 & ‘25 draft-class in ‘27-‘29. The team has a top 5 farm for a reason. The 1 player that absolutely should be traded is Williams because he won’t bring back a pick, and the return for 2 years to the right team could rival what they would get for 1 year of Burnes.

It is, but ill believe it when I see it.

I’d rather they put the money towards extensions. Start with Adames this offseason, Chourio before the end of the ‘24 season.

I would possibly agree with your reasoning IF they trade a non-TT OF this offseason, but I think they would be selling too low and thus will hold for now. Agree Wiemer should AAA to start the year, but even IF Chourio is held back until S2, that still creates a massive log-jam of talented OF’s post S2 that will need to play, neither of whom, except for Yelich, should DH.

The most this FO has spent on a starter was $9M for Chacin, so I’m not seeing them spend $11-14M for multiple years on any starter. I think they go cheaper (Fedde type) and sign depth starters on minors deals. If they deal Burnes it will be with a big-league starter returned.

His hand/thumb injury might had something to do with his mini-slump in August. It seemed to take a bit of time to shake the rust-off.

Compensatory pick for losing Adames is the 4th. Hoping for another 1st rounder with Chourio winning ROY while rostered OD as well.

Justin Yeager-Harold Chirino-Tobias Myers (guessing he’s moved to RP)-Ryan Middendorf-Darrell Thompson are all worthy of monitoring next season. Love Holub-Myers-Yeager-Chirino as potential shuttle arms next season, with Shook as a dark horse.

Chourio’s improvement post-tacky balls was quite impressive, outside of a small hiccup when he injured his hand/thumb and took a bit to get going again. He literally destroyed winter-league pitching, of which has been compared to AAA pitching so since July of ‘23 he has been elite. Maybe the team will manipulate his ST?, but maybe the team has decided they’ve seen enough and want him to impact the big-club OD and figure they can extend him to make the service-time moot. Chourio can also be good enough to win the ROY without being rostered OD and if that happens he gets a full year of service anyhow.