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  1. SF70
    Bud Selig spent above his means most years as an owner from ‘78-‘84, most years during that period he had a top 5-10 payroll team. Even in the mid to late 80’s up to 1992 his payrolls were mostly near the top half of teams. Things changed in ‘93, when it became apparent the team needed a new stadium to be able to compete financially with the mid and large market teams. Wendy’s team was the issue payroll-wise while Bud was running baseball as interim-comish trying to get revenue-sharing and new stadiums built around the game including Miller Park. Attanasio has been a good owner during his 18 years with his best attribute being his ability to hire the right people to run his team.
  2. SF70
    Santana could be added soon, the rest won’t be missed. The maturing of the Sophomore’s combined with adding our 2 best hitting prospects should make for a better run scoring team in ‘24.
  3. SF70
    They didn’t include Taylor to shed salary, they included TT to be able to acquire a controllable future rotation arm in Coleman Crow. Trading from depth positions to fill positions with less depth is what smart FO’s do.
  4. SF70
    Lombard a smidgen less upside with a smidgen more floor. 5 above average tools with a pedigree as well. Like the baseball family.
  5. SF70
    I also like the Yankees as a trade partner. I’m offering Williams as well as Burnes since the Yankees can use a dominant closer, Hampton & Lalane & Lombard & Gil. Gil adds another 100mph arm to the bullpen and Hampton can rotation with MKE the second half of ‘24 if he’s needed. Lombard & Lalane are the upside talent needed to make the deal even though they are 3+ years away. This deal immediately fixes the only weaknesses in this teams farm system: Mid-rotation arms and power-hitting SS. Pratt & Lombard can compete for the ‘27 MKE SS position.
  6. SF70
    Impact or go with holding Burnes for the pick & pool money that gives this team’s elite amateur draft department the ammo to add more impact thru the draft. I think the prospect-procurement systems are doing a spectacular job as is. Internationally spending money on positionals while trying to scout Nicaragua and find cheap pitching seems to be working quite well. Trying to project ahead with 14 year old pitchers isn’t a good gamble financially imo. Domestically, this team’s PDS is doing a great job finding pitching in the JC ranks that isn’t scouted as heavily, allowing us to find diamonds in that realm. Johnson & co. have really nailed the last few drafts adding positional talent to the system. This teams future success will be assured as long as they keep the prospect-procurement systems strong like they have right now.
  7. SF70
    Ok, I just see Sheehan as an untouchable for Friedman. He’s a potential future TOR starter and as such isn’t going anywhere imo. Maybe Frasso and Stone substituted for Sheehan if Friedman really is going for it, which I question since it’s definitely not his MO.
  8. SF70
    I respect Ben Badler, but 2 years total of Burnes-Adames isn’t going to entice Friedman to give-up their best pitching prospect & best hitting prospect, 3 years of Lux & another nice pitching prospect.
  9. SF70
    Absolutely bring Santana back, and with or without Burnes. Even if Burnes is traded they conceivably could contend and Santana would help them do that. Disciplined hitter with pop, excellent defensively and a team leader.
  10. SF70
    They won’t be shocked because if Arnold doesn’t get impact talent offered in a return, they won’t trade Burnes.
  11. SF70
    No way Friedman gives up that much pitching.
  12. SF70
    Baty can’t defend, so Arnold isn’t likely to want him
  13. SF70
    Pitching for MKE by ‘26, yes, then add a couple of years of big league development to reach the mid rotation arm.
  14. SF70
    Why does it appear we are headed towards a rebuild? Prior to yesterday’s trade, everything we’ve read or heard from Attanasio-Arnold has been the opposite, that they plan on contending for a championship in ‘24. This trade doesn’t change that at all. They just saved $7M trading 2 players they don’t need to contend next year and received a potential 2028 mid-rotation starter, thus improving the organization as a whole. Numerous teams around the game are cutting their payroll due to the uncertainty of their RSN’s, including the Mariners & Twins, both contending teams. The trade chops $7M off the teams payroll, allowing them to sign a Santana or comparable FA and still come in $15M less than last years OD payroll.
  15. SF70
    Yeah, I believe Busch will hit, but he can’t defend and that’s a problem. Imo, the Dodgers had 2 starters worthy of being included in a Burnes trade, Pepiot & Sheehan, and Pepiot is now with Tampa. As I said in another post in this thread, I don’t think Sheehan is going anywhere now that Pepiot is gone, maybe for Cease, but probably not even for him. The Dodgers & Brewers just don’t match-up in trades very well since both Friedman & Arnold are too disciplined to move players unless they get more value back than they give-up.
  16. SF70
    Busch is a 26 year old, position-less hitter, that in his SSS debut made Brice Turang look good in the box. wRC+ of 49 with a k-rate of 33%+. Arnold would never want him as a headliner in Burnes deal. Gotta be able to defend or Arnold isn’t going to want you. Most of the pitchers are 25-26 with warts aplenty, and the 2 best arms offered, Frasso & Ryan carry reliever risk. The second trade offer is the least bad, and one that Arnold might not laugh-off, but Sweeney is a meh SS prospect and Ryan, probable reliever. The last offer is the worst — giving up Adames and Burnes and the pick for a positionless hitter, talented arm in Frasso with reliever risk, and a lottery type arm a billion years away from the bigs is the offer Friedman is praying Arnold accepts if given.
  17. SF70
    No way Friedman gives up that much pitching. Sheehan isn’t going anywhere imo, unless it’s for Cease, and with Pepiot traded off, I think he now holds Sheehan. I just don’t think the Brewers & Dodgers match-up in a Burnes trade. Friedman & Arnold are too disciplined and both will want to “win” the trade-return. Going to need a gambler-type GM that really really really wants Burnes and is willing to really really really pay to get him. Preller-Dombrowski-Anthopolous.
  18. SF70
    Those are trade proposals Friedman would absolutely do — and Arnold would laugh at.
  19. SF70
    Actually, he hasn’t been able to maintain his velocity deeper into games, losing velo after just 3 innings or so, which tells me he’s far from starting for the big-club even if he continues to make command improvement. I think the focus will be on building-up his stamina which could take time, maybe 1-2 years. He can’t start out at 97-100, and sit 94-95 by the 4th inning if he going to eventually rotation. Hes worth taking our time with.
  20. SF70
    Should open the door even wider for a Santana reunion with the team’s biggest competitor over his services now seemingly out on the Santana sweepstakes.
  21. SF70
    Wilson didn’t have Ross’s history as a solid big-league starter. This could turn out to be even a better signing than Rea of last year, especially if the post-TJ velo is real and sustainable moving-forward. Excited to see what our PDS can do for him.
  22. SF70
    Yeah, Dodgers need at least 3 veteran inning-eating starters and assuming at least 1 of them will be acquired by trade, to limit the long-term money outlay. My guess is Friedman goes Cease or Burnes.
  23. SF70
    It’s been 30 years since Selig & co. somehow talked the large-market owners into meaningful revenue-sharing, and unfortunately there are no SM owners with the salesmanship and galvanizing skills of Mr Selig that can convince the large-market owners to give up profit for the good of the game. Instead it’s add more playoff teams so more SM teams have hope for the postseason. The way I see it going is to keep adding compensatory draft-picks for SM teams, and increasing penalties for large-market teams for spending, Increasing the loss of international bonus money and pushing draft-picks further down and losing more draft-picks. Give the SM teams more young talent that they can extend thru their prime-aged seasons and let the large-markets continue to overspend by buying post-prime FA talent.
  24. SF70
    Yeah, I think Krall will now deal from his ridiculous IF depth to add a Glasnow-Bieber-Cease, the one major weakness of that team — a veteran TOR starter to lead their young and talented rotation. Scary team.
  25. SF70
    Pittsburgh vs MKE in signing Santana.
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