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Naylor is on the 40 man roster. https://www.mlb.com/brewers/roster/40-man has everyone on the 40 man, including the players on the 60 day IL who do not count as one of the 40.

This is probably thinking too far outside the box, but how about they sign him to a 2-year minor league deal (they did that with someone a few years back knowing they wouldn't pitch the first year of the contract, right?) with the idea that the first year is going to be rehabbing, obviously, but also essentially in some sort of coaching role? Then, the second year is highly incentive laden so that if he is healthy and is able to return and be effective he's paid what worth. Gets rid of taking up a 40-man space while he's rehabbing, gets rid of the lock-out being an issue with being able to rehab with the team (maybe? I have no idea what the specific rules are for something like that), keeps him in the organization with one more chance to go out as a Brewer on his terms, and maybe gets a useful pitcher in 2028. And if it is clear at some point before then that it just isn't happening and he has the interest, retire and transition into a full time coaching role. I could be completely wrong, but I can't imagine there are going to be teams are going to be lining up to offer much in terms of a big-league deal given the laundry list of injuries over the past few years.

Maybe Jean Segura can come out of retirement to steal first base to get to a runner on first instead of second?

Good article in this morning's USA Today about Bauers: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2026/06/21/jakers-bauers-stats-brewers-contract/90633096007/

Erick Almonte was on Tim Dillard's podcast over the winter, I finally got around to listening to that episode this past weekend. It was a very interesting conversation, I enjoy hearing the stories of guys who were basically career minor league guys but lasted a long time.

By my math he's on pace for 45 wins. Is that a lot?

If anyone else was confused by the math on this like I initially was, the numbers past the decimal place are the number of days of service time they have, not a fraction of a year, so Harrison has 1 year, 102 days of service time, not just barely over a year of service time.

Happy for Murph, it's always a bit of an unknown with people you don't really know, but he seems like a genuinely good person and what he has done over the past couple seasons speaks for itself. It seems like so long ago that everyone was talking about how he was just there to keep the seat warm for a season or two until Rickie Weeks took over.

What a series. Can't ask for much more as a fan. Sure, a sweep would have be great, but what a way to win it.

This. I think it was last year (or maybe the year before) that Dom went through the statistics on Brewers Weekly and there was essentially zero correlation between how hot a team was going into the playoffs and how well they did in the playoffs.

The injury update on brewers.com shows that he's expected to resume throwing sometime next week, so it must not be too severe.

Durbin!!!

I don't pay much attention to the world of card collecting but it is wild to me that things that have so little tangible value (e.g, a piece of cardboard, a digital "coin") are somehow worth so much money. Also, without knowing the details, these 1/1 cards seem like they're pushing the boundary of sports cards basically being gambling. I suppose you could make the case that they always kind of have been to some extent, but still...

Well deserved, the way she does interviews with Spanish speaking players while simultaneously being the one translating the interview is so impressive.

It stands out as really strange to me that previous season/career fWAR for Contreras/Raleigh is slightly above Wieters yet over a decade later (with 35% inflation over that time period) the salary has not changed at all. Over that time, MLB revenue appears to have consistently grown (outside of the pandemic impacted seasons) and the qualifying offer has consistently grown. The article may be right that Contreras will lose but the argument that he should be making even more than he filed for seems logical, too, unless I am missing something.