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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.

No idea how much of it is true and how much is embellished but that Skinny Cow ice cream sandwich story is legendary.

Didn't one of the Atlanta teams do basically the same thing and have it work out really well for them?

He has an upward mobility clause in his contract that requires the Tigers to see if any MLB teams are interested in him on specific dates and if there are, they have to either add him to their own roster or trade him to the interested team. I believe the first date the clause triggers is March 26th, so it could be soon.

I feel like almost every year one of the new things is that they have expanded the team store.

It's mostly people who are disappointed because they misread the title and thought we had acquired Jack Bauer. Since you aren't going to read it, you'll never know if that's true or not.

I didn't watch the press conference, only heard a couple clips from it. Was there swearing outside of the LFG or was it just that? There was a clip of an interview Greg Matzek did with Arnold and Murphy that aired during Brewers Weekly this week. I listened to the podcast yesterday afternoon and was impressed by Murphy, not that my liking of his answers in an interview in any way predict success.

A little disappointing but not unexpected. It seems like being a good but not great likeable first baseman equates to a short shelf life in Milwaukee. Also, is Robert Murray tweeting from the future? Unless my calendar is broken, it's still the 17th, not the 18th.

The most logical reasoning for this trade based on this thread is that Matt Arnold is a Brewer Fanatic regular and missed the non-stop discussion about Keston Hiura.

I wonder how much the front office feels the same way. Or if they worry that with Burnes they could be just good enough to be in playoff contention but not good enough to be legitimate World Series contenders and have it be 2022 all over again. I imagine it would be far from ideal for them to want to move Burnes at the deadline and have offers that are really good but also not want to go through what they went through in 2022 after the Hader trade. Moving one of your best players at the deadline while leading the division once went over poorly enough (even if it has worked out well in the long run), I imagine doing it a second time in three years would go over even worse with players/fans.

Senate passes the stadium funding bill after a couple amendments (increase in ticket surcharge for non-Brewers events and adding city of Milwakee/Milwaukee appointees to stadium board) were made to get enough support.

I'm a little surprised that there seem to be a fair number of people, here and elsewhere, with a fairly strong opinion on Weeks as the bench coach, both positive and negative. Beyond what he did as a player I don't feel like there is much information out there to give any indication of how he will fare as a coach. I don't know that his high on base percentage or struggles defensively say anything about how he will do as a coach. His successes and failures, like most players, seem more likely to be due to his physical abilities rather than lack of understanding of how to play the game. I wasn't worried when Counsell was hired as the manager that he was going to ruin Ryan Braun by forcing him into a using a goofy batting stance and I wouldn't be worried Weeks is going to turn Turang into a butcher defensively. Whether he'll be good as a coach or not, I have no idea. Murphy has been the right hand man of one of the best managers in baseball for the past several years, it shouldn't be that surprising that he would get a job as manager, whether with the Brewers or elsewhere. How much of Counsell's success was helped by having Murphy as his bench coach? I imagine the response to his hiring would be much more positive if Counsell had chosen to go anywhere but the Cubs. The thing I'm most curious about is whether the hire is a sign of trades to come and the Brewers taking a step back in 2024 to build for the future or if they choose to keep the core together and try to compete in 2024.

It's very limited evidence but the whole Brian Anderson situation sure seemed like it was the front office wanting to hold on to a scrappy veteran longer than onfield performance deserved, not Counsell.

Brewers expected to name Pat Murphy their new manager, sources tell @TheAthletic...

Listened the JS Brewers podcast this morning and Curt talked about this and how it would point to the Brewers either promoting from within or if it is an outside hire, it is going to be someone with zero managing experience who is just happy to have the job even if it means accepting a coaching staff that is already in place.

Who knows all of the motivations that went into the decision but I wonder if the whole managing the hometown team aspect had turned into a negative for him. Almost every time I heard him talk this season, he did not sound like someone who was having fun. Maybe the weight of not just being the manager, but the local hero who was going to bring a championship to Milwaukee, wore on him. Maybe having to always answer what this or that accomplishment meant as someone who grew up as a fan of the Brewers wore on him. Maybe the "one of us" narrative being used to help sell tickets wore on him. Or maybe it's none of that, maybe it was just the prospect of another year of having a DH anchoring the middle of the order that is someone pulled off the scrap heap. Or maybe it was something else entirely. But the whole thing about him saying in September that his thinking had shifted towards managing in 2024 and perhaps elsewhere sounds to me like he made the realization that it wasn't being a manager that he was unhappy with, it was being the manager of the Brewers that he was unhappy with.