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I'm wondering how much of that is Morgan struggling at LT vs just not having RG options? In any event, looking at Wirfs and Darrisaw's extensions, I'll take as many people who can play OT as we can get. 5 years 141M and 4/113? Zach Tom's off-season just got a little brighter. That will likely be a priority this off-season(assuming good health).
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I'd suspect if you went and looked at the elite players in Baseball, they spend the least amount of time in AAA. Often times it's just a couple of months, get that extra year of control while they put up ridiculous numbers down there, and then call them up.
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Yup. This is really cool to see. It's an aspect of the game that I've so vastly underrated years ago. I think those players really help keep the team looser and just having more fun. Aguilar, Arcia, Adames now. The Brewers teams with Hardy, Weeks, Hart, Braun, Prince, they were so talented offensively, but they'd tighten up and could really struggle at times. Whoever was right/wrong about sending him down, I don't recall many people on this board upset about that 10-year contract they handed out while I saw many Brewers fans or fans elsewhere upset about that type of money for an "unproven" player. Don't think anyone's signing that song anymore!
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It's AAA and...it's not like we've got Chourio, Mitchell and Wiemer down there together. If someone needed Wiemer out in order to shine...that kinda feels like an issue with that player. Yeah..." currently sucks," when one guy is young and in AAA and the other is older and has a 20M option for '25 is a bit different. But...Montas looked pretty damn good last night. I was impressed and I think the Brewers have a chance to turn him around and hopefully we'll be arguing about picking up that 20M option. I Still don't and won't like the price, I still had hopes for him. I thought he'd amount to something 2 days ago and I still do, but I get why people are down on him. I think if we just let him be, you'd get a guy who'd hit well, play great defense and even if he only hit .220, would still have value on the bottom of a lineup. Oh well, I'm moving on. I do hope Black can get some playing time and step up and really contribute as a LFer down the stretch or in some capacity. I think he'll get on base and hit for a decent average.
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I don't know what would have gotten it done or if we'd have even made that offer(I was kinda starting with Mis and Quero, I think it's a given you'd have to add a couple more prospects), I was just saying hypothetically, that's the only player I'd have wanted to give up substantial prospects for. I think the Brewers have approached each player differently. They never seemed to plan on trading Prince as that was their first time back in the playoffs in '08 and then doubled down on trading FOR Grienke and Marcum. Others like Gomez, Lucroy or even Hader, Burnes, they've traded.
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There are slim pickings and I'd have thought we could have acquired Montero with Houston taking most of his salary just for some salary relief last week. His underlying metrics are even worse than his numbers. Fujinami would make more sense...but he's also not cheap and he's ben incredibly wild also. Not sure there's anyone out that at the moment who's much of an upgrade. Houser has been worse than last year(which actually was fine)...but Montas looked good. I think we roll with what we've got...for now.
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Judges throws out the 4.7B settlement filed by customers from that would have ended up closer to 14B and would have had a MASSIVE impact on the cap as Covid did for teams according to some, some have said it wouldn't impact the cap(not sure how that works if each team loses 500M)... https://www.msn.com/en-ph/sports/nfl/federal-judge-overturns-4-7-billion-jury-verdict-in-sunday-ticket-lawsuit-and-rules-for-nfl/ar-BB1r3vKq
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It absolutely would. I hadn't thought of that, but you know you'll just see a squib kick. But if you have to punt it...that'd add a whole different element and you'd actually get the desired result. It's a massive difference. Not hard to see this having a big impact on games. Bobbling or muffing a kick could EASILY result in a turnover. I do get why teams like GB wanted a year of this in the pre-season first, but, they're going right to it.
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They gave him more money...GTD, accelerating the money he'd get paid and they'll do so again in another ~year or so. A 20 year contract for 2B dollars doesn't mean anything if you're GTD 6M the first 2 years. They added 218B in GTDs a couple years after the first deal. So yes, they added money. They did give him more, they didn't add years. This will just...keep happening on a loop every couple of years. If, as you said, the Chiefs just wouldn't add money without giving him more years, they had literally no financial incentive to make restructure this contract. So why'd they do it? Because when you have a franchise QB, you keep them happy. You pay them. The Packers did this with Rodgers a couple of years ago. Actually voided a year, and added 3 at 150.8 when he still had 3 years left on his contract because...he was unhappy. https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/18/football/patrick-mahomes-record-contract-deal/index.html
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That's exactly what the Chiefs did though. This was the point of the 10-year deal. It gives them more more room to maneuver. They just went and added 218M dollars GTD a couple of years after he signed that deal and no years(but voids) added. Restructures are not just converting base to bonus. That's just a restructure you can do without the player agreeing, but a restructure is just any changing in the contract. Yes, it's common to take a guy who's got a 60M salary, give it to him in a SB, spread that out over 5 years. That's not what KC has done with Mahomes. They've just increased his pay and are pretty open about doing it again in the future. Mahomes effectively has a 4-year contract and it'll almost certainly be restructured in '25 and he'll get more money at that point.
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Yeah...I get it. I've owned rental properties and had to cut the grass at those places and I've lived in a lot of different places. It's just something I've gotten used to hearing in the Summer. Like roadwork all over the place...though it's much less annoying to me.
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I'd have done a Quero+Mis type trade for Skubal, but short of something like that, a multi-year ace, I wouldn't have wanted to give up a Pratt, Bitonti type for Flaherty or another short-term upgrade. and I'd have been sick about trading that type of talent anyway. It does seem to me like this is the first year of this new window that's opening. In fact, looking at what the Pads gave up, I'd have considered trading Williams had he been healthy or yielded the same type of return.
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They may be a full strength, but turning a double play isn't quite the same as fielding the ball at 3rd and taking a crow hop and firing over to 1st. You're falling away, or at best, you have to worry about the guy coming in. The closest may be when he's going up the middle and he has to lay out for a ball, but you're still popping to your feet and throwing flat-footed even on those. I'd imagine if you took Ortiz, put him at 2B, his velocity on his balls would drop quite a bit. It's just a very different platform and type of throw from 2B to 3B.
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Yeah, but there's going to be far more opportunities to let one go at 3rd vs 2B. How often does Turang have a chance to step into one and let it rip?
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Apparently Yellich has been against moving to 1st and wants to stay in LF. I think it's about time we stop caring too much about his preference. Sorry, but he's getting to his mid 30s, hasn't been able to stay healthy. Having a great year, but...could be over. See how Black can handle LF. I'd guess he'd be pretty good out there, especially with time. Chourio, Frelick, Mitchell, too talented defensively. Yellich can DH or play 1B if he can handle going back there. It has been...what, 14 years now. Ortiz has been great, but...why him over Turang at SS? I think we'll see what a luxury it was having those 3 on the IF together once Willy moves on, but Turang seems like the guy who should play SS...IMO. Hard to go wrong either way and Ortiz is making the Burnes trade look just awesome, but I'd still like to see Turang there. And signed to an extension now.
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If you're going to buy a mower, a push mower, why wouldn't you just get one with whatever your brand of tools are? I own Dewalt. No real good reason, just started with them and stuck with them(mostly). I need the 60V Batteries anyway. If I was to buy a push mower...I'd go that route. If I had Ryobi, I'd get Ryobi, etc...if I had Milwaukee, I'd not worry about it breaking every 5 years, but same idea. So I wouldn't need to get a whole new setup if a battery goes. I do agree, the noise seems irrelevant. I don't worry about a neighbor mowing and I've not given it much thought. It's just kinda part of the summer background. I'm mostly surrounded by Farms, but even when the people across the street mow, I think little of it and it's not like anyone is doing it at 6AM.
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.303 .351 .508 .859 Gennett wasn't bad in Cincy. Two years, 50 HRs and we had Villar at 2nd for those two years IIRC. But no, not the same situation at all. Wiemer had a higher ceiling, was younger and...I don't think we got value while Gennett was DFAed at a time we weren't competitive. Though I doubt we'd have DFAed him had we known we'd compete the next two years. But I was fine with Gennett. I still think Wiemer has a lot of potential. Just turned 25 and he's raw.
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Yeah, I don't know. I didn't think he had much value 2 days ago...but that's also why I thought it made no sense to trade him. I think the guy came in early and struggled...as young players do. They revamped his swing and moved on the next year. He was a top 100 prospect. I do believe people are doing the "Wiemer sucked anyway," thing to talk themselves into the trade...but so be it. Can't change the Brewers' decisions. I didn't like trading Herrera, but I liked Mears. I really dislike trading Wiemer though. At worst he's an outstanding defender who I think would be able to come in and hit lefties when you have Black, Yelich, Turang, Mitchell, and Frelick all on the roster/in the lineup. But I definitely think the sentiment has shifted pretty drastically. Oh, the one I love the most, "there's a reason he was a 4th Rd pick." Great. There are also reasons why Woodruff, Burnes...Pratt(I don't care where you were drafted is the point here). I trust the FO, but there are still trades I don't like. Three in particular, Reece Olson, I didn't like the Antoine Kelly(that turned out to be fine) and I don't love this one.
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I totally forgot about him. But speaking of guys who haven't played since a successful covid season, what happened to Jeffress? He wanted to come back, went out with like a 1.20 ERA. I remember some inferences made by him, but never heard more.
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2024 Draft Signings Thread
BrewerFan replied to Jake McKibbin's topic in MLB Draft & International Signings
So in theory you could still give Levonas ~3.4 yet, right? His slot is 1.2 or so, you're obviously taking his slot out of the total to come up with the 2.1M left. I understand it's very unlikely he signs, but I wonder what his number was/is? Are we thinking this is going to be a year the Brewers juts don't spend that 5%? You can't really expect them to get a Pratt and Bitonti later on and come like 30 bucks away every year. Also really makes next years draft interesting given they should have 5 in the top 2 rounds or top 70 picks. -
2024 Draft Signings Thread
BrewerFan replied to Jake McKibbin's topic in MLB Draft & International Signings
I'm never mad at drafting pitching...I don't think we could draft too many pitchers. -
I'm convinced some people would buy gas-powered hand tools if they sold them! Just throw a little gas in the impact, the nail gun and good to go!!
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I just bought a Dewalt 60V 20" Chainsaw and...man those things are nice. I was expecting to have a little trouble with some of the bigger stuff. Had a Black Walnut fall(it's back near a river)...and I was able to cut it up into 6-foot sections mostly on one battery. And it seems like it's roughly equal to the Stihl I had that had 55CCs. I was just trying it out, but...it's definitely part of my set now. My Lawnmower and the trimmer I've got are still running well, so probably be a while before I think about switching it up there...though I was kinda curious why the John Deere that I bought was selling for about half of what it was when I bought it...~10 years ago. I'm guessing the electric have pushed the gas down. I only mow for 2 hours at a time anyway, so 3-4 hours would be plenty.
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Tues. 7/30 - Grab a Six Pack (of Games)
BrewerFan replied to Joseph Zarr's topic in Brewers Minor League Talk
Pratt with his first HR for Appleton! That kid is gonna be fun to watch... -
Is Frankie Montas a Real, Worthwhile Upgrade?
BrewerFan replied to Jake McKibbin's topic in Brewer Fanatic Front Page News
I hope you're wrong. I very much liked Mears. I liked Herrara, but Mears was an obvious target...and that's without the benefit of knowing that Megill was going on the DL. Montas is not impressive.
