BrewerFan

Yeah, here's the thing that you and obviously the MLBPA is missing. They'd make MORE if they had revenue sharing and a cap. NBA mandates 50% of revenue go to the players(with the Bird rules, it goes WELL over 50%, but a minimium of 50%). NFL- Likewise, it's roughly 48.5%, and it balances out as there are floors, but if you understand the NFL Salary Cap, teams can spend 100M more in cash... as teams like the Saints have been doing for a while now... but eventually that evens out, so we'll just go with the CBA mandated MINIMIUM of 48.5% MLB-Players get 38-40% of MLB revenue as there's no cap and little revenue sharing. So players aren't making more. A FEW select players are getting massive deals. Most players in MLB have to wait until their 30-32 to become Free Agents, the better part of 7 seasons before they reach Free Agency. So the Dodgers can sign Ohtani to a 700M deal or the Mets can sign Soto to a 765M dollar deal, but overall, they're earning a smaller percentages of MLB Revenues. The only difference would be... the Dodgers wouldn't be able to stack their rotation with 5-6 30M AAV Starters and the Brewers or...Pirates would be able to afford to keep some of their stars.

Well, there would be no Green Bay Packers without the cap AND the revenue sharing. I think it's 100% accurate to say that. The Green Bay Packers got a check for 432.5M dollars to START the league year. That's before ANY other money is spent. They can compete at that point. It's not imagined and it's not possible without revenue sharing and salary cap. I also don't know what signs there are of demand waning for the NFL. The World Series had it's BEST rating since 2017 and it averaged 15.8M viewers. NFL games that are only available via streaming average 14.8M viewers. Average Sunday Noon Games average 21M. 49M people watched the NFL season opener. But lets compare the Super Bowl to the World Series. The pinnicale of each sport; Sunday’s Eagles-Chiefs Super Bowl 59 averaged a combined 41.7 rating and 127.7 million viewers across FOX, Tubi, Telemundo and Fox Deportes, surpassing Chiefs-49ers on CBS, Nickelodeon and Univision last year (123.7M) to rank as the largest Nielsen-estimated audience on record. That's compared to 15.8 for the World Series. Hell, the NFL Super Bowl Generates more money in ONE game than the NBA Finals and the World Series combined. I don't know what the point of this is. Poorly run teams haven't won so... ergo the salary cap hasn't helped them? That's a... kinda silly argument. Take the salary cap away and watch the Giants, Cowboys, Eagles, the Rams... the Bears, they'd just go out and buy the top players. Keeping Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay? You wouldn't be able to. It'd be like baseball. He'd sign his rookie contract and then hit the open market and he'd have made whatever ALL 30 teams would have deemed him worth. I'm kinda at a loss as to how you can look at the NFL's revenue sharing and Salary Cap and argue THAT hasn't contributed to the NFL's popularity. The NFL, the GAME would be dangerous without a salary cap. Imagine having an NFL team spending ~450 MILLION more than another team. How do you think that'd go? The NFL would have had to contract if not for the Mara and Rooney families and it'd be a joke.

Yes, it'll be messy. It'll probably mean a much shorter season in 2026. That doesn't mean it's not worth doing. One of the reasons the NFL has just blown past MLB is the inequality. We didn't have the Rooney and Mara's to help ensure the future of the sport...

That makes sense, but we're also in a reality in which it sounds like Giannis is going to be the primary PG this year... so I really don't know what that means for PT or a rotation. Are we going with a big lineup or is this just a way to get Trent and Porter on the floor with Giannis, Turner and I still assume Kuzma? Or Green actually. I'd prefer to see him get more PT. I'm not quite giving up on the Bucks, but I'm also about half checked out. I don't trust Doc... or frankly this organization. They are the antithesis of the Brewers. They don't develop young players. I think Beauchamp had all the tools to be a contributor, I think Jackson Jr is a guy who plays ugly but is effective. I'd almost prefer AJJ over Kuzma. But, that's getting off-topic. I just hope we can shine that turd up enough that we can get him shooting 40%+ with Giannis attacking and maybe we can deal him.

I think people are WAY too down on his MLB potential. I think it's very clearly capped as a utility player, but I think he can be a pretty solid player in that role. A very good defender and a guy who slap the ball around and take some walks. I feel like we have a pretty good grasp of his upside and because of that, I'm good with this. I'd MUCH rather trade someone like him than even Quintana or Anderson, young IFA who aren't even 19 yet.

To your first point, no, it doesn't. Doing more with less doesn't make me want less. And to the second, that's a good piece of leverage, though... I don't think there should be a "cap" on teams who are spending up against the cap. If the Dodgers can charge 5K per ticket and sell 55,000 tickets and make 800M a year on a 250M cap, they should be able to do so... IMO. The spending floor and caps on teams like Pitt are more important to me.

Kuzma... doesn't inspire a ton of confidence(to put it mildly) but I can't imagine we'd have been able to sign Turner and keep Portis without that trade. I don't like that we gave up AJ Johnson, but... that's over with. So if it's now or later in the year, he's a trade chip. It doesn't all have to happen now...right? Kuminga is a really interesting target, but I'd really hold off on dealing that until Giannis extends or doesn't.

Yeah... but that's a paltry sum when talking about signing a couple of HS prospects. They've stayed within the bonus the last two years and that's fine. They're willing to spend the money. I'd be a bit bothered if they were skimping here. Their payroll is already lower... but they've been doing a great job at continuing to add talent to the system. So I'm alright with that. But it doesn't seem like it's a factor. IIRC last year they were pretty much in the same situation. Made very aggressive offers, kids just turned them down.

Ok...well, if you say he was the 17th, I'll take your word for it, but yes, I would have. I'd have felt BETTER about it knowing you're going to be able to make the QO and get a pick right after the first round, so... yeah, it wouldn't have been the EXACT same scenario. Now he's a top 100 prospect as a starting pitcher for a guy who... probably costs that+ and hasn't hit particularly well away from AZ. Hell, if you're talking about before this year, he hadn't hit that well in the last 3-4 years. What? The CUBS "overpay, beat us for division, we lost WC series... Rinse and repeat." Are you of the belief the Brewers have been finishing behind the Cubs after they've overpaid and that's been happening over and over? They've won one Division Title since 2017 and that was in the strike shortened year. We've won the division 4 times in that stretch and we're in 1st this year(Which...would make 5). So... yeah, that hasn't been "rinse and repeat."

Been a wild run here. NVDA, AMD, AVGO, SMCI...TSM up and down the AI infrastructure is going wild(except for the first start ASML). It's just been an insane turnaround since April. Retirement age moving a couple decades back and forth. I suppose it was kinda obvious when he took off most export controls and opened it up(which...I may not agree with, but what the hell, I'm going to enjoy if nothing else).

... well...yeah, obviously. I think that's all of it. We find out Yount died, I'd HOPE most of them wouldn't troll us on Twitter. And I think most Brewers fans of a certain age have a level of respect for Sandberg.

I have no idea who we're talking about here. What top 100 prospect did we trade for to play 3rd? I could be missing it, but... we tried Dunn there, then Durbin there, neither sniffed the top 100. Maybe Dunn was close at one point, but not that I recall. Durbin wasn't even top 30 for the Yankees. I might be missing someone really obvious, but I don't think we traded for a top 100 to play 3rd. Ortiz and Turang were top 100 and then Hoskins and Yelich made the lineup look solid, but 3B was the question. Durbin has been a very good answer there either way.

I mean... one of the question marks is he's a 2 pitch pitcher with a good Fastball... but without great velo and a good slider. I could see him being 95-97 out of the pen and then the slider. But my guess would be is it's too early, they wanted him to keep developing and that will happen later in the year. It's not like our BP is falling apart, but that's a move I would expect to happen in the near future. I'm still really hoping they don't deal him for a rental, but... that's where I think this could be headed.

I'm actually seeing Brewers fans lay off Cubs fans on Twitter... Sad to see. I remember actually being a fan back when we hated the other Chicago team and constantly got into brawls with them and the Cubs were just generally bad.

Lions injury luck is... not getting better. Someone asked how have the Lions improved and I just thought about Hutchinson and McNiel and... so many guys they have who were hurt last year.

And Jansen an .864 OPS over that same period. One of the players most expected to go. I'm a bit confused as to how this was a huge overpay. If you're assuming Made and Pena were on their way up to HiA... where was he going to play? I don't think Pratt is moving up yet. I'd leave him in AA until the end of the year and get some AAA PAs late.

LOL... upon asking me to leave you alone... you again quoted me and engaged and you're again whining about it. Scroll up bud!

Kid...seriously, you were just whining asking me to leave you alone. You obviously don't want me to or you'd stop quoting the same post over and over... Your question has been answered. I am curious why you only seemed to care about HR total before and we add a guy who... is hitting better and how shown more power than Contreras and you're upset about it and how it's only NOW dawning on you that Suarez may cost more than you seem to think(though you've been all over the place with Pratt being traded for him and Henderson, but it also not costing nearly that much). Do you want to keep whining that I said about 4 pages ago that you have a child like opinion or do you want me to stop? Make up your mind there sport.

LOL... no, I actually didn't call you any name. You're really flailing now. I said your take was child like. Are you really whimpering now because I am attacking your argument? Are you just immune from any critiques in your mind? Again... is there a reason this couldn't be in one post? Or why you couldn't... simply say Suarez the couple dozen times you were asked and said you refused to until someone said "what was if not the season we bEaTtHEDodGeRS!!!"

My mood has swung in... what direction? You quoted this post twice in two totally different tones. See, now why don't you block me if that "child like" comment trigged you so badly? But it's also not because you "simply have a different opinion," it's because you have a... child like opinion. "I'd trade Made if it'd guarantee we'd win a Ship." That and you've made... probably 3 dozen posts without actually saying who or what you thought would be "going all in."

Well... if Tremayne Person says so... So Naylor would have been the big power bat you wanted? You were asked no less than a dozen times who you wanted and silence.

Nope. Not a bit of it. I pointed out a few people wanted to trade Chourio a couple years ago and he said Choiuro hasn't "progressed."

I don't think we're going to trade Peralta. That's another benefit of having a deep system. You can just make the QO and take the pick. I assume we'll make one this year to Woody if he stays healthy. As for Gasser... I get your point, but recovery from TJ is a really high pct. I'd keep Henderson over Gasser only because Gasser's clock is running and Henderson's isn't(though having a lefty coming off TJ...where pitchers on average pick up a MPH or 2 on their FB isn't the worst thing either). Yeah, I think the context was who would you rather give up in a trade. So Gasser. You'd keep Henderson, trade Gasser.

No, of course not. We literally ALL want to see the Brewers win a World Series. We've also all seen enough Baseball to know that it's rare that the best team get there and 7 seasons of Pratt is worth far more than 2 months for our market. It may be worth it for the Cubs or Yankees to trade a guy in that range. They can spend 100-300M more than us. I didnt even like the Sabathia trade at the time because Greinke was on the market(reportedly) and I thought it was smarter to try and get him...at least we'd have 3-4 years. We made that trade and had a first round exit. So while it was a great season... and we were in a different place. Getting into the playoffs was a bigger deal. But you never have any guarantees. The Padres have squandered SO many stars around the league that came from their farm system. If they were just patient and had their money... I really think they'd have won a WS by now.

Henderson+Yoho and another prospect for Suarez and Justin Martinez and I'd be on board with that. I think you'd probably be selling Henderson at close to his peak value and if you could get back another arm who could be part of the back of the pen in the future? Probably unlikely. Most likely they'd deal Miller or Ginkel(who is actually kinda interesting himself despite having a big ERA).