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Where is this coming from? Snelling was a top 40 prospect on BA and MLB and ~50 on Baseball Prospectus. Lesko was also top 50 on BA and Prospectus and in the 50s on MLB.com And those were just the two off the top of my head. Snelling went for a reliever with 3 other prospects and Lesko went for a 32-year-old reliever. I'd guess there'd be other top 100 prospects who were traded, but...I didn't go through each trade and parse out the players, just the names that stood out to me.
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I didn't say Gomez or Podsednick, just that I thought if they left him along, in a year or two he'd be a good player. I don't think either is a great comparison for Wiemer. I'd go more with Joey Gallo type. I think he'll hit .220 walk a lot, hit for a lot of power and he can provide a lot of value on defense. I don't know exactly how many top 100 were traded, but the Pads traded at least two. Snelling and Lesko. It's silly to say we traded Burnes for a "lousy return." Ortiz is a guy you build a team with. Maybe he's not the lynchpin, but he's a very valuable player. Hall was awesome for Baltimore last year and we got the 34th pick. It was a pretty good return. I don't know if we could have gotten more for him if we kept him...but we wouldn't have traded him. So it's like 20 years of team control for 3 prospects, 2 that were top 100 for 12+ years or a year of Burnes. I'm viewing the next window as being the next 4-5 years, so I was fine with it.
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Yeah, there may have been a touch of hyperbole online! And some of those flames are or were being stoked even more as it's August in an election season(a historically great month for the markets)...
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I knew that'd be a longshot, but given how he was throwing before the break, I was hoping there was a chance we could trade for him...but I didn't think we'd take on that deal or that the Giants would throw in the towel yet. And that certainly appears to be a good decision.
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I put some in Bonds in Feb in my IRA taking them out of higher risk tech stocks, but that's because I was kinda backed into a corner in my brokerage account. Despite giving back a good chunk of gains, I still don't want to sell and pay the short term taxes(plus all of these companies are increasing their capex on AI...ever one of their top customers). PLTR's earnings should help the AI driven stocks...though NVDA's earnings, which are already locked in and I think will continue to be strong should help help later this month. Forward Guidance may cause be harmed a bit due to a delay in Blackwell, but that should be minimal and could actually help their margins for Q3. I've got 20-25 years, so it's pretty risky, but I'm willing to take it and it's been pretty good so thus far.
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Nikkei back up 10% today, Asian Markets as a whole bouncing back. Most stop up in after hours. I think the crash was a bit premature...as long as things don't really pop off in the Middle East....but we'll see.
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Yeah...I just think it needed a little release...and I think, barring some outside factors, it'll bounce back in the next ~2 months. That's what happens most of the time there's a correction of ~10% or more. You regain and see new ATHs not long thereafter...but if we knew, we'd all be rich.
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I think it's going to be 50 I think there's going to be a little panic creeping in that they waited too long after what...is very possibly(likely?) coming tomorrow.
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Probably not. He's either missing the rest of the year, or he comes back and then has back surgery and tries to rehab in the off-season. Either way, I'm not sure there's going to be a lot of demand for him. And then you'd still need him to agree either way as he's 10/5 guy...and I think he's got a NTC. I think last year would have been the year to trade him...if they could have managed to deal with the NTC and find a team willing to take back the salary and I don't think they ever actually did.
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Yeah, he wasn't available until he was...shockingly. He's been in trade talks since 2018 with Machado. This past off-season Attanasio was saying they were keeping Burnes(in December). Stearns didn't say 'you're always listening,' about a dozen times? You think they wouldn't have "made him available," if Holliday and Rodriguez was actually offered? Of course he was. He wasn't traded until they got what they wanted for him. That's it. If we wouldn't have traded Hader, the reports would have been the Brewers "didn't make him available."
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You don't think the Brewers were asking for a ton for Burnes with 2.5 years left? I'd suspect they were.
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Not at all. If I was Cincy, I'd just throw him out there, let him swing it like he wants to and don't try and mess with his mechanics.
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Finish out the practice with three FGs. Carlson hits from 57, but they iced the kicker...in practice. 2nd kick, Carlson wide right(low snap). 3rd kick, Joseph wide right. Carlson looked pretty good otherwise. Joseph as well, but Carlson looks much easier and smoother. Defense always ahead of the offense, but I like the way they're playing on D. Pretty vanilla obviously, just base defense, lots of man. Lot of 7-8 man boxes. Great to see Watson, Stokes out there running free and the CBs really playing tough....eh, that's about as much as you can take away from a family night. Good energy, aggressive defense and nearly sold out Lambeau for a practice! Highlight of the night was definitely the kids catching punts...one upped Ja!
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Yeah, looks odd. Nice to see Stokes looking good, making a couple plays. That'd be big if they can get him back playing well.
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I'd imagine it'd be like Burnes with 2.5 years left. Remember the deals people were throwing out on here? Even with 2 years left, it was Grayson Rodriguez+Jackson Holliday+? There were some big returns proposed...for Burnes, Hader.
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Sat. 8/3 - Misiorowski Makes His AAA Debut
BrewerFan replied to Jim Goulart's topic in Brewers Minor League Talk
Oof... Kid is going to have to get his command back. I thought he was really pounding the strike zone the last...5-6 starts in AA right up until his last one. I wonder if this is some fatigue or...whatever. -
2024 Draft Signings Thread
BrewerFan replied to Jake McKibbin's topic in MLB Draft & International Signings
That'll be fun, all the young arms are just as exciting for me. Knoth, Letson after Misiorowski, Gasser and Henderson who are all ready or should be in the next year. It just feels like 3 levels of prospects that are coming in waves. The College or more advanced guys, the guys in the lower level of the minors and then some of these really young, LA signings who are always a long way away, but the prep arms as well. Payne is in that group. The youngest A/A+ teams. And then hearing Johnson, who was just on the broadcast talking about how they're going to be "stacked" with regard to next year, draft picks and their pool money. This draft could have gone better, but the Brewers recent team building process/ideology really couldn't be going much better. -
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.
