BrewerFan

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

.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.

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.

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.

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.

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!!

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.

Pratt with his first HR for Appleton! That kid is gonna be fun to watch...

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.

No, it's not misleading at all. You're using numbers from his rookie contract. That'd be like using the last two years for Love('23 and '24). Again, just restructured it adding 4 and nearly 220 himself before the '23 season. There's nothing misleading about the numbers, the only thing misleading is thinking that's just a 10 year deal for 503M. His rookie deal went until 2021. 17.9% of the salary cap in 2022 16.5% of the cap in 2023 14.5% of the cap in '24 24% of the cap the next two years. And he'll almost certainly get another restructure, another big check, they'll lower those 66M dollar cap hits down to 30, spread it all out more and continue to do so. He's not taking discounts. That's the point. Love has cap hits of ~8%(still kinda part of the rookie deal, but they added $), ~11%, 12.37%, 13.57% and then ~21.6% when it gets up to 72M or whatever in 2028 at which time, he'll also have restructured(if he performs). You might as well throw out the 10 year 503 numbers as they're ultimately mostly meaningless. From 2020 to '23, when he signed his first two contracts, he got ~275 in GTD money. And he should have, he deserved it and he's won a couple of SBs. But...he's not leaving money on the table, the numbers are the numbers. The only ones that matter are the cash paid and the cap hits(and they really only matter in 5 years increments). Not the 2030 numbers.

I was just confused as to the why. Oh well...been a great Olympics thus far. Next week should be even better!

It just so happened to be an all drag version that looked nearly identical to the last supper? C'mon...justify it or defend it, don't pretend it wasn't obvious what they were doing. IF they'd came up with this idea to have people lined up at a table, certainly the French, the Catholic Church's "eldest daughter" could/would have picked up on what EVERYONE else picked up on during the months/years of preparation. It seemed a rather obvious thumb in the eye to...a couple of billion people in order to make a point. And that's fine, I'm not one of those people...but I just find it a bit hard to believe they'd have done that with any other Religious event as consequential to any other Religion.

I've never been big into superhero movies, but Deadpool is always just gold. I think the dark, over-the-top violence and dark humor, is delivered perfectly by Reynolds.

Well...hasn't happened yet. He did just turn 25 before the season. A guy his size with his power, speed and defense, I don't like giving up on him while getting back a pitcher who...doesn't appear to be much of an upgrade. I really disagree that Wiemer's already "reached his ceiling." His ceiling is substantial...even now, even with the likelihood he reaches it growing more and more unlikely. There was a 40 man crunch, but I feel the opposite about this trade as I did about the Mears trade. Didn't like giving up Herrera, but thought Mears was an obvious candidate to bounce back. I'm not seeing that with Montas.

I don't speak in terms of who's 'greedy' but when you look at MLB and the other major sports, MLB players get a smaller pct of the revenue. It'd fallen below 40% last year...and I would doubt it's increased much this year.

I'm torn. I want to see the best possible rotation out there...but I also think Misiorowski's ceiling is SO astronomically high as a starter, I just hope even if he comes up, dominates, they don't "settle" for him as a reliever. As for Yoho...yeah, no real danger there, but we're already running up against 40-man limitations. That's my real concern. But Wiemer is now off along with Junis...so couple spots opening and I'd guess a couple more.

Also seemingly increasingly possible he may end up pitching for the Big League Club if they can't get healthy/get some of these guys right. I've given up a bit on Ashby, but...now Megill down, Hudson. Luckily Williams looked great last night, but Mis for 2-3 innings the last month and then potentially into the playoffs might not be the worst thing in the world.