Some type of Financial Fair Play is the only way to keep the leagues talent fair. There is no reason why 4 teams spend 800% more money than the Miami Marlins. The only good news though is that the Yankees, Phillies, Dodgers and Mets are starting to get old, but they will just reload with spending more money.
On Fox News:
Credit Card delinquency/default rate up 12% in 2024 and over 1.17 trillion owed to CC companies. Estimates say over 12 billion of that will never be paid.
I think the never be paid estimate is on the low side. Crazy
Yes absolutely they should because just about every MLB team is short pitchers every season.
The Brewers used at least 36 different pitchers last season.
Trading Hoskins would be ok but I think his knee bothered him just about all last season. How about Hoskins for either Sherzer or Verlander a Straight up trade?
As far as a pitcher helping the Brewer younger pitchers better themselves Verlander would be a much better choice/teacher/coach than Scherzer. Scherzer runs to much on pure adrenaline. I would have to choose Verlander as a better complete pitching choice. There both at the end of there careers so I'm looking at the total benefits to help the team.
Ok, I forgot about that line of thinking, I thought Counsell was the famous one for that. My personal opinion is to simply put your best hitters and hottest hitters towards the front of the front of the order as being a better strategy.
The only reason I can think of for batting him in that spot is his running speed. I believe we modeled ourselves last season after the Arizona Diamondbacks more so than the traditional lineup . But I agree, you have to be a much better hitter than Black to be batting #3.
The first guy that came to my mind was Ron Theobald but he was 5" 8" LOL He signed as a rookie for $11,800.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Theobald#:~:text=In March 1970%2C Theobald was,seasons before retiring in 1973.
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/ron-theobald/
I'm sure Hoskins will have a better average this season, even though he hit 26 home runs and missed over 30 games last year. I don't think his knee was ever quite right last season either after he tweaked it in May last season sliding. His ACL should be much improved this year, the only thing working against him is his age at 32 in March.
Also, Garrett Mitchell is a 80-grade runner which is a player with a running speed that is considered elite.
So are Corbin Carroll, Elly Da La Cruz, Shohei Ohtani, 80-grade runners.
That is if he can keep from pulling his hamstrings.