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  1. AdvantageSchneider
    The Rockies won two more games than we did last year. Can you imagine giving up our top pick to sign Thames? I don't know what they are thinking. Is a 35 and 36 year old CF going to be worth $14M?
  2. AdvantageSchneider
    Who is going to trade for Gennett? The only possible option I can think of is Kansas City. Everyone else seems to have a better option or is in rebuilding mode and wouldn't want scooter. Unless some other contender suffers an injury KC is the only place I can see him going.
  3. AdvantageSchneider
    1) You do know that state taxes are an itemized deduction against federal taxes right? 2) I'm hoping that Stearns didn't have to call Mark A's tax accountant before signing Thames. 3) I agree with the rest of your boilerplate statement. Teams do try to sign players to help them win games. 4) I like all of Stearns other moves. This one seems sketchy to me and a bit of an overpay. Hopefully it will work out.
  4. AdvantageSchneider
    The #Athletics will be phased out as a revenue-sharing recipient over the next four years. I'd love to know how or why that came about.
  5. AdvantageSchneider
    Brewers are likely organized as a pass-through entity. Maximum federal tax rate for individuals is 39.6%. And most of the owners will pay state/local taxes on top of that. At my company we use a baseline 45% tax rate for owner income. Yes, that changes things if they are a passthrough. Regardless I don't think Mark A got rich by paying $16M in salary to save $5M in taxes.
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    Aoki was seen as a backup going into spring training and had no MLB experience. I cant see the brewers looking to platoon Thames right now. The Brewers paid a $2.5M posting fee for Aoki and then signed him to a 2 year deal with a team option for a 3rd year. The brewers were on the hook for less than $7M on Aoki. If Thames turns out as good as Aoki this will be a great deal.
  7. AdvantageSchneider
    I don't think that's really how it works. I don't think they're putting that in a piggy bank and saying "ok, well we didn't spend it this year, so we'll be able to spend MORE money next year. If they didn't spend it, they didn't spend it. Whatever they don't spend in 2016 is just profit. Which is taxed, so they'll lose around 1/3 to 1/2 of it to Uncle Sam and the rest would likely go out as dividends to the owners. Probably better used to reinvest it into the franchise to keep the fans energized. They've done well in getting the farm back in shape, and now it doesn't hurt to spend a little money to get some potentially exciting players on the MLB roster. I'm excited to see what Thames will bring to the table, and am excited to see what other moves the Brewers have coming this offseason. 1/2 to uncle Sam? The max corp tax rate is 35%. How many extra season tickets do you think they sold today because of the Thames signing? I'm thinking of a number less than 1.
  8. AdvantageSchneider
    Not sure I buy that logic. $16M is $16M. It's not like if we don't spend that $16M we lose it. Mark A can save it and spend it some other year. The twins are in the same position payroll wise that we are. Why don't you ask a twin fan if the $9M they spent on Park was a good investment. The Twins just missed the playoffs in 2015 and, outside of a half season of Sano, no power hitters. I suppose they could have spent that $9M on a below average starting pitcher like Mike Pelfrey instead. Or they could have paid Chris Carter $3M and used $6M for relief pitching or anything else useful.
  9. AdvantageSchneider
    Not sure I buy that logic. $16M is $16M. It's not like if we don't spend that $16M we lose it. Mark A can save it and spend it some other year. The twins are in the same position payroll wise that we are. Why don't you ask a twin fan if the $9M they spent on Park was a good investment.
  10. AdvantageSchneider
    Yes, that is his true calling DH. More value to an AL squad than anyone else.
  11. AdvantageSchneider
    Julio Franco?
  12. AdvantageSchneider
    When I heard about the deal I was upset, after reading about it a little more I'm in the meh category. I'm just thinking we have a surplus of OF prospects, why can't we turn one of those guys into a 1B? Domingo is 6'5". Even if they trade Braun that still leaves them with Broxton, Brinson and potentially Phillips if they move Santana to first. I'd rather see young guys play than 30 year old retreads. Someone ran Thames' numbers against Kang. I didn't see anyone run Byung Ho Park's numbers. Here there are. YearAge AgeDif Tm Lg Lev G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB 2013 26 -2.5 Nexen KBO Fgn 128 556 450 91 143 17 0 37 117 10 2 92 96 0.318 0.437 0.602 1.039 271 2014 27 -1.9 Nexen KBO Fgn 128 571 459 126 139 16 2 52 124 8 3 96 142 0.303 0.433 0.686 1.119 315 2015 28 -0.5 Nexen KBO Fgn 140 622 528 129 181 35 1 53 146 10 3 78 161 0.343 0.436 0.714 1.15 377 (sorry I can't get the table to format properly, but he had a couple of 50+HR seasons, generally Pujolos type numbers and he couldn't hit AAA pitching his first year in Minnesota.) Twins signed Park for about $3M a season with a team option 4th year at $6.5M or a $500k buyout, so it would appear that Thames agent earned his commission. My take would be that if the Brewers get positive value out of this deal we can start building Stearns a statute in front of Miller Park. Also, at least the deal is only for $16M and not $42M.
  13. AdvantageSchneider
    I think I was reading an article on fangraphs that the offensive production for OFs was down last year and it appears to be a trend that teams are going with smaller faster OFs that have more range but less pop. So Stearns is not alone.
  14. AdvantageSchneider
    I guess we now know you didn't watch many games last year. They pretty much wore three uniforms last year for a huge chunk of the season: https://uniformlineup.com/milwaukee/mil-daily-uni-lineups/ And the year before how many "uniforms" did they wear? The point still stands. I doubt casual brewer fans could describe the team's "main" home or road uniform.
  15. AdvantageSchneider
    How would you be able to tell if they did have a new one? They never wear the same uniform from one game to the next.
  16. AdvantageSchneider
    What now? How are they going to treat him as if he is a #1? They already asked him to go to the bullpen once. If he doesn't pitch well to start the season next year he's a good bet to get DFAd like Suppan and Wolf.
  17. AdvantageSchneider
    Lester is putting snot on the ball.
  18. AdvantageSchneider
    1) They had the best record in baseball and they did it with only 2 weeks of Schwarber. 2) Heyward's only 27 and even in his down year had a 1.5 WAR. He'll bounce back, unless he's got some debilitaing injury he hasn't told anyone about. 3) They have Jorge Soler (age 24) to trade for more pitching. This thread reminds me of(and my apologies for going political) Gary Johnson saying we don't need to worry about global warming because in the long run we're all dead anyway. 6 years is a long dang time, and they have a smart GM. I don't think you can say with any more certainty that the cubs window will be closed/closing in 6 years than you can say that the Brewers window will be open in 3-6 years.
  19. AdvantageSchneider
    Dana Eveland has elected free agency. Dana has now spent parts of 11 years in the bigs, and has been an above average pitcher for only 2 years, or about 56 of the 444 innings he's pitched. It must be great to be lefthanded.
  20. AdvantageSchneider
    Yes, but losing is a disease.
  21. AdvantageSchneider
    It was a good season because for the most part we didn't have John Vanderwal batting cleanup. We all know we are in a rebuilding mode, but all indications are that the front office is competent and can identify and acquire good players. That makes the losing go down a lot easier.
  22. AdvantageSchneider
    I thought they came out in the middle of the year and said their plan was to still try and win next year, but that if things didn't improve they would start to rebuild. I wonder if ownership changed their mind.
  23. AdvantageSchneider
    You would be WRONG! Both wild card winners won 87 games. This year is an anomaly in that all previous wild card winners won at least 88 games. I'm amazed that having lived through 2014 you want to go through that again. Because the scenario you are laying out is basically 2014 all over again. A team that got lucky, out played its projections and didn't belong in the playoffs. Where would we be in 2017? Back where we were in 2015. An older team with out much talent that should have started rebuilding the year prior, but didn't because of a pipe dream. Personally I'd rather be where we are now with the #1 rated farm system, than go back to 2015.
  24. AdvantageSchneider
    Yes. I don't want the Brewers to be the Herb Kohl Bucks. Patch together a team good enough to get the 8th playoff spot and get swept in the first round. That's what I was thinking. Briggs is Herb Kohl and he thinks this is a good strategy.
  25. AdvantageSchneider
    His OPS in his all star year for us was 105. His OPS this year is 122, so it wasn't the same year. But he's also 26 now and has a ton of experience. Happy for him it worked out. I'm even happier that it worked out even better for us.
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