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Agree

And as I say that someone gets up.

Nobody up in the pen. Hart going 3+?

I’m in section 423 and I can hear birds chirping. It’s like I’m at the masters.

https://www.mlb.com/video/dj-johnson-in-play-run-s-to-erik-kratz?t=walk-offs Kratzy with the walkoff in the 18th inning last night.

Makes albers look like Trevor Hoffman

Cubs should trade for Matt albers. This is not in blue

Can anyone explain why Maddon is using his best reliever Cishek down 5 runs? Not that I’m complaining but that seems like a bad use of resources.

All star break? He might not make it to May at this rate. They might Roenicke him.

Yes

Brewers have a sponsor for relief outs at Miller Park.

It's an ACL, not an arm injury. Uh yeah, he's already had plenty of arm injuries. In his career so far - Wahl dealt with oblique and elbow problems - underwent thoracic outlet syndrome surgery in 2017. - sore forearm -hamstring IP by year 2014 - 53 2015 -32 2016 - 53 2017 - 23 2018 - 49 2019 - 0 Not exactly Old Hoss Radburn. Seems like it will be a minor miracle if this guy sees the mound enough to get to free agency, IMO.

True but it also counts as a year of service toward arbitration & free agency.... Is that a big concern with a guy who will be 28 next year and can't stay on the field? This isn't his first season ending injury. I think the injury history is the bigger concern.

I think you’re hurting your own argument here. Yes we pay that amount because we are willing to. But what happens when we aren’t willing to pay that anymore? The price would have to go down for the same product. That’s exactly what’s happening here. Owners are no longer willing to pay what they were willing to pay before. So basically the system in baseball is mirroring the system everywhere else and yet somehow that’s bad? Who said it’s not ok for them to be greedy? I said the complete opposite in fact. Absolutely they should be trying to get every dollar they can. But when people are no longer willing to throw stupid contracts your way that doesn’t mean you are being unfairly or the system is broke somehow. Couple of things. One, I never said that they were tied together. I was simply trying to point out how much the average person has to pay for basic things like parking a car while millionaire players are complaining they are being treated unfairly because they aren’t being overpaid as much now as they used to be. Second, what I think is cute is that you bring up supply and demand while apparently not seeing that it is supply and demand that is exactly what is driving the plasters salaries down. The demand for the players’ services, or at least the demand for their services at the price the player expects, is going down. So therefore supply and demand would dictate their salaries would go down too. If that’s the case then what is the problem? I guess I don't see the point in bringing up the price of parking and hot dogs if they aren't related to players' salaries. Are the players not overpaid if parking is $5 and hot dogs are $1? Demand for older free agents is down and that is driving the free agent's salaries down. By contrast demand for younger players is up, yet the CBA prohibits or constrains the salaries of young players from increasing. That is why there is going to be a strike.

Why? In what other area of life other than sports do we expect the employees pay to go up every time revenue goes up? And I’m sure these players who demand more pay if profit goes up will gladly take lower salaries if the owner loses money right? Players need to understand one thing. They are worth what the owners decide to pay them. For years and years and years players were getting absolutely absurd amounts of money in contracts that were terrible for the teams. Owners finally wised up and said “screw that” and stopped paying huge amounts for average to below average output. But let’s face it, they are still getting huge amounts of money (on top of all the other perks pro athletes get). The minimum salary.....the absolute lowest amount of money you can be paid, is over $550k. It takes me 6-7 years to make that. And that’s just for the bad players. If you are even halfways decent you’re a millionaire. And if you’re smart with your money you can retire in your mid thirties. I’m sorry but I will NEVER side with players on money issues. Safety issues? Sure. Money? Never. Owners are businessmen whose goal is to make money. Are they greedy? Sure. But what business owner isn’t? I’m sitting here paying $15 to park a car within walking distance of Miller Park and $4.50 or whatever it is for a friggen hot dog and I’m supposed to feel sorry for pro athletes who want more money to play baseball for a living? Sorry. I wish we had a like, no, LOVE button on this site! Great post Paul! I don't understand why it's ok for the owners to be greedy but not the players. I also find it extremely cute that you think player's salary is in some way tied to the price you pay for parking or a hot dog. Those prices are set by supply and demand. Every player could take a 20% paycut tomorrow and those prices wouldn't change one penny.

I could have sworn I read an article in the JS about how Chase revamped his mechanics with the new pitching coach and the bullpen coach Karsay, but I can't find it. Seems like he was motivated to make the changes due to being left off the playoff roster. Perhaps we should have a poll who's offseason tweaks will work out better, Anderson's or Braun's.

Last year Saladino got 118 ABs, Brad Miller got 74 ABs, Sogard got 97 ABs , Jett Bandy got 64 ABs and Nate Orf got 21 ABs. 374 at bats by sub-replacement level players. Who are the worst players that will get ABs this season for the Brewers? I guess if one of our catchers goes down we will see Nottingham/Kratz. If we need a MI maybe we see Saladino again, but you would think if it's later in the season they'd call up Dubon or Hiura or they just roll with Perez and Spangenberg if they both make the team. That would be amazing if the worst hitters we send up all season are Perez, Spangenberg and Gamel.

When I posted that I was just thinking it was something to fire us all up, not create an existential discussion of whether the Brewers were actually all in or not. Kind of picture Mark A at the poker table pushing all his chips into the center of the table, then taking off his wedding ring and putting it in the pot, then taking out the keys to him BWM and throwing it in. Don't think too much about it you're hurting the team when you do that. Just go with it.

Adam McCalvy ‏ Verified account @AdamMcCalvy Follow Follow @AdamMcCalvy More The Brewers are way into record payroll territory, and the question is whether that will hamstring them come trade season in July. Mark Attanasio: “The chips are all in now. We’ll find the money at midseason if we need to.”

I think it would be easier to start a thread who should the brewers extend instead of going over every player on the 40 man roster, especially going so bullpen heavy. Players the brewers should think about extending are Yellich and that's about it right now. And he's under control for enough years that I don't think I'd even worry about him for another two years.

I wouldn't want to give Machado a 10 year $300M contract when he's dogging it in a playoff game in his walk year. I also think the Boras method of waiting out the teams to get a bidding war has backfired on the players. Teams have turned the tables and are waiting the players out. The next labor was is going to be a doozy. Better get your fix in before the CBA expires.

In practice I think it's just a way to defer a little guaranteed salary into the next season, as someone mentioned earlier. It's a very thin margin where it's in both the player's and the team's best interest to pick up the option. Either the player performed and would get a raise in free agency, or did not perform and is therefore not asked back. Rarely does it hit the narrow interval where both parties pick up the option. It makes total sense for Grandal. Put up big numbers in Miller Park and get back on the market as soon as possible, without a qualifying offer hanging over his head. When does that money get paid out? Is it as soon as the option is declined? So they are just deferring that money like 7 1/2 months or so? I understand time value of money and all but that seems like an incredibly short period of time to deferred the money. It's not like the brewers need to be worried about the luxury tax either.

My company's office in Cobb County is across the freeway from the new Braves stadium. It is huge. Miller Park would have to give up all the premium parking spots to even come close to developing something like that. Not sure it's worth it. The Braves stadium is designed so that the hotels and condos/apartments and even some of the bars can see into the stadium. Miller Park isn't designed that way. Who would want to pay for a hotel or condo to look at the outside of Miller Park. And the weather is obviously a lot more conducive to that type of development, not to mention the general size of Atlanta too. I don't think Milwaukee could really support that kind of development, at least not where Miller Park is now.

I really hope he earns that bonus.

The Milwaukee business journal reported the rumor that Czaban is going to join 97.3.