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  1. Ignitor 4ever
    If he will take a team-friendly deal, then I'm fine with the risk. It would have to be as outlined above because shoulders are so tricky. I can't say I would be comfortable with any deal that exceeds 2 years and $2-3 million/year.
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    Another consideration for batting Yelich third is the protection he would now have in the line up from Contreras hitting ahead of him and Hoskins behind him. When Yelich was at his best, he had guys around him who could hit so he saw better pitches. In 2019, for example, there was Moustakas (who hit 35 HR that year), Grandal (who hit 28 HR) along with Ryan Braun (22 HR) and Eric Thames (25 HR). There was pop up and down that line up and Yelich thrived. I throw out 2020 and 2021 due to Covid and Yelich struggling to recover from the knee injury. He has not had really good protection in the line up since 2019, certainly not last year. I think adding Hoskins to the line up and Contreras continuing to improve will help. If Adames can somehow turn out a big year at the plate, even better. I think you start Yelich in the lead off spot and see what he does, but I see him migrating to the 3 hole tucked in between Contreras and Hoskins.
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    I have no interest in Cease. If I recall correctly he only has 2 years of team control so he would basically be a one year player for the Brewers and then we trade him. Sure, we get players back for him, but is one year of Cease worth what we would have to give up to get him? No. I'm not trading any of our top pitchers for him (Misiorowski, Gasser or Rodriguez) and I'm definitely not trading Chourio for him. At best I would agree to package one of our other 3 OF prospects (Mitchell, Wiemer or Frelick) for him along with a couple of lower level prospects. Since the White Sox won't do that, I'm out.
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    This would be my argument too. You know what you have in Contreras. Quero is still just a prospect. Nothing about signing Contreras damages the ability of Quero to continue to progress. If he pans out then the Brewers have two tradeable assets and they can decide which to move. Of course, this is all contingent on Contreras being willing to sign a deal that is somewhat team friendly.
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    I'm not sure why everyone thinks the Brewers would be shopping Mitchell. He has actually shown the most at the MLB level of all 4 of the top prospects (Chourio, Mitchell, Wiemer & Frelick). Sure, we all expect (including the organization) that Chourio is by far the best of the 4. But after him, Mitchell has been the best. Why trade him and keep fingers crossed that Wiemer and/or Frelick pan out? If anything, at this point, I would think you could package Wiemer and Adames to try to get a starting pitcher, but even that comes with risk as Wiemer hasn't had much time yet. I think the plan is to hang onto all 4 top OF prospects for now and let things work themselves out. Chances are we are not going to hit on all 4. If we do, what a wonderful problem to have. They may have oversigned at catcher, but that isn't a bad problem. And you can almost never have too much pitching.
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    I think it is pretty obvious the Brewers preference is to trade Adames and roll with young guys in 2024. Where there is smoke, there is usually fire, and there has been plenty of smoke out there about the Brewers wanting to trade Adames. As has been pointed out, there is a risk with Adames that he has another year in 2024 like 2023 and the Brewers end up letting him walk without making a QO (that he might take) and we get nothing for him. The Brewers just have decide how much they want to gamble on him. If the offers right now are poor, then do we roll the dice and hope he puts up big numbers the first half of the season to increase his trade value? That also gives the Brewers the option of just going for it with Adames (if the team is in contention) and taking a comp pick. The obvious risk with that approach is that Adames performs this season as bad as 2023 we may get a couple of lotto tickets for him at the trade deadline and have to live with that. The Adames situation is similar yet different from Burnes. They both come with one year of control, but Burnes was a proven commodity who has been reliably good for several years. Adames is a bit of a wildcard as to what you will get.
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    That is definitely one thing that baseball has figured out, i.e. expanding the playoffs. I think back to the 1992 season and how hot the Brewers were down the stretch. Under the modern playoff format that team makes the playoffs and who knows what happens. It was very frustrating at that time as a small market fan to watch your team have a good season and still not have the satisfaction of seeing your team in the playoffs when the NFL allowed (at that time) 6 teams per conference in and the NBA and NHL allowed 8. The large market teams that have all the cash and sign most of the stars will usually rise to the top over the course of a 162 game season, but the expanded playoffs allow a small market team to get in now too and (possibly) catch fire in the playoffs and win it all. It at least has given hope where they used to be almost no hope.
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    I'm on board with Bauer. I think he has all of the incentive in the world to be a model citizen on a one-year "prove it" deal. I think he only made $3 million in Japan. Offer him $5 million for one year. We pay him more than Japan and also sell him on it by saying we are taking a risk that nobody else is willing to take but it allows him to prove himself as both a pitcher and a person and maybe strike it big with one more decent contract. Gives us a quality top of the end rotation starter as a bridge for some of the young guys to get their feet under them.
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    I think this is a decent idea too. The strength of our staff is the bullpen. We are hoping to get 5-6 solid innings from our starters on any given day and then hoping our bullpen shortens the game. A 6-man rotation probably plays to our greatest pitching strength.
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    If Hoskins is playing well no team is going to shy away from trading for him because of the risk of a catastrophic injury. That can happen to any player at any time. Burnes could blow his arm up in spring training and the O's are out two prospects and a draft pick. Risk is always involved. It all depends on who needs a bat at 1B come the trade deadline. A large market team probably is willing to pay more if they think they will get an advantage to re-sign Hoskins in the offseason. A smaller market trade partner probably is only willing to give up a prospect or two if they know Hoskins is likely a short-term rental.
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