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I have a tough time grading this offseason in a very positive way. C is being gracious, but I give it a C anyways. I like the Williams trade and am excited for what Durbin brings long term. And getting more innngs covered, a veteran Sp back for Williams, makes sense too. Yet, I think the whole Woodruff deal from a year ago hurts us big time now. Why we spent that much last year for Woodruff to maybe be a shell of himself is crazy to me. I hope I am surprised that he is starting games regularly and doing well. I expect him to be hurt and in the bullpen right now, draining 2025 FA dollars elsewhere. I am not upset at all that Adames is gone. His defense is going down and his offense will not go up… the Brewers are getting out from his contract at just the right time. I fully expect him to bat on average .220 with 20 HRs and below avg defense. What would make this an A offseason? Maybe trading a few minor league pieces for a top of the rotation starter with 2-4 years of control. Or getting a couple of guys like Turang, Mitchell, or Frelick on Peralta/Lucroy type deals. Or trading for/signing a proven, quality 3B. The great thing is we still look pretty good on paper without the moves. That gives some hope too that not a lot is need now, and that we can add on in June and July as needs arise and opportunities present themselves at lower cost. Having a C offseason is not big sadness either.

So the advantage is what for each side in doing it this way?

I would ask for cash+tickets, maybe something like this…. $100,000 Nice seats for 10-20 games for 40 years One suite once a year

Agreed…his best call. So meaningful to get in the playoffs that year. At his best.

Hader bellyached about useage and $ before arby…and basically then told CC his terms for useage in the pen. The hijack was on. This partially or possibly led DS to preemptively trade him, our closer, while in first place during a penant chase….unheard of. Burnes was a complete crybaby about his arby, and the Brewers were deemed money pinchers by national pundits and their own fans because of it. That dialogue still is there regardless how good they have been lately and unfair it is. And Burnes was traded possibly in part because of this dialogue while good guy Adames was kept the year. Woodruff gets paid a long term contract that essentially pays him $17.5 million guaranteed for this year….and we all have serious doubts about him pitching in the the rotation and/or pitching well for any long duration this season. And now Contreras……….will be shocked if this is a nothing burger. I hope for no drama with this, but would not be surprised considering recent $ decisions and drama with top talent. There has to be an art with $ negotiations/PR at some level, and we can’t pretend that we have found that balance yet. It would be nice to give Contreras HIura’s $2.2 mil given to play AAA exclusively while we shuffled through endless DH in 2023 who hit .658 while Hiura hit .765 the year prior…..but hey, what’s 2.2 mil….or $17.5 mil apparently.

Finding it bizarre to hand an injured Woodruff the bank for a year and choosing to make a thing with the heartbeat of the club for less than a million $ in arby. That is madness.

True blue brew crew….fight on.

I find the Brewers attitude to this event very troubling. While the Cubs have a 3 day convention full of past players and current team fanfare, we cannot seem to do much of anything. Seems like a total hassle for the current higher ups to put on a decent event like had gone on for several years, even though it was for half of a day. You would think a two day event could be possible in a winterized AmFam Park in the next few years. Tack on a hotel on the southwest side of the ballpark for future event goers, as well. That park should be like others…constantly being used for games, concerts, and conventions. It’s sad this wasn’t thought about deeply years back.

Getting long term corners is where it is at for the Brewers. Addressing one of those this offseason would be great. Trading prospects, Black, Hoskins, whatever….getting corners are needed for the lineup considering our catching, middle IF and OF are somewhat set for 6-9 years.

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I simply like the idea that we are getting hopefully 150-180 innings of pretty solid starting pitching. I believe our relievers can fill in some of Devin's innings well, even if it is a minor drop off. Those innings go a long ways to keeping our bullpen fresh and good by end of season. I like the prospect too and feel he fits fine for our need in the infield too. Solid trade.

Baseball is played financially on such an imbalanced scale that it is not even worthy of discussing….so crazy different with revenues and specifically TV revenues. So many fans seem to have no idea and if they do make light of the differences in MLB payrolls and the ability to compete. Like comparing eating at McDonald’s and a fancy steakhouse, it does not compare and should not be compared. Until the collective bargaining agreement addresses it, it is a waste to discuss. And it makes what the Brewers have been doing in the regular season over the last 6-7 years even more remarkable.

No interest in any deal for him that long or even half that cost…declining SS defensively too it be seem.

Happy with the trade of Yelich and the success it brought…of course. My comment was from March of 2023….simply saying, especially now before season 2025, that Milwaukee would gladly get out of Yelich’s contract if they could for basically nothing. They would gladly fill the OF with current roster guys and have more money to play with for extensions.

Perkins was better defensively than Frelick this season, and it wasnt even that close. Congrats to the two Brewers....how cool to get two.

Glad he is back….had big hits for us in 2024…good dugout presence…..career OPS .827 Same lifetime OPS as Joe Mauer and better than Utley, Grace, Roberto Alomar, Machado…could do far worse. Hoping for a career avg year!

Doubt it... he had limits too, and for good reason. Pretty unfair. And by the way, Doug Melvin won same amount of playoff series as Stearns (and Dalton). And Melvin would have had more bites of the apple with the added wild card spots.

Brewers could arguably have three or four better players than Adames at 3B/SS in 3 to 5 years….paying them the minimum. If he would do 2 or 3 years at 20 to 22 million, sure…..maybe. Otherwise, it seems pointless to talk about. Brewers would have to get a huge discount for 4-5 years of Adames to even consider it. And even then, I wouldn’t.

I would be against this….and so would 99% of baseball fans once they realized the flip side. Why? Several without thinking about it hard…. A second place team could finish with 100 wins and not make the playoffs and a team with a sub .500 could win their division and make the playoffs, And a normal occurrence would happen yearly where better record teams would be out of the playoffs simply because of 4 team divisions. And small markets would be stuck within big market divisions with Yanks, Dodgers, etc. And most obviously the players and owners wouldn’t be for less playoff games and less money.

Rooting for not signing him because of the huge money it would take and the likelihood his best games are behind him. And we are extremely limited with $ considering the masses it will take to do arby in a couple years.

I like playoffs, as is. Way better than just four teams getting in for the entire MLB back in the day,,,what were they thinking? Must have not liked playoff games and playoff money. And I like it better than just the 8 teams with one Wild Card, only because now it gives the #1 and #2 teams in each league a bye. It also favors the best wild card and division winner (which could be either way in total wins) in that ALL games played are at HOME! If you can’t win 2 of 3 at home, you don’t deserve to move on….And I like the 3, 5, 7, 7 format in each round. Only thing I’d change is having all games start at 5 or later….crazy to change starting times with late notice for fans and especially ticket holders. I mean, if Atlanta won their Game 2, we would have had a 2 o’clock start the next day for Game 3! And it was announced late that night! Crazy.

Low hanging fruit complaint….kicking a lying dog. When things don’t go well, abandon ship. Go ahead and be disappointed like us all, but you give no solution to having a team that goes further in the playoffs…..except maybe spend more money and have a manager that complains more about losing. We literally cannot ask for more in the regular season. It has been better than almost any small market in the last 30 years. It has been so much fun, which makes the postseason flops outside of 2011 and 2018 so sad. It just hasn’t worked out for different reasons each year, seemingly. Still a fan. Still with them.. Great young talent here and more on the way. And a healthy season could have been the difference this year. It just wasnt. The next seasons just mean even more now….sounds great to me. Still way better to go through this than not being relevant for 20 or so years.

Part of being a true Brewers fan is being a fan in the face of a financially lopsided playing field, knowing that if players play well, their time is likely limited here. If they play meh or poorly, we can keep them or will keep them at positions we are meh at in the farm system. We are up against it, but we show up and are invested more than most. The great part of our next few years is that we are seemingly bursting with young players everywhere. And although we all would prefer to win playoff series and a WS, the losses and seemingly often tough losses are what gives you even more cred as a fan…..undaunted if you will in the face of problems. And the losses will only make the eventual big wins even bigger….so there is that if you are trying to cope.

Game 1 Hall Game 2 Koenig/Civale Game 3 Peralta Game 4 Myers Game 5 ? With those dangerous lefties at top of order, I would think we would have used an opener often. Maybe Koenig a game or two.

I hate that we lost Game 3…..but it would be 10 times worse if it was the Cubs. I cannot fathom losing or winning that kinda thriller game at AmFam Field. You talk about all out brawls and a potential war zone after the game? That would be it. And I would literally think that winning that game would be more important than any after…….to the point of of taking the hypothetical win there and agree to literally stop playing thereafter and forfeit a shot at a WS title. Almost a sick-like feeling to win that one. Even irrational.