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  1. PeaveyFury
    Fixed it for you! If you can afford to purchase a franchise, you can afford to pay any player. Most owners choose not to take big risks in terms of losing money. It’s still a choice. Without actually knowing teams' finances, that's still an opinion.
  2. PeaveyFury
    Probably a bad deal for both sides, as that's likely a team that was pretty bad last year and has cap space. Watt would be a fool at this point in his career to JUST go to the highest bidder.
  3. PeaveyFury
    John Clayton is reporting that the Browns and Steelers are out on Watt. Obviously, Pittsburgh was a very big competitor to the Packers in potential attractiveness due to the brothers playing there, but their cap situation is pretty ugly. Can’t help but think that report is very good news....
  4. PeaveyFury
    Of note, Silverstein tweeted a story today (written by Pete Dougherty of their shared packernews.com site) noting that they could sign Watt if they choose to go after him over Linsley or Jones. Which is what the rest of us have known for literally weeks. You can debate the merits of letting Linsley walk (and obviously we have with Jones), but the Packers have made their intentions with Linsley fairly clear since they've not talked extension with him at all, reportedly. I have no idea why the idea they'd let him walk would seem to be surprising to guys who are paid to cover the team.
  5. PeaveyFury
    Saw one last night that said 36-year old Craig Stammen and $$ to buy down the level of prospects coming back to the Brewers. I immediately closed down Twitter after that. I..... really? I get that we're not getting Gore, but Abrams or Capusano plus an arm like Weathers has to be the starting point, right?
  6. PeaveyFury
    Fixed it for you!
  7. PeaveyFury
    Pretty heavy decision for him, I'd suppose. One one hand, he has to know that with a cap crunch this year, he's faaaaar more likely to get a bigger deal next offseason. On the other, the lifespan of RB's is short and fleeting. With Rosenhaus as his agent, you'd have to think it would at least be discussed, though....
  8. PeaveyFury
    I really like the idea of a tag-and-trade as a result. I think you'd find immense value in moving a productive RB on that type of contract to another team.
  9. PeaveyFury
    One additional thought on the RB situation/math now that a tag deal for Jones is much more modest than initially thought: I think a lot of people (myself included in them) thought that they'd make an effort to bring Williams back to pair with Dillon. I have no idea what his estimated FMV is in this odd offseason, but I'd say he'd look for a 3/$9-12m deal or so? If the cost of Jones instead would be $8m, the real 'added cost' of tagging Jones would only be $4-5 million of excess in 2021. It just seems waaaaay more plausible today than it did a week or two ago....
  10. PeaveyFury
    I haven't verified it, but I saw somewhere along the line that part of the 'benefit' of this year's cap situation is that the tag values dropped significantly, and the RB franchise tag was expected to only be $8m or so. They'd still need to rework the cap to make that happen, but a one year, $8m deal seems fairly ideal for Green Bay. No one is thinking Jones won't be productive and worth that type of contract next year, it's the middle to end of the 2nd contract that has most teams hesitant to give out big money 2nd deals to RBs. 1/$8m also gives the Packers a legit possibility of a tag and trade as well. That didn't seem plausible a month or two ago, even if it may be the ideal overall result.
  11. PeaveyFury
    Weathers, Hassell, Abrams, Capusano, Morejon. Still lots of stuff in the Padres' system, even if you assume Gore is untouchable.
  12. PeaveyFury
    I think it's a little bigger than "his defense is in question", though. Andujar is an atrocious defender. I know that the DH will eventually be adopted in the NL, but the Brewers have to be careful how many "bat first, no D" type players they acquire. Hiura is moving to 1B, but his long-term spot is probably DH. Yelich already doesn't have a great arm in the OF, so he might be a DH in waiting as well. Agreed completely. I think Andujar is a bat that would be intriguing for the Brewers, but he's not a 3B. I view him similarly to JD Davis, another popular name in trades, in that they're really 3Bs in that they played there in the minors, but that they project elsewhere in MLB.
  13. PeaveyFury
    So basically, you'll aim unrealistically high, not complete a trade as a result, and need to sign a guy like Bradley anyway? How about suggesting a move that's actually feasible? I suggested signing Yoenis Cespedes if he looks good in his workout. Thanks, I did miss that. I do think it's a bit unfair to look at 2020 Brewer numbers and assuming that's a fair gauge of 2021 production, while at the same time thinking that signing a guy like Cespedes might fix the offense, when he has barely played baseball in three seasons. That seems a bit unreasonable to me and unfair to the players on the roster already who have a better track record of success than their 2020 numbers indicated.
  14. PeaveyFury
    It's like whoever said that they would only trade Hader for Tatis last year. It just means you're not trading Hader, then.
  15. PeaveyFury
    So basically, you'll aim unrealistically high, not complete a trade as a result, and need to sign a guy like Bradley anyway? How about suggesting a move that's actually feasible?
  16. PeaveyFury
    Like who?
  17. PeaveyFury
    You really think Yelich, Hiura, Garcia and Narvaez are gonna be the terrible hitters they were in 2020? Our lineup has it in them to be very good this year. I expect Yelich and Hiura to be much better and don't expect much from either Garcia or Narvaez. You really have to be wearing some Brewers tinted glasses to see this offense being good. You've been asked repeatedly who you think they should pursue, and still haven't responded. Please let us know who specifically you want them to sign at this point.
  18. PeaveyFury
    It really was the M.O. of that 2018 team as well. The defense was good and made the pitching (Cough.... Chacin and Miley..... cough) better than they otherwise would have been. The Brewers staff is already going to be good, the defense will make it better. I'd like it if they could add ONE thumper bat, but I think they could be very good regardless.
  19. PeaveyFury
    They say that the easiest explanation is often the right one. In that case, the easiest is that the Brewers are kicking the tires on Bradley, but nothing is really going to happen. Second easiest is that Cain is opting out. Which, of the two, may actually be the more logical explanation.
  20. PeaveyFury
    Very interesting.... Obviously, I assume the Brewers would like to be out of the contract. Not sure how much it'd take to sign Bradley, but you'd think it'd net out positive for Milwaukee.
  21. PeaveyFury
    Agreed on the last point. I heard it was a Rotary club meeting, and those are usually over lunch....
  22. PeaveyFury
    The issue in my mind is why he felt the need to discuss the English speaking abilities of three different players in the first place. Unless he was at a Rotary meeting with English as a Second Language as its topic, why even go there? It suggests that he was either pandering to an audience with a questionable motive, or ranting about something that is an odd and problematic topic of conversation for him to bring up at all. Very strange...
  23. PeaveyFury
    'Sensitivity training' is what corporations do to imply that they did something about a situation without really doing something about a situation.
  24. PeaveyFury
    Yeah, he saw first hand that McGinn's incorrect hot takes basically cost him his credibility. But, I really think that the media guys are buying in way to much to the 'Packers have an insurmountable cap disaster on their hands' that they seem to be furthering. As that cap number bleeds upwards from the league, the situation is less dire. And Tom mentions 'guys they need to re-sign', as if he thinks their bigger UFAs are going to be coming back, which I think all of us have long accepted isn't happening. They're not resigning Jones. They've made no attempt to sign Linsley. If they resign King, it's to a far lesser deal than he may otherwise have received. Beyond that, they're not re-signing anyone that uses significant cap room. They can sign Watt if they want to. The cap won't keep them from doing so. If he's implying that the team doesn't want to, that's one thing. But I didn't read his tweet that way.
  25. PeaveyFury
    I've long thought that despite their jobs covering the NFL, long-term beat guys like Silverstein don't really seem to get the cap intricacies much.
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