adambr2

Lol. Absolutely getting gashed by some 6th round rookie. Fire Joe Barry.

We're bend but don't break.

Is this the random game every year that we party hard the night before and just get blown out of the stadium against some team with a pass rush?

Not looking hot on that end either.

Joe Barry has failed as a DC at every stop he's had. No reason to think it would be any different here.

LOL what an absolute train wreck this defense is. It's the freaking Bears.

I think 2020 was easy to chalk up to COVID/short season/no spring training/coming off injury etc etc. The general expectation was that he would rebound in 2021, so seeing him not only not rebound but arguably get worse was indeed alarming. I think he'll be better in '22. Not elite anymore, but at least good. But part of me only "thinks" that because I don't even want to think about the alternative.

Said everyone after his 2020 season. There is no deal to be had. Even if there was, expecting him to return to a 1.5 WAR player is a better move than trading him and coughing up $100MM. There is no way the Brewers cough up more than 10mil in a trade its nonsense you assure 100mil or even close to that. Braun was never traded. Like let's be serious, somebody here can probably find the history of Brewers sending money in a trade. I doubt it is more than 10Mil. Yes, they probably won't. But he's got likely well over $100M in negative market value. Ergo, he's probably not going anywhere.

It would be very difficult for me to care less on which of the remaining teams wins it all.

Yelich is owed about $140M more than Hicks and unless the Brewers threw in major cash ($95+M) I can't see the Yankees even considering a Yelich for Hicks deal. I think both teams are stuck with their bad contracts. So you are putting Yelich's yearly value below 8mil. Below JBJs value. Yeah you might want to question your thinking. You can't equate Yelich's hypothetical value with JBJs actual contract. JBJ obviously isn't worth $8M.

My health insurance deductibles are 400 individual/800 family with a 2/4 grand out of pocket max. For a family of 5, I feel very fortunate. It's a big point of contention with the company every time our collective bargaining agreement comes up for renewal as they want to push us toward a high deductible plan, and we were fortunately able to just renew it for 4 more years with no increases.

This seems like an enormous stretch. With 26 seconds left and 1 timeout from the 3 yard line you have ample time to run 3 plays. Even if the run is stuffed on 2nd down you can call timeout with 20 plus seconds left and map out your next two plays. You're probably going to pass on 3rd down but with everyone bunched in and receivers not downfield there's plenty of time for everyone to get back up to the line for 4th down. Really with 26 seconds left you can even run the same dive play twice and still have time to burn your last timeout for 4th before the clock expires which is probably the ideal route in case you have a 10 second runoff penalty on 3rd.

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I cannot quibble with your philosophy, although I think it places equal pressure on the front office of a team like Milwaukee to act almost perfectly or wind up short handed in the talent department, than it would filling out a roster around one major star. Mainly because the number MLB players signing pre-arbitration extensions in 2021 is few and far between compared to what it was 5-10 years ago. In most instances the players taking those extensions have been the foreign born players who signed for little bonus money as kids (Freddy Peralta, Ronald Acuna, etc). Moreover, I'm sure there were posters advocating for an extension for Keston Hiura after 2019, and often times young successful players lose it overnight and struggle to find it again. As for finding potential market inefficiencies teams get burned all the time. For every Grandal there is a Jackie Bradley Jr., or Josh Lindblom. Yes. They won't always hit on the market inefficiency attempts. But the JBJs and Josh Lindbloms won't cripple you.

Honestly pretty ridiculous if Hader begrudges the organization to that great of an extent for it. It's how arbitration works, you got what you were entitled to under the terms of your CBA, get over it. If (and I'm saying IF) he refuses to go multiple innings solely on those grounds he is quite bluntly a very petty and bitter individual.

It is the only way small market teams can keep generational players. If one wants to argue they should never try to do that, I think that is probably fair based on how these usually pan out. But if you wait until say, 2 years out from FA the player is not risking as much by playing it out and is less inclined to sign. He can wait for a number that the small market team has no chance to match. This doesn't really matter for the Dodgers and the big kids on the block. They can just wait for FA or a year before and do it then and eat the cost. They can afford to buy out the risk of waiting. Yes, I would argue that they should never try to do that. Use your capital to lock to lock up young potential stars early in their career for their primes (Peralta, Braun's first contract). Supplement with short-term veteran deals where you think you can find a market inefficiency (Grandal, Moustakas, Wong, Eduardo Escobar). Don't blow a quarter of your budget for the next decade on one guy just because he's currently the face of your franchise.

I demand based on this that we show this to MLB and overturn our 5-4 loss to a 5.04 to 5 win. In all seriousness, it's pretty gross how much impact bad MLB umpires have on a game outcome.

Paying market rate is fine when you have to do it for an asset. Paying market rate unnecessarily is wasteful and foolish. Yes, teams do extend players early but most teams do NOT extend a player 3-5 years out from their prospective free agency when said player will be in their 30s when the extension years hit. It's one thing to look to buy out arbitration and potential free agency years of a young 0 to 3 year player like they did with Freddy Peralta. However, extending players like Braun and Yelich on their last extensions is something different entirely and is rarely done with good reason. When a player is numerous years away from free agency, the biggest thing standing in the way between the player and free agency is the uncertainty of time. That uncertainty is why many players like Peralta preferred to take guaranteed money now and avoid the potential consequences of the uncertainty. When you extend a player years away from free agency, you assume the entire risk for that period of uncertainty. There is no way of knowing how the market value for that player between the time when they sign the new contract and when it actually begins. In Braun's case, that lapse was FIVE full seasons. In Yelich's case, it was three. Look what happened in those 5 years with Braun -- injuries, two PED scandals, one 65 game suspension, and a whole lot of regression. The 3 years with Yelich have been riddled with even more regression. What would Yelich's market value look like right now? Note, the Brewers would STILL have an option on him for this year. Even after all that has happened, Yelich would STILL not be a free agent yet. Any way you slice it, the Brewers backed themselves into a corner unnecessarily with the Braun extension. Again, Ryan Braun was not a free agent for another 5 years when he signed his extension. Rather than learning from the experience, the Brewers instead quite literally doubled down on it with Christian Yelich. And now they're paying the price, both by the amount of sunk cost that is going into Yelich and the continuous forcing of Yelich into high leverage spots in the order that he is no longer qualified for.

Urias caught that ball. Good grief Rick. You're like the only one in the entire country dying on this hill. We all have eyes. I believed what you did on first glance and even first replay but on the close up you'd have to be obscenely biased to stand your ground on something like this. Time to move on.

I would do that trade in a heartbeat to dump Yelich's contract, Yelich likely would not and the White Sox would not, because there is not enough negative value coming back our way. There is no way we get off the hook that easily with just 2 years of Kuechel. We are stuck with Yelich. Nothing to do but hope he rebounds.

I haven't seen any indications that anyone is in any way pleased with this new development from Yelich. It sucks.

Okay lets pump the brakes a bit... Pump the brakes on what? I stand by it. The Yelich trade in a vacuum was a steal. But the residual effects from the extension will easily outweigh the short term benefits that we enjoyed. We'd be a contender with or without Christian Yelich now or next year or after that.

https://deadspin.com/so-is-christian-yelich-dead-1847858294

Whether he signed the contract extension under false pretenses or not, at this point I actually wish we had never traded for Yelich. It wasn't worth that one run to the NLCS in '18 to be stuck with this massive disaster for 10 years. Shocking that it's gotten to this point. Christian Yelich was the guy we thought would bring a World Series back to Milwaukee and the irony is that he might be the reason we don't get to one.

Are they really doing that? I hope not. It's time to let 1982 go.