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No sweat. Who needs a young cost controlled 850 OPS gold glove centerfielder when you can somehow downgrade from Arcia at SS and then give Jackie Bradley Jr. 14-22M instead?

This isn't the worst Brewer team I've ever seen, but it may be the least fun to watch.

Yelich looks like he could use a day off or 10.

They'll fix it and it won't be.

David Stearns and Matt Arnold did a masterful job starting in 2015 of building a 90 win perrenial playoff contender from the ground up with numerous brilliant moves. Then they took that 90 win perennial playoff contender and turned it into a middling. 500 franchise with a bad farm system with a series of despicably bad moves.

2018 Counsell wouldn't have thought twice about going to Hader for a 4 inning save to get the matchup against Benintendi, and we'd be going to the 9th tied. But nope, for 2021 Counsell, Josh=9th inning guy and Devin=8th inning guy. Good times.

He's barely a major league player.

I think we found another way that Urias sucks.

Woodruff is too good for this team. Pitches his ass off every 5th game, one of the best in the game and not only does he not get rewarded but he gets tagged with a loss. Just a freaking shame.

This home plate umpire is absolute trash.

How was Jackie Bradley Jr. a coveted free agent?

These guys are so bad at their job. It's like they want roboumps.

Mark Attanasio's demeanor and body language are not going to be great when he has to sign Yelich's checks in 3 or 4 years.

Now this is hypothetical, since it never seems to happen in a Woodruff start, but wouldn't an extra 20 minutes be similar to sitting in the dugout during a big inning for the offense? Was thinking this too. I imagine if the delay lasted much longer then maybe they shut him down and start him on "short rest" on Friday Short delay yeah no problem. I was wondering at the time if it'd be a long one. Just watching on GameDay.

Good times if Woodruff is now tanked for this whole game because of starting and then delaying in the 2nd.

They need to cut their losses on Hiura a month ago while he still has some "former top prospect" value and the league hasn't yet figured out that he can't play. He's looking like a bust.

And then the Royals go down even quicker.

I didn't even realize the game had started yet and we were already 3 up 3 down in the 1st.

Here's hoping it lasts more than 1 day this time. Welcome back, we need you sorely.

Geritt Cole just set the MLB record with 61 consecutive strikeouts without a walk. The minute Brewer fans get something nice it always has to be taken away.

I hope that Holliday ends up being the difference that everyone was hoping for over Bledsoe. I don't know how they will fare but there isn't much more upside with this team than where they're at. Their core is getting up there besides Giannis, there's not any super young budding stars on the roster or help coming in the draft, and their money is pretty much spent. What you see is what you got at this point. Maybe DDV gets a little better but I thought that was going to happen this year.

But he's not on record saying he won't opt out. Any athlete who forces a trade always throws around platitudes like "This is where I want to be" or "I plan to stay here a long time". Arenado made the same type of comments to the St. Louis pool reporters in February of 2021. The reality is, after 2021 Arenado has 6 yrs/179 million million left on his contract for an AAV of 29.8 million per year. He can already argue he is younger and a better overall player than Rendon who is making an AAV of 35 million per year. If Arenado and his agent think there is a market there for him, he'll opt out simple as that. After all pro-athletes also always say, "it's not just a game, its also a business". Arenado is younger than Rendon right now but will be about a year and a half older than Rendon was when Rendon signed that contract if he opts out and goes to free agency. Markets also change year to year for a plethora of reasons; he can argue whatever he wants when comparing himself to Rendon but the market will tell him what he's worth right now. Pretty risky endeavor if that's the road he wants to go down. Athletes and their agents have overestimated their market in free agency before and ended up very wrong.

The "but" on Freddy has always been efficiency. His first 4 starts this year he averaged 17.6 pitches per inning. His last 4 starts have been just over 15 pitches per inning. If he can continue with that efficiency he definitely belongs in the grouping with Woodruff and Burnes.

Patch what together exactly? It’s puzzling to me that posters keep harping on Avi Garcia and JBJ as big mistakes by the front office. Given what the going rate is the last couple of season for premium free agents, these guys are both on cut-rate deals. No doubt Bradley has dug himself a bit of a hole, but even leaving out his salad days, here’s a guy who has hit .240/.324/.414 since opening day 2017. Does anyone truly believe he’s going to finish as a .515 OPS player or even a .615 OPS player? Avi Garcia didn’t hit last year but then again half the league didn’t. This year he’s above his career triple slash line, and is earning every penny of his contract. If Yelich wouldn’t have missed almost the entire year so far, and Hiura would’ve played as they had anticipated they’d probably be running away with their division given their pitching so far. Any team that loses their 3 and 4 hitters will necessarily have a “patched together feel” but it doesn’t make it so. Would the Cardinals lineup scare anyone without Arendo and Goldschmidt, the Cubs without Bryant and Rizzo, the Padres without Tatis and Machado, the Braves without Acuna and Freeman Well, they're not premium free agents. They didn't get premium free agency deals because no GM out of 30 viewed them as premium free agents. Avi has been ok. His contract has been ok. Not great. But ok. I don't know how anyone can say Bradley's doesn't look terrible right now especially with him now playing himself into a 2nd year. I wouldn't put him at .515 to finish the year, but an aging formerly productive player falling off a cliff like Shaw did in '19 is not unprecedented. I wouldn't take the over on .650 for his season OPS which would be a disappointment coming into the year.

I also disagree with Jopal that Arenado is going to opt out. He's on the record saying he doesn't plan to opt out. He's still playing on a long-term, lucrative deal. He's set. I think he'd rather play it out, at least until the next opt out, rather than risk the uncertainty of free agency. His situation is fine. Barring an MVP season I bet he stays put.