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I'm no expert on back injuries but my wife has been battling chronic back problems for years. There's still a chance this resolves itself in the short-term, but there are a lot of possible worse case scenarios that are pretty scary looking at the big picture. Whatever is going on, it doesn't appear to be something the Brewers medical staff is qualified to handle.
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1) It's not about knowing anything. It's just about the risk/reward of a small market taking on the age 30+ seasons at a huge cost of a great player. It didn't work out great with Braun and Father Time is still undefeated. I don't want to be right about anything. I want Yelich to stay relatively healthy thru 36 and continue to perform at an MVP level. But that was never incredibly likely. There was a minority of us here who felt that, maybe the best play in the long-run would be to take advantage of Yelich's massive trade value at some point rather than seek a long-term deal. Generally, we were treated like crazies. 2) I'm just responding to your own post. You said "most bargain-bin contract for a star player in all of MLB." Your words, not mine. And frankly, I don't even agree that comparing him to his peers like Lindor and Trout is favorable to the Brewers. Trout is an otherworldly generational talent and if my investment choice is Yelich at 26M per or Trout at 35.45M, Trout is worth the extra 9.45M a year every time.
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When he's healthy, yes absolutely I'm still stoked about that, because it's the most bargain-bin long-term contract for a star player in all of MLB. Sit him down for a couple months if need be. 1) He's not healthy, that's the reality, and if he's got chronic back problems now, it's fair to wonder where his health will be in 5 years. 2) It's not even close to the most bargain bin long-term contract in MLB. Acuna has that by a million miles, healthy Yelich or not.
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Hard to be the face of the franchise when you can't even get on the field.
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Everyone still stoked to pay this guy 26M a year for the next 7 seasons starting next year?
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Well you won't be seeing Yelich in it anytime soon again.
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I remember the absolute glee when we got an absolute "steal" of a long-term deal for Yelich. That contract is going to age like a stale fart.
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Is 2020 Braun’s last year in Milwaukee?
adambr2 replied to TexasCheesehead's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Braun is not dumb, I think he is well aware that if he returns his current market value isn't going to be near 20M a year if he plays. However McCalvy was asked today about a Braun return and he sounds pretty confident that Braun is done. -
Good grief. Are Cain and Yelich healthy or not? We can't afford for them to be part-time players.
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Established veteran meaning Avi Garcia has been a major league regular for a long time. He's not yet 30 and has 842 games played in the major leagues. His numbers are pretty average maybe even a bit underwhelming when power numbers across baseball have never been higher, then again his numbers are why he's playing on a two year/24 million dollar contract with the Brewers in the first place. If he was 29 with 840 games in the majors yet had a slash line of .285/.355/.485 he'd be in the middle of a multi-year deal paying him 17-18 million dollars per year. (As an aside he is the Brewers team leader so far in 2021 in the old Bill James Power/Speed Number and was 5th last year. Perhaps providing explanation why the team signed him up in the first place). Anyways, I agree with you losing him doesn't have much impact on the big picture, however the Brewers simply don't pay cash to other teams to take their players, and I wouldn't expect them to begin to do so with Garcia. They're more likely to give him time to get going at the plate. They gave the Rangers 4M to trade Gallardo to them. I would argue that they haven't paid cash to too many teams to take their players because they haven't had too many situations where it came into play, not necessarily that they don't do it as a matter of organizational philosophy.
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Just options at Nashville to have if we need an emergency guy somewhere later this season or someone to eat up innings in a tough stretch like Lindblom/Bettinger/Zimmerman have done recently. Nothing more to see here.
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What I love about this post is that this account was created 3+ years ago, so this young man is a longtime lurker. So much has happened since then that he has not felt strongly enough to post about, and the cherry gets popped calling for our manager to start at 1st over Vogelbach. Well done, sir.
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Avi isn't even really as established veteran. He had one great year in '17 and other than that is a pretty meh player and has little upside. The deal we gave him is frankly kind of a head scratcher in hindsight. He's also not really an "after 30 games" situation, he wasn't good last year and with JBJ here they've got a bit of a logjam at the position. I agree they wouldn't get someone to take on the entirety of his contract and wasn't implying otherwise, but if someone wanted to take on a significant part to acquire him this year with our other available options I don't really see the downside. Losing Avi from this lineup doesn't have much impact on the big picture.
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I don't think Taylor has much trade value. His MLB track record is just too short and his MiLB track record is just too spotty to have recovered much of his former value as a top prospect. I agree it doesn't make much sense for the Brewers to move him right now with potential openings in the OF next year and some possible upside in Taylor.
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Bradley and Avi have no trade value whatsoever. If you're lucky enough to get the Sox to take either, it's purely a salary dump. However if it opens up the door for playing time for Taylor and frees up some cash to take on some salary elsewhere at the deadline, its not the worst idea.
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I would guess that a lot of it too is, like with anything else, after 16 years things sometimes get stale, relationships change and deteriorate, etc. Not many legends even finish where they started in this game. I think some guys reach a point where they either want a change of scenery or they want to prove either to themselves or others that they can thrive outside of the environment they've spent their entire careers in. Joe Montana finished his career in KC. Even the Tom Brady/New England relationship did not stand the test of time.
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Common sense diverged from this situation long ago, unfortunately. Is Gute at fault for not communicating more with his franchise QB? Yes, and he has admitted as much. But Rodgers is being a baby. If he's to the point where he refuses to play for the Packers, fine. Retire, or rot on the "did not report" list." I don't even care about the expected "haul" of draft picks they could get for him. I don't want to see him play anywhere else. No player should ever make himself bigger than the team ... no matter how otherworldly talented he is. For the record, I wish the Packers had done the same thing with Favre. As soon as they dealt him to the Jets, I knew he'd eventually end up playing for the Vikings or Bears, because that's just the type of person Favre is. The Packers let him win, and multiple legacies were tarnished in doing so. I don't think the Packers let Favre "win" and they couldn't have just done the same thing with him. Favre wanted to play again, and he was under contract. Their options were to let him come compete for the starting job and let the Rodgers/Favre thing be a massive distraction and headache, or trade him. They traded him to an AFC team with a poison pill to try to keep him from being back in the division. What happened later with him getting released from the Jets and signing with the Vikings was beyond their control. They can't just dictate the rest of his career. I just struggle to see how they could have handled the Favre situation differently.
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Then he (Vogelbach) needs to hit better than a buck seventy two.
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Frustrating loss. Lots of chances today to put this one in our column.
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And all that for nothing.
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I feel like MLB umps aren't even trying anymore. Why would they? There's zero accountability for the terrible job that they do.
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Maile reminds me of Chad Moeller, and that is not a compliment.
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Ugh. Gotta at least move him over.
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Nice start Vogelbach!
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Turner has been awesome. Really wish we had gotten him. The bonus would be that JBJ would not be here.