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… yes? At the moment we have essentially a 3 man rotation.

Williams is probably a good addition to this discussion because that obviously turned into a home run via Durbin. In general I think I would have a greater willingness to trade relievers than starters, being more replaceable. I've noticed with high end position players we tend to ride them out until the end and then offer the QO rather than deal them. I think that will be the case with Contreras who I assume we have almost no hope of extending.

Potential value, yes. I'm holding out hope for Sproat, and I understand the optimism. However, too many are penciling him into the top of the Brewer rotation for the next 6 years. Not everyone who touches 99 is just a tweak or two from becoming a TOR starter. In fact I would say the vast majority do not.

The amount of disrespect here for a guy who won us 17 games and almost 180 innings and finished in the top 5 for Cy Young voting is absolutely wild. Peralta’s numbers are all near his career averages, so if Met fans want to ship him out for whatever they can salvage, that’s their problem. He’s hardly been a liability; they have a lot bigger problems on that roster than Freddy Peralta. If you like Sproat and Jett, that’s fine. Nothing wrong with that, But acting like we could barely find room in our rotation right now for Peralta is comical.

In the current regime, we've seen a pattern of trading high end starting pitchers that we know won't be returning, a year prior to free agency, no sooner, no later, while with position players we often let it ride all the way to the QO. This of course occurred with Burnes and Peralta. Actually, this goes all the way back to the Yovani Gallardo days, but that was obviously pre-Arnold. So has this benefitted us? I'd like to disclaim a couple things here — obviously Matt Arnold is a tremendous GM and I'm not second guessing that. It's okay to discuss whether a particular strategy has been beneficial or if the alternative (taking it all the way to QO) would be better. Additionally, I know that in these arguments, we see a lot of "the players we acquired provided a total of 'X' WAR while the player(s) we traded away gave us only 'Y' WAR in that one season. I'm not sure how beneficial that information is, because 1) we're more focused on October results at this point, and these arguments don't really include that, and 2) just for an example, if Joey Ortiz hadn't been our SS the last 2.5 seasons, someone else with unknown results would have been taking his place. Corbin Burnes brought us Joey Ortiz and DL Hall (also the CB RD A pick in 2024, but this is offset by the lost potential QO pick, so for all intents and purposes the deal was Burnes for Ortiz and Hall.) Hall is an adequate lefty bullpen arm, nothing more and nothing less. His command has been concerning this year while the results have still been acceptable. We know what we have with Joey, who has a fantastic glove but lacks a strong enough bat to be a long-term solution at the position. In the 2024 season, the season ended in heartbreaking fashion with the Game 3 Wild Card loss to the Mets. Would the series have been different with Burnes leading the rotation? Would we have continued to advance deeper in the NL playoffs? These are hypotheticals that of course, we can never know, but are still worth considering when making these kinds of trades. In 2026, we are in a position where Peralta would ironically make a much needed addition to the current rotation. Jett hasn't had his shot yet, and Sprout, while certainly having a capable high upside arm, hasn't had the results we'd like to see so far. It's certainly fair to say the jury is still out on this one, but let's also not forget the loss of Tobias Myers in this deal, who has continued to be a reliable long man/swing man. And we also need to consider that Freddy would have brought in a comp pick at the end of the season on our side. Just want to hear everyone's thoughts on these type of deals — should we be continuing to do them? Or are the assets we've gained simply not worth losing out on a high end starting pitcher especially for a club that continues to be in contention year in and year out?

Lara has a .410/.490/.690/1.180 slash line against LHP in AAA. I know that doesn’t mean it’ll perfectly translate to the majors, but if he can even come within 300 points of that OPS against LHP, there’s your bat.

There is no point in having Frelick sit on Milwaukee bench every day. There is also no point in replacing him with a known quantity like Perkins or Lockridge. If you are going to bench him, which I definitely understand, he should be optioned to go work things out in Nashville and Lara should be up to take his ABs.

My post about him earlier was obviously a joke (sort of) but it’s ironic how good of a fit Freddy Peralta would be for this team. Miz, Harrison, and Peralta in a playoff series?

It kind of seemed like in the 5th that Murphy was challenging Sproat and willing to lose the game to do it. I’m not saying right or wrong, but it seemed like in the 5th he was hoping for that inning to be a turning point in Sproat’s season. Unfortunately it was not, though I imagine we would have lost the game regardless of what the 5th inning strategy was.

The good news for today is that the Cubs are still dogwater.

With the Mets in last place, we should go out and get a reasonably priced rental starter like a Freddy Peralta. A nice versatile prospect like Jett Williams might get it done. I’d have liked to see what he could do for us but they seem content continuing to trot out Hamilton and Rengifo.

Wholly uncompetitive series that had major NLCS 2.0 vibes to it other than getting some fortunate breaks in one game in this one.

When your PH options in the 9th inning are Luis Rengifo, Gary Sanchez and Blake Perkins, it’s time to shake up the bottom of that roster a little bit.

Nothing is more irritating watching a baseball game than seeing multiple guys hack out of the zone with nobody on base in a situation where you just need to start with baserunners. The Dodgers won this series because they took the walks we gave them,

I think the fact that beating the Dodgers in a 7 game series in October feels and sounds like such an imposing, daunting task is just probably one of the most depressing and frustrating things about MLB and how the system is designed.

So that Yamamoto revenge game did not work out.

Frelick has all 3 options remaining. It would have seemed very doubtful at the beginning of the season for him to ever be in danger of being sent down this season, but he would be wise to start getting it together.

You need Miz, Harrison, Patrick and Ashby to chew up the vast majority of innings in a series against them. That’s the only hope.

Too bad Brice was out. Might have had a rally going here.

Gasser has already been sent down for Carlos Rodriguez.

Ortiz isn’t going to hit. I think there’s a large enough sample to accept it. Either we live with his bat in exchange for his glove, or we don’t. Right now we are, I suspect by seasons’ end, we won’t. The real culprits of the offense as I mentioned are Frelick and Yelich. You cannot get this kind of production out of a corner outfielder who was one of our primary leadoff men last year. And you cannot get this kind of production out of a DH only player who is expected to produce in the 3-4 spot every day.

I don’t hate it, you have to play the long game with Miz and Harrison this year and make sure you have them at their best in October, but this rotation is not very deep with Woodruff and Priester on the shelf. I like Logan. If Priester doesn’t recover soon and start showing some signs of last years’ guy in his rehab starts, they may need to look for a starter in July.

Update: it cost us the game.

You can’t allow this many baserunners against this team and not get burned eventually.