adambr2

Lauer has been an absolute disaster. Get the guy out of the rotation.

Feels like forever ago that we were debating whether Hader was a starter or a reliever.

Knebel is probably not worth much right now honestly. Teams would take a flyer on him for sure but no team would invest in him at a top tier reliever price until he proves he's all the way back from TJ.

Great comeback. Needed a win like that.

Don’t want to DH your catcher .......if you have an injury you lose the DH. With 28 man rosters I think you take you can take your chances navigating through the unlikely scenario you lose your DH for a single game. The DH can be moved to the field anyway so I don't see why it would be an issue. If something happens to your catcher you just move the catcher in the DH spot to catcher and move a player off the bench to DH.

"Hey David, your Brewers are coming to bat so we have time for one quick question."

Keeping it along the same randomness and talking work release, could a corrections officer at a local jail qualify for work release? Like literally be let out and change into guard clothing for their shift and then change back into an inmate jumpsuit at the end of the shift and go to the other side of the bars?

Little more context is needed here. Yeah, there are no minor league software engineering managers, but I would assume you still could lose your job eventually for bad performance. As could I, eventually. We are all expendable and if something happened to us today the organizations we work for would replace us and move on. Also, losing your job and losing your salary are usually one in the same, but not necessarily in MLB. Two seasons ago Eric Sogard lost his job for bad performance, he still collected every penny left on his contract. If Christian Yelich went 0 for his next 500 and his bosses finally decided he just couldn't play this game anymore, he'd still be owed every bit of his salary for the next 10 years. I dont think being an MLB player is an easy thing. But I do disagree with the idea that we normal joes don't feel nearly as much pressure to do well at work. Maybe not on a day to day basis, but you better believe I know how high the stakes are for me. If I lose my job, my career could be over, and I suddenly can't pay my bills for a family of 5. Maybe that's the case too for young and journeyman MLB players, but certainly not for many.

Decent pitching tonight, just one bad mistake. Once again done in by a total inability to generate any offense whatsoever.

Freddy is either really good or really bad. There's not much middle ground with him.

Gamel is and always will be who he is. A decent 4th outfielder. He isn't someone who will ever be a good player in an everyday lineup.

When you add the $29 million between Cain to sit out and Braun not playing, plus the $8.25 million for random deferments of prior contracts, plus the $8.5 million owed to Sogard and Smoak combined, you’re looking at $45.75 million of our payroll tied up right there. Not looking to start a payroll debate by any means. Just pointing out that we have a massive amount of our payroll contributing little to none for us this season. Obviously we aren’t paying Cain for this season, but you get the point. It limited our offseason moves. When you look at the careers of Melvin and Stearns here, I think you'll see that their approaches have been remarkably similar. Both focused on young player development early, only to abandon the approach when the team inched closer to contention. Both did well selling, but only sold when it was clear that their team was a rudderless ship and they had no other choice, Melvin with Gomez in '15 and Stearns with Lucroy in '16. Both aggressively moved to buy when the opportunity presented itself. Both built their team around one or two stars and filled in the gaps with cheap veteran stopgaps and minor trades. Neither has hesitated to gut their farm system to fill in gaps at the trade deadline. They're not the same and I do think Stearns is "better" but the longer his tenure goes the more I see it running along the same axis as the Melvin model. It does make me wonder how much the Brewers GM is really running the show or at least if any Brewer GM needs to be on the same page as Mark A when it comes to organizational philosophy. Obviously, there has been some degree of success here in the Mark Attanasio era, at least certainly more than his predecessors. But this approach does have its sacrifices especially when you face teams who are just loaded with young raw talent like the White Sox and realize we probably just will never be where they are in terms of young talent because that's just not our approach.

I love David Stearns, but the shine on his star is dull from this offseason at the moment. His offseason acquisitions have a lot of work to do to make him look good. They've been woeful almost across the board. Except Urias, of course. Through a few innings, anyway.

Can we finally end the "Is Houser a starter" debate?

Did he make a baseball move?

Yelich...come on, man. That's a big drop.

Morrison can take Smoak with him.

J.J. Hardy. I guess that should have been obvious to me when Carlos Gomez was mentioned.

Johnathan Schoop

I'm sure they were hoping Morrison could rediscover at least a piece of his 2017 self. Unfortunately for him he was only going to get a short time to prove that he deserved to stay and just did not do enough during that time.

I'd rather just give Antonio Brown a call once his suspension is up. Rodgers is nearing the end so I'm willing to start throwing caution to the wind. He's pretty much stayed out of the news since his arrest last year, so maybe he's had a wakeup call.

They went young-er with Narvaez, Lauer and Urias. Then they had a crap-ton of payroll to use so they signed a bunch of veteran fillers on one year contracts with options that basically have 0 long term liability, which enabled them to extend Yelich. There is a lot of quality young pitching in the system...then build around Yelich, Hiura, Urias and hopefully guys like Feliciano/Lutz/Turang I would have had no issue with trading Hader, Cain, etc. for whatever quality young position players/starters they can get for them. Cain is worth nothing in trade. Hader, yes. The trade chips on this team aren't much without trading away our own quality core pieces (Yelich, Hiura, Woodruff, etc). Hader is probably the most realistic big trade chip on the roster.

Get here soon, Urias. It's hard to stomach another offensive season from Arcia.

They basically piggyback everyone except Woodruff and Houser, so not really sure it makes much of a difference.

My interest is waning enough to just start checking in most nights an hour or so after first pitch and I expect to still have a goose egg at that point offensively. Most nights, they do not fail to disappoint.