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We definitely have an opening for that.

Grisham!!

Alex Claudio vs. RHP experiment update: 2019: .915 OPS against Career: .811 OPS against But we don't see him as a LOOGY! Really!

Every game our deadline moves look sillier and sillier.

Losing to the cardinals in 2011 nlcs was worse. We were just a better team than them. The dodgers were pretty good. The thing that sucked about last year was just like the bucks. We had them beat but couldn’t stamp on their neck. Just like jeffress blowing game two and the long extra inning game and the double overtime loss. Just win one of those games and blithe teams get over the hump I will never fully forgive Counsell for pitching to Cody Bellinger with a gassed Junior Guerra in the 13th inning of Game 4 with the winning run in scoring position when he could have walked both Bellinger and Grandal to face the pitcher with 2 outs and no pinch hitters available. That would have almost certainly forced a 14th inning and we'll never know what might have happened, but going up 3-1 could have changed the course of history.

2019 Brewers' lineup motto: "We faced some tough pitching, okay?"

Watching this season makes Game 7 of the NLCS all the more devastating. Everything you've waited for, for years, everything they've worked for, comes down to 1 game, and you lose that game. You just don't know when you'll get that chance again. Last time it took 7 years to get that chance again. It may take 2 now, it may take 20. I don't know. I hate saying this, but I don't see the hope for the future that everyone else sees. There's no farm system here, and Keston Hiura is the only real blue chip young talent under 25 on the roster. You've got rosters like the Padres and Braves just loaded with young talent, both on the MLB roster and the farm. We just don't have that here, and it doesn't look like we'll have it anytime soon. Things look pretty bleak right now compared to where they looked a year ago.

He strung together many good outings in a row when he was in the bullpen where he belonged.

Anyone know if the Cubs are winning today??

This team is completely useless. And now it's too late to even sell.

Grandal is just useless at the plate today. Counsell did not pick a good day to try something else at #2. I'm not necessarily criticizing the idea, just saying it really hasn't worked out well.

I hope they leave Grisham in the leadoff spot and start him against every RHP the rest of the way. He looks good up there.

Hey, great execution, Adrian.

Yelich and Hader are both under contract through 2022 and 2023, respectively, so neither would be a rental at that point. So I agree with rick here, 2020 and 2021 are still both in play. Whoops. Don't know what I was thinking. You're right, deadline 2021 would be an ideal time if you're not turning it around by then. But it would have to be a mammoth haul.

Better save that ball.

No issues with the lineup, agreed. It's the LH heavy lineup that is a perfect counter to Darvish. Only so much you can do. These guys aren't getting it done.

SS should definitely be on the 2020 "need" list. Seeing as how our current MLB SS isn't very good and we traded away his only possible replacement.

2017 was the worst thing that could've happened. It accelerated a rebuilding process that probably shouldn't have been. Now we'll probably be saddled with a bad contract in Cain and will probably have to restart a rebuilding process that will not be as popular with the fans as the one that started in 2016. And no way Yelich stays after his control is done. No, no... we are going to go hard after it in 2020 and 2021. By July 31, 2021 (or the strike), we will try. After this, it's adios Yelich, Hader... If you're going to trade those two you can't wait that long. Trading them as rentals will only bring a fraction of their true worth.

2017 was the worst thing that could've happened. It accelerated a rebuilding process that probably shouldn't have been. Now we'll probably be saddled with a bad contract in Cain and will probably have to restart a rebuilding process that will not be as popular with the fans as the one that started in 2016. And no way Yelich stays after his control is done. If we can't find a way to be true contenders in 2020, I'd have to consider trading Yelich after 2020 with 2 years control remaining which would bring an enormous return and signal the beginning of another rebuild. I know that will be a remarkably unpopular opinion, but I did say "if" and "(after) 2020."

How did a Christian Yelich-less Brewer lineup even come close to making the playoffs in 2017?

How did they "fill those holes to a point"? I wasn't against trading Aguilar, but he was coming around with a .921 July OPS, and we thus obviously downgraded against LHP at the 1B position. The only acquired player on the roster are Pomeranz, who arguably isn't better than our existing internal options and doesn't seem to be trusted with anything other than mop up duty, and Lyles, who had a nice first start for us but overall doesn't look any more attractive than when we passed on his option over the winter. How is any of that filling our holes to a point?

Oh well, Grandal would have just grounded into another double play anyway.

Oof. Caught guessing on that one. That was a hanger.

I disagree with this completely and let's be clear, this is your opinion, not fact as you present it. Let's review. First, we move on from a 29 year old, one position guy with no options who failed to hit his weight this year who nearly everyone on this board was in favor of trading this off season because they felt like last year was a mirage. His 2019 may be closer to what he really is at this point, he'll be 30 next year and potentially declining even further. In return we get back a versatile, solid but not spectacular arm from an organization known for producing pitching. Then we move a light hitting SS, maybe second baseman (where we're covered for the foreseeable future), for a potentially elite level bullpen arm and a rental arm. On the surface, this seems like a low risk worth making and the type of upside move most here clamor for every off season. Failing to see how we're worse long term but I guess it depends how you value Dubon. Personally, I've never been a fan as it seems that we have had half a dozen guys that profile similarly come through the system the past 10-20 years that haven't panned out. Aguilar is a big meh for me. Sounds like you're just using superlatives to describe the guys we got to paint the players we acquired in a better light and negative adjectives to describe the ones we gave up. You could easily do the same in reverse. Pomeranz has no value at all. None. The odds of Black ever being an 'elite level bullpen arm' are extremely minimal. There are a ton of Ray Blacks out there that never amount to anything. Value-wise, the Dubon trade was a terrible deal, especially when we now have no SS depth on the 40 and a very marginal starting SS. Aguilar for Faria is whatever. I have no problem with anyone thinking we're no better now either on the MLB team or farm than we were before the deadline, maybe even worse. I've said so myself.

Brewers still haven't figured out that Houser isn't a starting pitcher.