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Agreed that Grisham shouldn't be compared to Hiura, but Grisham was a 1st round pick in his own right, is likely the LF of the future here, is finally, finally showing the promise that we saw when we drafted him and is quite possibly the new #1 prospect in our system. People are excited about him and I think it's great.
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Loved the brutal honesty from Chase the other day in regard to Hiura: "I don't know why we sent him down, honestly." Probably not a comment Stearns was crazy about hearing, but maybe one he needed to.
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Just not a good offensive night.
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Braun Working on a Swing Change
adambr2 replied to True Blue Brew Crew's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I'm starting to think Grisham should get called up this year, and maybe even before September. I've been torn on this. He's still only 22, and as good as he has been, he probably still has some development in front of him. We've waited a long time for him to deliver on his potential and I think we need to resist the temptation to rush things now. 100% he gets added to the 40 in the offseason and maybe follows the Hiura path next year for a callup schedule. -
It might be this time when they don't have one of their worst hitters bat leadoff. The pitcher batting 8th and Arcia 9th was a nice compromise to this. I don't know why Counsell just ditched it.
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We don't even have a top 50 and top 100 excluding Hiura. Turang would probably qualify as the top 100. I think that's a fairly reasonable ask for Minor controlled through 2020.
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You know all of the sudden with Woodruff, Davies, and Anderson with the numbers they have, the rotation doesn't look so horrible. Even Houser has shown some flashes of success. It's the bullpen that has been really concerning.
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Because losing that big of an asset for nothing at all is devastating to the near future after he does leave, particularly for a small market team. So we should trade him now for another team's version of Lewis Brinson, Monte Harrison, Isan Diaz and Jordan Yamamoto? What the hell is even the point of acquiring anyone when, if we dont compete for a world series immediately and at every moment of every season we all want to trade our All Stars and rebuild. Goodness, as I said before if you can compete go ahead and put some talent around him and try to make a run in the next 3+ years then by all means do it. That's fine and good and I'm all for that. All I was saying is trading him eventually is better than losing him for zip if you're in a position after 2020 or so where you're not going to compete anyway and you're hovering around .500 in '19 and '20. I certainly wasn't suggesting putting Yelich on the block now or even in the offseason. And FWIW Yelich is worth way more than when we acquired him, so the Brinson+ trade is not a great comparison, especially being able to evaluate that one with some hindsight. In the scheme of what Yelich is really worth it's essentially nothing. In today's value terms it would be like trading Yelich for Alex Claudio.
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there's no way he would do that. Right now, he's 10-year worth is around $350M. Except it's not, because he's not a free agent, or anywhere close to being one. So he doesn't have leverage for that kind of a demand. And tearing him his 3+ remaining cheap years is just not something that is ever even going to be considered much less actually happen, I don't know why people keep suggesting that. I can't read Christian Yelich's mind but my guess is that if we offered him 250M in new money from his age 30 to 40 season right now he would jump all over it.
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I didn't see the power surge coming either, believe me. I've just always liked high OBP guys and to me Grisham's young age was often overlooked.
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If he tears it up in the 2nd half? Certainly you do. You probably bring back both again. If I'm not mistaken it's a 26 man roster next year.
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Is the Grisham resurrection the most surprising thing to happen this year outside of the Burnes implosion? To me...not really. The talent has always been there. He was a 1st round pick, he's always had the pedigree, he's always been young for his level. Hiura is about a game or two from losing prospect status. To me Grisham is our new #1 prospect.
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I'm kind of mad at Counsell right now for robbing Yelich of a 2 grand slam in a row chance.
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Pretty much dominated a really solid, hot lineup tonight. Pretty scary turning it over to the pen here. Do they go to Hader for two innings tonight? They can't keep doing that, can they? I mean, you need your closer to have more availability. No need in a 4 run game. You just have him on call for now. Hopefully you can keep him available for tomorrow.
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I suspect 99.9% of the message boards in sports are the same way. Pretty much Human Nature. Brewerfan.net has always prided itself on being part of the 0.1% You guys ever read JSOnline or MLBtraderumors comments, or Facebook, Twitter, etc? Trust me, it's way, way better here. People are more knowledgeable and yes, more positive.
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I'm from Puerto Rico...what are you trying to say? Did my comment to someone else really offend you? I think he was just injecting some humor into the situation.
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Because he likes it here? Because 9 figures is life changing money and a lot can happen in 3.5 years? I'm not saying Yelich would sign but there's definitely reasons he might.
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I wouldn't say things like this or I would guess your stay will end up being a short one. But it's ok for others to insult me because I joined 2 hours ago? I didn't say that. I'm just giving you a heads up, probably want to steer clear of nationality/race remarks.
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I wouldn't say things like this or I would guess your stay will end up being a short one.
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Yelich took off for home like he knew we were 29th of 30 teams in RISP hitting.
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I wish BA and Rock would stop worrying about the silly Yelich/Bellinger daily HR watch. We have been playing dog crap baseball for 1 month+. I like it when Yelich homers because it helps us win and get this turned around. I don't care how many more or less homeruns he has than Cody Bellinger.
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Of course, one of those men is already one of the best hitters on the team and the other would go 1 for 5 in a bar league softball game, so you have to take the bad with the good.
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Rock making the "playing time" excuse for Saladino is rich. He's gotten far too MUCH playing time since he came up. It's not like he's been sitting on the bench for a week without batting.
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Braun's extension is a much better example of the kind of offer you would make this far out from free agency. At the time, Braun had 5 years and 40M left on his deal. So we obviously didn't just tear that 5/40 up and give him 20M a year on his new deal. We put just the extension part at his current market value at the time, with a slight discount because of how far out he was from free agency and added that on to his existing 5/40. That's key. Guys years out from free agency on a team friendly deal don't have leverage. If you're looking to extend them you're looking to do so at a discount. Something similar right now for Yelich, inflation adjusted from 2011 would probably be in the ballpark of 5 years/125M on the extension. That would be a pretty reasonable extension offer that you might make right now and it would at least be understandable.
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You act like a concept such as this is unprecedented but it just happened with the Mike Trout contract, where the Angels ripped up the final two years in his extension: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/26306935/sources-angels-trout-new-430m-deal Yelich is a superstar and will get paid as one. If you don't want it to be with the Brewers then fine. That's a different discussion. You can argue for the sake of arguing but the point remains that if the Brewers want to resign him, even if they offer him the deal I propose, it is still below market value and you get an additional 2 years. That article statement about "tearing up" is pretty misleading, Trout was already scheduled to make 34M in each of 2020 and 2021 on his previous deal. He didn't get a cumulative raise for those seasons, it's not at all like just changing Yelich's 10M annual salary to 30+. Essentially it was simply a 10 year/360M extension with no change to his 20/21 salaries. https://larrybrownsports.com/baseball/mike-trout-angels-largest-contract-sports-history/488289 It's nothing like what you are proposing with Yelich. His contract is one of the things that make him even more valuable to us and you're essentially just giving that up. And giving up the affordability of Yelich's contract will hamper us from putting a competitive team around him.