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  1. adambr2
    No, I don't feel that way. I feel that one of the following is true 1) Miley preferred Houston over Milwaukee if the money is the same, or 2) The Brewers, in their evaluation of Miley, don't see 1/4.5M as a great value for Miley like we do. Miley did a heck of a job for us last year but who knows what our deeper analytics thought. I think we'll still spend elsewhere, but if not I don't think it confirms that we're tapped out, just confirms we didn't find another value we liked. I think it's worth keeping in mind that Stearns has always valued our existing rotation more than outsiders, and outsiders generally hated our rotation going into 2018. Even if we went into 2019 with no additional starters, guys like Nelson, Burnes and Peralta weren't options for our opening rotation last year, so we're already in a better spot.
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    Unfortunately they're just in really a terrible position to try to pull off a deal like that. All their best trade assets are on expiring contracts, and they don't have much to offer in terms of draft pick arsenal.
  3. adambr2
    I bet Mike Moustakas isn't particularly thrilled with being a Boras client the last 15 months or so.
  4. adambr2
    Exactly. As good as Whit has been, he's never made over 570K in a season and he's on the wrong side of 30. It's your classic run of the mill lifetime financial security in exchange for discount to team deal. The Royals get a bargain and no matter what happens going forward with Whit he is set financially for life. Good for everyone.
  5. adambr2
    Yeah it will be a long time before I can hear about any Padre free agency offer and think, "You gave Eric Hosmer 8 years and 144 million in a weak FA market and weak 1B market. You are so incredibly stupid."
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    Because he won't be cheap and he reaches base about 30% of the time. And he adds little versatility. For the money we're likely to spend on Moose, I'd prefer we go after Marwin Gonzalez. Especially since Hirura is likely to be ready in the near future, and Gonzalez is a switch hitter who can put up decent numbers vs lefties(not great, but better than Moose) while covering basically every position on the field. You're also asking Shaw to become a full time 2nd basemen and while it worked OK last year for a couple months, I don't like the move long term. We've already got a good left handed 3rd basemen. We don't really seem to have the luxury of adding another one IMO. It really does seem like Marwin or bust at this point. The other options like Harrison just aren't very exciting. I'm assuming with this that Machado will end up elsewhere but Marwin is still a realistic option. As Joey said I wouldn't be opposed to Moose, but I would much rather have Gonzalez. As you said Shaw is far superior at 3rd, and though I appreciate his versatility I'd prefer be remain at 3rd. Marwin would definitely be an exciting add. He's essentially a far better version of Hernan Perez and Hiura coming up wouldn't keep him out of the lineup because he's so versatile.
  7. adambr2
    Baseball America will reportedly have 2 Brewers in their top 100 prospects. Since they still consider Corbin Burnes a prospect, it will be him and Hiura. Meaning Corey Ray did not make the BA Top 100.
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    Yeah I always shook my head at the "don't vote a guy in on his first ballot" group. If you think a guy belongs in the HOF then freaking vote for him.
  9. adambr2
    Mariano the first ever unanimous HOF selection. Please don't take this to mean that he's not deserving but to me that's kind of a surprising 1st ever unanimous. Never won a Cy Young. Only once was in the top 5 in MVP voting. Again I don't say this to mean he's not deserving of it, but with all the legendary greats who have somehow not been unanimous, Rivera just seems like a surprising candidate to me to break the trend.
  10. adambr2
    Hiura won't crack the opening day 25, but he could be up as early as mid-April. That's all the longer they have to keep him down to essentially gain a 7th service year out of him. Obviously if that's the plan, they don't really need anything more dramatic than a Perez/Spangenberg platoon for 2 weeks.
  11. adambr2
    I really don't think 3.5M spent now is going to make a difference one way or another on 3.5M spent in July.
  12. adambr2
    I never said, nor am I saying, that Gray is in decline and won't bounce back. He very well may. But there are certainly risks. At his age and this market, guaranteeing himself another $30M for the prime of his career coming off his last season seems like a great plan to me, rather than running the risk of entering a very uncertain free agent market following perhaps two poor seasons, or a poor season followed by a major injury. That seems like a very smart approach to me rather than roll the dice in hopes of 100M later. I'm sure not everyone would agree. Obviously, Gray does.
  13. adambr2
    I think it's a great deal for Gray. He's 29, coming off a 4.90 ERA season and his career guaranteed earnings just went from 19M to 50M with one swipe of the pen in a brutal FA market. There's no guarantee of a turnaround especially at Great American Ballpark and if he has one more bad year he enters free agency probably looking at small prove-it deals on the wrong side of 30.
  14. adambr2
    Seems reasonable to me. We swap out Thames for Castro for a net cost of 5M on top of what we were going to pay Thames anyway. Given the market for 1st basemen, Thames doesn't really have any surplus value anyway, so it's basically getting Castro for nothing. And while it's difficult to see it end up coming into play, there is a $16M team option on Castro for 2020 should he enjoy a breakout season in 2019.
  15. adambr2
    You are assuming that the Yankees (or Reds) care in the least about an arbitrary prospect ranking. I mean, it is easy to determine what every team's top prospects are, but once you get past the first 5 or so, each team is going to have its own ranking system, and I wouldn't doubt that its different than the mlb or any other prospect ranking list that is available to fans. I will say however that it's a pretty good starting point. You are correct in saying every team is going to have their own system, but they're still going to be relatively consistent. For example Baseball Prospectus will have their own separate rankings from Pipeline but for the most part they'll be similar. No one is going to have Cameron Roegner as the Brewers' #1 prospect and Keston Hiura as the #17 prospect, for example.
  16. adambr2
    It was a few years ago and I was with my family out of town, I believe it was the Dells. We were at a traffic light waiting to turn left into a Walmart, 3rd car in line. The arrow turned green for a left turn and after about 10 seconds of no movement, the car 2nd in line honked, and finally pulled around the first car and turned after about 30 seconds. I followed and did the same and looked in the car as I passed. Behind the wheel was a girl in her late teens or early 20s, furiously texting away, completing oblivious to the light, the honk, or even the cars moving around her.
  17. adambr2
    Braun is exactly what you want a face of the franchise player to be. He is active in community events, provides numerous scholarships to different schools in Wisconsin, he is involved in the Make-A-Wish foundation, visits Children’s Hospitals, it goes on and on. He is also a great clubhouse presence that guides the young guys and provides positive insight to help them better themselves on and off the field. People look to him to be the leader and he provides that veteran leadership while still being a productive player. He's done and said all the right things, but to say he is "exactly what you want a face of a franchise player to be" completely disregards the damage he did. Moving on from it doesn't mean its just undone. He will never be considered for the HOF because of it. It's great that he's involved in the community and says the right things but that doesn't erase the magnitude of his transgressions. Plenty of players do and say the right things while also not having a black mark in their history on this level. It is not exactly what you would want a franchise player to be any more than Sammy Sosa should be just exactly what the Cubs wanted in a franchise player just because he kissed babies and said all the right things. It was the largest performance enhancing drug scandal in baseball history and he was one of the people at the center of it. Just because a lot of time has passed does not erase that fact from history.
  18. adambr2
    I have always understood 12 pm to be noon and 12 am to be midnight, but I believe Jimbo is technically correct. I have a similar pet peeve about people saying "Central Standard Time" during daylight savings time, which is most of the year. The correct term here is "Central Daylight Time" or simply "Central Time." "Standard" actually refers to something, it is not just an empty filler word.
  19. adambr2
    How do you know be would be a big clubhouse problem? How do you know the team wouldn't get him and Aguilar together before a signing and try to bury the hatchet? Regardless, I'm able to separate my personal feelings about a player from my desire to see this team win. I don't particularly care for Ryan Braun, but I certainly root for him to do well. Also, we hardly field a team of 25 angels every season. We know Braun's history. We acquired K-Rod numerous times despite him being a known abuser. I'd probably draw the line at Addison Russell, but a guy being a dislikeable punk like Machado or Puig isn't enough for me to just totally cross him off the list.
  20. adambr2
    Weren't they just strongly in on him in July and had the 2nd best offer out there for him? Obviously the NLCS did no favors to his reputation there but if they didn't feel his diva personality was a disqualifying factor then I don't see why they would now. I think Arcia's late season emergence would be more of a factor in our lack of interest in Machado than Machado's reputation.
  21. adambr2
    If Machado's offers really are in the $25M a year range currently, do I think its possible that Stearns has an offer, with Mark A's go-ahead, in the ballpark of 1 year/35M? Sure, I think that's possible. Maybe not all that likely, but I wouldn't call it zero.
  22. adambr2
    Does a guy with a .307 career OBP really fit the definition of a professional hitter? I'm not totally opposed to bringing Moose back if it's cheap, but I'm not sure he really fits that philosophy.
  23. adambr2
    To me it's not a very good deal because he isn't very good. I wouldn't have wanted him for that.
  24. adambr2
    Where would Cain play?
  25. adambr2
    Yet almost every promotion they've made has come at a time that generally avoids both Super 2 or the early accrual of a full service year. Which is the right thing to do, IMO. I just wouldn't believe any GM who claimed service time doesn't factor into their promotions. I think it absolutely does, it's just not something they can come out and say.
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