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Interesting, so if I'm understanding this correctly, if they had signed Grandal before trading for Claudio, they would have lost pick #66, but since they had already traded #39 for Claudio, it becomes the later pick. Surprised it works that way.
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I can't find anything on Kratz's contract saying it's a split contract. I don't think it is. He is also out of options, not sure if he's ever been outrighted.
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Don't they still have their 1st and 2nd, or did I miss something? Yes, they have picks #28 and #66, then jump to #134. I messed up the numbers, but I thought they had to forfeit their 3rd highest pick, not necessarily their 3rd round pick. Our 3rd highest pick prior to the Claudio deal was our 2nd rounder at #66, so I would think that's the one we lose, not our 3rd rounder (#104).
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The natural inclination is to think that Kratz is the odd man out, but we've seen how much they like him. Pina has some potential trade value. If they really believe in Nottingham, I could see Pina getting dealt before the season, Kratz staying as backup and Nottingham as insurance in AAA. Grandal is going to get the lion's share of starts no matter who is the backup.
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Hopefully we are going to have a pretty active with international prospects next season because we are only going to have 1 pick in the first 133 selections. (Not saying anything bad about this deal though)
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I'd call this a well thought-out educated guess, but it's still a guess. No one thought we had the cash to sign Grandal to an $18+ million deal, yet here we are. I think Stearns and the Brewers are all about value, and if another big name presents value, I doubt they are going to let an arbitrary budget cap get in the way. I guess we could look at this as a reallocation of the $10 million that would have gone to Schoop, and the $2+ million each that would have gone to Lyles, Vogt, Cedeno and Jennings. Yeah ultimately we don't really know what Mark A's spending cap is. He may be done, or he may be willing to operate closer to a break even point for one season for the investment in possibly bringing a World Series to Milwaukee. My guess is he's more comfortable overspending a bit as long as it's short-term. That's the beauty of the 1 year deal. I'm sure that if he likes Jed Lowrie at 1 year/$12M and Bumgarner at the same 1/12, he could do both. Would he, I don't know, but could he, yes.
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My guess is that it's still pending a physical and they felt it would be best to hold off until that's complete.
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I'm totally on board. Well, price tag pending. I'd probably do our Saints 1st round pick + a mid rounder if needed, but not the #12 pick. Brown is a generational talent, and the ceiling of making a move like this is that suddenly this is a ridiculous top 3 offense again with Rodgers having two elite WR1s to target. It could blow up in our faces, yes. But when your franchise QB is 35 and you've got a window of about 3-5 years, this is the kind of move you have to make. And the money we would owe is essentially 3 years, 39M, which is a bargain for that caliber of a WR.
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1) You only get Bumgarner for 1 year 2) You get the other pitchers for 6 years 3) He costs 12 million dollars which is a huge portion of the rest of our budget while the other 3 cost basically nothing 4) Bumgarner has shown decline the last 2 seasons 5) Bumgarner's recent history is a red flag 6) He's an unlikable diva We've waited years upon years for this organization to develop home grown pitching and now you want to trade off one for 1 year rental. MadBum is good, but this isn't Max Scherzer. Nelson also seems like a strange inclusion in your above group as he had finally developed into an ace for us. Unfortunately he got hurt and that is what it is, we will have to see what happens with him now, but he had become exactly who we hoped. This organization must be able to depend on homegrown talent to succeed. We can't let past failures scare us from continuing to try to develop homegrown pitching.
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David Stearns must do's for the offseason
adambr2 replied to brewmann04's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I can think of 7 legitimate rotation options they have right now: Chacin, Anderson, Davies, Burnes, Peralta, Woodruff, and Nelson. That's assuming Hader isn't ever starting, Guerra is staying in the pen, Suter isn't going to make it back, Houser and Diplan aren't starting, and Supak is a year or two away. They've got a ton of options so if Stearns likes their options, rightfully so. -
He doesn't even have a guaranteed contract, so they won't eat a bunch of salary, unless they're getting something substantial back, which they won't. But yeah, Cashman is being a little ridiculous. I know it's all posturing, but his fellow GMs aren't stupid. Gray at this point is a nice flyer, nothing more. It's questionable whether he has any surplus value at all at 1 year of control and about 9-10M for an arby price.
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Depending on who we acquire, I think you can make a case for keeping Peralta down, but Burnes is too good not to be on the opening day 25. He was up for much of last year, too, so there's no service time game to play with him. I can see an occasional AAA stint in 2019 to manage his workload, but other than that he needs to be in Milwaukee helping the Brewers win games.
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This year's version of JJ Hoover.
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I'd need Will Smith back with Bumgarner to even consider a young pitcher, and even then it definitely wouldn't be Burnes.
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Again I don't think we should be married to this starter vs. reliever idea, the role that Woodruff was in late in the season, he was phenomenal at, and I would expect his future role to mimic that. We saw what his potential was. His age isn't a big concern to me, 26 certainly isn't over the hill. Wheeler looked like a bust until last summer and he's almost 29. Jimmy Nelson looked like nothing until he was 28. Woodruff struck out 10 every 9 innings in 2018, his stuff looked fantastic out of the pen and 12 MLB starts is a very small sample to draw from. I'm not sure Bumgarner will even be better than Woodruff in 2019 much less giving up 5 years additional control beyond that.
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Starters: Burnes, Chacin, Anderson, Davies Middle: Woodruff, Nelson, Peralta, Guerra Pen: Hader, Knebel, Jeffress, Claudio, Houser I've got Barnes, Williams, Wahl, and Diplan in AAA as the first guys up for the pitching staff, with Supak as a deeper option. Albers is released, but could end up making the team if he has an impressive spring, which might result in Houser being moved. I think they will ease Nelson back in in 2019 in more of the middle/piggyback role that they value highly rather than as a traditional starter. Just a hunch. There's 13, and I categorized the pitching staff a bit differently to reflect our continued blurring of the starter/reliever lines. The lack of lefties in the starter/middle category is pretty glaring and I think that will probably be addressed before the season, whether it be Bumgarner or Miley or Gio. If so, bump Peralta or Guerra down to AAA for now.
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Maybe if it was directed at you or anyone in particular, but it wasn't. I just hear many fans of of the opinion that basically our O line is trash and we just need to focus on fixing that and we'll be fine. It gets old, because it's not all on them and the truth is we do have at least 3 very solid starters on the line which includes at least one elite one. I can't for the life of me figure out why people want to run Bulaga out of town, who performed well, finally stayed healthy, and isn't expensive. It's a combination of things and unfortunately it was the perfect storm this season. They need more weapons at receiver, Rodgers needs to be a little more coachable and yes we could use an upgrade at guard. I'm at the point where I'm absolutely willing to go all-in on Antonio Brown. We're basically starting over with a 35 year old QB which is not a great place to be, the time to play this conservatively is over.
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There's no need for you to condescend. I fully realize that Rodgers is still the best player on the Packers' offense and the offensive troubles this year were a cumulative result of numerous things. I simply have pointed out in the past that the offensive line as a whole gets a bad rap from fans, gets underappreciated and isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be. Could they use an upgrade at guard? Of course.
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Impossible. Any Packer fan around will tell you that the O-Line is garbage. Interesting stat: 45 out of the 53 times Rodgers was sacked this year, the sack happened later than 2.5 seconds after the snap.
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He's only cracked 135 once since 2012 and hasn't hit 145 since then. Why do you think he will hold up that well and stay that healthy this season? Because Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, and big foot all really exist. Just gotta believe! Fair enough!
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He's only cracked 135 once since 2012 and hasn't hit 145 since then. Why do you think he will hold up that well and stay that healthy this season?
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I don't think acquiring Bogaerts means you need to trade Arcia or give up on him for sure. The FO has been plenty creative enough to bring in as much talent as possible and use them all. It's possible they could move Bogaerts back to 3B and Shaw to SS. That said Arcia alone with nothing else is probably the most I would give up, not a Goldschmidt type return.
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I don't think people fully appreciate how good Broxton's 2nd half was in 2016 before he broke his wrist running into the wall at Wrigley. He was amazing. I can understand why teams still want to dream on him.
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To the masses at Miller Park I figure Broxton is more of a "oh yeah, that guy was a Brewer" (scattered polite applause) guy than a standing O guy.
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Even though Gamel is more of a known quantity than any of these guys. I think you could pretty legitimately argue that the Broxton return was better than the Santana return.