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Wahl is going to be one of those "shuffle" guys, like a Jorge Lopez or Adrian Houser of 2018. Or in a better case scenario, like a Jacob Barnes. Or in a best case scenario, a Brandon Woodruff.
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The more I watch the Brewers operate, I think they are developing a philosophy of avoiding the reliever FA market entirely. Want to build up a solid core of pitchers, some of which can be shuffled up and down when needed, trade low level prospects for rental relievers when needed, and use their capital on other needs.
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Honestly this was a pretty solid return. Lottery ticket teenager middle infielder, power arm with some upside, and a 4th rounder from last year who had a nice 1st season in the minors. Because of how we value flexibility, the time to move Broxton was now since we couldn't shuffle him between MLB and AAA anymore. He never was able to stay consistent enough or avoid K's enough to stick consistently in the lineup, but Keon did some good things in Milwaukee and had some very memorable moments, particularly defensively. I wish him the best in New York.
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Neither does Greinke, though.
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This is actually a pretty creative idea and makes some sense from both sides and doesn't really deserve the blowback it's getting. With that said I agree with those who say that Braun isn't accepting a deal to anywhere but L.A. and I doubt the Diamondbacks would do it anyway.
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So I am going to ask it. Can this team win it all?
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I don't see Kuechel being worth the kind of investment he's going to get. He's going to get 5 years and 20M a year from someone. I hope its not from us.
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Because everyone operates under the same salary cap, so getting the most talent out of every dollar spent is crucial. Demarious Randall had a $1.5M cap hit and was well worth his production for that amount. Clay Matthews had a $11.369M cap hit and his production was worth nowhere close to that.
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Cutting ties with Graham, Perry, Crosby, and Williams frees up about $26M after dead money, assuming Graham and Perry are designated post June 1st cuts. I just hope we don't get hung up on sunk costs and dead cap like we clearly did with Cobb and Clay. It is what it is, Ted Thompson created a mess and its going to take some time to dig out of it. If we need to move on, move on.
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I'd put all of Fackrell, Clark and Alexander as brighter spots on defense than Matthews, and none of them commanded an 11.5M cap hit. Also I don't agree that Randall is garbage. Regardless of what people thought of him he was a solid player, arguably our best corner at the time, traded for Brett Hundley 2.0. He had a solid year in Cleveland. We can hardly afford to be trading away talent. Bell and Williams were bodies, little else, teams fill out their rosters with these types all the time. I loved his draft, loved getting the extra pick from the Saints even though it looks like that pick is going to be much later than we had hoped. I just don't love much else of what he did in 2018.
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By no means am I calling for the guy's head after 1 season, but to say Gute's first season as GM was not good would be an understatement. Keeping Cobb and Matthews seems to have been a waste, Graham was a poor signing, and Marcades Lewis seemed to barely exist. Kizer seems like a bad trade and another in our long line of horrific backup QBs. I'd give Gute high marks for the draft but he struck out everywhere else.
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What gets me is why this game, for all intents and purposes an exhibition game, is important enough to play in but yet he plays about 8 snaps every pre-season and it typically shows early on in the season.
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Well, we sure aren't playing like it matters. And Philbin isn't going to get any real consideration for the job regardless of what is being said.
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It's a fair point here, and as much as the Brewers get by with creativity, I don't think radical ideas should be so quickly dismissed. With that being said, it's pretty much been said by both the Brewers and Braun that he is never moving back to 3B. As far as Aguilar goes, I could see him getting plugged in for an occasional game or two at 3rd as he was last season to get his bat in the lineup. On a regular basis however I seriously doubt that Aguilar at 3rd would be considered given his defensive limitations. I get that it happened with Shaw, but I think they simply saw it as a unique situation, rather than a green light now to shuffle players at will.
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Lucroy to the Angels - One Year, $3.35m
adambr2 replied to JDBrewCrew's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Based on their usage last season I'm not sure we have any reason to think Pina is our primary catcher and Kratz our backup. -
I wonder if Red Sox fans have these conversations about Travis Shaw.
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Lucroy to the Angels - One Year, $3.35m
adambr2 replied to JDBrewCrew's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
At this point I'm expecting another season of some underwhelming combination of Pina/Kratz/Nottingham. Of the three, I hope that Nottingham wins the job, but given where we are as a franchise I highly doubt that we are going to trust a highly inexperienced catcher with 100+ games behind the plate. I doubt we are going to pay for either the prospect price of Realmuto or the financial price of Grandal. -
Lucroy to the Angels - One Year, $3.35m
adambr2 replied to JDBrewCrew's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
It's pretty amazing that Lucroy has never made more than $6.5M in one season. I always advocate for young players taking the security of a lower guarantee, but Lucroy is the poster child for not doing that. His market timing has always been about as bad as it can be. -
Bad. .209/.295/.322/.616 By contrast Eric Sogard has a .255/.376/.352/.728 career line at Miller Park.
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I’m with ya on this one. Agreed with both of you. Sorry, don't see how Harrison is an upgrade at all from some combination of Perez/Spangenberg/Dubon at 2B until Hiura is ready. Dubon isn't talked about much but I see some possible intrigue and upside there. He was one of the best and hottest hitters in the PCL before his injury, which yeah I know, PCL, so take it with a grain of salt.
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While we're on the topic of millennials, I work in manufacturing where the use of hand tools is a very frequent need. The vast majority of the workforce is either over 55 or under 35 and the contrast between the two is quite remarkable. To the older generation, use of hand tools for very minor maintenance comes as naturally as navigating a smart phone does to the younger generation. Most of the younger generation has little or no experience with hand tools; some couldn't even identify something like a socket or crescent wrench. The positive flip side of that is that one of the wonderful things about YouTube is that it essentially includes a DIY library for just about any task you could imagine. I got sick of my furnace failing almost every winter only to pay a significant amount for a service call that took very little time to fix. I finally wised up and figured I could be doing this myself for free so I went on YouTube to figure out what the likely issue was and in minutes I was able to get in to the furnace and clean the dirty sensor that was causing my furnace to short cycle, and problem solved.
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Same here. I like the added versatility that he brings. Versatility? He has literally never played a single position in his career besides shortstop. I'm not against getting Tulo but it's definitely not for versatility. Not until we see it in practice and not just in theory, anyway.
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I admitted that it's a bit of "get off my lawn", but I don't think that today's 20-somethings have been taught how to deal with adversity. Like two weeks ago when my 20-something neighbors had their car window smashed and were so shocked that they literally did not know what to do. I had to tell them to call the police because they'll need a police report for their insurance and so that the crime statistics reflect actual crime in the neighborhood. I think this is spot on, and this is really the root of what the 'get off my lawn' crowd is getting at. In a vacuum, there is nothing wrong with an emotional support animal. The problem is when you're a fully grown adult and you have not acquired the life skills to self-cope with any stressful situation. Much of stress is spontanteous. Your emotional support dog is not going to be there to help you in the moment when your boss reams you out, when an inattentive driver rear-ends you at a stop sign, or when your significant other leaves you out of the blue. There is still something to be said for learning to cope with adversity on your own, and I frankly find the idea of an entire generational wave of people without that skill to be pretty troublesome. Emotional support animals have their place in this world, but so does a personal management of certain stressful situations.
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Prime Joe Morgan was an on-base machine with a slick glove who would be a fantastic addition at 2nd near the top of our lineup. Unfortunately he has shown some resistance to analytics and thus may not be a great fit for a team that continuous relies on shifting and other analytical advantages. In addition at age 75 it's probably fair to assume that he won't have double digit HR power anymore, and may have a noticable loss in both base speed and bat speed.
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In other words, Stearns is scared...too freaking scared to give up some PROSPECTS that may or may not be good for a CY young winner..scared money don't make money. Meanwhile, the Cardinals, Cubs, and even the Reds are getting better and DS makes game changing acquistions of Corey Spangenberg and Ben Gamel...World Series winning moves for sure! I mean, just within this calendar year Stearns has given up: - His #1 prospect (Brinson) - Two other MLB top 100/organizational top 5 types (Harrison, Diaz) - 2 other top 15 organizational prospects (Medeiros, Phillips) - 2 other top 30 organizational prospects (Yamamoto, KJ Harrison) But, sure, I guess? I just kind of assumed that after you were up in arms about not unloading Brinson for Sonny Gray, and Stearns ended up getting the next MVP for him instead, you would have stepped back, put a little more faith in Stearns and conceded that maybe he knows a little bit more about this than you or I. Clearly I was mistaken.