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  1. MNBrew
    I don't love this move but I don't hate it. Roster bubble guy, it seems. Career .252 BA looks fantastic with what we witnessed from most Brewers' bats in 2020, though his walk rate in 2020 was putrid. If nothing else, this seems like a better pickup at first blush than Ronny Rodgriguez did at any point last year. If he plays in MIL this year, it shouldn't be disastrous. And if he never plays in the majors, either he totally bombed or the rest of our roster is performing well enough to keep him down in AAA.
  2. MNBrew
    Career number-wise the two are similar: Gallo: 208/327/499/825 Carter: 217/312/456/768 Their best years (both at age 25 - and both in limited games) are a bit different however: Gallo: 253/389/598/986 over 70 games (2019) Carter: 239/350/514/864 over 67 games Personally, I never quite got why we didn't give Carter another year. He wasn't perfect, but he was fairly inexpensive and filled a need. I'm not going to spend a lot on Gallo to acquire him, but a Ray/Lutz/Lazar package isn't that expensive. Perhaps 2019 was his flash in a pan or maybe he is trending up. He will be 27 this year, so he is just in his prime years. I'm confused. You say this package will be more valuable to other teams, then point out all the flaws in the package. Isn't that why it aligns with (an imperfect) Gallo? I believe you misread his point. CWH is saying WE (Brewers fans) likely see more value in our "prospects" than other teams would, and pointing out the flaws is done to illustrate the point.
  3. MNBrew
    Well, to be fair, so far almost every MLB team has yet to make an impact signing. At least for now it's a function of a very slow market rather than the Brewers being behind, not that it would be surprising if the Brewers ended up behind the big-money teams at some point.
  4. MNBrew
    Milner is basically Claudio's replacement. I'm not expecting it, but if he's good enough that he turns out to be Claudio's replacement, that would be nice.
  5. MNBrew
    NO team goes into ST with only their homegrown guys slated for the minor league rosters.
  6. MNBrew
    You need veteran-ish NRI guys in ST and on your AAA roster. Every year some of those guys stick in AAA past ST, some don't. Being in ST lets them train & play with the big-leaguers (and amidst the highest level of ST competition) and with the major league coaches' eyes on them, which is good in the event they ever get called up. If the Brewers thought they were likely serious, big-league solutions, they'd be on big-league contracts. But they're not.
  7. MNBrew
    Pretty sure I've seen multi year minor league contracts before, in situations like this. But even if not, he can be added to the 40-man roster at the end of the season if they want to keep him. I should've been clearer. I'd be surprised if many established MAJOR LEAGUERS would sign multi-year minor-league contracts except in situations where they need security because of returning from injury/etc. And as before, I could well be wrong!
  8. MNBrew
    Like the Guerra experience a few years ago, or going back a long time, the Flying Moutons. Which Mouton was your favorite Mouton? James, though he never seemed to fully live up to what he could've been when he first came up with Houston.
  9. MNBrew
    Seems like a lesser version of the same idea the Twins had when signing Michael Pineda three years ago. It was known he'd miss the first year of the two-year contract recovering from surgery. Except this guy hasn't had the success Pineda had before his surgery and this would seem to be a one-year contract since most FAs wouldn't sign multi-year minor-league contracts. I'm all for taking advantage of opportune timing with a cheap flyer on a good arm. But it comes with no guarantees this guy will ever see the majors again. On a less-serious level, I wondered if the goal was to sign all the available Perdomos in the hope that at least one will live up to the high potential our now-two Perdomos both have... not unlike 25 years ago when we cornered the market on Mouton OFs (with unspectacular results).
  10. MNBrew
    Claudio gave us some good moments and some frustrating ones, though generally more decent than lousy. Kind of a middling, serviceable BP guy. Nothing stellar but also not a bad value for what he was paid -- and it doesn't bother me to see him go. As dubious as I felt the trade potentially was, I simply moved on and didn't dwell on it. That said, I totally get the lingering frustration with giving up a CB pick for him. For a team like the Brewers, those picks are nice gifts and should be respected for their potential value, not readily discarded for something that's hopefully more appealing just because it's shiny & immediate.
  11. MNBrew
    Not ideal news but so it goes. Part of doing business. He & Burnes are our TOR guys and we need 'em. Pay him and don't try to get cute about it.
  12. MNBrew
    Well, they don't really have enough players to field a team right now, so logic would dictate that they will be acquiring more. Right, RRB. Per brewmann04's comment, it could probably be amended to "I don't think we'll be hearing any inspiring FA or trade news for the Crew." We'll get somebody -- more likely a couple somebodies. I'm curious and cautiously hopeful about what Stearns could end up doing. But as sure as it's December right now, plenty here will see any move as further evidence to their logic that we should just be blowing it all up, tanking for now, and starting to build a rich prospect pool all over again. (And I'd posit that building the prospect pool is also quite possible while the team's doing well, though clearly we have to be doing much better at it than we have been.)
  13. MNBrew
    There's Stearns' "controllable young talent" mantra. There's Billy Beane's "Moneyball" approach (capitalize on assets or skills undervalued by others), which also plays right into Stearns' mantra/philosophy. It doesn't matter how you acquire these guys, just that you do, wherever & however you can (affordably). Some will pan out, some won't. In a vacuum, the more you acquire, the better chance that more of them pan out. The more you can accurately scout/assess those traits/skills/performances vs. others, the better your odds that more pan out. Getting something for otherwise-about-to-be-non-tendered Corey Knebel (who I wanted us to keep) is better than getting nothing. Leo Crawford was nobody's "darling prospect," but he's got something Stearns & Co. like enough to choose him over other options on the PTBNL list. I don't have any specific expectations, but I'd be quite pleased with this deal if Crawford gets to Milwaukee & makes a meaningful contribution -- or is used as an asset to help us obtain someone else who does. Meanwhile, a MrAllen said, here's hoping there's more fun & interesting player acquisition news ahead -- which seems at least somewhat inevitable -- so this isn't the Brewers' biggest winter deal.
  14. MNBrew
    The catcher Tampa got in return isn't MLB ready, just 5 days short of 21 and only made up to low A-ball in '19. That doesn't solve Tampa's regular-season 26-man C shortage. It seems they could still be a match for a logjam-breaking Nottingham/Pina/Narvaez trade (only 1 of the 3, just to be clear).
  15. MNBrew
    Nice catch here! Either Jones or Toro would be worth a prospect to bring in and at least give a try. Maybe go after both since Toro looks like he can play 3B with Jones at 1B. Sign a guy like A. Cabrera who is versatile and could play 1B/3B if either failed miserably. Vogelbach could take some ABs at 1B too. I'd rather see D. Smith or Davis or Rios, but even if we get one of them, Jones and/or Toro wouldn't cost too much in prospects to bring in. ... or Gyorko. Overall I think these guys are the sorts of players we should be after along with a veteran utility/fallback guy.
  16. MNBrew
    After watching Cron in his year in MN, I think he'd be a pretty *meh* signing at best. Decent power but, overall, nothing great. . . . Of course that's several steps up from Smoak, which isn't saying much in Cron's favor. I think there's more merit to finding some prospect-type who's blocked (a la the Houston young corner IF mentioned in that thread).
  17. MNBrew
    I get some of the concerns about Vogelbach, but I'm feeling more optimistic about him. However, if he's an absolute disaster in ST, they can let him go and it'll cost just under $250K -- not chump change, but a relatively low-risk gamble -- and other options will surely be available.
  18. MNBrew
    Matheny was always considered good defensively, but it took a long time before he became a competent major league hitter. It seemed for a while early on that the thing Garner/etc. liked best about Matheny was him taking down Willie Wilson in a spring training game when Wilson charged the mound. I'm glad he ended up having a good MLB career -- except that it came with the Cardinals. Back then they also had Mike Stefanski as a prospect, but Matheny ended up ahead of him & Stefanski never earned a shot at the bigs.
  19. MNBrew
    There was a year somewhere in that same time frame when we kept having catchers get hurt. Bring in Dave Valle? Sure, and he starts hitting okay... and very quickly gets hurt... So we go get another. Rinse & repeat. It was surreal!
  20. MNBrew
    I don't think Stearns is thinking that that's Plan A. He's a decent fit at a good price, but ideally should be a bench or role player plus a DH in AL parks (unless that changes), but makes for a hopefully decent fallback plan if it comes to that.
  21. MNBrew
    ^^Point of my post (2 up): We might as well sign Thames instead because invariably he'd be cheaper, already plays 1B, and would be cheaper for likely similar production.
  22. MNBrew
    To play 1B? Or are they actually considering a Yelich to 1B move, which I would support 100%! Pederson has 149 innings of experience at 1B for the Dodgers in 2019. He apparently wasn't great there, and they started using Bellinger more there because of it. Yelich was his high school team's regular 1B, but has not played there as a pro I don't believe. I don't get the interest unless there's already something brewing re: Garcia. Pederson's career numbers in terms of BA, OBP, OPS, & K rate aren't much better than Eric Thames' career numbers (except for K rate), and are mostly slightly less than Thames' overall MIL stats (yet Pederson got paid Dodgers money for his production). Baseball Reference's dWAR on Thames is pretty negative, but Thames play a solid if unspectacular 1B. We need corner IFs that move the needle re: improving the offense and offensive profile of our club, not another Garcia-type signing which, if Pederson were signed to play 1B or to move Yelich to 1B (that's Yelich, the GG-winning OF), would amount to an added body but not any better hitter.
  23. MNBrew
    This is Rob Manfred's MLB vision & effectiveness at work. I don't think he gets it either. Solve things that don't need solving, don't solve those things needing an obvious & timely resolution, and antagonize the players (and frustrated some managers) at every possible turn. Man, I wish Bud would un-retire!
  24. MNBrew
    It's funny how conditioned we are as Brewers fans to think that after one middling year, anyone that's older and makes good money = bad contract. If Cain produces like he's capable of -- or at least close -- he's not overpaid except by traditional small-market standards (and Tampa Bay standards, which is pretty much the square root of any normal small market payroll figure). Based on RollieTime's post-non-tender deadline payroll projections, we've still got money left to spend to get up to the low end of the payroll budget sizes folks are conjecturing -- and that's with Lorenzo's money already factored in. So it's not like his contract is hurting this team and keeping it from making other needed moves. . . . Yet, if we dumped him, we lose a Gold Glove CF and a (very likely) above-average bat, which would make MIL that much less of a desirable FA landing spot and thus rendering moving Cain counterproductive toward the end moving him would be hoping to achieve. With Braun gone, Cain's one of the main remaining veteran clubhouse leaders & glue guys that a team in transition that's trying to stay a playoff contender needs. Many folks like to poo-poo the notion of intangibles, leadership, and anything else you can't measure numerically between the lines, but I'm a firm believer that guys like that matter. Cain's a pro, Cain's a defensive wizard, and Cain's won a ring. I want him in our clubhouse and in CF. Hopefully his bat again justifies me wanting him hitting in the top half of the lineup again, too.
  25. MNBrew
    Well, there was that time we got Eric Gagne... . . . Um, never mind, we're not supposed to speak of that incident any longer. Seriously, though, I'd love to get DJ. He's the type of bat we could really use. But if he doesn't want to leave NY, it wouldn't matter what we offered. I'd love to have hitters like Jeff Cirillo, Fernando Vina, Mark Loretta, and Dave Nilsson on this team -- not huge power guys, but HITTERS with a good eye and consistently far better results than the K-heavy tendencies that are far too prevalent today. Does anyone else remember the crazy tennis ball machine Cirillo & Loretta would use for batting practice that would pitch balls 120-140 mph with lots of numbers on them? That lasted for at least a couple years. They used it to train their eyes better and, while seemingly potentially gimmicky, those guys got results!
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