Hitch

1) Absolutely prove himself over Mayer for me. Campbell hasn't shown he can even play the position yet. In fact I'd argue that he's shown he can't really play the position and you'd use him there only in emergency. 2) I've been impressed with Lowe so far. I've always quite liked him from afar, so maybe I'm a little biased, but I'd be keeping him if he plays like I hope he does. I'm so fed up of the 1B hole. I'd platoon him with Campbell there, if Lowe continues to struggle with lefties. 3) Why does my plan have little regard for defence? I'm more than happy with Duran as a back up for Rafaela in CF when he needs some time off, and playing in left when Anthony does. Spotting Rafaela in right every now and then for Abreu works for me, too. Bullpen goes without saying. Good shout on Sandoval, I forgot about him. Gio has said often he loves it here, so I think we can bring him back if the will is there. I re-sign Chapman. I saw Moon suggest something like 1 for 12m with a 3m buyout/2 for 22m the other day. I'd be okay with something like that.

1) He has yet to prove he is worth anything more. 2) Because I'd happily pay 10m for a player that he's been for the most of his career, for the next few years at 1B, rather than worry about this position and trying to shoehorn prospects into all the time, but I accept we can wait on this, though it might end up costing us more if we don't jump on this down year. 3) Trades can be used for anything including for unloading as we've seen to great effect at this organisation. Whether we can do what I've suggested is another thing - I said it would be difficult/unlikely. Yoshida is more or less useless to us. and along with Casas has little to no value, which is why if you're lucky enough to get a taker, you do it immediately. Literally immediately. 4) We'll have to agree to disagree here. I'd be over the moon to have those 4 rotating, with Password as the RH back up, assuming he can hold his own. Several different skill sets, and 4 very good options, with one prospect. For SP I'd like - Crotchet, Bello, bring back Gio, and see if Cease wants a year where he tries to rebuild his value, and then we have Crawford, Dobbins, Harrison, Tolle, Sandlin and Early waiting to take the 5th spot and give us depth. That would be just fine by me,

I'd be tempted to offer him a 3 year deal, see if you can get him to sign for like 3 x 10/12. He's had a down season and may be open to it. Then package Casas and Yoshi together and literally give them away, hopefully eating as little of Yoshi's money as possible (this won't be easy admittedly) C Narvaez 1B Lowe 2B Mayer SS Story 3B Bregman LF Anthony CF Rafaela RF Abreu DH Duran (rotating among the 4 out fielders) Gonzalez, Password, Campbell and Wong as the bench pieces. Buy in pitching. Looks exciting to me.

I'll reply in the other thread.

Good shout, I didn't see that thread.

Good conversation. What are you not liking?

I've been very impressed with Breslow. Got a few things wrong as every GM does and it'll be interesting long term to see how his drafts work out, but the contract extensions have been mostly superb and signed a lot of great players. Not sure i agree on extending Mayer though. 3rd year in a row he's had his season cut short through injury.

I'd be tempted to offer him a 3 year deal, see if you can get him to sign for like 3 x 10/12. He's had a down season and may be open to it. Then package Casas and Yoshi together and literally give them away, hopefully eating as little of Yoshi's money as possible (this won't be easy admittedly) C Narvaez 1B Lowe 2B Mayer SS Story 3B Bregman LF Anthony CF Rafaela RF Abreu DH Duran (rotating among the 4 out fielders) Gonzalez, Password, Campbell and Wong as the bench pieces. Buy in pitching. Looks exciting to me.

Has another arb year too. Very glad we picked him up.

Well this is fun. We should have enough for Hicks now. Should.

As I kinda suspected. It makes sense, in a way that little makes sense in this game.

I'm so impressed with what Bello is doing this year.

Every year I feel like I get a couple of big calls right and a couple of big calls wrong. Insisting we should trade Chapman for a haul is the most wrong I've been in quite a while.

Give it a rest, Fred. I've never seen a poster more desperate to convince everyone of how much more about baseball they know. This 'I'm extremely chill' nonsense is hilarious after your last month or two.

Just having what should be a good D at the position is a good enough step for me right now. With luck the bat gets back to what it was as well. An almost no-downside roll of the dice.

I'd be open to giving Criswell the start. I'm not openly advocating for this move, just a random thought more than anything else. That and the fact we ae getting very left handed in the pen.

All good, both. 👍

There's the outside possibility of moving Buehler to the pen at some point, too.

The main impact was that it forced Gonzalez and Toro into every day players, neither of which they are (and takes away our main righty platoon). That's why I was so insistent we needed a 1B at the deadline. Hopefully the new addition helps us.

Nobody has 'set me off'. 😆 I was responding to the article and the madness of making assertions on the trade this early. That's not to say people shouldn't waste their time however they see fit. We all do that every day on here and nobody is saying people cant talk about whatever they'd like. If I was responding to any of the arguments included in the thread I would have quoted them.

Why so defensive? Nobody is stopping you or anyone else having any conversation you/they want.

No, that's the conversation you're having. I'm saying it's utterly pointless trying to judge who has won this trade (or even, might) when so little of the information needed to decide such things isn't available to us yet, or due any time soon.

There is literally no point making this judgement now. Chances are Brewers will be very happy with it in the long run, but seeing as we are nowhere near having the data needed to say either way this is a bizarre article.

It's not about age so much, but about experience. When Duran is seen as one of our veterans it says it all. Hell, even Abreu is considered one of the main stays and is in only his 2nd full year same for Rafaela. Anthony is in year 1, as are Navarez and Mayer too. That's 2/3 of the starting line up. Even our ace is only in his first full year as a starter after getting shut down half way through last year. I'm not complaining about any of this - I love it. But it comes with trade offs in the early years.

I'm not hugely against it, but bar a very good 3/4 months, he's not delivered incredible numbers at any point in his career. I'm just not enamoured with spending $4m to see if we get something in two years time. But then I'm a little jaded with all these reclamation projects. That said, I don't feel strongly enough to care either way. If we do sign him so be it.