Kolek planning to go pro
"Really, really good" teams do not go cold for an entire season. Not with a 162 game schedule.
What? They do all the time. See -> Giants
Look at their roster. If you think that is a very good team, you need to bone up on baseball.
$14.5 million is signing bonuses spent on rookies. So $68.5 million is more accurate of what the major league payroll is. That also accounts for "buried" minor league salaries and deferred money. Active payroll is $57.5 million.
Regardless of how the remainder of this season goes, the Brewers will be interesting to watch next season. I don't necessarily think of the Brewers as being "ahead of schedule" on the rebuild. They look more like a "lightning in a bottle" team this season. Aside from Arcia, Santana and possibly Villar, most of the regular position players aren't exactly centerpieces of the rebuild. Braun is 33 and in decline. Time will tell is Travis Shaw is for real. Thames and Pina are having career years at age 30. Same with Sogard (age 31) who has cooled off considerably. Broxton is 27 and hitting under .200 since late May. Aguilar's also 27 and had basically been a career minor leaguer. Brinson and Phillips have a lot of potential but neither appeared to be all that close to MLB-ready. The average age of the Brewers' regulars this season is 27.4. By comparison, Ben Zobrist (36) is the only Cubs regular over 27 and that doesn't even include Happ (22) or Baez (24).As far a pitching, Davies has looked solid, especially at age 24, Woodruff obviously has potential and Knebel and Hader have been great on the back-end of the pen but Nelson and Anderson are in their late 20s and having far and away their best seasons. Are they going to keep that up? Both had FIPs near 4.50 coming into this year. Suter could be a late-bloomer or he could be a guy who got it together for an extended stretch. The Brewers are 5th in the NL with a 4.05 ERA but the team FIP is a league-average 4.33. In fact, no NL team has a higher differential between ERA and FIP than the Brewers. I'm not attempting to downplay the Brewers' success this year. They're a fun team who's had an excellent, unexpected season and they have a legit chance to win the division. I just don't view this season as Step One in their run of perennial contention.
AND they could pay up. The Brewers had a Top 10 payroll as recently as 2012.
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.
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I do know the facts, the payroll is currently almost $83 million. Opening Day is different.http://www.spotrac.com/mlb/milwaukee-brewers/payroll/
Brewers announce Sept. 22 game vs #Cubs at Miller Park will start at 6:35 pm CT, not 7:10 pm CTThis is outrageous! I am outraged!!
Fairly different reasons for the time change. This is TV driven.
That was cute. The Brewers had absolutely no say in it.But hey, you tried.
I know. Just being sarcastic - doesn't bother me at all. Nor would it have bothered me if it was an identical situation to last week.
Yeah, like I said, it was cute. Good job.
Did anyone really think the Cubs were going to repeat?
Marlins v Brewers series moved to Milwaukee this weekend!