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Counsell is a heckuva manager. They’re not that good
Agreed. I don’t know why anyone thinks Counsell’s lost the team or isn’t a good manager anymore. The roster is terrible and he has them competitive every year. Good pitching that doesn’t stay healthy. One of the worst group of position players in all of baseball.
Nah, its da GM. #12 wuz write, aina?
the brewers screwed themselves taking corbin burnes to arbitration. maybe not the arbitration part, but the process. they may have saved themselves $740k but some of the arguments they used to gain favor of the arbiter p!ssed off burnes for sure. so what ya gonna get for $10,000,000?? -a p!ssed off pitcher for one more year, then SEE YA. plus, he's probably taking his clubhouse meals home in doggie bags
The Brewers were never going to be able to pay Burnes his next contract. He’ll enjoy being in a big market. The Brewers should trade him before the deadline.
If the team was being honest with themselves they would have dealt him in the off-season. There's no way their piecemeal offense was going to be good enough to compete for a pennant.
yeshopefully they can put something together before i bolts via free agency and they get nothing. don't know if there is a "no trade" clause in his current contract or teams he can NOT want to go to. i'm sure corbin would love to ride his current contract and let the brewers see who his new team is on espn
Maybe correct, although Attanasio is great at crying poor with his $750 million net worth and very strong support and attendance in the time he’s owned them. But long term, pitchers are extremely risky for the Brewers no question. But why pi** him off while you still have him? Is that smart relations with your best and most valuable player?? That answer’s itself
Having read more about this while it was going on, the $700k battle was the product of a crappy process. There’s a lot of pressure from the owners to not establish new precedents for players, and the Burnes contract would have done that. I think the way contracts are set up early and the process is pretty unfair, but it is collectively bargained. Good young players are a bargain for teams until they hit free agency. I don’t think Burnes is going to sign with Milwaukee long term even if they went $700k over his asking price this year.
+1. When you look at that lineup, Counsell maxmizes what he has every year, particularly when it comes to interchangeable parts journeymen in the lineup and his bullpen. The franchise's biggest problem right now is the combo of not developing hitters and being a low payroll team paying 1/5 of its total payroll to Christian Yelich. The lack of homegrown regulars in the lineup is becoming a real problem. Last year, only 2 of the top 15 in PAs played their first MLB game with the Crew - Taylor was 8th and Hiura was 12th. This year looks better, but if the top seven spots in the lineup aren't filled by at least three of Mitchell, Wiemer, Turang, Frelick, and Taylor by mid next year, this team just cannot meaningfully compete.
Irrelevant. The word is out that the Brewers will cheap out on talent. It's a bad look regardless.
I agree except for Taylor. Next year he will be 30 years old with a WAR probably under 4.0 for his career. Just a 5th outfielder type.
Not really though. That’s why the process is in place. This happens every single offseason with every single team. And the arbiter sided with the Brewers.
Won the battle to lose the war.