Regular Season Rumors

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Report is Harvey's staying put, so unless Theo had another late ninja move, this is our team.

 

Probably nothing else major, but a waiver deadline deal or two wouldn't surprise me.

 

A depth outfielder and a third catcher seems to have been the Theo/Hoyer pattern for waiver deadline deals.

 

Gimenez is in Iowa ready to pop up in September!! #-o

[Bertz]

The Brewers dismantling their defense to bring their offense up to respectability is fun.

[Rob]

Hamels/Chavez/Kintzler isn't a terrible deadline haul. I know a lot of us would have liked to see more, but it's not like we stood pat.

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Schoop 7 career appearances at SS

[Tryptamine]

Schoop at SS, Shaw at 2B, Moose at 3B and Aguilar at 1B. This may be the single most awful defensive infield in decades. I'm sure the pitchers are all going to love that.

[Southpaw19]

Still could get Matt Harvey as a waiver deal if needed. Cincinnati reportedly will try that route, feeling that he will pass through.

[itisallpartoftheplan]

[Banedon]

The Mets doing absolutely nothing is hilarious.

[Lefty]

What did we give up for Kintzler?

[Andy]

What did we give up for Kintzler?

P Jhon Romero, high-A Myrtle Beach.

[ConstableRabbit]

I don't get it -- aren't Villar and Schoop very similar players, output-wise? Both IF, about the same age, similar years of control left?

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Am I allowed to make fun Galaxy Brain Stearns for trading more for Jonathan Schoop than it would have taken for Manny Machado?

[imb]

I know we're kinda locked in to the roster we have but yeeeeeeesh, it has not been a good year of transactions for Theo and Co.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

The Brewers using league-best defensive efficiency to take a rotation full of 5th starters to the top of the NL and then lighting it on fire to add a couple mediocre bats to their lineup sure is something.

[Cubswin11]

The Brewers using league-best defensive efficiency to take a rotation full of 5th starters to the top of the NL and then lighting it on fire to add a couple mediocre bats to their lineup sure is something.

I have no idea what the hell they just did but I'm pretty sure it's going to be bad

[Cubswin11]

I know we're kinda locked in to the roster we have but yeeeeeeesh, it has not been a good year of transactions for Theo and Co.

I'm okay with we did, would've been nice to do more but think we made some solid moves. Smyly could be back soon too and always was kinda like a deadline addition we bought in the winter.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

The Brewers using league-best defensive efficiency to take a rotation full of 5th starters to the top of the NL and then lighting it on fire to add a couple mediocre bats to their lineup sure is something.

 

When you have a chance to add in a .306 OBP and a .273 OBP, you have to take that risk.

[Cubswin11]

The Mets doing absolutely nothing is hilarious.

I hope all their pitchers arms fall off. Absolutely idiotic of them to not move anyone.

[imb]

The Brewers using league-best defensive efficiency to take a rotation full of 5th starters to the top of the NL and then lighting it on fire to add a couple mediocre bats to their lineup sure is something.

 

You and Duke are hilarious.

 

Shaw is plus at 3B, obv too soon to tell at 2B but the Brewers value defense and appear to not be a dumb FO so there's at least some faith he can pass there. Moustakas has been a plus 3B this year and every year except last. Schoop is going to be not good at SS but the bat is heating up and if the point is to improve as a whole, the Brewers did that.

 

Hopefully as a small market team they pull a Pirates and they have a brief window that snaps shut very suddenly, but the nonstop jokes at their expense is hilariously transparent from both of you.

[imb]

I know we're kinda locked in to the roster we have but yeeeeeeesh, it has not been a good year of transactions for Theo and Co.

I'm okay with we did, would've been nice to do more but think we made some solid moves. Smyly could be back soon too and always was kinda like a deadline addition we bought in the winter.

 

I'll take that bet that Smyly is even remotely passable in his first couple months back from TJ.

 

Reminder: he hasn't pitched in 1 2/3 seasons. Is there even any real indication he's going to throw an inning for us this year?

[jersey cubs fan]

but the nonstop jokes at their expense is hilariously transparent from both of you.

 

You want a transparent joke at the brewers expense? I can get you a transparent joke at the Brewers expense.

 

 

 

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[Cubswin11]

I know we're kinda locked in to the roster we have but yeeeeeeesh, it has not been a good year of transactions for Theo and Co.

I'm okay with we did, would've been nice to do more but think we made some solid moves. Smyly could be back soon too and always was kinda like a deadline addition we bought in the winter.

 

I'll take that bet that Smyly is even remotely passable in his first couple months back from TJ.

 

Reminder: he hasn't pitched in 1 2/3 seasons. Is there even any real indication he's going to throw an inning for us this year?

Pretty sure he's going on a rehab assignment soon. He's done 1, if not 2, sim games in the last weekish.

[imb]

I'm okay with we did, would've been nice to do more but think we made some solid moves. Smyly could be back soon too and always was kinda like a deadline addition we bought in the winter.

 

I'll take that bet that Smyly is even remotely passable in his first couple months back from TJ.

 

Reminder: he hasn't pitched in 1 2/3 seasons. Is there even any real indication he's going to throw an inning for us this year?

Pretty sure he's going on a rehab assignment soon. He's done 1, if not 2, sim games in the last weekish.

 

Again, he hasn't pitched since 2016. Even if he goes on the rehab assignment in a week, you don't miss almost two full seasons, go throw 20 innings in A ball and then come up in a pennant race and help/make a playoff roster.

 

The smyly signing was good, but for reasons beyond 2018.

[Cubswin11]

The Brewers using league-best defensive efficiency to take a rotation full of 5th starters to the top of the NL and then lighting it on fire to add a couple mediocre bats to their lineup sure is something.

 

You and Duke are hilarious.

 

Shaw is plus at 3B, obv too soon to tell at 2B but the Brewers value defense and appear to not be a dumb FO so there's at least some faith he can pass there. Moustakas has been a plus 3B this year and every year except last. Schoop is going to be not good at SS but the bat is heating up and if the point is to improve as a whole, the Brewers did that.

 

Hopefully as a small market team they pull a Pirates and they have a brief window that snaps shut very suddenly, but the nonstop jokes at their expense is hilariously transparent from both of you.

No these moves are pretty dumb

[Aaron_Kennelly]

The Brewers using league-best defensive efficiency to take a rotation full of 5th starters to the top of the NL and then lighting it on fire to add a couple mediocre bats to their lineup sure is something.

 

You and Duke are hilarious.

 

Shaw is plus at 3B, obv too soon to tell at 2B but the Brewers value defense and appear to not be a dumb FO so there's at least some faith he can pass there. Moustakas has been a plus 3B this year and every year except last. Schoop is going to be not good at SS but the bat is heating up and if the point is to improve as a whole, the Brewers did that.

 

Hopefully as a small market team they pull a Pirates and they have a brief window that snaps shut very suddenly, but the nonstop jokes at their expense is hilariously transparent from both of you.

 

They are winning much the same way we are: Getting 5 innings out of their bad starting pitching because they play elite defense and can limit run production in those five innings. Then they hand it over to their elite bullpen to shut things down. (They, however, have a middling offense. But that hasn't mattered.)

 

It just doesn't seem smart to expose that starting pitching by playing a bad second baseman at short and a 240 lb. third baseman at second. Moose and Schoop aren't even that good. If they got worse defensively by adding Manny Machado, it would be a different story.

 

But they had an identity and it was helping them win games. They were somewhat 2015 Royal-like. Now they are throwing all caution to the wind to get incrementally better offensively.