Aaron_Kennelly

The Yankees are the team I can most easily see blowing us outta the water. Any team could blow us out of the water, sure. But you'd say the same thing about the Diamondbacks, and they just landed a guy with an OPS over 1.000. I'm not saying you're wrong. And you'd think they'd be interested and might offer up something a little nice. But, then again, the Yankees have spent some time building up their farm and heading on a new path. Maybe they remain a little stingy, knowing their recent injuries and poor play. Sure, they did buy a rental in Frazier, but only with two good, controlled pen arms attached. And I don't think they gave up too much there, either. And maybe the Rangers ask for one of their top prospects, and the Yankees won't budge and talks go nowhere. And Theo swoops in and tells them to choose whoever the hell they want and can get something done for cheaper than you'd expect. And the Yankees are left saying, "Hey, we could have beat that!" Wishful thinking, perhaps. But you never know. I'm not saying it's likely to happen or anything. But it might be a smart route to go down, since we assuredly aren't getting a stud like Gray without using one of our MLB pieces.

It really seems like a Theo-type shocker move, too. Just go all out on the rotation. And, with Quintana already in hand, you aren't worried as much about trading for another cost-controlled guy. Use what we have on the farm to get the best player we can. We aren't getting another good cost-controlled arm with that. So get the rental. Then use that sweet, sweet cash to fill that hole in the off-season.

You never know. The Dodgers are sniffing around at Gerrit Cole and Julio Teheran. Maybe they just stay out of the bidding completely, opting for a guy with control. The Astros have been linked to Sonny Gray a lot. Maybe these other top teams just head in different directions. And is a team like the Twins going to fork over much for a rental, for their .500 team? Nah. It could be that there just isn't much of a market for him. Look at what the Tigers just got for J.D. Martinez. What I'm saying is, stay in on this, Theo. Ride it out and hope you can get something done, revolving around Candelario and Zagunis or something.

In 11 games since being moved back to South Bend, Wilson is hitting .310/.370/.595 with 3 homers and a 14.9% K% in 47 PA. That's after hitting 3 homers in 8 AZL ABs.

D.J. Wilson homer. He's really doing well since coming back.

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lol... The Mets' top pitching prospect, Thomas Szapucki, just had Tommy John surgery.

It's going to be funny when we finish the season and UMFan's record as game thread starter is 75-2 and everyone else is 2-3.

I know you've spent some time in first, Brewers, but somebody needs to tell you the hard truth. http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Its-Not-Going-to-Happen-Mean-Girls.gif

perfect

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News break: Sucky team has lost more games than the Cubs.

lol. Rosenthal forgot to cover first base on what would have been the third out in the 9th. Walk-off loss instead.

Cards lose. Time to knock them way back.

Bingo. There's the ephemeral moment before those prospects come up and fail that you can envision them all coming up and turning into stars and replicating what the Cubs did. It's why smart people expressed caution during our rebuild. The difference here being that, while Theo had a cache of, like, a dozen top-ten prospects over two or three years, they have about a half dozen guys that rank somewhere between 40-150. The difference between, say, the 3rd-best prospect and the 75th-best prospect is enormous. I don't think they understand that. They are hoping these 23-year-olds with spotty records in the minors will come up and give us a run. Meanwhile we have a hoard of 23-25-year-olds with World Series rings, All-Star appearances, MVPs, and other hardware. Fast forward three years and they'll realize Lewis Brinson is Keon Broxton redux, while Josh Hader ends up relegated to the pen. Maybe Corey Ray has a breakout when he is 27, by which point they'll have given up all hope. Meanwhile, everything that they have we can match and better. Oh and we also have a bunch of established star veterans in place, too.

I guess there is always the Wild Card Game, though. They can become the new Pirates.

Perhaps the gulf will be more apparent to them when the two-time defending World Champs are 24 games up on them at this time next year.

Throwing away the silly nonsense the Cubs shortened any sort of window with the Quintana trade.... The silliest thing the Brewer fans are thinking is there's a real chance they have any sort of competitive window on the horizon that's definitively better than us. They don't have a Bryant or Rizzo in their system or on the roster. Arcia (6-7 months younger than Russell) is nice but he's closer to a rich mans Alcides Escobar than a 5-6+ win player. They lack true impact player(s) anywhere and being in a small market they need to develop multiple Bryants/Rizzo's like they did with Braun/Fielder to capture any sort of multi year run. The flash in the pan seasons, or half seasons like this, may happen but there is nothing there that I see sustained success that we can't overcome even in 4-5 years. Yeah. Their future sucks. What they are building may have been worth a horsefeathers in a non-Theo-run-Cubs division. But that horsefeathers ain't flying now. No player on their current roster will ever finish above the Cubs in the standings. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. And their farm system blows. (Nearly every farm system blows. Always. It's incredibly rare for a team to build what we did.) And the Brewers have no top-end, real impact guys, like you say. They have a bunch of Arismendy Alcantaras hitting .235 in high-A. Some might pan out. Others won't. Most likely they'll just be cheap 2-3 win players. And that ain't competing with us.

That's alright. They'll have the last laugh in 2022 when things start unraveling down here.

Suckiest bunch of sucks.

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John Lackey is about to be one, after Theo sends him to the factory. [Gif]https://goo.gl/images/4A9vNw[/gif] Dammit, how do you post gifs? "img" instead of "gif"

John Lackey is about to be one, after Theo sends him to the factory.

I really like how the pitching match-ups lineup the rest of this month. The Pirates still have Cole and Taillon to go against the Brewers, then send Trevor Williams and Chad Kuhl into Coors. The Brewers then face Nola, Eikoff, and Hellickson in Philly without Jimmy Nelson -- which at least gives the Phillies a chance to win a game or two. Then they head to D.C. and Nelson has to face Scherzer. We got Lackey and Monty out of the way the last two days. And won both games. Now we send our top three out against the Redbirds.

Yeah, it allows Quintana to avoid facing his former team and it makes the Brewers face a guy they are unfamiliar with.