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they got yelich to wtf
Brewers Acquire Christian Yelich

By Jeff Todd | January 25, 2018 at 5:04pm CDT

The Brewers have announced a blockbuster deal to acquire outfielder Christian Yelich from the Marlins. Outfielders Lewis Brinson and Monte Harrison, infielder Isan Diaz, and righty Jordan Yamamoto make up the return for Miami.

 

No trade clause. Hmmm....overpaid?

 

LMAO.... hamstrung by all their shit signings of sore arm pitchers, all we can do is watch.

FWUCKTARD genius on display.

 

Never mind JT and Seager and Bellinger and Barnes and Puig all of whom couldn’t hit for shit all but one game that series

 

Brewers look like they are going for it.

 

Brewers making some noise

 

I wonder if they stop here or do they say fuck it and really go all in with Darvish or Arrieta as well?

 

4 years for Cain was stretching it, 5 is ludicrous
Will be interesting to see how the contract is structured, a player option should be strategically placed, maybe after the 2nd or 3rd year, so the team can slide out the back door and get some other thirsty jackasses to take him..maybe SFG, who refuses to give up, will still be pulling stunts at that point
But I guess for a club like Milwaukee, that's cheap and not spending much to begin with, they have some room to fuck up
Immediate future, though, Cubbies should be concerned
Arrieta and Darvish now holding significant leverage, that could swing the Central, so they seem to be the winners

 

Pretty funny how players are coveted, and when we get beat out, or do nothing at all, those guys we wanted and made dreamy conceptual lineups with, when they inevitably go to another team, they fucked up and did it all wrong.
Not as good as the LAD would have done. If they got him, I guess.
IF.
Seems like we are not even in competition any more, or indifferent...and the guys we do sign are stand alone, no one else involved at all, since they are mostly repo projects. And plenty burn and crash compared to the amount that fly.
Just unending kudos for the clever salary dumps, the majority of which they created.
I'm changing the traditional Dodger battle cry from " wait "till next year" to a more apropos "wait 'till next decade".
Yeah, that's it- wait 'till next decade....

 

I dunno, libtardism crossing over to baseball? Friedman's dick must taste like meatloaf....? What...

YGIAGAM.

 

Cain sucks, glad we didn’t “get” him

 

So 7 of the best 8 teams in the NL are divided between the NL Central and NL West. This experiment by the Giants better work out, or they are going to be in a mess of hurt as all the of the lower tier teams, aside from the Mets are pretty well loaded with strong farm systems (Padres and Braves being two of the best in baseball). Good for the Brewers for going for it when they saw their window opening and dealing from a position of strength(they are/were overloaded with young OF talent). I understand why the Dodgers were in on him, similar thing as Brewers where you lock in an OF'er and move other pieces, but it sounds like they had the same feelings contractually as everyone else. Brewers were the only team that went to 5 years and it sounds like everyone else stuck with 4. Anything to make things harder on the Cubs, but if you're the Brewers you cannot stop here. The Cubs are still the class of that division as the Cards and Brewcrew are still a step behind. Getting Darvish or Arrieta would make them a strong division contender, otherwise they are going to be stuck in the deep wild card field.

 

So aside from the length of Cain's contract, Brewers lose their 3rd highest draft pick as a result of the signing.
That's after having sent big spec pieces for Yelich.
Yeah, they'd better be signing Arrieta or Darvish..fuck, maybe both to make this all worth it.
May as well go ahead and try to win the offseason outright like the Padres a couple years ago.
Except they better sign somebody better than James Shields' bum ass

 

" Sucks " is strong

 

Would've hated a 4yr deal for Cain if it had no player or team options in it for LAD to escape early
Milwaukee paid the Milwaukee price..they very well should have to hand out an extra year to get players to go there
LAD has their own guys taking less to stay around
If Darvish and Arrieta are sitting on 5yr offers, Milwaukee better be that one team offering 6

 

I know this is being talked about more and more, so I am not sure if this is a secret or not.

According to Jim Bowden and his chats with Rob Manfred, MLB will be expanding to 32 teams within the next few years. He says that the first things on the agenda are to get the Rays a stadium deal in Tampa and the A's a stadium deal in Oakland. They want to keep both teams in their respected markets and I believe they will do so. Oakland is heading down the right path for a new stadium deal while the Rays are have a thriving market across the bay that they should move to.

Then sights will be set to finding two new places for expansion. Montreal is at the top of their wishlist if they can get a new stadium deal done. That is the city's biggest hurdle and has been for over 20 years now since the disaster that is Olympic stadium was built. If they don't get their act together, Charlotte could be the next choice on the EC for a team. If neither of those cities work, I would be interested to see what they would do next. This article came out after I heard him talking about it, but it brings up places for expansion (https://www.fangraphs.com/tht/tht-annual-2018/mlb-needs-to-expand-heres-where/). This piece says NJ, which according to Bowden is a big no-no. MLB does not want to put a team in Yankee country where apparently they feel a franchise would never get off the ground. San Antonio/Austin may be the next best as they would like to mostly avoid two new western state teams.

The next place to go will be a Pacific time zone, he says preferably Vegas or Portland. Bowden really wants Vegas, but my guess is it will be Portland as they have shown to be a fantastic sports town and there is only basketball and soccer to contend with. With any expansion, realignment will be in play with the Rockies presumed to being the team shown the door. Not really sure how they would do it, but they are said to want the Rockies and Mariners in the same division going forward, so if Portland were to get a team they would try to build something around those 3. One thing that they are rumored to be liking is the idea of regional rivalries and also they feel the competitive balance is not fair for the Mariners due to their travel times. So an AL Northwest of the A's, Rockies, Mariners and Portland is likely in the cards. We shall see, but Manfred wants an even 16 v 16 league, so either we go to an 8v8 conference or 4 divisions within each league. Bowden also said with the next expansion, expect the DH rule to be implemented league wide. A lot of change coming to the league, but I always find expansion to be fun.

 

Portland would be so fucking cool