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Brewers wildcard game playoff roster. Only 11 of the 25 are now under contract for the Brewers. 

itchers (10): Chase Anderson, Alex Claudio, Junior Guerra, Josh Hader, Jay Jackson, Jordan Lyles, Freddy Peralta, Drew Pomeranz, Brent Suter, Brandon Woodruff.

Catchers (2): Yasmani Grandal, Manny Pina.

Infielders (8): Orlando Arcia, Tyler Austin, Keston Hiura, Mike Moustakas, Hernan Perez, Travis Shaw, Cory Spangenberg, Eric Thames.

Outfielders (5): Ryan Braun, Lorenzo Cain, Ben Gamel, Trent Grisham, Tyrone Taylor. 

Yelich and Jimmy Nelsen weren't on the playoff roster. 

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MichiganPacker2 posted:

Total payroll under contract for next year is ~60 million right now. 

Braun (17), Cain (15), Yelich (12.5), Knebel (5.1) and Hader (4.6) are most of that. 

Arcia (2.2), Pina (1.8), Gamel (1.6), and Suter (900K) are the only other guys above the minimum. 

https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/mi...kee-brewers/payroll/

It will be interesting to see what the plan is. They have 48 million to spend to match the 2019 payroll. 

Right now they have 

46 million invested in a starting outfield and Gamel

10 million in relief pitching 

4 million for everything else

 

Let’s face it they are probably saving at least 10MM per season on the Yelich contract.  perhaps 15MM per season.  And he’s signed for this season and next at a very reasonable amount. 

They most certainly will not pick up the 15MM mutual option on Braun after this year so that’s some money that will be freed up. 

I expect Knebel and Hader to get healthy increases through arbitration hence the Hader trade rumors.   

Woodruff and Houser are likely two of the starters and I have to believe Suter will be in the running for a starting spot.  Peralta or Burnes could be given another shot but think they are bullpen guys along with Wahl so in theory they probably need one if not two starters. 

Tschmack posted:

Let’s face it they are probably saving at least 10MM per season on the Yelich contract.  perhaps 15MM per season.  And he’s signed for this season and next at a very reasonable amount. 

They most certainly will not pick up the 15MM mutual option on Braun after this year so that’s some money that will be freed up. 

I expect Knebel and Hader to get healthy increases through arbitration hence the Hader trade rumors.   

Woodruff and Houser are likely two of the starters and I have to believe Suter will be in the running for a starting spot.  Peralta or Burnes could be given another shot but think they are bullpen guys along with Wahl so in theory they probably need one if not two starters. 

I've read the Mets are looking at Hader. Will Stearns let him go? I think he might, if the price was right. The only person on this team he won't trade is Yelich.

I really doubt Stearns will consider trading a guy like Hader unless he gets assets back that are affordable and under team control for a while.   The Mets have some players of interest, but not sure Brewers will want to take on any big salaries.  

Mets are also sniffing around about Hiura but I’m not sure they will be able to pony up the resources to get him. 

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Tschmack posted:

Read a piece today that Brewers would consider dealing Cain.   He really dropped off offensively in 2019 and you aren’t going to pay him 15-18MM per season just for his defense.    If he plays like 2018 he’s worth keeping around but with 3 years remaining on his contract it would not surprise me if he was dealt. 

The guy player hurt almost the whole season.  If all those nagging injuries from 2019 go away his 2020 season will be better than 2018.  He's not Travis Shaw, who declined for no apparent reason. 

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No one is suggesting Cain is Travis Shaw, but he needs to bounce back because if a team like Milwaukee isn’t going to resign Grandal or Moose they aren’t going to keep Cain around at 16-17MM for the next three years to hit .260 with an OBP of .325.  

Cain is one of my favorite players but I would not be surprised if the Brewers shopped him. 

As for Narvaez, it looks like a Stearns type move.  Offensively, he could be pretty decent and his left bat in the order offsets some of the production of Grandal and Moose.  Defense seems to be his weakness but hey for 2.9MM (projected) you aren’t going to get an All Star. 

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The new Eric Thames is a pitcher

GBFanForLife posted:

No baseball player is worth 36 fucking million per year. The fact that MLB allows this shit is pathetic.

People said the exact same thing when Joe DiMaggio became the first player to make $100K a year. And Nolan Ryan when he became the first player to make $1M a year. And Bobby Bonilla when he became the first player to make $5M a year. Or when Albert Belle was the first to make $10M.

They'll say it when it hits $40M.

And $50M. 

Ad infinitum 

Congrats for continuing the longest running and dumbest fucking complaint in the history of sports. 

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