2025-2026 offseason thread

thethe said:
Just so hard to get mad at missing the playoffs when the injuries mounted. Am I to blame him for Profar getting suspended? Thats a tough sell for me especially when we was really good when he played. Kim was a great trade/signing but again a freak injury.

I agree though that he shouldn't consider himself to be on sound footing for the future.
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He's the one that built the roster and handed out the contracts. So yeah, he is to blame. Profar was not a need heading into last year. We needed a SP and a really good RP heading into last off-season. We also needed a LFer and a SS. Instead he signed Profar, who was a better fit for DH than LF, and we signed zero quality SS's, SPs, or RPs.

Perhaps if he hadn't traded away a good, young, cheap catcher in Bill for an older, more expensive catcher that wasn't any better than Bill, maybe he would have had the money and/or prospect capital to make improvements.
 
Carp said:
He's the one that built the roster and handed out the contracts. So yeah, he is to blame. Profar was not a need heading into last year. We needed a SP and a really good RP heading into last off-season. We also needed a LFer and a SS. Instead he signed Profar, who was a better fit for DH than LF, and we signed zero quality SS's, SPs, or RPs.

Perhaps if he hadn't traded away a good, young, cheap catcher in Bill for an older, more expensive catcher that wasn't any better than Bill, maybe he would have had the money and/or prospect capital to make improvements.
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Murphy trade in hindsight was bad - Not sure we all thought that at the time when Murphy was crushing the ball and healthy.

Offense looked pretty good with Profar/Kim and think it could have carried us longer but its just hard to recover from all those pitching injuries.
 
thethe said:
Murphy trade in hindsight was bad - Not sure we all thought that at the time when Murphy was crushing the ball and healthy.

Offense looked pretty good with Profar/Kim and think it could have carried us longer but its just hard to recover from all those pitching injuries.
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Pretty sure most of us mentioned at the time that trading a cheap, good, younger catcher for an older, slightly better (at the time), more expensive catcher was a pretty poor use of resources. If we were trading Bill, it needed to be a legit TOR starter.
 
This isn't really meant as a defense of the Murphy/Contreras trade, but my memory is that our pitchers genuinely kind of hated throwing to Contreras, and I think there were real questions as to whether he would stick behind the plate. Like I said, that's not a defense of the trade, because the Brewers clearly figured it out, and if they could do that and we couldn't, that's just another way of saying we messed it up.
 
Carp said:
Not really. The FA signings have been meh. And the trades have mostly been awful aside from Sale, Olson and Iggy. And the Olson trade was unnecessary since we could have easily just resigned Freeman. We basically gave OIson the contract Freeman was wanting.

If we don't make the playoffs this year, AA has gotta be fired. You can't run a top 6-7 payroll and miss the playoffs 2 straight seasons.
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Are you seriously suggesting that AA’s tenure hasn’t been above average? Can you really not separate the last two off-seasons from everything else?

You people have gone insane.
 
MadduxFanII said:
This isn't really meant as a defense of the Murphy/Contreras trade, but my memory is that our pitchers genuinely kind of hated throwing to Contreras, and I think there were real questions as to whether he would stick behind the plate. Like I said, that's not a defense of the trade, because the Brewers clearly figured it out, and if they could do that and we couldn't, that's just another way of saying we messed it up.
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While that's fair, the bat played perfectly fine as a DH. And TDA/Pina was a perfectly acceptable catching duo. At the very least, if you didn't like the roster fit with Bill and Ozuna on the same team as a primary DH, then Bill should have been traded as the centerpiece behind a deal for a high quality pitcher. Someone like say, Pablo Lopez, who was traded that same winter.
 
Also, in regards to Schwelly and his bone spurs, this is from an article on Carlos Rodon back in October of last year:

Rodón was operated on by Dr. Neal ElAttrache on Wednesday to remove loose bodies in his left elbow and shave a bone spur. He has eight weeks of no throwing, and the start of his season is expected to be delayed by a couple of weeks, Boone said.


If we get Schwelly back before August, I would be surprised.
 
What is everyone's thoughts about MLB delaying games 9 seconds when strike zone boxes are on the broadcast...

why does MLB do stupid things that affect fans in the name of 'fair play' Let teams use broadcasts if they want.. who cares.. every other league uses TV to decide on challenges.. the goal of a challenge system is to get calls right, not make it a carnival game to see if a player can guess right or not.. I really do hate DickFred.
 
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