@notbobkoz My Occam's razor theory is that the Tigers internal rankings was Made/Gillen/JDP > Henderson > Sirota/Hope/Quintero > Pena and they just chose the top guy made available to them (plus the Dodgers offered a SP in their package). Regardless, the process still seems bad
Sources are telling me that the Brewers have, as speculated, agreed to terms on an extension with Top 100 prospect Luis Lara.
The deal is expected to be for 8 years, and roughly $30 million, with two team options and incentives/escalators included.
@notbobkoz He was pretty quick to bench Frelick and Durbin last year and was critical of Ortiz when he was benched too
It does feel more skewed towards the younger players though, which is interesting
@dead_baseball Ive been loosely tracking fWAR from in-season trades. Last I checked a few days back, Brewers were at 2.3 fWAR with the Twins (ironically) coming in second far behind with a 0.9 fWAR. It’s just a blowout.
@MadMaxMKE Part of me thinks that fans have bought so much into the small market vs. big market of it all, that they genuinely believe the Brewers cannot afford to add or operate in any way and that prospects are the only way we can improve.
It’s certainly not the best look in the world when you have the best record in MLB and the only move on deadline day is selling to another NL contender