Redd Vencher

The Brewers spend better against their revenue than most teams in baseball. The most recent Forbes' estimated have operating income at $30 M for the Brewers, so there isn't much higher they can spend.

The Brewers are the 8th winningest franchise in baseball under the Attanasio group.(2005-present) The Brewers have extended most of their good players beyond rookie control in that span. (Sheets, Braunx2, Weeks, Hart, Gallardo, Gomez, Lucroy, Yelich, Chourio, etc.)

He made similar comments about not trading Adames last offseason. Said they got offers that their system graded as deals they should make, and kept him as an important clubhouse piece.

You're understanding what Attanasio is saying in the actual quote. It's in the context of the Yelich extension where he chose extend him for the fans instead of trading him to win the WS like the numbers told him.

Brewers full season playoff teams have won 93, 92, 95, 89, and 96 wins in this run. All teams comparable to the Giants' WS teams. That they didn't win it doesn't change that.

Raley had the 5th most PA of any Mariners hitter last season.

The league isn't extremely unfair in my view, so it isn't something I want to continue.

Because big markets certainly want to pay more. It's not like there weren't multiple collusion cases throughout MLB history, or big market owners aren't also clamoring for a cap.

Raley was on the roster all season last year, though. He just didn't get the start opening day. (Came off the bench) Who's getting the other half of the PA wherever Solano is playing. (Has topped 400 PA once in his career) Robles is a career 90 wRC+ (Canzone is career 84 wRC+)

Caps exist to pay the top players less.

Are they, though? Burger looks to be a downgrade from Lowe. Pederson was a nice sign. Their rotation is relying too much on Jacob Degrom to stay healthy to do anything. Seager and Semien are another year older. Maybe if both Langford and Carter take that next step.

Do they, though?

2024 OD
Crawford
Rodriguez
Polanco
Garver
Raleigh
Haniger
Canzone
France
Rojas

2025 Proj
Robles
Rodriguez
Raleigh
Arozarena
Raley
Haniger
Crawford
Polanco
Moore

Arozarena for a full year and hoping Robles can repeat his BABIP fueled career year doesn't look much better.

If you get the substantially changed revenue sharing, you don't need the cap or floor you want.

The cap doesn't help competitive balance. It just further enriches owners. Raising the prices on those supplemental pieces doesn't help the small market teams afford more stars, and hurts their ability tobuild the talent pipeline without substantially changing revenue sharing.

We haven't played 2025 yet, so we won't know until it's played. You have the A's and Angels in the West dragging that record down. The Astros and Mariners don't look any better than their 85 and 88 win totals last year.

Forcing the Small Market teams to pay $10+ M on the Colin Rea types does nothing to help competitive balance.

The 6+ years teams get of players during their most productive years is the big equalizer. A vast majority of FA are on the wrong side of the aging curve, and being paid market value for past performance. Having a lot of money allows you to work around the decline, but it's not 100% effective.

The NLC isn't a crappy division, though. The ALW and ALC are worse by winning % and the NLC is only slightly worse than the NLE in this run.

Only 1 of the Brewers playoff appearances are a result of the expanded playoffs (2020), but the shortened season necessitated the expanded playoffs. Brewers had a 60 game stretch with same record in 2020 when winning 95 in 2021.

A cap is bad for players. It puts more money in the pocket of the owners and not the players. A floor hurts teams like the Brewers by raising the price on the lower and mid market FA by forcing rebuilding teams to spend when they're better served on spending on building that young talent pipeline.

What about what I'm saying is big market propaganda?

The other team with the most WS wins is the Red Sox. There winning records were 108, 96, and 97. Only the 108 win team was significantly better than the Brewers playoff rosters.

In the last 20 seasons, the Giants are t-1st in WS wins with 3. Their WS winning team records were 88, 92, and 94 wins. These are teams no different than the ones the Brewers have consistently put in the playoffs.

If 8 of the 12 teams are top 15 payrolls and 3 of the 4 byes are as well. The odds a top 15 payroll team wins the WS is 68.75%. This says nothing about the quality of the teams nor the randomness of short series.

There's very faulty reasoning approaching the playoff question like this. In the current format, you have a 6.25% or 12.5% chance to win the WS depending on the bye. Top 15 payrolls hold more of the tickets than bottom 15 payrolls. (Roughly 70% of teams last 20 years)

I haven't. I understand the aging curve in baseball. I would like to see more revenue sharing, but a cap is bad for players and a floor hurts teams like the Brewers, especially without the previously mentioned increase to revenue sharing.

The ALW had a .473 winning % in 2024. The NLC had a .509 winning % in 2024.

I'm a Brewers fan, so I'm not that. Nor have I fallen victim to any propaganda.

By division winning% they are.

Kershaw 37
Rojas 36
Freeman 35
Barnes 35
Muncy 34
Taylor 34
Hernandez 33
Betts 32
Snell 32
Hernandez 32
Conforto 32
Glasnow 31
Gonsolin 31
Ohtani 30
Edman 30
Smith 30
Yamamoto 26
Kim 26
Sasaki 23

I'm not actively rooting against my team. A player's best years are typically during their initial control. This fearsome Dodgers team is likely to look more human quicker than people complaining realize.