Ortiz is in the deal. I hope its not much more than that. An infield of Shaw at second and Schoop at shortstop would be horrendous.
I thought that you would react more harshly for giving up a top 5 prospect for a 0.7 win player making 8 million bucks. I might have to fill in with the meltdown here
I don't like or understand the trade but I am also not high on Ortiz. I really didn't like any of the deals that we made but I am happy that we still have Burnes, Hiura and a bunch of other guys that I like.
On the bright side, we now have the reigning NL player of the week and the reigning AL player of the week.
We have to play Arcia everyday with all these bad defensive players around him. Schoop must not be allowed to play short. My hope is that he plays well and we can flip him in the offseason for a similar return.
We'll Ortiz is a hell of a lot more valuable than Medieros and Soria probably does more to help us win than Schoop will. Sure Schoop has an extra year of control but at 8 million is that really surplus value?
We needed to balance the lineup out. We have too many lefthanded bats so Schoop will balance that out. The Brewers are way higher on at least 4 or 5 pitchers than Ortiz. We still have Burnes, Peralta, Woodruff, and Zack Brown between AA and the majors and Ortiz has major conditioning concerns. I can't believe that I am the one being positive but here we are.
The key going forward the rest of the season is to play Arcia most of the time at shortstop and finally give Burnes and maybe even Woodruff a shot at the rotation. There is no reason why Burnes should be the 4th or 5th option in the bullpen when he can help us out big time in the rotation.
These moves are a lot better than something like Burnes and Hiura for Archer which might have been the ask.
Cain should be in Gold Glove discussion Yelich is really good still Wade has been pitching wonderfully
1-19-15 Texas Gallardo for Sardinas, Knebel, and Diplan 7-30-15 Houston Gomez and Fiers fo Hader, Hauser, Phillips, and Santana 7-31-15 Baltimore Parra for Davies DAVID STEARNS 11-18-15 Detroit K-rod for Pina and Betancourt (MiLB) 11-19-15 Toronto Lind for Peralta, Missaki (MiLB), and Herrera (MiLB) 12-9-15 Houston Sneed (MiLB) for Villar 1-30-16 -Arizona Segura and Tyler Wagner (MiLB) for Diaz, Anderson and Hill 7-6-16 - Boston Hill for Rijo and Wilkerson 8-1-16 - Texas Luc and Jeffries for Brinson, Ortiz and Cordell 12-6-16 - Boston Thornburg for Shaw, Pennington, Dubon, and Coca 7-31-17 Texas Taylor Scott (MiLB) for Jeffress 1-25-18 Miami Brinston, Yamamoto, Harrison and Diaz (all MiLB) for Yelich 5-25-18 NYY Rijo for Kratz 7-26-18 White Sox Perez and Medeiros (both MiLB) for Soria 7-27-18 Kansas City Lopez and Phillips for MOOSE 7-31-18 Baltimore Ortiz, Carmona, and Villar for Schoop. - Net: Schoop, Moose, Soria, Kratz, Yelich, Shaw, Anderson, Peralta, Knebel, Hader, Davies and Pena + 8 current MiLB players Out: Gallardo, Fiers, Gomez, Luc, Sergura, Thornburg, K-Rod, Lind, Parra, + 9 MiLB players Baseball is a long game; I’d say our FO killed it!
Good to see Thames punish a bad fastball April 2017 for Thames happened because the book flipped on him from the first time in the mlb. First time around he was a fastball hitter and then went to Korea where they throw junk. He came back and pitchers threw him junk and he crushed it. Eventually last year he couldn't ever catch up to fast balls.
Thames should have no problem hitting fastballs with his incredible bat speed. He probably has the quickest swing on the team.
Schoop looks like Hernan Perez with more power. Really surprised that Stearns wanted a guy like this with no plate discipline. Hopefully Ortiz eats himself out of baseball and Carmona doesn't develop or this could be an awful trade.
https://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/mp4/2018/08/04/2346965283/1533426534136/asset_2500K.mp4 Shaw's GS
Brewers picked up Jordan Lyles on waivers from San Diego. Stearns loves picking up trash off the waiver wires. I guess it won't do much harm if he replaces Barnes or Albers who has thrown batting practice since coming off the DL.
Colorado was begging for the Brewers to win that game and somehow we couldn't get it done after that hilarious ninth inning comeback which included a catchers interference and Kratz reaching first on a strike out with a wild pitch.
Peralta isn't a starter. Schoop sucks and we traded away the only pitching prospect other than Burnes that actually profiles as a starter for him. Ortiz at least profiled with 2 plus pitches and had other viable pitches to mix in.
Not getting a starter was a mistake. The staff was hanging on by a thread with smoke and mirrors and is going to end up failing just like last year.