Will The Milwaukee Brewers IGNORE Power Needs Because Of Woodruff’s Price?

Will The Milwaukee Brewers IGNORE Power Needs Because Of Woodruff’s Price?

The baseball winter meetings are up in early December. The Brewers should not let the 22 million they spent on Brandon Woodruff preclude them from spending any money going forward. That’s next here on Locked on Brewers. You are Locked On Brewers, your daily Milwaukee Brewers podcast, part of the Locked On Network. Your team every day. I’m Chuck Freeman. Welcome to Locked On Brewers, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, the number one sports podcast network, longtime sports cer here in the state of Wisconsin, proud host of Lockdown Brewers, and great to be talking Brewers baseball with you as we go into the holidays here. Brandon Woodruff accepts the 22 million, but you know what? That should not prevent them from spending here or making any deals in the off season. The pitching staff looks great with him in there and the Brewers have a need for power in this lineup. The Dodgers showed that. Jack Stern is going to join us. Jack Stern from Brewer Fanatic covers the Brewers on a regular. It’s right there. Uh before we get into Woodruff and all this other stuff, uh wanted to ask you how did you feel? I haven’t talked to you since then. The way it ended in Los Angeles, four straight games after so much promise going in. It was strange because it was very uncharacteristic of what we saw all season pretty much is that even when these guys weren’t doing their best, it felt like they were always right there. Like they they were never really going to give up completely. It felt like there was always a potential comeback in them. they were going to look competitive even if they weren’t necessarily winning as many games. Frankly, they didn’t look competitive at all that entire NLCS. They were just completely shut down by that Dodger pitching, which was very, very good. But I do still think that they probably could have put together better at bats than they did. It looked like there were times where they seemed a little caught off guard by the way that the Dodgers are pitching them. Times where it seemed like they were either slow to make an adjustment or they were just struggling to see pitches out of hand. just a lot of uncharacteristic swings. They chased a lot out of the zone, just just not not grinding away and kind of pecking out at bats. So, very uncharacteristic. I don’t know if it was just they ran out of steam, if it was workload related. They just did not look like themselves as soon as they got to that NLCS. So, that was it was pretty jarring to watch out of all the ways that could have ended. They just didn’t look like the Brewers. No, not at all. But when you face a good team like that, always shows your flaws. Charles Barkley says this a lot. Do you think that’s the case here? It shows that hey, they won 97 games in the regular season, but they’re still not on the Dodgers level. And maybe not so much with the way u the financial situation is in baseball. Yeah, it’s the the tricky thing for me is like the drum that I was harping going into the playoffs is this team’s flaw is that they don’t hit for a lot of power. And yes, you could look at the NLCS and say, see, they didn’t slug in that series, so it’s an issue. But they didn’t do anything well in that series on the offensive end. So, I don’t know if you can necessarily point to the lack of slug because they they just didn’t hit overall. But, if we’re talking about weaknesses and kind of the the parody between these two teams, resources are going to be a part of it, yes, the Dodgers have the ability to to go out and bring in a lot of players that the Brewers don’t necessarily have the ability to just based on the way that things work financially in baseball. if if both teams want to be bringing in the same amount of income and walking away with the same amount of profit. But I think part of it too is like the Brewers got to find a way to develop that as well. I think they need to get better at developing power. They’ve gotten better at the hitting development side just in terms of having guys who can get on base, take extra bases with stolen bases, things like that. But I do still think the offense is where you’re seeing that pretty big gap between these two teams because if you look at how that series unfolded, like the Brewers pitching by and large, they did a pretty decent job at holding the Dodgers at bay. That’s a very, very good lineup, one of the best in baseball. And there weren’t a lot of games in that series where the Brewers were out of it according to the score. There were a couple where things got out of hand late, but throughout a good chunk of that series, I mean, if they could have started piecing anything together, they were right there. So, I think the run prevention side is still very, very good. But it is that offense where you start to see the gap a little more. Jack Brandon Woodruff takes the qualifying offer. Several other players did in baseball, but he took the $22 million qualifying offer. Was that a little bit of a surprise to you? It was for me, but how about you? I wasn’t surprised that he took it. I was a little bit surprised that the Brewers offered it to him to begin with because, you know, 22 million that this is going to be the most that they’ve committed to a starting pitcher in one season franchise history. And they’re doing it on a guy who has combined to make what, 23 starts total over the last three seasons now. He’s very, very good when he’s on the mound. And we saw that again over the summer. But that’s a lot to to put in for a guy who has not been very durable at all over the last few seasons, unfortunately. But I I would guess it kind of speaks to the Brewers probably have pretty high expectations for him if they felt comfortable throwing that out there. So again, I a little surprised that they that they gave him that offer, but once it was out there, I was expecting him to take it because, and he kind of said this when he talked about the decision, with the way the last few years have gone, $22 million right in front of your face, that that’s a pretty good deal for Brandon Woodruff. So, good for him. But I would think he’d want a multi-year deal. But I I’m thinking that maybe with the the impending lockout that maybe that there’s not going to be a lot of multi-year deals out there for these guys. I do wonder if that was kind of the way because four players accepting the qualifying offer. So, Brandon Woodruff and three more guys, that’s that’s the most guys who have ever accepted it in an off seasonason. So, I do wonder if the lockout is kind of playing a part in that. Just take your one-year deal now for this set deal and then kind of see where the baseball landscape is at a year from now. In Woodruff’s case too, I I wonder if he could have gotten multiple years, but it probably would have been a much lower annual value than this 22 mill 22 million. So it it just seems like from his point of view, I think there was a this is a very good opportunity for him to just kind of grab on to some concrete earnings right now. And I think that’s what he did. he got the 10 million that he got uh off the buyout uh when they didn’t mutually agree to the uh the the option before that. So So he gets 22 million. Uh do you think this hamstrings the Brewers going forward you know he talked about he’s the highest paid pitcher north of 20 million first time ever. But uh going forward is this the spending the amount of spending this takes it up right there? It it might. I mean, you look at the way the payroll is shaping up right now. The projection is for what their their luxury tax payroll. I think Fan Graphs has it at about 135 million on opening day. The Brewers have gone over that number before, but when they go over that number, it’s because they’re bringing guys in in season. They’re usually not starting at that 135 million. They’re usually starting, you know, a lot closer to that lower 100s range. And then they have the flexibility to bring guys in throughout the year and and then kind of see how things go. they are kind of in uncharted waters or at least waters that they don’t swim in very often as far as how much they’re going to be paying guys going into next year. So I I do wonder if they’re going to be a little bit conservative here. Now I think the other side of this is maybe they kind of figured going in because they have so many guys who are set to come back from last year’s team. There probably wasn’t going to be a whole lot of turnover or a whole lot of moves this winter anyway. Mhm. So maybe that plays into the decision as well of, hey, we kind of if we’re not going to be using any of our flexibility or we don’t anticipate spending a whole lot on this market, maybe we do make that offer to Brandon Woodruff knowing that that’s a guy who we’d like to have back in the fold. We expect big things from him. He’s got the relationship here in Milwaukee. Maybe that did play into this into the decision knowing that, you know, if we’re not going to use this elsewhere, let let’s throw it out there and give Brandon Woodruff the opportunity to come back. See, I think both sides are kind of BSing on this thing. Brandon Whit said, “Oh god, I was never not going to take that 22 million.” He uh, let’s face it, and he’ll say, he’s saying all the right things. He’s a good guy. He’s going to say all the right things, but if there was a multi-year deal out there, he was as good as gone. There’s no doubt about that. Even though he’s passed up offers in the past, but I mean, he was looking He even said at the the final game in Los Angeles that, hey, you know, he still wants to pitch whether it’s there or somebody else, he he do does believe he could pitch. On the other hand, the Brewers are playing this off like, “Yeah, well, no, no problem that he accepted that $22 million.” Yeah. I mean, it’s again, it probably goes back to like I if there was a multi-year deal out there, I would guess that nobody wants to pay him 22 million a year for three to four seasons compared to this offer that’s out there right now. Mhm. I I I think what it was is like even if this is maybe not like something the Brewers are fully comfortable with, even if you want to kind of read into it that way, I don’t think they throw this out here if they think that it’s something that could hamstring them or it’s something that would put them in a really bad spot or dramatically alter the course of their off season for the worst. Because I mean, you look at his history, you you got to know from a front office standpoint, if you’re going to throw out 22 million to a guy like that who hasn’t pitched a whole lot, there’s there’s a pretty decent chance that he’s going to take that. So, I think from the Brewers standpoint, yes, maybe this puts him in a position where they don’t have a whole lot of room, comfortable room left to spend. But again, I feel like if this is something where you weren’t going to spend a whole lot anyway, I I just have a hard time believing that they would have thrown this out there if they felt that they were going to be in a oh crap position if he took it. Yeah. Yeah. Again, unfortunately, I think it just u it hurts them going into the off season. We’re going to talk about uh the need for another bat in this lineup and how that pitching staff does look with Woodruff coming back and we assume it’s also going to include Freddy Paltto. We get to all that coming up next. 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So, let’s say you like um the Chiefs and they’re like a minus seven. They get down seven points. that lead that point spread shrinks to about two or three sometimes. So, and or sometimes they even become a an underdog. But check it out at FanDuel. New customers, $300 bonus bets, $5 bet. You get the $300 bonus bet if it hits. FanDuel.com. fanuel.com. The number one sports and the official sports betting partner of the NBA. Chuck Freeman here on Locked on Brewers. The guest is Jack Stern from Brewer Fanatic. joining us here on Lockdown Brewers just before Thanksgiving here. And uh the pitching staff looks great. Assuming they do keep Freddy Peralta, man, that lines up pretty well, but after those two guys, you got Prester, you got Miserowski and fill in your fifth starter. Yeah, I think that’s kind of the the luxury that they have now is that they’re in a position where you’ve got a lot of guys who can ground out that rotation, right? And I think that’s a big part of why it would help keeping Freddy Peralta, why it helps having Brandon Woodruff back in the fold. Now, if he is a little more durable, it slides enough guys back a spot where you can have a little bit of turnover on the back end of that rotation. It could be Chad Patrick pitching in that fifth spot. It could be Tobias Myers. It could be Logan Henderson. It could be Robert Gasser. It could be Coleman Crow. You have a lot of guys now on that 40man roster who can fill that spot. And they’re in a good spot depthwise. You know, you can never have too much starting pitching. And we’ve kind of seen the past couple years how quickly guys can start going down and dropping like flies. The Brewers are very deep right now. And that’s really the best you could hope for with your pitching staff that you have a lot of guys and they’re all guys who profile as pitchers who can get outs at the big league level. Yeah. How about that? Early April, they were they’re trading for Pier and then by June they were trading they were trading starting pitching Aaron Savali because there was not enough room for him in the rotation. It’s just u crazy how that works out sometimes. Who do you think the organization wants to win that fifth spot? Who do you of all those guys there, who do you think they ideally they like to pencil into that fifth spot? I I would imagine it’s probably one of Patrick or Gasser. And I’m just saying that because I think those are the two guys who probably have the best starters profile right now. Henderson is an interesting one because I think that the third pitch is coming along a little bit. It’s better than it used to be, but he’s still mostly a guy who 90% of what he throws, it’s fast ball change up, so it’s going to be moving in the same direction. I think that’s just a profile that works a little bit better out of the bullpen. If you want, you can give him more time in TripleA to keep working on that third and fourth pitch. Patrick and Gasser, I think, are the the guys who I’ve at least seen the most from that tells me they can be solid backend starters and they have deep enough arsenals and and in Pat Patrick’s case too, he’s done it before. We’ve seen him do it during the regular season and we’ve seen him get better throughout the regular season and kind of work on his arsenal a little bit, develop some more stuff that he can use to go at guys. I would guess off the bat it’s probably going to be those two guys who are really in the running for that spot. What about Ashby? Ashb is an interesting one, too, because I don’t think it seems to me like reading between the lines that they don’t quite want to close the door on him starting yet. I don’t know for sure, but you know, in the season ending press conference, Matt Arnold gave the GM nothing speak answer where he basically said, “We’re going to figure that out later.” It’s tricky with Ashby, too, because he’s also got a full starter arsenal, but we’ve never actually seen him command it when he’s pitching as a starter. I think pitching out of the bullpen gives him the ability to be a little wild sometimes and it doesn’t really hurt him as much. So, it’s an interesting one. I what what I would guess is going to happen is they’re going to go into spring training and they’re going to try to stretch all of these guys out just to prepare for whatever happens. But, personally, I would still like to see Patrick and Gastra be the two guys who really get the first crack at that spot. And then if you need Aaron Ashby to pitch more innings or DL Hall, if you need to stretch him out, you can. But I like how those guys fit in the bullpen too right now. Yeah, I’m interested with Gasser. Uh again, I I didn’t really want him to pitch in this postseason here. Give him another off season and see what we got. Obviously, two seasons ago, we love the kid and then he had the injury, but let’s see what we got going into the spring training with Robert Gasser. I think the encouraging thing about him was when he came back to the big leagues off of Tommy John, it was a very small sample, but the stuff basically looked exactly the same as it did beforehand. And I think that’s what you’re looking for more than anything, just to see that everything is doing the same thing that it was doing before you had that injury. I think a big part of him ending up on that playoff roster was they really liked how his stuff matched up in very specific situations against a couple of the teams that they were playing, especially his breaking stuff. like we saw him come out of the pen to face Otani in the NLCS and he threw him all sliders and he looked foolish on all of them. That’s kind of what can happen in the playoffs. You might roster a guy because there’s a very very specific matchup where you think that this one thing that he does really well could play really well in this pivotal spot. Um but I do still like his entire arsenal. I think that he’s also just a very mature pitcher. the couple times that I’ve gotten to talk to him, you can tell this is a guy who understands the way that he needs to go about his business, understands pitching, understands sequencing, how to navigate a game. And I think those are the guys, too, who have a better opportunity sometimes to excel as starting pitchers because I think sometimes it does need to be a little more advanced of an approach than just go out there and just, you know, 110% all the time and just try to blow it by guys that can work out of the bullpen. But, you know, if you’re trying to navigate an order multiple times, I just there’s a lot of tools and a lot of ingredients that I think he has that maybe don’t make him the most exciting pitcher. But, I think they give him a pretty high floor. It’s just a guy who can eat innings as a number five starter. If he gives you, you know, five innings most of the time out and and you’re in the ball game when he comes out of the game, you’ll absolutely take that at the back end of your rotation. And everything that I’ve seen, including after that injury, in the brief look that we got at him, it tells me that I think he’s going to be in a pretty good spot to do that. Jack, where do you stand on Freddy Peralta? You hear some reports out there maybe by Bob Nightingale that they’re not going to trade him. I don’t know. I think everything’s on the table as man Arnold said, but where do you stand with where they’re going to go in the direction of Peralta? Obviously, they didn’t get a load back for him, but will they try to run it back one more year with him? I think they will. And that doesn’t that’s not to mean I don’t think they’re just shutting down trade offers. They they listen to everything because you have to. You’d be foolish to close the door to anything because, you know, just being open-minded is how you take advantage of opportunities as a front office to to get better, put yourself in a good spot. But when the Brewers have to make these decisions about guys who are entering their final year of control, they’re really important players to the team. You got to kind of find this balance of, okay, what are we losing in the short term by dealing him away for that final season versus what are we gaining in the long term or not only the long term, but something that can help us right now because usually they try to bring back guys in these trades who go straight to the big league roster and then guys who who are going to be around for a while as well. But they have to strike that balance of what are we losing versus what are we getting back. And we’ve seen like for Corbin Burns for example, they were fine without Corbin Burns and then they got some guys back in Joey Ortiz and DL Hall who have had some ups and downs for sure, but they have contributed in certain situations. And again, the Brewers have continued doing just fine without Corbin Burns. I think Freddy Peralta probably falls more into that Willie Adamus category where not only was Adamus so important on the field, he was also very important in the clubhouse. And I think that’s something that they weigh pretty heavily when they make these decisions, especially now that Willie Adamus isn’t here anymore. Freddy Peralta and Chuck, you’ve been in the clubhouse before. You know, kind of how the lockers are set up. Like Freddy Peralta is kind of that last guy over on that wing of the clubhouse where it’s it’s Freddy, it’s Jackson Cheurio, William Contrarus, those kind of guys. He’s the last guy who who’s left kind of on that veteran side. I think William is growing into that role a little bit more now, too. But to me, it just seems like that that’s a very good guy to have over there. And and we have seen Freddy take on more of a leadership role over the past couple seasons. He’s not always the most vocal guy, but you can kind of see it in the clubhouse once in a while. You hear stories from guys about he’s kind of put his his w he’s put guys under his wing a little bit the last couple years. I just think that’s a guy who when the Brewers talk about how important that is, I don’t think they’re lying about that. I don’t think they’re fluffing it up. Now, part of it’s going to be posturing because you’re always trying to make it sound to other teams like you’re not really motivated to trade him. But we’ve seen this before where if a guy falls into that camp, they end up hanging on to him or the asking price is so high that no team is going to be able to meet it in a way that makes sense for the Brewers. So, that’s where I think Peralta lies. And based on that, you know, you can’t rule anything out, but I would expect him to still be here next year. Jack, we come back out of this break. I’m going to ask you about the power numbers of the Milwaukee Brewers and how can they improve those power numbers here in the offseason and get a big bat in the middle of the lineup. Is that possible? Chuck Freeman here. Locked on Brewers, part of Locked On Podcast Network. We are your team every day. And of course, our podcast, you get it on Google, Spotify, Apple, wherever you download your audio podcast, the number one brewers podcast on the internet because of you right brewer fans out there. And of course, our growing YouTube page, search Lockdown Brewers on YouTube. Search Lockdown Brewers. Hit the subscribe button. Hit the bell. That alert you every time we drop an episode on Locked on Brewers. You can find me on Twitter at Chuck Freeman F- Ri Mu N D. Jack Stern at byjack Stern Ser by Jack Stern from Brewer Fanatic and follow him for his great content all off season long and into the regular season as well. Uh Jack, um do you think they’ll go out and get themselves a power bat in the middle of that lineup? I’m not really expecting it because it’s not the way that they’ve operated over the last couple years, especially if like we talked about if they are going to be a little tight on the budget moving forward depending on what happens. I would like to see them do it though because I do still think that’s the one thing that they’re missing. And you know, anytime that you’re trying to turn a team that doesn’t slug a whole lot into a team that slugs more, you’re not going to do that just by signing a bunch of guys. A lot of it does have to come internally. And I think we saw a couple glimpses into that, like Bryce Tang is a good example. Somebody who has largely been a slap hitter for a lot of his career. You could tell if you were at the ballpark early in the year watching his BP that it looked like he was trying to work on getting to more power. He’s always had a lot of raw power, added a lot of bat speed, he was swinging faster. He went on that huge power binge in August. So, I think he’s a guy who probably profiles more of a 20 home run hitter now as opposed to the 5 to 10 home run hitter that he used to be. Those are the kind of things that you need to have happen. William Contrus could hit more home runs if he’s got a healthy f healthy finger now after he underwent surgery. They’ve got guys up and down this lineup who I think can slug a little bit more than they have. Andrew Vaughn, Jake Bowers, those kind of guys, too. I would not mind seeing them add somebody like third base is a position where I still think they could afford to get a little more slug than they did. And, you know, you got to look at the market and and see what’s out there. But, I really do think one more bat that you can plug in there would go a long way. If you get a power hitting third baseman, say you go get somebody, how does that infield look then uh from second to short then? because obviously Durban’s going to play, right? And I I think that honestly would allow you to slide Durban into the role where I still think he’s best if he’s a guy who is a roughly league average hitter and he plays three to four times a week at a couple of different spots. He plays a little bit of third, he fills in, he fills in at second sometimes. I think you’ve got the ability to make that work. I think that just puts him in a in a role where the way that he plays the game, I think it fits even better cuz he was completely fine in a starting role, but I think the ability to kind of give him a little bit fewer at bats, maybe you control the matchups for him and get him in against pitchers who he’s better suited to face, I think they can make that work. Like Caleb Durban is a very, very solid baseball player, but I don’t know that he’s the kind of guy who you’re going out of your way to make sure that he gets 650 played appearances a year. I think you can give some of those to some other guys who you can bring in who can give you a little bit more thump and it just makes your roster better overall. So are you saying Durban like a utility guy in the monasterial role or a little bit more than that? I would say similar but like he gets more playing time than Monasterio cuz like and I think there are times throughout the season where you know when Mona’s been on the roster where you know I give him credit he he has very good processbased at bats. I I don’t know if he’s a great hitter, but he’s usually not going to swing at bad pitches and he’s going to try to see pitches and have a long at bat. He gets on base a good amount, but I think there are a lot of moments where you’ve seen Andre Monasterio come off the bench because he’s the only guy they have for that spot where it would be like, yeah, it would it would be a little nicer to maybe have like a Caleb Durban in that spot, somebody who’s a little bit better with the bat. So, I think that that’s a spot where he can contribute kind of an expanded utility role. We’ve seen the Brewers have guys like that in the past and you know you can talk about where’s the playing time going to come from and then all of a sudden you get to the end of the season and you know he’s got almost 400 at bats on a year because you can kind of bounce around between a couple of different spots. To be clear, I don’t think that’s the way they’re going to go. I think they’re going to keep him in a regular role or maybe like a soft platoon with somebody at third base or elsewhere if depending on how things shake out. But I I really think that that’s that’s an opportunity where they have a guy who they could move off of that position and put him into another role where he could contribute and then the guy who takes some of those at bats at third base could be a guy who slugs a little more. Could you see the Brewers make a blockbuster trade? The guys who got traded the last couple of years, we kind of figured that they were on the trade block anyway, but could you see something like out of the ordinary, maybe like even a trading contrus or someone like that that just shake things up uh offensively a little bit? It depends on what’s out there for them. I think that every time that we’ve seen the Brewers make kind of like a stunning move for their standards. I don’t think it’s ever been because they’ve been actively looking to make that move. I think it’s more so the opportunity kind of comes to them. Um you can think of like the Yell trade a few years back. That was one where yes, they like Christian Yelich, but you know, the Marlins happened to make him available at the right time and they were able to make that happen. the Contraras trade a few years ago. That was one where teams were kind of overlooking him because they didn’t like his defense very much. The Brewers are able to kind of slide into that three-team trade that involved Shawn Murphy and the Braves and the A’s and they were able to come out really well on that one. I think that’s kind of what it takes for them to make a big move. And you know, they’ve gone outside the box before, so I don’t think you could rule anything out. So much of it is just dependent on what does the market look like, what’s available, what are other teams interested in doing, and you know, it’s not the exciting answer for me to give, but the reality is we just don’t know a lot about what’s going down there. So, uh, you got to be open-minded, but sometimes you just got to come along for the ride and and see what happens. Jack, have yourself a great Thanksgiving. Let’s catch up a little bit later on once the snow starts flying here in Wisconsin. We’ll see what’s going on after the baseball winter meetings. How about that? Sounds good, Chuck. Thank you, Jack Stern. by Jack Stern. Follow him on Twitter or X and of course read his stuff at brewerfanatic.com. This is Chuck Freeman. Thanks for watching and listening to the number one brewers podcast on the internet. Locked on Brewers and of course you get us on Google, Spotify, Apple, YouTube, wherever you download your podcast. We’re the number one brewer podcast on the internet. Um and now Locked on Podcast Network, the number one sports podcast network out there. Have yourself a great week everybody and have a happy Thanksgiving.

Milwaukee Brewers face offseason uncertainty after Brandon Woodruff accepts a record $22 million qualifying offer—will this bold move hamper their spending ambitions?

“Locked on Brewers” host Chuck Freimund and BrewerFanatic.com’ Jack Stern break down the Brewers’ playoff shortcomings against the Los Angeles Dodgers, spotlighting the urgent need for more power at the plate. Discussion covers the future of ace Freddie Peralta, pitching depth questions surrounding Priester and Gasser, and ongoing rumors about possible blockbuster trades involving stars like William Contreras.

Insights include the team’s payroll constraints, strategy for developing internal slugging talent, and whether a power-hitting third baseman could reshape the lineup. Are the Brewers ready to compete with MLB’s elite, or will financial limitations keep them a step behind? Catch expert analysis and inside perspectives on Milwaukee’s next moves as the baseball winter meetings approach.
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