Yaisel Sierra available as free agent

[BrewersAA]

The Cuban pitcher has been declared a FA by MLB. It's been about a week or so now, and I haven't seen anything linking him the the Brewers, but I feel like this is exactly the type a signing the rebuilding Brewers should strongly consider. What are you all's thoughts?

[MrTPlush]

It is an interesting thought. He sounds like he has potential to be a mid rotation guy if it all comes together. Not sure the Brewers would invest $30mil or so in the guy.

[3and2Fastball]

In general, I think signing international free agents is a way for a small market team like the Brewers to even the playing field a little. You end up getting the player before or during their peak years and you get a chance to seriously increase talent level on a roster.

 

Not sure if this particular pitcher is the one to go after but again in general I do think that international free agents are who the Brewers should focus on with their money. Don't sign MLB free agents, don't extend your own players on the wrong side of 29, draft & develop players and trade them for prospects when they get to their walk year. And sign International free agents.

 

For every $10 million + contract that the Brewers don't make by avoiding the likes of the Aramis Ramirez/Matt Garza types and instead spend that money in the Dominican Replublic & Cuba, the team would be much much better off.

[pacopete4]

It says he is already 25 which means he could be 30. Pass.

[nate82]

 

Not sure if this particular pitcher is the one to go after but again in general I do think that international free agents are who the Brewers should focus on with their money. Don't sign MLB free agents, don't extend your own players on the wrong side of 29, draft & develop players and trade them for prospects when they get to their walk year. And sign International free agents.

 

For every $10 million + contract that the Brewers don't make by avoiding the likes of the Aramis Ramirez/Matt Garza types and instead spend that money in the Dominican Replublic & Cuba, the team would be much much better off.

 

Not signing MLB free agents is a recipe for mediocrity. You can't rely 100% on your farm system it just will not work and you will always be short a player or two and thus relying on AAAA players having a breakout year like a McGehee. The Brewers are going to have to sign free agents at some point. Even the Royals who won the world series had to go into free agency and pick up players. Kendrys Morales and Edinson Volquez were free agent signings by the Royals and were key to the Royals going to and winning the world series. Without Volquez the Royals do not win the world series and without Morales the Royals don't even make it to the world series.

 

Now do the Brewers have to go out and get the best free agent available no they do no need to do that. If the Brewers can get someone like Mike Cameron or even someone like Takashi Saito on short term deals like what the Royals did with Volquez, Morales, and Vargas. Just because Ramirez did not work out does not mean the Brewers should never go into free agency again.

[jerichoholicninja]

From what I've read he's a 2 pitch pitcher which means bullpen. Unless he comes at a super reasonable price, there's no reason to spend money on coin flip pitchers for the bullpen at this stage

[MKE81]

Ben Sheets was a 2 pitch pitcher

[narwhalattack]

Ben Sheets was a 2 pitch pitcher

 

Except that Sheets had two amazing pitches which somehow compensated for the lack of a third pitch.

[TooLiveBrew]

Ben Sheets was a 2 pitch pitcher

 

Except that Sheets had two amazing pitches which somehow compensated for the lack of a third pitch.

Yeah. Using Sheets as anecdotal evidence that you don't need three pitches to be a SP is like using Jamie Moyer as evidence that you can pitch until you're 50.

[endaround]

Ben Sheets was a 2 pitch pitcher

 

Except that Sheets had two amazing pitches which somehow compensated for the lack of a third pitch.

Yeah. Using Sheets as anecdotal evidence that you don't need three pitches to be a SP is like using Jamie Moyer as evidence that you can pitch until you're 50.

 

And while Sheets was a two pitch pitcher, he threw two significantly different curves. One was a smaller break he threw to get called strikes and one was a big break for swinging strikes.

[TURBO]

I miss the healthy version of Ben Sheets.