Brewers Acquire Angels C Jett Bandy for Maldonado and Drew Gagnon

[CheezWizHed]

The homer skew on these sites is very real and I am actually pulling for a top 3 draft pick if we are not going to be in the wild card conversation.

 

Certainly most of us are homers. Some are even grand slams.

 

But most are pretty realistic about the team's talent level. If I remember last year's thread on W/L predictions, the team over-performed most people's prediction.

 

Here's the thread.

http://forum.brewerfan.net/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=33847&p=976995&hilit=predictions#p976995

 

The win-loss predictions are a reasonable distribution around an average number of wins in the low 70's. This team is staring to bring up talent, and even without Braun 75 wins isn't pie-in-the-sky dreaming. Trading a starting pitcher or two might well push the expected wins into the 60's.

 

Our predictions involving individual players was a little less correlated with reality.

 

My point was that most people here, despite being big (homer) brewer fans doesn't mean we walk around with pie-in-the-sky brewer glasses on. Certainly, people vary greatly on what we expect someone to do, but often it isn't over the top expectations. The further a prospect is away from the MLB level, the wider variation you will experience, but that is pretty normal. Just from the prediction thread last year (beyond a few joke posts with Gennett hitting 50+ HRs...), most people got what they expected or maybe more:

- We won 73 games, Average prediction was 70.5. 14 below, one exactly on, and 7 above 73 wins.

- Ryan Braun had quite a bit of discussion but most of the predictions were on health rather than ability. But few thought he would be at 900+ OPS on the year.

- Santana was another of varying expectations. He landed more in the middle (792 OPS) of the predictions (700-900 OPS). Lots of MVP votes and HR leader, too. But of course his injuries nullified any chance of that. Domingo as MVP was probably an example of a homer prediction.

 

But we have digressed from Jett Bandy...

 

Seems like a no-lose situation for the Brewers. Jett sounds a lot like a young Maldonado. Maldy doesn't do anything for us this year anyway as I'd rather see what we have in our other catchers. So we just gained our #2 defensive catcher of the future by trading the current #2 defensive catcher and a BP arm that wasn't going to make it here.

[pacopete4]

“The Jett Bandy trade ultimately came down to the fact that he’s four years younger and has three more seasons of club control than Martin Maldonado, who was “likely nearing the end of his time in Milwaukee.” He also added that Bandy’s - and other players - presence in the clubhouse was a consideration in the deal. “We have to put a group together that we think is going to be a cohesive group, that we think is going to relate to the coaching staff.””

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