Surprise Trade(s)?

[balsamlaker]

Any chance Stearns makes a surprise trade (Peralta, Hiura, etc.)?

[brewers888]

Anything is possible but a team as starved for offense as the Brewers are should not really consider trading one of their only hitters with all star upside. Hiura just needs a new hitting coach for him to hit like he did in 2019. As for Peralta with his very affordable contract and his ability to both start and relieve I would be surprised if he was traded.

[PeaveyFury]

Any chance? Yes. I might actually argue that the best way to improve/fill many holes on the team is to trade someone like Hiura.

[brewcrewdue80]

Hiura would be a massive surprise trade. The talent is there with the bat, he adjusts something he may take off to a whole new level.

 

Surprise trade imo would be Williams, Lauer, Urias, Rasmussen, The comp pick A, Cain, and Narvaez from what I can come up off top of my head. I'd be surprised on Claudio being traded simply because who'd want his garbage.

Houser, Peralta, Hader, Suter, Topal, Garcia, Arcia, Pina, and Nottingham wouldn't surprise me.

[sveumrules]

Over the last two seasons, the Brewers have gotten an MLB worst 69 wRC+ & -0.1 WAR from their third basemen.

 

Maybe the blood between Arenado & the Rockies is so bad they'd deal him for pennies on the dollar to let some other organization deal with his upcoming opportunity to opt out of the 5/164 left on his deal after 2021.

[Eye Black]

Surprise trade imo would be Williams, Lauer, Urias, Rasmussen, The comp pick A, Cain, and Narvaez from what I can come up off top of my head. I'd be surprised on Claudio being traded simply because who'd want his garbage.

I would be more surprised if they don’t trade the Comp A pick. Seems like a bit of a tradition at this point after back-to-back offseasons of trading the competitive balance pick for major leaguers with Claudio (Comp A) and Narvaez (Comp B). I wish it wasn’t the case, but I think they’ll be motivated to move the pick once again. One of the reasons I think they’ll chose to trade the pick (in addition to the trade value) is it will save them approximately $2.2 million in next year’s draft.

[brewers888]

Any chance? Yes. I might actually argue that the best way to improve/fill many holes on the team is to trade someone like Hiura.

 

Is the offense not bad enough as it is. I think trading Hiura would be crazy.

[brewers888]

Over the last two seasons, the Brewers have gotten an MLB worst 69 wRC+ & -0.1 WAR from their third basemen.

 

Maybe the blood between Arenado & the Rockies is so bad they'd deal him for pennies on the dollar to let some other organization deal with his upcoming opportunity to opt out of the 5/164 left on his deal after 2021.

 

The Brewers are never taking on a contract like Arenado has.

[sveumrules]

Over the last two seasons, the Brewers have gotten an MLB worst 69 wRC+ & -0.1 WAR from their third basemen.

 

Maybe the blood between Arenado & the Rockies is so bad they'd deal him for pennies on the dollar to let some other organization deal with his upcoming opportunity to opt out of the 5/164 left on his deal after 2021.

 

The Brewers are never taking on a contract like Arenado has.

 

I don't think so either, thus why it would be a surprise.

[PeaveyFury]

Any chance? Yes. I might actually argue that the best way to improve/fill many holes on the team is to trade someone like Hiura.

 

Is the offense not bad enough as it is. I think trading Hiura would be crazy.

 

Curious how you think the team addresses its needs this off season, then, if you've eliminated free agency as a possibility due to your assume budget constraints, and if you won't trade assets that they could potentially use instead?

[brewers888]

Any chance? Yes. I might actually argue that the best way to improve/fill many holes on the team is to trade someone like Hiura.

 

Is the offense not bad enough as it is. I think trading Hiura would be crazy.

 

Curious how you think the team addresses its needs this off season, then, if you've eliminated free agency as a possibility due to your assume budget constraints, and if you won't trade assets that they could potentially use instead?

 

They aren't going to improve the offense by trading one of the two good hitters on the roster. Hader is probably going to be traded if we can get good value and beyond that I have no idea what Stearns is going to do but thats why he gets paid the big money.

 

Years of drafts that aren't producing position players have left us in a bad position. I expect a bunch of cheap signings that hopefully work out better than they did this season. I don't blame ownership for cutting payroll when we have no idea what the revenue streams will look like going forward but for sure we are in a difficult position.

 

Its nice that we finally have the makings of a very good pitching staff but the offense was terrible and its not going to be easy to rectify the situation with no money to spend.

[sveumrules]

Its nice that we finally have the makings of a very good pitching staff but the offense was terrible and its not going to be easy to rectify the situation with no money to spend.

 

Yelich (112 wRC+), Hiura (87 wRC+), Garcia (81 wRC+), Narvaez (59 wRC+) & Urias (66 wRC+) all hit well below their projections in 2020 & will likely all project for significant positive regression in 2021. Having Cain for a full season should help too.

 

That's 2/3rds of the lineup that should see notable improvement by doing nothing at all (except maybe getting a new hitting coach).

[JosephC]

How about trading for someone you already traded away?

 

Brewers get:

3B - Brian Anderson (possible RF in 2022)

1B - Garrett Cooper

SS - Jon Berti (super utility)

 

Marlins get:

RHP - Freddy Peralta

SS - Brice Turang

OF - Carlos Rodriguez

[JosephC]

Swap of negative value contracts.

 

Brewers get:

SS - Scott Kingery

OF - Adam Haseley

 

Phillies get:

OF - Lorenzo Cain

OF - Tristen Lutz

[brewers888]

Its nice that we finally have the makings of a very good pitching staff but the offense was terrible and its not going to be easy to rectify the situation with no money to spend.

 

Yelich (112 wRC+), Hiura (87 wRC+), Garcia (81 wRC+), Narvaez (59 wRC+) & Urias (66 wRC+) all hit well below their projections in 2020 & will likely all project for significant positive regression in 2021. Having Cain for a full season should help too.

 

That's 2/3rds of the lineup that should see notable improvement by doing nothing at all (except maybe getting a new hitting coach).

 

Besides Yelich and Hiura I don't see one other hitter that we can count on. If Braun comes back he will help but I don't think we can count on him playing all that often. It would be a big mistake to expect anything from Garcia who has been good two seasons in his career and was a complete waste of 10 million per season.

[brewers888]

How about trading for someone you already traded away?

 

Brewers get:

3B - Brian Anderson (possible RF in 2022)

1B - Garrett Cooper

SS - Jon Berti (super utility)

 

Marlins get:

RHP - Freddy Peralta

SS - Brice Turang

OF - Carlos Rodriguez

 

Wouldn't even consider this deal.

[brewers888]

Swap of negative value contracts.

 

Brewers get:

SS - Scott Kingery

OF - Adam Haseley

 

Phillies get:

OF - Lorenzo Cain

OF - Tristen Lutz

 

I could see something like this but I like Lutz more than Haseley.

[Eye Black]

Maybe this is the opposite of what the question is asking, but I think the most likely Brewers to get traded are Arcia, Houser, Gamel, and to a lesser extent Piña. I also wouldn’t be surprised to see anyone from the bullpen not named Devin Williams traded.

 

As far as a guess on who they’ll surprise acquire, I’ll go with either Renato Núñez from the Orioles or Hunter Dozier from the Royals. Until one of those happen I’ll hold out hope for Dominic Smith from the Mets.

[WICKDADDY]

Let’s get the local kid, Kelenic, from the Mariners. Narvaez and Vogelbach should be more than enough to make it happen.

[brewmann04]

It be nice if they can Move Narvaez.

[HiAndTight]

How about trading for someone you already traded away?

 

Brewers get:

3B - Brian Anderson (possible RF in 2022)

1B - Garrett Cooper

SS - Jon Berti (super utility)

 

Marlins get:

RHP - Freddy Peralta

SS - Brice Turang

OF - Carlos Rodriguez

 

I wouldn't trade Peralta for all three, much less Turang. Turang's the exact type of prospect you should be trying to build around. A SS with great speed who gets on base. IF the Brewers were to trade Turang along with a pitcher like Peralta, not to mention a 19 year old prospect, I'd hope we'd get a better return than this.

[wntrtxn21]

How about trading for someone you already traded away?

 

Brewers get:

3B - Brian Anderson (possible RF in 2022)

1B - Garrett Cooper

SS - Jon Berti (super utility)

 

Marlins get:

RHP - Freddy Peralta

SS - Brice Turang

OF - Carlos Rodriguez

 

I seriously doubt the Marlins would even think about the trade.

[wntrtxn21]

Swap of negative value contracts.

 

Brewers get:

SS - Scott Kingery

OF - Adam Haseley

 

Phillies get:

OF - Lorenzo Cain

OF - Tristen Lutz

 

You were being fatuous right? Why would the Phils take on more money and not fill a need?

[Jopal78]

Maybe this is the opposite of what the question is asking, but I think the most likely Brewers to get traded are Arcia, Houser, Gamel, and to a lesser extent Piña. I also wouldn’t be surprised to see anyone from the bullpen not named Devin Williams traded.

 

As far as a guess on who they’ll surprise acquire, I’ll go with either Renato Núñez from the Orioles or Hunter Dozier from the Royals. Until one of those happen I’ll hold out hope for Dominic Smith from the Mets.

 

No doubt, the Brewers would love to trade Arcia or Gamel, but it takes two to tango. Because those two players have a fair chance of being non-tendered the only thing they’d bring in a trade is another club’s roster filler. Same deal with Pina, very unlikely he is tendered a contract, so nobody is going to trade for him.

 

As for Houser, he essentially went out and handed the team an automatic loss more often than not. Pitchers with good stuff and poor command are a dime a dozen. The only thing Houser brings back in a trade is another team’s question marks.

[JohnBriggs12]

There's very few players on the Brewer roster who's trade value isn't way way down. They could get a ton for Woodruff though, probably more than they'd get in return for Hader.

 

No way is Arcia non-tendered. He made tremendous progress offensively this year even though the numbers only show modest improvement and with Urias not looking like an improvement, Arcia is rock solid as Brewer SS entering 2021.