Bryan Reynolds

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

How many more years of control would be had on Reynold's current contract?

 

He will be eligible for arbitration next year, and the earliest he can be a free agent is 2026.

[homer]

Ketel Marte is someone along the same lines of Reynolds that could be a possibility on the trade market. Arizona is going nowhere, he's a switch hitter with up the middle positional versatility and is on a team friendly extension that pays 8 million in 2022 with 10/12 million team options for 2023/24.

 

Since 2019 he's posted a 319/375/541 (137 wRC+) line with a 13.9% K rate & tallied 9.5 WAR, 28th best in that span. He wouldn't be cheap to acquire in terms of prospects, but entering his age 28 season in 2022 lines up nicely with our current MLB core.

 

That's a good call and potentially a buy-lowish guy because he was hurt last year. Although he still raked over the 90 games he did play.

[NievesNoNO]

I think he costs at least Ashby+, most likely both Ashby and Mitchell. Four years of an emerging elite level bat won't be cheap.

 

I want Ashby in the rotation next season, so if that's the cost I'd be out. I'm probably in the minority after the offensive struggle in the post season but I'm ok with their position players going into next season.

[Outlander]

If they really want Reynolds I agree it would take something like Ashby, Mitchell, Wiemer and Perez mentioned above. Comparing it to Yelich that would be more like Mitchell, one of Ashby/Perez, Wiemer and somebody else further down on the list. It probably won't happen but it would take a lot.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

If they really want Reynolds I agree it would take something like Ashby, Mitchell, Wiemer and Perez mentioned above. Comparing it to Yelich that would be more like Mitchell, one of Ashby/Perez, Wiemer and somebody else further down on the list. It probably won't happen but it would take a lot.

 

I'd argue that Ashby, Perez and Wiemer are all currently valued substantially higher than anyone in the Yelich package not named Brinson. Harrison was coming off a nice season, so his value was decent (10-15 range Brewers prospect wise). Diaz had a terrible year, but had prospect pedigree and perhaps was still ranked around 10-ish. Yamamoto was much further down the line, probably in the 20s.

 

Mitchell, Ashby, Perez and Wiemer are legit Top 5 organization prospects.

[StearnsFTW]

I would LOVE to know what they offered at the deadline.

 

Anyway, I would say anyone is on the table other than Ashby and Perez for me. I wouldn't be interested in trading 4 top prospects for him, but I'd be comfortable with a Mitchell, Small and a couple other lower level guys type deal. I doubt Pittsburgh would be, but who knows?

[Simba2020]

If they really want Reynolds I agree it would take something like Ashby, Mitchell, Wiemer and Perez mentioned above. Comparing it to Yelich that would be more like Mitchell, one of Ashby/Perez, Wiemer and somebody else further down on the list. It probably won't happen but it would take a lot.

 

I'd argue that Ashby, Perez and Wiemer are all currently valued substantially higher than anyone in the Yelich package not named Brinson. Harrison was coming off a nice season, so his value was decent (10-15 range Brewers prospect wise). Diaz had a terrible year, but had prospect pedigree and perhaps was still ranked around 10-ish. Yamamoto was much further down the line, probably in the 20s.

 

Mitchell, Ashby, Perez and Wiemer are legit Top 5 organization prospects.

Brinson was top 20 prospect in baseball per Baseball America and Harrison was #75 at the time of the trade. Diaz was the team's 9th best prospect and I suspect Yamamato was just outside the top 30. I never quite got the love for Harrison but it did look like he had turned the corner some after the 2017 season. MLB had him as the Marlins #3 prospect. Either way, Harrison was viewed as a better prospect at the time than Perez or Wiemer today, certainly not substantially less so.

[Roderick]

I'm going to guess that Reynolds would cost us a package that looks like this:

 

Ashby, Mitchell, Wiemer and Hedbert Perez

 

Reynolds is looking like a guy that is blossoming into a really good MLB OF, but man - you'd be gutting the farm system completely to get him.

 

I don't think it would cost near that much. Right now those four are probably four of the top 5 prospects in the Brewers' system.

 

I think you are looking at a deal that would be similar to what the Brewers traded for Yelich. Brinson was the biggest prize of that deal going back to the Marlins. In this case, he was probably a little higher in value to Mitchell, but they are pretty close. Harrison was considered to be further away, albeit a strong prospect. Diaz was coming off a poor season. Yamamoto was a decent pitching prospect, but not anything close to Ashby.

 

I think a deal for Reynolds probably looks much more like:

 

CF Garrett Mitchell

SS Freddy Zamora

CF Joe Gray Jr.

P Abner Uribe

 

I see guys like Mitchell and Turang as potentially tradeable. Maybe Ashby, Weimer and Perez are movable in the right deal. There's just no way they package all those guys together in one deal, though. There's simply too much helium among the four of them.

 

If we are trading for Reynolds, that seems mighty logical to dump JBJ to them too boot. They can afford to see if he can bounceback and be traded at the deadline, we can send them half his cash. Up the prospects a bit (replace Joe Gray? - not a good AFL), JBJ and cash. Reynolds is cost-controlled for four seasons per Spotrac. So we can afford to include two OFs in the trade imo. We are looking at a three year window, this fits squarely in that window.

[brewcrewdue80]

The Brewers side on the trade value scale is definitely going to be wrong after the 2021 season majority of them had. These future values get degraded sooo much with them not inside the top 100 but there are guys knocking on that door that you are selling off here in these trades. Take the Harrison comp in regards to Yelich trade. He wasn't a top 100 prospect right up until then he was. There will be new lists coming here in the next 2 months that may change where guys like Ashby and Frelick are ranked. I wouldn't be surprised if Ashby himself is put in that 60-80 range after the preview he gave in a few of these lists. I mean how high is Wiemer going to climb in the Brewers top 30? He may have jumped Turang with the season he had. Zamora had an exceptional season. Just saying gotta give some more credit to our prospects future value than pulling their values from mid-season grades.

[markedman5]

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/10/mariners-tried-to-trade-for-kris-bryant-bryan-reynolds.html

[Eye Black]

From Jon Morosi…

 

Pirates All-Star CF Bryan Reynolds is drawing significant interest in the trade market, with the Yankees and Mariners among potential suitors, but the team feels no pressure to move him. He won’t be a free agent until after 2025, and an extension remains possible.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Ah yes ... we've reached the point of the offseason where the Yankees are linked to literally every star who is thought to be available. Early this year.

[wibadgers23]

Ah yes ... we've reached the point of the offseason where the Yankees are linked to literally every star who is thought to be available. Early this year.

 

Yeah if the writers had their way, the Yankees would sign the top 10 available free agents and trade for a bunch of all-stars.

[JohnBriggs12]

I don't think Reynolds is nearly as realistic a target as say Matt Olson.

[homer]

Ah yes ... we've reached the point of the offseason where the Yankees are linked to literally every star who is thought to be available. Early this year.

 

Yeah if the writers had their way, the Yankees would sign the top 10 available free agents and trade for a bunch of all-stars.

 

I think these rumors come from teams (in this case Pittsburgh) to drum up value.

[monty57]

If MLBTradeRumors is correct, and the asking price at the deadline was for a package centered around Julio Rodriguez from Seattle, then we're probably out. We would probably need to include at least one good player from our MLB team in the deal, and I don't see us doing that. Honestly, I don't see Pittsburgh doing that either, as they want elite prospect(s) for Reynolds and we don't really have any elite prospects.

 

Unless they come way down from their ask, which is centered around one of the top 2-3 prospects in the game, I don't see him coming to Milwaukee. I have high hopes for Mitchell, but he doesn't have close to the value of Rodriguez.

 

I know that some people have a problem with BaseballTradeValues.com, but they have Reynolds at a value of 85. Mitchell is at 22.2, Turang 18.2, Urias 33.5, Ashby 16.9, Adames 48.9, Frelick 16.3, Houser 19.2, Lauer 9.2, Small 6.6, Williams 40.5. Those are the names that would be headlining a trade for Reynolds, and it would take several of them to make the trade. If we're not going to put someone like Adames in the trade, then we'd be handing them our whole farm, playing for the next couple of years and being godawful for a decade or so. I we do include Adames, then why make the trade?

 

If Stearns makes this trade, I'll assume he's "going all in" to win a World Series before he leaves for the Mets and lets the next guy sort out the mess. Unfortunately, even if we brought in Reynolds and maybe some others, the Vegas oddsmakers would still have us behind at least the Dodgers, and possibly some other NL teams to even make the World Series. The saving grace would be that after the first year or two, we could blow up the major league team (a la the Marlins) and that would go a long way towards re-stocking the farm.

[MadThinker88]

Just a point of reference regarding Bryan Reynolds - Pittsburgh has an astronomically high asking price on Reynolds. Just how high is the question.

 

There is rumor/ story from an insider that CLE made a call after the World Series ended to inquire and the initial ask from Pittsburgh was 3 top 100 prospects (in particular RHP Daniel Espino, OF George Valera, & SS Brayan Rocchio) plus a few more pieces. It was a quick end to the conversation.

 

MKE faces the added problem of dealing with a divisional opponent for trying to get Reynolds.

Its a nice idea, but the cost to acquire Reynolds would be prohibitive for MKE. Better to focus time/ effort/ assets elsewhere.