Monte Harrison back with the Brewers

[markedman5]

 

[brewmann04]

Welcome back 

[folly412]

First Henry, now Harrison.  The plan to recover everyone we traded to the Marlins is progressing well.

 

[Robocaller]

Man, we really sold high on him, as well as the other guys in the Yelich trade.

I had hopes for him, but his performance hasn't been age-appropriately good since 2017. 

He was as high as #49 from one of the big-three rankings (in the 70s for the other two). Lewis Brinson was as high as #12. Kinda  provides perspective on our 4 OF prospects.

 

[igor67]

It's actually part of why I'm so excited about the OFers. The actual performance lines for the current group have generally had fewer questions than that prior group. Still room for disappointment of course, but Harrison was a whole lot of projection and just enough performance to make it look exciting.

[CheeseheadInQC]

More so than Brinson, he was the guy I was afraid the Brewers would regret giving up in the Yelich trade. It seems like the hit tool just has never progressed enough.

[MrTPlush]

His career 0.1 WAR ranks #1 from all the players traded. The other three have managed something near -6.0 WAR.

Bad news…it was -0.2 WAR as a Marlin.

Hard to imagine a worse trade for an established MLB player for major prospects in exchange. It’s just that bad. Then you have the Gomez trade…another nightmare, except for the non prospect side.

This trade serves as a kind reminder why prospects are exactly that and trading our guys like Adames/Burnes/Woodruff could easily end up being mostly a heaping pile of garbage. You never know.

[Fear The Chorizo]

Does this mean we won the trade now?

[TURBO]

16 hours ago, CheeseheadInQC said:

More so than Brinson, he was the guy I was afraid the Brewers would regret giving up in the Yelich trade. It seems like the hit tool just has never progressed enough.

For me it was Isan Diaz.  I really felt back at that time he was a can't miss prospect.  lol

[clancyphile]

Diaz and Yamamoto were the ones I kinda hated to see go. Brinson and Harrison were okay, given the Crew had other options (at least how I felt).

Worked out well for the Crew.

[Robocaller]

19 hours ago, Fear The Chorizo said:

Does this mean we won the trade now?

$26M says no. It might be a wash, long term.

 

[Fear The Chorizo]

4 hours ago, Robocaller said:

$26M says no. It might be a wash, long term.

 

The contract extension for Yelich should never be considered as part of the trade that brought him here - had the Brewers just stuck with the original contract Yelich had, they could've actually declined a team option heading into the 2022 season and all the discussion about how to extend Woodruff, Burnes, or Adames would be somewhat more realistic.

Extending Yelich to a megadeal before he proved he was the same player post injury doesn't negate the fact the trade was worse than highway robbery in terms of sending a pile of prospects that amounted to zilch for the league's MVP in 2018, who arguably put up a better statistical season in 2019 before fouling a ball off his kneecap.

[Robocaller]

On 1/31/2023 at 9:48 PM, Fear The Chorizo said:

The contract extension for Yelich should never be considered as part of the trade that brought him here - had the Brewers just stuck with the original contract Yelich had, they could've actually declined a team option heading into the 2022 season and all the discussion about how to extend Woodruff, Burnes, or Adames would be somewhat more realistic.

Extending Yelich to a megadeal before he proved he was the same player post injury doesn't negate the fact the trade was worse than highway robbery in terms of sending a pile of prospects that amounted to zilch for the league's MVP in 2018, who arguably put up a better statistical season in 2019 before fouling a ball off his kneecap.

I guess you didn't read my last two words, long term.

 

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

8 minutes ago, Robocaller said:

I guess you didn't read my last two words, long term.

 

Doesn't matter. He is referring to the trade itself, and the immediate payoff. Long term is irrelevant. 

[Robocaller]

16 hours ago, Ron Robinsons Beard said:

Doesn't matter. He is referring to the trade itself, and the immediate payoff. Long term is irrelevant. 

I'll tell my wife I can cheat on her now, since the first two decades were great. :-)

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