Game 3: Rockies at Brewers

[LUKE23]

Honestly, right now, they are trending towards Kohl's Bucks. .430-.500 winning percentage, limited ceiling for improvement in terms of the top 3-4 players in the future, and a lot of reliance on veterans. Granted, MLB playoffs are a lot different than NBA, so I'll give them more of a pass on a "one more year" type thinking, but there are beginning to be a lot of parallels.

I'm at the point now where I'd love to see a terrible season and then front office changes, but that isn't going to happen. I think we win in the 70's and Melvin is extended.

[Thunder Muscle]

Hell, we could be buried by the end of the month looking at the schedule. If we continue to struggle and Pittsburgh, Cincy, and St. Louis take advantage, we'll be in a BIG hole.

[Kerb Hohl]

If they suck this year I think there will be a pretty major change of direction. They may not go the Astros or Cubs route, but they'll gut it.

[LUKE23]

I think they are going to need to WAY out of the wild card at the deadline for us to see that. You generally get more for guys at the deadline than the following offseason, correct? I'd have pretty much everyone but Peralta out there. Anyone that won't be in their prime when we are hopefully contending again I'd have on the block.

[Kerb Hohl]

I think they are going to need to WAY out of the wild card at the deadline for us to see that. You generally get more for guys at the deadline than the following offseason, correct? I'd have pretty much everyone but Peralta out there. Anyone that won't be in their prime when we are hopefully contending again I'd have on the block.

They've dealt vets in the past.

While their win now strategy is really starting to collapse, the main issue has been god awful drafting. You'd think in the 10 years since all of the Baby Brewers were in the system that they'd be able to draft something better than Peralta, Nelson, Lucroy, Davis, Scooter in that timeframe.

This year is a very interesting transition year. They have a ton of money off the books next year and really no bad contract aside from maybe Braun's. K-Rod and Broxton have bad contracts but if they're going to rebuild, those dollars will be gone soon. They could trade Lucroy and Gomez if they had balls, but I'm not expecting that.

[LUKE23]

Agree on the drafting, although I did like our 2014 draft. Seid was bad, rest his soul.

[DanoMac]

Jungmann and Bradley were supposed to be the guys to turn the franchise around. Bad drafting has killed us indeed.

[LUKE23]

I have faith in Montgomery to turn the drafting around.

[Outlander]

Mark A needs to grow a pair and fire Melvin, nothing is really going to change until he is gone. When the new guy comes in he won't worry about getting rid of his guys or anything like that or fearing he has to win and go for it. Melvin is old and doesn't have what it takes to turn this team around, he is more likely to make dumb moves at this point that hurts the franchise in the future.

[DanoMac]

You guys hear Jose Capellan died? 34 years old from a heart attack. Jeez.

[El Duderino]

Jungmann and Bradley were supposed to be the guys to turn the franchise around. Bad drafting has killed us indeed.

That was a real bummer and agree that those Seid years drafting set the franchise back. A major reason the team has had to sign or trade for pitching so much is that the farm system failed badly to do so.