Comments on: MVPs http://milwaukee.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/08/31/mvps/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:53:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: kf71 http://milwaukee.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/08/31/mvps/#comment-25401 Sat, 01 Sep 2018 14:35:07 +0000 http://milwaukee.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=12436#comment-25401 Excellent production yes, but saying these were excellent moves on paper is a stretch. The Cain contract is inoffensive, and did not come at a cost to prospect capital. But Yelich cost them dearly in terms of future value—it’s not a stretch to say that 3 of Brinson, Harrison, Diaz, and Yamamoto will reach the bigs, and I do think at least 1 will hit, or at least approach their ceiling.

While this looks like fair value given Yelich’s production this year, the package appears now, as it did in January, to have been misused on hitting OF (a luxury, even given the team’s offensive struggles) when the same assets could have acquired controllable, top-of-rotation pitching. I point to the Yelich trade as a reason this team is not making the playoffs.

Yelich’s production in essence replaced that of Santana’s in 2017. It exceeded it, but not enough to make up for other team shortcomings (pitching) and this bears out in the similarities in records (and likely, the September outcomes) of the 2017 and 2018 teams.

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