Yelich to the Brewers

@Brewers: The #Brewers have acquired OF Christian Yelich from Miami in exchange for OF Lewis Brinson, OF Monte Harrison, INF Isan Diaz and RHP Jordan Yamamoto. https://twitter.com/Brewers/status/9...094018/photo/1

Assume Cain isn't returning to Milwaukee?

Brewers gave up a lot. Brinson was their big OF prospect, and a couple of those other guys were highly thought of, but Yelich is under contract until 2022 at a reasonable rate... and he's 26, a proven hitter, and will probably rake in that ballpark.

Rosenthal says that this still doesn't rule them out on Cain, which I guess is possible but they'd be overloaded with outfielders if that's the case. Then again maybe they'll just let it ride. They're a sneaky deep team who rotates in a lot of players. They had nine different guys hit double digit homers and that didn't include their catchers, who hit 9, 8 and 6. Maybe they just sign Cain and rotate him and Braun through the lineup to keep them healthy.

Things have really not gone well for our much-touted FA class.

Is Mike Minor the only one who's signed?

He just posted about it again. Keep in mind that the Brewers have a pretty talented outfield of Braun/Broxton/Santana, plus now Yelich. Eric Thames plays OF occasionally and they have a super utility man in Hernan Perez who plays a lot of OF.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Brewers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Brewers</a> still are trying to sign free-agent outfielder Lorenzo Cain, sources tell The Athletic. Nothing changes with acquisition of Yelich.</p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/956679506881806342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Welp

@Ken_Rosenthal: #Brewers in agreement with free-agent outfielder Lorenzo Cain, sources tell The Athletic. Deal is pending a physical.

I think the Brewers actually got Yelich for a song. Brinson is a premium prospect, and Harrison is really toolsy, but they have so much prospect depth in the outfield, they can afford to move them.


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5/80 for Cain. Wow. Good for him.

Not comfortable with that length. Going to look ugly when he's on the downside.


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5 years!!! Holy shit. They're just banking on losing that money

Yeah, I have no trouble not matching that one. I wonder where that puts Dyson's value at.

So there's one nice Comp. pick, right?

And a full no trade clause.

Happy for Zo. Happy the Royals didn't give him that contract.