The guys returned for their first show of the new year and discussed the uncertainty surrounding Brewers players currently in Venezuela, prospect Frank Cairone's Friday car accident, another Freddy trade proposal, managing playing time and what makes the Brewers different than teams like the Rays and Guardians.
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The regular pod is off for the holidays this week, but here is an excerpt of December's Minor League Extra where Ryan and Spencer took some questions on player comps, pitch tipping and Orlando Arcia's career.
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On this week's show Jaymes was back to talk about a few minor Brewers moves, to look around the NL Central at what the competition has been up to, baseball contract structures, the World Baseball Classic and, of course, beer.
Link to Hunger Task Force Food Drive
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Steve sat in for Jaymes this week and walked the guys through their thoughts on the Angel Zerpa for Issac Collins and Nick Mears trade, a couple of depth signingings in the OF, the release of the Brewers 2026 ZiPS projections and, of course, the cuteness of Christian Yelich's new pooch.
Link to Hunger Task Force Food Drive
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Ryan was back with Paul and Jaymes to preview baseball's winter meetings, talk about payroll, extensions, the Brewers chances to win the NL in 2026 and doing a little turn on the catwalk. Yeah, the catwalk.
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Paul and Jaymes discuss Woody, the non-tender pile, the free agent pile, and whether Caleb Durbin is already as strong as he can be. Plus, bar dice, and small children who may hit you with bats!
Paul was back with Jaymes and Ryan to talk all about awards week, Pat Murphy and Matt Arnold going back to back in their respective categories, all the Brewers who got ROY votes, some roster predictions, baserunning and bad players we still liked.
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On this week's show, Jaymes, Ryan and Spencer talked all about the Brewers roster moves last week, including declining the option on Contreras and the decision to make a qualifying offer to Woodruff, some notable changes to the coaching staff and, of course, best accounting practices.
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Spencer was in for Paul this week, and the guys started off by discussing what was a fun and competative World Series, including what the Blue Jays performance means for the "inevitiable Dodgers" narrative. After that, they moved on to talking about some offseason priorities, what sorts of moves they are anticipating and, of course, if a Brewer were a tree, what sort of tree would he be?
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Jaymes, Paul and Ryan got together for a little post NLCS beatdown group therapy, looked at why the team lost, how they can avoid that happening in the future and previewed what figures to be yet another interesting offseason.
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Jaymes and Ryan talked all about the Brewers beating the Cubs to move onto the NLCS and then looked forward to the impending matchup with the Dodgers in the NLCS.
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On this episode, the guys talked all about the the Brewers big game one win, the early offensive explosion, what might have been Freddy's best playoff start to date and the bullpen doing it's thing. They also talked about the playoff roster, how things line up for the rest of the series and, of course, Chicago traffic.
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The Brewers regular season is now over, and we talked as little as possible about the last week of it, tried to assess the season as a whole to date and look ahead to the playoffs with a game of "who do you trust" on the pitching side and whole bunch of questions.
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On this week's episode the guys talked about the Brewers clinching the NL Central, how this club ranks within club history, the loss of Woodruff for the remainder of the regular season, setting up for the playoffs, potential matchups and what should be done with Miz.
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On this week's show the guys discussed the up and down march to the playoffs, what Miz's recent performances mean for his postseason prospects, just how bad the Crew needs that number one seed anyways, what Robert Gasser has been up to in AAA and, of course, what Liverpool Football Club did while we were recording.
Link to Sam Miller's piece on the Brewers
Link to Cyrt's piece on Andrew Vaughn
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Spencer was in for a home renovating Paul this week and we discussed a frustrating Phillies series, a Pirates series that got even better after we recorded, how things are setting up for October and the ongoing bullpen injury apocalypse.
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On this episdoe the guys talked about an up and down week, the sustainabilty of some offensive performances, roster spots, the NL Cy Young award and, of course, Pat Murphy's bullpen decisions.
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On this weeks show the guys talked all about the good, the bad and the ugly of the Cubs series, the first couple games of the Giants series, the state of the roster, scouting the T-Rats and, of course, the Brewers wall of honor.
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The whole crew is finally all back together to talk about the 14 game winning streak, the insane run the team has been on for months now, comebacks, sustainability and a profane tirade about peaking early.
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Jaymes and Ryan talked about yet another great week on the heels of a wild sweep of the Mets, assessed the offense and accusations that the Brewers are "lucky," handicapped the ROY and MOY races in the NL and looked ahead to the 2026 OF.
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