The Brewers have inked utilityman Jace Peterson to a minors deal, per a club announcement. The contract includes an invitation to MLB Spring Training.
Peterson has never quite made good on his promise, but has still appeared in each of the past six MLB campaigns and appeared in over five hundred big league contests. He’s a .228/.314/.330 hitter at the game’s highest level.
Now 29 years of age, Peterson is in all likelihood slated to provide depth for the Milwaukee organization. But he could yet end up in an important role should a need arise — or should he prove up to the task. He did show a spark last year at Triple-A, even against the offensively elevated International League standard, by turning in 377 plate appearances of .313/.398/.512 hitting.
so im guessing the brewers plans are to sign 49 players a day and see what worksout? lol
Throwing things at the wall to see if they stick. Or get cut as the case might be. You can see part of the strategy is to sign cheap in volume and see if some of it works out and contributes
They cut/lost half the MLB team and half the AAA team so thy need players. Hope they don’t get all AAA layers
Farhan Zaidi: Hold my beer.
Can he pitch too?
I always like Jace, this beats the Healey signing, that guys sucks
Jace Peterson cant hit a lick while Healy has serious power when healthy.
Healy is either homer or an out and only position he fields is DH. An ant can play 1b better then Healy.
Brewers continue to collect cheap infielders. How many ‘depth’ type signings do they want? Clearly they are not in on Donaldson.
They have never been in the 20M per year price range Donaldson will get. A minor league signing of Jace and a cheap deal for Healy aren’t the reasons they are out.
Not for the length and dollar amount he wants at his age.
They need to start adding depth to their already-weak rotation, if anything. They’ve lost Davies, Nelson, Anderson, Lyles, and Guerra…all who have made a substantial number of starts over the past three years.
You’re not going anywhere with a rotation of Woodruff, Anderson, Houser, Lauer, and ?.
Nelson provided nothing last year or the year before. Brewers went into last year with a starting rotation of Chacin, Woodruff, Davies, Anderson and Peralta/Burnes. How is that any better than Woodruff, Houser, Anderson, Lindblom, Lauer?
At the very least they’ve replaced Davies/Anderson and Lyles innings with Anderson/Lindblom and Lauer. Do they need another starter? Yes. I would love Lauer in long relief but it’s also December 17th. They have almost 3 months. Stearns has signed 4 free agents the last week.
If anything, the old rotation is worse.
Yes. They are collecting guys that can start or pitch multiple innings out of the pen. I’m betting Stearns/Counsell will be telling a large portion of their pitching staff that they might get 4-5 inning starts or pitch 2-3 innings out of the pen. Don’t be surprised when they sign two more of these guys and they have an entire staff of multi-inning type pitchers. They’ve been slowly eschewing the traditional 5-man starting rotation for years now. This isn’t even that new for them. Everyone has a short leash and Hader/Knebel will be used at any point in the game that the manager deems necessary. It’s just crazy enough to work.
This is clearly an organizational depth signing guys. He signed a minor league deal.
Nelson didnt start a game since the shoulder injury in Sep of ’17. Guerra I don’t recall starting at all in ’19, and I’m pretty sure at least the second half of ’18. Chase Anderson was moved to the pen for a significant part of last year, Davies missed over a month due to injury, and Lyles wasn’t acquired until the trade deadline, so he started for 1/3 of the season.
Lyles and Davies are the only 2 who made a “significant” number of starts last year. And nobody cares what any of them did 2 or 3 years ago.
Woodruff, houser, peralta, lauer, lindbolm, Brett Anderson, Burnes
Taylor Williams, Suter, Faria, Claudio all these guys can go multiple innings.
Burnes was my favorite of the young pitchers. I really want him to be good but I just havent seen it yet
If they could afford Donaldson, they would have signed Moose instead.
Go get Keuchal
Nice idea but dream on… why would they need Kuechel when they signed Anderson?!
People throw shade at Anderson but I’ll gladly take a 2.7WAR for 5M.
Actually better then Miley. He had a war of 2.0. Anderson when healthy has decent numbers and comparable to Miley. Only costed 5 million for a year while the reds had to give 15 million for two years of Miley.
Brewers going all-in on average guys.
They are clearly hoping average becomes above average in 2020. Is hoping a strategy?
It is a minor league signing….
Aside from Yelich & Cain, these signings are the same level guys they signed in the offseason before 2018. Yelich and Cain are still here and despite down years years from two of them, they have three young, pitchers with more experience.
I’m no more or less optimistic than I was going into 2018.
Biggest concern is the improvements in Cincy.
every guy they sign is an outfielder, while im not a brewers fan, why dont you sign less than amazing pitchers? thats usually always a bigger area of need then having 9 or more outfielders that most likely wont even make the roster
They have 5 outfielders (yelich, Cain, Braun, Garcia and gamel). If Braun plays 1B some and the other 4 OFers can play all 3 OF spots how is that “too many”?
They had that many few years ago too… Braun, yelich, Cain, Domingo Santana
2 signings today, and they are both infielders.
Maybe don’t smoke crack before commenting next time.
To be fair, Peterson does play LF lol.
250 of his 370 career starts are at 2B though. Fair point he can play OF though lol
I guess then she can continue..smoking..crack before..commenting..?
Doubling down on that crack “joke” Huh?
Dray is this your mom^^^^?
Did Jace Peterson promise to be a MLB’er?
What I see is that these marginal players see an opportunity to play given the open spots and are jumping at the offers from the Brewers. They may have gotten similar offers from other teams but realized the chance they can stick in the show with them.
Can we just sign Will Middlebrooks before the end of the week? It would be the perfect Christmas present….
Why? So he could trip a guy at third to give up the winning run?
Perfect Christmas present for Cardinals fans. (I know you are being sarcastic)
Can’t. He’s too busy posing for his HOF bust with Blake Swihart and Rob Refsnyder.
So Woodruff struggled two years ago and Houser wasnt in our plans as a starter, then they pretty much turned into all stars or pitched like an all star. Now Woodruff was expected to arrive a year earlier so is it possible that Burnes and Peralta arrive this year as starters? plus could Devin Williams and Faria become a big part of the bullpen?
I wonder if besides Woody, Counsell has a set rotation. He could still use a modified “opener” from time to time, but maybe they pitch 2-3 innings instead of 1.
He could have Houser, Peralta, Burnes, Williams, Anderson, Lauer and Lindblom for the early innings, 2 or 3 regular relievers, and then Hader and Knebel at the back end.
I guess chisoxcity will be calling Stearns a dumpster diver as well as Theo , I played the game and know that depth helps winning, something the White Sox fans don’t understand because they don’t Win !!
This guy replaces Saladino as utility infielder insurance in AAA. Nothing more.
You are exactly right. I think on Healy they will give a longer look to see if he could make roster
Remember the roster expands by 1 this year too so never hurts to have a guy with Healy’s power at the end of the bench if you need him.
Former 1st round pick, this could be his breakout season