Sports On Deck - Top 5 Brewers Trade Deadline Targets

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You were listening to Sports on Deckwith Dave Gasper. Welcome to Sports on
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Of course naturally, who else wouldI be here on Sports on Deck with
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to get to on the show today, we are into June. That means
July is just around the corner,and that means trade deadline season is just
around the corner. We are morethan two months into the regular season.
We have two months to go alittle less now until the trade deadline.
The Brewers have needs. We willget into that coming up here on the

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show. The Brewers themselves, theyjust got swept in Philadelphia and now they
face Detroit, and you know,the Brewers of that whole sweep in Philadelphia.
I know everyone's kind of looking atlike, oh no, the Brewers
got swept. The offense was bad. They only scored two runs in three
games. It's awful. This teamcan't hit, YadA, YadA YadA.

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Maybe not everybody it's like that,but I've seen plenty. I've seen enough
people where it's just it's frustrating tosee that be the takeaway from this because,
frankly, that Philly series, eventhough they didn't win a single game,
there are a lot of positive thingsto take away from it. Okay,

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there really are. And even thoughthey didn't really get anything done scoring.
They had one run on a ReeeseHoskins solo homer in the first game,
they had one run in the secondgame, then they get shut out
in the third. They didn't domuch offensively, but keep in mind,
you were facing Zach Wheeler, youwere facing Aaron Nola, you were facing

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the hottest team in baseball. ThePhillies have been on such an incredible run
these past six weeks, what they'vebeen able to do, how they've been
able to win. Their offense isexplosive, their pitching staff is electric.
They are incredibly tough to beat,especially at home. Especially at home.

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You had a road series in Philadelphiaagainst the hottest team in baseball. Getting
swept is a very realistic outcome.But the way they got swept, the
way that they lost, it doesn'thave me feeling like, oh no,
this team can't do it. Theyheld the Phillies down, They held that

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Phillies offense down. For the mostpart, Philly's been scoring. They average
more than five runs per game thisseason, and over this hot stretch it's
been even more than that. TheBrewers held them to three runs, two
runs, and two runs in thisseries, seven runs total in a three
game series. The Brewers held themto And they're pitching Jared Kanig, They're

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pitching Bryce Wilson, They're pitching ColinRay, They're pitching Aaron Ashby. That's
who you had starting these games andgoing distance in these games. Those four
guys going up against Zach Wheeler andAaron Nola. The fact that they were

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able to go largely toe for toe, toe to toe pitch for pitch with
them is incredible. The Brewers arescraping the bottom of the barrel in terms
of their pitching depth. They justlost Robert Gasser to an injury. He's
gone on the il. They haveto call back up Tobias Myers and Aaron

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Ashby. These guys are gonna makeup forty percent of the starting rotation.
You only have two starters in thatrotation who were part of the original five,
Freddy and Colin Ray. That's it. That's all you got. Bryce

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Wilson was in the bullpen, Myersand Ashby were not part of the picture.
Everyone's hurt everyone, it seems like. So the fact that you were
able to play pretty well and you'reable to hold down that Phillies offense,

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even though your offense wasn't able todo quite enough, you had some opportunities
that you didn't take advantage of becauseyou're facing a good team. It's not
like the White Sox where they willmake errors all the time to allow you
to get back into the game,allow you to take advantage of and score
a bunch of runs. So Imean, really, I'm not too upset

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about that series at all. Yes, it sucks to lose, but also
keep in mind the Brewers have amassive division lead. Cubs and Cardinals aren't
exactly gaining ground much right now,brus are stowing a good spot. You
have a series like that could havebeen worse. It really could have been

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worse. Do you guys remember lastyear when the Brewers faced the Oakland A's,
the worst team in baseball, andthey got swept at home. They
faced them in Milwaukee and they lostall three to the lowly Oakland A's.
Now that was a terrible sweep.That was awful. But if you're trying

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to compare getting swept here by thePhillies to that sweep at the hands of
the A's last year, it's noteven close. It's not even close,
you guys. I mean, Phillyis the top team in the National League
right now. They just are You'refacing them in Philly, So I'm really

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not too broken up about it.Yes, it would be nice for them
to have won at least one ofthose games, but it's important to keep
in mind here too, that theBrewers were the second to last team in
baseball two gets swept this season.This was the first time they've been swept
all year. It took until earlyJune, and the only other team,

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the only team in baseball now thathasn't been swept yet is Philadelphia. So
really, I mean, you havetwo of the best teams in the National
League going at it in Philly,and maybe if this series is in Milwaukee,
maybe it's a completely different outcome.Maybe the Brewers end up closely winning

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all three games and they get asweep over the Phillies, over a hot
team. Maybe that's that's how itgoes. It's a long season, the
Birds are moving on to the nextnow. They got the series in Detroit
here, so there's a lot morefor them to look forward to, a

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lot more chances for them to win. They're still sitting just fine in the
NL Central. Reyese Hoskins gets hisreturn to Philadelphia, which was very nice
to see. He was kind ofworried that maybe he was gonna get booed,
and maybe he got booed a littlebit when he hit his home run
in Game one there, but stillthe Phillies were up three to one,

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so he still kind of got cheeredlike they were booing and then they're like,
oh wait, it's rece Okay,we can cheer for a home run
there. But some really beautiful momentsfor Hoskins and his return. His first
game back at Citizens Bank Park sincetwenty twenty two. I mean, he
got injured in spring training of twentytwenty three and that was his last year.

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That was his last year in philSo he gets his little homecoming,
all the fans their love and respecthim, and he got several standing ovations.
He got three of them really justin that first game when he goes
out to warm up. Standing ovationlineup introduction, standing ovation goes up for

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his first that bat, massive standingovation for Reese Hoskins. Everyone's wearing their
Hoskins jerseys. They've got signs thatthey absolutely love this guy out there.
And as Brewers fans, it shouldmake you feel good about the type of
player that the Brewers have, becauseas I was, I was kind of

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saying last week, look it's Philadelphia. They boost Santa Claus over there.
So if you can actually have themcheer you, you must have been you
must have been doing something right.Uh. And there's a lot of good
things, you know, to talkabout there with Reese Hoskins. So for
him to get that kind of ovation, it was fantastic to see. You

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know, he gets that kind ofclosure his return and he gets a home
run, which you also love tosee. You kind of wish there had
been runners on and it had moreof an impact there in that first game.
But Parice Hoskins, he gets sucha cool moment, gets to see
the fans out there again, andyou know his he gets to hang out

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with all of his old teammates andand see everything around there. It's great.
You just love it. It gaveit gives you goose bumps. Like,
like just watching that video, watchingHoskins get that standing ovation, it
gives you goosebumps. It really does. And that's one of the cool things
about sports in general, the kindof loyalty fans have to players and the

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respect that that he can get inhis city like that, and having such
a special moment coming back. It'sit's incredible. It makes you know,
it makes the heart warm. Ifit doesn't, I don't know, you
may you should see a therapist orsomething like. It's just such a cool
moment. It really is. SoHoskins so happy he's able to get it.

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I wish he had gotten a bitmore success, but he did get
a home run, so okay,good, but still a lot of emotional
moments for him in that homecoming andBrewers just not able to come out with
a win in any of them.But onto the next, onto the next
series. That's the mentality that they'regonna have win tonight, win today's game.

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That is all that the Brewers canfocus on and will focus on.
But another thing that they will needto focus on, at least in the
front office, is how to addressthis starting rotation because with Robert Casser's injury,
there is an even bigger hole inthis rotation that they will need to
fix, and with the trade deadlinecoming up, they may have to start

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fixing it soon. We'll go moreinto that and who they might bring in
and who they might have to giveup. Coming up. You're listening to
Sports on Deck with Dave Gasper hereon thirteen ten WIBA. Sports on Deck

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with Dave Gasper rolls on here onyour Saturday afternoon. We are rapidly approaching
trade season and the needs for thestart for the Milwaukee Brewers are quite clear,
and they are all in the startingrotation. Robert Gasser is now on
the injured list with a flexer strainas he's seeking his second opinion, and

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he could be out for a littlewhile. You got d L. Hall,
who's been on the injured list witha knee issue. You got Jacob
Junas who's slowly working his way back. You've got Joe Ross who had about
of a back injury. You've gotWade Miley out for the year. You
got Brandon wood Or out for theyear. So you got some issues currently
in that starting rotation. You're scrapingthe bottom of the barrel of your death.

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You got Freddie Perlt at the top. Of course, you got Colin
Ray, you got Bryce Wilson,and now you got Tobias Myers and Aaron
Ashby filling out the rotation. MaybeAshby can use this opportunity to solidify himself
as a starter once again. TheBurgers signed him to a contract extension a
couple of years ago prior to hisinjury, and you know, maybe this

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is a chance for him to reestablish himself as a starter coming back from
that shoulder surgery last year. Butyou know, he's still got some walk
issues that he needs to iron out, and maybe he's gonna get there soon,
but there's still a ways to gowith Ashby, and frankly, you
know, even with the group thatyou have, the need clearly is there

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even if guys get healthy. One, you never know when more injuries may
pop up. And two, Ithink you really need to improve the ceiling
of this rotation because you know,all the other guys you've got that are
out on the shelf, you reallydon't have, you know, much for
a high ceiling option there outside ofFriday Peralta. I mean, the rest
of these guys are are largely backend starters. You know, even Gasser,

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who's come up and pitched well,his ceiling as a prospect is around,
you know, a mid to backend starter, and are you gonna
be able to get him to anumber two m Maybe, but he just
he doesn't throw hard enough really,and we'll see what kind of success he's
able to have once he comes backfrom injury. But it's all up in

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the air, and he's a rookieanyways that you're going to be depending on.
So it'd be nice for the Brewersto have a little bit more experience
in that rotation and a little moresolidified innings with that group. So when
trade deadline comes around and trade rumorseason is already starting, the hot thing

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for the Brewers is going to bethe rotation. Their bullpen is largely set
there. They're pretty good there andthey got Devin Williams coming back, so
they don't really need to make anoutside trade deadline addition for the bullpen.
The offense has been really good thisseason and there's really kind of no room
to make additions to the starting lineupthere with the group that they have,

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so largely you're looking at their rotationas the big area of need for Milwaukee
to address. So I want toask you this. Just as you're sitting
there listening and you're thinking about whatyou want the Brewers to do at the
trade deadline, let me ask youthis, Who are you willing to part

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with at the trade deadline? Whichprospects are you willing to give up?
Because that's what it's going to take. Right when you're a buyer at the
trade deadline, you trade away minorleague prospects in order to get big league
talent to help you out. Now, that's largely the way that it works.
You don't give up too much interms of major league talent. Usually

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you give up you know, evenclose to major league talent, but minor
leaguers, guys who are not keyparts of your team, in order to
bring in key parts of your team. So who are you willing to part
with? Because I feel like,for the most part, Brewers fans,
along with myself, are prospect huggers. Right, we look at the prospects

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in the farm system. We wantto hold on to them. We're excited
about their potential. We don't wantto see them move. We'd rather give
up, you know, lower levelguys. And even then it's like,
oh man, he had so muchpotential. But who are you willing to
part with? Who are you willingto give up? And who do you
want at the trade deadline? Doyou want a Garrett Crochet? Garrett Crochet

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is the hot name right now.Jeff passen listed him as an option.
Robert Murray has listed him as anoption for the for the Brewers that they
make a lot of sense. PatMurphy, I'll tell you this, Pat
Murphy pregame uh before that, beforethe White Sox series, when Crochet was
pitching, Murphy was raving. Hewas raving about Garrett Crochet and the stuff

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that he has, the electric armthat he is, and he's asking how
many years of control does he haveleft? He asked us that he's got
two and a half years of control, by the way, so Murphy's kind
of kind of inquiring about him,and of course Murphy then you know,
he goes back to saying, Ilove the guys that we have, you
know, we're you know, workingwith you know who we have in this

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clubhouse, in this room. Ilove all of them, you know,
going back to all that, buthe's like, that's that's not my job
description to try and try and makea trade there for for someone else.
That's that's not what I'm gonna bedoing. But who are you willing to
part with? If you want Crochet, You're gonna have to part with someone
big. Crochet's got two and ahalf years of control. I know he

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doesn't have the greatest health pedigree,but he has a great prospect pedigree.
His stuff is amazing, and thefact that he's now shown that he can
be a starter, at least forthe first two plus months here, that's
certainly helping out his case. He'sgonna cost you quite a bit. He's
gonna talk. He's gonna cost youa top shelf position player prospect. That's

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what Chicago wants. Are you willingto part with a brock Wilkin? Let's
say, because look I put thisout, I'm reviewing the Brew the other
day. A couple of trade packagesto get Garrett Crochet and I include Wilkin.
Wilkin's the headliner. And everyone's like, no, no, not Wilkin.

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No, You're gonna have to giveup someone. You're gonna have to
give up somebody to get somebody.If you're not willing to part with Wilkin
to get Crochet. That's fine,but just understand you're not gonna get Crochet.
That's just how it's gonna If you'retrying to just kind of cobble together,

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you know, some sort of tradepackage where you don't give up any
of your top guys in order toget arguably the top guy on the market,
it's not gonna happen. If youwant the top guy on the market,
you're gonna have to pay top price. Now, the Brewers have the
ability to pay that price. Theyhave the farm system, they have the
depth, they have the high levelprospects to pay whatever price to get whatever

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top guy, whether it's Crochet,whether it's Hayeshu's Lozardo from the Marlins.
They could go after a couple ofdifferent guys. They have the ability to
pay that price. Now, whetherthey have the willingness to pay that price
is a completely different story. Sowe could ask the same question to Matt
Arnold, right, who are youwilling to part with at the trade deadline?

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That's the question Matt Arnold has toask himself when it comes to Garrett
Crochet talks. Are you willing topart with a brock Wolkin? Are you
willing to part with a Tyler Black? Are you willing to potentially part with
a Jefferson Caro? Obviously wouldn't beall those guys together in this deal,
but still, who are you willingto trade? Who are you willing to

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part with? That's the real question, because that's going to determine who they
end up going after. Because ifyou look at brock Wokin right now,
his numbers aren't that great all upin double A. And this reminds me
of a situation. It may remindyou of a certain situation a couple of

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years ago. About let's see whatwould that be now about sixteen years ago?
Oh man, sixteen years ago tono, eighteen years ago? No
sixteen doing math live on the airis a bull choice. Sixteen years ago.
Two thousand and eight, Okay,just forget the man. Two thousand

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and eight cee Ce Sabathia. TheBrewers had a need in the starting rotation.
They go out early and they getCC Sabathia and they give up a
huge prospect Hall to get him.Led by Matt Laporta, the first round
pick from the year before, firstround corner infielder supposed to be the corner

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infielder of the future for the Brewers. They trade him to get CC Sabathia
and his three months of team control, and Matt Laporta turned out to be
a bust. The Brewers didn't misshim at all. Michael Brantley, the
player to be named later in thattrade, turned out to be the guy

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that they missed. He turned outto be a stud that had a very
long career in the major leagues.That was one that kind of bit him,
But trading away that first round pickfrom the year before did not.
Wilkin finds himself in the same boat, first round picked the year before.
Corner infielder doesn't seem to be doingtoo hot right now in Double A.

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Maybe maybe the Brewers are willing totrade Wilkin, and you can trade him
now while his stock is still high, and he can get you a guy
like Crochet or even Lozardo. Ifthey wanted to go that route. You
could put Wilkin in as a headliner. You absolutely could. You still got
plenty of other guys at the corners. You got Mike Bobe, you got
Tyler Black, you got Wes Clark, you got her Nesta Martinez, you

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got Luke Adams, you got EricPatanti, you got a bunch of corner
infield prospects in your system, powerhitters. You have plenty of guys who
can do that. You could tradeWilkin and still be fine depth wise at
that position. Now, Wilkin mayhave the highest ceiling of any of them,

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and maybe he does come back tohaunt you if you trade him.
But the important thing to understand hereis that it's going to cost you something.
Now, if you're not willing topart with the Wilkins, the Blacks,
the Caros of the world, you'renot going to get the Crochets and
Lozardos of the world. If you'reonly willing to part with those lower level

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guys, you know, maybe thetwenty you know, top twenty to thirty
range of the prospects list, ratherthan your top ten list, then you're
looking at completely different targets. You'relooking at Eric Fetti's and cal Quantrills and
you know, Ryan Weathers and guyslike that. You're looking at guys who
maybe aren't going to be as bigof a boost to your rotation. They

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are warm, healthy bodies at themoment, which, frankly, the Brewers
could use that too. That couldvery well be the route that they go.
But understand, if you're going toget those top shelf guys, you
got to give up something. Youhave to risk potentially losing that Michael Brantley

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type or I suppose that Matt Laportatype the way he kind of busted there.
But really, in large parts,le Brewers have done a great job
of knowing which prospects to get ridof and which ones to keep. Since
the David searns Arab began, whichprospects that the Brewers have traded away have

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they really regretted? Have they reallywished they had kept Ree Sulsen? Maybe
who they're facing this weekend in Detroit, they traded him for a few months
of Daniel Norris back when he wasan a ball pitcher, So maybe Rees
Sulson as the worst one that theyreally regret not having. Maybe Mauricio Dubam

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but Palmerans pitched really well in twentynineteen and Dubon at the time didn't have
a spot. But Dubonds turned ina nice career and he's still playing really
well. So really, though inlarge part, they have done a great
job of deciding who to get ridof and who to keep. Remember all

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the guys that they traded to getChristian Yelich, Lewis Brinson, he was
the future, Hasan Diz, hewas the future. Monte Harrison. Oh,
he had power for days. Allthose guys busted in that Yellis deal,
all of them, every single one. Jordan Yamamoto even he wasn't as
highly rated, but still busted.You know who they didn't give up in

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that trade. You know who Miamiwas also looking at at that time.
You know who else was on thattop prospects list that the Brews convinced Miami
not to take. Brandon Woodruff,Corbyn Burns, Freddy Peralta. Those were
the other top pitching prospects. Thosewere the other top prospects in the brus
system at the time. Instead,the Brewers held onto them and they traded

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away Brinson and Diaz and Harrison,which turned out to be a fantastic decision.
So if they decide that they're willingto part with Brock Wilkin, maybe
Wilkin's worth parting with. If theydecide to keep him, and maybe he's

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not worth parting with, we shallsee. Soill got plenty of time until
the trade deadline. But man,this need in the rotation, it's getting
desperate, it really is. Comingup, we'll talk more about the Brewers
and where they could end up goingcoming up, you know, what's the

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trade deadline with the rotation. Moreon that discussion coming up next. You're
listening to Sports on Deck with DaveGasper here on thirteen ten Wiba. Welcome

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back to Sports on Deck with DaveGasper here in fifteen to ten Wiba,
I am Dave Gasper. All right, we've been into some trade deadline talk
as we're into the month of Junenow, so trade season is pretty much
upon us here and the Malkee Brewers, they have a massive need in the
starting rotation. They're gonna have toget a couple of arms before the trade

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deadline this year, at least one, maybe two, who knows. It
depends on how some of these guysreturned from injury and how they're performing at
the time. But we're already gettingto the point where we have a clear
number of sellers this season, andwe have a clear need for the Brewers,
which means that we are going tohave some clear guys who are going

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to be on the market we weretalking about one of them already with Garrett
Crochet and what it may cost toget him. So what I want to
do now is just kind of gothrough a bunch of different options. I
got my top five right now,my top five starting pitching options for the
Brewers to target in trades here atthe trade deadline. So I want to

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get into it. But still likethese are varying levels of guys. Not
all of them are going to costa ton, you know, as we're
talking about with Okay, Garrett Crochetis probably going to cost you someone like
brock Wilkin. Not everyone on thislist is going to cost you a brock
Wilkin, Okay, Just it's notvarying levels of guys here. The Brewers
could go a number of different directions. They could go short term, they

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could go rentals, they could goguys with control, they could go big
name guys, they could go smallername guys. Totally bunch of different ways.
But we have some clear sellers andclear guys who are pitching well,
who are putting themselves out there onthe market. Let's get into it,

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starting with number five. Number five, Number five on my list is Trevor
Williams of the Washington Nationals and TrevorWilliams. He's kind of bounced around,
been a journeyman in his career,but he is putting together a very strong
season for the Washington Nationals this year. He's got a two to twenty two

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ERA and eleven starts, fifty sixand two thirds innings. He's pitching incredibly
well. His his fastball has beenelectric this year. Just what he's been
able to do, even his expectednumbers, they're all really good. So
it's it's not looking like there's apoint of regression here. Now. Last
year he made thirty stars, buthe had an ERA of five and a

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half granted on a bad team therein Washington. But he's he's been much
better this year. He's on thelast year of his contract, so he's
a rental. He's a free agentat the end of the year. Thirty
two year old right handed journeyman.He's not going to cost you a whole
lot to get He's not He's notgoing to cost you one of your top

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ten, top fifteen prospects. Iwould imagine if you're the Brewers, so
you can get him for cheap.Now, his fastball velocity is pretty low.
He doesn't throw hard, but hegets good extension and his pitches have
been playing up, so I think, frankly for Williams, I think he'd
be a solid get. He'll giveyou innings. He'll be able to eat

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him up and do pretty well inthem, as he's done throughout his career.
So Trevor Williams is my number fiveoption here for the Brewers to add
to their starting rotation at the tradedeadline. Number four, Number four.
Moving on back to the Chicago WhiteSox with Eric Fetti. He makes this
list now. Fetti, he's hada fantastic season now. He missed last

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year, so he's coming back.He's playing well. I mean, the
past couple of years before he's gottenthe five something hasn't really been super great,
but he's been mostly durable. Andthis year era of three, twenty
seven and thirteen starts and just lightingit up again, gets solid extension.
Expected numbers are all really good,so Fetti, he's gonna fetch a pretty

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good return at the trade deadline herefor the White Sox. He's kind of
unexpected. Is kind of a veteranreclamation project for the Socks, and they
sign him to a two year deal, so he's got a year and a
half of control coming up. Atseven and a half million dollars each for
Fetti, that's that's pretty cheap forthe kind of production that he's been giving
you. I know, the Brewersput up a couple of runs on him

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back when he was up in Milwaukeefor that series, but still, you
know, you get the thirty oneyear old Fetti. He's a veteran,
he's been around the league for awhile, and he's pitching incredibly well right
now. And it gets you aguy that can help out your rotation next
year as well, because the Brewers, frankly, they got a lot of
question marks in this rotation, soadding and someone like Fetti because you know,
Wade Miley's not gonna be coming back. You don't know what Brandon Woodriff

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is going to be for you nextyear, and Colin Ray is likely going
to be a free agent, andyou're likely going to have Joe Ross as
a free agent as well, sothere's going to be some more upheaval in
that rotation next year. Fetti couldhelp solidify some of that for you,
if you're able to get him intothe picture. So he's number four on
my list of Brewers starting rotation tradetargets number three. Moving on to number

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three, we're going over to theNew York Mets. That's right, David
Stearns' New York Mets and Sean Meniahnow Mania. He's also been putting up
some pretty good numbers here for theMets, despite the Mets being objectively awful.
He's got a three sixty three ERAand eleven starts, fifty seven innings,
fifty seven k's. So it's like, okay, you know, doing

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all right. Maybe not quite whathe once was. Now it's a thirty
two year old, but he's gotan elite fastball, and he gets elite
extra ninety six percent down the leaguein extension. Now, the Brewers,
they do love guys with great extensionon the mound. That gets them down
the mound faster. That means thehitters have less time to see the baseball.

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That's why they have the six footeight Trevor McGill and six foot eight
Brian Hudson and six foot six JaredKanig and all these guys and down in
the minors six foot seven Jacob Mezarowski. They get down the mound, they
get great extension, and that iswhy these fastballs, even if they don't
have the greatest velocity, they lookso freaking terrifying and they're able to play

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so well because hitters just have thatmuch less time, less distance to see
them. Now Manyah, when he'shealthy, when he's at his best,
he can be a really really goodpitcher. He's looking a lot more like
that this year, So him gettingout of New York is a very real
possibility. The Mets are bad,They're likely going to sell, and they're
going to be willing to move guyslike Mania. Maybe Luis Severino at the

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Brewers can convince them to give TylerMcGill, who's having a great season.
That would be fantastic because then youcould have both McGill brothers on the Brewers
and that would be an electric factoryif you can make that happen. But
not sure that they'd be willing togive up McGill Sean Manya though they likely
would be, so I see himbeing on this list of guys that the

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Brewers could get at the trade deadline. They have a great relationship with David
Stearns. He knows the Brewers farmsystem. Well, the Brewers know him
well, so they should be ableto work out a deal if the Brewers
really do end up winning Mania.He ends up at number three on my
list of Brewers deadline targets number two. Moving on to number two, we're

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going to the top guys now.Heyesus Lozardo of the Miami Marlins is number
two on my list. And Lozardo, he's got years of team control as
well, and he's a very goodpitcher on a very bad team. He's
twenty six years old now. Hedoesn't get the great extension, but he's
able to get a ton of whiffs, and frankly, I think you get

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him out of Miami and you canreally get his stuff to play up now.
He dominated the Brewers when they facedhim in that series. And Lozardo,
the Brewers pitching development and what they'reable to do with these guys is
absolutely amazing. Now. Last yearhe put up some really great numbers three
fifty eight ERA and thirty two starts, two hundred and eight strikeouts. This

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year not quite as good for him, but still there's a lot of great
stuff to work with here. He'syoung, he's left handed, he's got
years of team control left as well, which is something that the Brewers are
going to like, and that's somethingthat is also going to come with some
cost. This is where we getinto the category of is this going to

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cost you Brock Wilkin for Lozardo,I'd say, yeah, it's it's probably
going to cost you someone like Wilkin. Zardo. He is under team control
for another two and a half years. He's making five and a half million
this year, He's got two moreyears of arbitration after this, so kind
of the same situation as Crochet.He's got a little bit more of a

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healthy track record of being a starterdoes Lozardo, so that could also push
up the price a little bit.But he isn't pitching super well right now,
at least not as well as hewas last year or the year before.
So he's still you know, he'sup there. He's my number two
guy on my list. I thinkhe would be amazing in a Brewers uniform.

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I think you get him with ChrisHook and that Bruce pitching staff and
Lozardo's stuff, it just is goingto take another step forward and he's just
just going to end up being thatmuch better. So Lozardo is number two
on my list, which leaves onemore guy here on my top five.
Number one. Number one is aguy that we've been talking about before,

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Garrett Crochet, and again, reallyare the Brewers gonna be willing to part
with what it takes to get him? That is the question. He is
making eight hundred grand this year becausehe's had those injury issues before and hasn't
had success as a starter before untilthis year, but doing it this year,
having those years of team control,just how great he's been this season

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and how electric the stuff is.As a lefty starter, he would fit
perfectly in that Brewer's rotation. Theycould find a way to keep him as
a starter long term and get themost out of his electric stuff. So
I think Crochet right now he's numberone. He tops my list. Lozardo
is very close behind, though.It was very difficult for me choosing between

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one and two. For those guys, I end up going with Crochet just
seeing him and just seeing what hedid to this team and how the Brewers
are interested in him. The Brewersdrafted Crochet before too, They drafted him
out of high school. He chosenot to sign and go to college and
then he ended up getting drafted bythe White Sox in the first round.

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So so Crochet, I think forme, that history that the Brewers have
with him, I think they mightput him a top their list over someone
like Lozardo. So that's why he'snumber one on my list. So Crochet
at one, Hazls Lozardo at two, Sean Mania's number three, Eric Fetti
at four, and Trevor Williams atfive. Those are my top five brewers

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starting pitching trade deadline targets for themto go after. I could see them
going after any one of these fiveguys, you know, in terms of
likelihood. In terms of cost,Williams would be the cheapest Manaia also would
be fairly inexpensive to get, justbecause his salary is a little bit higher
than some of the others. He'smaking fourteen and a half million this year,

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thirteen and a half million next year, and because of that price,
the prospect price is going to comedown. Now, the Mets could eat
some of that salary in order tofacilitate a deal and get better prospects or
a better prospect in return for Anaya, but I think they'd be more than
happy to get out from under hiscontract and move and get some better pieces

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with them. So you know,maybe you give up a little bit more,
but you're paying much less on thesalary for Anaya. But I have
him there, Yeah, fetti yearand a half team control, but still
the you know, the injury history, and you know he's never really kind
of been that that kind of topguy. So you have all these dudes

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out of there. You have abunch of other guys that are out there
that didn't even make this list.I didn't even talk about that. You
could also very well include in thisin this discussion of starting pitching, trade
deadline targets. Yeah, guys likeAndrew Haney, Paul Blackburn, Edward Cabrera,
Ross Stripling, Trevor Rodgers, CalquanTrill, Jose Soriano of the Angel

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Austin Gomber, Ryan Weathers, LuisSeverino also on the Mets. There,
Alex would so a bunch of differentdirections that you could go. There should
be plenty of starters out there onthe market, but everyone is going to
need starters. Everyone's going to wantone. And if you have a guy
that you want, if you're theBrewers, you're gonna have to pay to

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get them, and you may haveto just jump on him quick. If
there's a guy in this group atthe Brewers fro An office, it's like,
that's our guy. We want him. It's him. He would be
perfect for our rotation. Go outand get him. Don't wait, don't
sit and wait around. Starting rotationreally right now. Can't afford if you're
to sit and wait around much longer. So that's where they got to get

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to. We'll come back, we'llwrap things up. You're listening to sports
Ton Deck with Dave Gasper here onthirteen ten WIBA. All right, everyone,
I am just about out of timehere one important quick reminder. The

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All Star voting has opened up thisweek, so be sure to vote for
your favorite Brewers to the All StarGame. Several players are deserving. William
Contrera should be a starter. BryceTerrang I think should be a starter at
second base. Christian Yelich should bean All Star. Willia Domis I think
maybe could get himself in there.Joey Ortiz also playing incredibly well, deserving

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of an All Star nod. Youcan't quite vote for pitchers, but still
you can vote for the position players. Vote your Brewers into the All Star
Game. The Brewers have a firstplace team, one of the best teams
in baseball. They deserve to havea couple of All Stars starters in there,
and the only way they can dothat is if you vote for him.

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I'm out of time. Thank youfor listening. This has been Sports
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