Matt Arnold Breaks Down Milwaukee Brewers Trading Devin Williams to Yankees for Nestor Cortes

[@jesusoftheapes]

Tobias Myers is the ACE of the Brewers and not even Arnold gives him the proper respect. I am amazed how little respect he earned in truth with the big heads of the MLB after 2024. What we saw was a man who's lightbulb flipped on in 2024. Myers by all accounts figured it out last year and became the pitcher he worked to be for his entire career. The chances of any player to regress is pretty normal in the MLB or any pro sport. However when you find a gem who has all the momentum of Myers you do not downplay that all offseason incase he fails in the coming season. That is how you crush a young players career without trying very hard. Myers is a ACE pitcher. He has stuff that batters chase and that is something to develop not pretend is already gone away. Myers was better than any pitcher starter or reliever on this team INCLUDING Devin Williams at the end of 2024. He should have everyone just as excited as Skenes makes the Pirates. Myers if not written off before the 2025 season kicks off like is being done by even Matt Arnold,Brewers Fanatic and the worst man in sports broadcasting in Chuck Friedman over on Locked on Brewers. In fact not one Brewers reporter is actually giving Myers the respect he EARNED with the 2024 campaign. Tobias Myers is BETTER than Freddy and we saw that every single week last season. Why are we going out of our way to exclude Tobias Myers from the 2025 prognostication? What the Brewers got from Myers last season was the most valuable rookie pitcher in the NL . NOT SKENES ! Skenes played for a franchise who sucked! They won 0 meaningful games and Skenes never pitched in one high pressure game all season long. Tobias Myers played into pressure all season long and came out the other side of it as the best starting rookie pitcher in the NL. Sorry Skenes played for nothing and will play for nothing until the Pirates trade him to the Dodgers or Yankees when they firesale in coming seasons. Tobias Myers smoked Skenes by all accounts. Skenes did it with a better pitch arsenal and incredible natural speed but Myers did it with guts and training and sheer determination. What Myers brought to baseball is more valuable than what Skenes brought. The killer instinct Myers is currently developing needs to be nurtured. Myers can up his strikeout numbers to 9 to 10 per start. His ERA will continue to drop and his homer rate will too. Myers just learned he is a killer in 2024. Now perfecting that fact is the most important thing moving forward. Myers can be one of the best pitchers in the MLB. Even if he falls over 5 times a season. I say stop using metrics to box players into spots. Myers is not going to fit those boxes and writing him off because of how he came to the Show and not how he did when he got here has destroyed so many players. If the on paper way of making a team a winner is such a good model why have the Brewers not won a pennant since 1982? Maybe realizing this roster of players is unlike every roster in baseball is a good thing . Not forcing yourself to pay attention to computed models of these players or how they project in the minds of baseball genuses who cover this sport in 2024 is a good thing. It has created a league where people no longer matter. Their production is overlooked because they are not supposed to be this good according to analytics. Analytics are fine . However they have never produced a champion. Moneyball FAILED and no matter how popular the idea got after the movement it still has not produced anything but a league of very evenly matched teams who constantly lose to the franchises who buy the actual talent they needs to win in the fall and could care less about analytic models. Analytics has gotten to be the way of losing. The big teams do not use this stupid model to win . They use money to buy the guys other teams develop so they can get past the hardest series they face in a season. The winners do not look at baseball the way Fanatic or anyone reporting in this interview. They just win because they have the money to roster whoever they want. The teams who will challenge them with lesser talent on rosters will be the teams that figure out that baseball was here for a long ass time before Analytics and the best teams in the history of baseball were all formed before this era of fake ideas. Teams that can beat the $ have yet to be developed . Analytics models got teams close to being able to compete with the $ clubs but never got them over the hump. The truth is the answer to beating the money is going to have to be new thinking that ditches the computer model. The team that leans into the weird and unconventional star like Myers, Turang, Sal and Perkins is the team that figures out that it is motivated men that beat $. NOT Analytical models. Tobias can be great with the right encouragement. So can Sal Frielick and Brice Turang. These guys will never be the guys who get the most hype. they will always be lunch box players but lunch box players can learn how to be the best players in a sport because they learn fast that TEAM is the most important thing about sport. NOT home runs . Not 105 MPH pitches but the rare ability to elevate yourself as a player no matter where they came from! The 2024 Brewers were better than the 2024 Yankees and were better than any NL franchise despite the finish as a roster. They were better because they were the most united team in baseball as people. Had Devin not tipped his pitches AGAIN we would all be able to have seen the full extent of what that means. The Brewers do not have a great analytical roster BUT they have a roster who would compete with any era of baseball right now because they brought up the right players at the right time and allowed them to be different. I hope Myers proves all of you wrong AGAIN. The Brewers have a young ACE pitcher who has yet to touch the highs he can achieve with the right nurturing. Ending him before the 2025 season begins is the wrong way to look at him and any of the current Brewers roster. Maybe it is time to look at EVERYTHING in baseball and rethink how it is called, reported on and prognosticated about. The Brewers have won so much over the past many seasons the fans forget what loosing actually looked like. The Brewers are winning and have the best Manager and exec in baseball ! Fans need to rethink how they see this team so we can get past the preconceived stupidity that is entangled in the baseball of 2025. We the fan of the Brewers must stop being negative about winning. Losing is what we went through for a long long long time and losing playoff games should not have this fanbase as negative as it has become. We will only win when we all BELIEVE in this franchise and its players. I believe and i am begging the fans of this team to believe with me! If we stop writing this team off before it succeeds like we do over and over again year in and year out we might just have a World Series in the future.

[@stonedwolf420]

im a bit weary not having a top 3 lights-out closer like we have for 6 years in hader and d williams, that became part of our teams identity. but a starting rotation with cortes, woodruff, peralta, and tobias myers will be crazy. if we cant get a free agent closer like kirby yates i can only hope we can develope an elite one again like we did with williams

[@chadtindall8603]

Wasn't Megill legit for most the year?

[@stonedwolf420]

@@chadtindall8603 yes he was great, and hopefully he or Uribe can develope into that kind of super-low ERA closer. hader would do crazy things like go 50 appearances without a run and it felt like you had the game no matter what if his arm was ready. williams transitioned into being that scary of a closer too and hopefully we can see that again from someone

[@69illini]

So handing one of infield spots to a minor leaguer not even in yanks top 30 with little power from AA. What could go wrong??

[@jesusoftheapes]

Why do the Brewers not have anything in podcasts that broadcasts these interviews? The Brewers are bad at covering the Brewers. Locked on Brewers is stuck with the WORST person ever to host that show . Chuck Freedman is awful and hates the team. Brewers fanatic is a group who openly hates the team . So until that is fixed the Brewers are poorly represented.