 trade alert, trade alert, trade alert, trade alert, trade alert, the first big trade of the off season. This is what I mean. We had what we were just talking about like four or five signings granted. Some of them are small, some of them are big, ish, none of them are huge. This trade for four guys moving two teams involved. It's not huge, but it's such a nice appetizer trade for this off season. I'm a fan of it. If you haven't heard what happened, the Padres and Brewers have broken open the trade market. They swap a bunch of young players. The Brewers traded Trent Grisham and Reidy Zach Davies to San Diego and the Padres are giving them Luis Uraes and Eric Lauer in return. So I'm not to knock like Davies, but Trent Grisham and Luis Uraes, the two position players are kind of the interesting pieces here. Trent Grisham wasn't that high of a prospect. I think he'd never really dominated in minor leagues, but he came up and he put together a really good effort for the Brewers at the end of the stretch. He started in the wild card game when Yelich got hurt. And Luis Uraes is kind of the opposite. He is fantastic triple A numbers. Now he's got very, very, very small played appearance, like 300 in the majors and they're not great, but he's only 22 years old. So the way I break this down is the Brewers are receiving the highest ceiling and lowest ceiling pieces in this trade. I think Uraes, am I saying that right? Yeah, I think he's the highest ceiling. And I think Eric. What is it? Uraes, Uraes is the highest ceiling. Eric Lauer is probably the most like that. And that that may be being rude. Maybe I'm talking about, but I think Trent Grisham is a good now player. And it's also needs the Brewers are pretty, pretty doing well without fielders. They got Kane. They got Yelich. They got Braun. They got Gamal. And I think they have a rookie coming up. They don't have any short stops. They want to move on from Arsia. They're going to put Uraes at shortstop, Jake, which is a big gamble. That's where I think now he grades out better as a second baseman. So now you're taking this dude, 22 year old high ceiling, and you're going to just plug him in as your shortstop. And he hasn't proven it with the bat yet. There's a lot of risk here. There's a lot of reward. Trent Grisham was surplus for the Brewers, so they get rid of him. Zach Davies is a starter. He's going to go be in the Padres rotation now. He's kind of like an average starter moving tap anything. But the interesting is Eric Lauer, he fits the Brewers mold as a thrower. Like they are going to, they get a guy now that they can just use wherever they want, which is what they want. So those are my initial thoughts, I guess. What are your thoughts on this? Yeah, I'll stay with the pitchers for now. I think when you lay everything out there on paper, I mean Davies is better than Lauer. Davies has three seasons with 28 plus starts, whereas ERA is under four, which I mean that's a pretty solid starting pitcher. 2018, he was hurt, he had kind of a bad year. He's not a big strikeout dude, but I mean he had a 3-5-5 ERA last year. He's nothing to shake a shoe at, what's that phrase? You can't swing a cat in here without hitting a celebrity. Yeah, you can't swing a cat at Zach Davies without him having an OK year last year. And yeah, I know the analytics crew would want to come at me. His FIP was a lot higher, his FIP was 4-5-6. So I don't know, maybe this was a, and he makes $5 million more than I think Lauer will make this year. So I think it was San Diego bringing in a better arm and willing to pay the money. It was Milwaukee like you're saying. I think Lauer's a young guy who he threw his innings and maybe they can find something to make him a little better than his 4-5 ERA or whatever it was. But I think pitching-wise you give Davies the leg up here. On baseball, you know, they have that little meter where the ball slides from poor to average to great for each analytic, you know, you've never seen those graphics for players. So Eric Lauer doesn't have a single bar that's above average. Fastball velocity, fastball spin, hard hit, exit velocity, X slugging, X batting average. You know what he's got, Jim? Miles and miles apart. He's a lefty that can throw innings, babe. Yeah. That's a language that always speaks in this sport. What do you got on the position players? Because I think those are the more interesting topics here. That's where this does get really fun. Because I know, like you said, no offense to Davies and Lauer, but you don't see those guys, you know, necessarily game two of the NLDS going out and shutting 7s shutout. Prove me wrong, guys. I'm more than open to that. The Arius Grisham thing is interesting. So Grisham used to be kind of a top 100 prospect. He had a couple tough years in the minor leagues. Then he turned it on. He gets the call up when Brawny goes down and they throw him at the top of their lineup for this playoffs run, which again, how different does this playoff look? That's the other part that sucks here. Like I was so excited for the Grisham redemption story in Milwaukee and now they've traded him away. He's going to be hated in Milwaukee forever. I think they'll clap when he gets back and they'll apologize. They're nice Midwestern people. Yeah. In the first inning, after the fourth, after a couple Brujas, I think they'll do it. But you're right. And you were all over it, Jim. The big thing here is Arius playing shortstop. Tatees and Machado are on the left side for the Padres. So that was pretty well locked up. I think the question mark is because he does have a really good hit tool. In the minor leagues, he's hit over 300. He's expected to hit. He's only played 83 games. The numbers aren't good, but he's, like you mentioned, 22, very young. It's going to be, can he play shortstop? And I think that's where the Brujas are taking a chance and they clearly believe that. He's listed at 5'9". That's a little smaller than you'd like to see your shortstop, I think. But hey, I like it for the Brujas. You're taking a chance. And I mean, what's the worst case that you, maybe you have to slide them over to third base or something like that? I think, I don't know. Maybe this is a mental thing that I need to get over. But it feels like if you have an infielder that can hit, that's still slightly more valuable than an outfielder that can hit a little bit. I don't know. I would be very interested to see how these trade discussions go down. Because you're right. We normally don't get kind of a, when we see apples for oranges trades in the MLB, normally it's like, all right, well, you're going to get, you know, this guy, he's 28. You're going to get him for a year and a half. Hope he does well for you. You give us a prospect and maybe he pans out and that's kind of the risk reward. These are two young MLB players that are going to be playing off the RIT. Neither have a crewed a year of service time either. So they're like, contracts is basically an equal swap. You don't see that a lot. It's just like need for need or belief for belief is interesting for belief. That must have been the scariest part in the trade room was, and this is something that you've wrote me into a little bit is teams don't trade the prospects they love. It just doesn't happen. So if you're San Diego and Milwaukee, I think you're both having kind of a, that standoff from the office where it's like, wait, you're okay trading Arias? Well, you're okay trading Grisham, right? I read somewhere that neither are like highly thought of within their own organization. So just fresh start for both of them. Yeah. Good. I watched AAA last season just to let you know, 315 batting average 398, 398, 398 on base percentage in 73 games, 998 OPS. It is the Pacific Coast League, but the on base percentage air doesn't really come into that. Yeah. I mean, throughout the minors leagues, he hit 308 with a 397 on base. So it's can he pick it at short? And I think that's the, I don't know if it's risk-reward, but that's, if you're the brewers, it's like, okay, if you throw Arias out there and he, it doesn't look like he's going to be able to pick it at shortstop, all right, then, you know what, slide him over to second base or third base. Like I don't think his defensive tools are bad. I just think, I mean, think about it, if they're willing to give him the shot at their shortstop job, he should be able to pick it at second base where he's played, let's see, he's played the majority of his minor league innings there. Do you? But they've got Hiora there. Yeah. Do you like the Brewer's Dept chart now? It's kind of good. They got Hiora at second. They're going to have Arcia or Arias at short, think Arias. Shaw, they have him as their third baseman. They need a, shit, they need someone, right now, this has Shaw as their third baseman and their first baseman. And they have their backup first baseman as Ryan Braun. So I guess the Brewer's need a first baseman. Yeah, I think maybe they'll fully move Braun to first base. I don't, that was, I don't understand, that might have been blind speculation, but I mean, he's had a few years. Are there any first basemen? I don't know. You're. Tames. Wow. Smoke. See, Tames, who came from the Brewer's, yeah, they're a little thin at the corners right now. They need Travis Shaw to figure it out, man. He had a terrible year. So, yeah, I don't know. Oh my God. Hey, they've got, the Brewer's have two prospects, Alphielder's Joe Gray and Corey Ray. That'd be cool if they. Corey and Joe Gray. Corey, Ray and Joe Gray. They roamed the Alphielder. Move Braun to first. I like that a lot. Yeah, the first base options are Howie Kendrick. Edwin Encanacion, who I think he's mostly a DH, but we saw him play some first base. Todd Frazier. Todd would be a fun guy in Milwaukee. Play a little third and first for them. That would be fun. He's my best friend. Tell him in shot to just fucking figure it out. Hey, fucking figure it out. I like, I don't, this trade, it's going to be easy to grade, I think, and I like that about it. Four years, I think we'll be able to definitively be like, that guy, I have team one. Yeah. Because it's so equal with contracts and money and shit. Just an outfielder for an infielder. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's what it is. Like the arms are going to throw and maybe we're wrong. Like maybe Davies is, is a lot superior to Lauer, but yeah, I mean, this is Arias vs Grisham, which we don't see that shit a lot in baseball. I like the idea of the brewers saying like, all right, you can have Davies, but we need an arm back and, and Podger saying, do you want a starter? Do you want a reliever? Like, no, we want neither. Thrower. Give me a guy that can do everything. And they're like, well, Lauer, but like, he's not that we'll take him. Yeah. Okay. Cool. And if you're Lauer, I mean, look what just happened to Drew Pomerance. You're stoked. Yeah. Right. You get to go get to be whatever you want to be. I'll do anything, coach. Just give me, give me that. So we're happy for everyone in this trade. Okay, cool.