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.

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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.

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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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