One of the top catchers in baseball gives the Brewers an even

WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections Brewers Rumors and SpeculationConversation StartersWPA Game RecapsTransactionsLatest NewsToday's MLB NewsMilwaukee Brewers NewsMilwaukee Brewers agree to one-year deal with Yasmani Grandal Joe Jimenez Jersey , per reportNew,505commentsOne of the top catchers in baseball gives the Brewers an even more formidable lineupCSTShareTweetShareShareMilwaukee Brewers agree to one-year deal with Yasmani Grandal, per reportRichard Mackson-USA TODAY SportsKen Rosenthal is reporting that the Milwaukee Brewers are ready to ink a one-year deal with free agent deal Yasmani Grandal, pending a physical.Tim Brown from Yahoo! is reporting that the deal is worth $18.25 million for the year. Grandal’s qualifying offer from the Los Angeles Dodgers was worth $17.9 million. Because the Dodgers offered him a qualifying offer that he did not sign, the Brewers will forfeit their round three pick in the 2019 first-year player draft. That’s the second 2019 pick the Brewers have given up in one way or another this offseason, after trading their Round A Competitive Balance pick to get Alex Claudio from the Texas Rangers.Grandal is one of baseball’s best catchers, both behind and at the plate. Last season, he hit .241/.340/.484 with 24 HR http://www.tigersfanproshop.com/authentic-joe-jimenez-jersey , a 13.9% K-rate and a 13.9% BB-rate. He was second in all MLB catchers in wRC+ with 125, behind on JT Realmuto’s 126. While most Brewer fans will remember him for his defensive difficulties during the playoffs with the Los Angeles Dodgers, he has consistently ranked as one of the best defenders in baseball. Last season, he was ninth in the MLB with nine defensive runs saved.Those runs are three more than Manny Pina, and much higher than Wilson Ramos or JT Realmuto, the top two available catchers besides Grandal this offseason. Joe Robbins/Getty ImagesPete Rose believes Major League Baseball is in a bad place.Speaking to USA Today's Bob Nightengale on Saturday in Cooperstown, New York, Rose said he believes the game has been tainted by juiced baseballs and an abundance of home runs."I'm going to argue with baseball until the day I die that baseball is juiced Alan Trammell Jersey ," he said. "I don't care what anybody says. They'll say it's not, which they have to. I saw a ball bounce behind the dugout the other day in Anaheim and it bounced into the second deck. Now, there's something going on there."I saw Bryce Harper break his bat in half, and hit a 420-foot home run in New York. That just doesn't happen. I know the ballparks are small. It just seems to me that everybody who plays baseball today is a potential home-run hitter."Rose added that he's "not real happy" when he watches baseball now from a fundamentals standpoint."It seems like back in the '70s and '80s we worked on fundamentals," he said. "We spent a little more time in the minor leagues than they do today because there are 30 teams, and they're going to hurry them to the big leagues."Too many guys just sit around waiting for that two-run, three-run home runs. The teams that put the ball in play go to the World Series."Individual preferences aside, Rose has a point considering MLB experienced a power spike last year. In fact http://www.tigersfanproshop.com/authentic-joe-jimenez-jersey , the 2017 campaign saw players combine to hit a single-season record 6,105 dingers from 5,610 the year prior.We can't draw sweeping conclusions since the 2018 regular season is a couple of months from drawing to a close, but the Washington Post's Dave Sheinin noted that home run rates in March and April were down from 2.34 to 2.14 per game year-over-year.