Hiura is hitting lefties in AAA Nashville

[Brock Beauchamp]

7 minutes ago, Fear The Chorizo said:

Don't sleep on Small, Gasser, and other younger arms with mlb-caliber talent either.  It wasn't too long ago when Burnes by the numbers was the worst starter in baseball.  Arms develop at different times.

Pitching will be fine because this organization has figured out how to find pitching talent from everywhere but chasing it in free agency.  That's a far cry from several decades when the Brewers couldn't develop any quality pitching from within and relied on homegrown hitters who couldn't play defense to outscore teams while their slew of veteran free agent #5 starters got consistently rocked

This is all very possible. The Brewers showed a knack for developing out of nowhere arms for awhile but baseball moves quickly. If they can do it again, great, but I’m wary until I see it. 

[Fear The Chorizo]

13 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

This is all very possible. The Brewers showed a knack for developing out of nowhere arms for awhile but baseball moves quickly. If they can do it again, great, but I’m wary until I see it. 

It's not just about developing - it's also drafting college arms that are overlooked a bit for whatever reason and then tweaking them enough to instantly create a valuable MLB pitcher.  Burnes, Woodruff, and Rasmussen were all mid round draft picks who flew through the minors and quickly contributed at the major league level after a season or two of growing pains - heck , the pick of Rasmussen in 2018 netted the Brewers their current shortstop via trade in 2021 who some people want to hand a monster contract extension.  Misiorowski wasn't part of this organization at this time last year and now he's their cornerstone pitching prospect.

Baseball does move quickly, but if you hit on adding just 2 arms with quality MLB potential into the organization each year via all the bites of the apple that the amateur draft, international signing period, and trade avenues offers, teams can quickly replenish pitching prospect depth.  Reality is that organizations have to do that in order to keep up with arm injuries, development stalling, etc.

[Frisbee Slider]

Career Triple-A 
Prince Fielder .957 OPS in 378 AB

Ryan Braun 1.119 OPS in 117 AB

Joey Weimer .888 OPS in 150 AB

Jesse Winker .786 OPS in in 684 AB

Rickie Weeks 1.089 OPS in 237 AB

Mike Trout 1.090 OPS in 77 AB

Nolan Arenado .999 OPS in 86 AB

Conclusion: it is rare and impressive to produce 1.100 OPS in small and large samples in Triple-A.

 

 

 

 

[SF70]

2 hours ago, Fear The Chorizo said:

Don't sleep on Small, Gasser, Rodriuguez and other younger arms with mlb-caliber talent either.  It wasn't too long ago when Burnes by the numbers was the worst starter in baseball.  Arms develop at different times.

Pitching will be fine because this organization has figured out how to find pitching talent from everywhere but chasing it in free agency.  That's a far cry from several decades when the Brewers couldn't develop any quality pitching from within and relied on homegrown hitters who couldn't play defense to outscore teams while their slew of veteran free agent #5 starters got consistently rocked

Absolutely agree.

This team can develop pitching, but they also can scout it out. And it’s that combination that will sustain their pitching excellence for years to come.

CRod’s trajectory is eventual top 10 pitching prospect & will be joined by Misiorowski. Gasser has K-stuff and needs more time to work on his command/release-point, but he’s an eventual mid-rotation arm.

Ethan Small lost his release-point for over a year and thanks to creative work by this teams PDS, seems to have it back. Time will tell, but I’m not giving-up hope on him starting again — some day and armed with an improved SL he could be a dynamic pitcher with his deception and whiff ability.

Lots of nice young arms, especially of the international realm, even more specifically, Nicaraguan, that could impact in 4-5 years.

Peralta, Ashby, Gasser, CRod, Misiorowski, Small will make for a nice post-Woodruff/Burnes rotation.

With Williams, Uribe, Andrews, Strz, Chirino, Thompson & co. making for a dynamic bullpen.

[KeithStone53151]

9 hours ago, Jopal78 said:

Exactly, pitchers who project to be able to be better than average at getting outs in the majors, don’t usually pitch much at AAA anymore. It’s usually the Colin Rea and Jason Alexander type pitchers in AAA. I’m sure even Yelich would destroy there.  

Yelich? Let's not get carried away...

[rickh150]

On 5/11/2023 at 10:36 AM, Jopal78 said:

But MLB teams see these guys every day and know each players skill set/flaws in a great deal more detail than just a stat sheet. So it’s really sort of dilutes the significance if those 700 PAs came in one consecutive chunk or if they occurred in smaller chunks. He’s still interacting with coaches, creating videotape daily. 
 

It’s the same thing with getting hot and bothered they didn’t play him at DH last year despite the surface of the stat sheet saying they should. I don’t think any of the  career baseball folks working for the Brewers are ignorant or have a beef with Hiura, there is a reason his career track has taken the course it has. 
 

Further, given their history with guys who they decided to move on from like Suter, Topa etc; if there was any real interest across the league in Hiura they Brewers would most likely try to facilitate a way to get him back to the majors with another club. 

Gotta give Cutch those ABs against RHP last year….must have been what those seasoned MLB execs were saying to CC. His RHP ABs alone redistributed get us in the playoffs.

[Jopal78]

10 hours ago, rickh150 said:

Gotta give Cutch those ABs against RHP last year….must have been what those seasoned MLB execs were saying to CC. His RHP ABs alone redistributed get us in the playoffs.

I suppose they’re all either idiots or there’s an organizational wide conspiracy to ruin a player’s pro-career, right?

[Frisbee Slider]

On 5/12/2023 at 9:22 AM, Jake McKibbin said:

Christopher Morel just posted 1.100 OPS while striking out over 30% of the time

Morel now with 1.226 OPS for Cubs in 60 PA.

Luke Voit with .143 BA for Nashville in 14 AB.

Tying it back to Hiura: not all ‘MLB hitters’ mash 1.100 OPS in Triple-A.