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[Joseph Zarr]

ER MER GERRRRRRD.

Chourio. Two Run Bomb. 14-1. 

[wiguy94]

2 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

ER MER GERRRRRRD.

Chourio. Two Run Bomb. 14-1. 

We are not worthy of Chourio's greatness. This is a special run he is on right now. He honestly looks like the next Acuna.

[Joseph Zarr]

1 minute ago, wiguy94 said:

We are not worthy of Chourio's greatness. This is a special run he is on right now. He honestly looks like the next Acuna.

It. Is. Unbelievable my man. I can't believe what I have witnessed this second half with these Shuckers. AND, it is contagious. Black and Chourio (and Quero) led the surge. Their teammates have jumped aboard. It's up and down this line up right now. SO happy for manager Mike Guerrero and hitting coach Chuckie Caufield. They deserve this run.

For our viewing pleasures:

 

[brewmann04]

I wonder what their numbers will be w/o the Tack balls  in the first half 

[Joseph Zarr]

Eat THIS Braves! 

😅

[Joseph Zarr]

With this impending victory, btw, the Shuckers will take a 3 1/2 game lead over third place Montgomery. They will lead Pensacola by 1 game but Pensacola won the first half so they are irrelevant. They will simply be known as first half winners with an incredibly beautiful ball park.

[wiguy94]

@Joseph Zarrdid you see why Lutz was pinch ran for? I can't remember seeing anything.

[Brewcrew82]

18 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

It. Is. Unbelievable my man. I can't believe what I have witnessed this second half with these Shuckers. AND, it is contagious. Black and Chourio (and Quero) led the surge. Their teammates have jumped aboard. It's up and down this line up right now. SO happy for manager Mike Guerrero and hitting coach Chuckie Caufield. They deserve this run.

For our viewing pleasures:

 

Why not bring Chourio up before the end of the season if he keeps hitting like this? Promote him to AAA now and potentially call him up in September to prepare him for a ROY campaign in 2024 that could net us a comp pick. 

[Joseph Zarr]

2 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

@Joseph Zarrdid you see why Lutz was pinch ran for? I can't remember seeing anything.

Yeah, I didn't see anything and I don't think it was anything. They were only leading 2-1 at that point so I took it as get another faster set of wheels on the base paths. It was a men on 1st and 2nd, if I recall, with Zamora at 2B? Anywho, I don't think it was anything.

[Brewcrew82]

19 minutes ago, brewmann04 said:

I wonder what their numbers will be w/o the Tack balls  in the first half 

It's a shame so many were using the first half (w/ tacked ball) to try to impugn Jackson. 

[ELCABALLO45]

It’s not gonna happen but honestly I think Chourio is ready for Milwaukee now. 

[Joseph Zarr]

2 minutes ago, Brewcrew82 said:

Why not bring Chourio up before the end of the season if he keeps hitting like this? Promote him to AAA now and potentially call him up in September to prepare him for a ROY campaign in 2024 that could net us a comp pick. 

With Chourio, I don't worry about any of this. I am simply absolutely undeniably enjoying every step in his journey. We are SO lucky to watch this young man play ball in the Brewers Minor League system. His zest for the game is palpable. He's a generational talent. He'll get there and they'll bring him there in right timing. That's my take. If it's this year, awesome. If it's next year, fantastic. If it's 2025? Great. I'm going to simply keep watching with my jaw dropped and grateful he is a Brewer in my lifetime.

[wibadgers23]

1 minute ago, ELCABALLO45 said:

It’s not gonna happen but honestly I think Chourio is ready for Milwaukee now. 

I thought for sure he should play the entire year in Biloxi but honestly I’m not sure there’s anything left for him to prove at AA now that his walks are up and his strikeouts are down. I’d send him to Nashville asap.

[Brewcrew82]

Just now, Joseph Zarr said:

With Chourio, I don't worry about any of this. I am simply absolutely undeniably enjoying every step in his journey. We are SO lucky to watch this young man play ball in the Brewers Minor League system. His zest for the game is palpable. He's a generational talent. He'll get there and they'll bring him there in right timing. That's my take. If it's this year, awesome. If it's next year, fantastic. If it's 2025? Great. I'm going to simply keep watching with my jaw dropped and grateful he is a Brewer in my lifetime.

Yes, but I want him to drop my jaw while helping us get to the postseason and then win ROY and get us a comp pick! lol

[Joseph Zarr]

OH come on. LHP Russ Smith just struck out his second batter in his first outing back from the IL and the game is delayed due to rain. 😅 8 2/3 innings complete. Just end this.

Booooooooo!

[Brewcrew82]

9 minutes ago, ELCABALLO45 said:

It’s not gonna happen but honestly I think Chourio is ready for Milwaukee now. 

Jackson Chourio now has 350 more at-bats than Juan Soto did in AA...Juan Soto was called up to the majors from AA at 19 and OPSd over 900...

[Joseph Zarr]

4 minutes ago, Brewcrew82 said:

Yes, but I want him to drop my jaw while helping us get to the postseason and then win ROY and get us a comp pick! lol

If that's the route it travels, fantastic. I literally just don't think about it. He's such a special talent I know their plan has worked insanely well to date. But, yeah, Chourio and Black could both quite easily take AB's at the MLB level right now. That isn't really the Brewer way. Having endured the past two Shuckers seasons this current run feels so validating on so many levels - for me as a fan; for the club as a whole; and for that city. They absolutely deserve a run like this. A significant part of me wants to see the Shuckers rewarded with a post-season run and a Double-A championship. Mike Guerrero is a baseball lifer. I want him to experience that joy and that success. 

[homer]

I'm curious how Chourio's July compares to the best months that Braun or Fielder ever had. I remember some heaters but nothing like this 

[Joseph Zarr]

1 hour ago, homer said:

I'm curious how Chourio's July compares to the best months that Braun or Fielder ever had. I remember some heaters but nothing like this 

AND, even if they did, neither played defense in the same stratosphere as Chourio. Chourio is just on an entirely different level of possible greatness.

And, I should add Braunie started his Minor League journey 2 years older than Chourio is now at Helena. He always had an incredible bat, obviously. He turned 22 years old just after his Low-A season in the South Atlantic League.  Fielder was obviously closer in age. Unfortunately, there is no MiLB database for 2004 - Fielder's Double-A season. For Braun, however, at age 22 (turned 23 in November of that year), he had a pretty remarkable July (2006) himself playing for Huntsville in the Southern League (he had been assigned to Double-A in late June):

76 AB
0.382 BA
1.111 OPS
29 H
7 BB / 12 K
10 2B
4 HR
14 R
12 RBI
5 SB
0 CS

I'd call that a Heater for sure. 3 years older. Half the Defense. 

What Chourio has done this July is otherworldly.

[Joseph Zarr]

What has Jackson Chourio done at Age 19 in the Southern League? Ummmm...

85 AB
0.388 BA
1.165 OPS
33 H
8 BB / 10 K
1 HBP
6 2B
2 3B
6 HR
24 R
20 RBI
9 SB 
1 CS

I mean. I have no words.

[Jim Goulart]

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[Joseph Zarr]

Big series coming up for the Shuckers 2nd Half dreams - a 6 game set  @ Pensacola.

[BrewerFan]

17 hours ago, Brewcrew82 said:

It's a shame so many were using the first half (w/ tacked ball) to try to impugn Jackson. 

I'm again not only not buying that it was the tacked balls that made Chourio look...just normal, nor the idea that "so many" were trying to impugn him. 

Black and Quero were raking all year long. Chourio was just a 19 year old kid in AA and it took him a few months to figure it out. The league as a whole...so far as I saw was striking out less with the tacked ball.

 

I just think there are some who have dug into REALLY bad arguments about Latin American players and jumped Chourio for being merely good while making the biggest jump in levels of competition. I'd say on this whole board I saw maybe 2 people use the first half of the season to doubt Chourio and I don't believe either have stopped.

 

Now, if I do  have any of those facts wrong and AA is hitting that much better post-tacked ball, I guess that would just make me that much more excited for the other 2 top 100 prospects in Biloxi. 

[BrewerFan]

15 hours ago, Joseph Zarr said:

AND, even if they did, neither played defense in the same stratosphere as Chourio. Chourio is just on an entirely different level of possible greatness.

And, I should add Braunie started his Minor League journey 2 years older than Chourio is now at Helena. He always had an incredible bat, obviously. He turned 22 years old just after his Low-A season in the South Atlantic League.  Fielder was obviously closer in age. Unfortunately, there is no MiLB database for 2004 - Fielder's Double-A season. For Braun, however, at age 22 (turned 23 in November of that year), he had a pretty remarkable July (2006) himself playing for Huntsville in the Southern League (he had been assigned to Double-A in late June):

76 AB
0.382 BA
1.111 OPS
29 H
7 BB / 12 K
10 2B
4 HR
14 R
12 RBI
5 SB
0 CS

I'd call that a Heater for sure. 3 years older. Half the Defense. 

What Chourio has done this July is otherworldly.

They've got all this on Bref...which I'm sure you knew.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=fielde001pri

Prince "struggled," a bit at AA...which is not unexpected at age 20...and it wasn't really struggling, just relative to his normal production.

272/.366/.473 .839 28 HRs, 577 PAs, 497 ABs, 65 BB(I guess 15 HBP or sac flies). 

I guess in contrast to Chourio, it was a pretty great season for Prince.

.285/.343/.483 .827 16 HRs

I'd love to see Chourio walk like ~12% of the time, but the guy is such a stud on the bases, in the OF...just all around. 

I wonder where Chourio is going to end up as his season line looks like an EKG RIGHT after they yell clear...

[CheeseheadInQC]

A little late to the party, but Chourio might have even surpassed Taylor Green (yes, I know that he wasn’t the same level of prospect and his big league career didn’t turn out how he would have hoped, but for one glorious summer he might have been the best hitter in the minors). Even given Nashville was in the PCL at that point, his July 2011 stats are incredible. When a minor leaguer gets absurdly locked in, he is still my point of reference.