Brewers (Woodruff) vs Rays (McClanahan): 3/31/26, 6:40pm

[liveforoctober]

1 minute ago, Fear The Chorizo said:

I think there are quite a few "late bloomer" type players scattered across MLB who were impacted by sporadic development time early in their pro careers due to COVID (no minor league season in 2020 and a severely hampered instructional period between 2020-2021) - both collegiate and high school draftees.

Wiemer fits that bill moreso than Mitchell because I think Mitchell's is more injury-related.  But Mitchell got drafted in 2020 after an abbreviated collegiate season, followed by no organized instructionals/minor league development until a delayed start in 2021.

Absolutely and this is the kind of macro perspective and conversation that allows teams to identify cast offs and 'he is what he is' types who just had other uphill circumstances that stunted development.

There are a lot of teams who should be salivating at the prospect of the Brewers cutting ties with Garrett Mitchell and his < $1mil salary.

[Jopal78]

43 minutes ago, liveforoctober said:

Yeah, I don't mind the criticisms of the player for his warts but calling him a finished product is a wild take. Luis Lara has like 400 more professional plate appearances than Mitchell does. Luke Adams has over a hundred more. Brock Wilken has the same amount. Cooper Pratt will have the same amount soon.

He just hasn't gotten game reps like his peers have.

There is another former Brewers farmhand who is playing for the Nationals right now who came up with Mitchell and is just now getting to 2000 career plate appearances. Just had a historic start to the season at the plate. We ran him out of town years ago when he "couldn't figure it out" when he was just crossing ~1000 plate appearances.

A Joey Wiemer reference? Holy cow. 
 

You realize he’s on his 5th different organization since the Brewers “ran him out of town”?  Thats more telling than 3 big games in late March. 

[liveforoctober]

15 minutes ago, Jopal78 said:

A Joey Wiemer reference? Holy cow. 
 

You realize he’s on his 5th different organization since the Brewers “ran him out of town”?  Thats more telling than 3 big games in late March. 

Considering what I'm referring to Wiemer is incredibly relevant. But we don't need to keep doing this, I appreciate the convo. Obviously, we are talking about two different things.

[Jopal78]

57 minutes ago, liveforoctober said:

Considering what I'm referring to Wiemer is incredibly relevant. But we don't need to keep doing this, I appreciate the convo. Obviously, we are talking about two different things.

Fine. But if you think the Brewers gave up too early on Joey Wiemer or he is likely to be more than a journeyman over 20% of the league disagrees with you. 

[liveforoctober]

41 minutes ago, Jopal78 said:

Fine. But if you think the Brewers gave up too early on Joey Wiemer or he is likely to be more than a journeyman over 20% of the league disagrees with you. 

You still have no idea what I'm talking about and that's ok. This has nothing to do with Garrett Mitchell or Joey Wiemer. I'm talking macro vs micro performance.

It's ok if you and I don't know how to talk to each other my guy! Go Brewers. We can be done here.