Bauers Qualifying Offer

[liveforoctober]

9 hours ago, BrewerFan said:

When?

He's come up, gotten sporadic playing time and he's had good at bats and played well... albeit in VERY small sample sizes... so I wouldn't use those are a ringing endorsement, but I don't see how you can say he's had his opportunities and didn't succeed with them. 

Yeah, I think a lot of fans will forever have an anchoring bias when it comes to Black. He was a good prospect that came up and didn't flash in his first small trial and that's what will be remembered. Add that to the fact we have some really nice prospects in the pipeline and that Black hasn't torn up AAA pitching and he is the "waste of a 40 man spot", etc to many. 

I would bet decent money that if most were asked to recite Black's MLB stats from the last few seasons they would be incorrect. Super small sample sizes but his 2024 call up is what they remember. In the last 2 years though he has only gotten 41 PA with us at the MLB level and has reached safely in 17 of those. 11/35 at the plate with 5 XBH. That's a really good 2 week stretch for most hitters.

I wouldn't bet on him being here either when the season starts... but he will get MLB at bats somewhere and a Garrett Cooper 2.0 situation is more than plausible.

[SF70]

7 minutes ago, liveforoctober said:

Yeah, I think a lot of fans will forever have an anchoring bias when it comes to Black. He was a good prospect that came up and didn't flash in his first small trial and that's what will be remembered. Add that to the fact we have some really nice prospects in the pipeline and that Black hasn't torn up AAA pitching and he is the "waste of a 40 man spot", etc to many. 

I would bet decent money that if most were asked to recite Black's MLB stats from the last few seasons they would be incorrect. Super small sample sizes but his 2024 call up is what they remember. In the last 2 years though he has only gotten 41 PA with us at the MLB level and has reached safely in 17 of those. 11/35 at the plate with 5 XBH. That's a really good 2 week stretch for most hitters.

I wouldn't bet on him being here either when the season starts... but he will get MLB at bats somewhere and a Garrett Cooper 2.0 situation is more than plausible.

Black’s offensive game isn’t strong enough to make up for his lack of defense for this team, a team that values defense as much or more than any team in baseball.

Just isn’t a MKE Brewers-type of baseball player.

[liveforoctober]

1 minute ago, SF70 said:

Black’s offensive game isn’t strong enough to make up for his lack of defense for this team, a team that values defense as much or more than any team in baseball.

Just isn’t a MKE Brewers-type of baseball player.

I don't disagree. I just think he will be unfairly remembered.

But that happens a lot. Mike Boeve might be an after thought non prospect when we look back in years. He can really hit but injuries might never let him show it at the MLB level and it's unfortunate. Dylan O'Rae might never get a chance here and who knows if he does elsewhere ... but he is a really good ball player, etc. Happens all the time - still unfortunate for the guys who are mislabeled or never get the chance to be labeled.

[CheezWizHed]

13 hours ago, BrewerFan said:

When?

He's come up, gotten sporadic playing time and he's had good at bats and played well... albeit in VERY small sample sizes... so I wouldn't use those are a ringing endorsement, but I don't see how you can say he's had his opportunities and didn't succeed with them. 

I agree that he didn't get much of a chance in 2025-26, but he had some consistent playing time while he was up in 2024 and he looked terrible.  The unfortunate part of being on a championship caliber team with other options at your position... if can't play D, you better be able to hit.  Then he really didn't do himself any favors at AAA the last two years either.  

Maybe he will go somewhere else and rake?  Who knows.  

[BrewerFan]

5 hours ago, CheezWizHed said:

I agree that he didn't get much of a chance in 2025-26, but he had some consistent playing time while he was up in 2024 and he looked terrible.  The unfortunate part of being on a championship caliber team with other options at your position... if can't play D, you better be able to hit.  Then he really didn't do himself any favors at AAA the last two years either.  

Maybe he will go somewhere else and rake?  Who knows.  

He got 58 PAs spread across the 2024 season. He was up for less than 10 days 3 times spread across the season. 

How about the 47 PAs he subsequently got where he hit .314/.415/.457 872 OPS.

I don't find that particularly useful, but if we're going to say he got his chance in '24... seems odd we're ignoring '25 and '26.

He's a LHed 1B/corner OFer. He may get his chance in Milwaukee if Bauers turns down the QO.