Fear The Chorizo

The Brewers are doing Brewer things - which leads to sustained winning baseball. Getting Chourio back is huge to improving the early season OF offense issues, and hopefully Yelich stays healthy. At some point 3b/SS offensive weakness at the MLB level needs to be addressed if this team is serious about a postseason run - whether that's promotions from within or a deadline trade, it needs to happen. Pitching-wise, you gotta hope Priester rounds into form and can be the innings-eater a deep but young rotation needs when we get to the dog days of summer - otherwise they're going to wear down. Woodruff, who knows? Love that Harrison and Sproat have rounded into consistent rotation pieces already. Sproat still has command issues, but you have to keep giving that arm the ball every turn through the rotation.

Logic doesn't necessarily work with pitchers - some are more injury prone than others...but genetic freaks can defy all common sense and odds. Randy Johnson, a tall, lanky lefty with a funky, violent delivery and sidearm release, pitched 22 years in the majors and only had a partially torn rotator cuff late in his career - which was caused by a swing while hitting. His major injuries were back and knee-related. I just think the risk of paying top end rates for the most dominant pitchers is too great knowing how difficult it is to predict if and when an arm blows out.

The Brewers have no business extending a high end pitcher at market rates a few years beyond free agency - maybe if Miz is ok with 1-2 years beyond his current UFA year at $35M per with escalating amounts in what would be his arbitration years, but I doubt his agent would advise for that. We were sad to see Burnes walk, and he promptly blew out his elbow. The Tigers are paying Skubal ~$30M this season to rehab after a minor elbow surgery and miss most of his last year with the team. The Peralta deal was perfect for the Brewers, but i think it wouldn't make sense for Miz at this juncture even if the extension amount was dramatically higher. Call me a cynic, but I just don't see the point of giving any current MLB talent a longterm extension during this season, knowing there's a darn good chance there may not even be a 2027 season and the financial playing field may be dramatically different whenever the incoming lockout/strike ends. Offering impact prospects long term extensions makes alot more sense to me with the upcoming labor strife - giving them some financial certainty through this storm that could impact the first few years of their pre-arbitration team control (and in turn push their free agent years back longer than normal) seems like the smarter play longterm for the organization. Truth is that teams can field quality pitching staffs without having to shell out massive veteran contracts - the Brewers have proven that, and I think the injury risk is too high for any impact arm to pay them huge $$$ to spend large chunks of time on the IL.

Really good 2 strike approach ties the game

Didnt cost him...but yeah you gotta challenge that

Gasser and Priester are going to be options, too.

That is incorrect when it comes to solar panels, unless you want to spend a lot of dirty energy in a heavy industrial setting pulling the layers apart that make up a panel in an attempt to recover those materials. Currently the cost to recycle a panel outweighs the value of all the recovered materials roughly 2x1. Most of a wind turbine can be recycled besides the mountain of concrete dumped into the ground to hold each one up, however fiberglass blades are a problem unless you are ok with using roughly the same amount of energy using fossil fuels to break them down and repurpose the material they would have generated during their operating lifetime. Thats why there are growing windfarm boneyards of blades piling up wherever theres a big plot of flat land to stockpile them. I work with renewable developers often for work, and its a huge concern for them that isnt a recent epiphany. Reusing old solar panels for other applications may be viable in some cases, but not nearly all. Li battery storage is a great option for renewables....as long as you dont worry about what it takes to process Li in the environmental risk assessment globally. I'm about through with a chicken little argument about the world burning up because of a compound that we breathe out and plants need to live. Not when more than half of the developing world's manufacturing industries operate like the United States did 125 years ago in terms of emissions controls, so people in the United States can buy all the stuff they make and feel good about reducing their carbon footprint much more than they actually are by not factoring how much of their impact has simply been shifted overseas. Its NIMBY mentality, but unfortunately the entire planet should be viewed as our backyard and it isnt.

....can we have a stretch of games at some point where it doesn't come down to Joey O knocking in runs? Please Brewers? This is a pretty putrid stretch of offense this last week - get some damn bats in the lineup

Send Rengifo packing with these atrocious city connect uniforms that have an abbreviation for the state with him. Have Perkins help him pack and Ortiz drive the trio far enough away where they aren't playing in Milwaukee tomorrow.

I'm done with lineups that have all of Rengifo, Ortiz, Perkins, and Lockridge in them. These guys play four positions in the field that are generally viewed as spots you can get plus offensive pruduction from. Chourio and Vaughn are sorely missed. And yeah, Perkins cant stay on this roster

That would make the most sense if they want to continue using the space for solar - the old panels would likely get landfilled. The aluminum racking would be the only thing recycled or re-used. Its the panels that are full of layered metals and silica that carry the potential for leaching contaminants once they are destroyed/broken apart and placed in landfills. At the moment, recycling solar panels isnt viable - im hopeful technology changes that, otherwise it's a mess for that industry in 10-15 years. Much of the racking on developments may not be set in concrete if geotech allows for it, and they are simply driven in - particularly if farmland may be returning to that use after the 1st solar farm lease expires.

Hydro is economically viable on its own and has demonstrated reliability to produce renewable energy - but its reach is limited due to impacts to watersheds. New Hydro developments are few and far between because of that. Solar and wind are simply not economically viable to the scale they would need to be developed in order to be considered "mass produced" in my opinion. They've gotten closer, but still not there - and both of those options havent yet begun dealing with end of cycle decommissioning costs on a large scale when the panels stop being efficient and wind turbines reach their operating lifespan. Unless people are fine with still calling them green when most of the elements of decommissioned wind and solar farms get tossed into landfills and replacing with new panels/components requires more materials mining and manufacturing. I dont consider nuclear /fission "green"because of the waste it does generate that is a headache to deal with...but i do think its the longterm solution to cleaner energy from a generating capacity standpoint, and think the world did itself a disservice turning away from more nuclear development for power over the past few decades. Hydrogen as a fuel is the holy grail, but we're not close to that even being a longterm goal.

Ortiz and Matos cannot be long for this roster once Chourio is back healthy and one of the 85 brewer middle infield prospects in AA and AAA get off to a good start. I can live with Ortiz in the lineup because of his defense....but at some point once you've got better all-around young players capable of being an asset offensively at SS, you've got to get Ortiz off this roster - especially because he's got minor league options left.

Maybe it also has something to do with the fact China makes almost 80% of the world's EV batteries, they control a large percentage of the globe's developed mining reserves of materials needed to manufacture said batteries with next to no environmental regulatory burdens, and they are much more dependent on foreign oil than the United States.

Maybe he's just not that good - pitched well enough for a godawful team last year to make the Rule V pick work out...but he struggled down the stretch after that workload jumped well over what his injury history allowed for in the minors. Wouldn't surprise me if he's got an arm issue at the moment, either.

Impossible to say for sure....but frankly, yes. Horton has already had 1 TJ surgery while in college, and his workload last year totaled almost 150 IP. He never came close to 100 IP in either 2023 or 2024.

No, he's being a petulant child

He's had it with the Brewers for years - and quite frankly I don't think there's anyone in the organization that cares....even his little brother. It's no surprise to me that among the NL Central clubs that Contreras would've gotten the majority of his career plate appearances against since he's spent most of his career playing in that division, the Brewers have held him to the lowest OPS. The Brewers have faced him the most, so they've hit him the most. You need to pitch a hitter inside who essentially sets up in the box with his hands on the inside corner - and that isn't just inside strikes because that is Contreras' happy zone. If he doesn't get himself out of the way on pitches in off the plate, getting hit is his problem.

Early season velo is often a tick low - temps, still building up arm strength, etc all play a factor. It's barely April, I'm not concerned with 1-2% velo dips to start a year out. I think one issue Megill is going to run into is the ABS impact on his curveball - As a pitcher, he's at his best when he's at the top of the zone with his heater, and at the bottom of the zone with his curve. Multiple times in save/late game situations he's already had called strikes on curveballs wind up being overturned because they were fractions of inches below the zone. His pitch mix lies on the upper and lower extremities of the zone, and hitters can adjust their game plans to just not be aggressive early in counts in hopes he's not able to find the zone enough to put them in a hole.

Exactly - Chourio actually appeared in more games even this winter in the Venezuelan winter league than during the WBC....which essentially just shortened the number of spring training plate appearances he would've gotten, likely against more erratic pitching than what the WBC had. Baseball players get hurt playing baseball sometimes.

Dangit Sanchez...that's a terrible challenge right there.

Gotta stop walking people, Sproat

Lol, or just throw one right down the middle and have him not swing

Please don't miss low on that high FB

I dont love this extended outing by Ashby in game 1...kind of feels like youre willing to let them back in the game with Ashby being erratic today. Shut the door here and get the game 1 win