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I also think that, despite his obvious talent level, Chourio isn't ready to be a steady MLB contributor at this stage and does need more time to develop....not necessarily more MiLB games, frankly just more time on the calendar for him to grow up physically and work on his current weaknesses that would be exploited at the MLB level if he were be called up in a few weeks. Namely, pitch recognition. Arozarena was 25 when he was called up by the Rays during that 2020 run, and had actually gotten a cup of coffee as a late season callup for the Cardinals in 2019 the season prior after 3+ minor league seasons of development. That's a an enormous age and experience difference compared to Chourio, who is essentially completing his 2nd MiLB season. It would be a mistake to call up Chourio in September, even if it would be an exciting one.
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Carroll also would have just turned 22 when he came up last year, after already being held down in the minors a bit longer than his MLB readiness dictated for service time/ROY draft pick incentive reasons. Chourio will still be 19 and the Brewers will likely value that 40 man roster spot over the offseason to use on protecting other prospects from the Rule V draft. The day Chourio gets added to the 40 man is the day he makes his MLB debut, potentially sometime next season as a 20 yr old. This just isn't going to happen.
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Props to Lorenzen for his CG no-no last night....the beauty of being a baseball fan is there are so many games nightly that any given night has a decent chance of watching something special happen on the diamond.
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I don't see how the whole works in San Diego doesn't get canned as soon as they're mathematically eliminated from the playoffs.
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Last 28 days, Turang is sporting a 0.777 OPS and has gotten on base at close to a 0.390 clip - his stats are much better than that over his last 14 and 7 day splits. Conversely, Adames is sporting a sub-0.500 OPS his last 28 days. I'm pretty certain Adames has a minor league option remaining...
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Solar and wind haven't had to deal with the costs of managing/dealing with wastestreams when large scale panel arrays and windfarms are done generating energy (that's going to start being an issue in the next 10 years, and renewable developer clients I work with are freaked out about it)....and saying storage is "pretty much figured out" is very much wishful thinking. If the answer to everything is making more batteries out of toxic materials to the scale of anywhere close to where it would have to be to power the developed world's electrical grid and auto fleet without still leaning on fossil fuels to maintain consistent capacity, it's just not being realistic. So the #1 priority is to get net CO2 emissions close to zero in 25 years...for whom? Everyone on the planet?? The environmental cost of raw materials mining, manufacturing, and end cycle waste management for the amount of battery storage capacity and solar panel installations necessary to achieve that sort of goal would be immensely worse for the planet's health than having increased CO2 emissions but avoid generating billions of tons of toxic waste and completely destroying sensitive habitats for mining purposes. And don't just dismiss hydrogen fueling - it may be easy now to plug in your car at home to charge it, but that doesn't mean a significant technological advancement will make EVs obsolete before they ever become the best option (both economically and environmentally) for the general public.
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Most of the damage Adames has made offensively over the last month was in early July before the AS break when he was riding one of his 2 week hot streaks. Since the AS break (20 games, so not a teensy sample) he is hitting 0.160 with about a .500 OPS. Sorry, this article doesn't have me very optimistic Adames is suddenly going to carry this team offensively down the stretch.
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Turang's 0.350 OBP since the AS Break should help that cause
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Turang since the AS Break is carrying about a 0.650 OPS, roughly 70 points higher than his brutal 1st half based mostly on a much better walk rate and a slight uptick in batting average. That production alone makes him a valuable everyday player after including his defense and baserunning. Turang over the last two weeks is sporting a mid 700s OPS, with both batting average and slugging increases being influenced by closer to a league average BABIP - that type of offense from him makes him a 3-4 WAR player at shortstop or 2B. Looking back at Turang's progression through the minor leagues, this is a pattern for him at each level. He's figuring it out...
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i think you're referring to your post embedded within this thread (although it's oftentimes difficult to tell)...it states something along the lines of if after sending Hader away via trade last deadline the Brewers' remade bullpen blows some save opportunities and they miss the playoffs, they'll be chumps. well, the Brewers did blow some save opportunities during the months of August and September without Hader. The Padres also blew quite a few save opportunities during August and September with Hader and actually spent a good chunk of that stretch run with Hader out of their closer role because of it. In addition, the Brewers blew multiple save opportunities in June/July 2022 with Hader, oftentimes BECAUSE of Hader. The Padres didn't make the playoffs last season because of Hader, either. You can go on believing the Brewers missed the playoffs last season because they traded Hader, I don't care - I'm even sure that makes you feel "100% right"....but that doesn't mean everyone else that disagrees with how you're trying to frame arguments while neglecting to include/acknowledge all kinds of contradictory context (in this instance, starting pitching injuries decimating the 2022 Brewer rotation, Burnes pitching like a mid-rotation starter with the increased workload, and a not-good-enough offense had much more to do with the team playing 0.500 baseball most of the season) is wrong.
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Trading away your closer that is getting pricey and in return obtaining a different MLB rental who can close plus prospects who will either contribute to the Brewers in the future or become trade chips to obtain other MLB help is the definition of retooling. And the "more than a few" people who attribute last year's "collapse" (which actually started months earlier in the season before Hader was dealt) include you and a few other posters who like being contradictory around self-created strawmen points of view.
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Well in May the Brewers were looking up at Santana and the Pirates in the standings, so that trade wasn't happening...and the Mets weren't far enough into the season to realize spending a gazillion dollars over the offseason isn't enough to be a playoff contender this year. This is the Brewers' MO - try to set up their decent roster headed into the season with enough cheap veteran players that still have some roster flexibility to try and plug holes when anticipated regulars get hurt (Mitchell, Urias, Tellez, Anderson), see where they are in the standings when the calendar gets to July and then try to improve roster weaknesses at the trade deadline without mortgaging their ability to repeat the process next offseason. There are parts to that approach I don't like, but I also appreciate the Brewers being consistently in the mix for a playoff spot - given the financial disparity MLB operates with, this is what they have to do.
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Oh I know...which is why I included the list of great veteran players who signed contract extensions with teams that traded for them at the deadline instead of becoming a free agent after the season to show how realistic that possibility is.
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Technically, "home" for Hader in terms of the organizations would be the Orioles since they drafted and signed him. They or the Astros make alot more sense as trade partners than the Brewers do at the moment. Or, the Braves.
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Extensions for who? Peguero or Small? Send me the list of premium veteran players traded at the deadline the season prior to reaching free agency who then signed a contract extension instead of becoming a free agent in the offseason. Nevermind, I actually have that list presented below:
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Sometimes it's not worth engaging other posters...particularly those who joined on last year's trade deadline to bash the Brewers 2022 moves, probably waited 11.5 months to post anything else, and now post nothing but bashing the Brewers 2023 deadline moves.
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I would absolutely love for a reporter/someone to tell Rodgers during an interview in front of a camera that "by your standards, you sucked during the 2019 season and with what you had remaining on your contract it made perfect sense for the Packers to start planning for their future at quarterback during the 2020 draft. Then, the team benefitted from any perceived slight by drafting Love by watching you win back to back MVP awards during 2020-2021 seasons and moved heaven and earth to restructure numerous veteran contracts to extend their window of contention while your contract remained an organizational albatross." Just to see him try to deflect those facts in real time. That restructure with the Jets was a formality more than anything and probably didn't need to take months of time to happen...and I think it actually handcuffs what the Jets can do in the near term because it forces them to carry larger cap hits further down the road. With their schedule from Week 1 through Thanksgiving, I kind of expect things to go sideways quickly in Jet land this season, and likely cost some front office/coaching jobs in the process.
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I think Kim is a better fit for the Cubs, and they should trade Crow-Armstrong, Horton, Ben Brown, Alcantara, Wicks, and then a few low level lotto tickets to bring him to the North Side. At least the title of this article is fitting...nobody really is talking about this "blockbuster" because there's nothing to it besides an opinion of a fan for a different team than the Brewers. Calling Chourio and Frelick comparable in terms of present trade value...yikes
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We haven't figured out how to mass produce hydrogen with green energy. To be fair, we haven't figured out how to mass produce green energy, either. Not just economically (it's still all heavily dependent on tax incentives), but also environmentally. There are some readily scalable options to mass produce hydrogen that can be used as a fuel source utilizing nuclear power.
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Intriguing...but I wouldn't want to part with Chourio or Quero in the deal - would need to include 1-2 of the young MLB-ready OFs (Frelick, Mitchell, Wiemer) plus a high end arm (Uribe? Misiorowski?) and a low level lotto ticket, with the thought being after Soto leaves any OF void would get readily filled by Chourio. If the price is steeper than that, and it probably would be, I would pass.
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Nothing like watching a guy hug a former teammate after accidentally hitting him in the helmet with a backswing (Happ and Contreras go quite a ways back with the Cubs), then still think it's appropriate to intentionally drill him a couple pitches later as a way to "send a message". Somehow that's playing the game the right way? Just dumb Pisses me off the most because it's probably the Cubs who will permanently stick a fork in the Cards' season this weekend, and in doing so they'll remain right in the mix for playoff contention. Even when the Cards suck, they do so in the most annoying ways...
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I think the best thing for their organization for next season would be to aggressively sell and keep building depth of young talent...but it's been a few seasons since they've been competitive at all, so I expect them to do some soft buying that doesn't cost too much in prospects to try and improve their bullpen and maybe add another bat....and hope the teams in front of them in the division/wildcard races stumble enough for them to be in the mix when the calendar gets to mid-September. I do still consider them more of a threat to the Brewers than the Reds for the division. They've been very inconsistent, but the Cubs have talent at some key positions who are having really good seasons.
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...if it meant we could sign Adames to a condensed extension. You could honestly insert anything at the front of this statement, and I would say no thank you.
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Maybe next offseason they shouldn't throw that kind of money at an aging outfielder who can't hit righties and a guy fresh off neck surgery to provide offensive impact. I'm all for the Brewers spending more payroll than this for a primary DH in order to actually get a good option into the everyday lineup. To me it feels similar to the Brewers' approach under Melvin trying to split the difference in terms of payroll expenditures signing a slew of #5 starters for $8-$10M a season to fill out a rotation, when they'd have been better off spending more in free agency to bring in better talent or just letting younger internal options provide similar and likely better production at a fraction of that cost. Specific to this thread, count me out on adding more middle/utility IFs to a 40 man roster already loaded up with them right now.
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He has always profiled as a plus defender at SS - he will be able to stick there defensively just fine...not putting any stock in what just 29 mlb chances there so far this year would project.
