Fear The Chorizo

I really like the solid state battery tech, it is exciting due to safety/weight/etc...but also very cost-prohibitive in the midterm until more advances are made for cheaper mass production. Realistic scaling on a global level for EVs would need to utilize the non-lithium solid state battery approach, the question EV proponents should have is whether or not the added environmental footprint that a globalized EV fleet of light passenger vehicles and necessary charging station infrastructure/electrical generation capacity is worth it, considering the existing (and still expanding) oil and gas infrastructure for drilling and extraction simply won't be going away - no matter how many people can get 500 miles on a single battery charge after shelling out $75-$100K on an EV + home charging station. Hell, the existing O&G infrastructure is critical to the EV supply chain itself.

So is inserting Perkins into a discussion on the comparison between Ortiz and Turang as middle infield defense. What about Turang's defensive and physical profile makes you think he couldn't play great defense in the OF? Is he too fast?

Why in the heck would the Brewers want to saddle themselves with a 5+ year contract to a good but not great middle infielder about to turn 30? Just because of all these other comps they should consider throwing $25-$30M a year to keep Adames around?? They've got two other young players capable of playing SS everyday, and there seems to suddenly be a pile of 3B/SS options working their way up in the minors that could readily slide into MLB. I look at this list of other "older" SS's who cashed in via free agency, and am thankful the Brewers currently don't have one of those contracts for that position. I see injuries, performance declines (both offensively and defensively), and financial constraints that carrying a 2nd massive longterm position player contract would saddle the Brewers with. Then I look at the multiple periods of even this season where Adames was an offensive black hole while slumping in the middle of the Brewers' batting order, confirming that his 2021 is his outlier season on the rosy end of the spectrum. Wishing Adames the best in free agency next offseason.

If you were to put Turang in the OF, he'd be rated a better OF defender than Perkins. If Perkins would be moved to middle IF, my guess is he might not be a better infielder than Turang or Ortiz.

I'm hopeful the Packers can work out a trade or two that sends some of their WR depth that simply won't make the PS after cuts this year for DL depth... If not, then we need a nationwide internet and phone outage ten minutes before final cuts in hopes the Packers get as many players from their preseason roster squeezed onto the PS quietly as possible.

It's important for a mlb organization to have a solid development program for prospects to turn into as good a big league player as they can if they themselves want to put in the work. However, it's even more important for an organization to occasionally sign a unicorn youngster that never really is a prospect. In Chourio, the Brewers appear to have done just that. And for those who are paying attention waaaay down on the lower levels of the farm, there may be more unicorns on the way.

Chourio went nuclear last year in the pitcher-friendly AA Southern League around this same stretch of time after taking lumps in the season's 1st third. This is what generational talents do once they settle into a level of competition.

For extended great years/longevity that stays at their absolute ceiling for a longer period of time, absolutely agree...but a fully healthy Mitchell in his prime could put up some monster years. That's why I say ceilings are comparable. His health is what will determine if Mitchell makes a few all star games or if he never realizes his full potential.

If he's healthy, he's got as big a ceiling as Chourio that's just a bit more defense- and power-centered.

Definitely not a "put it all under your mattress and close your eyes until the crash hits bottom", but the increased volatility is eerily similar to summer 2008 - series of dead cat bounces when investors were hoping the actual outlook was rosier than where some fundamentals indicated things were headed.

The problem is that they didn't spike rates high enough earlier in this process to completely stifle inflation, and frankly jump the investment economy into a recession 1-2 years ago that led to actual price drops (deflation) to get costs back in line with incomes to avoid a consumer spending bubble from bursting....now markets are looking at the tea leaves showing consumer spending is teetering on a correction/pullback and any rapid rate cuts are just going to keep prices crawling further up at the worst possible time. At some point this economy is going to have to pay the piper, there is no such thing as a permanent "soft landing" - most of this year has felt like 2008 all over again, but for different reasons....and as we head towards fall the markets are getting more volatile and looking more pessimistic with conditions that are harder and harder to mitigate without a significant correction.

My favorite thing about Chourio right now is the fact that he's younger than 32 of the top 50 players taken in this year's MLB draft. Sky remains the limit on what this kid could do.

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This deadline was a stinker - Flaherty was the one arm obviously available via trade I was hoping the Brewers would find a way to acquire but if there's legit back injury concern with him currently I get not getting too aggressive to land him. With the extra wildcard teams, the time to make hay via trade seems to be even moreso during the offseason.

What's easier on his psyche? Letting his talent play at the MLB level, allowing him the room to make adjustments at the MLB level, and watching him turn into the team's best hitter before he's old enough to legally order a beer just 3 months after this take got permanently buried in a glacier.

Disagree - there's been a stone sitting there for months in Mexico City that would've been much cheaper than just about anything they've done so far, and wouldn't have cost them a thing in terms of prospect capital. People can stick their head in the sand saying that Bauer should never be considered an option because they dont like him, but when the team is reshuffling broken deck chairs to try and find some sort of rotation continuity while a former Cy Young winner in his early 30s is just sitting there to sign for what could be league minimum, from a baseball standpoint it absolutely should be an option.

Contreras wearing down playing essentially every day at catcher and Yelich's recent health history make those two issues as close to a mid-season certainty as they've borne out to be....couple that with the annual "pick the wrong rabbit out of the hat" signing to serve as this team's primary DH (I thought at the time Hoskins was 1B and they still should have signed someone else to be the primary DH), and offense with a young and/or inconsistent team everywhere else was bound to go through some lean periods of production. For me, the biggest disappointment of this year so far has been the Brewers not quickly bolstering the rotation when it was obvious they didn't have near enough in that department to avoid the bullpen getting taxed and exposed - and not turning over all potential stones to acquire a veteran starter or two that could give them 6+ IP a start consistently and shoulder the innings load. The discussion on how many games up this Brewers team is on the rest of the division is kind of pointless at this point - because they are a different team than the one that built this lead with Yelich out and a leaky bullpen. Going through a 2 week crummy patch puts both the Cardinals and Pirates within a series-worth of games of the division lead, and stranger things happen every season where 1 or 2 division leaders at the break wind up missing the postseason if injuries or other flaws flare up at the wrong time. This feels like one of those points where things could go off the rails on a promising season up to this point.

Would go right in line with the Dodgers' propensity to field an entire mid-market organization's payroll-sized roster of IL-d pitchers. Assuming there's not a restriction/limit on just how many players an organization can put on the 10- or 60-day ILs....but wondering if there should be as a way to limit how many options an organization with limitless payroll can keep on their shelf and just keep on acquiring more players. Something like a high 40s MLB roster where at no point in time can they carry more than that number in total - if teams want/need to stockpile injured players longterm on their payroll, they sure can....but then they'd also have to DFA or trade away young MLB-ready talent in their high minor leagues to make room. The Brewers have a heap of injuries/guys on the IL along with some very targeted short term IL stints most of us assume are in part to try and maintain pitching staff roster flexibility without having to DFA guys, and currently have a total of 46 guys on the active 40-man + Injured lists. Meanwhile, the Dodgers sport 49...it's a yet-another competitive advantage that $$ allows the Dodgers to exploit and it's frustrating.

I look at losing Wiemer now as it's probably selling high on him from an organizational control standpoint....already a year of mlb service time burned and two (I think) milb options burned, and he's heavily blocked at the MLB level with chourio, Mitchell, frelick, and yelich all deserving everyday ABs in Milwaukee. Wiemer could figure it out in a season or two and become a really good mlb OFer with pop - but he just wasn't going to get that opportunity as a Brewer with who else is on their 40 man roster...and getting Wiemer off their 40 man really helps free up one of their logjams. That said, I wish he wasn't traded inside the division.

What if it turned out to be for a 3.5 month rental that finished with an early November parade? I also hope Wilken is going nowhere, but I'd be fine with overpaying for the main thing this roster needs to have a shot at an extended postseason run - a starter that can get you deep into a game consistently in October.

Max effort leads to bodies breaking...the reason guys didn't throw max effort decades ago was they knew if they got injured they would lose their job and potentially their career. No surprise that guys throwing triple digits can't do it forever before they can't pitch.

Theyve already redone his deal once, and it will probably be an every other offseason sort of thing until he either gets badly injured or retires.

That was about the most disjointed, random, scattershot OC that ive seen....really miss the parade of athletes on foot into a stadium for the unique storyline of smaller countries compared to replicating a boat parade where you don't see anyone and it kind of takes the Olympic moment away from the athletes walking onto the world stage. Would have been more culturally significant had they just passed out baguettes and wine to everyone and had them walk under the arc de triumph.

With the exception of Mahomes, any qb is expensive by the time his team has a window to contend - you maybe get 1 season of a qb breakout and then there's already talk about having to extend him. The 49ers also have zero super bowl titles during this stretch with all those cheap qbs, along with several veteran holdouts looking for more money and the decision on whether to give a Mr irrelevant over a $200m deal soon knowing that likely blows up their roster as early as next season despite an increasing salary cap. The Packers have managed the transition from on HOF qb to the next mainstay much more effectively than what they did between Favre and Rodgers - frankly any thoughts of them doing it better from either a PR or on the field standpoint is 20/20 hindsight that probably can't be proven true since it never would unfold the same way it actually did.

sorry, arbitration control for an already almost 30 yr old starter who's going to gripe about what he's getting paid each of the next 3 offseasons unless the Brewers overpay with a longterm extension that cripples them is not worth trading away the best offensive catcher in the game who is under the exact same amount of team control. The time to pull that sort of trade off would be in an offseason or two when Quero has proven to be both healthy and worthy of his lofty prospect status