Fear The Chorizo

Reds' pitching coach must not have been able to get enough out of Montas

Arnold could easily win exec. of the year this season. Burnes has been great, but Fedde and Flaherty have actually pitched better this season and were traded at this year's deadline for less than kings ransom trade packages....and I think Fedde has another season or two of control. If they held onto Burnes, they wouldn't have gotten much more by trading him at the deadline.....and they wouldn't have traded him at all because they'd still have been close to 10 games leading their division at the deadline, too. Ortiz for 6 seasons alone is worth 1 year of Burnes, Hall still has an elite arm who could add value, and the Brewers picked a 1b slugger with the comp Pick in this year's draft they got from Baltimore. That's a pretty good haul, tbh.

Yep, you got me before I finished my edit to add Flaherty in there. Was hoping the Brewers would've gotten him, too. Still, Montas has been really solid even when compared to him

It seems like a huge drop but it really isnt when there is fresh talent added to systems every draft, every international signing period, and after every team has a prospect or two surface from dominican/instructional leagues. Guys who get a lofty ranking early that fall flat the next season have guys like Jesus Made leapfrog them based on recency bias.

I don't know actually, but was curious... Has their been a pitcher traded at the deadline who has been better than Montas since joining their new team? Maybe Fedde or Flaherty?

When he is commanding his stuff, electric is an understatement. Knowing he can follow that filth of a breaking ball with triple digits with ride at the top of the zone is just silliness.

I think the 2024 regular season as a whole has done more than enough to soften the fans up. And I'd doubt waivers is going to be enough to save them from that luxury tax unless they put other more desirable players on them for teams to claim. Hoyer should honestly be fired, and this weird comment is probably him trying to save his own job in some way to sell the fact they spent money this year to contend, while also trying to hide the fact the players they have for this payroll aren't nearly good enough to do so.

Rest of the division "rivals" this morning... "Maybe 2025 is our year"

sure - but the odds of a 6-1 stretch against the Brewers are very slim, and even if that happens it's just as likely for the Cardinals to follow it with a 2-5 stretch the following week against other teams. With how the Brewers have been finding ways to consistently put together winning months of baseball (the lone outlier was an 11-13 July - not great but hardly a cratered month), I'm not worried about losing a division lead to a different team until there's one at least 5 games above 0.500 at this point in the year. The Cards would have to go 7-0 just to achieve that right now.

It hasn't been super pressing, but the Chicago sports media does have a way of repeating questions daily when they get non-answers, and basically that approach lets a manager give himself enough rope to consider hanging his job out to dry when things arent going well. Before the ink was dry on CCs contract I thought he was in for a rude awakening with the publicity and media attention that job brings. Hoping when the cameras and mics are off he still finds time to smile while counting his $$$

I like the rule change possibility - primarily because there would be plenty of guidelines put in that allow a starter to be pulled earlier that fall right in line with typical reasoning for a manager to yank him in today's game. Throw 100 pitches before a full 6IP, get him out if you want give up 4+ ER before 6IP, he can get yanked whenever Obvious one, but if he suffers an injury, he's out. There's already 26 guys on the roster - teams can use that extra spot for an extra starter instead of one more reliever that throws 98+ who can't go more than 4 batters per appearance. And it's not about shoehorning the current crop of pitchers who have largely been told their entire careers to throw as hard as they can, as long as possible. If things are allowed to continue, MLB pitcher contracts as a whole will in a way devolve to that of the current pecking order of NFL running backs - teams will bring in a ton of them, ride them hard until they break, then move on to the next flamethrower without having to commit crazy longterm guaranteed money to anyone.

Their pitching staff IL also makes more than most mlb teams (when including ohtani not being able to pulitch right now)

Screw ROY - where does Chourio finish in MVP voting at the end of this season?

No, no battery banks will not. Many of my main clients are BESS developers, and they're primarily looking to set up facilities near/on existing or planned renewable developments that in no way are set up to generate the energy needed for heavy manufacturing processes. Or large urban population centers. These facilities will readily store energy generated from the renewable sources whenever they are generating it, and attempt to contribute it to the grid at a measured rate around the clock or as needed instead of just being "all or nothing, regardless of whether or not the grid needs it" like renewable energy has typically been added to the grid. It will make the actual consumption of that energy more efficient. Because of that, several BESS clients I'm working with are much more interested in sites next to fossil fuel power plants than renewables - due to their ability to provide excess capacity with the flip of a switch that can quickly be stored away in those battery facilities instead of it just dissipating as grid loss and being wasted. It's actually a really good idea to help make the energy generation to consumption much more efficient regardless of what the fuel source was. The main problem with those renewable sources isn't the sporadic reliability due to weather/nighttime/geographical climate limitations - it's the amount of real estate and materials needed to build large enough generating farms to actually replace the steady state grid capacity that fossil fuel or nuclear plants can do in their sleep. With the rising cost of all new vehicles and car insurance, now more than ever people are willing to pay more for significant repair costs to keep their existing older vehicles on the road as long as they possible can. That will also be a persistent drag on the pace of overall EV passenger vehicles added to the road.

Agreed...one thing I'd add to this is having Yophery in the same sentence as "lesser prospects" means the Brewers have been churning out some damn impressive prospects from the DSL recently. The farm system is in some seriously good shape right now

let's get a win, please

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.