Fear The Chorizo

Yeah, but they already have a ton of picks tonight in good spots where they won't need to trade up if they just stand pat.

And there go all the CBs

Dont know if I like the strategy of stockpiling more draft picks when you already have a ton and a young roster....would rather they stand pat or even trade up a bit to target the guys they want left on the board in spots tonight

In a draft where teams were burning draft capital chasing hopeful franchise QBs in round 1, it's great having a TON of picks in rounds 2-3. There's instant starter-quality talent all over the field left on the board - particularly at Packer positions of need. Pumped for what unfolds tonight in Packerland.

Very curious pick to say the least - even if it's viewed as the "heir apparent" in a few years given the Cousins signing, Penix will be 24 when this season starts. Love is just 1 year older and now entering his 4th NFL season. Sounds like Captain Kirk's camp was very befuddled, too.

He's barely 20....TWENTY. Braun was in college at twenty. So was Weeks. Fielder spent his full age 20 season in AA. Color me unsurprised that a young hitter's weakness is offspeed low and away that breaks out of the strike zone. Chourio simply hasn't seen enough of those pitches to make that adjustment in his approach to lay off them - but he's been so good otherwise that he's having to learn to solve that flaw on the fly. It's not a swing change to fix a hole in the strike zone - it's pitch recognition and being able to spit on offspeed stuff instead of swinging at it. Sure, it's tougher to do that at the MLB level, but keep in mind Chourio is building his own mental book on how pitchers are attacking him, and the longer he's in MLB the more reliable that book becomes, too. When he starts taking those pitches more consistently and pitchers find themselves having to attack him in the zone with pitches Chourio can predict, he'll do more damage consistently. Not worried at all...

Remind me again how much time he served, or when he gets out of prison again? I get it, people don't like Bauer - that doesn't mean he's a criminal or that he can't pitch at the game's highest level.

The same guy I thought would look really good in the middle of this rotation over the winter would look even better right now with how much the rotation resembles a mash unit that desperately needs another innings eater, and he could be signed for league minimum. He also K'd 14 in 6 no hit IP yesterday.

I don't think even the most optimistic Brewer fans would expect a guy who just turned 20 before this season started to be vying for any MLB triple crown offensive categories....one thing Chourio has done is proven he belongs at the MLB level.

Kid does not know he should this good.

Frankly, this is the Turang many projected after his junior year in high school when he was widely talked about being the 1st overall draft pick the following summer. The combo of great defense, solid hitting with a little pop, and game-changing speed on the bases is an incredibly valuable middle infielder.

He is noticeably bigger than he was last season - that is a huge reason why I think decent offensive output from him is sustainable ( which makes him a 4-5 WAR middle infielder with his defense.)

I think in general there is this prevailing sentiment by posters here that the Brewers can't develop hitting....and prior to that the sentiment was that the Brewers can't develop pitching, which has proven to be false. I think the organization currently has a mix of young mlb players and prospects in the low minors to address the offensive deficiency argument over the next few seasons. Overall, I don't think the Brewers have ever been in a better spot in terms of producing a steady stream of homegrown talent.

Understood - when it comes to the level of income in Ohtani's stratosphere where expenditures are typically combed over to identify deductions/writeoffs, and the level of complexity having to file state returns in any state he played in each year that would be tied to this account, you'd think more than Ohtani and Mizuhara would have access to it for tax purposes. Willful ignorance could obviously be at play by others involved in Ohtani's circle...but frankly that seems to be way too common surrounding this century's version of Babe Ruth to be 100% truth. And if this story currently out there is truly all there is to it, why would Mizuhara have any incentive to not bet on anything baseball-related? tens of thousands of wagers on seemingly everything but baseball (MLB, international, anywhere). Very interesting how quickly that was common knowledge, that he didn't place any bets on baseball. If he was that much of a degenerate where he was robbing his best friend and primary translating client blind to pay off his own exploding gambling debt while making endless sports bets, I don't see him as the type of character to then avoid placing any bets on baseball based on the ethics of breaking the cardinal rule for MLB players because he was secretly stealing the funds from Ohtani's account. I'll add to this general discussion that I actually don't care much at all about Mizuhara/Ohtani making non-baseball sports bets, even while living in a state where that is still currently illegal - it's the way this cover-up attempt has unfolded that instantly went from Ohtani trying to help his friend out with a series of wire transfers to pay off gambling debt during the same time the fed investigation into this bookie implicated Ohtani's account, to "he was robbed" right after Mizuhara's ESPN interview and after attorneys got a more complete look at the financial paper trail that sticks in my craw. I know others disagree and that's fine.

As a CPA, wouldn't it seem odd come tax time every year that Ohtani's bank account that would have been receiving mlb salary paychecks wasn't accessible to his financial people that had ready access to his other accounts, but his interpreter could? No concerns about potential audit risk or financial security down the road for a global celebrity with international endorsement deals earning a mlb paycheck in a high tax blue state who was set to become a billionaire several times over? Then again, the way this story is being told I'm sure it will come out that Ohtani entrusted Mizuhara with doing his taxes. After all, he was already keeping his books.

If you think I was referring to ohtanis baseball salary when I referred to $$$$$$ above, I don't know what else to say. How much taxable revenue/commerce do you think having Ohtani in MLB brings stateside from international sources in Asia? Ohtani is beyond a star overseas in other baseball-loving countries across the pacific ocean. Bookies, even shady illegal ones, aren't dumb - they know where the funds are coming from with clients who they allow to rack up sizeable debts. A mlb interpreter's annual salary is far from sufficient collateral for a bookie to give someone an unlimited line of credit to keep making bets.

When you look at the number of picks the Packers have in the top 100 of this draft, it's exciting knowing that the youngest NFL team is going to add a significant amount more of young talent no matter what positions they pick. The other thing that hasn't been talked about much, but I think could easily happen, is the Packers swinging multiple trades during the draft to either move up or flat out add more picks to their dance card using some of their young players at positions where they have a ton of depth already in the building that is going to struggle to see the field but showed enough promise where the Packers might be thinking of selling high to a team in need of young talent that is pick-limited this year. Thinking WR specifically.

It's par for the course - key player gets injured, Brewers wait 4 extra games to IL him while playing shorthanded during that stretch that starts a bit of a skid, replace key offensive bat on the roster with a guy who happens to have a bunch of gloves in his bag but can't hit (Miller) and then insert a poor hitting 1B (Bauers) to the 3 spot in the lineup. Sigh.... Specific to this article, they won't be able to fill the offensive void and I hope Yelich gets back in the lineup soon. In my mind, the best thing to do would be to call up Black and insert him at 1B, keep Hoskins at DH (or play matchups with those two), and then lean on Chourio/Frelick/Perkins as on OF lineup. Wiemer should be back down at AAA playing everyday.

It's a million or so people in the metro area, and Omaha proper is actually pretty darn diverse - plus its ties to Nebraska-Lincoln and Creighton have established some really good youth leagues/development programs for the major college sports (football, basketball, baseball). Good spot to find polished/developed talent that can play at the D1 level....not necessarily an NBA or NFL hotbed, but a great part of the country to find college roster glue-guys.

At this point there's probably a few journalism undergrads who have NIL deals and market these template posts to tranfer portal athletes on taskrabbit and Craigslist. It's insane.

Nats have to be hoping he stays healthy and productive for another couple months before flipping him at the trade deadline. Good for him if he's fully recovered, although his type of chronic injury could just as easily flare up again once the season starts grinding and turn him right back into the 0.600 OPS hitter with no athleticism he was last year.

2021 Rodgers trade hindsight isn't that cut and dry though....trading Rodgers before the 2022 season started likely forces Love in at starter too soon and potentially warps his progression to the point the Packers may be looking for an alternative franchise qb in this draft instead of feeling like they're set there for the next 7-8 seasons. When you have the reigning league MVP on your roster, you should have the luxury of sticking with him 1 year too long - especially if that timing also makes sense in your heir-apparent's development timeline. I've got zero problems with waiting until last offseason to trade Rodgers with how things have turned out. Taking a different approach and expecting a better outcome at present than the one the Packers have is truly asking for too much.

Can't believe the Orioles gave up 6 years of Ortiz plus a lotto ticket lefty arm and a comp pick for 1 year of this bum!

Overreact much? Permanently?? Quero is 21 and Wilken's injury may not even keep him out the full season

So they can then get TJ in two months like everyone else ?