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  1. Fear The Chorizo
    Since coming back from injury, Robert is hitting 0.148 with 13 ks in 30 plate appearances. The only reason his OPS is north of 0.700 is 3 of his hits have been HRs. No thank you.
  2. Fear The Chorizo
    I think the best storyline for me is the fact I'm having a hard time picking the "best" one this season since there are several: Ortiz being good enough to make the Burnes trade feel like at worst a wash knowing the Brewers have him on their roster for the forseeable future - nevermind how much better it will look if Hall can get healthy/put it together and with whoever they pick in the draft coming up with that extra choice Turang doing what I thought he would do on the field after a year of MLB experience and an offseason to mature into his frame. Contreras and Yelich putting up borderline MVP-level years Noticeable shift in the offensive approach with a mix of young players and vets who work the count, steal bases, and score in different ways Continued reliability of the bullpen, despite injuries and roster turnover Chourio proving he's not overmatched at the MLB level (and showing some recent signs of taking the jump of adjusting to MLB pitchers attacking him) Winning games despite trading away their ace, their co-ace resigned in the offseason so he can rehab all of 2024 after shoulder surgery, their closer missing the first half of this season with injury, and injuries all over the place - Proving this organization has a heap of young and underrated talent throughout.
  3. Fear The Chorizo
    Lagging indicators or not, the reason shelter costs are exploding has more to do with lack of supply than rates. The reason insurance has gotten out of control expensive is because costs for everything that gets insured have also exploded. Raising interest rates to where they need to be right now will tank this economy, i agree - but it's the medicine this economy needs due to close to two decades of rates largely suppressed to zero amid printing money to try and artificially bolster growth. Trying to keep propping this up with half steps and more money printing will lead to the whole works crashing down, and also leave the govmint/fed with limited options to help when that does happen.
  4. Fear The Chorizo
    Reasons differ from then, but it feels like the 1st half of 2008 economically all over again, when things were still sorta growing/sorta doing ok despite some glaring warning signs....then the market turned very volatile, days/weeks where it plummeted followed right behind by days/week where it shot back up - until the financial sector was forced to take their medicine in the fall, and the next few years. I think the Fed needs to keep their powder dry and hold off on lowering rates, and should strongly consider raising them further to actually get inflation down to their stated goal in the short term.
  5. Fear The Chorizo
    Unless the Astros beat them to it, sign Trevor Bauer for league minimum and hold onto all those prospects another month, then improve the bench offense and perhaps add another starter at the deadline via trade in late July if the pile of young arms either stays injured or isn't settled into a good rotation headlines by Peralta and Bauer.
  6. Fear The Chorizo
    If you are paying a manager over $8m a season, you think you have a pretty good team. Doesn't mean you are right, but because of that contract the pressure to win falls on the manager's shoulders. Watching that actual rudderless ship led by a gm that isn't nearly as good as what his reputation grants him is glorious.
  7. Fear The Chorizo
    I don't think it's about "wanting to play"....Robert's career year with the most games played was last year, when he led the White Sox to a 101-loss season. I also think there are some other contending teams in search of OF help that will ramp up the bidding for Robert, and I think the Brewers need to focus more on acquiring starting pitching and improve their bench offensively while seeing what Mitchell can do when he's back and see if Chourio's stats improve with a bit more MLB seasoning.
  8. Fear The Chorizo
    He was their 1st round pick a season ago and profiles as either a 3B or 1B - two positions the Brewers have been starved of having an everyday option for a very long time. He's a 21-yr old collegiate bat, but starting off in AA this season is pretty aggressive given the fact it's his 1st full pro year - and as others have mentioned in other threads the dude got hit in the face/eye socket with a pitch early in the year that some people initially thought would cause Wilken to miss the rest of the season. I'm one to think that no prospect is untouchable if the return is significant at the MLB level - but there are quite a few other prospects in the Brewers' system I'd rather see included in deadline trades than the college bat with the most power potential in last season's MLB draft.
  9. Fear The Chorizo
    The most important ability of a mlb player is health and their ability to stay on the field. Robert doesn't have that.
  10. Fear The Chorizo
    The Brewers have their own version of Robert - an uber-talented, athletic outfielder who can't stay healthy - already in house in Mitchell. Outfield is the last position I'd want the Brewers to focus on improving their roster via trade this season, because they have young OF options to continuously cycle through around Yelich, and all of them at minimum are going to provide premium defense. Get a quality veteran starter (or two) and improve the offensive output on the bench 1st please...once that's done, then may take a look at how the likes of Chourio/Frelick/Mitchell/Wiemer/Perkins are performing in the OF alongside Yelich and sort out if adding another outfielder makes any sense.
  11. Fear The Chorizo
    1. Get Devin Williams into the closer role 2. Get at least one of Hall or Gasser healthy and back in the rotation. Sprinkle in a healthy Junis, too. 3.upgrade the offensive output from the bench 4. Sign or trade for a quality starter in the next 6 weeks. The Phillies have been doing this to all of mlb so far this season - bummed the Brewers got swept on the road, but don't let this lead to an extended losing stretch that drags them back towards the rest of the NL Central
  12. Fear The Chorizo
    The Brewers scored twice in 28 innings of baseball against the Phillies - sending a runner home with 1 out in a tight game you are borderline getting no-hit during when the infield isn't playing in is the right call 100% of the time. Teams that don't ever get runners thrown out at home wind up stranding more guys on 3rd base. It's one thing to get guys thrown out by 10-15 feet with a series of bad sends, but being aggressive on the bases is how this team plays - and it's better than being too passive.
  13. Fear The Chorizo
    Scoring 2 runs across 25 innings of offense and counting isn't going to win you many 3 game series, particularly against one of the best teams in all of baseball. Start hitting, please!
  14. Fear The Chorizo
    I have a feeling the apparent OF roster logjam is going to sort itself out by this year's deadline, seeing at least one of Wiemer/Mitchell/Frelick included in a trade package that also has a few prospects scattered across various minor league levels in return for a quality starter with a few years of control remaining before free agency.
  15. Fear The Chorizo
    Chourio needs to stay in Milwaukee, no question about it. Let him continue to work through initial MLB struggles and make the adjustments he needs - along with seeing MLB-caliber pitching along the way. A roster crunch shouldn't include thoughts of demoting a player as talented as Chourio is.
  16. Fear The Chorizo
    He had bone spurs early this year and I was surprised he was back pitching as soon as he did. Perhaps this is the same thing/recurrence.
  17. Fear The Chorizo
    My 1st thought on what's going on with Steele is that he's still rounding into form after the game 1 hammy injury....but then also realizing he's coming off a season where he exceeded his previous IP total by more than 54 innings and there may be quite a bit more to it. It's easy to forget that despite all the offseason helium pushing the Cub projections towards the top of the division, particularly after CC took the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$, there weren't a large number of roster improvements from a team that won just 83 games in 2023. Imanaga is basically it, and he replaced Stroman from last season's rotation.
  18. Fear The Chorizo
    To bolster the point about not having to empty the farm system for a quality starter who is set to become increasingly more expensive on top of it, why do that when there are actually quality veteran starting pitcher options who've won a Cy Young who can be signed via free agency for less than what Luzardo is currently making and give up nothing from the farm? The longer this Brewer team stays on top of the standings, the more obvious Trevor Bauer as the best on-field solution to bolster this team's starting rotation becomes when factoring in talent, financial cost, and potential prospect capital needed to acquire altogether.
  19. Fear The Chorizo
    Must be looking down to count his money... When he signed with the Cubs my first hot take was wondering how he was going to navigate dealing with a local beat-writer press that actually would hold his feet to the fire when things weren't going great - since that was never a concern while managing the Brewers in Milwaukee...he's barely 2 months into his first regular season in Chicago and fan sentiment is already turned pretty stale on him.
  20. Fear The Chorizo
    Read Stearns' quotes on Gasser after the trade happened in 2022 - he was the centerpiece in that deal the Brewers coveted.
  21. Fear The Chorizo
    The unhittable Imanaga is apparently very much hittable
  22. Fear The Chorizo
    They're right there for you to look at them
  23. Fear The Chorizo
    The 2022 Brewers scored 2 or fewer runs in 47 of their games played. The wRC+ number that elevated them into the top half of league offense was bolstered by some inflated offensive games, too - they scored 10 or more runs in 11 games that included 18- and 19-run games.
  24. Fear The Chorizo
    If by good you mean average, then I can't disagree....but the team has consistently been built to contend based on pitching and defense/run prevention - and the pitching definitely was a problem after injuries mounted and they had to churn through a series of youngsters/AAAA arms in the rotation
  25. Fear The Chorizo
    I think that's more of a convenient excuse than the primary cause for that team not making the playoffs - Yelich had a bad year, the team in general couldn't hit, Peralta missed alot of time in the rotation due to injury, and at the time the trade happened, Hader was pitching terribly. All that being said, that team still wound up 10 games over 0.500. Hader was possibly the biggest reason the team was dropping in the standings after getting off to a 32-19 start to the year. Once the calendar hit June, the team basically muddled around 0.500 in large part to the inconsistent offense and leaky back end of the bullpen that got overworked due to starters wearing down/getting injured. Hader was on the roster when they went 3 games under 0.500 in June and hovered through mediocrity through most of July while he was sporting a 1.200+ OPS against and blowing saves. Hader's August in San Diego was equally as bad - had he remained a Brewer with that production they wouldn't have wound up just missing a wild card in 2022.
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