Fear The Chorizo

There's been such a shift towards increasing bat speed through the zone for power that bats have become weighted heavily into the barrel - Turang is using a 35-inch bat (enormous by today's standards, particularly for a player of his stature), but its design is much more balanced than what most of the bats are now, making it easier for him to get through the zone. It caters to hitting the ball where it's pitched moreso than using power/batspeed to force a batted ball to a pull-side field with authority. When most pitchers are supplying 95+ mph velocity in pitches, a player can still hit with plenty of pop without trying to max out their own bat speed through the hitting area.

I wouldn't expect the video game numbers he is putting up in Mexico to continue (over 14k/9ip strikeout ratio)....but from both an on the field and budget standpoint there isn't a more obvious starter acquisition for this team than Trevor Bauer if they need rotation depth. Hate me for stating it due to the off the field baggage that would come with him, but it's true.

From the day the trade was made, the Brewers' front office made it known they viewed Gasser as the centerpiece of the return for Hader, acknowledging it would be a few seasons until he was ready to contribute at the MLB level. The Brewers weren't going anywhere that season and made the right call to trade Hader then. People were p'oed Hader was dealt, but he was in the midst of imploding that June/July and he was only going to get more expensive the following offseason. Flipping Ruiz for Contreras the following offseason was just gravy...albeit spectacularly delicious gravy!

Greinke looks more like the guy saying 'Do it' in this post than the guy in the Brewers uniform at this stage of his career. No. Thank. You.

I had a neighbor who was a brewmaster at a local brewery, with a connection at a local distillery....several of his experimental batches with bourbon barrels made for early nights!

I think that can be true but also know they need to add more for depth towards the top of their draft, too.

Was it barrel aged at a refinery? Slow sips with it in a chilled cozy, my friend!

If stokes wasnt a pumpkin, maybe....I think they had a pretty soft schedule in terms of playing teams that could sling it and it really helped their depleted secondary.

Tonight, I'd rather see Packers swing a trade sending one of their young wrs who won't see the field in 2024 plus one-two of their current picks for an established starter at CB or 4-3 D lineman with a rebuilding team that needs picks/wrs.

It also takes a team willing to bite on a package of picks to trade back up. If value in this draft is top 120, those picks are going to be harder to pry free. If you're starting with 5-6 of them, no point in my mind to trade down a few spots in round 2 to add a couple more in rounds 4-5 in hopes you can use those to get back into round 2 or 3 again later.

Exactly...this isn't a roster where a dozen draft picks are all making the team - feels like they should go quality over quantity this year with all they have in the top 100

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.