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  1. Fear The Chorizo
    I still think a chunk of this is going to be sorted out with a young OF or two moving in a deadline trade, then a couple reliever DFAs when guys like Williams and another starter acquired via trade need to be added back onto the 26 man roster. There simply is not enough room on this roster to carry both Frelick and Mitchell longterm when you've got Chourio and Yelich requiring everyday playing time in the OF - I still think I'd prefer Frelick being the one included in a deadline trade, simply because he doesn't have enough pop to be a corner OF and he's not as good defensively as a healthy Mitchell in CF.
  2. Fear The Chorizo
    Eric Sogard has to be sitting right next to his phone with this news.
  3. Fear The Chorizo
    20.....TWENTY - Chourio won't be 21 until next season. Chourio has come on strong over what feels like the past two months now - it is incredibly exciting to see a kid turning into a quality MLB player at an age when most highly-regarded prospects either haven't yet been drafted or are working their way between A and AA. This kid is truly a special talent.
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    While true, the Ricketts did take on a bunch of additional debt soon after purchasing the club with the stadium renovations and surrounding venue upgrades/property purchases - and then went through multiple seasons with it generating minimal revenue because of COVID....they can't cry poor by any stretch, but I'm sure the balance sheet needs a few years to unwind from all of that. I also happen to think their payroll is plenty high right now to be the big market bully of this division, but I think they've spent that money poorly. Giving Hoyer another $50-75m a season to spend on payroll isn't the auto-improvement it should seem to be.
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    But you've got to take shots like this - even if you wind up with guys who pan out like 10 straight Corey Rays or Brinsons, the 11th one might wind up being Mike Trout. And that one hit is worth all the other misses
  7. Fear The Chorizo
    I don't consider their first pick a throwaway at all, even after not including signability/slot/underslot considerations. Signing bonuses for MLB draftees are more related to prying high schoolers away from collegiate commitments compared to "BPA" ordering, anyway. This isn't like the NFL where drafts are solely from college players and there's a huge concern about injury where if a guy declares and is draft eligible he's going to sign whether he's a 1st or 7th rounder. Specifically to Payne - he's one of the youngest players in this draft and is arguably its best athlete. I've got zero issues picking him where they did. High schoolers with his tools turn into quality MLB players if they put everything together, and they are worth rolling the dice multiple times on those type of prospects until hitting on one.
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    He was more of an opener than a starter - as others have said hopefully some of the other injured Brewer arms are back right after the break....along with bringing in at least one more quality veteran starter via signing or trade that can actually be counted on to routinely get through 6+IP every time he's on the mound
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    Pretty sure he also got pulled over his rookie year around training camp for driving 140 in a 55 in the middle of the night, and his reasoning being something to do with his dog back at his place....so he seems to be rolling the dice on other people's lives/his life/NFL career often.
  10. Fear The Chorizo
    Thinking that doing anything in terms of limiting pitch counts below 100 an outing for a guy consistently throwing over 100 mph with filthy breaking stuff is going to turn him into a 20 year starter is a fools' errand. And Kerry Wood was routinely abused by Dusty early in his career, many times to get him through 6 or 7 IP with much higher pitch counts...don't like the comparison to a guy flat out dominating a lineup and coasting through 7, still under 100 pitches on a great weather day. I get that the game has changed - doesn't mean I like it in this situation.
  11. Fear The Chorizo
    99 pitches, several innings early got the pitch count up but cruising for the last few - no way I'd take Skenes out until he gives up a hit at this point. Thank you Pirates
  12. Fear The Chorizo
    Unless the Brewers find a way to get Skenes out of the game, anything is out of reach...but yeah, Civale should not be going through this lineup a 4th time
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    Enjoy it when you can Pirates fans....there's 0% chance Skenes' arm and/or shoulder doesn't fall apart before he hits free agency. That being said, his pure stuff and current command of it is just unreal - he almost will have to learn to pitch to contact to be able to consistently work deep into games without racking up huge pitch counts because MLB hitters simply can't put the ball in play against him.
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    There are a handful of arms on the 40 man that should be expendable once the Brewers deem Yoho or Misi ready to contribute at the MLB level...including guys who have been mlb bullpen mainstays until struggling. Depth is always a good thing, to me it makes sense for the brewers to actually try and package some of those mid tier relievers via trade for lotto ticket prospects to make 40 mam roster room for more talented arms earning their mlb shot
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    Honestly any Skenes start is must-watch
  16. Fear The Chorizo
    Not lost on me that many of the recent offensive inconsistencies occurred once Ortiz went down - will be great getting him back in the lineup soon!
  17. Fear The Chorizo
    How much did Contreras make last year?
  18. Fear The Chorizo
    Not from a financial standpoint
  19. Fear The Chorizo
    define lifetime of a gas mower....if people actually change the oil annually, most mower small engines will be still running just fine long after the rest of the mower falls apart. Batteries in lawn mowers have an average lifespan of 3-4 years and depending on the size of a yard they wind up requiring multiple charge cycles to get fully clipped. Although, retrofitting all those Cybertrucks with a set of mower blades does sound like a pretty solid idea for those large/expansive grassy lots (and some hay/wheat fields)... I will say that the noise reduction from having a 100% EV fleet of yard equipment would be a welcome change and make the world a better place.
  20. Fear The Chorizo
    Yes, but let's still sign him to a well over nine-figure contract extension because that's the going rate for good defensive shortstops who occasionally get hot at the plate I don't hate Adames as a player, but I'm going to be glad moving on from him as a Brewer next offseason because he's maddeningly inconsistent offensively and approaching the age where his steady defensive value at SS will tank.
  21. Fear The Chorizo
    with at least half of that time not getting a legitimate MLB opportunity to sort it out one way or the other - when healthy, all Hiura has done since the start of 2023 has been hit at the AAA level, with enough production to warrant another extended MLB opportunity with somebody.
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    This year, Hiura has been with two organizations and hit well enough to get called up by the 2nd one in roughly a couple weeks of regular AAA playing time with them. Hiura didn't break camp with the Tigers following Spring Training because they had their own logjam of high draft choice hitters who were underperforming already on their 40 man roster they had longer commitments to. Hiura wasn't cut from the Tigers because he was terrible this year with Toledo - he was cut because Torkelson sucked at the MLB level and needed a spot to get regular ABs in the minors. If he has that gaping a hole in his swing, he wouldn't be putting up the numbers he is this season cumulatively - regardless of the level he's at.
  23. Fear The Chorizo
    While obviously not the same caliber of competition, failing to include any mention of Hiura's overall production in the high minors from 2021 through 2024 (916 plate appearances, largely indicating Hiura is more than a AAA player) is also statistical cherry picking over a ~5 season stretch of baseball from the Covid-shortened 2020 through the present 2024 season.
  24. Fear The Chorizo
    Hiura spent the entire 2023 season in AAA (Meaning there was apparently no Dallas Keuchel like situation where a team was willing to bring Hiura up and Milwaukee facilitated a transaction to get him there). You're choosing to omit the fact he went down with a knee injury in mid-May while he was destroying the baseball in Nashville and then took awhile to get back into form. Meanwhile, the Brewers primary 2023 DH was busy OPS-ing sub-0.500 that month when Hiura did get injured and many on this board were pulling hair out wondering when he'd get called up to the Brewers since he couldn't do any worse than what they had at the MLB level.
  25. Fear The Chorizo
    Keston Hiura has a career MLB average of 0.239 and OBP of 0.319...so apparently you're referring to a different Hiura with your post above. His 2019 remains the longest extended run of MLB at bats and consistent playing time of Keston's MLB career - so it shouldn't be discounted out of hand no matter how much you want to. His 2019 still carried a high K rate, too. That production was over about 40% of Hiura's MLB plate appearances, and the fact we're 5 seasons after that with only about 1 full MLB season's worth more of plate appearances for Hiura should also be taken into consideration. 946 MLB at bats sounds like alot, and it would be a decent sample size if it occurred over about 2 calendar years - not 6 - especially if you're refusing to include any of the AAA production Hiura also had during that same stretch while getting yo-yo-ed between Milwaukee and the minors from 2021-2022, all the while being thrown into several different defensive positions instead of just telling him that he's a DH. Hiura's knee injury in 2023 prevented him from getting one last shot in Milwaukee, and I'll maintain the 2020 COVID season with no minor league year really couldn't have come at a worse time for Hiura - having to slog through MLB and try to adjust to the "book" on him with no video options in the clubhouse, limited onfield work due to COVID between games, no opportunity to get sent back down to any minor league level to work on things, etc. is pretty rough shakes.
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