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  1. JohnBriggs12
    If you don't continue to challenge an elite talent, you run the risk of them not learning how to adjust later on down the road. Great players in general break through early and don't look back. Chourio's answered every challenge put in front of him so far. He can handle the next.
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    Andrew Vaughn would be a great target for the Brewers. He's not met expectations this year and the White Sox are desperate for controllable starting pitching. They would want a starter close to major league ready (Gasser?) included in the package. It will take more than one prospect though. Sox are going to want a solid package for their one time top prospect who's still only in his mid 20's
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    He's a 10 and 5 player too
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    DFA Winker when Tellez returns. Give him to the deadline to see if there's a ray of hope. If not get his replacement on the market.
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    I think it's Taylor. He pressed big time after missing ST and playing catch up but he's hit with some power in his rehab assignment and he can give Weimer a day off here and there. I'd give Rowdy some rehab AB's before bringing him back, but hopefully the break has cleared his mind. The logical move would be to DFA Winker to make room for him.
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    I'm not sure anything is imminent. They may want to give Jones a longer look.
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    Pham could rotate with Yelich at DH and LF. He wouldn't preclude them from Candelario either.
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    I seem to remember floating Candelario's name in the offseason as the guy I wanted ahead of Anderson and others who were available. Now I wouldn't give up Black for him, but I'd still be in favor of it at the right price. Pham is another guy out there who could help.
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    Rowdy needs to commit himself to getting in better shape. He's listed at 270, but I bet he's closer to 300. He's eating his way out of the game. He needs to get back to the 250-260 range.
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    It's not bad enough that Adames has been awful. Orlando Arcia is going to be the starting shortstop for the NL in the All Star game and his numbers say he is worthy (sorry Cub fans, Arcia's been better than Swanson). Speaking of awful, it appears Rowdy is eating his way out of baseball.
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    I love that Turang made the team. He's a major league talent and belongs in the major leagues. Not quite like when Del Crandall announced that 18 year old Robin Yount made the Brewers in 1974. Crandall basically said Yount made the team because he was better than any of the other options. I think the same holds for Turang. I hope Wiemer sticks as well. Giving Frelick more time in CF at Nashville because if either Mitchell or Wiemer struggles offensively before Taylor comes back, they can replace him with Frelick.
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    What about Owen Miller? Isn't he in the infield mix as well?
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    I don't think he makes the team unless he starts tearing it up in Arizona. That he's already on the 40 man or that Frelick will be gone for a few weeks playing for team Italy gives him an edge. Frelick will be facing major league pitching in the WBC and the Brewers will be watching. I think it comes down to Frelick or Nyquin, and they get another RH bat in the lineup by playing Anderson in RF vs. lefties. Bolt could also figure in with a hot spring. Wiemer is the dark horse. He's only fanned once in 13 AB's.
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    By giving him financial security now, you are taking away his incentive to keep getting better. Some guys will continue to work just as hard but many don't. Some White Sox fans I know believe the Sox locking up most of their promising young everyday players has led to a lot of complacency which is part of the reason for their disappointing performance in 2022. Remember these are guys in their mid twenties getting money most people just dream of. Even older players are not immune,
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    Before suggesting a hitter coming off a 35 HR 89 RBI season with several late inning very high leverage game tying HR change his approach, I think we should see how the shift ban affects his numbers. Changing his approach is not without risk.
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    I don't consider the teams May played on as "dark years". The 73 season they had a 20 game winner in Jim Colborn, a 10 game winning streak, and a solid everyday lineup that included May, Scott, Briggs, Porter, Money and the overlooked Ollie Brown. Guys like Bobby Coluccio and Pedro Garcia also contributed. If fact that group finished in the top half of the AL in runs scored and home runs, and was 6 games over .500 as late as June 24. I know most of you weren't alive back then, but I remember it well. That was the year Milwaukee and Wisconsin really for the first time embraced the Brewers. They hit 1 million in attendance for the first time, and while that doesn't seem like much, believe me when I say crowds back then were louder and more alive than anything you see today. When those Brewer teams had a rally going, 15,000 fans sounded like 50,000. I remember when the crowd got so loud with the bases loaded one night that a pitcher for the Red Sox literally could not throw a strike and walked in like 3 runs. Uecker, who even then had been around the game a while, had never seen anything like that and of course was a huge part in revving up fans. That was the year that people first tuned in to post game show to hear Uke's calls of home runs.
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    The focus of the offseason seemed to be clearing the decks a bit to allow opportunity for their promising young outfielders. I think they accomplished that. Three of the veterans that started last season as major parts of the OF/DH rotation are gone. Winker was the only veteran they got back and he's probably going to see the vast majority of his AB's as the DH. They also got veteran protection for Turang without completely taking away a path for him to become an almost everyday player at some point maybe sooner rather than later. They seem to have adequately replaced the versatility of Jace Peterson too with Miller and Anderson. But the big move was acquiring a young controllable catcher with an elite bat. Few of us thought that possible. The rotation returns intact with a solid veteran in Miley to provide veteran depth and stability at the back end. The addition of Contreras alone made for a reasonably successful offseason. How the bullpen shakes out and whether the starters remain relatively healthy will determine if this team is a serious threat to the Cardinals or not.
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    I never considered Ginter a utility player.
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    I never considered Ginter a utility player.
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    I loved Briggs as he was my first favorite Brewer and an underrated player because OBP was under appreciated in the 70's. I'll never forget being there the night he took Nolan Ryan early in his prime into the bullpen twice including a grand slam. Darwin did next to nothing as a Brewer after he was acquired for Briggs, who didn't adjust well either and his career ended pretty abruptly not long afterwards.
  22. JohnBriggs12
    Tellez should benefit by not just the shift rule dictating no more than 2 fielders right of second base but the fact that they can't lineup beyond the infield dirt.
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    Assuming Anderson is healthy I think Brosseau and Toro likely will either be traded or released and certainly Hiura's fate is sealed.
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    Gantner was a really good defensive second baseman. Weeks was most talented but he never lived up to it. He cost them a lot of runs by failing to complete double plays with errant throws.
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    One guy I think that gets overlooked is Alexander Cornielle. In 119 innings pitched between Carolina and Appleton he fanned 145. He did walk 4.5 per 9 so he needs some work on command but he just turned 21 in August so there's time. I assume he'll start 2023 back in Appleton but he's a guy to watch.
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