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I wonder if this will push the Brewers to update the other minor league facilities. Especially when you compare the DSL facilities to like the ones currently in A and A+. While the AA and AAA facilities are newish. I am not sure any of the facilities other than the spring training facilities are up to par with the DSL facilities. Right now it is like a downgrade going from the DSL to A ball facilities wise. I have to say it is good that the Brewers have finally invested into the DSL. I just hope this investment continues into the rest of the minor league facilities.

More about getting Rodriguez than Civale. Civale is basically just a salary equalizer.

The Angels farm system is basically a lottery ticket. I think the best outcome would be someone like Luis Robert Jr. in a Civale + trade. Something like Robert and cash for Civale and Carlos Rodriguez makes some sense here.

You don't need a technical degree to sell AI. Heck I sit next to a bunch of merchant services sales rep (they sell the whole package including the technical parts API, systems and PoS) where I work and only one has some tech background. In a sales job as long as you can sell and you have good people skills then you are good. I have a friend who works at Salesforce and they are selling their technical properties and they can barely use their smart phone or turn on their computer. But they can sell like no one else and they have really good people skills.

What makes it logical to go down? If a player is happy or not is irrelevant to their value. Civale's value was low and will remain low regardless of him asking for a trade or not. I am extremely confident the Brewers have already reached out to other teams about Civale before he asked for a trade. A player asking for a trade has no impact on their value. Did Favre asking for a trade kill his value? How about Rodgers? How about Ken Griffey Jr?

Does it really matter who states a player is available? Other GM’s probably have known for a while now that he is available in a trade. Him claiming he wants to be traded doesn’t change the fact here. This is more just fan speculation that a player saying they want to be traded somehow decreases the value of said player. Teams don’t trade players unless they get the value they are looking for.

There is no evidence that a trade request lowers a players value absolutely no evidence it is just fan speculation.

Not even close to being enough. Why would the Jays take Civale if they are trading Bichette? This makes no sense at all and the Jays are currently the #1 WC in the AL. Why would they trade one of their better hitters for Civale and non top 100 prospects? This trade just makes no sense at all for the Jays.

I don't think there is a player like that out there. I believe in order for the Brewers to get an upgrade at SS you are looking at trading at least Misio and a few other prospects. The off season maybe the better option to upgrade at least at 3B. I think a Josh Smith for Peralta makes a lot of sense for both teams.

While Bo Jackson didn’t catch the ball on the wall his running on the wall is the closest I could think of.

He will more than likely go back down. I believe this is probably a one start only and he will go back down for a reliever the next day.

They are trying to keep Henderson’s innings down. If Henderson does come backup he will be in the bullpen. This is due to his past injuries and the previous year he only threw a total of 81 innings. He is already almost at that total now. The goal is probably to get him to 100 innings this year which means he only has about 40 innings left for the year.

It is all on Yelich and Contreras really. When Yelich and Contreras are hitting like they should the offense looks good and then when they are not well you get what we have the last few games.

I swear the strike zone for some umpires just gets worse as the game goes on. In the beginning it is very loose and then all of a sudden the last few innings it gets tighter and tighter to where pitches clearly in the strike zone get called a ball.

1st inning and the strike zone is already messed up.

Hey you can't do that Durbin! You are supposed to watch the first pitch not swing at it!

I think Bregman would be too much unless the Red Sox offered to pay the majority of his remaining salary. For a possible about a half year rental the Red Sox would need to take back a lot of that salary for it to make sense for the Brewers. The best I would offer the Red Sox would be Joey Ortiz and a lottery ticket for Bregman and the Red Sox pay $4mm of the remaining contract and pay all of the deferred money owed. I don't think the Red Sox would accept this but that is the best I would offer for Bregman and that contract.

I think in the second round someone like Luke Hill from Mississippi makes some sense there. He looks to be a Brewers type of a prospect and someone they have drafted recently. He is a very versatile infielder though I think he can't play SS but you could put him at 2B or 3B and he wouldn't be a defensive liability at either of those positions. There has been a lot of mocks with the Brewers going with Danielle Pierce a HS SS but I think these mocks are just guessing and putting someone who is in the 20-25 range in the rankings. I think someone like Luke Stevenson maybe an option at 20 but I don't think the Brewers will like his hit tool. He has the power to be an everyday player but that is going to come at the cost of a lot of strikeouts especially on off speed pitches. Someone that I think that should be watched for a first round pick is William Patrick HS OF. Very similar profile to Payne.

It isn't really a new analytical data. Swinging 3-0 is not something new and players have been doing a lot in nearly every era of baseball. It is just now we can quantify that it is actually rather beneficial to swing at those pitches when they are presented by the pitcher. The idea is not to just hack at pitches it is to swing at pitches that can provide a positive outcome which for some is like this foreign or taboo idea because you don't swing on a 3-0 count because? You haven't even provided anything to go against the claim that swinging at a pitch going right down the middle of the plate is a bad idea regardless of the count. Some of the greatest hitters of all time just maximized their opportunities when they did decide to swing. If you are getting a pitch going down the middle of the plate and you are not swinging at it you are not maximizing your opportunities. You are actually in fact decreasing your opportunities. Players who are hitting in the low .250's should be trying to maximize their ability and that is not going to happen when you are watching a pitch split the middle of the plate. The idea here is to maximize those opportunities and to have the player swing at pitches where it maximizes their opportunity to be successful. You can't be looking at a count and go oh it is 3-0 don't swing because why exactly? These players don't have the skill of a Tony Gwynn, Paul Molitor, Robyn Yount, Ted Williams or name a good hitter here. They just don't have the skill to be those players so they should be swinging at pitches which puts them at an advantage. Pitches that are over the heart of the plate are the pitches they should be swinging at. Players who have swung at pitches in the heart of the zone on a 3-0 pitch are hitting .491/.464/1.226 this season. Why do you believe looking at that pitch is a positive? Please provide some evidence or logic behind watching that pitch go down the heart of the plate on a 3-0 count. These are normally rare misses by a pitcher and you should be attacking these pitches not watching. What is the actual logic or reasoning to watch a pitch go down the heart of the plate? I doubt you will ever answer these questions as your responses have been more condescending or just one word responses. Which tells me you are just stuck in your ways of old school baseball you don't do these things you would probably make a great Cardinals fan.

I see nowhere where anyone said he is Stan Musial. May want to step away from the bong or the alcohol because you are hallucinating. Chourio was actually selective in the game today. Again look at the screenshots provided. I have already talked about his season so far and that he hasn't been as selective with his O-Swing%. He isn't all that far off from last year with his O-Swing%. He also won't walk all that much check his MiLB numbers for proof on this. This is just not his game and expecting him to walk more than he did in the minors is rather foolish to expect out of Chourio.

So now you know how I think? What? Did you even read what I put in reply to you. Chourio walking more is not a realistic expectation. Please look at his MiLB stats and you will see why this is not a realistic expectation. I am not going to repeat exactly what I posted previously. It wasn't just two AB's tonight it was all of them. Again look at this post it goes over all of his AB's and his minor league stats.

How is that madness? You want Collins to be swinging at a pitch that is not going down the middle of the plate? What happens if Collins watches a pitch go right down the middle of the plate and then it is 3-1 and then the next two pitches hit the edge of the zone and he K's? Is that the better outcome because he saw two more pitches? If a pitch is over the plate you want someone like Collins swinging at it not taking it. He is a poor hitter for a reason and you want to have him in the best situation to be swinging at a pitch. If that is 3-0 on a fastball going down the middle of the plate that is the pitch you want him swinging at not a 3-1 breaking pitch that is on the black or a 3-2 breaking pitch that he may not even foul off. I never said this.

Yes I want Ortiz swinging 2-0 it is a hitters count. The point of getting to a hitters count is to get a pitch that you can do damage on. If the pitch is something the hitter can do damage on they should be swinging not watching the pitch. Why is this so hard to understand? Batter gets a good pitch to swing at they should be swinging at it not watching it. There is no guarantee that they will get a better pitch to swing at or even get on base. The batter should be swinging at pitches that are hittable. Now ask yourself this if Ortiz watches a very hittable pitch go by and it is 2-1. How confident are you in him getting on base at 2-1? Does your confidence go up or will it go down?

If the pitch is going over the middle of the plate yes, yes I do. Collins is a poor hitter and having him watch a pitch go down the middle of the plate that he could handle is just not a good strategy. He is more than likely going to fail at getting on base even in a hitters count. Swinging at pitches that are beneficial to a hitter is the point of swinging at pitches. As a hitter you want the best possible pitch to swing at. If that happens on 3-0 you would definitely want Collins swinging there. If the 3-0 pitch is going down the middle of the plate that is the exact pitch you want someone like Collins swinging at.