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And refreshing. Also refreshing to see him actually working the offseason and learning his WRs. Something Rodgers evidently learned and is doing in NY

Nice of Elly to give a Brewer a headline...

He is actually slightly below average in pop times and catcher independant metrics for base stealing defense: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/catcher-throwing?game_type=Regular&n=q&season_end=2023&season_start=2023&split=no&team=&type=Cat&with_team_only=1&sortColumn=pop_time&sortDirection=asc

Agreed. I was looking at that list and thinking how Ryan played his whole career with the Brewers and couldn't catch Molly. And after The Ignitor left, he was an all-star twice more, nearly won a batting title and MVP, 75.7 career WAR, almost as good as Yount.

I'm curious how people are judging Black's defense? We have people saying he is fine, some saying he is a disaster, some putting him in CF after 15 games there (and 1 error btw)... No one has listed any supporting evidence. FYI, just looking at errors, it isn't too pretty. 1 error in 15 games at CF; 9 errors in 48 games at 2B; and 12 errors in 72 games at 3B. On the positive side, he has zero errors at DH... For anyone interested, Steamer is predicting him to hit 227/328/360/688 for the rest of the season at the MLB level. Sadly... that is an improvement on what we've been getting at DH.

Most of us Brewer fans are Packer, Bucks, and Badger fans too. 😉 20 ABs is a small sample size and won't effect the asking price.

Ditto. I think Love can clearly show who he is as a QB. An injury or just an "ok" season - teasing greatness, but falling short - would make it really hard for next year. I fear him becoming like Dak and get stuck waiting for him to take the step up from good to great, but still dragging the team down in the end. Is it sad that 10% of me wants him to fail miserably so we can get the #1 pick of the 2024 draft?

If it wasn't for the contract... yeah, I'd take him now. Even in a down year, he is an improvement. If he can bounce back a bit by being in a playoff push, he could be very good. Maybe the Brewers can get some of the St. Louis/Arenado love. Where we make a trade get some $$ to go with it?

In the MLB top 100, 32 prospects were at AA with 24 at AAA. I think it is is reasonable to say that is true of the top prospects on the whole (supporting the theory that top prospects tend to move on from the AAA level faster than AA). But I struggle to think that AA arms on average are going to be a better test than AAA arms. How many pitchers at AA won't every reach AAA on a given year? And all those AAAA players are typically guys that pitched well in AA. A batter is only going to face any given pitcher 2-3 times in a game and maybe 5-6x in a season. I doubt having a few more "top end" pitchers is really going to trump the general improvement in all the pitchers you will find at AAA.

There is our new trade target to upgrade our DH position!

@Brock Beauchamp So, I'm assuming this is the consolidated rating? Any way to add a weighting score to each player? It would be nice to see how tightly grouped they were.

Yes, floundering seems to be a bit of a hyperbole Split G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Total 75 341 311 43 83 16 0 13 54 23 4 23 70 .267 .320 .444 .763 138 4 3 0 4 0 Last 7 days 4 19 18 4 10 2 0 2 4 0 1 1 1 .556 .579 1.000 1.579 18 0 0 0 0 0 Last 28 days 15 69 64 12 22 4 0 4 14 4 2 4 5 .344 .377 .594 .971 38 0 0 0 1 0 Last 90 days 63 288 260 37 73 14 0 10 45 23 4 21 54 .281 .337 .450 .787 117 3 3 0 4 0

You'd never have to worry about a pitch clock violation...

I noticed Kris Bryant was on the team and having a bit of a down year. But then I checked what is left of his contract.... ouch.

😉Winker😉 got it. Not Winkler, or Weaker, or put-a-fork-in-me-I'm-done.

I knew there was one decent era I forgot, but technically... that isn't "a" 1B. 😝 Yeah, I didn't say we needed a trade to get the 3 bats. I would've swapped Winkler for Huira already.

I suppose you could say bat, bat, bat is DH, 1B, and RF/3B (in order of importance). But I was more going for the baseball's version of the 3 top rules of realty: "location, location, location" 1B was historically "easy"... yet seems so hard for the last decade for the Brewers to actually find one. And have we ever had an above average DH since the NL started using it?

Bats, bats, and more bats. This is what we need. Our BA is ridiculously low, so it shouldn't be hard to get contact hitters to improve (or a few key internal improvements as specific players are underperforming). But really OBP should be the metric. Sure, you can't walk someone in unless the bases are loaded, but a single does nothing if the bases are empty...

Only if he is 6'2"? Prince Fielder says hi!. Owen Miller is 5'11" (as is Prince). Sure, that might be nice. Would be nice if our 1B hit 300 and 50 HR/year too. Owen Miller has been our best defensive 1B we've had for a few years and his height doesn't bother him. If Black can do about that while hitting 270/410/445 (his MiLB averages), I'd happily take that at 1B.

I certainly hope the Brewers don't regress to the TLR led Cardinals! Oh wait... the isn't the definition of "regress to the mean" ?

How is Black's D at 3B? I recall that being a draft-day drawback with perhaps a move to 2B necessary, but I haven't paid close attention to it since. If his D is poor, maybe 1B could be a long-term home... Our 1B cupboard is SO bare...

I was with you... but on the radio at the time!

Statistically, I have no doubts that larger bankrolls give team a greater chance to win simply because you can "eat your mistakes" easier. But it is nice to see that baseball is a team game and just throwing a bunch of high-priced players on a team doesn't guarantee winning. Coaching and clubhouse vibes are still important.

Can't complain about the top or bottom of the NL Central either...

I think the assumption is that Truong will improve to be 80/90 OPS+. That isn't an unreasonable improvement