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  1. JCREW
    So, anyway... I wonder if Arnold believes enough in the ascendence of Made and Pena to part with Pratt. Does he believe enough in Patrick, Myers, and Gasser to part with Henderson? Another thing for Arnold to wrestle with is the fact that we are a team full of young players. We want them to develop. It's not the same as LAD who are stocked with expensive veterans. There is no need to have concern about the development of an aging veteran on an expiring contract. For MKE, the development of Durbin, Collins, and Ortiz has a value that's hard to quantify when we consider upgrading the roster and putting one of them on the bench or into a UTIL role.
  2. JCREW
    Today's wishlist: Cadiz - 1.2M Hughes - 600K Lauridsen - 600K Roupe - 300K Coil - 214K Leftover money - $255 Let's get it done!
  3. JCREW
    Yeah. The throw put him in that spot. Pretty obvious that there is no obstruction in that situation.
  4. JCREW
    Small sample fun... Yelich wRC+ as a DH = 112 Yelich wRC+ as a LF = 153
  5. JCREW
    Patience is tough. This year's team has a few round holes, but the available talent seem to be squarish pegs. Of all the Brewer teams I've watched, this is the one that seems like the right upgrade could vault them from playoff appearance toward deep playoff run. HOWEVER, the guys who are actually available (on just about any of the top trade target lists) aren't neat and tidy upgrades. They aren't slam-dunk fixes. Even though this is the team I want to upgrade, I don't really think that many of the available upgrades are the right use of resources. O'Hearn or stand pat.
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    Brewerfanatic's second ever livestream...
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    Ryan O'Hearn
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    Makes it seem like he’s gonna get traded at about 3pm on the 31st, and it will be for two pitchers, and not MKE
  9. JCREW
    Luis PenaJesus MadeJeferson QueroLogan HendersonCooper PrattBraylon PayneRobert GasserAndrew FischerEric BitontiBrock WilkenLuke AdamsColeman CrowBlake BurkeMarco DingesBrett WichrowskiJosh AdamczewskiLuis LaraBryce MeccageBishop LetsonJadher Areinamo Man, I love our farm right now!
  10. JCREW
    I think it’s mostly that the Braves are a mess. If they were in the thick of the Wild card, the perennial sucktitude of the Nats and Marlins wouldn’t be that notable.
  11. JCREW
    I love this hypothetical. In a vacuum, there's a wide variety of players we could get. You could argue that because of showing actual big-league success, each of these guys is more valuable than a prospect in the 15-50 range. (maybe even 5-30). There might be two or three actually untouchable players, even for three top 50 prospects. Ohtani, Witt, Judge, Skenes. Those four are the face of MLB right now. I'd have to think anyone else in MLB could be moved for that trio. In reality, there are other factors like payroll flexibility, available free agents next winter, a team being large or small market, individual team strengths, blocked prospects, etc. that would probably cross a few more players off the list.
  12. JCREW
    This turned out to be prescient. March was terrible, but since April 1, we have the best record in the league.
  13. JCREW
    I know it's cherry picking, but take it one step further... If you exclude just the month of March, the team is a league leader. Starting with April 1, the Brewers have the best record in MLB, and trail only the Cubs in run differential (125 to 116).
  14. JCREW
    Yesterday during Chourio's 3rd inning AB, he had an exit velo of 87.1 and a launch angle of 2 deg. It was on a two-strike pitch after hitting a few foul balls. He had swung hard at the first couple of pitches, and then changed to a two-strike approach. Levering said something along the lines of, "Chourio is thinking, 'The first two swings are for me, but once I have two strikes on me, the other swings are for the team.'" I think instilling this mindset is perhaps the single best thing about Murphy as a manager. It will lead to some low exit velo as people protect the plate, but it will also lead to getting runners over and in more and more often.
  15. JCREW
    I’m fairly convinced that if we are to upgrade SS during this season, it’s going to have to include one of Made, Pena, Pratt, or Quero.
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    I love little detective nuggets like this.
  17. JCREW
    I'm 1000% on board with O'Hearn. The Castro move could be sneaky good too. I think I often underrate the value of those edge pieces on the roster, but with an impending FA like Castro, the cost might be really low to give Murph a lot of versatility.
  18. JCREW
    I'm really looking forward to his return. I wonder if they will even bother with trying to get him up to a starter's workload for the rest of this season. If they could get him up to 40-50 pitches, he could be really valuable down the stretch.
  19. JCREW
    Given these two possibilities: A: Trade for Suarez, then shuffle Durbin and Turang. B: Hope for positive regression from Ortiz. I think scenario B has a higher probability of success. I like Ortiz too, and I don't like the idea of a big shuffle mid-season.
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    I agree that Ortiz > Monasterio. I'm just thinking that the real liklihood of trading for a cost-controlled shortstop who is a meaninful step above Ortiz is pretty small. Neto (LAA), Abrams (WAS), and Otto Lopez (WAS) are really the only options. And there aren't really any rental candidates. Murph has not given that many AB to bench guys this year. So, can we set forward a plan to drop a few Oritz ABs to give more AB to the stronger hitters on our bench?
  21. JCREW
    I think getting O'Hearn would be fantastic. Do that and keep everything else as it is. Use our pitching depth to save innings on the bullpen and on the Miz. O'Hearn upgrades Bauers. It rounds out the offensive roster for everything except SS. We run out a normal lineup like we have been doing. On a normal day, Ortiz gets 2 PA. For the 3rd PA from SS, we pinch hit one of Hoskins/Vaughn/O'Hearn. Mona comes in to play short and bat the rest of the way.
  22. JCREW
    I hadn't checked this forum in a couple days, and saw Lopez's stat lines, and came over here to suggest him. I wonder what Miami actually imagines as their competitive window right now. They seem adrift, but slightly less so than the Rockies. Both of those franchises are up against some big spenders (LAD, SFG, SDP, NYM, PHI) at the top of their divisions, so they really have to stack the farm to make a run at it. Lopez for Pratt + Wichrowski + another 40FV prospect?
  23. JCREW
    What would be really cool is to see is: A: How different cohorts of Brewer fans respond to this poll. Twitter, Brewerfan, BrewCrewBall, etc. B: How different fan bases respond to this question across the @Brock Beauchamp family of fan sites. It would be interesting to see how pessimistic/optimistic those different groups are.
  24. JCREW
    As much as I hate taking him out of the lineup against the Dodgers, yes. I think we should IL him and have him at full go by the time we play the Cubs.
  25. JCREW
    Of our 9 regulars, only Ortiz is below positional league average by OPS.
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