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Giants almost definitely will sell. Trying to figure out how to fit Arraez into the lineup or Chapman into the budget. Arraez to 2B and Turang to SS? Bring in Chapman for the year and flip him in the offseason? Both highly unlikely. Thought about Wily for a minute (think they would eat salary) but he has a negative WAR and I don’t think he fits the team anymore (not that desperate for a defensive butcher at SS).

I didn’t mean last year, 87 IP of Mis vs 167 of Burnes. And I’m just saying that it’s not like we haven’t been here before, we were here 5 years ago (lucky to see great pitchers in this era of Brewers baseball).

Burnes in 2021 actually carried a lower FIP than Mis has now through 167 innings. Not trying to rain in the Mis parade but that was a great season.

Will this be the highest scoring game ever? I'm expecting double digit run totals from both sides.

Is it true that I'm not seeing any Brewers errors scored? Not watching that close but i thought I saw turang drop a pop up and maybe a mis played outfield ball in the first.

Cubs at 48% chance to make the playoffs on fangraphs. Thought it was noteworthy they fell under 50% after their strong start to the season.

I think we are on track to need an inning eater or 2. Hard to say though because it depends on the health reports for Woodruff and Priester and innings limits for guys like Crow and Henderson.

Lately every night I check the scores and Brewers winning Cubs losing Mets losing and I go to sleep feeling good

Can’t wait til we get into June and some AAA hitter call ups become more viable. Lara, Pratt, Jett are all looking like interesting options right now. Would like to see Frelick in a platoon and defensive sub role until he works through his issues at the plate. The other ABs go to one of those prospects.

Priester was a guy we really needed in October. Yeah our starting rotation looks great now but it’s full of guys who can’t exactly pitch 200 innings and then every 4-5 days in the playoffs. Priester was supposed to be one of those guys.

The new trend seems to be that at the beginning of the season you write out your SP depth chart about 10 deep and you assume all of those guys are going to pitch significant innings for you that year. That’s what the Brewers and Dodgers seem to do and probably some other teams too. Guess the Red Sox may be behind on that one.

I thought things were looking kind of ok with Hamilton as the primary SS and Ortiz the backup. Definitely not a situation that demands rushing up an under performing prospect anyway. 3b is another story. I am a believer that Rengifo will turn it around soon, but if not then calling up a prospect to push Hamilton to 3B is a pretty marginal change offensively. Plus we probably have to trade/DFA Ortiz at that point to avoid carrying 3 SS with no offensive upside.

Looks like their pitching is likely going to hold them back at least this year but they will probably add there soon. That offense looks like it's coming up though I'm not sure if I believe in Jordan Walker over a larger sample size. However he has a lot of room to regress yet still be good.

It's still early and it's easy right now to just drop him down the depth chart and see how things go. Woodford and Drohan are still on the roster and as long as they are here then Zerpa's roster spot is likely safe.

Most years it feels like there are only 2 or 3 players carrying the entire offense at a time. The names change but usually 2 or 3 at a time.