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Brewers just need 3 great starters. They already have the best in miz and another possible TOR in Harrison. They may add one more. Pitching can compete with anyone. offense isn’t as dependent on base path pressure as last year’s team. In fact, we’ve lamented their situational offense in recent weeks. no reason to think they aren’t serious. Teams will have to start lowering the ask prices soon. All positioning

1 We arent trading with the Dodgers 2 We are plenty stacked in the OF. Chourio/Mitchell/Frelick/Lara/Lockridge have plenty of time remaining. Then we have Adamczewksi/Ragsdale/Payne/Frias on their way.

To add, the new MLB Pipeline sheds some light but probably is slow to add anyone still in the DSL: 12 Frias (A) 19 Moneys (R) 21 Frontado (R) 27 Atunez (R) 28 Encarnacion (A)

awesome and yes!

Megill probably makes the playoff roster too

In recent years the DSL has turned into the Brewers' lifeblood, most recently with the wave of Lara/Made/Pena. Now we are seeing some of the newer guys getting buzz (Frias, Martinez, Matos) but dont really have the same background evaluation as the draftees. To the board gurus, how would you rank, say as a draft pick round, the top 6-7 prospects coming out of the DSL, starting with Frias/Martinez and working down to the DSL?

a .500 record vs an average schedule for a team that had the best record in baseball for over a year now is certainly a prediction

Henderson’s underlying numbers are on par with skubal this year, which is my point, so it’s not the massive team upgrade we should be looking for And both have health questions. I’ve already said I want skubal, but makes little sense to trade for our away from our bigggest weakness (long term playoff-capable starting pitching), when we’ve accumulated such quality upper minor depth elsewhere. Unless maybe a multi team deal can be made.

Adamczewski has been in the spotlight and exceeding expectations but I wonder how the org views him vs Ragsdale. Similar numbers this year. Ragsdale is 1.5 older, less service time used. A little less plate discipline but maybe more speed. Both bat lefty.

Skubal's numbers this year arent necessarily going to outperform Henderson's, so I'm not sure the Brewers would make move for a pricier player with no more future control and similar risk & results this year. Not sure it moves the needle enough to be worthwhile, unlike simply adding Skubal and pushing a starter to the pen and reliever out. Maybe Drohan.. but we really should be dealing from our minor league positional depth. If we swap pitchers, then I'd also like to see a younger arm for a younger bat

IGT is actually a really positive experience. Just need the brewers to be up by about 7 runs

Getting more nervous about this Rule 5. Brewers have more of a spotlight on their upper minors and nowhere to stash a bunch of guys. I think we need to move or lose some of these guys. Luke Adams, Jett Williams, Kuehner, Wichrowski, Wilken, Boeve, Wagoner, O'Rae, Wood, even Castillo.. a number of interesting prospects. On the flipside, maybe our staff can identify a pitching prospect worth a look.

Zero chance of Adamczewski for Peralta. Not even close. Brewers seem to like package pitching deals like getting Harrison & Drohan. For all of our pitching successes, the org really lacks top tier pitching relative to hitting. Wouldn’t be surprised to see a multi pitcher deal that helps restock the farm. Adamczewski could be an All-star and deserves a healthy return.

Awesome, still leaves room to work with. Side note: appreciate bf but kind of annoyed with the BF signing “tracker” feature this year. Reports have been out for a week now of signings that aren’t being reflected. What are the signing gaps right now?

I have low expectations today. Seems every time we get within striking distance of the Dodgers, we struggle the next few games.

I'd be curious to see first 2 months vs last 2 months..felt more like a recent trend

perhaps you are thinking top 100 draft prospects and not top 100 pipeline prospects. The hit rate of turning into solid players is closer 50% once the they are in the top 100 of all minors. https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/how-good-is-the-top-100-prospects-list-at-identifying-future-mlb-stars/

I dont have an issue with Frelick trying to compete and play through it. It's the job of management to diagnose and put the best players out there. However, it is concerning if what he says is true. That he is the one who pulled himself out and he is the one who's been keeping it quiet. We've seen those throws and this board was quick to diagnose an in injury. From the sound of it, he complicated it leading to a more serious injury. Not like they dont have AAA talent. Why wasnt the staff on top of this?

Maybe we were a year early, but the Brewers have 5 top 100-ish prospects and Pratt/Made/Fischer/Adams/Williams in the upper minors covering SS/3B and 6/7/8 behind them with Pena/Ebel/Ebel. So, we were stacked and the waves of bats have begun.

Im happy that the Red Sox are finding some success with these guys. Salvaged what seemed like a steal and becomes closer to win-win. We want teams to trade with us.

yeah im on board with peralta. Reward a guy who has been thoruhg it as a brewer and they know how to use, unless there are some underlying new concerns they see. They need a starter and unless they get a deal on a Skubal/Ryan/Mize, they need someone else who they feel is a reasonable starter and candidate for a playoff starter

Perhaps its the ~.100 BA he carried for most of the season or the .222 BA with no XBH in Nashville thats skewing my perception of how fixed he clearly is

would have liked to see him get some consistent ABs in AAA before the recall. Kind of disappointing, but I guess it keeps them from having to DFA someone.

I think the preseason approach was to use cards to effectively challenge from the dugout. There a few factors each player has to weigh on the challenge - The accuracy of the call - The game situation - The number of challenges used at that point in time in the game - the count ..if the coaches can take some of that thinking off the table, might help them. And we done yet know the extent of how this added thinking affects their overall hitting

I think we can all see the maddening struggles with situational awareness regarding the ABS system. I propose some kind of color code threat level system that takes some of the thinking out of the process. The batters are trying to figure out what type of pitch is being thrown and other things and they don't necessarily want to fill their heads with added decision-making. The coaching has been slow to inform them for whatever reason. It seems to me they are letting the players largely dictate this and probably teaching them theory but I don't know that that's what they need to be hearing. I propose instead that they have some kind of simple color code system that lets them know where they're at in the game, what level of challenge they should be considering. Like a Def Con 1 through 4/5, with each level representing how aggressive they should be. They can just have a simple light up or card up so that they don't have to think about the situation but are free to react according to the call and the threat level. First few innings you handle it pretty conservatively. Defcon 2 where you try not to use it unless it's pretty obvious but you better be right or it better be a big moment. If you burn a challenge early, you've got to go to Def Con 1, where you have to be ultra conservative about that next challenge. Only use it in a critical situation with an egregious call but the key is that the coach has changed the threat level so the players can just react Conversely when it's late in the game, the coaches start to bump up that level and get more aggressive with the color code as the game goes on. They also consider the matchups and other kinds of risks they may want to take. They manage the threat level and the players respond with a set of parameters based on the current threat level and they can just look up to see the color and the corresponding rule. I think we can all agree that the Chourio at bat in the ninth inning sitting on two challenges with extra ones coming in the extra innings was a terrible decision and he should have been on high alert to challenge anything borderline. But we've also seen this happen both ways with some players refusing to challenge and others overzealous to challenge