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  1. Playing Catch
    The Brewers actually drafted Riggio out of high school. Didn't sign, obviously. I love the idea of getting Schmidt for Williams. No idea if that would be something the Yankees would do, however.
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    That's my thoughts as well, but... Sasaki isn't a normal situation. The Brewers don't get these kinds of opportunities very often. I'm definitely of two minds on this one.
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    It doesn't make me sad. They aren't good enough. They wash themselves out. They get on with their lives. It's sad in the sense that they may not end up with a free education, but if they're playing the transfer game, they're not there to play school anyway. It DOES make me sad that the whole "free college" aspect of playing D1 football has been totally lost in all of the NIL stuff. Ask any of us that are paying off student debt into middle age if getting a scholarship is being compensated for "working" as a football player.
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    I respectfully disagree. None of the criticism would be unfair. He was terrible. 1-5, 5 fouls. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Klesmit? 1-9 from deep. NINE shots from deep. Terrible. I will remain bitter about that loss all season. We still don't know how good this team can be, but that loss will get in the way of some kind of goal, be it a B1G championship, or a much-needed game to get into the dance. The Badgers were "in control" of that game throughout, and let it slip through their fingers. Bad, bad loss.
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    I LOATHE this idea. I curse Jayson Stark for even writing about it. How this is even being discussed is maddening. ALL of the other rules other than the Manfred Man make baseball more baseball-like. This idea was a stupid thing for Stark to even dream up, let alone write about. As far as the Manfred Man thing, it doesn't really bother me that much. I don't think it should start until like, the 12th inning, but if they don't do this, the union gets its undies in a bundle about pitchers health and all that. So I get it.
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    Certainly. And I don't particularly care about whether or not he is recognized on one list or another. I just believe he has the draft profile of a guy that very well could take the minors by storm next year and put himself squarely in the Brewers 2026 season window.
  7. Playing Catch
    The most important ability is availability.
  8. Playing Catch
    So IF the Brewers were to sign Roki Sasaki, all of these guys would need to find new contracts, correct?
  9. Playing Catch
    I hope he wins a gold glove there. Then we can complain how Frelick just doesn't have enough pop for a corner infield spot.
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    I understand that the older one gets, the acceptable timeframe for change can shift, but have hope! The Yankees and Dodgers and Giants have long dominated the major leagues. While I agree that the competitive imbalance has gotten worse, I believe it's gotten MUCH worse recently. I expect that the next CBA will be the bellwether as to whether or not one abandons the game altogether.
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    While I understand that the number that players sign for give us a hint as to the quality of the draftee, it doesn't change the fact that the Brewers drafted the likes of Payne and Burke ahead of guys like Meccage and Levonas. I think it is reasonable to believe that the Brewers felt that the skillsets of those hitters at that price range was more scarce than the skillsets presented by Meccage and Levonas, i.e., the Brewers valued Payne and Burke commensurate with where they were picked. I don't dispute that Burke needs to jump guys that are already queuing up for big league opportunities, and that therefore, it could impact his timeline. It's possible that I was misinterpreting @edfunderburk's OP correctly, believing he was more curious why there's no chatter about Burke around here. I'm positing that Burke's prospect status is worthy of more chatter, regardless of his timeline.
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    Del Chiaro doesn't evade any of the questions. His blunt observations of Made, Pratt, Boeve, Wilken, and Payne were a little surprising to me. at the same time, I can't imagine blowing smoke is within the scope of his job responsibilities. I guess it's never a bad thing for prospects to see that the Brewers believe in them.
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    I don't hate that idea, but the Brewers would then need to replace a 100 wRC+, 26 HR performer whom most of us believe will improve on those numbers next season. (Usually, we think of Bohm replacing Adames' bat)
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    Frelick mentioned this in an interview last spring, I believe, when he mentioned that he was too good at making contact, resulting in fewer barrels, and that he needed to improve his swing decisions to make better contact more often. Perhaps easier said than done, I guess. I, for one, choose to believe in the talent, and that we'll see a nice bump in production in his age-25 season. I'll predict he ISOs in the .150s, and reaches 10+ dingers. 30 doubles and a handful of triples.
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    Gotta love Thames. However, his performance is magnified by the brilliant use of the first-base platoon with Aguilar.
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    Our more scouting-aware posters probably know better than I, but it seems to me that strictly based on draft profile, it would be fair to say the Brewers drafted him, believing that he had the quality to jump over all of the players you mention in your post. I mean, he was ostensibly a late 1st round pick. He's got a college, first base only profile. There's no way the Brewers draft that player without believing he's really good, and that they "expect" him to be a big leaguer sooner than later. Your projected timeline is correctly conservative, and open-ended, but there will be plenty of time for the minors to dull the shine on a player that there is fair reason to be optimistic and excited for. I think it is VERY possible that due to the exciting current state-of-the-farm, that Burke is almost literally being forgotten about.
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    Now that I understand which Kim the OP was referring to, I would be nervous about the Brewers outbidding for an unproven 26-year old middle infielder. It's not fair to make comparisons with other KBO players coming stateside as there probably haven't been enough examples to garner any real relevance to projecting their future performance, but it seems likely that Kim would have a hard time matching his already modest power numbers, and that his on-base performance, too, would be diminished, at which point you have, at best, a luxury utiliity infielder. A guy with a good glove, decent speed, lefty-stick. Not a bad player, but not someone to dedicate $8M/season on, either.
  18. Playing Catch
    Aaahhh! I didn't even know about Hyeseong Kim! Thanks for alerting me.
  19. Playing Catch
    Yeah, it's hard to say what the White Sox will do. And I'm sure they want to maximize the return as best they can. The Nats-Padres Soto deal is probably the baseline. But they'll never get that kind of return for Crochet. Not even A.J. Preller is that aggressive. If I were the Sox, I would be considering each trade offer on its own merits, and not necessarily chasing uber-prospects. It's impossible to compare to a thousand hypothetical trades, but if they received an offer that had Ashby and Frelick as a starting point, I think the value, for the Sox, is that firstly, they'd have two MLB players (they have to field a team). Secondly, those players would likely maintain trade value down the road a season or two. If the Brewers started with Ashby and Frelick, and added Luke Adams and one of the 20 year old pitchers, that would be enticing. The Sox don't ONLY need top prospects... they need prospect depth, too. As a franchise, they may be better off getting 4 regular big-league players than trying to find one MVP/Ace.
  20. Playing Catch
    I really like Kim, too. Nervous about the injury, though.
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    If one was motivated by the points you mention, like Ashby's uncertain future performance but certain higher salary, and moving Frelick at perhaps, peak-value, than I see an Ashby+Frelick package as very desirable for a lot of teams, and that package would probably net a really strong return. Not a bad consideration at all. It could even be a decent starting point for Crochet.
  22. Playing Catch
    He was the same kid who could be seen saying, "I ******* hate playing here," after getting mercilessly booed early in his career after booting a ball. I'm not at all predicting this, but just playing armchair psychologist, but maybe he'd flourish at a lower-key, more supportive atmosphere than Philadelphia.
  23. Playing Catch
    All of the Twins fans I know talk the same way... the Pohlad's are cheap asses that ruined a good thing by cutting payroll. I just don't see it that way at all. I think it is quite similar to Brewers fans that don't fairly assess the differences between MLB and NFL/NBA. Not that the Twins didn't cut payroll, which may, or may not have anything to do with the Bally's fiasco, but just that their team was going to be younger and cheaper (and better), without major FA additions. Had they made the playoffs, I think most of the fans would still grumble about the Pohlads, but missing the playoffs gave them what they actually wanted... new ownership. Or, at least a team that is kinda for sale. All of this is to say, is to be careful what you wish for as fans. Twins fans had a borderline playoff team and playoff roster with young stars. Now, the fans have an organization in flux, with an uncertain short and long-term outlook.
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    It's hard for an outsider to look at this team and feel like they NEED a big move.
  25. Playing Catch
    IIRC, they really needed a catcher.
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