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  1. Playing Catch
    If that is the case, than I like him a lot more. I guess I thought he was 2nd-only kinda guy. Thanks.
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    Not arguing, but they may have had their fill of former NL central shortstops that won't perform to the level of the contract.
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    Are you not concerned that in over 600 MLB plate appearances, his wRC+ is 72? I just don't see this front office counting on that player to be their 3rd baseman for next season, let alone the next four seasons. Also, why interrupt this thread when there is a Baty thread? Not that I really care that much.
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    He seems like a good risk to play to the level of his contract (I'm guessing he gets somewhere from $10-15M per season on a 3 to 5 year deal). Similar to 2nd/3rd tier FA starters, although he's younger at 27. He's left-handed. Control artist. I would doubt that he ends up a bad pitcher, but could end up below average. But his control from the left side could also make for a Milner replacement in the pen, albeit an expensive one. If the Brewers want to have a cost-controlled lefty, he seems like a good fit. The hope would be that he's a steady rotation piece with the fallback that he's a bullpen fireman. With that said, this front office is frugal, and loathe to chase production with longer-term, guaranteed dollars, especially with 20% surcharge. I suspect the Brewers would choose a different path.
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    The Badgers might end up being a top 25 team, but any prognosticator or ranker of teams saw their schedule in July and wrote them off for the rest of the season. The team will need to beat a team they are the underdog to, to get any notice nationally. So how 'bout they go and beat Penn State on national television Saturday night at Camp Randall?
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    Freitag and Hunter will need to come a long way to be a better option on the floor than a combo of Blackwell, Klesmit and McGee. All three of those guys are good, or better defenders, and vary from competent to excellent on offense. If Freitag and Hunter are playing meaningful minutes in B1G play, that is a good sign. I agree with the idea that Winter may need to fight with Glimore/Amos for starter minutes. In terms of the Badgers depth, or lack thereof, I think the best 5 or 6 players will see big minutes this season. They will need to scrap and claw for every win. If I am wrong, it will be because they will actually be able to space the floor with five shooters for the second time in more than a decade (2019-2020 was first year w/o Happ, and Wahl was a freshman), and they will be elite defensively (often the most important key to a successful Badgers season).
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    Yeah, the thread has a lot of merit. I would like him on the Brewers. I doubt I'd like what they'd have to give up to get him. But as you said, the Rockies are ridiculous. Maybe the owner likes him so much that he does McMahon a solid and they just release him.
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    Can you see him playing 3rd? CF? Or is he 2nd base only?
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    Respectfully disagree. The comparison with the NFL is apples to oranges. The NFL, with its decades-long, quarterback-driven, star-power+salary cap, competitive balance model has football fans tuning into non-market games nearly every day of the week. Casual sports fans in the largest metro areas in the USA, and nearly every bar with a television in the country are tuning in to watch the Jaguars-Chiefs on Thursday night. This is simply not true of your hypothetical Tigers-Brewers series with big baseball stars. The MLB brand is very, very weak. The Yankees brand is global. worldwide, Ruthian. Yankees and Dodgers caps represent the cities --- not baseball. A Packers hat represents NFL football, not Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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    That highlight reel for Lara's defense is awesome. BA's "top skills" list, or whatever, as voted on by league personnel, had him being the best defensive outfielder, and the best outfield arm in the Southern League. With a decent on-base/switch-hitting-contact profile, he may have one of the highest floors of the Brewers' position players.
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    Has anyone else decided that the BF top prospect list is the best, most current, and accurate of Brewers prospect lists?
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    I thought I heard at some point that the Rockies' owner loves McMahon, and is prone to keeping guys he loves regardless of their statistical merits. I would guess that even if they were desperate to offload money, they would demand too much in return.
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    Coleman Crow, who I believe is pitching in the Arizona Fall League, and flashing some intriguing quality, according to @Joseph Zarr
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    Yeah, even at the time, I thought Edman was about the most perfect piece that was available for the Dodgers. We often casually eschew the value of a proven big leaguer in favor of the shiny, controllable prospect. This is true when considering a Devin Williams trade as well. For a team that is competing, putting a good player on the field is always a good thing, and it may be preferable to taking on the development risk of the unproven player. Edit to add: This is not to say that for the Cardinals, giving up Edman wasn't preferable to giving up a prospect. Every situation is different.
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    I love the idea of taking a couple of these guys if the Brewers were doing a soft rebuild, but as a team trying to compete, I'm not sure how much patience they can have to watch post-hype prospect try to find big league relevance. If these guys are really, really cheap, then I love them as minor league free agent/spring training invite kind of players, but the Brewers are too good to just give ABs to these guys hoping they can be competent and competitive. I think that is the reason they may go with the quad-A, 28-year-old rookies. Guys that simply put together competent, competitive ABs, even though their sticks don't have a lot of juice. I'm thinking guys like Blake Perkins, Monasterio to a lesser degree, and hopefully, Isaac Collins.
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    Blackwell - 36 Klesmit - 34 Tonje - 30 Winter - 25 Crowl - 30 McGee - 18 Amos - 12 Gilmore - 10 Bench - 5
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    Black?!? But he's one of our TOP PROSPECTS! Admittedly, I am not a Black believer, and not only because of his glove. I don't trust his bat; I don't love prospects that derive a lot of value from walking a ton --- particularly guys with modest power, and a weird looking swing*. Baty's big-league BABIPs are low, but maybe they represent an issue with the quality of his batted balls or a lack of speed. The Fangraphs team doesn't like the lack of loft in his profile (but then again, they tend to believe more loft is the answer to every flawed prospect). I think it would be fine to give up Black for Baty. It looks like you'd be trading a future bench lefty UTL-pinch hit/run guy, for a bench corner IF/OF with some pop. That seems like a fair trade based on the Brewers needs. He'll be 25 next season, so I guess there's more hope that he'll figure it out more than similarly skilled, but older Oliver Dunn or Isaac Collins. But if I was a betting man, I would bet even odds that in a hypothetical 2025 season of 400 PAs, Isaac Collins would outproduce Baty, Black, or Dunn. *(I reserve the right to keep loving Luke Adams until he stops producing).
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    All phases clicking in the last 3 games. Special teams, aside from fielding punts has been good. Defense has those of us that have been pining for Leonhard relax a little bit. Those of us that felt that Chryst could conduct an offense just as poorly as Longo, are feeling better. I didn't disagree with the decision to fire Chryst/hire Fickell, but I also felt that Fickell didn't need a long leash. He was brought in to maximize the program quickly. He kind of came into this season on my own personal hot seat that was just waiting to get plugged in. These last three weeks have looked so much better, that I may even give him till 2026. It's not results, per se, that I've been judging on, but on all the little things that make a program hum. Identity, consistency, discipline. The identity of this coaching staff seems to be finally coming around to results on the field. The trenches have grown leaps and bounds. Their recruits are beginning to bear fruit. They can run the ball and stop the run. They're one of the least penalized teams in football. Things seem to have stabilized, anyway. Now Fickell has a foundation to keep growing.
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    I think Klesmit and Blackwell will start. I think the question about who the point guard is won't matter, because the rest of the candidates will have limited bench minutes.
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    I wonder about this too, especially with the metrics that only consider the plays they make. If Perkins or Mitchell range over to a gap and make a great catch, that doesn't mean that Frelick or Chourio weren't in a position to make an equal (or better!) catch. In an interview with a OAA guy and a DRS guy, they were talking about Elly De La Cruz. The OAA guy said he didn't care about errors at all because EDLC makes so many incredible plays to make up for them. But it made me wonder, if EDLC played next to Joey Ortiz, wouldn't Ortiz make A LOT of those plays before EDLC is ABLE to make an incredible play?
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    I agree with this. With that said, guys with options are also more valuable to OTHER teams that employ similar roster maneuvering.
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    I'm a little surprised at the strong feelings shared here. BA has been a great Brewers announcer for a long time. So good, that he's quickly earning a lot of national sports broadcasts. I, too, have noticed that his calls are a little more out-of-touch with the team than in earlier seasons. I think this makes sense considering his schedule, so it doesn't offend me. I wish him well, and I will always think of him as "one of ours," but I think the time has come for all parties to move on. A fresh, young team calls for a fresh, young play-by-play announcer (so long as they are excellent :) I'm one of those that likes the variety. And I will always prefer color commentators to err on the side of goofy and humorous to the side of serious and dour. One of the great announcers of the era, Jason Benetti, is incredible for the Tigers --- and he HAS to be, because Kirk Gibson has to be the worst commentator of the era.
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    A little weird, but not unprecedented.
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    It seems like there are a lot of different opinions as to Devin's trade value. Using our own prospects as a measure, which prospect of the Brewers would Williams be worth? 1 top prospect plus (Pratt+Wichrowski+Juan Baez+KC Hunt) 1 top prospect (MIz, Quero, Made) 2 mid-tier prospects (Lara+Wichrowski, Bitoni+Letson) 1 mid-tier plus 2 or more lottos (Lara+Manuel Rodriguez+Adamczewski+Jose Anderson) 2 lottos (Manuel Rodriguez+Jose Anderson) As for myself, I think for a contending team, that wants a closer, Devin is worth 2 mid-tier prospects. I don't believe any team would offer more unless it was a Williams package. I think the Brewers would accept even less. What this exercise makes me think about is that if the Brewers want MLB-ready, they will need to accept a low-ceiling guy.
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    I believe that the Rays and the Brewers have an unstated symbiotic partnership. They are in opposing leagues, opposing coasts. They trust each other's development. I think this is how they swung the Rasmussen/Adames trade. But I think the Rays hold onto Lowe. I think that they think they're gunna compete next season with that healthy rotation. Lowe would certainly help the Adames-sized hole on the infield, though.
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