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  1. Playing Catch
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    Perkins is the only known quantity of the 3. As others have alluded, Spring Training isn't going to tell you squat. Lockridge and Mitchell need to play NOW, so that the Brewers know if they need to find a new CF or two before August.
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    1 - I hate it so much. 2 - One can avoid the scalping if one doesn't go at all. They are merely responding to market forces in order to make as much money as possible. 3 - The recent legislative and executive movement on this front demonstrates elected officials are responding to public interest, at least. Not only with tickets, either. But who knows where that ends up.
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    Woodruff and the team understand it's a long season. We see it every year where older pitchers ramp up their velo as the season goes on... Of course, we also see lower velocities in older pitchers coming off major surgery, whose velocities never return. But we saw good velocity from Woody late last season, so I'm choosing to think he's merely being patient and careful with his ramp up.
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    No such thing. Just an under-abundance of roster spots. My thought is that DFA'ing a righty is no big deal. You can pick one up on waivers anytime you need to bridge innings. Lefties are harder to get when you need one, so release one at your own risk. That's my theory, anyway.
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    I took that as Clark throwing a bone to the handful of High Point fans and all the other minnows and fans of cinderella out there. He had it in his head that he was going to pick High Point regardless of the matchup.
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    There was a lot of growth from pre-season to the conference season. But the growth we've witnessed since January 1st has been coach-of-the-year kind of growth. I was worried about Boyd and the Bigs in November. I was worried about the Bigs in January. But now March Madness is here, and I'm not worried about a thing. They've proved they can win without 3pt%, they've proved they can defend without fouling. They can defend playing aggressively, or with creative defenses out of timeouts. They take care of the ball at a Bo Ryan-level, they out-rebounded the tallest team in the country, and hung in there against the best front-line in college basketball. The top 7 rotation pieces all are threats from the perimeter. AND, they feature the Best Backcourt in the Country, who were the better backcourt in nearly every B1G game that meant something this season. Madness is unpredictable, but this is the most confident I've ever felt about a Badger team on Selection Sunday (aside from maybe the 2015 team, but they had F4 expectations, so it was a little different). They are primed to truly believe they can win the whole darn thing.
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    Aside from a season-ending injury to Chourio, this represents my most feared injury to the club. I felt like Priester was the surest bet to replace Peralta's regular season consistency. Nearly every team looks a lot different in September than April, so I was never "counting" on anyone to be available to dominate in a playoff series. There are just too many variables in a season to worry about if your starter can pitch into the 5th inning of a Wild Card series game. The Playoffs are always an all-hands-on-deck situation. I hope, of course, that rehab goes well enough that Priester can deliver the goods this season, but I think the likeliest scenario is that rest/rehab only works for a handful of starts before he decides to have surgery in time to be healthy and pitching by trade deadline 2027. The salve is knowing that even after being down Peralta/Priester, they have Sproat, Harrison, and Drohan now. A downgrade in experience and professional polish, certainly. But perhaps they are an upgrade in pure stuff. But this is the kind of injury that could really derail the season. I wouldn't think this at all if the Brewers played in the AL Central, but I don't like how much more competitive the Cubs, Reds, and Pirates look to be this season, and I think it will be a dogfight just to make the playoffs.
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    His flashes of defensive play are pretty encouraging. The kid looks like he could become a good defender at short.
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    I was going to add this thought to Spencer's Made write-up, but it fits better here... I'll be curious how the launch-angle obsession will shift during the era of ABS, where pitchers get more leeway up and down in the zone, rather than inside/outside. My hypothesis is that finding the correct swing plane up/down in the zone will be a lot harder than to maximize being on-time. I think that being on-time will be much more important than having a great swing path, as it allows the hitter to pull soft-stuff and go the other way with hard stuff. Staying on top and getting underneath in order to maximize launch is gunna get tricky. I'm probably wrong. Launch angle is, of course, a really important thing. I just wonder if those players with perfect swing paths are gunna swing into a lot of pop-ups and weak grounders. Not that swing path and being on-time are mutually exclusive, just that I think that hitting the ball hard is paramount to swing path. I think having a handsy, bat to ball swing can turn pop-ups into soft liners, and weak grounders into sharp grounders through the infield.
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    I see Pena profiling like Jean Segura. I think the talk of moving him to the outfield wouldn't be as pronounced in a different organization. In 20 organizations, he'd be the 2nd-baseman in waiting, and the team wouldn't move him off the dirt until he failed defensively in MLB.
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    Anyone else look at Roman Anthony chugging around 3rd and question that 50-grade speed? I'm not sure he's the athlete prospect gurus think he is. More likely, though, is that I'm spoiled watching the Brewers run the bases. Meanwhile, Turang just keeps smacking the ball around, hitting doubles off the wall in left-center, as well as ripping it down the RF line.
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    Is there a database anywhere that tracks total number of IL-days for each pitching staff over the course of several seasons? I have felt that one reason the Brewers stockpile arms isn't necessarily because it is a fait accompli that guys will lose time for UCL surgeries, Thoracic-outlet, or shoulder-stuff. But ALSO to PREVENT those long-term injuries by being really cautious and giving guys weeks throughout each season to better recover from inflammation. Without looking at data, it doesn't seem like the Brewers have had to face too many season-ending injuries to pitchers, aside from Woody. With all of the depth they have, starting Woody and/or Priester on the IL has the dual purpose of seeing what they have with the young guys. I think they like to see early whom they can count on later in the season when other guys take their stints on the IL. IF Woody is going to be full-bore by September, I would imagine we'd want him to stay under 120 IPs or so by then. No one wants a repeat of the opening series of 2025, when they got torpedoed by the Yankees, but 97-wins later, perhaps slow-playing the season wasn't the worst idea. Granted, the division, and the NL generally, looks really tough, so expecting a league-best win total, or walking to a division-title would be folly.
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    Yeah. Based on Murphy referencing Koenig's workload last season, I wonder if he and the team wanted him to take an extended offseason to really give the arm a break. Let him chill on the IL to start the season. That's the hope, anyway.
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    Based on the FanGraphs top prospects lists, which aren't capped at any particular number of prospects, the Brewers aren't so crazy deep as to make them an historical outlier. FanGraphs lists 53 prospects having a Future Value of 35+. This matches the totals of the Cardinals (blech) and Dodgers. The D-Backs have 56. But then, the Mariners only have 25, and the other teams they've listed are in the 30's and 40's.
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    Obviously, another glowing read on the organization. My favorite part was the last couple sections. The "How They Were Built," and "Breakdown" sections. I thought those sections demonstrated the incredible breadth and depth of the system. Their 40-man is pretty full, with oodles of organizational control, yet they predict 14 prospects to make their debuts this season. And as we know, there's plenty of guys to backfill those slots. And then, positionally. They've got prospects of all kinds.
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    Don't forget Joey-O's age-27 career-year... 20 HRs.
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    The Brewers just traded a younger, better, and cheaper third baseman and signed a FA. I think the Brewers would feel like Bohm would weaken their team, especially at $10M. Aside from Turner, Harper, and Schwarber, that Phillies lineup is looking on the wrong side of average, and getting older. Very left-handed. If Alec Bohm is your right-handed threat in the lineup, your lineup may be pretty average, unless you get full-strength seasons from Harper and Schwarber again. Their rotation is looking a year older as well. There's a lot of pressure on Andrew Painter and Aiden Miller to live up to their prospect pedigrees going forward. If they fall behind early in the standings, it could be a rough season on the banks of the Delaware.
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    I'm not able to attend many games due to proximity, but BF's resources are robust...
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    Anyone else think this beat report was odd? Rosiak and Megill both seem to be intimating that they expected him to be traded so much so that they are still kind of expecting it? The headline is the kicker. Or is Rosiak basically defending previous reporting that they were exploring trades, and wants to make clear that his sources were sound, and that his still being on the roster doesn't mean his reporting was off? Trevor Megill awaits role in Brewers bullpen, remains trade candidate
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    I feel like ZiPS often likes the Brewers. Also interesting that objectively, the Brewers have a lot of talent in the pipeline. Interesting that the 2016 list in that article shows that 98 of 100 players ended up playing in MLB. That's kind of an unbelievable hit rate to me.
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    Yeah. After further consideration, most of their guys have options. A lot of them will probably spend some time in Nashville. Probably a silly thread for me to keep pulling on.
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    Does this mean they believe Made has a better chance to be a HOFer than a "bust".
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    My point in comparing the splits was merely that we allow pitchers with typical splits to pitch to wrong-handed batters all the time when a guy is a "starter," because we want the innings. But why can't they do that for left-handed relievers? You can still bring them in to face the key guy, but they can go back out in the next inning. All of those lefties are dang hard to hit, regardless of which side of the plate a guy is standing on. As a right-handed hitter, myself, I sure as heck would feel uncomfortable facing Ashby. But you're right, it's unconventional. I just think a lot of those lefties are going to make the team. Although I suppose Zastryzny and Gasser and Hall all are subject to options/demotions/DFAs/trades. So, you are correct that it is probably more likely they end up with a typical bullpen when the season starts. I think, too, that the Brewers are looking at leaderboards like this, and want to make sure they have plenty of lefties. If you can make Ohtani, Soto, PCA, or Elly De La Cruz face a lefty as often as possible, you'll give your team a better chance to win the series.
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    Sure, but all of Misiorowski, Priester, Patrick and Sproat also have typical splits. being able to be more flexible with how they dole out innings could be helpful, or maybe not. Perhaps you are correct, and they have "too many" lefties and should trade one or more. But I think the reason they have a bunch of lefties is because they want more lefties.
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