Austin Tatious

If Knoth goes under it’s because it was all worked out ahead of time. As in, he was prepared to go later and the Brewers offered to take him earlier in exchange for lower $ but more than he would have gotten later.

Interesting. I hadn’t seen that he can touch 98. Looks like he gets great movement. I like a high upside pitcher. We need that.

Soto…Whitman…Hurley. Maybe McGonigle although I’m not sure about the upside with him.

I was hoping Colt Emerson got to 33 but that played out to be a fantasy.

He’s got a rocket arm but may be a stiff athlete. Even if he’s a first baseman, he brings a needed power profile to the system. Let’s hope the hit tool is effective as he approaches the big leagues. Being an advanced college guy helps dampen that risk. He’s got some good performance behind him in the Cape Cod League. Hopefully he can get the strikeouts down.

The speed and defense are tremendous but he is my least favorite guy too. Fingers crossed.

Good point. I would like to see us focus on college pitching heavily after the first 3 picks focus on BPA and particularly upside. We landed Burnes and Woody both that way. Draft quantity in terms of college pitchers and some will emerge to one degree or another. The benefit is also that you can spend more early and balance out your budget.

Waldrep would be great but I am skeptical that he gets there. Love the pitch mix that he has. Troy or Shaw would be solid picks and on the safer side. If we go college outfielder, I’d much prefer Davis over Bradfield. Taking Bradfield would fill the gap from losing Esteury Ruiz which is a skill set Arnold seems to be interested in, and he can have influence with Johnson as they grind through their discussions. The other thing is if some teams above us go for some under slot guys which allows some unexpected players to drop and we can pounce. Maybe somebody drops that we aren’t focused on like Wilson, Dollander, Nimmala, or Gonzalez. I would be happy with Aidan Miller but I haven’t seen us linked there anywhere. I don’t have an opinion as to whether he can stick at third but I’ve read that there is risk there. Very exciting day. That pick at 33 is huge as it’s essentially a second first round pick. Then you add a second round pick, and the Brewers are in a good position to add three names pretty high on our prospect lists which is nice because we have some impending graduations.

Even though he’s probably going to be a 2b, I could see us running the card up. Excelling at Cape Cod is a huge tell that we will love him. And I agree with that Conversely, I expect that will get Schnauel excluded. You know Tod Johnson has his models and you know he gives Cape Cod data great weight.

There’s risk here but I love the repertoire. He’d be on my short list.

My last word. The word simple there was used to point out that you didn’t need an extra base hit or a home run. Somehow you missed the context and decided to make an issue out of me saying it’s easy to get a single. This isn’t helpful on a message board. You didn’t like me being critical and you decided to go low. It’s not needed.

It’s a stupid argument. I don’t know why you decided to go there. The Cubs reliever was laboring. Two men were on base. You didn’t need a home run. You didn’t need a double. All you needed was a single to win the game. Tellez is your first baseman. That’s a position where you should expect run production. He didn’t deliver. It was the difference in winning or losing the game. None of this is controversial. You got caught up in the semantics of it to try to mock someone else. It’s not necessary. You can chase away other fans from posting. The case also illustrates the importance of batting average and driving in runs. OBP is important too but people who want to outsmart everyone else by pretending that BA is not important need not look any further than that situation. If you can get a hit, you can drive in a run and win the game. A walk doesn’t win the game. From a first baseman, with the game on the line, you want him to knock it in. There’s no randomness to it. That’s the exact situation he’s paid to perform in.

And yes, dying on that hill is in effect a choice to defend Tellez.

Douchebaggery aside., it’s absolutely stupid to ridicule other fans from expecting major league hitters from executing. Listen to yourself. These aren’t fat middle aged men in a beer league. Good God. Get it together, man. Function in the real world.

That’s fine. I was just making an illustration.

Thanks for the post. To clarify, I was referring to first round picks. I think drafting up the middle makes sense but it’s getting to foaming at the mouth levels. The mistake is that third base is athletically one of the most challenging positions to find. Black has been playing third and maybe that puts an end to the problem so let’s see. I tend to doubt he can play league average defense there but you never know. The bat looks solid. I think a SS draftee who profiles to third over time is a perfectly valid way to do it. As for first, drafting a profile like Fielder might be a hard sell to their current thinking but he was a shrewd pick. To be clear, I’m very happy with Tod Johnson. He’s been a massive upgrade in the draft room. I have been pounding the table that the farm system that he has stocked is much better than national rankings have been suggesting. I was extremely critical of the prior drafting regime and the results bore that out. Tod is drafting well and I’d hate to lose him. While I like the up the middle emphasis at the top of the draft, I don’t want it to the exclusion of corner infield. Third base is an athletically challenging spot and first base could use a special bat. These are still premium skills. As deep as our outfield is in terms of prospects. I’d love to see the infield catch up.

I’d be happy with Davis. I agree with your comment about him being underappreciated. I don’t know if they go for him though. I do think one of the second basemen could be the choice here like Shaw or Troy. They could rise quickly and be at second here soon. I like Aidan Miller even if it will cost extra money but I just don’t see him fitting the Brewer profile. A really smart team like Tampa or the Dodgers will no doubt jump on him.

Winker at some point is a sunk cost. Arnold will have to answer for that but in the meantime you need to upgrade. I can’t imagine another franchise thinking Winker is an attractive trade option unless it’s just a total throwaway. I hope he’s brushing up on Korean cuisine.

Wait? What? What was the whole point of the potato salad diatribe if it wasn’t a defense of Tellez????? Tread carefully.

If you put Hiura in the lineup every day in the 6th spot and put him at some combo of 1st base and DH, what do people reasonably think his stats would be this year? .225 11 HR 30 rbi, 36% K, .730 OPS? Something like that? Is that better than Jesse Winker? At what point are the Brewers yanking him around when their alternatives have failed spectacularly?

This is great news. I also like Andrews long term. I know he struggled that first outing but it’s hard to say how much of that was nerves. The problem is rookies need to get acclimated. You see it at every level. A guy goes from A+ to AA, same thing. We have had a high number of rookies get time up here this year and the more acclimation we can get done now while staying in the race, the better off we will be in future years.

That’s a lot of mental masturbation and no discernible point being made other than undercutting your post by admitting you’re obsequious. That’s not a good thing. In any event, very hard to read all of those non-sequiturs, excuses, straw men, wild speculation and general superiority complex. Just because you’re blindly positive doesn’t make you smarter than everyone else. PS 90% of my posts are positive so the snarkiness is unnecessary. I want the Brewers to do well.

You may be a really sharp guy. But pretending that Tellez is the answer doesn’t help the discussion. He is a losing player. He’s what you call a second division player.

Arnold needs to be on a short leash. For those of you who reflexively and blindly support every move the franchise makes, the problem you will have is Mark knows he needs to be on a short leash. He’s not going to be here indefinitely if we don’t turn it around in terms of roster construction. For example, you come back with a guy like Rowdy Tellez as your first baseman and you have to answer for that. He’s not even a Chris Carter. He came up yesterday with two on in a tie game against a struggling reliever and was feeble again. Then you lose the game. You can take simplistic data like WAR all day and that’s an actual loss you would have been able to flip around with a simple single. It happens too frequently. When you have subpar guys like that, you lose difference-making games. Sadly, the fan base understands this and you can’t be having the fans outsmarting the GM. It’s like when we drafted Corey Ray. The scouting director was gone because it was so obviously a stupid pick. The comedy is the genius fan brigade who will defend Rowdy to death because data like “batting average and RBI do not matter” and then you have the guy with a horrific hit tool squander a winnable game. You can move Yelich to first in time and make room for an OF of Frelick, Chourio and Wiemer with Mitchell in the mix, but that doesn’t help you now when you have good pitchers who aren’t under contract forever. And the organization’s decision to stubbornly and incorrectly eschew corner infielders in the draft and foreign market has really caught up with them. Arnold has had a prominent position and is part of all of that. There are too many baseball men who are really bright to keep chugging along if things don’t start getting better in terms of roster construction.

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