Austin Tatious

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.

https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/brewers-sal-frelick-avoids-serious-injury/amp/

I am biased toward college players in the first round but Aidan Miller has the kind of upside that is really enticing. I like Soto as a pitcher but it might be early.

I believe Hiura is hurt. Correct me if I’m wrong. Ruf has been a bright spot as a niche guy. Winker and Voit should be in Korea.

Winker and Voit sure look like they’re trending toward the Nippon League portions of their careers next year. Hope that’s not the case and there’s time to fix it.

That was the best mound visit of the year by Hook. It took about 30 seconds of real time for Peter S. to reel off two outs after that.

Informative mock draft here from Prospects Live https://www.prospectslive.com/prospects-live/2023-mlb-draft-mock-3

Little nervous about Lauer. I saw him a couple of times in the spring and he didn’t look sharp. I hope he was just tinkering around and he’s ready to go. Would be nice to get a series win.

If you told me when Hiura first came up that he would have this much trouble with strikeouts and reverse splits, I would have been shocked. I get that he doesn’t want to hit the ball into the ground but I can’t recall anybody miss as many cookies in the middle of the strike zone because he’s uppercutting like a high school kid. But he’s had long enough to correct this and he was as bad as ever this spring. I can see why the Brewers had Keston-fatigue.

And the Milwaukee Brewers are on the board in 2023!

1st and 2nd nobody out! This is it

Braden, do you think Adams can stick at 3B?

If either of them get hurt is Payton Henry next?

Great info, Braden. You were fair and mentioned the pluses and minuses which gave us all an informative piece.