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He should be called up to AAA within 10 more days. Something clearly clicked for him in last 2 weeks driving his OPS up over 100pts. Taking more walks then strikeouts while having more multiple hit games than 0 or 1 hit games. He's nearing the amount of PAs total given to him combined for A & A+ ball for time at AA. Black is deserving of a callup to AAA and I don't recommend calling him up but keeping Chourio at AA. Quero seems to be injured recently. Perfect timing to get these 2 called up while holding Quero back understandably til Quero returns and looks okay. Chourio lives up to the hype, he needs to actually get here if this 2 week spell continues straight through the call up to AAA. Then he can be used in this year's September and post season roster if he's holding his own better than Taylor's lack of talent. Black too. He's going to be a player the team gives an extension to. You don't worry about options or when you manipulate service time.

There's no current optics towards trading Yelich anymore for another season at minimum. He's by far the best hitter on the team currently. On top of that the multitude of player losses that will occur this offseason if traded or next offseason to FA. He's already earned his payday this season according to Fangraphs. If you have to eat any of his pay and don't get any immediate future star then it's not time to trade him. I'm talking like a Quero/Black/Miserioski type helium prospect riser before making a trade for. The way its going without extending anyone with a 2024 FA, the team will have Williams and Yelich and nobody else sniffing 8+Mil in 2025. So we're talking a very young team with the potential as appearing rebuilding/below 70wins with 0 vet leaders. How's that going to look to Brewers fans? No stadium maintenence this is the sign of selling this team good bye franchise. Imagine removing the only Brewer hitter that is being paid to hit and trotting out players that haven't proven they can hit now carrying a 60Mil payroll to start 2025. If even that? Make that make sense to the fans attending games. There needs to have a counter optic to make moving Yelich make sense as in acquiring a star via FA or trade and extending that player.

I'll bite. Profar and Benintendi were top of class pickups that automatically puts them at a top 60 ranking pretty much before playing a professional game(Jed Bradley was top 100 due to this) Profar lost 2 full seasons when he was expected to play his 1st full season to shoulder injury. Pretty rough start to meet the expectations. Moore (HS 8th rd) was off and running and then needed TJ and never returned to his forthcoming #1 prospect self. Injuries plagued and runied his career. (Think Jimmy Nelson) Chourio you hope doesn't suffer the fate of early career severe injury. He was 18th on international signing ranking so he was on the radar unlike our C Quero. What exactly should be the expectation of a #1 prospect? 3+WAR yearly? 5+? 7+?

Yeah boring outside of what is given to acquire Ohtani. San Diego has the 3rd best run differential in the NL. Sit 6 games back. Having arguably the best closer in Hader. They have very good reasons to be the team to bring in Ohtani. With prospect package to offer. So you mention a few names they could sell, but why not them buying Ohtani? Talk about star studded team moving ahead. I'd be a fan of the move just to see how close they would get to winning the division, much less earning a WC spot. Bieber is out til September 10th at the earliest and tbh elbow inflammation with that kind of push back is likely delaying TJ in hopes someway not to be. Verlander/Scherzer those are big contracts to work around on top I imagine no trade refusal rights? Goldschmidt would be 1 helluva sought after trade I'll give you that. Do the Cardinals know how to sell around the deadline? It feels they'd be breaking one of their unwritten rules. They've only finished 1 season this century below .500. I'd imagine Goldy has refusal rights too. Like MLBTR not giving a big update to this top 50 list yet shows how little the excitement will be in trades.

Ethan Small is going to get you a rental RP at best on his own. Used up 2 option years now already. And based on his stats in the majors and minor league WHIP, a team acquiring him should assume they got 1 season more to use him as a RP. Hiura has no options. Teams already passed on that. Let's keep these 2 names out of any trade proposal. In no world are you looking to acquire the two while trading away say Victor Caratini off this team. That's the best example I got of the level of player the Brewers are realistically adding to this team. If they were going to pull off a significant move, history shows they do it earlier and not last minute. The way this team was built, I feel they expected to sell off Winker/Anderson/&Tellez with possibly Urias/Houser. Only all but Houser, created negative value, and Houser's isn't all too much. All the ML guys thought expendable have been awful, while most of a top 10 team prospects have earned values beyond using in trades. I'd wonder on what #3 SP with 1+yrs control is out there who you pawn off Houser and Robert Gasser to. Woodruff/Miley/Ashby uncertainties along with Peralta's continued below expectation season. Finding Someone's SP who's just not quite ToR material but better than Houser making around similar but bigger next year. I don't know. Just saying I'd think the team uses Gasser in a trade for SP. I looked. This SP doesn't exist among teams with 48wins or less. Obviously above this threshold teams are in the running to be buyers. This will be the worst trade deadline ever across MLB.

This. The original trade getting Ruiz and Gasser plus the other 2 was disappointing. The Hader trade Arnold got bailed out by acquiring Contreras, Payamps, and Yeager all from Ruiz. Just found a way to get in between 2 teams heading in 2 very opposite directions to part with 2 ML players and 1 prospect for 1 prospect. Maybe I'll change my tune when Ruiz has a career over 15WAR. Then Oakland and Arnold put the right value towards trading for Ruiz, but Im inclined they sold Hader low. Gasser may start for Milw 1 day, but he's got 0 vibe being anything better than a #4 or 5 SP. If he's a 5 he may actually provide negative value producing like one. See Jason Alexander mixed with Colin Rea. Calling the Hader trade a win when trading him should have felt like a win from the start and it didn't? Trading Ruiz is the massive win feel we should have felt from trading Hader. Ruiz was a why with Mitchell, Wiemer, Frelick all nearing AAA and future callup. Chourio had established he was climbing prospect ranks. The team didn't need Ruiz' future. Trade values update has Ruiz at 13.4. Payamps at 12.2. Contreras at 56.8! Yeager .9. Gasser 4.4. Btw Hader at 3 only right now. Kinda shows Ruiz should have gotten Payamps and Yeager on his own. We're just living off an accidental Contreras inclusion lost in the conversation between Braves and A's

I get the statement Hiura has no business being called up due to having 0 defensive value. But We are staring at a Sub .600 OPS Winker with the exact same problem. no defensive value. Heck he bats Lefty and has been sitting games now vs LH pitching. Winker is a platoon player now. So, all that said, Replacing his suck for Hiura to bat DH with 0 defensive implications that just may actually provide some RBI/HRs you know scoring runs should be embarked on. I mean people complain about Hiura's misuse and his reverse splits. So him having a career .840 OPS vs RH pitchers isn't worth replacing Winker's current 565 OPS vs RH pitchers when he's used as a platoon bat now? Everything in Winker's statcast numbers are worse than his worst season ever last season. There's not one shining bright spot to put any faith in him turning it around. His k% is up to 25.5% Like I just want both sagas to end. Winker good bye. Hiura called up given every chance to remain in the bigs batting 5 games a week. If he can't hang then good bye to him too.

Speaking on 40man. If the Brewers added Black to their 40man when calling him up, a trade involving Black would mean that receiving team has to add him to their 40man. I don't think he's rule 5 eligible after this season yet. Those 40man spots protecting those who are are valuable. I just wonder are the Brewers keeping him down there til he sets the SB AA record before promoting him to AAA.

I'm now convinced you figured out who the Brewers will headline in a trade being Black. Just demote the players stopping him from getting reps in AAA to AA. As to the 40man issue I seen argued. We'll Waive Winker bye-bye and you've fixed your 40man problem. Truthfully they're holding on to Winker up til deadline to move him. Use him in trade of contracts so they aren't just stuck paying him his full salary when just waiving him. They'll finally kick him to the curb after the deadline if still holding on to him. The Black Era might begin if the team didn't acquire somebody to replace Winker.

Small is waiver wire pay. If this is what it would take, Milw should do it. To give up likely 0 superstars to acquire 2 for 2 months each? You should scrap Small and replace it with 1 of Misiorowski or Quero. Maybe you don't include Lara but somebody Like Logan Henderson or Chris Wood depending the SP/C you gave up between Mis/Que.

How can the Yankees acquire Ohtani? They have 2 top 100 prospects. Dominguez and a Catcher. Like they're about 27th or worse on headline packpage to offer. I can't even fathom a package it'd take for essentially 2 of the best players in the game but in 1 player. Nobody should be able to meet what it should cost.

Don't be the type who makes offers that rid the team of low value/waiver wire values like it will get somebody the Brewers need. Nobody wants any of these guys but us.

This should be your strategy. Draft guys who are likelier to make the Majors than guys who you can sign but ceiling out as AAA filler. Don't sign? No worries. Kept other teams from drafting and possibly signing. Didn't they increase pay for players in the minors? Still getting 150k and what's paid to you now may sway one starting their pro path quicker to the bigs. This can be the new way risking more ML draft with volume coming from international signings. I also like the protection idea on Pratt not signing. They find one or multiples who take what Pratt didn't that was saved up for.

Don't see a writeup on this guy via mlb. Must be a slot money saving pick towards the HS picks.

Well that's nice read that the delivery is super repeatable. 190 is a little light for your preferred workload SP. He'll obviously have time to mature and build up a couple ticks of velocity with a bigger frame. He'll carve up Rok-A+ ball with that Curveball offering.

Sometimes it's College commitment if the $$ don't match what the player wants.

White or Soto still on the board.

Im seeing 6-5 210 touches 100 HS RHP.

As HS 11/12 ranked signability questions might come in to play.

Lol that kid was set for FL St. Now Toronto drafts him.

Nice. Corner IF bat team needs. The MLB profile says he already has the loft and power needed to hit HRs. No screwing with his launch angle! Stud forthcoming.

Trout 6-2 Judge 6-7 Ohtani 6-4 DeLaCruz 6-5. Magic range 6-2 to 6-5 for blowing through ceilings.

Corey Ray, Grisham, Hiura, Frelick, Brown, and Black.

Just looking around mlb rank where we pick. Yohandy Morales at 6-4 3b profile. Thomas White 6-5 LH P, and Brock Wilken 6-4 3b/1b profile. Good for me. Enough with the under 6' 1st rd picks.

Hiura was out of options. If a team claimed him they had to insert him in to their opening day roster or waive him leaving the Brewers to rinse repeat. Part of the reason towards keeping him down. The next time he can refuse and become a FA. The team is walking an idiotic line continuing to play Winker and not give Hiura his final chance to stick with this team as a ML. I'm of the suspicion that the team has every intention to sell. Keeping Winker/Tellez through trade deadline in hopes they have a hot streak like Adames is now and get something in return with a trade.