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Hernandez back out for the seventh and goes F9, 6-3, single on his 90th pitch. Comes back and strikes out the next batter for a seven inning, 94 pitch complete game.

Payne walked for the third time. went to third base on a Filippo Di Turi single, then scored on a Luis Lameda single to give Carolina a 4-2 lead bottom six.

Not quite and eruption but Made walked, stole second, went to third on a groundout and scored on a wild pitch in the bottom half.

I dunno, believe White Sox had second shot at him on the waiver wire so may have been a hot commodity

Assuming Giannis stays, I think they'll try to retain all of Porter Jr, Trent Jr and Portis (plus Ryan Rollins and Jericho Sims). If Brook wants to come back at a discount as a regular season floor raiser I'd be fine with that too, but would prefer to give those minutes to someone younger. Porter Jr. / Rollins Trent Jr. / Patty C Green / Jackson Jr. Giannis / Kuzma Bobby / Sims Deep bench would be Chris Livingstone, Tyler Smith & whoever they take with pick #47. Try to deal Kuzma for someone more useful &/or see who is out there for the vet min that can fit in around Giannis and knock down some open shots.

I can see both sides of it. Even though Made is a teenager in A ball he feels "safer" than Misio due to pitcher attrition rate in general and reliever risk with Jacob. I've had Misio at #1 for awhile now just due to his legit ace potential, howsoever small. With another bonkers start today those odds keep sneaking upwards though.

FanGraphs Top 45 is published today. Haven't had a chance to fully dig in yet, but here's the System Overview... The Brewers system is among the best in baseball thanks to their scouting in Latin America, and their ability to synergize the domestic draft with their player development processes. In the span of a few years, the Brewers have signed two superstar-level international talents in Jackson Chourio and Jesús Made. Even if things somehow go awry for Made, his bat speed is his bat speed, and his power is his power. The ability to identify and/or develop indomitable characteristics in just a couple of players can change the course of an entire franchise, and the mere chance that Milwaukee has done this twice in short succession is remarkable, and very bad news for the rest of the NL Central. The Brewers, for the most part, do not put all of their eggs into one basket on the international front. There isn’t a $3.5 million player occupying the majority of their pool space. Instead, they tend to have multiple $1 million to $2 million players, and those players tend to have the heuristic qualities (switch-hitting infielders, shorter-levered players) that analytically inclined teams like the Rays and Guardians target, with slightly more physicality or projection than is typical for that player demographic. Casting a wider net in that market allows the Brewers to diversify their risk and field two rosters worth of players in the DSL. Homegrown players are so important to smaller market teams, and this gives Milwaukee more chances to find some. The rate and speed at which the Brewers improve the pitchers they draft is among the best in the industry. There are so many generic college relievers on this list who have not only improved, but who have a shot to be big league starters. For a while, the Brewers hammered junior colleges, but the transfer portal has made those less dense with talent. Now they’re unearthing guys who had 8.00 ERAs at big schools and making them good during their first offseason. It’s not like other teams don’t scout Mississippi State; the Brewers aren’t turning over rocks in the Dakotas to find players, though they do scout the Midwest very well. Guys like Tyson Hardin and K.C. Hunt had all the resources of an SEC program, but their time in Starkville still didn’t make them especially good. And the Brewers give themselves lots of chances to apply their player dev concepts to many players. They work out their bonus pool math in such a way that they maximize how many high school players they’re drafting, signing 15 of them (!) combined the last two drafts. High school players have more athletic projection, with more time and opportunity to develop than college players, and when you’re adding six or eight of them to your system every year, you’re adding the opportunity for homegrown ceiling to an org that needs it to tilt with the likes of the Dodgers and Phillies. It’s conceptually basic but difficult to execute. It takes your scouting staff properly gauging signability in a weird slice of the amateur market, namely high schoolers whose talent puts them in the $250,000 to $600,000 bonus range, and who are willing to sign for that. It’s such a specific tier of talent to care about, and the org has to have non-data intel on each of these individuals in order to execute the strategy.

Jimmy Herron hitting 212/268/265 (50 wRC+) and Adam Hall hitting 207/281/264 (56 wRC+) with a 36.5 K% have been the primary corner outfielders for NASH this year. Rosario has hit 339/406/542 (137 wRC+) in AAA so far this year. I’ll cruise with Eddie.

Sounds leading 5-0 in Game Two. An EMJ triple and and Adam Hall single got the first run on the board top of four while another Anthony Seigler bomb added two more runs top of five. Sounds kept it going in the fifth with a Dunn single, EMJ walk and Raynel Delgado RBI single. A wild pitch moved runners up to 2nd and 3rd with an Adam Hall single scoring another run. & now Zamora gets HBP to load em up for Jimmy Herron. DL Hall went 2.2 scoreless with 1 H | 3 BB | 1 K throwing 49 pitches (30 strikes). Ashby worked around a single, double and walk to put up a zero in the bottom of the fourth.

Last year Made played 27 games at SS, 12 at 3B, and 9 at 2B. Luis Pena played 24 games at SS, 10 at 3B, and 8 at 2B. I would guess they'll continue to move them both around as they move up the ladder to see who fits best where. If it was just about errors Pena has 4 in 27 total chances for an .852 fielding percentage at SS so far this year compared to Made with 3 errors in 85 total chances for a .965 fielding percentage at SS so far this year.

How about another Dinges DONGER here to lead off bottom of eight. A literal rainmaker as one batter later the game is in delay.

NASH romping early with an 8-0 lead after five. Seigler (BB | 1B | HR), Dunn (BB | 2B), Alfaro (1B x2), and Delgado (1B x2 | SB) with the standout lines in the box so far. Civale is at 5 IP | 2 H | 1 BB | 2 K with 60 pitches (40 strikes).

& a Dinges double ties it up at five each in the sixth.

Good players rarely make good coaches because most players don’t have their same natural talents. The Yankees (137 wRC+) have James Rowson, Casey Dykes and Pat Roessler as their hitting coaches. The Dodgers (126 wRC+) have Aaron Bates and Robert Van Scoyoc. The Mariners (118 wRC+) have Edgar Martinez, Kevin Seitzer and Bobby Magallanes. For the Cubs (118 wRC+) it’s Dustin Kelly, Juan Cabreja and John Mallee. The Mets (118 wRC+) have Jeremy Barnes and Eric Chavez. The Tigers (116 wRC+) have Keith Beauregard, Michael Brdar and Lance Zawadzki. The DBacks (112 wRC+) have Joe Mather, Travis Denker and Damion Easley. The Padres (110 wRC+) have Victor Rodriguez, Mike McCoy and Pat O’Sullivan. The A’s (110 wRC+) have Darren Bush, Mike Aldrete and Chris Cron, For the Cardinals (109 wRC+) it’s Brant Brown and Brandon Allen. If I counted right that’s 27 hitting coaches employed by the current Top Ten offenses and five (Edgar, Seitzer, Chavez, Easley and Aldrete) whose names I recognized as having success in MLB. Maybe six if you want to count Brant Brown’s 380 PAs of 120 wRC+ in 1998,

That 17 K to 2 BB ratio through eight innings between Mercedes, Quezada & Dorchies is pretty zesty. Of course it’s the ACL so Mercedes mixed in a couple WP and an HBP too, but either way that K/BB might be more impressive than the run scoring onslaught.

Ohfer eighteen so far…but 4 walks!

Extra impressive with two high bonus guys on the team (Quintana/Ereu) hitting the worst among the regulars.

Looks like 2025 ACL stats have shown up on BRef now. Brewers hitters have the (wait for it) youngest average age at 18.4 versus a 19.6 league average. Pitchers are more middle of the pack at 20.9 versus a 21.0 average, but that’s probably skewed somewhat by Hall/Shears/Ashby rehabbing. Outside of Hall the top nine Zona Crew pitchers in IP so far are all either 18 or 19.

Ten years? That seems a little extreme. Depending how they play things this offseason the books could be pretty clean in two years when Dame expires. The NBA playoffs have gotten way more random of late and with Tatum going down the East is as wide open as ever. I don’t think Giannis has any real desire to leave, but if needed sell him on next year being a gap year, every One Franchise Guy outside of Duncan had them. After that they’d have an expiring Dame and more future firsts they could deal if they want to keep kicking the can further down the road for one last All In push.

If these are the best offers, just keep Giannis. No point in rebuilding with the front office we have in place and none of our own picks for five years.

April/May attendance numbers aren't really comparable with full season numbers. School is still in session and it hasn't been nice out for more than two days in a row yet.

Kyrie tore his ACL at the end of the season so they are in the same holding pattern as the Bucks next year with their lead guard out. They'd also probably have to include AD and his $54M to make salaries work otherwise the Bucks would be taking back some combination of guys like Klay ($16.7M), Daniel Gafford ($14.3M), PJ Washington ($14.4M), Max Christie ($7.7M), Jaden Hardy ($6M), and Dereck Lively ($5.2M) in addition to whatever Flagg gets on his rookie deal (looks like Rissacher was $12.6M for his first season as the #1 pick last year) to try and get up to Giannis $54M number.

This is just the state of the modern NBA playoffs. In the seven NBA Finals from 2012-18 there were seven LeBron teams, four Golden States, two San Antonios, and OKC the last year they had Durant, Westbrook & Harden all together occupying the fourteen available spots. Five franchises, but even Durant had carryover with the Golden State teams so really it was LBJ, Curry, Durant, and Duncan/Kawhi that dominated the festivities. Those fourteen NBA Finals teams were seeded #1 (x6), #2 (x7) and #4 in their conferences. Whole lot of chalk. In the six Finals since it's been #1 (x4), #2 (x3), #3 (x2), #5 (x2) and #8. This year its looking like #3 or #4 from the East and #1, #4 or #6 from the West. Way more chaos in the mix now. From the Lakers 87-88 repeat to the Bulls 96-98 three-peat all twelve NBA titles were won as part of a repeat of three-peat, from 1999 through the Warriors most recent repeat in 2017-18 nine of the twenty titles were repeats or three-peats with the Spurs scattering five individual wins throughout so still very much a Dynasty Era. With Taum's injury it looks like we'll have no repeat Champion for the 7th straight year and if the Nuggets don't go all the way it'll be seven different Finals MVPs too. The last time there was a run of seven Finals MVPs with no repeats was 1975-81 with Rick Barry, Jo Jo White, Bill Walton, Wes Unsled, Dennis Johnson, Magic Johnson and Cedric Maxwell.

Neither one has started playing in any kind of minor league rehab games as of yet so probably still a ways off. If I counted right Perkins is eligible to come off the 60 Day IL around May 26th so maybe early June for him?

& Jorge Quintana gets a two RBI single in for good measure to close out the seven run ninth.