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Badger Mutual Insurance run or two, please.

Did not age well.

Jeff Hem, the Nashville Sounds announcer, was recently on 1250 with Sparky I believe and confirmed that the ball being used at AA and below is not the ball being used in AAA and the major leagues. I have no idea the rationale behind it (drive attendance at the lower levels?) but he did directly address that topic while noting Blake Burke's adjustment around it in response to his lower HR output at Nashville.

Baseball, heck sports history, is littered with hundreds if not thousands of guys who have fallen off a cliff hard somewhere in their thirties. I'm not ready to completely throw the towel in on Yelich as guys have down seasons but is it really that hard to believe? Many of the posters here years ago were lamenting the likelihood that his contract would age poorly. Would it really be that surprising if that turned out to be the case?

I'm just saying. Brock Wilkin is a bag of balls and really nothing more. The days of fleecing an Al Avila, Dave Stewart or Neal Huntington type of GM have largely gone by the wayside.

In what world are we living thinking a 24 year old in AAA hitting .176 with moderate power output and a swing and miss profile is a prospect? Would anyone here be excited trading for that type of profile?

I can tell you through people in the industry that arguably the biggest problem with Yelich is that he is absolutely not someone that works hard (or at all) both during the season or in the off-season. Think Ben Sheets. You'd literally need to walk him to the weight room for him to realize it exists. That said, the contract he received was extended with MA and DS fully knowing that which is inexcusable, although the entire thing felt like MA's doing given the relationship with Yelich.

Start the clock on Frelick, there's little to lose. As we've seen with others, and Keston Hiura comes immediately to mind, there are very few "can't miss" prospects and if he becomes that rare special guy, that's a good problem to have. Let the chips fall where they fall. Hell, they tend to draft centerfielders every other year in the draft in the event he prices himself out, anyway. And then there's this Chuorio guy coming behind him, too.

Serious question. With Frelick now in the .320 range this year, getting on base and playing better and better, is he a candidate to skip AAA altogether and get a 2nd half callup given the hole in CF on the big club?

6.) Turang is packaged at the deadline or in the off-season for a bat.

Pretty sure Rosiak transferred to the Brewers beat from preps when Drew Olsen left the MJS. They've always had two full time guys on that beat, likely due to the travel and big schedule. It wouldn't surprise me to see Ben Steele, who covers Marquette athletics, or Mark Stewart or Curt Hogg, the preps reporters, transfer to the Brewers beat. Rosiak covered Marquette prior to moving over to the Brewer beat. As for TH, I will forever remember him for his post-game interview "questions" which weren't really questions but statements guiding the player or coach into an obvious response...36 years of challenging nobody in the organization. Best wishes to him but next man up.

Thank you Carlos Gomez!

https://theathletic.com/2798709/2021/08/31/ten-mlb-hitting-prospects-primed-to-pop-into-jim-bowdens-top-50-in-2022/ Interesting read here. While Mitchell has been battling through injuries of late, the future Milwaukee OF looks really bright provided they hang on to these two. You'd like to see their power numbers spike up next year and beyond but defninitely two contracts that could help balance out the Yelich contract and open up dollars to maybe invest in one of Woody or Burnes.

Could be??? If it happens, I'm not sure it's even debatable.

And perhaps most importantly he is striking out at less than a 20% clip. If this isn't a blip, he suddenly becomes very interesting again. Unless I'm missing something, he has 41 K's in 146 AB's for a 28% strikeout rate.