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  1. You can't accuse the Brewers of shying away from high schoolers. Last year they signed more than 8 percent of the total high schoolers signed in the draft. This year they so far have taken more than 9 percent of the high schoolers taken so far. Also, what do you figure, two on the over-under number of hitters picked (or at least picked and signed) by Milwaukee tomorrow?
  2. I jokingly predicted that the Brewers wouldn’t sign 8 high schoolers again this year. I am not all that confident in this prediction anymore.
  3. Outside of if you want to rank the older triple-A guys high, I think he slots comfortably between 3 and 5 among Brewers outfield prospects depending on how aggressively you want to rank the pop-up DSL guys. Unless I am forgetting someone, Rodriguez and Lara are really the only top outfield prospects stateside right now.
  4. 30 high schoolers have been picked so far. Between recent precedent and the generally weak reviews for this prep class, I would wager 50 or so get drafted and sign for the remainder of the draft.
  5. He might not. There was an article where agents were suggesting certain prospects don’t take one because it limited their ability to negotiate below slot deals. The article seemed geared toward senior signs, but I could see some prep players in Payne’s range wanting similar flexibility.
  6. The kind of flattened bonus pool strategy is really fitting given the greatest strength and greatest weakness of the Brewers system right now is there isn’t a ton of difference between #4 and #30.
  7. This still feels a bit light (although I'm kind of a college first base skeptic). Now if they are still floating Whitney, that would put it over the top.
  8. There are arguments for doing it both ways. The counterpoint is, if you are confident that you can float player X, then you have your choice of players who would sign for the amount you want to pay the other slot. This can come in handy if you think that one of those players is severely undervalued because then you don't risk them getting taken first. Like last year, if you take Bitonti and Pratt before Boeve, you don't get Boeve because he would have been gone by that point in the draft. There is also a bonus pool incentive to floating a player to Day 3. Last year the Brewers signed Craig Yoho in the 8th round for $10,000 and Bishop Letson in the 11th round to $482,600. Because $150,000 gets subtracted off Letson's total per bonus pool rules for rounds 11-20, it cost the Brewers $140,000 less against the bonus pool than if they had flipped the two rounds.
  9. Well, this has been a weird draft. Hopefully they are floating a couple of prep pitchers.
  10. I don’t know if it was off the board, but I can remember a fair amount of complaints about the Jimmy Nelson pick, albeit for the opposite reason (perceived lack of upside).
  11. Easy Brewers draft prediction: They won’t sign 8 high schoolers again. Tougher one: I am going to guess the college bat followed by prep arm combo from last year repeats with Benge and Hill.
  12. Maybe, but I could almost see them going college-high school-high school- high school if they can balance the pool to get a few prep pitchers they like.
  13. So, that’s quite a first rehab outing for Williams, huh. Three hitters, three strikeouts.
  14. I once considered jokingly referring to Miller's statistical profile this season as Luke Adams - power + catching gear. There are guys who rarely swing and miss because they can hit almost any pitch they swing at and guys who rarely swing and miss because they only swing at pitches they can hit. Just going off of the numbers, it seems likely that Miller joins Adams in the second category. Does the eye test bear that out?
  15. It's nice to see Johnson and Prado put their early season struggles aside down the stretch. That is two solid outings in a row for Johnson as well.
  16. He’s the fifth best qualifying offensive catcher in double-A by wRC+. Does the author of this article overrate him? Definitely. Does he suck? No.
  17. Nice write-up. One nit-pick: Should Burnitz count since he was acquired later after not signing with the Brewers in 1987?
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