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  1. CheeseheadInQC
    I have typically been among the highest on him, but I feel like Barrios is getting under rated in this thread. I don’t know where Barrios would fall if I had to make a list now, but the tier he is in would start at 10. There seems to be no question he can stick at short, and he has been one of the top 20-25 20-and-under hitters in high-A or above this season. He rarely strikes out and while he might never be a big home run threat, his ISO has gone up every season. And even during the depths of his struggles last season, the Brewers never stopped treating him like a significant prospect.
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    I was an “I hope it isn’t Barrios” guy. Honestly, from a cursory check, here is the list of guys from that signing class having better seasons relative to level: Chourio, Basallo, Ballesteros. I like the idea of trading from depth, but I worry this is the Rays buying low on an ascending prospect.
  3. CheeseheadInQC
    I know neither is going to be mistaken for a power hitter, but I feel like what Areinamo and Barrios are doing at high-A at their age would be treated as a bigger deal if we hadn’t all been spoiled by how fast Chourio hit the big leagues. The Brewers have four of the top 9 20-under hitters in high-A thus far (also including Adams and the since-promoted O’Rae), and the others are three former first round picks, a former second round pick and the Astros’ No. 2 prospect.
  4. CheeseheadInQC
    Not shocked by Pratt breaking into the top 100. All four of the high school picks from last season excelling in A ball made the list. Biggest surprises to me on the JS list: Galindez (high) and Di Turi (low).
  5. CheeseheadInQC
    3.20 FIP and 12+ K/9. He has been prone to blow-ups but the highs have been high enough where this is surprising.
  6. CheeseheadInQC
    Tony Graffanino only got me .3%
  7. CheeseheadInQC
    Areinamo has certainly put himself into the conversation. His June has been amazing. I believe he has already set his career high for both walks and home runs in a month. Now if they could get him to hit lefties as good as he does righties, he'd be in the conversation for the best middle infielder in high-A.
  8. CheeseheadInQC
    Heading into today, the Brewers had 4 of the top 16 hitters age 17 or younger in the DSL per Fangraphs. Pena, Made and Anderson have rightfully earned a lot of attention, but how about the season Juan Ortuno, who reached four times today, is having? Hasn’t hit for quite as much pop, but still has a passable DSL ISO with more walks than strikeouts.
  9. CheeseheadInQC
    I know everyone was shocked that the Bucks didn’t get a win-now piece, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they didn’t think anyone left at that spot that met that criteria.
  10. CheeseheadInQC
    It’s no different than if he was drafted and signed. We have seen some older Indy ballers sign shorter than standard minor league contracts, but usually not in undrafted free agents. The only cases in which deals involve fewer than the standard years of major league control generally are players from the Japanese or Korean leagues signing major league contracts.
  11. CheeseheadInQC
    It’s possible to be successful at that number. Bobby Abreu lived there and Matt Carpenter visited occasionally. I agree the swing rate probably should come up a bit, though, and I expect it to as he moves up the ladder. It doesn’t have to increase much, though. Plenty of guys are successful in the 40% range. I didn’t count the number on O’Rae, but eye-balling it I would guess he is somewhere between 10-20. His pitches/plate appearance isn’t as big of an outlier as Adams.
  12. CheeseheadInQC
    Undoubtedly, and I imagine someone like Barrios who combines a similar swinging strike rate with fewer walks and strikeouts has better pure contact numbers. The patient approach has worked for him thus far, though, and the strikeout rate is reasonable given the number of called strikes he probably takes, especially with the variability of umpiring at that level. As an added benefit, I believe he sees more pitches per at bat than any other player in the Midwest League.
  13. CheeseheadInQC
    He is also 12th among high-A hitters in swinging strike percentage per Fangraphs and only the Phillies’ William Bergolla and former teammate Dylan O’Rae aren’t at least a year and a half older than him in the top-11. To me that says he probably isn’t chasing much.
  14. CheeseheadInQC
    Really enjoying Coors Field so far. Good affordable tickets. Easy to navigate even with a youngster. I think I might have inadvertently made my 5-year-old daughter a Rockies fan, though. She is absolutely enamored with their dinosaur mascot Dinger.
  15. CheeseheadInQC
    With hitting prospects, quality is key. Pitching, however, with the injury rates anymore you really need quantity as well. I like to see the Brewers building that.
  16. CheeseheadInQC
    Really glad to see Wande Torres back and with a scoreless inning. He was a favorite sleeper of mine before his injury.
  17. CheeseheadInQC
    Wow, everyone is going to Colorado. We’ve got tickets to Wednesday’s game.
  18. CheeseheadInQC
    It is tough to tell if it is the type of contact or bad luck but when I looked the other day, Quintana had almost identical strikeout and walk rates and ISO as one of his teammates who had a .900 OPS.
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    If that is the case, the Brewers' pitchers have been doing a great job keeping the ball in the ballpark. The two Brewers clubs have combined to hit 11 homers but have only given up 5. The key is going to be keeping it up and keeping the power going when they hopefully come stateside next year. Only three Brewers have hit more than 6 home runs in a DSL season since they brought back the DSL squads. Alejandro Marte (9) and Alwinson Valdez (7) never hit another affiliated home run. Eduarqui Fernandez, the current record holder, hasn't managed to match the 11 he hit in any season since (although he might be on pace this season). Among prominent prospects, Orlando Arcia had 6 (3 the first week or so, 3 the rest of the season), Yophery Rodriguez had 6 and Jackson Chourio had 5.
  20. CheeseheadInQC
    They’ve been overshadowed, but Garcia, Rojas and Corobo have all given them really good production from the catcher spot so far.
  21. CheeseheadInQC
    Briceno and one hitter were brought over a couple of years ago, although both had a full DSL season already under their belt. Technically Meneses was this year, although he hadn’t pitched in the DSL yet. Along with the player limit (and keeping them off the offseason limit count), one other thing working against DSL promotions other than out of ACL necessity is that the ACL season started earlier and I believe ends earlier, so you would be cutting down on their game time, at least in official games.
  22. CheeseheadInQC
    With Adams’ four walks, it reminded me of a thought I had while watching him while the Rattlers were in town. I wonder what Luke Adams with a challenge system would look like. He seemed like the most confident in his interpretation of the strike zone in that game.
  23. CheeseheadInQC
    Thoughts for Sunday - Nice to see the top starting and reliever prospects who pitched today starring for Biloxi. Henderson got his time in AA off on the right foot and Yoho just kept doing Yoho things. - I keep hoping that whatever the Brewers saw to initially promote Brailin Rodriguez to Carolina at 18 years old pre-injury is still there. Hopefully tonight is a sign things are moving in that direction. - I'm not ready to go there myself, but if you told me you thought the top 3 in Carolina's lineup were among the top 5 prospects in the Brewers system, I wouldn't fight you too much on it. - I have no idea how his success would translate to the big leagues, but Chad Patrick sure has been making his case to crack the Brewers' staff at some point.
  24. CheeseheadInQC
    Admittedly his stats are better than when this was made, but unless I am missing someone, you could make a case for him being the fifth best high school hitter from last year’s draft so far, behind Miller, Mitchell, Velazquez and McGonigle.
  25. CheeseheadInQC
    Given how Pratt has been playing since this came out, can you do more?
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