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  1. CheeseheadInQC
    And sometimes guys with those tools improve. Especially on the pitching side. Heck, Cam Robinson was protected this year after not last year because he made those improvements. On the hitting side, Manny Pina was never a star but provided value to the Brewers. He was initially a PTBNL in order to make sure he wasn’t taken in the rule 5. If you see major league traits in a guy, that is a non-negligible value. No one is claiming he is an elite prospect, but it sounds like he might have a better chance than most minor league relievers.
  2. CheeseheadInQC
    I am thinking about doing something about very under the radar prospects who have something intriguing about them closer to spring training. Raabe is on the list for his combination of contact and line drive rates.
  3. CheeseheadInQC
    Didn't one of the articles mention they had been trying to get him from the Padres last year before the Hader trade took place?
  4. CheeseheadInQC
    Don’t get me wrong, I really like this trade, but I think the surprising nature of the trade is down to a couple of things: 1. Contreras didn’t have the value that you would expect given the stats and control. The Braves never really seemed sold on him as their catcher of the future. 2. Excepting Misiorowski, Ruiz probably would have the largest range in evaluation of any of the Brewers’ top prospects (or in his case former top prospects). I wouldn’t be surprised if the median was around where he is generally ranked, but there are aspects there, especially after last season, that a team could fall in love with.
  5. CheeseheadInQC
    Maybe I will be wrong, and there have been some absurdly long contracts given out this year, but recent history would suggest Vasquez isn’t going to get the long term deal he is seeking. It has been almost a decade since a catcher of Vasquez’s age and caliber got more than two years. Maybe the weak catching market gets him three, but I would wager it is more likely he settles for two than gets four.
  6. CheeseheadInQC
    For the second year in a row Kekai Rios got picked in the minor league Rule 5 draft.
  7. CheeseheadInQC
    I know what you are going for, but I think Toro starting against righties to start the year can be justified as more than a service time thing, and I think it is going to happen. It seems as if with the shift going away, the Brewers are targeting lefties with lower strikeout rates but low BABIPs thinking those players could be value plays this season. Toro is in that category. Are they outsmarting themselves? Perhaps. But the reasoning seems sound enough where I have no problem with them testing it.
  8. CheeseheadInQC
    Am I the only one who thinks Turang starts the season in triple-A? C: TBA/Caratini 1B: Tellez/TBA Righty 2B: Urias SS: Adames 3B: Toro/Brosseau OF: Yelich/Mitchell/Frelick/Taylor DH: Winker
  9. CheeseheadInQC
    Frelick’s lack of power does limit his ultimate upside, but it is not like he is Juan Pierre. Unless I am mistaken his minor league extra base hit totals would have ranked fourth on the Brewers last season, and he did hit double-digit homers. I am not one of Frelick’s biggest defenders on the site (I think I was one of the few who didn’t have him in the top 2 in the last prospect poll), but if he can truly be a .300 hitter at the big league level, the power numbers he posted in the minors last year might never make him an MVP candidate, but they would be more than adequate. A .150 ISO looks a lot better stacked atop a .300 average than a .230 one.
  10. CheeseheadInQC
    I guess I don’t really understand this take. All trades involve some measure of hope. The Brewers are hoping that last year was an aberration and Winker reverts to his Cincinnati offensive production and that they are correct that low BABIP lefties are an undervalued asset with the shift going away. The Mariners hope Wong’s defensive advanced stats are to some degree noise and not the sign of the start of a steep decline in his former best tool. I am neither excited nor disappointed in this deal. It seems fairly even. We will see.
  11. CheeseheadInQC
    Honestly this feels like the type of move that, if it hadn’t come right after the Renfroe trade, would have spurred an update on 40-man openings and a couple posts being surprised they did this with an outfielder rather than a similar late bloomer type infielder. I’d be more positive about the move if his AAA/AA games split was 70/30 for AAA instead of the other way around. But basically I look at this similar to how I would if Tristen Lutz posted an .825 OPS in AAA this year. I don’t know if I necessarily agree with adding him to the 40-man, but I can understand the late-bloomer hopes involved in doing so.
  12. CheeseheadInQC
    But only three true ones … (Slowly retreats back to the minor league forum.)
  13. CheeseheadInQC
    But only three true ones … (Slowly retreats back to the minor league forum.)
  14. CheeseheadInQC
    OK, no shocking omissions. Singleton is a surprise, though.
  15. CheeseheadInQC
    OK, no shocking omissions. Singleton is a surprise, though.
  16. CheeseheadInQC
    Robinson is the big surprise. He was behind the other two, but I still would have put him at 90% to get protected. Devanney is the only position player I could see getting taken because he has position versatility and pop, even if he is a bit on the older side for a prospect.
  17. CheeseheadInQC
    Robinson is the big surprise. He was behind the other two, but I still would have put him at 90% to get protected. Devanney is the only position player I could see getting taken because he has position versatility and pop, even if he is a bit on the older side for a prospect.
  18. CheeseheadInQC
    It wasn't a Brewer. There were four main candidates that year, Listach, Eldred, Lofton and the Mariners' Dave Fleming. And looking at the stats, I forgot he had a second good season that might push him past Listach.
  19. CheeseheadInQC
    It wasn't a Brewer. There were four main candidates that year, Listach, Eldred, Lofton and the Mariners' Dave Fleming. And looking at the stats, I forgot he had a second good season that might push him past Listach.
  20. CheeseheadInQC
    He still probably had the second best career of the four Rookie of the Year candidates that season. Lofton was the only one for whom that wasn’t the no question about it pinnacle of their careers. Bonus points to anyone who remembers the fourth.
  21. CheeseheadInQC
    He still probably had the second best career of the four Rookie of the Year candidates that season. Lofton was the only one for whom that wasn’t the no question about it pinnacle of their careers. Bonus points to anyone who remembers the fourth.
  22. CheeseheadInQC
    Perhaps, and it happens on occasion, but unless he re-signed before this could happen, it seemed like an interested team could have reached out to his agent saying that they would give him a 40-man spot. Unless he preferred to stay in the organization, I guess.
  23. CheeseheadInQC
    Perhaps, and it happens on occasion, but unless he re-signed before this could happen, it seemed like an interested team could have reached out to his agent saying that they would give him a 40-man spot. Unless he preferred to stay in the organization, I guess.
  24. CheeseheadInQC
    Robinson is the right choice, but I would be very tempted to put Garabitos second. I don’t know how he matches up with the others prospect-wise, but I am not sure any reliever was more valuable to their pitching staff than he was down the stretch, giving the team long, quality outings after Carolina’s most consistent starters all got promoted to Wisconsin.
  25. CheeseheadInQC
    Robinson is the right choice, but I would be very tempted to put Garabitos second. I don’t know how he matches up with the others prospect-wise, but I am not sure any reliever was more valuable to their pitching staff than he was down the stretch, giving the team long, quality outings after Carolina’s most consistent starters all got promoted to Wisconsin.
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