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  1. CheeseheadInQC
    Sorry, found it here.
  2. CheeseheadInQC
    Looks like the latest additions, according to the Brewers.com roster page are Bowden Francis, Gabe Holt and Carlos Rodriguez.
  3. CheeseheadInQC
    How is this different than any other team? This isn’t a case for the Brewers. Of course it is the case for every team. Not trying to compare the Brewers to anyone else. But if you're saying the farm system is barren or that the recent drafting has been bad, well it's tough to support that, in my opinion (also tough to support that it is good). Too much is frustratingly TBD right now.
  4. CheeseheadInQC
    Can you really say much for sure about the Brewers' system right now other than that they don't have a top-20, MLB-ready stud? The 2020 draft class hasn't debuted, the 2019 draft class got half a season and the guys who received the third and fourth highest bonuses have played in a combined 11 games, and four of their first five picks in the 2018 draft (and six of the first nine) were high schoolers. Plus it is too soon to tell if the increased investments in Latin American signings under Stearns will pay off because, you know, none of those guys can even drink yet.
  5. CheeseheadInQC
    I remember being a little happier with the Lind trade, although that was probably a reaction to the fact it had become obvious it was going to be Seattle and I wasn't a big fan of the guy many were clamoring for. That being said, this helps with probably the third biggest hole in the Brewers system (1. Lack of a top 25-type prospect. 2. Corner infield. 3. Lower-level pitching). With the exception of a couple guys who supposedly have upside but who haven't had results yet (Cam Robinson, Alexis Ramirez) most of the Brewers best pitching prospects who haven't hit A-ball are guys who have missed at least half of their minor league career with injuries (Walters, Lemons, Murphy, Beasley, Gonzalez, Zhao). This trio makes next year's A-ball/rookie league staffs far more interesting.
  6. CheeseheadInQC
    If it wasn't going to be a top prospect I think I'd rather have it be pitching than hitting. Close to the majors potential impact bats are likely to fall into the top prospect category, and the Brewers have much more in the way of hitting depth in the low minors than pitching depth. Depending on how things shake out with the assignments, it isn't outside the realm of possibility that Wisconsin's top three starters next season will all be guys who have missed all or most of multiple seasons with injuries.
  7. CheeseheadInQC
    That might not be far from the truth. Iowa has the most cases per capita in the Midwest and the early Chicago outbreak is the only thing keeping Nebraska out of the No. 2 spot.
  8. CheeseheadInQC
    The proposals have included the top pitching prospect in baseball and arguably the top three eligible to be traded corner infield prospects, plus multiple other top 50 prospects. The Dodgers have shown little interest in dealing Lux and he is the most likely of the big three to get traded. Tampa isn’t trading Franco for Hader and Robert is already a key part of the White Sox lineup. Similarly from the next tier the Orioles aren’t making a win now deal for Rutschman and the Angels (Adell) are reloading.
  9. CheeseheadInQC
    Lewis would make me more nervous now than before the season because if the changes he made late in the season that helped him to the AFL MVP award have carried over to this year at their alternate site I'm guessing he is probably untouchable. I'm not as down on him as some here, because he was really young for level and had already shown pro success in A ball, but this awkward season would make me a bit leery. If it's the Padres, I wonder if it would be something like Patino, Abrams, Carlos Guarate and Bodi Rascon. The Padres don't really have an ideal corner infield fit and given the Brewers' pitching talent skews closer to the big leagues, I'd rather take a shot with teenage pitchers as the secondary pieces than shoehorn a corner infielder in just to shoehorn a corner infielder in.
  10. CheeseheadInQC
    I think that's an overpay. Supak isn't a future ace, but he's a just-turned-24-year-old who profiles as a #3-4 starter, and is likely nearly major league ready. Pillar is the type of guy a team can typically grab for a couple of lottery ticket types. Normally I'd agree with you, but I think only having the one option left depresses Supak's value a bit and the Brewers' might see an advantage in protecting one of the Rule 5 eligible guys (Brown, Bickford, File, Bettinger, etc.) with a full complement of options instead.
  11. CheeseheadInQC
    Given how light it sounds like the market is for rentals, I wonder how far off a Pillar for Supak and maybe a PTBNL flyer like Cipion would be.
  12. CheeseheadInQC
    Why wouldn’t the Brewers want Vaughn? He’s a top 20 overall prospect, former top 5 pick and plays a position the Brewers really need help at. He should advance fairly quickly through the minors. And Crochet is a high ceiling lefty who could top off as a #2. If the Brewers are trading Hader they’d be fools to only look for immediate help in return. I don't think Crochet can be dealt. I think a White Sox deal would more likely be Vaughn; one of Dunning, Stiever, Thompson or Dalquist; and a couple flyers like perhaps Bailey as a PTBNL. Not sure that either side would go for it, but that seems like the most likely combination.
  13. CheeseheadInQC
    This is for later on, but one more thing we learned: If your children have a favorite board book that you read to them, see if you can find a second copy cheap. One will get chewed into oblivion once teething starts.
  14. CheeseheadInQC
    I guess the one plus is that for a contact hitter he has been bizarrely streaky the past few years, so maybe we get a hot streak before the abbreviated season ends. I'm not saying he's going to end up having a good year, but there is at least some measure of hope it won't be as bad as it looks now.
  15. CheeseheadInQC
    If you are going the disposable diaper route and are having a shower, register for a few different brands. We didn’t have this problem, but my niece had a reaction to certain ones, and this would decrease the chances of a whole stockpile being useless. Also, depending on your situation, maybe don’t immediately rush out to buy everything. A significant amount of the stuff we got for our daughter came free from friends and family whose children outgrew it and just wanted it out of the house.
  16. CheeseheadInQC
    The problem is, you are seeming to be holding the current staff accountable for things they couldn't have fixed yet. The only hitter drafted during the tenure of the current scouting director who could have reasonably been expected to already make the majors has (Hiura). Thanks to this year, half of his draft picks haven't even gotten a full season in. Similarly, the first class of players from when the Brewers started putting together Latin America signing classes that were at least roughly what the average team would spend/get is 20 years old. Many players from the last two classes, which seemed to be considered the Brewers' best, wouldn't have even graduated from high school yet if they were in the states. Player development in baseball rarely involves instant gratification. I can understand not being overwhelmingly positive, but similarly the evidence simply doesn't exist to be this negative.
  17. CheeseheadInQC
    Given that he was in the big league portion of camp and according to the Jim Henderson interview he has been pitching well in Appleton, I wonder if it isn’t more likely they free up a 40-man spot for Brown than call up Supak if they are going the minor league starter in the bullpen route.
  18. CheeseheadInQC
    According to the Brewers.com roster page, he is there now. With Ashby added, there’s no clear top prospect missing other than this year’s draft picks. I guess Lazar and Francis would be in the mix on the pitching side with Medina and a host of outfielders who would have been in Wisconsin or Carolina this season (Rodriguez, Abreu, Gray, Bello, etc.) as the offensive possibilities.
  19. CheeseheadInQC
    Basically the Brewers are a top-15 overall type prospect and maybe a guy in the back end of the top 10 of an average organization from being an average system. I'm not downplaying the importance of that. A top-15 prospect would be great to have. But an organization is much more than its top prospect. It might be below average right now, but there is a big difference between below average and a black hole from which no talent can emerge. Speaking of top prospects, you are calling for a restructuring of the scouting department, but as was touched on in the other thread, because of where they have been drafting almost all of the top prospects who could pull those rankings up were off the board already during the drafts in the present scouting director's tenure. You are also going to get to the point with the rankings, as some of the guys who had been in the upper levels of the minors graduate this year, where an ever-increasing amount of the rankings will be based on the list-makers' predraft evaluations rather than any evidence from the prospects' time in the system, which will make them increasingly unreliable. I expect the Brewers to get a bit of a bump because their 2020 draft was well regarded in this way, balancing out the fact their 2019 draft wasn't.
  20. CheeseheadInQC
    It seems a bit wrong to be listing the Latin American signings to be a reason for change now just when there might be reason for optimism on that front. Unless I'm remembering incorrectly, outside of the "let's sign Gilbert Lara and only Gilbert Lara" season, the Brewers didn't spend bonus-wise at a level similar to other teams until maybe the Abreu/Carmona year, and Abreu is still only 20. Any improvement that you might see from that increased investment hasn't had a chance to filter through the system yet. I believe last season was the first year that the DSL team had an OPS above .700 (all but one regular had an OPS higher than what the team OPS has been some years). The Brewers thinking enough of Perez and Garcia to bring them to Appleton before their first stateside regular season at-bat says something about what the organization thinks about them. There is finally some hope there, at least with the hitters. The Brewers system has its issues (namely lack of a truly elite prospect and the fact you could make a case, if you count Dillard as a catcher, that the only corner infielder who belongs in the organization's top 40 has yet to take a stateside at bat), but saying it is in shambles, especially relative to where they have been picking the last few drafts, seems like hyperbole. Overall, a few cost-constrained moves haven't turned out over a small sample size in a weird and disjointed season. I'll still back the guy who led the team to one of the best two-year stretches in its history.
  21. CheeseheadInQC
    I doubt we'll see Small, Kelly, Dillard, Lutz, Turang, Perez or Garcia simply for 40-man reasons. And if catching time opens up I could see it being a now or never look at Nottingham rather than Feliciano. Depending on the team's plans for next season, Brown or Bickford getting some innings out of the pen could be interesting.
  22. CheeseheadInQC
    I wonder how much a team's own views on its development strengths and weaknesses influence drafting decisions. Do the Brewers seem to take one catching conversion per year simply because they view it as a value play in general or rather because they are supremely confident in their staff's ability to improve catchers defensively?
  23. CheeseheadInQC
    Lucroy definitely. Cain depending on how you phrase the question. There was a significant stretch after the Greinke/Marcum trades where I think it was Gennett and Davis and that’s it as far as multi-year starters
  24. CheeseheadInQC
    There's a decent chance that the school has that policy (my wife worked for a small-town newspaper for a decade-plus and I believe the local schools put that policy in place either before she got there or very early on in her tenure). I'm not sure I've ever heard of a case where that rule had been used against another student, though. In order for the suspension to be legitimate on those grounds 1. It would have to be explicitly stated in the handbook as being against the rules and 2. a five-day suspension being the standard punishment for such offenses. The former for me is a coin flip, but I would be absolutely shocked if the latter were true. And if both of those aren't true you are punishing her for the video going viral (which she didn't really have control over) or because it made administrators look bad (a really dangerous precedence to set).
  25. CheeseheadInQC
    At least as of two years ago its biggest baseball team was its Northwoods League team, and I doubt anything has changed.
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