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  1. CheeseheadInQC
    I've seen it as 77-83, defined by the ultra-scientific fact that those years were the time frame of the release of the original "Star Wars" trilogy. And yah, it was because we had an analog childhood but a digital young adulthood. It kind of replaced Gen Y, which seems to almost never be referred to anymore. The micro generation has also had a variety of names assigned to it. My favorite is the Oregon Trail generation. Back on topic, maybe Garvey was referring to taking Hill out early because Hill isn't a millennial. I can understand some of the arguments. I'm not sure if this is the case, but it does seem as if situational hitting isn't quite as good as it used to be (although that could simply be a product of all of the Garvey type talking heads harping on it until I'm using individual instances as confirmation of a trend that doesn't exist), but that more relates to skillset development rather than strategic decisions, which I think have by and large improved. Heck, I enjoyed the Astros basically going to a tandem starter system at times in the postseason.
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    I think some of the outliers make things interesting. Let people stake out their positions on prospects they like more than most others and have it count in the final results. For the most part, they just end up being background noise anyway (I haven't managed to get Zack Brown into the top 25 yet). Rather than eliminating the outliers from the final counts, you could mitigate the effect (at least of the highs) by doing something like giving 30 points for first and going down to six for 25th. That way six votes in the 20s could outweigh one vote at No. 1 that gets left off of the other five ballots, although it would admittedly hurt the negative outliers a little more if they are left off the top 25 entirely.
  3. CheeseheadInQC
    Remarkably tight from 14-30 1. Lewis Brinson 2. Brandon Woodruff 3. Corbin Burnes 4. Brett Phillips 5. Keston Hiura 6. Freddy Peralta 7. Tristen Lutz 8. Luis Ortiz 9. Lucas Erceg 10. Monte Harrison 11. Isan Diaz 12. Corey Ray 13. Trent Clark 14. Trey Supak 15. Phil Bickford 16. Mauricio Dubon 17. Zack Brown 18. Jake Gatewood 19. Marcos Diplan 20. Cody Ponce 21. Bubba Derby 22. Troy Stokes 23. Kodi Medeiros 24. Carlos Herrera 25. Mario Feliciano 26. Taylor Williams 27. Jacob Nottingham 28. Jordan Yamamoto 29. Josh Pennington 30. Aaron Wilkerson
  4. CheeseheadInQC
    It will be interesting to see post-surgery Houser against better competition. I got to see him the last game of the season when the Bandits were in the Quad Cities, and he was just dominating guys. Almost every pitch was a strike, and it seemed like he was saying "Why mess around when I know you can't hit me."
  5. CheeseheadInQC
    Wasn't Hanhold his draft year's "better stuff than results guy." If so, he never showed as much starting as the one from the year before him (Woodruff) or after him (Z. Brown), but this isn't a throwaway either. You could make a good case that he was the best prospect among the non-40 man minor league relievers (or second best, depending on what you think of Ramirez). Admittedly that isn't saying much, but it is something. I wonder who the other two "lower level relievers" were who were supposedly on the list. The list of guys who'd be at the same level as Hanhold is fairly small, maybe two to four depending on how good of prospects Wuilder Rodriguez and Miguel Sanchez are supposed to be.
  6. CheeseheadInQC
    If I'm reading those rules correctly (and they are correct), it seems like a team could assign as many as four players from below AA as long as at least two are from the A+ roster. That would seem to open the door for Bickford.
  7. CheeseheadInQC
    The great part about the number of interesting prospects is that it makes it more likely that one or more will experience the same prospect leap that Woodruff did two years ago and Burnes and Peralta did this year. Personally I'd guess Supak and Brown, but there are ones at every full-season level that wouldn't really surprise me. And that is a good situation for the Brewers to be in.
  8. CheeseheadInQC
    Nice to see that trio of starts from A-AA tonight. Brown had a bad couple of outings after coming off the DL, but he's put together quite the second half. While it hasn't been quite as noticeable, Webb's numbers have improved as well. Hopefully at least one of them can use a strong second half as a springboard into next season the same way Brandon Woodruff seemed to a couple of seasons ago.
  9. CheeseheadInQC
    While he might not have had quite the K numbers, Cravy was coming off a season with a sub-2.00 ERA at AA and a sub-1.00 WHIP. Wang's season last year wasn't too far off either. And both were at least three years younger. I'm a fan of Wilkerson and am intrigued by what he could do if he gets a shot, but starting pitchers who aren't living on prospect lists often have to prove themselves level-to-level, and that is where Colorado Springs has really hurt Wilkerson. He's got nothing left to prove in AA and didn't really even to start the season, but there he still is. But who knows, I don't exactly have a good prediction record this year.
  10. CheeseheadInQC
    I've got a feeling it will just be the most likely five (Peralta, Dubon, Diplan, Ramirez, Nottingham), although relievers are sometimes tough to predict. Taylor's become interesting again, but I just don't know that it is enough that they protect him. As for the other names sometimes mentioned, I think some of them seem to be more of the midseason, best option available adds to the roster than the offseason. Pitchers taken in the Rule 5 draft tend to fall into three categories: 1. Relievers who either have big arms or loogy potential; 2. Upside guys who haven't hit AA yet; 3. Former high draft pick or top prospect reclamation projects. There is maybe one guy with Wilkerson's profile drafted each year. It wouldn't shock me if he is protected or picked, but I'd put the odds at about 75 percent that he doesn't start next season on a 40-man roster. I just think he'll be this year's version of previous upper minor league starters we've fretted about losing only to see them not end up drafted (Wang and Cravy, for example). Orf if kind of the hitter's equivalent. If he was seen as more of a shortstop or had more pop, he'd be a no-brainer, but without either of those, he'll probably have to wait for an in-season injury to work his way onto the roster.
  11. CheeseheadInQC
    1. Lewis Brinson 2. Josh Hader 3. Brandon Woodruff 4. Keston Hiura 5. Corey Ray 6. Luis Ortiz 7. Trent Clark 8. Isan Diaz 9. Corbin Burnes 10. Brett Phillips 11. Lucas Erceg 12. Tristen Lutz 13. Freddy Peralta 14. Monte Harrison 15. Trey Supak 16. Mauricio Dubon 17. Mario Feliciano 18. Jake Gatewood 19. Phil Bickford 20. Zack Brown 21. Marcos Diplan 22. Jacob Nottingham 23. Cody Ponce 24. Kodi Medeiros 25. Carlos Herrera
  12. CheeseheadInQC
    Truthfully Clark's probably still had the fourth or fifth best season of any of that class' prep bats (at least those chosen in the first two rounds; I didn't dig any deeper). Yes, he hasn't hit the way Rodgers, Tucker and Mountcastle have, but two of those guys were top 5 picks. If you look at the previous year, Clark's numbers are probably more impressive than any of the prep bats in their second seasons. And a large part of the reason for the sub-.400 slugging is the low batting average. His ISO is actually the same as Josh Naylor, who was picked three picks earlier as a power-hitting first baseman, posted in the generally more hitter-friendly California League, and that helped earn him a promotion. If he can bring the batting average up as he gains more pro experience and continues to build up a little more pop as he gets older, I could see him developing into a 20 home run version of Nori Aoki's rookie year, and I think that still plays in the big leagues. I'm not saying he's a sure-fire prospect by any means, but I don't think you can really classify him as a lost cause or even much of a disappointment at this stage either.
  13. CheeseheadInQC
    The soccer overhead clapping was when Iceland made a run in the European championships. It was apparently part of some old Viking war chant or something like that.
  14. CheeseheadInQC
    One of the first basemen was destined to be traded, and Cooper was the most likely one. I figured it might be for a rental, but this could work out better in the long run.
  15. CheeseheadInQC
    Unless I'm forgetting someone, I think before Burnes it had been about seven years since a pitcher made more than a cameo appearance in AA the year after getting drafted. Somehow, of the two who did it in 2010, I remembered the obscure one and missed the more obvious one.
  16. CheeseheadInQC
    Selling Thornwell doesn't upset me as much as McCaw did last year because they bought the pick two before him to get Brown. I guess I figure if I wouldn't have got upset if they hadn't bought a pick at all I shouldn't be upset that it sounds like they used cash to basically move up two spots. On Snell, I guess at least this feels more like Dellavedova (albeit as a re-signing) than some of the other recent deals and if he keeps shooting should at least be movable if Vaughn or Brown make him expendable. Not good, but not the weirdest deal handed out yesterday.
  17. CheeseheadInQC
    I've got a feeling injuries are involved with a couple of these. If I remember correctly I think Owenby and Fox were on the list of players who never appeared in any of the spring games.
  18. CheeseheadInQC
    Not Brewers-related, but anybody else enjoy the fact that catcher Jake Taylor was just drafted (unfortunately by the Braves, not the Indians)?
  19. CheeseheadInQC
    I'm a little surprised that they aren't at least mixing in the occasional college pitcher given that they've had some success there in Round 11+ in the past, unless they just don't like what was left from this class.
  20. CheeseheadInQC
    I'm trying to get more optimistic about Hairston, given that a few of the sites have him ranked a couple rounds higher than he was picked. History, however, is holding me back. 1. I got optimistic over Morrison given similar rankings last year even though they also didn't seem to mesh with the scouting reports. 2. I don't know if this is a true around the league, but easily the least productive subset of Day 2 and 3 draft picks for the Brewers over recent years have been 2B/SS/3B from four-year colleges. Since the 2000 draft, this group (Rounds 3 and later) has posted a combined -.7 WAR for the Brewers. Over that time, the Mount Rushmore would be Josh Prince, Eric Farris, Adam Heether and Chris Barnwell. Blake Allemand has posted 35 games of solid but not spectacular production at Double-A. He might already be in the top 10. You have to go back to 1995 to find a guy who posted a positive WAR, and you have to go back to Mark Loretta to find one who did it on more than four career at-bats (all of which came for a different team). Hopefully Hairston breaks this trend, but I'm holding out more hope for the two pitchers drafted in the rounds immediately after him.
  21. CheeseheadInQC
    I wonder if there is enough money left in the pool for a McClanahan-type pick in the 11th round.
  22. CheeseheadInQC
    Hairston was actually ranked higher than he was drafted on most of the lists. It's interesting, though, that some of the scouting reports seem more negative than you'd expect given the rankings.
  23. CheeseheadInQC
    I don't know if it is just how the signability issues have played out this year or if this is a common occurrence and I just never paid attention to the distribution before, but it seems like a hitter-heavy draft so far with not only more of the hitters going but a heavy number of the "best available" guys on most of the lists who have fallen being pitchers.
  24. CheeseheadInQC
    I'm skeptical of this, if it is talking about a promotion, simply because of tonight's lineup for CS. If someone was being called up tomorrow, I doubt they would have been playing tonight. Among the position players, that pretty much narrows it down to Wren. If he does get promoted, good for him, but he's not really considered a high-profile enough prospect to get that kind of hype. I guess, though, there is one guy who 1) didn't play tonight 2) is having a good season and 3) is enough of a prospect for his promotion to be treated as a big deal. Brandon Woodruff. Doubt it happens now, but I guess it is another possibility if this is true and it is about an impending promotion.
  25. CheeseheadInQC
    I will say perhaps the whole intensely hyping a Brewers prospect during spring training thing should just stop. It's approaching Madden cover levels. At least if past experience holds true, he'll break out four or so years and two trades later.
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