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Now that we've reached May 2nd, player options will count towards their max of 5 for the season. All players currently optioned have been marked.

These players have been updated now.

Updated this thread with initial assignments, but if something changes between now and the roster announcement I will update later.

Important note for this thread in April: So won't start counting options until May 2nd, but at that time I assume anyone who is currently optioned will burn their first of the year?

Thanks for your help. I just added McCutchen and Boxberger and unfortunately the spacing is still an issue when adding lines myself (doing this from my phone, not sure if this would be avoidable on desktop). Any tips for how I can avoid this when updating in the future?

First time checking this out after the forum update and my initial reaction is that this list looks horrid with so much whitespace, also not sure I can edit these old posts anymore, so this thread may just die. EDIT: Looks like I can edit new posts, so when I have time I'll create a new thread for this so I can edit it going forward.

From CBA reports, looks like this thread will also need to keep track of the # of times a player is optioned each season.

The following players could reach 5 years of service time in 2022. Once they do, they cannot be optioned to the Minors without their consent. Pedro Severino - 73 more days Josh Hader - 57 more days Brent Suter - 11 more days Hunter Renfroe - 7 more days

Mejia has been granted a 4th option year, so he will have one last option year in 2022.

This thread is for tracking Minor League options through the 2022 season. Here's a link to the Brewerfan.net options page: http://www.brewerfan.net/ViewFortyManRoster.do?teamId=1 PITCHERS ^Jason Alexander - 2- (3) Aaron Ashby - 2 Brad Boxberger - 0 Corbin Burnes - 2 Matt Bush - 0 ^Jake Cousins - 2- (2) Trevor Gott - 0 #Jandel Gustave - 2 (1) #Adrian Houser - 0 ^Trevor Kelley - 1- (5) Eric Lauer - 1 Hoby Milner - 1 Freddy Peralta - 2 #Luis Perdomo - 0- (1) Taylor Rogers - 2* #Trevor Rosenthal - 2* ##Miguel Sanchez - 1- (1) ^Ethan Small - 2- (2) Peter Strzelecki - 2- (3) Brent Suter - 2* Justin Topa - 2- (2) Devin Williams - 3 Brandon Woodruff - 1 CATCHERS Victor Caratini - 1* ^Mario Feliciano - 1- (1) ##Alex Jackson - 0- (1) Omar Narvaez - 3* INFIELD Willy Adames - 1 Mike Brosseau - 2 Keston Hiura - 0- (2) Jace Peterson - 0 ^Pablo Reyes - 0- (3) Rowdy Tellez - 0 Luis Urias - 2 Kolten Wong - 3* OUTFIELD Andrew McCutchen - 3* Garrett Mitchell - 3 Hunter Renfroe - 2* ^Esteury Ruiz - 2- (2) Tyrone Taylor - 0 Christian Yelich - 3* 40-Man Current Total: 39 ^ Currently optioned to the Minor Leagues # Currently on the 10/15-day Injured List (or the 7-day Concussion Injured List) ## Currently on the 60-day Injured List [BCRP] Currently on the Bereavement/COVID/Restricted/Paternity List (x) Number of times player has been optioned in current season (max of 5, but options don't count toward this total until May 1st) - Player has already burned option for current year * Player has at least 5 years service time and cannot be optioned without their consent (or player has signed an extension or free agent contract and likely has a clause not allowing a minor league option without player consent) ** Some players are eligible for a 4th option year if they spend an entire option year injured or have burned all 3 options in their first 5 pro years. A 4th option year burns the year it is given even if the player spends the entire year on the Major League roster.

Freddy coming off two kinda rough starts where he only had 1 walk in each start but was just getting hit a lot more than he had been all season. Hoping a little extra rest is what he needed to feel good for the playoffs. Brewers plan seems to be to nibble around the edges early in counts and make the Braves swing at bad pitches to put them away, and seems like Braves have also had some difficulty squaring up fastballs in this series so hoping that all bodes well for Freddy's approach. A few walks may be necessary for Freddy to pitch his best game.

This thread can now be locked, and I will start a new one for 2022 once the playoffs are over and all players come off the IL for the offseason.

Sanchez got to 20 days in the minors on Saturday, so I believe he is the last Brewer this year to burn an option year. He still has 2 so shouldn't be a huge deal moving forward.

For what it's worth, from a statistical perspective, there's a HUGE difference between something that is 95% likely and 99% likely. That unlikely thing is 5x less likely to happen in one case, 5 times less likely than a 5% chance is essentially a statistical certainty. We've now seen that statistical certainty play out into an actual certainty. The Cardinals have a 16 game winning streak, we struggled a bit, and we still never had to break a sweat. Anybody who is trying to suggest we should've been worried is the ultimate downer. My view on sports is that the second they stop being fun to watch, I stop watching. I can't imagine what it'd be like to be watching the Brewers increase their commanding hold over the division the last couple months, fighting off hot streaks from the Reds and Cardinals like it was nothing, and not take away optimism for how special this team is. This team is just plain good. Previous great teams this decade have been very dependent on hitting, and when a team's hitting struggles (as all teams do at times), those teams could make you really question how good they actually were. Watching this team, with how historically incredible their pitching has been, especially the rotation....I can't wait to see what this team is capable of in October. If our offense shows up at all, we are going to be a force.

I think innings should matter more as a tiebreaker. If two pitchers are somewhat close and one pitcher has thrown 30-40 more innings, then I don't have a problem with the award going to them even if their stats are a little bit worse. I think if Burnes loses, it'll be because not enough weight was given to his peripheral stats which are all clearly the best in baseball this year. If voters just decide to look at ERA and IP, he may lose, but even with Scherzer's recent run of dominance, Burnes leads him in pretty much every metric except ERA and that's pretty close. I'm a homer but I'd vote Burnes as of right now. Still a few starts left though, if Burnes or Scherzer blow up just once that'll be enough to sway the vote.

I'm not so sure Urias should/will be on the bench much in a playoff series. He's been one of our best hitters since the all star break. He's been equally as good as Tellez and significantly better than Escobar. He's also the best defender of the 3. I think Urias is getting significantly overlooked and frankly is a better option in the starting lineup against both RH and LH hitters than both Escobar and Tellez. Man, Urias has been sneakily having a couple pretty great months. His 2nd half: 137 PA, .263/.348/.483, 6 HR .269 BAbip, 20:15 K:BB, 42.6 HardHit% Since August 1st: 85 PA, .286/.333/.532, 5 HR, .279 BAbip, 12:6 K:BB, 40.3 HardHit% His numbers are obviously inflated a bit by his 5 XBH game against the Cubs, but it looks like he's also getting a bit unlucky with the low BAbip compared to pretty solid HardHit%. The nice thing about the playoffs is that you don't have to worry about getting everybody playing time, the best bat plays. Will have to see who the best bats are by the beginning of October.

I still stand by the trade pretty much regardless of outcome because the Brewers badly needed offensive production from SS and Urias made a lot of sense with that goal in mind. Even if he was a league average SS offensively, the improvement over Arcia was going to be pretty mammoth, and we could always sign an OF to replace Grisham. Obviously that plan somewhat backfired last year when Urias and Garcia underperformed, but it's looking pretty good in 2021 even if Urias isn't playing SS much anymore.

Maybe not the most popular opinion but I want Anderson on the roster to start a possible game 4. He can go once through the order, then Houser can go once through, then Ashby or Lauer. I think we could add Anderson and ditch JBJ. Everything else I agree with.

I mean Burnes/Woodruff shutting down their offense does count for something.

All gravy from here after the last two.

I hope Gray is so good, he needs to gets listed twice. Maybe Gray Sr. can play CF.

I don't have an Athletic subscription, but Brewers have four CF prospects who all figure to be in their top 10 at the beginning of next year with Mitchell, Frelick, Perez, and Gray. They all seem to be rising fast through the system, hopefully one or two of them could be ready to contribute toward the end of 2022 or beginning of 2023, just as expensive OF contracts are coming off the books.

I'm not sure anybody understands "the COVID list stuff." I thought that say a player received the vaccine and was feeling ill effects from that vaccine they could be placed on a "COVID list" for as little or as much time as necessary--like even a day or two. It kind of sounds like that might be Cueto's deal. If that was the case, then Yelich could've returned a lot sooner than he did.

This made me curious. In 17 games (15 starts) since Bellinger had a 2 homer game (and actually had 4 homers in 4 games): 62 PA, .133/.145/.183, 3 2B, 0 HR, 18:1 K:BB, .186 BAbip, 27.9 Hard-Hit% In 7 games (7 starts) since Yelich had a 2 homer game: 30 PA, .375/.433/.500, 3 2B, 0 HR, 4:4 K:BB, .409 BAbip, 40.9 Hard-Hit% Larger sample size for Bellinger but Yelich already has more hits in his time period than Bellinger in his (9 to 8). Certainly some luck in the small samples but Yelich is hitting the ball hard, and the difference in the K/BB numbers are staggering. To bring it back on topic, Bradley in the month of August: 40 PA, .167/.250/.250, 3 2B, 0 HR, 13:3 K:BB, .261 BAbip, 39.1 Hard-Hit% If you told me JBJ was having a better August than Cody Bellinger and hitting the ball a lot harder than him I'd be pretty happy...... There's probably 0% chance the Brewers just cut bait on Bradley given his defense has been stellar and maybe he bounces back like Narvaez/Garcia did, but a Taylor/Bradley RF has potential to be a real problem for our team next year.

If you take out 2020, Avi's average OPS between 2017 and now is .819, so I don't think he's outplaying his expectations by THAT much this year, combined with the physical transformation this year, I'd guess he still has a few more good years ahead of him. I think money is the tough part here, as the Brewers have way too much financial commitment to the outfield as it is, and lots of guys getting raises in arbitration the next couple years. If the Brewers can move some of the Bradley/Cain money for next year, I could see them looking to resign Garcia. If not, then I expect a Bradley/Taylor platoon in RF next year.