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Sounds like Bryan Hudson’s return is imminent since he’s already back with the team… barring another phantom IL move… do we see DL Hall optioned to make space for Hudson? I don’t even think he would burn an option since we could call him back up 9/1 and it will be fewer than 20 days. I think we’d all be interested in seeing Mis and/or Yoho at some point this season too. This is a good reminder of how much I hate the new September roster restrictions.

It looks like they got the call correct. It definitely is a bad break though. a) the back swing contact didn't cause the ball to get by the catcher b) the bat making contact with the catcher didn't benefit any of the 3 runners. they all would have easily advanced without the contact c) the catcher lunged forward to field the ball in the dirt and contributed to the contact with the back swing. In the true spirit of the rule, there was no interference with the catchers ability to make the play. Side note... I kinda hate when guys let go of the bat with their top hand.

Are they truly trying to win? They cut payroll by like 15%. Then they replaced Burnes and Woodruff with a guy who hasn't pitched in the big leagues since 2021 and 2 relievers. The Brewers may very well stay in contention all year and even make the playoffs, I hope they do. I just hope they do it while letting the young guys play.

thank you. this is the pertinent video to show to prove that the slide yesterday was not his natural sliding motion. not the 2 other videos posted in this thread. ultimately the umps admitted they blew the call. it happens. however that inning cascaded on uribe between the ump telling him he blew the call on the judge walk to begin with, the missed call on the interference, and then getting squeezed on strike 3. he recorded 5 outs (judge twice) and only got credited for 2. it sucks, move onto the next one,

I know the Brewers are off to a nice start this season, but most of us thought this was probably a .500 team or worse. I still think is a transition season where it's more important to develop our young players at the big league level rather than chasing marginally production by replacing Chourio with someone else. Let the kid learn at the big league level and keep trotting him out there 5-6 games per week.

Goes to show how expectations factor into how fun things are. Basically the same record as last year at the same point in the season but the vibes around this fanbase are way higher than I remember last years being.

I’m looking forward to this one. Some hype around this series nationally due to the Jackson’s. (well as much hype as April baseball can drum up). Hopefully ours outshines theirs.

Man, I don't know if I've ever seen a first baseman in the MLB whiff on a throw like that.

I love that about half of the Brewers position players are a threat to steal bases/take extra bases. (hitting homer would be fun too, but if we can't have that, stolen bases are at least a plus)

Interesting to see Peguero go 2 full IP. He only recorded 6 outs 2 times last season. I wonder what his role will be out of the pen this season. Obviously we saw Megill get the 7th yesterday when that was Peguero's main role for much of last season,

this is great and what I was expecting. thank you. i'll keep playing around with it to see if I can find my way here too,

I was hoping to filter out just the called strikes

I'm playing around on baseball savant and cant find the called strike chart. anyone know where to find it? brooks baseball isn't loading for me.

I’m a little surprised he’s got Chourio in the leadoff spot. Kinda thought they would “ease” him in and have him batting 7-9 somewhere. But heck ya, let’s get after it from day 1.

Most of position players at the fringe of the roster have options except Haase and Bauers. Arroyo too, but he's a NRI. The Brewers will likely try to preserve depth as much as possible. Something that got brought up in the Sanchez thread that I wasn't aware of was that Haase is on a split major/minor deal. He'd have to clear waivers to go to the minors, but a little less of a financial commitment if he ends up in AAA to start the year. The pitching staff has a little less flexibility than we've seen in past years, but there are enough guys with options to run the bullpen shuttle squad as needed.

I hadn't seen that it's a split deal. Looks like he'd still need to clear waivers to get sent down, but there's some financial flexibility there. Hearing this, I think it's less likely they keep all 3 on the big league roster coming out of spring (assuming all 3 are healthy)

Admittedly this isn't super exciting, but he's probably a better option than Haase. As other posters have pointed out, Haase doesn't have any options remaining and he got a $1m big league deal. My guess is they roll out of camp with 3 catchers assuming all 3 are healthy and then put off making that decision as long as possible. Taking it a step further, unless he just absolutely sucks, Bauers probably makes the opening day roster too since he is also out of options and the rest of the 40 man roster guys like Owen Miller and Andruw Monsterio still have at least an option left. Would make for a super clunky roster on opening day to carry 3 catchers, 2 first basemen, and likely 5 outfielders. So probably wouldn't be able to keep Bauers and Haase for long if the team is healthy coming out of spring training. I'm not upset that they're adding to the options at DH, but it kinda would've been nice to just run out the young guys as much as possible to see what we really have in Frelick, Mitchell, Weimer, and to a lesser extent Perkins. All of those guys have options so they probably don't all make the opening day roster. I do hope Chourio starts from day 1.

Losing Burnes and Woodruff in one offseason is rough. I would have preferred to ride out the year with Burnes and let him leave in free agency. I don't know anything about the players we got in return other than the 10 minutes I just spent reading up on them. Ortiz is most likely a better bet to be a long term solution at SS than Turang. Hall seems like he could stick in the bullpen and at the very least be a decent member of the shuttle squad which we need since a lot of our pen isn't going to have options. Bummer on Ethan Small. What a mess that turned out to be. I'm hoping they add some SP options here. I already wasn't too excited about Rea and Ross being the likely 4th and 5th guys in the rotation to start the year.

lol that was completely painless. will be interesting to see if counsell presses his luck and runs him out to face schwarber to start next inning

This is an interesting decision from Counsell. I'm skeptical.

I saw some talk on twitter that Lasry has been interested in cutting spending. No idea if that's accurate or not. There have been rumors for a couple of months now that he may sell he stake... he might just be cashing out? Ultimately I don't really care who owns the team as long as they keep ponying up on payroll and do everything they can to keep Giannis in Milwaukee.

Definitely fun to see Beauchamp have his first sorta break out performance of the regular season. Getting to play with 4 starters in a couple of stints lasts night was definitely cool and seeing Giannis getting him involved feels like a bit of good leadership from Giannis. The schedule starts to turn a little bit tougher here in about a week with more playoff teams on the schedule and less home heavy schedule. It's been fun so far, but I'm excited to see the level of competition increase and how the team plays.

I tend to side with UpandIn re: Simmons. I don't think he's broken beyond repair and could still at least be a valuable starter even if he doesn't return to his near allstar/all NBA level play. Joe Harris hasn't been the same level player since 2021, but I think he could still eventually be productive again. Curry hasn't really played this year. TJ Warren is intriguing if he can return to 2020 bubble version Warren (big if since he hasn't played since then). KD, Simmons, and Claxton have the length to bother teams even if they have a bunch of small/poor perimeter defenders in curry, kyrie, and mills. Ime seems like he's a pretty good coach so if that's the route they take per the reports, I could see this team being scary again even if there are a lot of "ifs" right now.

I've been really enjoying the start of the season given the state of the rest of Wisconsin sports. Can't form too many strong opinions about the group as a whole until Midds and Pat return. The offense has felt bogged down at times and their only real solution to that has been Giannis just relentlessly attacking the rim. feels like Giannis had been trying to work on his perimeter game a little more early in games and then being more aggressive in the second half. He can't be full throttle all game every game so it doesn't bother me at all and ultimately will be good for him and this team. I've loved the big line ups with Giannis, Bobby, and Brook. Great to see Brook healthy and playing excellent defense. Jevon Carter taking some of the defensive pressure off of Jrue to start the season isa plus. Hill has looked useful and healthy so far, let's hope that continues since I know a lot of fans were down on him due to his poor play in the playoffs. the rotation so far seems good to me. I can understand the desire to see Beauchamp over Nwora though. I don't really think Beauchamp is a rotation caliber player yet, but I think we will see some more of him as we get deeper into the schedule. Probably a chance for him to play some this week with 2 games against detroit and a back to back Friday/Saturday. He got a little run last night and would be cool to see him get some minutes with the core rotation players like that and not just garbage time. Commenting on the Crowder stuff, I don't really see the fit. Feels pretty similar to what they can get from Wes and basically takes all of their usable trade fodder. would rather wait it out till deeper in the season to see what else is out there.

I like Mccutchen. Happy with the addition. I think he can be part of a functional offense, but I don't have a lot faith in the current position player group to be an above average offense over the course of the season let alone in the playoffs. Really need a strong bounce back from Yelich. Pretty much every position player the Brewers will be relying on in 2022 has a spotty recent history. I think we need another piece or two to make this offense work. Not sure where the roster space comes from though unless Hiura and/or Brosseau open in the minors.