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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'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 haven't lived in Wisconsin since 2003, but I did go to Balistreri's in tosa a couple years ago with my brother in law and I really liked it.

He probably falls into that 2-3 year deal for 6-8 million per year bucket doesn't he? Sample is small, but just look at the stuff. He's definitely worked his way into pitching the very back end of games for this team. You could easily argue he's our 2nd best reliever. I think that's too high. Justin Wilson got 2 years $10mm. I think that's the absolute top end of what Pomeranz would get. I'm thinking he's more likely in the 1 year $4mm range. As another poster mentioned, if a team gives him a chance to start that may sway him.

Pomeranz with the Brewers (1 start) 2.35 ERA, 3.02 FIP, 42.4 K% in 15.1 IP Pomeranz as a reliever in 2019 1.53 ERA, 1.75 FIP, 46.2 K% in 17.2 IP If he continues to pitch like this down the stretch (and hopefully into the playoffs) it will be interesting to see what his market is like in free agency.

I agree with this for the most part. Had to basically get in the August trade acquisitions in this month too because they eliminated the waiver deadline. Sure, I wish they did more but the only guy that got traded who was in my "realistic" SP target group was Roark.

I think knebel not pitching one inning was the most important thing. But yes burnes being bad hurt too Yep. Losing at least 150 good-dominant innings from Knebel and Burnes is the biggest killer. Add in a mediocre Jeffress and that's ~200-250 quality innings the Brewers were likely counting on when spring training opened.

As a note, Dubon is 25. Older than Orlando Arcia*** He's not the future at SS folks.

I'm not all that convinced Dubon is ever a first division starter at any position so I'm not all that disappointed in him being traded. I'm pretty meh on this trade, but it's sorta quantity over quality so far. Acquired 4 guys and hopefully 1-2 of them are useful this year.