Any word on if he was one of those AmFam tryout guys? Sure feels like we’ve been getting super under the radar guys up there for workouts and throwing $150k at them.
In BA’s write up for the Brewers draft they mentioned that Strosnider had shoulder surgery in 2025.
Kyle Jones, the 3rd rounder, missed his entire 2025 due to shoulder surgery.
Could very well be that we are expecting big bounce backs from them, as we’ve seen it takes a while with Quero and Boeve. Buying low.
Probably nothing, as it's Los Angeles and all, but 4th round pitcher Julian Garcia and 14th round pitcher Daunte Bell's high schools are less than 10 miles apart. Maybe some familiarity there.
Also their birthdays are two days apart. Kinda neat.
Yeah the more I think about it, the more I think he might cost as much as Ebel. Only explaination as to how he fell so far.
He just turned 21 a few days ago and is only a sophomore. Old for his HS class, young for his college class. Could go back and still be a junior, and TCU has money.
This could be a Levonas thing that we just had to take a swing at because the plus side is a top of the first talent.
Where our picks placed in the BA Top 500:
Trey Ebel: 86
Sawyer Strosnider: 13
Kyle Jones: 72
Julian Garcia: 92
Strosnider is a draft eligible sophomore. I imagine that is going to be a tricky / above slot signing. Teams had to have been thinking he’s going back to school.
75% of slot would be $2,775,000
That is exactly $25k more than Brady signed for last year. If my boys are anything to go off of, I’d retroactively give Brady another $25k so they play nice.
Eh. They’re good with Payne, Dinges, Bitonti, and Pena.
I kind of want the Wilson lineup to stay as it is. That is a fun group that should stick together, and no one is really kicking the door to Appleton down just yet.
There are 51 teams in the league. The Brewers teams are #3 and #5 in HRs. The teams that are 1-2 each have 100 more ABs than ours (along with being in the top 15 oldest teams).
Even in a crazy year, our guys are the craziest.
Connor Comeau feels like a more Brewers-y version of Bitonti. Hit over power, but looks like he could add 50 lbs and be a monster.
If we could get him and one of the young SS in the 2nd (Maniscalco, Ebel, Marchaund), I’d be over the moon.
He won’t be. It’s a Willits / Steele Hall situation where he’ll go top 10 after flying up boards.
Maniscalco also only turned 17 a month ago. He’s 100% our pick if the draft was last week.
We will take Taj Marchand or Ebel’s brother.