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I think Isiah Kiner Faleafa is the guy to go after at least early like now. He doesn't have the power that our lineup could use but he is a plus defender at SS and 3B. He hits well enough to at consistency and at 7.5 million the Pirates might move him early to save some money. Maybe something like Wes Clarke and Hedbert/Garcia would be enough.

That entire AA rotation is severely underrated. Crow, Kuehner, Cornielle, Hunt, and Wichrowski all have the ability to be solid 4/5 starters with some traits that could make them more than that. Pena is just spectacular, easily a top 100 prospect at this point and maybe top 50. A future IF with Made, Pratt, Pena, Josh A, Turang, and Adams/Boeve/Bitonti/Wilken/Burke is just amazing to think about. I don't know much about Carra buy he seems to fit the mold of our Latino pitchers. If he can get to 95 or so there is a high ceiling.

I think Made still has a higher ceiling, because of the power potential. However as Pena is showing more power everyday it is getting close. Pena is definitely further ahead right now. I would put the odds of him staying in Carolina through June at slim to none.

Any chance we pull a Hader style move this deadline if we continue playing like the past week. We have enough depth to cover losing Freddie but with attendance down to start the year I can't see the front office doing that. I still think it might make sense, at this point we could get a overpay for him with a lack of high end pitching that will be on the market. Here is to hoping the team stays hot and we don't have to worry about it until the offseason.

A road sweep of the Phillies, oh yeah. The offense is starting to get more consistent and the pitching staff is getting to full strength. Bring on the Reds

It's nice to see Kuehner coming on strong after a couple not great starts at the beginning of the year. Burke needs a call up, even if he isn't hitting bombs. He needs a chance to get some serious AA ab's in to allow him a chance to compete with EMJ, Black, Boeve, Adam's, and Wilken for 1B next year if need be.

Our rotation is looking really strong right now. Patrick and Freddy have been strong all year, Preister is coming around with Civale and Q coming back strong (hopefully). Add in Hall looking really sharp and Woody, Henderson, and Misi, Myers there is plenty of upside and innings to be had.

Wowie zowie, off Luzardo none the less who was in the Cy young conversation before today.

Everything is starting to look up pitching is getting healthy and now the entire pen essentially got 2 days off. In the last 10 games Durbin brought his average from .159 to .213 and Yeli .184 to .220 in 7 games (with power). Has there been any Mitchell or Perkins updates? I feel like both should be on rehab like last week by initial timelines.

Agree, it is to difficult to gauge with the 10 or so options. I would love to just go Peralta and rookies Patrick, Henderson, Misi, Priester (maybe not rookie) with CarRod, Myers, and eventually Gasser as depth. However that isn't wise as most of those guys will have some innings limit. I want to give Woody as much of a chance as possible and I think Civale and Quintana will be consistent and needed as much as possible. We really could support 2 rotations. old) Peralta, Woody, Quintana, Civale, Cortez, Alexander young) Patrick, Henderson, Misi, Myers, Preister, CarRod, Gasser (Hall and Ashby possibly as well) That is crazy depth.

Alexander is making just a million, I am not saying we would get much of anything but with all the pitching shortages and his track record there should be a small market. Civale had 3.57 ERA after we traded for him and 3.00 era in the 2 starts since he has been off the DL. His 8 million dollar salary would play into it but is only a problem for a few teams and we could likely eat most of it since it is budgeted. Civale may have more trade value in a week or two than last year with a couple good starts.

Within the next week I expect a trade coming with Woody and Quintana coming back. Tyler Alexander would be the obvious first candidate, he is good enough for someone to want him but not really get anything valuable back. With Hall and Ashby back Alexander and Rob Z are the easy 2 to get rid of as 4th and 5th lefties from the pen. Civale could be an option as well plenty of teams need a vet starter. The Astros have a ton of injury issues and not a ton of depth. Shay Whitcomb would be a great return, they can have Rob Z or Alexander if they want as well.

Great win today, exciting series. Durbin has been sneaky good the past week or so. Here's to fixing our road issue in Philly after a much deserved day off.

I am really excited for this one, a sweep of the Sox would be huge and 1 game over .500 feels so much better than 1 under. On a different note, I read something that I think was on the brewers website but I couldn't find it to quote anything. Essentially it said with Quintana and Woody getting close the team has some tough choses on who goes to AAA. It made it sound like the team was going to do everything it could not to use up Priester's last option and that Murphy or at least a coach had talked to Patrick about the possibility of being sent down. I can understand sending Henderson down to a small degree with just wanting to keep his workload down and some past injury concerns. However if we send down Patrick and leave Tyler Alexander, Rob Z, and Priester on the big league club over Patrick and Henderson, I will straight up lose it. Just a warning, I will straight up lose all my marbles.

Someone wrote that Lara's hot streak is painting him more in the light of a prospect like Sal Frelick where as when the season started most of us would have had him more of a 4th OF like Perkins. I agree with that idea, you think he can be a .270-.300 hitter he becomes super valuable as a prospect, so like a 55-60 grade contact. I think I would have said he had a 45 hit tool before the season started and probably would move that up to a 50 at this point, if he can hot like this for another month and a half I would think a 55 hit tool would be warranted. When giving him a 60+ grade on speed and defense at 20 in AA he then should get plenty of top 100 consideration. I would say right now he is pushing the top 10 in our organization after being around the 20 spot before the season and through the 1st month or so, Dinges is a bit tricky to feel out prospect status, the bat was tremendous but just looking offensively he should have went straight to A+ with his college pedigree. With him catching it made sense to have him in Carolina and work on defense. With the gains he has shown it looks like he is going to be able to be at least a passible defender given a couple years. With how good our system is at working on catchers defensively I wouldn't be surprised if he becomes a plus defender with the big arm. I think there are two questions here, 1) How will he hold up to a full season of catching? Basically will he continue to hit well as his legs get tired during the long haul of the year. and 2) Will he be able to adapt to better pitching? It's only been a week or so but he has struggled more with the bat than in A ball. I would probably say he is starting to push the top 20 of our team rankings, a couple good weeks in Appleton would solidify that. I don't think it would be crazy to think he can be a top 10 org prospect that could be pushing the league top 100 if he hits around .300 with 15ish HR power and quickly improving defense by the end of the year especially if he can get a AA prmotion by the end of the year. Flores fits into a category that most of our Latino pitchers do at his age, if he can get his fastball up to 95 consistently he can have bright future. He looks very smooth with decent secondary pitches and has the body to add some weight/strength.

It would seem Quero is ready for a more difficult placement. I like the idea of a week in Appleton and then up to AAA. Juan Ortuno had a big game, his 3rd HR. He now has 14bb to 11k and his obp is over .450 even if his batting average isn't very sexy.

I think Turang was probably hitting over .300 at this point of the season last year and struggled around the all-star break for a month or so. Hopefully he can just stay consistent, it seems like he is the best when he is looking to go the opposite way. His defense is starting to get back to gold glove levels as well especially after a little shaky 1st month (not bad, just not a last years standard), He is probably on pace for a borderline 5 WAR season again. Seeing how the left side of the IF looks it might be a good idea to see if we can get a long term deal done, I think at this point I am safe on saying he is a good bet to hit .250-.300 with high end baserunning and defense for the next 6+ years. There is some power starting to peak through however only 5 doubles 1/3 of the way through the year is worrisome, Something like Ke'Bryan Hayes 8/70 would seem like a deal at this point say 5, 7.5, 10 for the arby years and then like 3/42 (14 per) after that would come out to 6/64.5.

What would a half year of Rhys get us? Him hitting .287/.387/.467 with an ops at 139 should get a really solid prospect but maybe last year and the missed 2023 brings it done a smidge. I would guess the return would be similar to what the guardians got for Josh Naylor (P Slade Cecconi and a COMP B pick). With 3/4 teams needing a bat really bad and not much available from the bottom 6-8 teams in the league a little bidding war could get a 3rd piece. I would guess if we are in a similar postion in the standings to where we are now or worse he will be traded. With Bauers, EMJ, and then Adams/Boeve/Wilken around getting a couple good pieces and save a bunch of cash is how we operate.

How long is it until we here if Payamps gets traded, pickup by another team, or excepts a demotion to AAA (I think those are the options? My thought is a week (from the 22nd). With the number of teams needing bullpen help I would think there would be a trade that at least saves the amount of money we still owe him this year.

What would everyone's end of the year rotation preference be, just straight 5 man. I think Misi and Henderson will both be in the bullpen as they hit innings limits. 1)Freddy 2)Woody 3) Patrick 4) Priester 5)Quintana I really hope Gasser can get all the way back and make it back to the big league staff. It seems like the organization is determined to keep Priester there so hopefully he can continue to make small progressions like it seemed happened in his last start. I still think to make a playoff run we will need Woody to come back strong. Quintana has shown more than Civale or Cortes so he gets 5. My bullpen would be Megill, Uribe, Yoho, Mears, Koenig (gets it back together), Ashby, Hall, Misi, Henderson in that instance allowing us to turn excess arms into usable pieces.

I would think more than Soto because he is controllable longer. Basically they would get to pick like 6 prospect after Made if you asked me a price (not that I would do that).

I think we would all prefer not to sell because it means this team would be successful over the next 6-8 weeks. I think that there is a pretty defined line when we get close to the deadline, it is how far from the Cubs (or Cards) we are. With the Phillies, Mets, Dodgers, Padres, and Giants and then the D-backs, Braves, and our division teams fight it out I don't think the odds of getting a wild card are great (possible yes). If we are more than 5 games back I would sell the 1 year guys and entertain quality offers on Freddy and MeGill. I do think that we should make some early season moves here in the next month of so that will turn some excess pitching into a 3B/SS option. I wouldn't really call that buying or selling if it happens in the next couple weeks. I doubt any of our 1 year pitchers have a chance to get us a comp pick at this point. With how well the young guys have pitched and Hall, Ashby, and hopefully Gasser coming back II do think that there will be some buying and selling if we are kind of in a similar position standings wise as we are now. Sell short term guys, add younger controllable players.

I would be OK with Arcia, he probably would be better than Mone as a utility and there is at least a little power. If he is going good he could put together a good month or so.

I would guess he meant Shane Smith.

I like the idea of someone like Ronny Mauricio. The Mets have a bench of infield depth and before the injury he was a 5 tool highly exciting prospect. At the very least he is a top notch utility guy but he can play SS and 3B. I don't know what the Mets would want. Josh Smith would be OK but probably pretty expensive. IKF would be trade target at this point but Lara is to much. For IKF maybe like Mark Manfrdi if they eat some cash maybe a bit better like Kuehner Urias for Black wouldn't be bad but I would guess they would want pitching. KC Hunt, Cornielle, Birchard, or Kuehner and a lotto guy in rookie ball.