Brock Beauchamp

Yeah, maybe I'm just being irrationally nervous about things. It often happens near the end of spring as players start dropping off the board left and right.

Older, more injury history, less confident in farmhands providing assistance should things go sideways.

Yeah, maybe. But going into 2021 it felt like there was so much upside to be tapped into, which the team did. Maybe I'm just over-correcting in that the upside is already there and can mostly only go down from here.

Honestly, most bullpens are nowadays.

Trading Hiura for Varland would be kinda wild. I like it, though I'm skeptical the Dodgers feel the same way. It also potentially clears space for Voit to be with the big league club, which I would prefer to see anyway.

Miley scares the hell out of me but if his body holds together for at least 100 innings, it'll be a godsend while Ashby is out. I'm more concerned about the Brewers rotation this season than I have been in awhile. There are several question marks heading into the season and I hope we don't end up in another "Jason Alexander every fifth day" situation in May or June. It wouldn't take much to get there, really.

An outstanding baseball game and Team Mexico should be damn proud of themselves.

Ah, okay, thanks!

Hey @wiguy94 I just scanned three articles on the rules and I don't see anything about innings limits. Am I missing something? https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/world-baseball-classic-pitcher-rules-pitch-count-usage/nj6pltcxyabog5qbuyff8dqg

WBC pitching restriction, I assume? Somehow I wasn't aware of that rule.

I've been pulling for Mexico most of the tourney, not going to stop now.

Oh, I know you are, the phrasing felt like it was stirring the pot.

I see Matt woke up this morning and chose violence.

I just looked up Fubo and they carry Bally. Which is where I'll be headed around Opening Day because DirecTV Stream is such an awful experience that I have to believe Fubo will be better. https://www.fubo.tv/welcome/channels

It won’t really work that way, though. Contraction simply eliminates a bunch of baseball money. National revenue would be distributed to a smaller pool but national revenue would also decrease. It’d probably be a net gain for each remaining team but not enough to move the needle.

It may not be enough but it'd create quite a bit more parity. I'm dropping off the top and bottom two teams in this post to prevent outliers from skewing how this would impact the majority of teams. If you remove the top two and bottom two teams from MLB attendance in 2022, the gap between #3 and #28 is about 2,000,000 paid fans. If you figure each fan is worth about $30 to the team, that's a $60,000,000 gap in revenue. If you do the same for television contracts, the gap between #3 and #28 is about $90,000,000. The median attendance was about 2,300,000 fans in 2022, or about 190% that of the #28 team. The median television contract was about $60,000,000, or about 215% that of the #28 team. It won't be killing every problem with a single solution but it increases parity while also promoting better on-field product and fan engagement. The Brewers are the #28 team in local TV revenue, for the record.

What Braden is doing with this series is exactly what we wanted from this user blog section: a place for new writers to find their voices, try their hand at writing, and practice the craft. I hope to see more people try it in the coming season!

Love this series! The only thing I knew about Adams is that he was drafted in the later rounds, he dropped off my radar after that point. It will be interesting to see if his size becomes a problem at third as he matures. From a writing perspective, useful information for this piece would have been *how* the Brewers lured him away from college; he received nearly $300,000 in signing money despite being a 12th rounder.

The fix to this is to create a revenue sharing system that benefits or remains revenue neutral for 24 teams. Then the six owners of the largest revenue teams can't prevent it.

Right now, home teams share gate revenue with their opponent. Get rid of that. 100% of gate goes to the home team. In place of this, share 50% of home team television revenue with the opponent. Teams like the Brewers - who have historically done pretty well with attendance - benefit from the local outreach efforts they make with fans. Inversely, it punishes the A's and Rays of the world for offering home field experiences more akin to a trashfire than a premier sporting event. It also directly - and severely - punishes teams for completely tanking and driving fans away from the ballpark. If MLB owners presented a salary floor of $140m and fix it to league revenue, I suspect players come around pretty quickly to a salary cap. Players bluster about being against a salary cap but I suspect that's primarily because the owners' offers of a floor have been quite pathetic to this point. Make a real offer of a floor that guarantees players a portion of revenue and suddenly a cap isn't out of the question. In fact, it makes sense for the players.

It's been one year, let's take a look at all of your contributions to the site. Image courtesy of © Michael McLoone-USA TODAY Sports How has it been an entire year already? One year ago today, BrewerFan.net became Brewer Fanatic and being immersed in this awesome community has been a delight for me personally. Seeing new users register and contribute to the site while so many of our legacy users have stepped up and contributed in new and exciting ways has taken the site to another level over the past 365 days. Let's take a look at the numbers! In our inaugural year we saw 210,228 users visit the site at least once. That's a huge increase from the previous year of BrewerFan when 94,195 users visited the forums. We have to go all the way back to the same period of 2019-2020 - when the Brewer fans were excited about the future, fresh off the Yelich extension and back-to-back postseason appearances - to come close to that number. During that period of time, 149,463 users visited BrewerFan. By the way, if you want Brewers updates delivered to your inbox every day, consider signing up for our email list! It's one of the easiest and most effective ways to help the site and you get the reward of the news coming to you instead of you having to go find it. In our first year of operation, we posted 765 front page news stories while 343 people registered new accounts on the site. In the forums, you posted 2,036 topics and posted 68,615 comments while 462 unique people contributed to the site by commenting. All in all, you viewed 3,432,690 pages on this website. I cannot thank all of you enough for the advice, assistance, and criticism you've brought during this transitional year. I've never attempted to mold an existing community into a new, more comprehensive site structure and I'm the first to admit there were bumps along the way but your patience and legacy knowledge of this community has inspired me to get up and keep plugging away at this project every single day. I know I say this a lot but this site couldn't exist without each and every one of you making it what it has been, is today, and will become tomorrow. As we approach Opening Day, I couldn't be more excited about this team and this awesome site that covers it daily. Now let's get through the rest of Spring Training and GO CREW! View full article

I think there's a good chance that after 2023, Yelich moves to at least part-time DH. I think he'll still get reps in the outfield but with other, better options coming through the minors this season (hopefully), there won't be many reasons to keep putting him in the field every day.

I completely missed that Rodriguez was on the mound for Nicaragua (man, it's hard to keep track of everything in the WBC). Great write-up!

I’ve never been particularly high on Taylor and was shocked by his defensive play last season. That *completely* changes his profile and gives him a floor that virtually guarantees him to stick in MLB for at least a few seasons.