Brock Beauchamp

First gonna move this to the right forum. Second, the Brewers could demand one top 50 prospect and at least two more top 100 prospects for Burnes today. But they almost surely won’t. Welcome to Brewer Fanatic!

Effectively Wild did a long dive into the rule's history and it's old. Like it started in the 50s, maybe? But it was implemented in such a scattershot way with no umpire buy-in, no penalties, no clock... everyone just ignored it. Which wasn't really a problem until the 2000s when games started to drag out and kept dragging out. But by then, the rule was ancient, no one observed it, and there was no impetus to start observing it. Which is why the new, much more clearly written, rule is now in place.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding this statement but baseball has been testing the pitch clock in the minor leagues for a couple of seasons now.

Without a mechanism to enforce it (ie. a clock), umpires have refused to enforce that rule for about half a century. Which is why we now have a clock.

That adds complexity and would likely result in both players and umps being even more confused. This was literally the first game on the first day of the new rule during a game that doesn't matter in the slightest bit. The consternation over this seems way out of proportion.

I read somewhere that in the minors two infractions a game were called in the first two weeks, then the following two weeks it was one infraction every other game. That’s without players and umps having a spring training to acclimate. I really don’t think this will be an issue, like at all.

The ump can call time whenever they please, same as always.

If you're predicting a Woodruff Cy Young Award, maybe the Brewers should think about extending him over Adames... 😛

You can nearly set your watch to it.

Players have brought this on themselves. I have no sympathy for them in this regard.

A long winter may still be covering Wisconsin, but for the first time in months, the crack of wooden bats filled television sets around the state, marking the return of Brewers baseball. Image courtesy of Brock Beauchamp As we approach Brewer Fanatic’s first birthday on March 13th, we saw hundreds of users contribute to the site over our first offseason, writing thousands of posts. Let’s look at the off-season's most popular users, posts, and blogs. But before we do that, here is an explanation: a couple of times per year, we thank our great users by awarding prizes for the most popular user-generated content on Brewer Fanatic. Want to throw your hat into the ring for a future prize? Register and join the community today! Now let’s run through some numbers. From the time the Astros hoisted a trophy (ick) until the day before the first spring training game, Brewer Fanatic saw the following: 76 new users registered on the site The site had 280 individuals contribute content across the news, forums, blogs, and video sections Users started 487 unique topics to discuss the Brewers Those topics contained 14,777 posts Users handed out 6,990 reactions to others’ posts During the offseason, the most prolific poster was @Brewcrew82. Thanks for all the contributions, Brewcrew! The second most prolific poster was our very own @sveumrules! Thanks for all the great content and moderation work you do for the site! Now on to the prizes… Most Popular Post We were all rocked by the news of the William Contreras trade. First, it came out of nowhere. Second, the details seemed incomplete because… Esteury Ruiz for a young All-Star catcher? That’s it? As we all sat and waited for the other shoe to drop (i.e., The Brewers throwing in a second prospect), we learned that GM Matt Arnold did the opposite. He demanded more in return than Contreras alone, as @Robocaller points out in the most popular post of the offseason, that took real chutzpah. Well done, Robocaller, and for your contribution, you’ll receive this 1979 Paul Molitor autographed Topps card! Honorary Mention Our second most popular post of the offseason is fun, and I’m thrilled to bring it to everyone’s attention again. Recently, a new user from South Korea joined Brewer Fanatic and explained how they became a Brewers fan on the back of his “forever hero,” Ben Sheets. The thread is a great read, and welcome to the board, @Shin Wook Lee! We’re glad to have you aboard and look forward to future posts! Most Popular User Blog Entry Can Robert Gasser make the Opening Day roster? While it’s probably unlikely to happen, @Steven Ohlrogge posed the question in this brief blog entry. And isn’t that one of the best things about the transition from late winter into spring? You know it’s late February when we’re putting undue thought into the eighth man in the bullpen and whether a dark horse candidate will emerge. For your efforts, Steve here’s a limited edition Brewers Spring Training bobblehead to put on your shelf and count down the days until the Brewers face the Cubs in Wrigley on March 30th. Honorary Mention It’s hard to mention the Brewer Fanatic user blogs without mentioning @CheeseheadInQC. Coming in as the second most popular blog entry of the offseason, their entry breaking down three players and stats to watch this year in the minor leagues is an excellent read. Huge props to Cheesehead for their continued coverage of the minors in our blog section! Thanks again to all 280 of you who visited the site during a relatively slow-moving Brewers offseason and kept the site lively and informative. The community always has been and always will be the core of this website, and I cannot wait to see what you all have in store for us in 2023! GO, CREW! View full article

I love reading these kind of pieces in spring training when exuberance overwhelms rational thought. Well done, looking forward to part two!

His $2m is guaranteed at this point. The only way to not pay him is to trade him to another team.

At this point, I'm ready to take a low minors lottery ticket in trade for Hiura and just move on from him. I think Voit is a better fit for the roster on Opening Day.

Slipping a tweet from Parker into the piece, nice.

To put this into context, Chourio was the same age last season as all the prep draftees drafted two months earlier. Except he was attempting to hit against AA pitchers.

The Astros job went to someone else so Stearns is still in his quasi-hiatus state. And welcome to Brewer Fanatic!

While this is certainly the case a lot of the time, in Chourio and Mitchell we're discussing two players in different stratospheres. It's akin to suggesting Eric Lauer might have more trade value than Corbin Burnes. It's not a knock on Lauer, he's a very nice player, but he isn't Corbin Burnes.

Shocked is a strong word. I’d be mildly surprised if Chourio *doesn’t* play in Nashville this season, injury issues excepted. If the guy is raking, promote him to face the more polished and crafty pitchers of the AAA circuit.

Yeah, I'd be surprised if we see Chourio in Milwaukee this season no matter how well he hits.

Jackson Chourio has *way more* value in trade than Mitchell. I also doubt Chourio is the next Trout. I’m just saying what he’s doing is comparable to some elite players as a teen. Where he goes from here is unknown to everyone.

I think you're really undervaluing how rare what Chourio did at his age is in the context of baseball. He's posting A-Rod/Trout kind of performance in the minors as a teenager. His performance was anything but pedestrian, he has an OPS well over .800 in both of his MiLB seasons. Is there still a chance Chourio fails? Absolutely, that's the case with any prospect. But there's a reason why literally every prospect evaluator is kinda losing their minds over him right now, what he's doing is amazing.

Honestly, I think it's a great bit. Working Suter into literally every piece is delightful.

For sure, and I think it's still trending upward. The Brewers will likely lose the likes of Small, Turang, and Frelick from the list but I see those losses more than filled by the 11-25 prospects as they rise through the system.