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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Ultimately, I have a (sinking) feeling the Brewers revert to their natural organizational state by 2025: good hitting but lackluster pitching. I think their hitting prospects are well on their way to establishing themselves in the coming 12 months while I don't feel the same way about their pitching at all.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    If Ted Lasso isn't your thing and want something with incredible intensity, check out Black Bird. The acting is out of this world good and it's a limited series so you don't need to invest your life into it.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Luis Arraez is a special case and should not be used as a benchmark for success in MLB and something to be emulated. You may as well try to conform every hitter into being Tony Gwynn. Arraez has not only good but elite bat-to-ball skills and strike zone judgment. When combined, those two things make him an elite batting average hitter. The average player is not capable of doing what Luis Arraez does on a daily basis.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    More than you expect, I think.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Ahhh, I forgot Shrinking! Yes, we watched that as well and it's also very good. Still have Tetris queued up to watch at some point, just haven't gotten to it yet.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    It's a Friday night baseball game on Apple TV+ again... *cue groans* If you really want to watch this game, I recommend giving Apple TV+ a whirl. It doesn't have a ton of content but pound for pound, it has the highest ratio of quality shows/movies of any platform out there. Ted Lasso is worth the price of admission by itself, as is Severance. Mythic Quest is good and Black Bird is amazing. And it's only $7/mo. Enough of a sales pitch to watch a baseball game. The Royals are a bad baseball team. Maybe they're not Oakland A's bad but they're really bad. The Brewers are treading water if they only take two of three from this team and success is defined by a sweep. Because after Kansas City, the Crew heads to St Louis...
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Yikes, I just checked FanGraphs and Brewers' DHes have the lowest SLG in baseball. The Reds are 29th. To add insult to injury, the Brewers aren't even close. They're .043 SLG behind 29th place on the list.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    For sure, he's obviously a flawed player and $2m is a risk. But it's the kind of risk bad teams should jump at the chance to take. Say Hiura posts an .800 OPS in the first half, just as he did last year with the Brewers. Maybe he's even a little bit better. That's an easy way to get a C level prospect for $1.5m. Baseball really needs to do something about these tanking teams that hoard cash above all else, even their own on-field improvement over the long term.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    I think this is more of an indictment of cheap MLB teams than Keston Hiura. Sure, I get why a bunch of good teams didn't have space for a reverse-split, no-position player. But there was absolutely no excuse for teams like the A's, Reds, et al not to take a $2m flyer on Hiura in hopes of flipping him in July... except they value $2m more than actually improving their baseball team.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, it's certainly a better indicator given the small sample size of 2023 but it's an interesting thing to keep an eye on going forward. If he even closes that splits gap, he becomes quite a different hitter and immediately becomes more useful to the Milwaukee club.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    A summary of this game:
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I split this off into a separate thread because it's something worth keeping an eye on separately from the other Hiura thread.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Okay, so this is an interesting point. He has struck out 10 times in 36 PAs. That's not great but it's damned good by Keston Hiura standards. Super Small Sample Size problem here, of course. 2023 Player Batting Splits Split G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Total291221062134501128011231.321.393.6791.0737262021Home14574713182082100811.383.456.9361.3924450021Away156559816303701420.271.339.475.8132812000vs RHP as RHB2886732350618921.315.395.6301.0254602021vs LHP as RHB1736331100510310.333.389.7881.1772600000Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table Generated 5/10/2023.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    This division is pretty clearly the second-worst division in baseball (nothing can compete with the AL Central). While the Cards have an outside shot at the division, I think this will boil down to the Cubs and Brewers come September. May the least-bad team win.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Woof, this is turning unwatchable in a hurry.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    William Contreras doing his job.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Hotness. https://espnswfl.com/listicle/20-hottest-major-league-baseball-players-ranked/
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    The problem is that Hiura is not on the 40-man and once he's there, you're stuck with him and it's unlikely he clears waivers again. I'd much rather see Arnold aggressively pursue a longer-term option against LHP than call up Hiura. It doesn't even need to be a great option, just a guy who can post an .800 OPS against LHP and be flat-out terrible against RHP.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    I find it incredibly difficult to cheer for the Cardinals under any circumstances. They're my NL White Sox.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Hiura is probably better than Voit but only in a role the Brewers do not need filled on the 26-man roster. Which is the problem with the overall roster construction right now. The Brewers need someone to step into a corner role and mash lefties. They simply don't have that player.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, he has medium-sized reverse splits. I wasn't a big fan of the Voit signing in the first place so I can't say I'm surprised by the failure here. The Brewers needed a lefty masher. Voit isn't that. He's fine against lefties, nothing more. The Brewers already had a bunch of guys who can hit righties. Which is why I advocated for picking up Kyle Garlick on waivers when the Twins released him but that's water under the bridge. He fills the lefty-mashing role for the league minimum.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    If Voit isn't starting against lefties, he shouldn't be on the roster.* *which means he probably shouldn't be on the roster
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Mookie Betts is a treasure.
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  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Battle of the lefty aces! Will Luke Voit get a hit? Probably not but it'd be nice to see!
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