Brock Beauchamp

Who would you bump from the lineup to play him?

Is this actually true, though? I'm not arguing for one side or the other - though I'd OBVIOUSLY like the Brewers to stay in Milwaukee - but paying money to a franchise that makes money and supporting their upkeep isn't something a taxpayer should love. How will the state lose money? Its residents will still spend most of their money in the state and they could sell the AmFam land to someone at a pretty hefty price; it's not downtown but it's well within the metro area and worth a considerable amount of money. My opinion is that these franchises should pay their own way with help from the city/county/state with tax deferments or free land. But the actual stadium should be on the franchise's dime. If they're going to reap the rewards, pay the fee.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong but MLB hasn't lengthened their between-inning commercial breaks for a long time. I know they shortened them in the past few years (2019?). Game length is NOT due to innings breaks, which run on a 2:30 clock (which means TV is back well before that point).

Even though as a Twins fan I hated Mark Buerhle, his ability to spin up a two hour CG was something to witness.

Thank you! I posted all of these back-to-back and that was lost in the shuffle of posting several pieces at once.

Yeah, remember we're a couple of days into spring training. Many pitchers are just lobbing it over the plate at this point while hitters are swinging out of their shoes. Games will slow down a touch as velocity and command ramp up toward the season while hitters start displaying more typical discipline.

Come on, y'all, most of you are from Wisconsin. Wiemer is a super-German name, you gotta stick the landing here or you lose bratwurst rights for a year.

So my deep dive analysis is:

Here are his 2022 Statcast numbers. Brutal. A .375+ WOBA on three of his pitches. To put that into context, in 2022 Kyle Schwarber had a .375 xwOBA. Wilson threw about 900 pitches last year that made the average hitter look like Kyle Schwarber. Year Pitch Type # # RHB # LHB % MPH PA AB H 1B 2B 3B HR SO BBE BA XBA SLG XSLG WOBA XWOBA EV LA Spin Ext. Whiff% PutAway% 2022 Sinker 593 402 191 32.5 92.1 179 160 49 38 9 0 2 21 141 .306 .296 .400 .407 .342 .341 91.2 5 1958 6.5 11.7 16.9 2022 4-Seam Fastball 438 117 321 24.0 92.7 114 99 30 18 7 0 5 24 77 .303 .278 .525 .498 .384 .370 91.7 21 2034 6.5 22.2 16.7 2022 Slider 290 228 62 15.9 83.4 77 75 18 10 4 0 4 13 63 .240 .314 .453 .530 .297 .364 88.4 17 2160 6.6 20.7 17.8 2022 Changeup 270 72 198 14.8 85.1 82 73 22 12 6 1 3 10 64 .301 .310 .534 .499 .386 .387 92.9 5 1467 6.5 18.8 13.9 2022 Curveball 234 111 123 12.8 77.2 56 53 13 4 3 0 6 11 43 .245 .245 .642 .519 .378 .334 86.1 18 2307 6.5 20.4 18.3

I wrote up the Wilson acquisition and the first thing that jumped out at me was how many pitches he threw and how badly most of them graded out. It will be interesting to see how the Brewers change his approach and try to accentuate his strengths. I'd be shocked if one of their first moves wasn't to axe a couple of his way-below-average pitches. It baffles me why the Pirates didn't do it last year, seems like a ripe opportunity for Milwaukee.

Nope, PM it to me, please!

I love it. First, I can move on to another game and watch it if I'm still in the mood for baseball. Second, if I just want to watch a game, it's over before I'm bored with it. Third, the long term effect of this is that I can start taking my kids to baseball games without leaving in the sixth inning. Fourth, I can start actually letting my kids watch weekday night games. Short baseball games are good. It's what we all grew up with, provided you're over 30 years old.

As many of you know, I'm a Padres fan and I'm also curious to see what the late years of these contracts do to the franchise. In the meantime, it's wildly fun to watch this play out. I prefer my teams to stick to the mold the Brewers have taken but it's still a boatload of fun to watch another team I follow just go absolutely bat-**** crazy. I think it's more likely the Brewers win the World Series in the next ten years than the Padres but boy, are both methods entertaining to watch.

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!

True, there are underlying stats that can sometimes display a breakout but they’re usually on the pitching side and don’t happen in the first couple of weeks of ST.

I don’t ever expect to calm your exuberance, Joseph. I was speaking to literally everyone else. 😃

I love spring training but this is a friendly reminder the correlation from spring training performance to regular season performance is negligible. Watching kids hit dingers is better than watching kids not hit dingers but just enjoy the moment for what it is, don't read anything into it.

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.

I love it. The Padres are absolutely insane is a completely fun way. Also, wow are they gonna be terrible five years from now.

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