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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    We've been trying to track down information on this, including directly from Heyman. We haven't uncovered anything that makes me believe it's a real rumor.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    There is not but I'm not averse to creating one if the demand is there. I'm wary of creating forums unless I'm confident they will be used, though,
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    This is interesting. I'm inclined to believe the Twins say no but I'm not sure. Lee and Frelick are similarly-valued prospects, though a little of the shine has rubbed off Frelick based on his MLB performance.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I’d also rather trade Wiemer but don’t think his value is all that high. And maybe more importantly, I’m far from convinced the Brewers are the right team to fix his issues.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    And I pointed out that the underlying metrics showed concern about Hiura, even when he was raking in 2019. Julien has no such concerns beyond typical prospect concerns. Anyway, here are the Baseball Savant pages for each rookie season. These players are not similar and this is before Hiura fell apart due to some of the uglier aspects of his underlying peripherals.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Going into 2023, Twins Daily had him at #5 on their top prospects list. I think he climbed the list a little but quickly lost rookie status so dropped off the list.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep, if you're working full counts constantly, the margin for error drops and strikeouts will end up happening, usually in pretty high numbers. But it's a worthwhile tradeoff if the player has a good eye and can actually do damage on mistake pitches, which Julien can.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Julien's K rate is high but some of that is due to his eye at the plate. That's nothing like Hiura. Julien has a swinging strike percentage of 10%. The best Hiura ever posted, his rookie year, was 17.5%. Julien had a zone contact of 81.4%. The best Hiura has ever posted is 76.9%, again his rookie year. He has spent multiple years in the 60s. Julien's overall contact numbers are similarly different, about 12 percentage points higher than Hiura's career mark. Julien also swings far less often than Hiura, over ten percentage points less often. They're really nothing alike other than they both strike out (and Julien not as often as Hiura even in his rookie season, adjusted for the league average). But strikeouts can be reached in very different ways. Hiura just flat-out misses the ball, Julien chooses not to swing at borderline pitches but makes better contact when he does choose to swing.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Here is Julien's OBP by level: A: .490 (204 PAs) A+: .397 (310 PAs) AA: .441 (508 PAs) AAA: .435 (170 PAs) MLB: .381 (408 PAs)
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't think there's much overlap between Julien and Hiura other than both have iffy defense. First, Julien is a lefty bat and he walks way more than Hiura. Julien's strike zone judgment isn't just good, it's elite.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, the cost difference between Farmer and Taylor might be an issue. Hard to say for sure but the swap fills a need for both teams. As for Julien, I don't know what to think of him. He was absolutely BRUTAL when he came up at second base. But by the final two months of the season, he looked okay at the position. But that's not enough of a sample to convince me of anything. But he's young and pretty athletic. There's no reason for him to be as bad as he was in early 2023. He was also fighting off a... knee, I think?... injury that hampered him for much of the season.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    This piece is generating a ton of conversation on Brewers twitter so I thought I'd post it here. Cody breaks down three tiers of trades and unlike many trade proposals, they're quite fair for both sides. I think the Taylor/Farmer one makes a lot of sense as a low wattage move that improves both clubs. https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/the-twins-and-brewers-are-perfect-trade-partners-r15397
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    First person to catch this! Jason’s sense of humor is easy to miss sometimes, he just casually slides nonsense into a sentence all the time.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    This cannot be screamed from the rooftops loudly enough. A salary cap/floor means little until comprehensive revenue sharing is in place. Otherwise the cap and floor only punishes the players while owners rake in even more cash and still play the role of cheapskate. We'll never see a difference-making salary floor (the owners proposed something like a $100m floor, which wouldn't even impact the Brewers as the smallest-market team in the sport) until revenue sharing brings more equality to the sport. If you're frustrated by the sport - and you have every right to be - focus on what the owners *aren't* doing to fix it by sharing money, not what Shohei Ohtani (or any other player) is making.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Welcome to the site! It's tricky trading for a DH. It's hard to recoup overall value when defense is taken out of the equation entirely. But on a team like the Brewers (a team that badly needs offense), actually improving the team while being a net negative on paper is a possibility.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Welcome to the site! I think the Cronenworth contract doesn't have much value to the Brewers; they have second base covered and Cronenworth's offense is pretty sketchy as a first baseman. But I don't think the Cronenworth contract is necessarily negative value. He had a pretty bad 2023 but I think it's reasonable to expect some rebound with him, I just don't know if that rebound will be enough for that contract to make sense at first base. But at a lower-offense position like second where his defensive attributes are more valuable, I think it's a decent risk for a team in need at that position.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Welcome to the site! Garver is an interesting fit for this team. He fills the backup catcher role but is a good enough hitter to play first or DH.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, he stood out in my mind as an option. Not an option I love, but an option.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Is it, though? I think it has the potential to be a good rotation. Any rotation fronted by Burnes and Peralta will be at least pretty good. But Ashby is a big question mark and you just don't know what you're going to get from Miley. If you get 130 innings, that's probably a good rotation... but I think you're equally likely to get 25 innings from Wade as you are 130. Good pickup and I totally agree with it, but there's a ton of risk baked into any Wade Miley deal.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I get it, I just think the return on a backup catcher is pretty small, especially if you're hoping Quero is ready for the role in June or July. At that point, a backup catcher *might* have 150 plate appearances. But I totally get the sentiment that it's frustrating to always be dealing with marginal pickups instead of something exciting.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Thanks for posting this, @Jastro!
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Welcome! I agree that the Brewers rotation isn't formidable as of this writing. But I just don't know what to expect of it. Ashby is a huge wildcard in all of this and we just don't know what to expect from him in 2024.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    I think they go the veteran defensive catcher for close to the league minimum route. It makes the most sense given Quero's situation.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    First, welcome to the site! And second, I entirely agree. Spending a bit of coin and trying to land Rhys Hoskins for two years - provided he's available for that length of contract - would be a great get for the Brewers.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Good for him, getting a significant paycheck for two years.
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