Brock Beauchamp

I'm kind of fascinated by this year's Wild Card races (both of them). It's like a game of hot potato where all teams are actively trying to avoid wins.

Yeah, okay, that's fair. I'll pull him from the list.

If people want Uribe removed, I can do that, I'd just like to hear from a few more people before doing so.

The Cubs could easily end up playing in Philly as the five seed, though Chicago lost the tiebreaker versus both the Marlins and Diamondbacks. Nobody seems particularly interested in securing a spot in the NL.

I went back and forth on Uribe because we don't use strict service time rules. Had he been closer to 50 IP, I would have removed him, but he's not even at 30 IP yet. The rest have been added!

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A win clinches the division!

Sure. I also prefaced my statement with "seems like the type of guy", which rather obviously says I don't have data to support this, only what I can see and the vibe I get from CC. Smart, collected, stoic people often do okay for themselves when presented money. The way CC manages the clubhouse and team can be extrapolated into his personal life and finances. Does this make it absolutely true? Of course not, I'm neither Counsell's tax agent nor am I TurboTax.

Blame MLB, not Attanasio. The Brewers literally play in the smallest market in baseball but generally have the 20th highest payroll in the sport, give or take a couple spots (and usually higher, not lower). Honestly, what more do you ask of the franchise? Sure, they could spend more, so could literally every team in baseball. But Attanasio has been one of the better owners in baseball. If you want to get truly angry at an owner, go look at the Orioles payroll over the past 7-8 years.

Magic number still sits at one.

Postseason clinched but today the Brewers can clinch the NLC with a win.

Welcome to the site! Magic numbers are simple: the number of first place wins or second place losses required to win a division. Once the number hits zero, it means that no matter what the second place team does, they cannot catch the first place team.

We've been doing this at Twins Daily for ages - it actually predates Twins Daily itself - and I've wanted to bring it to Brewer Fanatic. Last year it was just too much to manage as we got our feet under us but this year we're going to make it happen. It's going to be a downloadable PDF available for a small fee, probably in the 40-60 page range. I wanted to give you all a look at an example before we lock down content (nothing will be written for a few weeks but we need to start mapping it out) in case anybody has feedback. I'm really excited to bring this to the Brewers community, it has been very popular with Twins fans for almost 15 years now. Here is last year's Twins verison: 2023OffseasonHandbook-Complete.pdf And here is the first pass at a cover I designed this afternoon:

Better tack on a couple more runs then.

So I see this game is still happening.

This is getting ugly.

Okay, I've changed my mind. I definitely want to play Miami in the Wild Card round.

Oh man I was sure that was gone.

Well this is going about as well as we could hope.

That’s probably going to happen anyway, or at least the final WC won’t be settled more than two days before season’s end. Given the new format of the MLB postseason, it’s more likely than not that wild card position goes down to the wire.

Sure, but Counsell seems like the type of guy who has done just fine for himself with investments. He doesn't strike me as the type of fellow rolling a garage with four Bentleys in it.

Craig Counsell made $21,000,000 during his playing career. He has made considerable money as a manager since then. I'm incredibly skeptical this will come down to a bidding war. This will come down to what Craig Counsell wants to do in 2024.

This is a particularly enticing aspect of October. That elite Brewers defense is still there but the rotation, particularly the postseason rotation, is no longer middling.

Definitely, but I tend to discount that kind of thing and instead look at what I think the team is as a whole.

I was thinking about that. Depending on the game circumstance, I'd consider pulling him after 60 and would almost certainly have him out after 80.