Jim French Stepstool

Baboucarr Ann just concluded a trip to Madison, and some of the recruiting sites are considering him a heavy UW lean. Rivals puts it at over 90% so we'll see. Athletic 6'5" wing who would look great lining up next to Jalen Brown. If he commits, it would be the first of hopefully many recruiting feathers in the Brad Davison cap. They're both from Maple Grove HS & Brad has put a lot of effort into this one.

Biloxi, just wow. The only team in the Brewers' system that even came close to being this much fun to follow has to be the '08 Huntsville group with Escobar, Gamel, LaPorta, Salome, Brantley. Doing my unscientific thing looking at when a player reaches a full seasons' worth of PAs in his career, Josh Adamczewski is a little above that now. Among other numbers, he's driven in 114 runs while drawing 118 walks. That's just a crazy combination. Not being a huge power guy, how do you even DO that? So impressive.

Could very well be the case. But you'd think they'd want him available to do just that in the upcoming series if need be. Now, he's down until Wednesday at the very earliest. Personally, I love his BP work & what he can get done in 2-3 innings of max effort in a close game as opposed to pacing himself. It's why I'm rooting for guys like Woodruff, Crow, Henderson et al to allow the team to keep him there.

Good question. The whole Rom up, then Rom sitting down thing was odd. Thought I saw Kuhnel up, too. If they need a long man I do think Rom will be used. Apparently it would have to be in tandem (he used to start, but I wasn't aware it's been so long since he was extended), but I wouldn't be surprised if they extended him past 38 if need be.

looking at the BP for Cincy, Rom must be sticking around & is the long man for Woodruff if needed, or for Tuesday. If you need a long man both days, I guess you also use some combination of Anderson/Kuhnel/Yoho with one of the latter two not being here due to Woodruff being activated. Otherwise holding Rom back today makes no sense. Get through the next two and maybe Koenig gets added by Wednesday? Does any of this justify using Patrick for three innings today? No.

So in other words, your priorities are severely off kilter. Got it😁.

As for Adams & 3B (a ship that seems to have sailed), does he still have the issues w/his throws?

Back to the baseball, I don't know if it was the early explosion or not, but Gasser really seemed to relax & attack the strike zone after his first 6 or 7 hitters. Going back out for the 6th after 90 pitches & retiring the side on 8 pitches or whatever it was made me smile. I'd be curious to know what was going on w/Rom throwing & then Patrick coming back for the 9th. He's probably down a couple days either way (?) but not sure why you get Rom up & not use him. I once saw an old clip of an old, disheveled & in not-so-good-of-shape Babe Ruth playing for the Boston Braves & hitting a HR, I think in spring training. I was reminded of that after seeing Rowdy at the plate in the 9th.

I've got a great one for Spanish rice. Very versatile.

If you throw out his start in the Las Vegas Bouncy House, Gasser has allowed 1 run in his last 10.1 innings. The offense has broken the three-run barrier plenty this season. Neither may perform today, but if they did it wouldn't be a surprise.

The spacious OF down there is definitely a thing. Going into the series it looked for all the world you were going to have games like the first two--relatively low-scoring, with a need for being as air tight as possible. We lost Friday due to a poor performance w/RISP despite 11 hits---and largely due to two outstanding defensive plays by Eli White, who is definitely a glove-first OF. Yesterday it was a 9th inning BP failure. Me, I'd probably roll with Bauers in RF & Vaughn at 1B. But it shouldn't take much to understand the risk there.

Took a deeper dive, and yep it appears to have been negligible at best, with Bart & Dubon especially having no edge vs LHP. So traditionally yeah, but on paper, not so much. They might have liked Ashby's breaking stuff vs Baldwin & Olson, and despite the splits he pretty much had no issue with either, a K followed by the little league fly ball. As for Albies, tonight it seemed to make no difference who was throwing, but on the season you probably want him hitting LH. So I'll have to walk it back, too.

I thought he held up. The frustrating part is there were one or two earlier that were very, very similar & were called swings.

Couldn't watch the game live; surprised this thread is still going on (which is on me, I guess I shouldn't be). I referred to the above post by Michaelis because it's absolutely correct. I like the idea of Megill being the 9th inning guy, but the way the batting order for Atlanta played out I can't imagine anyone not understanding why we played it the way we did. Hopefully, through Koenig making it back or a current starter being able to move back to the BP, Ashby can get some backup from the left side. If you comprised an organizational depth chart of LH relievers Ashby is #1 and Drew Rom is..........six? Seven? That had no effect tonite, but might down the road, which is all that matters. Two tough games, two tough losses. Happens to everybody. Everybody.

Adams & Jett Williams, like many of you already mentioned. I don't know if he'd get pilfered or not, but I'd be a little antsy about leaving Wagoner unprotected. If he continues to shine there are a few other pitchers on the 'maybe' list that I'd put him ahead of. He's a man without a position right now but I've always liked Boeve as a hitter. However I don't think he'd be grabbed by anyone at this point so that's almost certainly one where you roll the dice (assuming he isn't part of a trade). O'Rae's a tough call for me. Love the kid; he's sort of a poor man's Travis Bazzana. At the end of the day he's probably another one you leave open & cross your fingers, but he'd be more likely to get snatched than Boeve. I agree with @biedergb, these two & Wilken should certainly have their names brought up in the weeks to come when the phones heat up.