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I'm guessing the fifth sentence is the one that was the issue. Seemed appropriate once it was suggested I should watch a little more closely (was that productive or constructive? I don't think so but I'm not a moderator.)

I'd be on board with that... unless Pratt comes up too obviously.

You're right. He's not an all star. My bad. I watch most days. Sorry I don't watch "closely" enough to meet your standards. Sometimes family and work get in the way at my house too. I watched last night when he raised his OPS by .34 while going 2 for 4 and taking 2 walks too, since you're using what appears to an outdated OPS. He was able to bump his OPS that much with a single good night because he missed a month and the sample size in his 2026 season is too small to make sweeping pronouncements like a Joey Ortiz comparison, whose numbers have been pretty consistent for much longer now. The absolute last thing I'm worried about is Chourio. If that means I'm not watching closely enough then I'll accept that criticism. IMO a writer delving into the minutae of a 22 year old's swing decisions over a small sample size so he can drop a comparison to Joey Ortiz, is ridiculous. I'm sure he did that to generate a reaction. It worked.

Yeah I read it the first time. It's still ridiculous. And by all means keep doubling down on your comparison of Chourio to Joey Ortiz. It's incredibly instructive and persuasive.

Ah. Vaughn gets a pass for his wrist injury and surgery. Chourio is a "little disappointing" in his first month back after a fracture in his hand. More expression of disappointment in a 22 year old all star for not being an MVP candidate already. My god people. Anyone saying this: " after two and a half years, one might have hoped to see a little more progress than we have so far," about Chourio a month in to his 3rd season at age 22 and coming off a fractured hand needs to get a grip. 😒

I must have the right guys ignored.

The home run thing.... the players who appear to be experiencing some bad luck on their home run totals vs. expected home runs (per baseball savant) are Chourio (-1.1), Contreras (-.8) Mitchell (-.7), Sanchez (-.3), Perkins and Rengifo (-.2), and Ortiz (-.1). When you look at year to year only Sanchez, Turang and Bauers are on pace to exceed their 2025 HR totals, and for Bauers he's already done it by the end of May (9 HR this year, 7 last) in about 80% of the plate appearances he had all last season already under his belt. Sanchez has matched his 2025 totals and already exceeded the 2025 plate appearances. The team's HR totals to date were certainly hurt by Chourio, Yelich and Vaughn missing time but the power hasn't returned when they did. In short, aside from Bauers who is likely experiencing a career year, and Turang, t's essentially a team wide underperformance from HR totals projected for the offseason and it's not like the actual batted ball profile supports the notion that this is just some bad luck thus far. One would think that the HR totals will pick up with warmer weather but I guess we'll see. Vaughn and Chourio are probably the best hope to find their power stroke. (With apologies to Yelich who I unfortunately think has regressed to his 2023 power form). Chourio's average launch angle, EV, and barrel % are all exceeding his first two seasons and his actual slg % is lower than his xslg by over .060. So, as his -1.1 HR-xHR number suggests, he appears to be getting a bit unlucky to not be doing more damage or what is still a relatively small sample (104 plate appearances). Vaughn's sample size remains even smaller than Chourio's (72 PA, 64 AB) so while there are some warning signs I don't think it's fair to conclude anything at this point. I'd like to think that Contreras will at some point reaquire his power stroke which and his slg - xslg gap is -.035 Seems clear that this team isn't going to start hitting massive amounts of home runs. I think it's fair to expect Chourio to start hitting HRs at a faster pace and probably soon. It's hard to say if Contreras will recover his power that disappeared with the fracture last year.. But it's probably also fair to expect Bauers to fall off the 27-28 HR pace he's currently on.

I mean, I guess. Maybe I'm just biased against hiring guys like that to run organizations because I remember when Sal Bando, who I loved to watch play, was named GM for the Brewers mostly because Bud and Harry Dalton liked him and he kept the gig for 8 years while presiding over the departure of Paul Molitor and the implosion of a 1992 team that was probably the second best team in MLB and never got to .500 again while getting to keep the job for damn near a decade. Posey better be good as President of Baseball Ops because he's more or less impossible for the Giants to fire. It could work out, I guess, but I'm sure as hell glad it's not the Brewers problem.

Competely agree. Keeping him as a late inning defensive replacement/pinch runner would be a little more defensible if they weren't regularly playing 3 other light hitters every day.

16 runs on 18 hits... and no home runs.

I honestly don't think he is.

Perkins now hitting .092.

He cannot

Bauers had a pretty productive night for going 0 for 2. lol

They actually showed him heading back up the tunnel after a brief conversation with Murphy.

Holy **** play from Hamilton

1 more year of arbitration then UFA.

94.5 off the bat from Sal but no joy going opposite field

There's some BMIR!

They haven't given Turang a pitch to hit since his triple. They're terrified of him.

I agree. He did nothing to deserve anything other than fond memories imo.

1 inning outing for Patrick is interesting.....

101+ off the bat

Sal! He's dropping the head of the bat and getting around on pitches tonight.

I guess Roupp get them through? Only gave up 1 more I suppose but.... curious to me is all.