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  1. Snoebird
    A late-afternoon thunderstorm will be followed by occasional showers and an evening thunderstorm, according to AccuWeather.
  2. Snoebird
    For the Brewers to overtake the Cubs, they would need to have the Garrett Mitchell that showed out in the 2024 postseason, not the one still homer-less in 2025. I'm sure Pat Murphy and Matt Arnold will want to see what Mitchell and Blake Perkins have to offer when they return, but spring-training-in-July likely won't amount to much more than what Isaac Collins is doing.
  3. Snoebird
    We don't sell because Yelich, Chourio and Contreras are mercurial, and Frelick, Hoskins, Turang and Durbin have become steady. We need to see Mitchell at full strength or, barring that, a hot bat from Nashville such as Eddie Rosario, Anthony Seigler, Bobby Dalbec or Andrew Vaughn. We don't give up on a pitching staff that still hasn't reached its apex for the season in terms of available arms.
  4. Snoebird
    Arizona needs a starting pitcher and has a slugging third baseman in Eugenio Suarez, whose contract expires after this season. The Diamondbacks also have a prospect waiting to replace Suarez in Jordan Lawler. If the Brewers need to add a prospect such as the frustrating Tyler Black, why not this?
  5. Snoebird
    Now we're seeing the repercussions of Jeferson Quero and Brock Wilken's lost season, although Keith Law doesn't think Wilken will amount to a front-line player. Now might be a good time to promote switch-hitting, switch-throwing C/2B/3B Anthony Seigler from Nashville. A 40-man roster spot could open up with an Aaron Civale trade.
  6. Snoebird
    This is off topic, but I read that pregame programming for tonight's and Tuesday's games will start an hour before the games because the Brewers' and Braves' TV crews will jointly be covering the story of the Braves' move from Milwaukee to Atlanta after the 1965 season. Featured prominently will be Henry Aaron, Bob Uecker and Skip Caray. I'll never forget attending the 1965 opener at County Stadium, sponsored by a local group instead of the already Atlanta-based Braves, in which stars traded by the Braves such as Spahn, Burdette and Logan returned to take a final bow. The largest crowd of the season attended the game, which felt more like a farewell than an opening day. The stadium's upper deck was then closed for most of the season.
  7. Snoebird
    The Braves are in the unusual position of being sellers, plus their minor league system is nowhere near what it used to be. So, with the Braves in Milwaukee, I would suggest the Brewers take a hard look at acquiring Marcell Ozuna, whose contract expires this year. The Brewers have to go out of their comfort zone to replace the slugging that Contreras, Mitchell and most of the infield haven't been giving them. To be clear, I'm not at all suggesting Peralta as trade bait for Ozuna. But the Crew needs to act soon with series against the Cardinals and Cubs coming up.
  8. Snoebird
    They're trying to add hitting on the cheap by signing Eddie Rosario and Bobby Dalbec to minor league contracts, but the lack of bonafide slugging is leaving their pitchers with no margin for error.
  9. Snoebird
    Agree. That's the beauty of being a pitching factory -- and of having Chris Hook on a new multiyear contract. Those of us who have followed the Brewers from their start have suffered through enough pitching shortcomings. The org is on a new trajectory and is stacking kids. With all the pitches these kids are being taught, we'll probably see more breakdowns like Burnes' after they turn 30. (Pay attention to Woodruff.) I'm not thrilled to be defending ownership, but the Brewers are spending a lot of money on the development side, including a new Latin America academy. I foresee more Chourio type contracts as Made, Pena, etc. arrive.
  10. Snoebird
    The return for Peralta would be sizable given his credentials, health and team control for 2026. An established slugger would have to be part of the return, and it could be a corner infielder or an outfielder, given that the Brewers will lose Hoskins and that Mitchell remains suspect as a lineup mainstay.
  11. Snoebird
    So, you're saying you would like the Brewers to mimic the Arizona Diamondbacks, whose season just fell apart with Corbin Burnes' elbow injury. Matt Arnold spent nine years in the Tampa Bay front office trying to avoid those circumstances. The face of this franchise is Christian Yelich, and there is a lot of money riding on his return to a semblance of MVP form.
  12. Snoebird
    This season is all about Christian Yelich and whether he is still able at 33 to perform at an MVP level. Jackson Chourio will have his day, but Yelich is still "the guy" the Brewers need to drive the bus. Whether the Crew makes the postseason this year or not isn't as important as having their star player show that he can still be a viable slugger until Chourio truly arrives.
  13. Snoebird
    I choose to celebrate the fact that Milwaukee has become a pitching factory. The days of having to trade prospects for Sabathia and Greinke to get into the postseason, or having to dole out piles of money for free agents Kyle Lohse and Matt Garza are over. Chris Hook and his staff are hugely under-appreciated even by Brewers fans for turning water into wine. The Tampa Bay model calls for trading pitchers at the height of their value, and if the Brewers get bowled over for an offer for Peralta, they should want to put themselves in a stronger roster position for the arrivals of Made, Pena, Quero, Wilken, Burke, etc. in two years. That's how this team becomes a postseason power.
  14. Snoebird
    My first year following baseball was 1959, and it was gripping. The Braves were coming off a World Series loss in '58 after winning it in '57, and they got into a season-long tussle with the newly transplanted Dodgers and Giants. Imagine a 9-year-old kid trying to follow his favorite team on a transistor radio with West Coast games starting at 10 p.m. Central time. The Giants faded in the last week of the season, but the Braves and Dodgers finished in a tie. There would be a special best-of-three playoff series with the winner facing the White Sox in the World Series. Imagine a Milwaukee-Chicago World Series. But it wasn't to be. The Dodgers won the first two games, which were played in the L.A. Coliseum, then beat the White Sox for the West Coast's first MLB championship.
  15. Snoebird
    Sal's leadership qualities will become more important when the next wave of kids hits Milwaukee. Yelich tries to lead by example, but Frelick will set a more demonstrative example. Hopefully William Contreras will still be around to counsel the kids as well.
  16. Snoebird
    Sal's rise in productivity has allowed him to show more of personality, and his intensity on both sides of the emotional range wears well on his teammates. I kept my eye on him throughout the Boston series, and it was well worth it to see him pour himself into that sweep of his hometown team. The Brewers lost a team leader in Willy Adames but have replaced a glad-hander with a pure emotional captain. Helmet throws are now a thing.
  17. Snoebird
    Braves owner Lou Perini was afraid any televised games would hurt attendance, so he blacked out the CBS Game of the Week. Milwaukeeans who lived in two-story houses with a roof antenna could get Cubs games on WGN, although the Cubs were awful. The crazy part is that when the Braves relocated, their games were televised around the world via satellite twice a day.
  18. Snoebird
    If you lived in Milwaukee during the Braves' heyday, you got no national Game of the Week and only saw the Braves when they were in the World Series. However, after the '59 season, we got Saturday night Winter League baseball from Cuba as part of a 10-city syndicate. At a time when the city was crazy for baseball, Milwaukee became the transistor radio capital of America. Braves games aired on WTMJ and WEMP.
  19. Snoebird
    The third baseman the Brewers and their fans "have been after for years" is Brock Wilken. Matt Arnold's first draftee after replacing David Stearns projects to be a slugging cornerstone who could wake up the echoes of Eddie Mathews. Brewer fans have waited far too long for the Stearns-Arnold regime to start drafting and developing corner infielders for us to buy stock in Caleb Durbin.
  20. Snoebird
    If what comes back in a Peralta trade is a slugger who can help the team this year and beyond -- and allow Jacob Misiorowski to join the rotation -- I don't think fans would have a problem with that, nor should they. Strengthening the core lineup is Job 1 right now and will be until the next wave of prospects establish themselves. Not enough attention has been given to the loss of William Contreras' slugging ability due to his broken finger.
  21. Snoebird
    Am I off base in stating that no team depends more on attendance than the Brewers? I also believe that an early bailout to a season commemorating the life of Bob Uecker wouldn't be particularly appetizing to ownership. Add a slugger for a quality pitcher whose departure would create a runway for Misiorowski's arrival, and hope that Yelich, Chourio and Mitchell can stir some season-long interest in this team.
  22. Snoebird
    David Stearns' greatest accomplishment was turning Milwaukee into a pitching factory. His greatest mistake with the Brewers was not drafting corner infielders. I understand his reasoning for drafting players at the so-called premium positions, but Matt Arnold promptly corrected Stearns' first-round mistake of Eric Brown Jr. by drafting Brock Wilken atop his first draft. And Arnold has struck a tremendous balance of signing middle infielders from Latin America and drafting sluggers and pitchers. The Brewers are finally on par with the Walt Jocketty Cardinals in their drafting and development, and it will pay off in years to come.
  23. Snoebird
    The Brewers are the Guardians of the National League. When a team loses a Willy Adames or a Josh Naylor, and replaces him with essentially nothing, the nucleus of the lineup becomes fractured. And there is no managing or cheerleading around that. The Brewers need Yelich, Contreras, Chourio, Hoskins and Mitchell to be at their absolute best to break down elite pitching. That's asking a lot from a veteran coming off back surgery, a star catcher with a broken finger, a second-year player, a 30-something slugger coming off a mediocre season and an oft-injured prospect trying to establish himself. If the rotation ever solidifies, the Brewers could climb above .500 like Cleveland. The Cubs have added that Naylor/Adames player in Kyle Tucker, and he's brought out the best in everyone around him. Core players have that kind of impact.
  24. Snoebird
    The dynamic of the lineup has changed for the worse, so opposing pitchers can work around Yelich with breaking balls and Chourio with fastballs on the outer half. The revelation that Contreras is playing with a broken finger is the last thing this lineup needs. He has only seven extra-base hits for the season. And our hopes that Mitchell would pick up the slugging slack for Adames have been crushed by another injury and little to show for the games he's played. Ortiz has been the third major disappointment. Competent pitchers will start working around Hoskins, and that will be the final straw unless another slugger or two magically appears.
  25. Snoebird
    I think the point is that the Brewers have become hard to watch. They need an injection of slugging to be competitive, and they're not getting enough from Yelich, Contreras, Chourio, Ortiz and Mitchell.
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