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It will be interesting to see how things shuffle when that happens. Brewers own the Warbirds, so you’d think they move them up to A+ and potentially Wisconsin to AAA, with Nashville going away as an MLB city.

MLB claims within their current proposal that they won’t be decreasing the number of minor league teams. That feels hard to believe, and I’d imagine will be another negotiation point that comes up. The 18yo international players will go to DSL/ACL/FCL before going to A+. 20+yo college players don’t need A, and can go straight to A+. This would almost certainly result in the eventual destruction of Low A.

Some of the recent MLB proposals have the potential to really hurt the Brewers in some areas that they excel at. Largely, they’ve built up the organizational strength through savvy navigation of the draft pool money (Pratt being a prime example), a great hit rate in international players, and trading veterans at the right time. A few items from the recent proposals severely threaten their ability to maintain their edge: 1. Draft reduced to 12 rounds. 2. High school players are no longer draft eligible and requires 2 years of college. 3.Draft becomes hard slotted - no more drafting lesser players high to save slot money for high level, low propensity to sign players later. 4. International draft - will get less of the Chourio, Made, Pena, etc. type players. 5. Salary floor - the Brewers will almost certainly hover right at the floor. Making trading off higher priced veterans a potential challenge. If the floor must be maintained for the full season, they’ll need to give out more extensions to young players and/or have/keep higher priced veterans to mix with the lower priced youngsters. I can’t help but wonder how these potential rule changes may color this year’s trade deadline as well. Put aside the potential lockout, I would think that a club like the Brewers may be very hesitant to deal minor league depth knowing that it will become harder to replenish. Short term, they’ve built a great system that will keep them competitive for years to come. Long term, hopefully Arnold and company can find new roster building advantages to exploit, because the current ones are about to get much more difficult to execute if some of these proposed changes are adopted.

Does he though? I recall seeing a lot of graphics over the last few years showing that Sal had the weakest contact in the league. This season seems more like his peripherals catching up to him and producing closer to his putrid expected statistics rather than the overperformance he’s achieved.

He does have 6 HR in Nashville. Hes also an ascending player at only 21. Also hitting .279 over the last 5 weeks. So he’s actually doing exactly what you hope for, if you take away the first month of him trying to adjust to AAA. Give him a month in the bigs to sit in the low .200s and probably still outperform what he’s replacing, and I think they’ve got a good chance to have a .700+ OPS player from the all star break on. Thats not a minor upgrade at all. I think the Brewers are going to be a bit slow to make the changes, but they will. First step is Pratt taking Rengifos ABs, and a straight platoon at 3B. Hamilton has an OPS of .661 against righties and Ortiz is .715 against lefties for their careers. So you’re already improving both positions. Of that fails and Jett gets hot, you can give him a shot. After Pratt has established himself, if Sal is still struggling you can bring up Lara and he enters the OF rotation with Chourio, Mitchell, and Bauers. Do that at the break and he’s firing on all cylinders by early August. There’s nothing wrong with doing these changes strategically, setting guys up for success. There’s no good reason to rush when the team is performing well. Every decision they make now should be with an eye to how it helps in October, and it’s hard to argue that Pratt doesn’t represent a good chance at a very real upgrade for both SS and 3B.

Pretty cool that Miz is just simply better than Skenes, Skubal, and any other pitcher in baseball. Never thought the Crew would have the Ace of the MLB again after CC.

That line is almost impossible to imagine today. 98 pitches in 9 innings with 9 hits and 6 strikeouts = 2.7 pitchers per hitter.

I think it’s probably much more simple than this. He’s not done well late in games. They had leverage bullpen arms that have been incredibly affective available and going into an off day. He had just given up a HR in the 6th. Pulling him after a good outing and a confidence builder and turning the ball over to your best bullpen arms for the last 3 to secure a victory is pretty much a no brainer. It didn’t work, but it’s hard to argue with the process. It’s hard to fathom how much people on here would’ve been killing Murph is he left Sproat in and that blow up inning happened to him rather than Patrick. People have been calling for Sproat’s head, and are now questioning why he wasn’t sent back out for the 7th. Patrick, Ashby, Uribe, Megill all were better options - sometimes the right decision doesn’t work.

That happened fast.

Very hard to see where Sal fits into this roster, short term or long term. His actual numbers have caught up with his peripherals this year, in a bad yet expected way. With Chourio and Lara locked up long term, Mitchell clearly being more talented, and Bauers/Vaughn both raking, there simply is no role for him. His roster spot is much better served by a RH hitter, which they have in Lockridge. He’s a 5th OF on the wrong side of the brewers platoon strength, and not better defensively than the guys he’s competing for innings with. Ideally be very surprised if he’s not a part of trade talks soon. Not that he has a ton of value, but someone will be willing to have him come back as a cost controlled part of a minor deal.

Crow can go tomorrow too. Basically need 7-8 between the two of them.

You kind of just ran to where it looked like it was heading off the bat and hoped be close enough to not give up a triple. It was a truly miserable game.

I once plaid a baseball game in such dense fog, not a single fly ball was caught. This game might have surpassed that as the dumbest baseball game ever. A win is a win.

This is about to be a really awful loss

That’s a pop up. Unbelievable.

Speak it into existence!

Only guy I’ve disliked more in the last decade has to be Winker.

Hit him for Rengifo and move Vaughn to 3B. Not a great option, but Rengifo is so awful at everything right now that it might’ve been worth a dice roll.

Not possible to have much of a worse AB than Mitchell just did. Not exactly murderers row behind him to bail him out.

Definition of a contract paying you for what you’ve done, not what you will do. Brewers usually stay away from that, got a bit too sentimental with Woody.

The unfortunate circumstance is that there’s currently no ability to send him down or to the bullpen to figure things out. The roster health is really putting everyone in a tough spot with Sproat.

He has exactly (1) quality start and (1) other start that reached 4 innings with less than 3 runs. Not many games where he’s effective to see that promise. Hes got a live arm, to be sure. So does almost every pitcher these days.

Anyone else remember Rock talking about Manny Parra’s AAA no hitter every start he had for like 4 years, constantly saying he has “no hit stuff”? Some guys stuff just doesn’t ever materialize. It’s obviously early for Sproat, but the lack of progress is getting concerning.

That was some 0-2 pitch from Sproat. Hopefully health arrives soon, and he’s got a ticket for Nashville or the bullpen.