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He's been on my radar for about a month now. At least offensively, comparing what stats and data is available, there's an argument to be made that he's having a better season than Made had in 2024. Ignoring the obvious stats; he's had better contact rate and FB% (considering his BABIP is near his BA those FBs are probably hit with pretty good launch angles and velocity). He's pretty passive swinging and doesn't walk as much, but considering his BA, the kid seems to know his strike zone well and is forcing pitchers to throw in his zone. But yeah, I have no metrics on defense and the Brewers don't stream DSL games so its limited info on that front.

So is Leanders Matos a robot programmed to rake? 👀

Tyson Hardin is probably the closest.

Dinges has been dealing with a shoulder impingement. He still has a ton of potential and we dont have any real good catching talent coming up the pipe outside of Quero. I don't see the brewers trading him.

I think we might be a little spoiled here 😂 T Rats lineup is missing a few injured players and a lot of promotions this year. Healthy, its still a damn good one.

I think more importantly, his contact rate is at 77.1% which is still below average, but decent for his profile. The 69% at A+ was very concerning, but if he stays where he is, 31% K rate isn't looking so horrible.

We saw people on the forums and X saying it all offseason lol if they dont think that, they certainly post it for whatever reason.

Adames, Contreras, and even Hoskins dont have as poor a K% or Contact rate as Fischer does and that's against MLB pitching.... So no, they dont care about HRs enough to eat what will be even worse stats in MLB with Fischer.

Realistically, does this team strike you as one that cares that much about HRs that they'd be willing to accept poor K%s and contact rates? I guarantee you Fischer will not see his OBP increase in MLB if you threw him into the fire right now. There's a much better chance of his whiff and K rate skyrocketing than his HR rate being remotely close to what it is right now in AA.

I've seen this argument before, it was only 16 WBC PA and his best games were against AA pitchers (he wasnt the only prospect that played in the WBC). Not diminishing his success, but that's not equivalent to MLB experience. And it would be extremely bad to bring up a young player only for him to get smoked by MLB pitching, demolishing his confidence. Trust in the Brewers to make the right decision when it comes to bringing up players.

It truly amazes me how people think players can just go from even high A to MLB and have the same success they had in the minors. Like a guy has 28 HRs between A+ & AA so that means he'll get 28 HRs in MLB as a plug n play. 😂

Why don't they just close the roof? 🤭 Seriously though, that field needs one

The box score for Wilson breaks my brain: 14 runs, but only 8 hits. 13 walks, but 13 Ks. 13 RBIs, but only 2 XBHs. 😵‍💫 That's just baseball sometimes lol

Seems to be up and working

I tend to trust the organization when it comes to catchers. They turned Yasmani Grandal and Omar Narvaez into good defensive catchers. I got high hopes for Dinges. Plus, OF is overly saturated with talent up and down the system. Dinges moving to Corner OF doesnt seem like the right move when you consider org depth and his skillset. He's got all the physical tools and now it just takes refining them.