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Shaw seems to constantly guess in situations that call for aggressive ABs and flail in situations that call for patience.

I just don't think there's a ton of upside in Houser anymore. Just a guy you hope can go 5 or 6 and give up 3 or less most outings I guess.

Even Taylor's outs are helpful.

Can't believe they'd take that 1.000 OPS bat out of that guy's hands.

Holy cow, Houser homered?

Agreed. Urias can't do that. Not especially when runs are going to be at a premium with this lineup. Too many completely avoidable mental mistakes the last few games.

Can we get Chisholm out already so he doesn't end up on 3rd on every infield single?

On JBJ, holy smokes I hope not. That's a lot of money to set ablaze. McKinney has really come back down to earth. He's still overall better than I expected, but definitely drifting back toward a more realistic output.

I take the opposite view; his value has dropped far enough that we won't get all that much in return even if we sell right now; if the Brewers are concerned enough about him to sell low, other teams will be concerned too. He's 24 with 2 option years remaining; the cost of having him work on his game in AAA is one 40-man roster spot. If we had to keep him on the 26-man roster, or paid him a high salary, I might have agreed with the logic to sell low. I'll take the risk of value dropping lower in return for knowing what he can do if he gets right. To me his main issue seems to be one of timing, which is why it appears that he has a hole in his swing. And I think that is a much more fixable issue than had it been about ball-strike recognition or bat speed or a long bat path etc. He's 80 games removed from a 140 wRC+ debut season. Maybe he won't ever be able to adjust to the changes in how he's being pitched, or maybe he will. I just think the right value play is sticking with it, because the upside is is there *if* he makes it. We're not getting a player who can have an immediate offensive impact anyway. I think his value has dropped some .....but it's still fairly significant value. As you say, he's still 80 games removed from a 140 wRC+ debut season. He's 24, he's cheap and he's controlled. He was a top 15 prospect. I think there's a ton of teams that would absolutely take a chance on him and could return something of immediate impact. At the end of the day even in his limited career there has been an enormous difference in Keston's floor and ceiling. I'm sure our own analytical guys are trying to determine which is the more permanent Keston and that should figure in to what we decide to do with him.

What context was given to me? That Taylor has very few ABs? lol, ok then. I mean that is a big deal. I like Taylor and I think he deserves more opportunities. I think he should be starting over McKinney even against RHP. But, 63 ABs is just a tiny snapshot in a career. He has 3000 of those in the minors that show a little bit different player. Now I'm certainly willing to accept the possibility that he's grown and developed and isn't that player anymore. Heck, Trent Grisham wasn't a very good minor leaguer at one time. And that would be a great development if Taylor really started coming around at 27. But, keeping expectations in check for now is warranted.

I still expect a really nice year from Cain. He was close to Yelich level in '19. Obviously JBJ will be better than he has been.

See I'm not really sure that something like 12-14M on JBJ then was necessarily a great allocation of resources given our OF situation (obviously thin at the moment, but not when healthy) I'm curious as to whether that money was truly "available" or if some guys are Mark A guys that he is willing to go over his set budget for. In other words perhaps if they didn't get JBJ that didn't necessarily mean that Stearns and Arnold had another 12-14M to spend how they saw fit.

I mean ok but just counting his nice start and excluding the stretch since is just statistical manipulation. His YTD stats are what they are and include both.

How is a .797 OPS not good? Saying he hasn't been good this year is kind of a fallacy. Before falling into this recent horrible slump, Garcia's results this season were perfectly fine. The .797 was back in '19. He was .659 last year and is at .619 this year.

I would honestly highly consider taking whatever you can for Hiura right now. Or if not now, very soon once the sellers have been clearly identified. Keston still has enough shine on his prospect status and '19 season where a lot of clubs would roll the dice on him and give us something currently useful which Keston is not. But at the moment he is like a stock that has lost 40% of its value. You can cut your losses right now and salvage something, or you can wait and hope to recover, or see it completely bottom out and end up with nothing. We don't need him to win. He could bring back help now. I hate selling low, but it could get a lot lower.

Yeah, I've tried to be on the Bickford bandwagon but this is reminiscent of his MLB debut. He might just be one of those guys that just cannot mentally handle the pressure at this level.

Drew Rasmussen is pitching much better lately, and he's a guy we need to take that step in the pen, so that's something tonight at least. Might get to see Bickford tonight too.

He hasn't "turned out" anything just yet...Too early to tell. He needs to be straightened out for sure. I refuse to believe he is a lost cause. I'm not totally throwing in the towel either, but what is going on with him is far from an easy fix. I hope he figures it out. But he'd be one of many on a long list of top hitting prospects who started out strong and then flamed out quickly when the league figured them out. He looks so outclassed at this level.

Holy smokes, we agree on something. I was pretty much with you on Knebel despite the current circumstances, so that's two.

In hindsight, I guess Hiura was the guy we should have been looking to trade instead of Grisham. Never thought he would turn out this bad.

What a stinker. Just an ugly game. Burnes still hasn't walked a guy, so there's that.

Well that's a great first impression from Reyes.

Yeah that inning started out looking promising and went south fast.

Best Shape of My Life Avi hovering down by the Mendoza line now.

Koskie? That would be my guess.