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I'm still not clear on why the Brewers are encouraging this development approach. If he is not going to retain this trait then why do it. He just needs to correct it next year. Maybe its just 3D chess, but it does not make sense to me.

So what your saying is he is consistently inconsistent in his in-year performance. 😃

The Mets with 90 wins is pretty entertaining. Seems like we do need to play the season and not just rely on who has the best offseason.

The Brewers represent well here...

I agree that Chourio defense has been very good this year. His all around game has improved as well, but at the same time you could say he's been remarkable consistent his first three years in the majors. That's impressive for a guy coming up as a teenager. He has hit exactly 21 HRs each year (hopefully he will have a few more this year). His wRC+ is 119, 112, and 122. His OPS is 791, 770, and 810. Again, he is better this year than previously but its incremental. He did already start at a pretty high level to begin his career, so it wont take too much to achieve superstar level. He is moving in the right direction for sure.

Its pretty amazing that Hall might be their 6 or 7th best reliever right now. Their bullpen is really amazing.

Its probably going to be both. One doesn't have to be up the entire month. They will likely do one for a couple weeks and then the other, that way they can manage Naylor's service time.

Quero is catching again so it could be him as well, though unlikely

From MLB.com: Scouting grades: Fastball: 55 | Slider: 55 | Cutter: 50 | Changeup: 40 | Control: 55 | Overall: 50 Hardin spent two years at Daytona State College before transferring to Mississippi State, only to never break out of the Bulldogs' bullpen. The Brewers still took him in the 12th round in 2024, signed him for $147,500 and transitioned him to a starting role on the pro side with impressive early results. Hardin posted a 2.72 ERA and a 1.18 WHIP with 96 strikeouts over 96 innings between High-A and Double-A in his first full season. His 4.4 percent walk rate and 20.4 percent K/BB rate were tops among Brewers farmhands with at least 90 frames in ’25. The 6-foot-2 right-hander sits 93-95 mph with his four-seam fastball, and he makes up for the average velocity by generating decent ride from a low release. He’ll wear out the top rail of the zone with that four-seamer and then drop in a low-80s slider that gets good sweep to the lower gloveside corner. An upper-80s cutter isn’t quite as sharp as others in its pitch class, but the jump in velo from the slider allows it to sneak up on lefties, leading to soft contact. Hardin has an upper-80s changeup for opposite-side bats, but it’s too firm, leading to issues with splits. Hardin flows well on the mound and kept pumping strikes at each level in 2025. That type of control helped his case not only to start but to remain in a bulkier role in his first taste of the pros. Better batters might have more success against him in the zone, and that’s something that will be tested at the upper levels. If his gains continue, Hardin could factor into Milwaukee’s rotation depth by the second half of his age-24 season. View full player

Well, dont I feel dumb. I guess I need to start a page then 😄

It would be cool to have a wiki page for each prospect. Where users could add specific details on the player, such as ratings (FV, grades), what types of pitches they throw, how hard they throw, present injury status and updates. That info would be overwhelming for the staff to maintain (especially for each prospect) but would not be too hard for a community to do, particularly with this one that has so many minor league gurus. That info is all available within the forums but just not in any one place for each prospect. Maybe even link or pull in statistics onto the page automatically. Alternatively or in addition, just improving the search function would be helpful. If you search on a name it will give you hundreds (thousands) of hits many from the same thread. Which i understand why but it has no intelligence to filter out redundant/duplicate info. Not sure how I would make it better but I have found its pretty much an unusable feature of the forums.

Agreed. This is always a fun topic. Predicting the pitchers will be hard because, as you say, there are so many candidates for pitchers who were hurt and need more playing time. I'll start with the hitters, which are surprisingly also hard for the exact opposite reason. Luis Pena is the only one that fits that category but I think its likely they just want him to have a full offseason to recover. Unless he is feeling fully healthy. Maybe Dinges if he can work on catching? Or Wilken or Jett Williams (if healthy)? From what I could find, each team can send up to 3 hitters and 4 pitchers, one of which can be below AA. If any of this is incorrect please correct as I found lots of contradictory info online.

They need more power in their lineup

Adams also has to be protected anyways this offseason from the Rule 5 draft. Burke doesn't until after the 2027 season. So all things being equal, they would add Adams before Burke.

I agree Mitchell is the better CF right now (as do the Brewers), but I would not say he is far better. Sprint speed is one metric for speed but I'm not sure that is the best one to identify defensive athleticism. Savant calculates sprint speed based on certain baserunning plays, which would also account for how well a player cuts the bases. He also has much fewer samples so I think that could be throwing off his average. If you look at Lara's pure straight-line speed (HP to 1b) numbers he has a 4.16, which would make him tied for 15 among all of baseball (Hamilton is 2nd and Mitchell is 4th). I agree that Mitchell is more athletic but I don't think Lara is that far off. Defense is also more than just pure speed (positioning, reads, etc.). Lara is primarily playing out of position in RF so some of his awkward plays may be a result of seeing the ball differently, as he has had very little time in RF prior to being in Milwaukee. The Brewers are in good shape no matter who plays in CF. Way too many good defensive CFs is a problem most teams would be happy to have.

Seattle locker room after the game

We need forfeit rules. 38 mph? That's ridiculous. Lara's 1st HR is sorta tainted.

Remember when we used to complain about the lack of production from the bottom of the order

I was hoping Hamilton would bunt. I guess I'll take a dinger

Joey O. As we all knew, Joey's bat can carry this team...

Bill is still arby eligible, so if the Brewers decline the team option (like they did last year), they would still retain his rights and they would just follow the normal arby rules. Not sure Bill would get $14.5M in arby next year.

I'm not sure I care. Lara and Lockridge are pretty much redundant this year. Its really a matter of who we think will perform best the rest of the season. I think I'll give Sal and Lockridge a slight edge so that means Lara goes down but its really a toss up to me.

His baserunning is very under rated. If he gets sent home on a close play, I feel confident that he will be safe. He is faster than he looks and makes good decisions on the bases. I'm also good with him being offered the QO. If he accepts we could trade Vaughn (to offset QO salary) and use Luke Adams as depth. If he doesn't accept we could keep Vaughn and use Adams or Burke as depth (or Fischer).

Agreed. Brady that high is a bit of a surprise. Other surprises are jose Rodriguez at 22 and brailyn antunez at 30. I would have swapped those two.also, no 2026 draft pick was slotted higher than 17. I can't remember a deeper system we have had.