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Caleb Wilson is fun to watch. He has a lot to develop but he is also flashing plenty. But it is a pretty dismal collection of talent thanks to how they operated past few years with such a bad front office.

No offense taken. You are absolutely spot on in that assessment. Kenny Williams put together a World Series winning team by assembling a very strong starting rotation without a hall of fame guy out front. Freddy, Jose, El Duque, Mark, and Jon.

No offense, but that’s something Kenny Williams might say

My travelling coach taught all of us to score the game and would usually assign guys on the bench to keep score. Later I realized that it was effective at keeping kids heads in the game. He was also really good at sharing the why in his coaching. I remember him explaining why I was batting second. I had no idea why, I just knew I was guaranteed "my raps" in the first and that made me happy.

@77 Hitmen It is difficult as a Sox fan to judge Wrigley. I will say this. Growing up my baseball teams would charter buses and go there for games. I remember walking up the ramp into sunshine and seeing Ernie Banks warming up, the ivy on the walls, and it was very cool. Then I had to go to the bathroom. 😬What pedophile designed those bathrooms?

Ayy we got a real Rob Schneider here

This thread has me thinking how difficult pleasing every fan would be. After a lifetime of attending baseball games I realize I went from a teenager needing cheap seats and a compassionate fan that would "hey mister" a few beers for us. Parking didn't matter, we would walk a mile for cheap parking. My family had season tickets and I would get them for early season games in bad weather and poor teams midweek in the summer. The big selling point for me then was cheap parking, cheap food, and I could sit anywhere. Then I started using the ballpark for business entertaining. I needed to be close to good restaurants, needed quality seating and concessions and an experience the customer would enjoy. Then I started taking my kids. When they got bored there needed to be some activities beyond watching the game. I needed close in parking, a place to change a diaper, kid friendly concessions, and kid friendly climbs up and down to seats. Then back to being a regular fan. No social obligations, just going to the game to watch some baseball. I started using public trans more so parking wasn't an issue. Money wasn't as much an issue as value. Give me some good food and I will pay concession prices. Baseball was the draw and I didn't need all the extras. I would check the schedule for a good matchup, a marquee player, and go. Now, it's really simple. I will go to whatever game is in town when I am in town. I will take a walk around to see all the changes, but generally I am in my seat from the opening pitch to the last out. I am not drinking nearly as much so not nearly as many bathroom breaks. Now design a stadium that covers all those different needs.

An interesting way of thinking about ballparks is one-off visits/destinations vs a place that you’re seeing the majority of your games. Most of my stadium experiences have been one-off visits, so I don’t really care that much about the logistics of parking, concourses or even seating. I’m just enjoying my very temporary experience. It’s why places like Fenway and Wrigley are so high on my list. I don’t think I’d love going to 10 games a year there, but it’s a really cool experience being there once or twice.

Yes and they’ve out homered their opponents 11-4 in the postseason so far. Are you saying they’d be in the same spot if they were smallballing their way through games?

Without a few costly errors, this series could very well be tied heading to St. Pete. I don't think the Rays are typically bad at defense either. As it is, both games were 1-run wins and not blowouts by Milwaukee. While the Sox had a great comeback season, the Rays are far ahead of us despite falling 0-2 so far in the WS.

Playing the OF at Camelback and Peoria is brutal during the daytime. The sun is always in the wrong place. Many players make mistakes at those stadiums.

farm systems - it's like a canyon between the 2. Let's see how it pans out in 5 years

Don't quit your day job. We seem to undervalue the economics of pitching. The development year was put on hold. I think they will do the usual low risk signings, probably another Fedde type. I still don't trust Getz when it comes to trading.

Injuries injuries injuries. It's like saying Roch is worth now than he was on draft day. Nobody said panic. I just noted that his trade value hasn't increased as a result of all the missed game action.

How did Carlson lose value? He had a .380+ OBP at 19 in A ball with great SS D. No one with sense is panicking because the power isn’t there yet.

Game 2 star: Sal Frelick hit only four home runs during the regular season, and his last blast against a left-hander occurred on Opening Day. So when the Rays brought in lefty Ian Seymour to start the sixth inning, all the Brewers were hoping for was that Frelick would get on base. Instead, he hammered a 92 mph fastball over the center-field wall, tying the score at 4-4 and setting the stage for Cooper Pratt's go-ahead single an inning later. The stat that defined the game: 81 foul balls. Both teams are pesky, and they were stretching at-bats deep by constantly spoiling pitches. The 81 fouls are the most in a postseason game this year. -- Jeff Passan espn.com ***Past 13 teams to start WS up 2-0 have gone on to win it all***

"Relentlessness is the reciprocal of quitting, yielding, giving up. It is an aggressive, persistent, attack-mode attitude. It defines a warrior. The relentless performer gives himself intensely, entirely and constantly to competition." — the late Harvey Dorfman, legendary mental skills coach, friend and mentor of Brewers manager Pat Murphy If you clock them in the mouth, these Milwaukee Brewers will crack their neck, swallow a few teeth and, entirely unbothered, swing right back. They are bulletproof zombies, cockroaches in baseball pants. They are also now 9-1 in October. Remarkably, the Brewers have trailed in eight of those wins, twice by four runs. For Murphy's club, early postseason deficits are just minor inconveniences. The Rays are learning this now as the Padres and Dodgers nod in solidarity from their couches. Each consequential Milwaukee comeback only strengthens the Brewers' united confidence, like fire forging steel. The sun will rise, the sun will set, and the 2026 Brewers will retake the lead and hold onto it. Such is the act of relentlessness. yahoo.com/sports

The Brewers are two wins away from a World Series title. They have needed that home run ball? lol

That is to say, it’s a crapshoot once you get to the postseason, but you’re going for frequency of production, not aggregate volume. A longball-only offense will give you aggregate volume that helps and evens out over a 162-game season, but you are likelier to enter a “famine” cycle in a short series compared to a diversified offense.

I have always felt that a one-dimensional HR / K offense is probably your best bet to get you to the postseason, but a multifaceted offense will tip the odds in your favor once you get there.

8 of those players have lost value from Opening Day...all but Antonacci you can argue about Sandlin but generally selling low on assets and buying high or close to peak doesn't work out very well and Antonacci has more value at 2B trading Meidroth at an all-time high and moving Antonacci is more logical but everyone will scream Chase is too important to move now and was in many ways the co MVP with Vargas

No way. We have the ammo to get an arm without giving up a major chip. Carlson, Schultz, Antonocci, McDougal, Sandlin, Martin, Wolkow, Bergolla, Quero Not saying we are going up get a top 10 arm with a package of 4/5 of them…but a very good SP

Away Back GoneGuardians pitching depth takes hit with loss of two relie...Guardians relievers Connor Brogdon and Carlos Hernández are now minor league free agents.You'll get old friend Carlos Hernandez

Texas Tech shamelessly supported Sorsby's attempts to sue his way into uniform—an attempt that ended when the Big 12 filed a checkmate lawsuit of its own. Sorsby dropped the fight, and that was that. But cocky Cody vowed vengeance on the documentary. “Looking back on it, I know that Texas Tech and I handled everything with integrity, and we did things the right way,” said Campbell, who also chairs the school’s Board of Regents. “I think this is something that could have been handled much more privately. We’re not going to forget about that, and I don’t think they’ll forget about it either when we’re up by 40 and still throwing the ball in the fourth quarter. That’s where the retribution will come." Oooooops!!! si.com

Checks notes nobody can touch this MIL pen when Megill's unavailable they still have Uribe and Ashby for high leverage the problem is they're still 4-5 (2 starters/3 relievers) pitchers away and already spent $22-23 million on Castillo for 2027