Link Report for Sunday 4/16 - Peter Cottontail Edition

[homer]

It’s early, but Dubon without an extra base hit is incredibly disappointing. It seems like every hitter we acquire right now, they immediately regress. Outside of Arcia’s great 2015, hard to find a success story where a hitter broke out since Khris Davis in our development system (C’mon Gatewood!). I know that developing baseball players is volatile, but at some point doesn’t there need to some indications that we are doing this right?

 

Brinson , Isan Diaz didn't regress

[ZBTMP]

It’s early, but Dubon without an extra base hit is incredibly disappointing. It seems like every hitter we acquire right now, they immediately regress. Outside of Arcia’s great 2015, hard to find a success story where a hitter broke out since Khris Davis in our development system (C’mon Gatewood!). I know that developing baseball players is volatile, but at some point doesn’t there need to some indications that we are doing this right?

 

Brinson , Isan Diaz didn't regress

 

Brinson's K:BB ratios is 9:1 since he joined the Brewers organization. Thats not exactly progression. Its great that he's teed off in Colorado Springs but he needs some refinement to succeed at the MLB level that we have yet to see.

 

Diaz was coming off the best OPS as a teenager in the pioneer league in nearly a decade (Billy Butler). Striking out a quarter of his at bats in A ball is troubling. Certainly he has enough positives to outweigh contact concerns at this point, but its not like those blossomed under the Brewers watch.

[homer]

It’s early, but Dubon without an extra base hit is incredibly disappointing. It seems like every hitter we acquire right now, they immediately regress. Outside of Arcia’s great 2015, hard to find a success story where a hitter broke out since Khris Davis in our development system (C’mon Gatewood!). I know that developing baseball players is volatile, but at some point doesn’t there need to some indications that we are doing this right?

 

Brinson , Isan Diaz didn't regress

 

Brinson's K:BB ratios is 9:1 since he joined the Brewers organization. Thats not exactly progression. Its great that he's teed off in Colorado Springs but he needs some refinement to succeed at the MLB level that we have yet to see.

 

Diaz was coming off the best OPS as a teenager in the pioneer league in nearly a decade (Billy Butler). Striking out a quarter of his at bats in A ball is troubling. Certainly he has enough positives to outweigh contact concerns at this point, but its not like those blossomed under the Brewers watch.

 

You specifically used the word regression. Those players have not regressed - that means they got worse.

[ZBTMP]

You specifically used the word regression. Those players have not regressed - that means they got worse.

 

Fine, regressed or stagnated. The point is the Brewers player development instructors cannot really point to them and say they are doing their jobs. Sure we have plenty of room for improvement on the scouting side this decade, but the Brewers need to be striving to have the best development system in baseball and based on the evidence I have seen, the output isn’t close to that.

[dacbrewers]

Was at the AAA and Rivera continues to make great defensive plays and has hit a bit as of late. He's absolutely better defensively than villar.