Spring Training thread

[wildcat83]

Is it possible that we only still have Santana because brass believes there's a good chance of DH next year? I know it's ST game 1 but opposite field double followed by a miss played can of corn in RF pretty much sums it up, lol.

[wildcat83]

Don't worry guys, it's very windy today.... As a 120' high infield single falls in.

[TJseven7]

Perrin... bummer. Wanted to see a good spring from him.

[liveforoctober]

Perrin... bummer. Wanted to see a good spring from him.

 

For those of us without access to the game feed this is quite the cliffhanger...

[KeithStone53151]

Anyone watching see how Burnes looked? Stat line looks nice, any notes(velocity readings) would be appreciated.

[Sheets4President]

Keston Hiura: Professional Hitter.

[wallus]

Anyone watching see how Burnes looked? Stat line looks nice, any notes(velocity readings) would be appreciated.

 

Attacked hitters with lots of strikes and had a nice looking curveball. He looked really really good. I do not believe he faced anyone that will project to be on the Cubs roster however.

[TJseven7]

Perrin... bummer. Wanted to see a good spring from him.

 

For those of us without access to the game feed this is quite the cliffhanger...

 

Sorry 4 runs in under 1ip

[TJseven7]

1st ab franklin runners corners 1 down...gidp... not that it's changed anything but I feel the need to say I'm still done with him.

 

Bases loaded... 2 out K. DONE!

[Jenkins5]

I fell Brewers are will to ride out 2B in house this season mostly due to believing Hiura will be up in September & probably opening day 2019 starter. Why go sign Walker for more than a year when we have a guy to replace him soon. Hope Villar bounces back & trade him.

 

It’s impossible not to love watching professional hitters work. It’s an art. You watch like an Ichro is his prime and hopefully what we will continue to see if Hiura & it’s amazing. Makes me feel really crappy about my one year college stint finishing at exactly the Mendoza Line lol

[TJseven7]

He still has to play 2nd. Hitting wasn't anyones chief concern.

[Jenkins5]

He still has to play 2nd. Hitting wasn't anyones chief concern.

 

I think he will be fine there. All he has to do is be around average with the way his bat plays. He seems like just a baseball type guy, who works hard, and is fairly good athlete. They will give him every opportunity to prove he can play there at MLB level. Him proving he can’t would be awful. Just another OF to the log jam who could only play LF

[TJseven7]

Yeah LF DH is awfully crowded in the system. Braun Yelich Santana Grisham hopefully not but possibly Hiura.

[TJseven7]

Speaking of 2b... I know he's seen as 4A but are we going to give orf a shot this year. Its seems strange to see his work (in cs i know) and assume sogard villar and perez are better.

[BrewersSuperCollector]

Anyone watching see how Burnes looked? Stat line looks nice, any notes(velocity readings) would be appreciated.

 

No readings at the game. As basic of a scoreboard as you can get.

[markedman5]

He looked great. 10 pitches no balls 2ks. Nice easy delivery.....1 k was on what looked like a nasty spliter.

[tigerbrew]

Hiura with a nice debut, 2 hits and a walk.

 

Burnes with a nice debut too.

 

Santana with 2 doubles and a walk. I want the Brewers to keep Santana, because trading him could really hurt our offense.

[3and2Fastball]

Burnes looked awesome. Granted, it was against mostly AAAA Cubs players, but it was impressive.

[Boomer5]

I've studied these FA pitchers to death and I'm at the point where I'd just prefer they break camp with Burnes as their number 5.

[TJseven7]

You know it's exciting a heck to hear CC say Burnes Peralta could be up as soon as june. 8 man pen? Piggy back woodruff suter burnes peralta? Try to get 8 ip and 7 ip per "start?"

 

Anderson Davies Chacin

4 Woodruff/7 suter 5ip-3ip

5 Burnes/8 peralta 4ip-3ip

Knebel Hader Albers Logan Barnes Jeffress

 

Having an extra pen arm and having

Woodruff 150 ip pace

Suter 90 ip pace

Burnes 120 ip pace

Peralta 90ip pace

 

450 ip instead of like 300-350 from 4-5... 100 ip makes up for not having a long by a bunch.

 

Could start off 4 woodruff 5 guerra or wilkerson/suter with gallardo treated like a traditional long.

 

Lots of creative ways to handle this with an 8 man pen.

[Thurston Fluff]

Things are starting off well. We are pace to be the only team in history not to lose a single spring training or regular season game all year. Cubs are firmly in the rearview mirror and the way forward is clear. Who would have thought we'd be in this position already?

Seriously though it, is nice the games are starting. This has been a boring offseason. There are so many interesting storylines to follow this spring it's nice to finally be able to argue over things happening on the field.

[tigerbrew]

I've studied these FA pitchers to death and I'm at the point where I'd just prefer they break camp with Burnes as their number 5.

 

If Burnes pitched better than the other contenders (Guerra/Yo/Suter/Woodruff) throughout spring training, he should definitely earned a spot in the rotation. I think he can and really hope he does, as I'm very high on him.

 

I think it's a terrible idea to send Burnes to Colorado Springs.

[pacopete4]

Villar smacking around Ohtani was nice.

[adambr2]

Nice swing by Broxton taking Ohtani yard.

 

I'm honestly a little worried we are going to trade Broxton for basically nothing and he's going to turn into a 25/25 gold glove CFer elsewhere. It would not take much more than him getting back to his 2016 form defensively and cutting his K rate to 30% or so for that to happen.

[adambr2]

I'm going to be really disappointed if Taylor Williams doesn't make the opening day roster, especially if someone like Oliver Drake does.