2020-07-26: Brewers (Peralta) at Cubs (Chatwood) [Brewers lose, 9-1 -- Eric Lauer makes strong Brewers debut]

[82brewcrew82]

How many lineups have more than 2 studs? It can’t be that many.

It's not so much the studs, its what comes after.

[owbc]

Can we please have robo umps already?

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

How many lineups have more than 2 studs? It can’t be that many.

It's not so much the studs, its what comes after.

 

Exactly. Moustakas is by no means a superstar, but going from him to Gyorkgard at 3B is a substantial downgrade. The Brewers took the quantity over quality approach to this offseason, and while a few of these guys will get hot at points, the offense will likely lack consistency.

[markedman5]

Lauer is impressing me.......4 pitches that he can throw for strikes

[82brewcrew82]

Lauer is impressing me.......4 pitches that he can throw for strikes

Agreed. Burnesaralta is officially on notice.

[homer]

Nice showing from Lauer, he looks nasty vs. lefties.

 

K meister

[markedman5]

I’d give Lauer Freddie’s next start

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

I've always been a big Zach Davies fan, but Eric Lauer is gonna make me forget Zach pretty quick if he keeps looking like that.

[82brewcrew82]

LOL, Arcia isn't even a consideration for Ross.

[BruisedCrew]

I don’t mind our roster makeup but none of our players looks to be hot to start the year and in a 60 game season, that’s tough.

 

The flip side of that is you probably only need 30 wins to make the playoffs this year. But yeah, they look like they just started spring training this weekend.

 

Probably need about 25 wins to make the playoffs actually.

 

I would be really surprised if 25 wins makes the playoffs unless it is in a division in which 25 wins is good enough for second place. I don’t think that will happen in the NL Central.

 

The last two years 9 of the 15 NL teams have finished over .500 and I wouldn’t expect it to be that different this “season”. Maybe this year will be different because the bad teams will be in theoretical contention longer, but usually as things wind down the contending teams feast on the teams that have given up. In a division like the NL Central there could be 4 teams close to .500 with the Pirates lagging behind. If one division has 4 teams close to .500 that would eliminate everyone else from wild card contention.

 

I think it’s more likely that exactly 30 wins falls short than that 25 wins gets in.

[rondoman]

There's 3 more playoff spots in each league. 5 wildcard teams. (3 division winners, 3 second place teams, 2 next best records)

 

I could definitely see a 25-28 win team getting in.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

It would be more likely in the Central, wouldn't it? There's not a great deal of separation among the teams. It's entirely realistic first and last are separated by five games.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Reds lose 2 of 3 at home to the Tigers. Probably the worst first-weekend result as far as the Central is concerned.

[BruisedCrew]

Hopes that Yelich was snapping out of his slump with the HR and line drive in his last two ABs yesterday were dashed pretty quickly. Summer Camp Yelich returned today.

[BruisedCrew]

There's 3 more playoff spots in each league. 5 wildcard teams. (3 division winners, 3 second place teams, 2 next best records)

 

I could definitely see a 25-28 win team getting in.

 

25-28 wins is significantly different than the original statement that all a team needs is 25 wins. In a 60 game season a difference of 3 games is like a difference of 8 games in a 162 game season.

 

I would say that a team with 28 wins is maybe 50-50 and a team with 25 wins is most likely out.

[pacopete4]

This Grimm guy is putting on a show.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Well ... this is typically what happens when your starter can only give you 3 innings. Stinker of a game. Guys like Peralta and Burnes have to have very short leashes this year.

[trwi7]

Love when Brian and Bill pick out the scrubs having a decent spring training and proclaiming that they turned their career around and they inevitably turn back into scrubs when the regular season starts because they aren't facing other scrubs anymore. Justin Grimm is one of those guys.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

There's 3 more playoff spots in each league. 5 wildcard teams. (3 division winners, 3 second place teams, 2 next best records)

 

I could definitely see a 25-28 win team getting in.

 

25-28 wins is significantly different than the original statement that all a team needs is 25 wins. In a 60 game season a difference of 3 games is like a difference of 8 games in a 162 game season.

 

I would say that a team with 28 wins is maybe 50-50 and a team with 25 wins is most likely out.

 

I think this is close to accurate. The 98-99 NBA season had 50 games, 16 teams, and nobody was below .500 in the field. Worst team was 25-25. Not a perfect comp by any means, but decent.

[adambr2]

1 run and 3 hits with the wind blowing out at Wrigley and Tyler Chatwood on the mound.

 

That is not an easy accomplishment.

[MrTPlush]

A team with 25 wins is most certainly not making it, even 28 is really unlikely. I haven’t seen a projection where even a .500 team makes it.

[markedman5]

[rondoman]

In each of the eight seasons since the implementation of the second Wild Card expanded the playoff field to five teams per league, the club with its league’s fifth-best record through 60 games has always fallen between 30-34 victories, averaging between 32-33.

[brewmann04]

I would be looking at Lauer going into the rotation and Freddy maybe piggyback him.

[brewmann04]

Keston needs to find his stroke.