Game Thread (4/16/2022): Cardinals (Matz) at Brewers (Houser) - 6:10 PM CDT

[HarryDoyle]

It doesn't help when our pitchers get a smaller strike zone than the Cardinals do.

[nate82]

OMG this umpire is garbage.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Well, that certainly wasn't the outcome I expected from Caratini.

[folly412]

Bless you, spirit of Andy Haines, we scored a run!

[phnxcrew]

well I think we can start guessing who will be traded for, already.  I know stearns didn’t have the greatest off-season upgrading the lineup but he must be even sicker than we are of nothing working.  Give everyone what the cardinals have for years and gotten away with-try something!

[JRob1125]

I really love that the #9 hitter is no longer an automatic out

[NBBrewFan]

Just now, JRob1125 said:

I really love that the #9 hitter is no longer an automatic out

Now if they could only work on 4,5,6,7, and 8.

[Sixtolezcano]

8 minutes ago, phnxcrew said:

well I think we can start guessing who will be traded for, already.  I know stearns didn’t have the greatest off-season upgrading the lineup but he must be even sicker than we are of nothing working.  Give everyone what the cardinals have for years and gotten away with-try something!

Hopefully Stearns can pull another Adames trade out of his….back pocket. It is really disappointing that we need to count on another miraculous May trade every year to hope for the Brewers to have a real chance.  Four out of nine games (44.4%) where we score zero or 1 runs. This is a really disappointing start to the season.

[HarryDoyle]

2 minutes ago, Sixtolezcano said:

Hopefully Stearns can pull another Adames trade out of his….back pocket. It is really disappointing that we need to count on another miraculous May trade every year to hope for the Brewers to have a real chance.  Four out of nine games (44.4%) where we score zero or 1 runs. This is a really disappointing start to the season.

And the two games they scored five runs they needed help from the opposing pitching/defense to score half those runs.

[DuWayne Steurer]

Let's see Renfroe get on the powerball HR leaderboard this inning.  Or whatever they're calling it this year.  

[HarryDoyle]

Maybe Suter will vulture a win again. Who knows?

[Brock Beauchamp]

14 minutes ago, JRob1125 said:

I really love that the #9 hitter is no longer an automatic out

Welcome to modern baseball, where pitchers don’t hit because god, why would we want pitchers to hit!?!?!?!

[adambr2]

Yelich for Renfroe here?

[adambr2]

Nice 3-1 hack on a hittable pitch. You suck beyond belief, Renfroe.

[HarryDoyle]

How many times have we heard "He had a pitch to drive and missed it" this year so far?

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 minute ago, adambr2 said:

Nice 3-1 hack on a hittable pitch. You suck beyond belief, Renfroe.

Cool it down a bit. Renfroe missed a pitch. Barry Bonds missed thousands of pitches in his career.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Man, I would have put Yelich in that spot but I can't complain about Tellez too much, either, he just didn't get it done.

[adambr2]

Its telling on how far Christian Yelich has fallen from grace when he could be used as a PH as the potential winning run in the bottom of the 9th and the manager opts for Rowdy Tellez instead. 

[NBBrewFan]

Brewers new rally caps:

[bulldogboy0733]

Yelich not appearing in this game is very telling unless he's hurt which also an issue.

[edfunderburk]

I love the Brewers

Our offense is horrible

This is going to be a long year

Nine games - only one was enjoyable 

This offense is not fun to watch

I was so excited about the new season

September 2021 - Playoffs - April 2022 … unbearable

 

 

 

[adambr2]

We don't have a single hitter in our lineup on any given night that any opposing pitcher is afraid of. Not one. 

There's a small handful of guys that are "he's alright, don't make a mistake to him" (Tellez, Adames, Urias, Narvaez) but a dangerous hitter? We don't have one. 

[bulldogboy0733]

That is correct. You see what happened last year and you come back with basically the same roster plus Cutch is not ideal. They had an extra long offseason and still didn't do much. The fact that Mark said Cutch wasn't in the budget tells you it wasn't up to Stearns. They didn't want to spend any money so there you go. You get what you pay for.

[adambr2]

4 minutes ago, bulldogboy0733 said:

That is correct. You see what happened last year and you come back with basically the same roster plus Cutch is not ideal. They had an extra long offseason and still didn't do much. The fact that Mark said Cutch wasn't in the budget tells you it wasn't up to Stearns. They didn't want to spend any money so there you go. You get what you pay for.

They paid for one guy, the problem is that they've been getting a massively awful return on investment for 2+ seasons now. 

[Sixtolezcano]

11 minutes ago, bulldogboy0733 said:

That is correct. You see what happened last year and you come back with basically the same roster plus Cutch is not ideal. They had an extra long offseason and still didn't do much. The fact that Mark said Cutch wasn't in the budget tells you it wasn't up to Stearns. They didn't want to spend any money so there you go. You get what you pay for.

If that’s the case I really don’t see any way that Stearns will be working in Milwaukee next year. Why would he want to stick around when he probably has multiple better options to make his career a larger success.