2022 Brewers Offense

[Brewcrew82]

56 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

Do you think it is also tiring to constantly hear on here every time some other team gets shut out (or no hit) as if that has any relevance to the Brewers offense?

Of course, you didn't even respond to any of my points, Anyways, if you think my two whole posts, which were made for the purpose of providing levity and context as to the wider offensive struggles occurring in MLB right now, are as constant as the complaints about the offense by you and other persons who shall not be named, well, I'm sorry to have triggered you. But why be a Brewers fan if you can't enjoy what is by far the best prolonged stretch of baseball in Brewers history? 

[RobDeer 45]

Whoa Solvvd

[BruisedCrew]

52 minutes ago, Brewcrew82 said:

Of course, you didn't even respond to any of my points, Anyways, if you think my two whole posts, which were made for the purpose of providing levity and context as to the wider offensive struggles occurring in MLB right now, are as constant as the complaints about the offense by you and other persons who shall not be named, well, I'm sorry to have triggered you. But why be a Brewers fan if you can't enjoy what is by far the best prolonged stretch of baseball in Brewers history? 

I didn’t respond to your points because I didn’t see anything new and didn’t see any point in prolonging the discussion.

 

 

[Dragonbait]

At this point, I feel like everyone could have career years, and people would still complain the offence is horrible, cant win with this offence, etc etc.

 

Everyone should know the real reason our offence is struggling... We have some of our biggest bats on the bench because of the DH, Woodruff, Suter, etc

[Eye Black]

After last night’s performance the Brewers jumped from an 80 wRC+ offense (24th in MLB) to a 90 wRC+ offense (19th in MLB) and they are actually the best of the below league average offensive teams. The Astros and Twins are next on the list tied for 17th in MLB and each has a 100 wRC+. So the best of the worst for now, but trending back toward perfectly average. 

[DoubleSwitch]

29 runs this week already. I think it's safe to say we have one of the best offenses in the league. It should only get better when Urias comes back.

[Soupbone]

Pirates and Cubs.

[sveumrules]

Team wRC+ went from 78 up to 90 after a half dozen dingers.

Crush another Cubby six pack tonight & we might crack 100 by morning.

 

[jerichoholicninja]

They're hitting crappy pitching. That's an improvement over past years so it's a start.

[Shawn]

Watching Lorenzo Cain bat, if you open your front shoulder, you will pop up, brewers tend to go for the home run more often than putting the ball in play. What is the hitting philosophy 

[torts]

11 hours ago, DoubleSwitch said:

29 runs this week already. I think it's safe to say we have one of the best offenses in the league. It should only get better when Urias comes back.

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[Brewcrew82]

1 hour ago, Shawn said:

Watching Lorenzo Cain bat, if you open your front shoulder, you will pop up, brewers tend to go for the home run more often than putting the ball in play. What is the hitting philosophy 

That's pretty much the hitting philosophy anywhere you go in MLB these days. It's all about exit velocity and launch angle. 

[nate82]

2 hours ago, Brewcrew82 said:

That's pretty much the hitting philosophy anywhere you go in MLB these days. It's all about exit velocity and launch angle. 

Exit velocity has always been a thing it is just under a different name now.  You may have heard of squaring up on a ball, getting good contact, getting good wood on the ball, etc.  These all talk about hitting the ball hard which is what exit velocity is measuring.

Baseball at least for hitters has always been about exit velocity.  If you don’t have it you are weakly popping out or grounding out.

[Samurai Bucky]

On 4/30/2022 at 11:46 PM, nate82 said:

Exit velocity has always been a thing it is just under a different name now.  You may have heard of squaring up on a ball, getting good contact, getting good wood on the ball, etc.  These all talk about hitting the ball hard which is what exit velocity is measuring.

Baseball at least for hitters has always been about exit velocity.  If you don’t have it you are weakly popping out or grounding out.

I don't know if that is the case.  Squaring up the ball helps increase Exit Velocity (EV), but the core of EV is fast bat speed.  I would almost argue that trying to swing the bat hard is causing the decrease in contact percentage.

How would Tony Gwynn do Today?

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“I can hear it now: ‘Hey, this guy can hit .340. Anyone can do that. He can hit that. Let’s see if he can get a few more home runs in there and he’d really be valuable,’ ” said Rettenmund, who went to seven World Series as a player and hitting coach. “All too often they change players, all too often to the point where you can’t get him started. If you mess up that swing, it’s tough to get it back sometimes. (Hall of Famer) Joe Morgan couldn’t get it back with the A’s. With Cincinnati, he was deadly good.”

Gwynn, Wade Boggs, Don Mattingly, and others would probably not be as good if they swung harder to try and increase EV.

[nate82]

1 hour ago, Samurai Bucky said:

I don't know if that is the case.  Squaring up the ball helps increase Exit Velocity (EV), but the core of EV is fast bat speed.  I would almost argue that trying to swing the bat hard is causing the decrease in contact percentage.

How would Tony Gwynn do Today?

Gwynn, Wade Boggs, Don Mattingly, and others would probably not be as good if they swung harder to try and increase EV.

Swinging harder doesn’t equate to a higher exit velocity.  Exit velocity is determined more by where the ball hits the bat than how hard a batter swings.  Yes swinging really fast will add some velocity but I am not convinced it adds all that much compared to where the ball connects with the bat.

If the ball hits the end of the bat it won’t have much in terms of velocity no matter how hard the batter swings.

With Gwynn he consistently hit the ball with the good part of the bat.  Majority of Gwynn’s hits were on line drives.  This means he would have had a high EV.  Also if you have slow bat speed you are going to be late a lot especially on fastballs which Gwynn saw more of during his playing time than hitters do now.

Also the article you linked to is talking more about launch angle than exit velocity.  For Gwynn to hit more HR’s he would have had to change his swing to be more of an uppercut.  That has nothing to do with exit velocity.

[MVP2110]

The Brewers offense has now turned around to the point where they are currently above average in terms of Runs per game. Let's hope they keep climbing 

[owbc]

Best offense in MLB?

[Oxy]

7 hours ago, MVP2110 said:

The Brewers offense has now turned around to the point where they are currently above average in terms of Runs per game. Let's hope they keep climbing 

And the next time the Reds shut somebody out, they'll still have the worst pitching staff in the league.  All great games are not equal in the eyes of the run differentialists...

[DoubleSwitch]

Stearns and Counsell read everyone's complaints about the offense and decided to fix it by telling the players to hit better.

[Underachiever]

The whole "have one player get 7 or 8 rbis" strategy is sound.

[MVP2110]

10 hours ago, Oxy said:

And the next time the Reds shut somebody out, they'll still have the worst pitching staff in the league.  All great games are not equal in the eyes of the run differentialists...

Fwiw I posted that before yesterday's outburst. They are now 4th in MLB in runs scored after last night. The Brewers currently have a top 5 offense by run production 

[markedman5]

https://twitter.com/CyrtHogg/status/1522232765449740290?s=20&t=sEhCMJMX7cRmuCeK0zmlQQ

[BuckyBrewer61]

19 hours ago, MVP2110 said:

The Brewers offense has now turned around to the point where they are currently above average in terms of Runs per game. Let's hope they keep climbing 

One day later...and the Brewers offense now ranks #4 in all of MLB in runs per game.

 

EDIT: Whoops you already pointed that out.  Oh well I'm leaving it here because it's astounding and awesome.

[igor67]

I believe that per those advanced statistics even after yesterday Rowdy has still been somewhat unlucky with how the hits have fallen.

[TheAnalytics]

On 4/30/2022 at 7:04 AM, Eye Black said:

After last night’s performance the Brewers jumped from an 80 wRC+ offense (24th in MLB) to a 90 wRC+ offense (19th in MLB) and they are actually the best of the below league average offensive teams. The Astros and Twins are next on the list tied for 17th in MLB and each has a 100 wRC+. So the best of the worst for now, but trending back toward perfectly average. 

198 PA from last Friday including today and the team averaged 184 wRC+ to bring the team up to 109 through today’s game. What a run