Game Thread (8/09/2022): Rays (TBD) at Brewers (Peralta) - 7:10 PM CDT

[liveforoctober]

17 minutes ago, edfunderburk said:

We don’t need both Milner & Suter

I choose Milner

I hope Suter moves into management soon when Cousins & Houser return 

Suter is making $2.7mil this year and is Arby eligible next year. Love him and he will get another shot with another team, but I would agree I would want him in the dugout or front office immediately when he decides to hang it up. 

With that said, seems an obvious place to save some money and go with a younger guy next season. Boushley gets lefties out at a great rate in AAA and can go multiple innings ... he is a cheap internal option.

[stoutdude04]

If CC runs Bush out there and they lose this one...I'm going to think really hard about being done with this group for awhile.

[LouisEly]

3 minutes ago, liveforoctober said:

Suter is making $2.7mil this year and is Arby eligible next year. Love him and he will get another shot with another team, but I would agree I would want him in the dugout or front office immediately when he decides to hang it up. 

With that said, seems an obvious place to save some money and go with a younger guy next season. Boushley gets lefties out at a great rate in AAA and can go multiple innings ... he is a cheap internal option.

Boushley has a .678 OPS-A vs. LHB in AAA this year.

Suter has a .630 OPS-A vs. LHB in the majors this year.

[folly412]

Ah,  ̶H̶a̶d̶e̶r̶   ̶D̶e̶v̶i̶n̶  ̶R̶o̶g̶e̶r̶s̶?̶  Matt Bush on to close it in the 9th. ?

[LouisEly]

3 minutes ago, folly412 said:

Ah,  ̶H̶a̶d̶e̶r̶   ̶D̶e̶v̶i̶n̶  ̶R̶o̶g̶e̶r̶s̶?̶  Matt Bush on to close it in the 9th. ?

Counsell is finally saving his best relievers for extras.

[Brewcrew82]

Just now, LouisEly said:

Counsell is finally saving his best relievers for extras.

Williams likely not available today due to pitching three games in a row this weekend and the last two in Pittsburgh. 

[Brewcrew82]

Still. I don't understand why no Rogers here with two lefties due up. 

[liveforoctober]

6 minutes ago, LouisEly said:

Boushley has a .678 OPS-A vs. LHB in AAA this year.

Suter has a .630 OPS-A vs. LHB in the majors this year.

I'm not doubting you at all, but those were not the numbers I had seen. Where did you get those if I can ask?

[stoutdude04]

3 minutes ago, Brewcrew82 said:

Williams likely not available today due to pitching three games in a row this weekend and the last two in Pittsburgh. 

Makes sense - still nerves getting the best of some of us tonight I think.

[edfunderburk]

11 minutes ago, liveforoctober said:

Suter is making $2.7mil this year and is Arby eligible next year. Love him and he will get another shot with another team, but I would agree I would want him in the dugout or front office immediately when he decides to hang it up. 

With that said, seems an obvious place to save some money and go with a younger guy next season. Boushley gets lefties out at a great rate in AAA and can go multiple innings ... he is a cheap internal option.

I believe his friendship with Counsell makes him safe all of this year regardless of his stats 

[LouisEly]

Just now, liveforoctober said:

I'm not doubting you at all, but those were not the numbers I had seen. Where did you get those if I can ask?

Baseball-reference.com

[BruisedCrew]

4 minutes ago, Brewcrew82 said:

Williams likely not available today due to pitching three games in a row this weekend and the last two in Pittsburgh. 

Williams didn’t pitch Saturday, but it still would have been 4 times in 5 days.

[liveforoctober]

Well Bush looked like the best pitcher in baseball for those 3 hitters. Well done.

[edfunderburk]

Nice job by Bush

Nice call by Counsell

Rogers & Williams available tomorrow to close it out for Woody

[folly412]

Well done, Bush!

[Brewcrew82]

Just now, BruisedCrew said:

Williams didn’t pitch Saturday, but it still would have been 4 times in 5 days.

My bad. Saturday slipped my mind cause I didn't end up watching that game. But yeah, need a day of rest after that usage. Hopefully we can stay away from using him tomorrow so we can have him ready for a big St. Louis series. 

[Brewcrew82]

Nice win. Do it again tomorrow. 

[liveforoctober]

3 minutes ago, LouisEly said:

Baseball-reference.com

Fair enough. I just saw lefties were hitting sub .225 against him. So he gets them out at a good rate but when they hit him ... it has meaning.

[Brewcrew82]

We should go back to the AL East at this rate...

[willie key]

Haven’t we beaten the rays 5-3 in every game this year 

[willie key]

I don’t know if this was just matchups but this rogers thing seems weird.   Why wouldn’t he pitch tonight 

[Robocaller]

Reasons for optimism:

1) Peralta is closer to full effectiveness.

2) Nice game for the bullpen.

3) Mikolos got destroyed against the Rockies (2.2 IP, 14H, 10r), and if he's back to mediocrity that means a couple less wins going forward than if he continued to pitch like he did earlier in the year.

4) 5R on only 7H without any HR. 

[markedman5]

33 minutes ago, Brewcrew82 said:

Still. I don't understand why no Rogers here with two lefties due up. 

Rodgers got a cortisone shot in his knee…….sounds like he will be fine but wasn’t available tonight

[Robocaller]

29 minutes ago, liveforoctober said:

Fair enough. I just saw lefties were hitting sub .225 against him. So he gets them out at a good rate but when they hit him ... it has meaning.

Boushley is a AAAA player (or will be once he gets a cup of coffee with a major league team). Nothing wrong with him as an emergency option for a few games and a dozen innings, but he should be in no ones plans for the future. No guarantee he'll be back next year.

He's also a RHP, so not a good replacement for Suter, even though he has consistently had reverse splits.

[Robocaller]

46 minutes ago, Brewcrew82 said:

Williams likely not available today due to pitching three games in a row this weekend and the last two in Pittsburgh. 

to be fair, one of his appearances was only one pitch.