Royals (Taylor) vs Brewers (Burnes): 5/12/23 7:10pm, Apple TV+

[Brock Beauchamp]

It's a Friday night baseball game on Apple TV+ again... *cue groans*

If you really want to watch this game, I recommend giving Apple TV+ a whirl. It doesn't have a ton of content but pound for pound, it has the highest ratio of quality shows/movies of any platform out there. Ted Lasso is worth the price of admission by itself, as is Severance. Mythic Quest is good and Black Bird is amazing. And it's only $7/mo.

Enough of a sales pitch to watch a baseball game.

The Royals are a bad baseball team. Maybe they're not Oakland A's bad but they're really bad. The Brewers are treading water if they only take two of three from this team and success is defined by a sweep. Because after Kansas City, the Crew heads to St Louis...

[Outlander]

Shrinking, a show with Harrison Ford, is also very good. Liked the Tetris movie as well so worth a free trial to watch the Brewers and binge some shows.

Facing a couple of former Brewers this weekend well past their primes in Greinke and Lyles and a bullpen game with left handed Rogers to start. A real opportunity to get the bats going.

[Brock Beauchamp]

45 minutes ago, Outlander said:

Shrinking, a show with Harrison Ford, is also very good. Liked the Tetris movie as well so worth a free trial to watch the Brewers and binge some shows.

Facing a couple of former Brewers this weekend well past their primes in Greinke and Lyles and a bullpen game with left handed Rogers to start. A real opportunity to get the bats going.

Ahhh, I forgot Shrinking! Yes, we watched that as well and it's also very good. Still have Tetris queued up to watch at some point, just haven't gotten to it yet.

[Brewcrew82]

I really hope CC doesn’t pull out the typical lefty lineup considering this guy is going to be an opener…

[Nola Beery]

3 birds, one stone:

I'm just glad we got through the off-day without another loss.  The way things were going, I wasn't too sure!

Also.... I think we're really missing Garrett Mitchell; he seemed to have something special going. (Enter someone smart with a bunch of undecipherable numbers to prove me wrong.)

Also also.... Has anyone noticed that "Luis Arraez of the Miami Marlins is hitting nearly .400 despite having one of the game’s softest swings."? (NY Times).  I'll take a 90mph single over a 110 mph ground-out any day.  

 

[Brock Beauchamp]

2 minutes ago, Nola Beery said:

Also also.... Has anyone noticed that "Luis Arraez of the Miami Marlins is hitting nearly .400 despite having one of the game’s softest swings."? (NY Times).  I'll take a 90mph single over a 110 mph ground-out any day.  

Luis Arraez is a special case and should not be used as a benchmark for success in MLB and something to be emulated. You may as well try to conform every hitter into being Tony Gwynn.

Arraez has not only good but elite bat-to-ball skills and strike zone judgment. When combined, those two things make him an elite batting average hitter. The average player is not capable of doing what Luis Arraez does on a daily basis.

[TURBO]

10 minutes ago, Nola Beery said:

(Enter someone smart with a bunch of undecipherable numbers to prove me wrong.)

 

Ok, that right there is funny, and I feel the same way often.  :)   

Sometimes the smart numbers guys post stuff that I just ignore.  Too many stats and abbreviations and offshoots of those abbreviations and it makes me tired.

[Nola Beery]

8 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Luis Arraez is a special case and should not be used as a benchmark for success in MLB and something to be emulated. You may as well try to conform every hitter into being Tony Gwynn.

Arraez has not only good but elite bat-to-ball skills and strike zone judgment. When combined, those two things make him an elite batting average hitter. The average player is not capable of doing what Luis Arraez does on a daily basis.

Granted.  I was really just trying to take a little jab at the folks who think speed-off-the-bat is more important than actual results.  I'll still take a 90 mph single over a 110 mph ground-out, no matter who is batting.🙂

[treego14]

KC is JV
Milwaukee is Varsity
Taylor will be a Failure
CB will bring Victory

[Underachiever]

I have tried to watch Ted Lasso. EVERYONE tells me I will love it. Everything I read says it's great. Each episode I am gritting my teeth, waiting for it to be over, checking the progress bar to see how much more time is left. Got to about episode 5, and gave up.

But Apple TV+ is pretty great.

[Brock Beauchamp]

35 minutes ago, Underachiever said:

I have tried to watch Ted Lasso. EVERYONE tells me I will love it. Everything I read says it's great. Each episode I am gritting my teeth, waiting for it to be over, checking the progress bar to see how much more time is left. Got to about episode 5, and gave up.

But Apple TV+ is pretty great.

If Ted Lasso isn't your thing and want something with incredible intensity, check out Black Bird. The acting is out of this world good and it's a limited series so you don't need to invest your life into it.

[wibadgers23]

3 hours ago, Nola Beery said:

Also also.... Has anyone noticed that "Luis Arraez of the Miami Marlins is hitting nearly .400 despite having one of the game’s softest swings."? (NY Times).  I'll take a 90mph single over a 110 mph ground-out any day.

I was really hoping we'd find a way to trade for Arraez in the offseason as I know the Twins were actively shopping him for pitching.  

[BruisedCrew]

Another “bad baseball team” like the Tigers and Rockies. 

The Royals just won 3 of 4 from the White Sox (another bad team) so they aren’t totally incapable of winning. 

The way the Brewers have been playing it would be hard to thumb your nose at just winning a series for a change. 

[Fear The Chorizo]

3 hours ago, Nola Beery said:

3 birds, one stone:

I'm just glad we got through the off-day without another loss.  The way things were going, I wasn't too sure!

Also.... I think we're really missing Garrett Mitchell; he seemed to have something special going. (Enter someone smart with a bunch of undecipherable numbers to prove me wrong.)

Also also.... Has anyone noticed that "Luis Arraez of the Miami Marlins is hitting nearly .400 despite having one of the game’s softest swings."? (NY Times).  I'll take a 90mph single over a 110 mph ground-out any day.  

 

One of my college assistant coaches' favorite sayings from the dugout was "hit it where they ain't!" - sooo much easier said than done when you don't have enough power to hit it out of the park consistently.

I'm not one of the undecipherable numbers guys....but Arraez's start to the season is largely credited to the fact he almost never strikes out and he's currently sporting a BABIP of 0.421!!!.  Not only is that roughly 0.070 points higher than Arraez's career high for that stat, it would be the highest BABIP for anyone with enough qualified plate appearances in baseball since 1945, by more than 0.010 points (Rod Carew sported a 0.408 BABIP in 1977, the year he hit 0.388).

Basically, it's not sustainable at the rate Arraez is going - but still fun to watch guys who get it done differently with how the game has evolved.

[markedman5]

For those interested……Best buy will give you a 3 month free trial to Apple TV …..I got it a few days ago so,I could watch the game tonight

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/apple-tv-plus-free-trials

[treego14]

[Harold Hutchison]

Burnes has an ERA of 2.08 his last five starts. So, that, at least, looks normal for him.

[wibadgers23]

We're facing a terrible LHP so that means we'll struggle to get anything going tonight.  I've already prepared myself.

[Brewcrew82]

6 minutes ago, wibadgers23 said:

We're facing a terrible LHP so that means we'll struggle to get anything going tonight.  I've already prepared myself.

Opener.

[Brewcrew82]

And my fears have been confirmed. Lineup set-up as if we're facing a lefty starter...

[Brewcrew82]

Boy, if Yelich could start getting results in line with his expected stats, we'd be closer to getting our money's worth than ever before...

[wiguy94]

12 minutes ago, Brewcrew82 said:

Boy, if Yelich could start getting results in line with his expected stats, we'd be closer to getting our money's worth than ever before...

Imagine if Yelich and Bellinger swapped places. Yelich is underperforming his .359 xwOBA by 53 points while Bellinger is overperforming his .326 xwOBA by 52 points. Swap places and Yelich has a .412 wOBA and Bellinger a .274 wOBA

[BruisedCrew]

35 minutes ago, Brewcrew82 said:

And my fears have been confirmed. Lineup set-up as if we're facing a lefty starter...

No big deal. 7 of the 9 players from the usual lineup against RHP are in the lineup with Miller for Turang and Voit for Winker. 
 

What would you have done differently to produce a better lineup out of this team?

[Brewcrew82]

1 minute ago, BruisedCrew said:

No big deal. 7 of the 9 players from the usual lineup against RHP are in the lineup with Miller for Turang and Voit for Winker. 
 

What would you have done differently to produce a better lineup out of this team?

Turang has been really good this month. I would have put him in the order in place of Miller. Winker for Voit, who does nothing unlike Winker who at least makes contact and gets on base. 

Yelich

Contreras

Adames

Tellez

Anderson

Winker

Taylor

Turang

Wiemer

[markedman5]

This is a bullpen game for KC right?