What would you do to shake up the Brewers' offense?

[Robocaller]

Waive Winker.
Best I got after that is to bring up Hiura to take his place.

scour the bad teams for old guys who might help.

[BrewerFan]

7 hours ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

IMO, absolutely. He's a very good CF'er. I believe he would be a GG caliber RF.

I don't think there's any question he's capable of that...but what if he's a GG CFer?

Are we maybe assuming he's a RFer due to his size and that throwing arm? Despite all the reports on his defense and even earlier in the season, I assumed he'd move to RF as well, but he is incredible in CF. Better than Mitchell IMO. He took some poor routes at times. Still covered a ton of ground, but seems like Wiemer has been about as good as you can get out there. And we prioritize a RFers arm more than you do in CF, but isn't it at least as useful in CF? More balls hit your way, more chances to make plays?

Chourio/Frelick both have 45 grades on their arms and 70 speed. Chourio's seems a little underrated, but either way, both are below Mitchell(60) and Wiemer.

 

It'll be interesting to see how they configure it when the time comes, but Wiemer's only issues seem to be going back on the ball and he's gotten better at that. Whatever they do, whoever ends up getting traded, it's going to be important to keep Tyler Black on the dirt somehow. Even if it's 1B(though ideally 3B and then 2B) and he doesn't put up prototypical 1B power numbers. That OBP, ability to put the ball in play and speed, he'd be a bit wasted as an OFer with this group.

[brewerfan82]

I put together a comparison of the Brewer's year-to-date wRC+ at each position with NL and MLB ranks vs. current players' projected rest-of-season wRC+:

There's a LOT of room for improvement and the biggest source of that is going to have to be just players playing closer to their projected abilities. Tellez, Urias, Adames, and Winker all have projected wRC+ that are 25+ higher than what their position has produced so far this year.

Frelick and Hiura are a couple wildcards to throw into the mix as well, but we need at least a couple of those underperforming guys to start showing some life over the next month and then swing a trade for a couple bats to fill in the other holes to have a chance at seeing some consistent improvement on offense.

Other than that, get Woody back in the rotation, throw Ashby into the mix, and ride it out on the strength of this team's pitching and defense. Put that all together and I think we still have a shot at watching some fun Brewers baseball down the stretch!

[WV Brew]

What about Payton Henry?  OPS of .855 and 1.010 against lefties.  They could start him against left handers with Contreras as the DH.  It wouldn't hurt to have the extra catcher instead of Monasterio or somebody like that who doesn't add much.

[Ghostbear]

 

 

Over the past two years the Brewers hitting as a team has been atrocious.  As an "old" high school and college coach, I can only comment on what I see.  The entire Brewer's hitting approach lacks focus on: 1) Swing fundamentals, 2) Approach at the plate, 3) Attention to the physics of hitting a baseball, 4) guessing at pitches rather than, as an old great, great, MLB hall of famer once told us at a coaching clinic, "See it-Read it-Hit it.  The key is not watching the pitcher, it's watching the baseball.  Moving around and doing the bending, and other movement in the box is what we used to refer to as wasting energy which should be focused on the swing approach.  The best swing approach and its mechanics were written about in a great book by Ted Williams.  Just a few "old" but true points: 1-relax as a hitter in the box, relaxed muscles are much quicker and faster than tense muscles, 2-square up your stance with feet spread slightly and square up the middle, 3-when pitcher is winding up, bat goes up and back with hands raised above the shoulder and arms slightly away from the body, so that the leading elbow is almost at chin level. 4-practice a line drive swing, no pounding the ball into the ground, no upper cut swings trying to hit the ball out of park all the time.  The physics and statistics are clear as to percentages: What percentage of grounds balls turn out to be hits? Less than 30%, What percentage of flyballs turn out to be hits? Less than 40%. What percentage of line drives turn out to be hits: More than 50%.  Here are Brewer players who need to make major changes in their stance, use of energy, and swing mechanics at the plate: 1- Willie Adames-stop the bending and screwing around, stand straight, square it up, turn your head toward the pitcher; 2-Joey Wiemer-my God, this kid could be a 30 plus HR guy every year, but he wastes too much energy moving around in the box, steady it, square it up, place your front foot more toward the pitcher rather than third base, relax, square your stance during the wind up, see it-read it-hit it. 3-Louis Arias-stop the bending, stop looking down the third base line all the time, once at the coach is enough. Relax, square your stance up, stroke the ball instead of swinging for the fences all the time.   4-Rowdy Telez- you've gotten lazy at the plate. Spread your feet a little bit. Get your bat up and bat away from your body more at the pitcher's windup. Stroke the ball back toward the direction and field it's coming from.   And for all the Brewers: Hey, STOP guessing at pitches. That's nonsense. If a pitcher has two or three pitches our chances of being right are less than 30%. RATHER: FOCUS ON THE BALL NOT THE PITCHER. FROM THE TIME THE BALL IS THROWN BACK TO THE PITCHER, FOCUS ON IT AT EVERY SECOND OF THE PITCHER'S DELIVERY. THAT WILL TRAIN YOU TO SEE THE BALL MOVEMENT AND SPIN-SEE IT! READ IT! HIT IT!  Use a jugs machine during batting practice. Having an old coach out there throwing pitches is a waste of time and strategy. The machine can throw any pitch you want.   Set up hitting cages, two or three at your home park back down not far from the locker room-every hitter should spend a session a day when at home hitting in the cage, 100 mph fast balls, curves, sliders, etc.  Also, every player should have pre-game and post game regimen set up by a sports PT that he executes every game.  The off game regimen should include some weight lifting and diet control.  And for goodness sakes Brewers, get into the tech era: Every player should have digitized swing comparisons in order to see their swing when they're hitting well and can play that swing in slow motion next to their current swing, then place them next to and ontop of each other in very slow motion to see every detail of the swing differentials.   The entire physics of the line drive swing need to drilled into each player's thinking:  SEE IT! READ IT! HIT IT!  The greatest home run hitter of all time (not Bonds) told a bunch of us coaches that at a coaches conference. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sveumrules]

2 hours ago, Ghostbear said:

Over the past two years the Brewers hitting as a team has been atrocious.

This year sure, but last year the Brewers scored the 10th most runs in MLB.