Reds (Lively) vs Brewers (Miley): 7/9/23, 1:10 PM

[homer]

[Ro Mueller]

I guess we’re not shy about openly advertising:

- Help Wanted: Clean Up / Designated Hitter

Let’s go Wade & Co.!

[Brock Beauchamp]

Thanks for starting this, @homer!

I've been at a party convention all weekend and let's just say I'm not in the best shape of my life right now.

[yourout]

Facebook rumor fodder for today.

Burnes to Baltimore for...

Jordan Westburg

DL Hall

Max Wagner

Juan Nunez

 

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[RobertCrawley]

Counsell is not wrong. This is BS. Unless someone can explain to me why this was a balk.

 

 

[RobertCrawley]

2 minutes ago, yourout said:

Facebook rumor fodder for today.

Burnes to Baltimore for...

Jordan Westburg

DL Hall

Max Wagner

Juan Nunez

 

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02G6cJZpnYQNjeWRvhGCoZNLLevbgg9dny7DkJg1iH3HkR7Fy72HC3Jv3SxFdnQkWgl&id=100064446023903&post_id=100064446023903_pfbid02G6cJZpnYQNjeWRvhGCoZNLLevbgg9dny7DkJg1iH3HkR7Fy72HC3Jv3SxFdnQkWgl&sfnsn=mo&mibextid=6aamW6

It's no secret that Baltimore thinks one more really good starter sends them deep into the playoffs. And it's no secret that Burnes was unhappy with out the contract negotiations played out.

I would hate to lose him, but if we get a lot for him, then yes.

[Brewcrew82]

9 minutes ago, yourout said:

Facebook rumor fodder for today.

Burnes to Baltimore for...

Jordan Westburg

DL Hall

Max Wagner

Juan Nunez

 

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02G6cJZpnYQNjeWRvhGCoZNLLevbgg9dny7DkJg1iH3HkR7Fy72HC3Jv3SxFdnQkWgl&id=100064446023903&post_id=100064446023903_pfbid02G6cJZpnYQNjeWRvhGCoZNLLevbgg9dny7DkJg1iH3HkR7Fy72HC3Jv3SxFdnQkWgl&sfnsn=mo&mibextid=6aamW6

If they switched Grayson Rodriguez for Hall and Wagner, you'd have to do it. But, otherwise, not in the middle of a playoff race again. 

[RobertCrawley]

3 minutes ago, Brewcrew82 said:

If they switched Grayson Rodriguez for Hall and Wagner, you'd have to do it. But, otherwise, not in the middle of a playoff race. 

I also think after the débâcle of the Hader trade and subsequent collapse, the tassled shoes in the upper offices will be less inclined to punch in the launch codes.

[Jim French Stepstool]

When you hear about how a team "comes out" at the beginning of a game that's usually a phrase reserved for Football or basketball. I just get the feeling it's important today, after what happened late in Saturdays' game. The good news is they've been pretty good at bouncing back from frustrating moments.

I wonder if Houser is available for a batter or 3 if need be?

[BruisedCrew]

26 minutes ago, yourout said:

Facebook rumor fodder for today.

Burnes to Baltimore for...

Jordan Westburg

DL Hall

Max Wagner

Juan Nunez

 

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02G6cJZpnYQNjeWRvhGCoZNLLevbgg9dny7DkJg1iH3HkR7Fy72HC3Jv3SxFdnQkWgl&id=100064446023903&post_id=100064446023903_pfbid02G6cJZpnYQNjeWRvhGCoZNLLevbgg9dny7DkJg1iH3HkR7Fy72HC3Jv3SxFdnQkWgl&sfnsn=mo&mibextid=6aamW6

This looks like an Oriole fan’s “would you do this” proposal for discussion, not an actual rumor. 

[yourout]

1 minute ago, BruisedCrew said:

This looks like an Oriole fan’s “would you do this” proposal for discussion, not an actual rumor. 

I think your right.

Wanna be rumor is closer.

[Brock Beauchamp]

33 minutes ago, yourout said:

Facebook rumor fodder for today.

Burnes to Baltimore for...

Jordan Westburg

DL Hall

Max Wagner

Juan Nunez

I don't know much about those prospects but at a glance, I think the Brewers will want more than a 75-ish global prospect headlining a package for Burnes.

But then again, the Brewers know pitching and I trust their internal evaluations far more than prospect hounds.

[BruisedCrew]

44 minutes ago, RobertCrawley said:

Counsell is not wrong. This is BS. Unless someone can explain to me why this was a balk.

 

 

That sure looks like a BS call followed by a BS ejection. 
 

I think umpires have to file some kind of a report to the league about ejections but I wonder if the teams submit something with their “complaint“ about an incident like that. I understand why they don’t want things aired out too much in public, but the supervisor of umpires has to be able to look at it objectively and not automatically take the umpire’s side. 

I don’t think anybody wants to turn the clock back to the beginning of the 1988 season when they decided to enforce the pitchers coming to a one second stop before delivering a pitch. The result was a complete farce of balk after balk and eventually they had to pull back on that. 

if what Uribe  did was a balk,  I think there would be dozens of them every game.

[Pugger]

God help us.  Winker is the DH today along with being the clean up hitter.  Egad.

[BruisedCrew]

I have been paying more attention to the Reds since mid May when they started to show that they were better than indicated by their 7-15 start and might become a challenger in a weak division.

It seems like a significant number of their games follow a pattern similar to yesterday's. They often fall behind early because their SP is weak, especially with Greene, Lodolo, and Ashcraft injured and/or ineffective. But, their offense often is able to bring them back and if they get into the middle innings close they win more than their share. They seem to have put together a solid bullpen featuring the guys who paraded into the game yesterday.

If the Reds have an Achilles heel, it might be that they have an issue very similar to the Brewers. They often need to use 3-5 relievers to get to the end of games they win. As a result, their core relievers (Farmer, Diaz, Gibaut, Young, and Sims have appeared in 42, 41, 41, 39, and 36 games. That's even more than the Brewers have used most of their top relievers. If those relievers start to wear down, the Reds may start losing more of those games that they have been pulling out over the last month.

At the deadline, I think the Reds priority should be trying to beef up the middle relief core, not trying to go high on the top available strters.  

[82brewcrew82]

Yikes, lots of hard contact that inning.

[82brewcrew82]

1-4 wtih RISP.

[Pugger]

That hit and RBI for Winker hwd to feel good for him.

[Pugger]

I'm ready for Votto to retire...

[RobertCrawley]

Christian Yelich is #12 in all of baseball for OBP.

Serviceable.

[82brewcrew82]

4 minutes ago, RobertCrawley said:

Christian Yelich is #12 in all of baseball for OBP.

Serviceable.

His comeback is just as meteoric as his crash.  Glad he is rebounding but the bad part happened too.

[edfunderburk]

13 minutes ago, RobertCrawley said:

Christian Yelich is #12 in all of baseball for OBP.

Serviceable.

He’s been remarkable for the last month 

So exciting to see him hitting well once again 

[82brewcrew82]

Atta boy Miley.

[BruisedCrew]

A bold prediction. This game is not going to end 1-0.

Therefore, more runs are recommended. 

[82brewcrew82]

Geez Miller.