Twins (Ober) vs Brewers (Miley): 8/22/23, 7:10pm

[StearnsFTW]

5 hours ago, rluzinski said:

A 22 game sample over 5 years is basically irrelevant.  Today is a more or less a coin flip game and the Brewers are favorites tomorrow (-142).  For the series:

Brewers win:

0: 22%

1: 49%

2: 29%

Holy cow.

 

There's a name from the past 

[TheeAirbender]

Odds Devin has to enter sometime in the 9th?

[Underachiever]

I love watching Brice Turang play defense.  So glad he’s been allowed to battle through his hitting issues. 

[markedman5]

In retrospect that was kind of a strange move by Balldelli taking out Ober?  

[Brewcrew82]

4 minutes ago, TheeAirbender said:

Odds Devin has to enter sometime in the 9th?

I'll say low tonight with how Megill has been pitching. 

[Bulldogboy]

2 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

In retrospect that was kind of a strange move by Balldelli taking out Ober?  

Insane unless he asked out.

[edfunderburk]

15 minutes ago, willie key said:

I would love for Hiura to come up and tear it up for a month

It would certainly make for a fun story 

I wonder if anyone one this BF website would suggest he should have been up earlier 

[Bulldogboy]

Cardinals being this horrible still seems unbelievable. I can't understand how that roster can be so bad. The manager has to walk the plank I'm sure.

[JCREW]

4 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

In retrospect that was kind of a strange move by Balldelli taking out Ober?  

With 35ish games left in the season, and Ober already at a career high in IP, I can see inning management as a thing. 

108 IP in 2021

73 in 2022

131 in 2023 coming into tonight.

[BruisedCrew]

51 minutes ago, jason21nl said:

Unreal how lucky we have been in this inning

Reminiscent of the Dodgers big inning last Tuesday. 

[BruisedCrew]

Thank you for that gift out. 

[markedman5]

Lol 

[BruisedCrew]

When you have a four run lead I’m all in favor of 100 MPH fastballs right down the middle. 

[edfunderburk]

7 minutes ago, Brewcrew82 said:

I'll say low tonight with how Megill has been pitching. 

Megill has been quite good lately 

Prefer him over Mejia & others who have shuffled back & forth to Nashville 

[Bulldogboy]

Megill seems to be perfect for this role of closing out games.

[edfunderburk]

5 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

Cardinals being this horrible still seems unbelievable. I can't understand how that roster can be so bad. The manager has to walk the plank I'm sure.

Molina apparently was a big deal … glad he retired 

[StearnsFTW]

7 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

Cardinals being this horrible still seems unbelievable. I can't understand how that roster can be so bad. The manager has to walk the plank I'm sure.

Their pitching is hot garbage 

[willie key]

This could turn out to be a very big night for Milw in the nl central 

[JCREW]

Just now, edfunderburk said:

Molina apparently was a big deal … glad he retired 

It would not surprise me to find out that any of...

a. Molina had a huge impact on getting the most out of pitchers

b. Molina had a huge impact on getting the most out of fellow position players

c. Molina accessed supernatural devil magic. 

[JCREW]

2 minutes ago, willie key said:

This could turn out to be a very big night for Milw in the nl central 

STOP WATCHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[edfunderburk]

8 minutes ago, JCREW said:

It would not surprise me to find out that any of...

a. Molina had a huge impact on getting the most out of pitchers

b. Molina had a huge impact on getting the most out of fellow position players

c. Molina accessed supernatural devil magic. 

All of the above 

[edfunderburk]

17 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

Cardinals being this horrible still seems unbelievable. I can't understand how that roster can be so bad. The manager has to walk the plank I'm sure.

I hope Marmol returns in 2024

[willie key]

7 minutes ago, JCREW said:

STOP WATCHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

😆

[SomewhereInTime]

A great day!  When Minnesota losses, America wins!

[nate82]

53 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

Not sure if you guys saw this but apparently the Brewers were at least somewhat close to making a big splash at the deadline

 

Most of the players named I am not sure the Mets would have had much interest in them.  Nimmo is playing great in CF so cross off Frelick.  They have Baty at 3B in the minors again so unless they thought Black was a 2B that crosses Black off the list.  They have a young catcher in Alvarez on their MLB roster now so Quero makes no sense here either.  That leaves Misiorowski as the only prospect that would be of interest to the Mets not named Chourio as a headliner. 

If the Mets saw Misiorowski as a starting pitcher I don't see how they pass on him as the headliner for an Alonso trade.  I am going to assume they don't see him as a starter and more as a reliever. 

I just don't think the Brewers prospects lined up all that well with the Mets.  It is probably why the deal didn't go all that far.  The Brewers didn't have what the Mets wanted in return for Alonso.