2024 MLB Miscellaneous News

[wiguy94]

1 hour ago, BruisedCrew said:

You’re going a long way to apparently try to “refute” a point I haven’t made.

Of course the Brewers have been good so far with a record of 19-11. And within that they’ve had some high points and some not so high points. They were great against the Orioles, but not so great against the Yankees. That kind of up and down is inevitable.

Only time will tell if the Brewers can continue to be one of the top scoring teams in MLB (I’m guessing they won’t) and if the pounding the Yankees put on the Brewers pitching staff was an aberration or a warning sign of what might be a problem down the road given the fragile state of the starting rotation.

Oh come on Bruised. It was pretty obvious the point your original comment was trying to make. Everyone knows you're the resident pessimist and the way you worded your comment made it pretty clear you were trying to say the Brewers pitching sucks without directly saying it.

[Team Canada]

1 hour ago, wiguy94 said:

the way you worded your comment made it pretty clear you were trying to say the Brewers pitching sucks without directly saying it.

Really? The point was pretty self-evident - when you're scoring a ton of runs a game you're going to have good results. I think it's a stretch to turn that into some backhanded insult on the state of their pitching.

[wiguy94]

7 minutes ago, Team Canada said:

Really? The point was pretty self-evident - when you're scoring a ton of runs a game you're going to have good results. I think it's a stretch to turn that into some backhanded insult on the state of their pitching.

I was referring to BruisedCrew's original comment that started the exchange: "The powerhouse Yankees lineup that scored 30 runs in 2 games against the Brewers managed 6 total runs while losing 3 of 4 to the Orioles. "

[Team Canada]

D'oh.

Stilll, assuming the worst and ascribing intent vs posing it as a question ("It seems like you're implying X, is that what you were trying to say?") is not going to lead to productive conversations.

[sveumrules]

20 hours ago, BruisedCrew said:

and if the pounding the Yankees put on the Brewers pitching staff was an aberration or a warning sign of what might be a problem down the road given the fragile state of the starting rotation.

Since that two game pounding at the hands of the Yankees, the Brewers pitching staff has given up five runs in four games.

I'm leaning more towards aberration. 

[markedman5]

 

[markedman5]

 

[wiguy94]

Padres are a bizarrely ran org. Their offense has been good this year and their pitching has sucked, so what do they do? Go and spend prospect capital on a bat who you have to imagine will be a full time DH for them because I don't see where he's playing in that IF.

[markedman5]

11 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

Padres are a bizarrely ran org. Their offense has been good this year and their pitching has sucked, so what do they do? Go and spend prospect capital on a bat who you have to imagine will be a full time DH for them because I don't see where he's playing in that IF.

And correct me if I’m wrong but he can be a free agent after this season?

[wiguy94]

16 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

And correct me if I’m wrong but he can be a free agent after this season?

No he's under control next season as well.

[Frisbee Slider]

Most underperforming division in baseball, so far: NL West

over performing: AL Central

Toughest division: still AL East

A little surprised that no one in AL West is playing particularly well.: 

[subjective perspective]

[jay87shot]

I agree that is a bizarre Padres Arraez trade. None of the 4 prospects are guaranteed to do anything but the 3 bats all have pretty high upside. For a DH with limited power speed and doesn't take walks it could go really bad. However Arraez is about the most likely guy to hit .300 every year since Tony Gwynn (probably).

[dlk9s]

 

[trwi7]

1 hour ago, dlk9s said:

 

Chances the umps make him use a different bat because it's too bright or something?  99.9%

[Thurston Fluff]

18 hours ago, trwi7 said:

Chances the umps make him use a different bat because it's too bright or something?  99.9%

This is not the bat you're looking for.

[homer]

LOL

[tmwiese55]

A's game on MLB Net today.   Former Brewers great Abraham Toro batting leadoff and is at .284 with a 789 OPS with a few HRs going into today. Seems to be splitting between 2B and 3B.   Who knows how he'll hold up or how he'd have done if given a bunch of games last year for us, but as of now a possible missed contributor. 

[Outlander]

Toro will never be great but it will always remain a mystery why he wasn't utlized more with their putrid offense.

[Ro Mueller]

29 minutes ago, Outlander said:

Toro will never be great but it will always remain a mystery why he wasn't utlized more with their putrid offense.

Yup, a switch-hitting utility player who ended last season with a 41-game on-base streak. Sigh. Good luck to him.

[markedman5]

 

[JCREW]

I think JD Martinez plays dirty. This is 95% on him, 5% on pitch framing. Last year he hit William's glove twice in a game against the Dodgers. I don't have video, but it seemed to me like once he got in a bad count, he was looking for the catcher's glove and swinging at it. 

[MrTPlush]

11 minutes ago, JCREW said:

I think JD Martinez plays dirty. This is 95% on him, 5% on pitch framing. Last year he hit William's glove twice in a game against the Dodgers. I don't have video, but it seemed to me like once he got in a bad count, he was looking for the catcher's glove and swinging at it. 

It was a 2-1 count, so that theory kind of goes out the window. 

Contreras sits so far forward and on that particular pitch was once again reaching so far forward trying to frame a slider on the outside edge. 

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. 

[folly412]

Looks like the compounding of both.  Martinez is so far back he's out of the box.  Contreras is practically grabbing the ball before it's passed the plate.  Bad result.

[MrTPlush]

9 minutes ago, folly412 said:

Looks like the compounding of both.  Martinez is so far back he's out of the box.  Contreras is practically grabbing the ball before it's passed the plate.  Bad result.

Seems like a misleading angle. Hard to see where exactly his foot probably is on the right-handed side of the box. A lot of guys will stand on the line or even barely on it...which is technically allowed. I couldn't tell in the TV broadcast video of it. 

[folly412]

The good news is it's driven by pitch framing so we can now position "robots" as a player safety issue.