Thurs. 4/18 - Ashby Tries Again, Blalock Seeks to Extend His 0.00 ERA Season

[wiguy94]

I saw someone on Twitter say it’s a mix of Suter and Hader and that’s even better. Manfredi definitely has that extra little twist of the hips like Hader.

[Jim French Stepstool]

5.2 terrific innings of work from the 'ville BP tonite. Makes this old-school fan feel much better about the bullpen shuttle system being employed nowadays. Maybe Zastryzny finds his way onto the 40-man at some point?

93 throws for Ashby in 3.1 innings. Ugh.

Someone needs to get on the T-Rats stat crew. Superimposing some Tuesday-night slowpitch guys' stats on Boeves' season line is unforgivable (the icing on the cake for me is the BB-K ratio. twelve to five. Wow).

Matthew Wood deserves mention for a very nice start to his season. Here I go again with my pet stat: 7 walks with only 2😲 Ks in 27 PAs.

[Jim French Stepstool]

3 hours ago, Joseph Zarr said:

The answer to the thread title:

YES RHP Bradley Blalock will maintain the 0.00 ERA (6IP, 1 H, 1 BB, 2 K, 0 R)

 

I was a big Luis Urias fan & incorrectly thought he'd be a mainstay in Milwaukee. It looks like we be winnin' that deal.

[Jim Goulart]

6 hours ago, wiguy94 said:

Eduardo Garcia leaves the game after being hit in the hand with a pitch. Biloxi currently has 0 healthy position players on the bench.

6’6” Ernesto Martinez moved to CF to begin the 3rd inning.

His only other prior work in CF was four games with Carolina in 2021.

[sveumrules]

A possible future Suter/Hader hybrid in Manfredi, and an Ernesto Martinez Jr. appearance in CF?

It’s clancy’s world and we’re all just living in it. 

[SF70]

11 hours ago, BrewerFan said:

Is he getting overlooked a little bit? To step right into full-season ball a year out of HS and be dominant? And from a guy who's from a cold-weather state?

Has pitching become if not the strength of this system, at least on equal footing with the position prospects(I'm not including anyone on the MLB roster). 

Absolutely yes on both accounts.

The pitching added from the 2023 draft-class has at a minimum balanced out the farm, pitching vs positionals. The farm now has as many legit SP prospects as I’ve ever seen it. Maybe not the impact of Peralta-Woodruff-Burnes, but pure numbers — yes.

But who knows, with the numbers of SP prospects now working with this teams PDS, we may see another dominant homegrown MKE rotation ahead.

[Cambo888]

11 hours ago, wiguy94 said:

I want to highlight Justin King who has only pitched 3 innings this year for whatever reason. He has gone 1-2-3 in all 3 innings and has struck out 7 of the 9 hitters he has faced. He's absolutely dominated.

Interesting comment from the broadcast is they said King had 21" of rise on his fastball, not sure how accurate that would be, but that is a lot of movement for a fastball.  Could be a significant reason for Kings high strikeout ratio.

[Kellerowl]

37 minutes ago, Cambo888 said:

Interesting comment from the broadcast is they said King had 21" of rise on his fastball, not sure how accurate that would be, but that is a lot of movement for a fastball.  Could be a significant reason for Kings high strikeout ratio.

It is called Induced Vertical Break (IVB) that trackman measures.  Its a measure of deviation from the expected trajectory of the pitch caused by the spin

Sinker ballers want small drop where high speed pitchers want to appear as rise.  I think 18" is a lot at the MLB level so 21 is crazy good.

 

[Joseph Zarr]

10 hours ago, wiguy94 said:

I saw someone on Twitter say it’s a mix of Suter and Hader and that’s even better. Manfredi definitely has that extra little twist of the hips like Hader.

By the looks of it, I would opine the delivery and deception and being a lefty are obvious Suter-isms but that fastball certainly appears to have distinctly different characteristics to it. As per usual, again, this is me going simply off of baseball game viewings and eye tests (I'm not going to dig into data - that's for others and they do a fantastic job of presenting the visuals). I went back and re-watched his innings. He was touching 94-95 mph and bringing it up into the zone to boot. Fantastic change-up. Really intriguing young arm.

Regardless if I'm accurate or not here (perhaps @Smichaelis9saw his innings and can chime in - coach 😁), his outing absolutely matched the final line. Dominancing. Lots of swings and misses. Batters clearly didn't know what was coming.

[Joseph Zarr]

1 hour ago, Cambo888 said:

Interesting comment from the broadcast is they said King had 21" of rise on his fastball, not sure how accurate that would be, but that is a lot of movement for a fastball.  Could be a significant reason for Kings high strikeout ratio.

Yes indeed. He is regularly touching 20-21" of induced vertical rise (they call it IVB - I only call it that on Sinkers. My brain equates break to a downward motion. Apologies if this confuses) . Which is MLB-caliber. And, honestly, is a huge development since early 2023. 

The Brewers Pitching Lab went full Heisenberg this off-season. It's NUTS.

[Spencer Michaelis]

4 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

By the looks of it, I would opine the delivery and deception and being a lefty are obvious Suter-isms but that fastball certainly appears to have distinctly different characteristics to it. As per usual, again, this is me going simply off of baseball game viewings and eye tests (I'm not going to dig into data - that's for others and they do a fantastic job of presenting the visuals). I went back and re-watched his innings. He was touching 94-95 mph and bringing it up into the zone to boot. Fantastic change-up. Really intriguing young arm.

Regardless if I'm accurate or not here (perhaps @Smichaelis9saw his innings and can chime in - coach 😁), his outing absolutely matched the final line. Dominancing. Lots of swings and misses. Batters clearly didn't know what was coming.

Boy do I have a tweet for you! 

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[Joseph Zarr]

1 hour ago, Smichaelis9 said:

Boy do I have a tweet for you! 

Tweeted this last night: